Whistling for Moonbeams

Sleeplessness . Desire(s) translated into restlessness. Or, that which is untranslated into the fulfillment of said desire(s). For time to r...

I did my Christmas shopping quite late this year. Compared to last year, I did not spend as much time scouring shops for gifts for family an...

...when the hours and the days drift by like never-ending seas of curtains and you barely have a moment to blink and realize that they are a...

Released: 2009 My favorite tracks: "Half Life", "Between Sheets", "First Train Out", and "Bad Body Double...

But that is not the subject of this post; though this doesn't mean that the statement above isn't true. Okay, okay, start over. Imog...

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth. Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs. Speak no feeling, no I don't believe you. You don...

...I'd be fine. It was the saddest thing. As I and a friend were walking in the mall just last week, my mind's eye captured the sigh...

"Some folks has a lot of things around them that shines for other peoples. I think that maybe some of them was in tunnels. And in that ...

Some funny shorts from an e-mail my Ninang sent me: FIGHT A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word. An earlie...

...then you know something's wrong. You could be: a) sick; b) extremely sleepy; or c) just plain old fatigued. One could probably add a ...

In the same way that I put off writing about typhoon Ondoy ( I eventually did, I couldn't help it ), I have also tried to put aside sayi...

I'm down with a cold. Again. I only get sick once a year, so coming down with this very bad cold barely a month after I recovered from t...

Today, in the office, a co-worker approached me and asked if I could lend him a book of poems. Now, I work in a bank and the odds of people ...

So there was the party that S-- and I lost a lot of sleep on (though the sleep I lost was nothing compared to S's), that turned out just...

And so you stand there, turning the box in your hand, looking for cracks where you may peep through, examining the angles for irregularities...

It's kind of a "guy movie" but I liked it. I can be guy, too, I realize. blech =)

I can't believe it's raining and raining hard. It's been extremely dry, lately Thank goodness the December breeze is lending us ...

1. Strings and strings of girls (and the odd handfuls of boys, or "guys" if you must) are trooping to the movies for that "Ne...

The poem indeed is the long lost startle. The moment has passed, it is again lost, but having been lived, it might be imagined, recuperated....

This part of my world has been so painfully neglected. Sorry, dear blog. I've been bad to you. Some updates are due, then. ... ... But m...

A Pale View of Hills (Kazuo Ishiguro): This is a novel that is very quiet on the surface but is extremely disturbing, underneath. Most ever...

Now, let's see. Thursday, in the office, I had a plateful of baked macaroni. Which i finished, by the way. It was M--'s birthday, to...

...all grown up. I got this from an e-mail my dad sent me. There was a warm, fuzzy feeling in my heart when I saw these pictures. I must...

I've been raving about Laura Nyro for close to a week now. The only sad thing was that none of the people I've asked if they knew he...

Pedro Almodovar, 2002 That human beings--here, two men--could be this unselfish: "Habla Con Ella" dares problematize this tritest...

I watched Edward Zwick's "Blood Diamond" and Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" this week, and I thoroughly enjoy...

I still haven't finished the book. =( It's been a circus, yep, that's how things have been. Call it a circus. I tend to repeat t...

Sublime!

Halfway done... =)

Geek friend and I looking at a live satellite feed of the typhoon: Me: this is some scary shit. Geek Friend: See this? Shows you where the w...

Permit us to refresh your memory: what comes from heaven is always a blessing, the enemy is not rain. Rain is the subject of prayer, the kin...

(the Suite Francaise manuscript) Whew. Finally. A heavy read, this one (probably helps explain the snail's pace with which I read it?)....

It's been weeks and I'm still reading the same book. It's not the book that's the problem--both the prose and the exposition...

"The blackout takes over the night erases the city from the map erases everything" -Conchitina Cruz, "I Must Say This About T...

"Volver" is dominated by women's themes. The friend who recommended it to me was anxious that I wouldn't like it. As it tu...

Superb films, both.

And what of the rain lashing loudly against the windows, the walls, the roofs of each house? What of the wind, wailing, mournful? Let's ...

Feeling that blah feeling again. Not a good sign at all.

When stuck in a car with two rock music aficionados conversing, what is one to do? Listen. And learn heaps! =)

Once in a while, it happens: two people meet, fall madly in love and live happily ever after. Once in a while. And then there's the rest...

Stepping indoors on a gusty, stormy day means walking into sudden calm, and warmth, and quiet. The transition is extremely blunt and brutal ...

Mercury has retrograded and I didn't know! Tragic. Tsk, tsk. I screamed "mercury's on retrograde now!" and M-- said, ...

Looks like the rainy season has descended upon us for good (until summer comes again, that is). Time to bring out the sweaters, the cardigan...