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Hand-me-downs
He wore my shirt once, and it looked so good on him.
They called it joint ownership. But you over-possessed the shirt, I said. You made it yours. Even after being bleached, the shirt carried your scent, just faintly there, like the rest of you. I wore the shirt once, but had to take it off. It looked so wrong on me.
You broke into my new red shoes ( Read more... ) -
I want balloons in primary colors and party hats
on my twenty-first birthday. We'll have cotton candies, hotdogs on sticks that are held in place by half a cabbage, marshmallows, and cake with white icing.
You will come, won't you?
Then on my next birthday, my twentieth --- -
UP Centennial. yay.
Happy 100th birthday, UP!
I've never dreamt of going to any school other than UP. UP Diliman, just to be exact. I remember watching a Che-Che Lazaro show wherein Sunken Garden was shown, and I swore to myself I was going to go to that school. That was in fifth grade. I wanted to be a computer engineer back then, and I listened to the Spice ( Read more... ) -
We both signed up for this
IV.
My life is still in its drawing board, waiting for confirmation.
We designed our future around ourselves, or perhaps I did.
You, you fixed your past for my convenience. You repainted the walls of your achievement, dusted the trophies given by ex-girlfriends who remain your friends, framed the certificates of merit you receive by being the best ( Read more... ) -
Pyromania
III.
I wouldn't set fire to those boxes if I were you.
You see, memories are in those little objects. The ones you want to forget now but would want to remember later. Because those objects might be the best thing that ever happened to you.
I should've shoved a tape recorder in his mouth everytime he spoke. The spit and the grinding of his teeth, the ( Read more... ) -
Eisley's Combinations
I am addicted to Eisley's latest record, Combinations. It doesn't mean I think it's their best: I still love Room Noises better. But I can't help but want to listen to their voices again and again and again. They're just so weird and they don't care. They're sometimes cheesy, but they don't care. I like that. And Stacy and Sherri singing " ( Read more... ) -
What is your most embarrassing moment ever?
II.
I was his most embarrassing moment. The moment he never won over. The squish beneath the soles after he stepped on some dung. The joke that everyone pretended not to have heard. Of course he wanted to forget me. And selective memory allowed him to.
He was my most embarrassing moment. The moment I never won over. The spandex leggings that fit too ( Read more... ) -
A sidewalk full of strangers
I.
I was pretty sure I wouldn't remember him anymore, at least by face, after a few years. I mean, whenever he became the topic of conversation, I was pretty sure my friends would be referring to a dream I once shared with them, or perhaps a movie with slightly different versions, or possibly lots of sequels. They never saw him; I only rambled on ( Read more... ) -
annabelle magazine
Check this out: annabelle magazine. It's chockful of witty articles, and even though it's text-heavy, the articles actually make you want to read more and more. I especially love the zeitgeist issue and the back to school issue. I love how each issue has a streamlined theme, and how everything is so well planned out. It has everything, from ( Read more... ) -
Let's Go Sailing and how catchy "Love Song" is
This is a band I've recently been listening to, along with lots of Eisley and some A Fine Frenzy and Sara Bareiles's "Love Song". It's good to listen to bands that don't pay a lot of attention to vocal calesthenics but deliver nice lyrics that can actually be understood. Their sound is dreamy, and the lyrics make me want to write Miong stories ( Read more... )