The poems are now available on the Palanca website! Click here.
Er, the formatting’s making me OC, but what the hell, at least the collection’s complete. ;)
Thank you Ms Catherine Walder for the head’s up, and for the kind words about “I Am the City”. (Eeeeh. ♥)
My story, “I Am the City”, is now live over at Expanded Horizons. :) Clicky-click!
Look.
We passed by Sasa the Sorbetera’s branch to get some free ice cream say hi and in exchange for two scoops of Macadamia Nut this picture was taken:
This is unfair, Sasa! We demand fondue!
With Sasa and Jaykie (Mall of Asia, October 25); I don’t know who took the picture, but thanks I guess :p
More photos here
Home. Finally. Cake from the sister, Vicky Christina Barcelona in the DVD player, goofing off with the brothers. Parents are both well. Jaykie as (virtual) company. “I Am the City” accepted by Expanded Horizons for their November issue. (I’m a “repeat author” y’all!) November 1st came and the sun was up and about, oh yes, the day looking ridiculously beautiful. Good times, good times.
Thanks to all those who greeted me.
Let’s talk about the weight gain later.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
– Richard Dawkins
via purplerevolt :)
Yeah I’m feelin’ lazeh.
October 23 (Friday)
Research night. Because we never get tired of each other, oh no.
I am so not drunk in this picture.
More photos here.
October 24 (Saturday)
Christening day of uber-cute Johan. I’m still waiting for Joan (proud mom) to upload the photos. God, I must have looked horrid. But what the hell. Love you Joan, your baby’s absolutely adorable. :)
P.S. Seriously Ace that was a fun ride from Makati to Bulacan. We should do that again! Hahaha.
October 25 (Sunday)
Watched this with Jaykie.
Not a fan of romantic films at all, but believe me, this is a fun watch. “Inventive” I think was the word Roger Ebert used to describe this film.
Got this early birthday gift. Howee. (Also: we were able to find an issue of The New Yorker in BookSale that went for TEN PESOS. TEN PESOS my goodness.)
Thanks, Jake. ;)
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And oh, Ms Lanot of the Graphic says they will use all of the poems from “Reportage”. It will appear in several issues. Watch out for them? Yes? :)
Eliza Victoria 