( my heart is aglow, and you cannot dim it. )

My dad owns a road construction company. Around 1995 to 1998, one of his projects had been to do the runways of a new international airport. He would need to visit the jobsite late at night, and he would bring my mom and I along for company. (I was 10 years old in 1995.)

I remember being overwhelmed by bright flashing lights, orange-painted heavy ( Read more... )

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by Dali and Disney

It's been a long time coming ♥

And i realize that all this cracking of stupid jokes is an effort to mask the jadedness.

Not-so-dear Person ( Read more... )

Through the palm-smudged window of the pickup, I stared up at the soft palette of dusk. Tiny dark bodies flickered on and off across the grey, depthless sky -- the yuma bats (M. yumanensis) had begun their frenetic dance of echolocation. The air around the pickup must have been filled with a million of their tiny radar signals. Though I ( Read more... )

I can't quite recall how I was able to run around Paris on our last day there back in 2007. We'd just flown back in from our overnight stay in Lourdes, and I was inconsolably miserable because in our five-day stay at the City of Lights (and a million sights and sounds), I wasn't able to accomplish anything on the dream itinerary I had made for ( Read more... )

i'm an emotionally and intellectually impatient person. despite my shrug-i-don't-care-about-fuck-all-i-want-to-get-this-over-with exterior, however, i'm actually not one to cope very well with endings. books, films, tv serials, games -- i dread the moment when i realize that they've come to their denouement and there's no turning back ( Read more... )

C: I swear it was so Ric Segreto kanina. ("Don't know what to do whenever you are near, don't know what to say, my heart is floating in tears.") Sobrang na-overwhelm ako na he was that close to me, and I didn't know which emotion to permit to take over me. I was holding back tears with him right there. Hindi talaga ako sanay na totoo sya.

C: ano naman ang dapat ko mahalin sa kanya kung ako hindi nya pinapakitaan ng pagmamahal. ako na gumawa ng lahat nung una. kung gusto nya talaga ako makasama, sya naman ang umaksyon. pero sa pagkakakilala ko sa kanya, malabo mangyari na sya ang gagawa ( Read more... )