January 2011
155 posts
“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for...”
– Watchmen Chapter VI: The Abyss Gazes Also. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Hello, new person I can fangirl! /needs sleep
So last December, we were at Madame Tussauds in Hong Kong, and I was like, “Who is this? He is fiiiiine.”
The wax statue was labeled “Jay Chou.” Then I giggled and left.
Fast forward to today’s bus ride going home from Batangas. We were watching Green Hornet. Then I saw this:
And I was like, “Who is this awesome person? He is hot.”
I went home and...
i ache (toska)
human-voices:
Vladmir Nabokov: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire...
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus (via human-voices)
“And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning...”
– TS Eliot, The Wasteland, 1922 (via human-voices)
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
– Albert Camus (via human-voices)
When someone says "So tell me about yourself"
alysser:
You’re like: What do I say?
The Parent Chronicles: Midnight Snack edition...
Dad: Alam mo yung pinarinig ko sayong kanta dati? Ano ulit title nun?
Me: "I Just Don't Love You No More"?
Dad: Oo yun. Sino ulit kumanta nun?
Me and Joseph: Craig David!
Me: Bakit, favorite mo ba yun? Haha
Mom: Anong kanta yang pinag-uusapan niyo?
Dad: "I Just Don't Love You No More."
Mom: So di mo na ako mahal? :(
Dad: Hindi, "Don't" nga tsaka "No More" so double negative siya!
Me: Daddyyyy. Slang kasi yun.
Mom: Di mo na ako love... :(
“You have to get hurt. That’s how you learn. The strongest people out there, the...”
– (via soul-surfer)
The Parent Chronicles: Midnight Snack edition
Mom: Baka maging high-maintenance ka pag nagka-boyfriend ka na.
Dad: Di nga magkaroon ng boyfriend eh, walang nagkakagusto.
Mom: Ano ka ba, ang sama mo!
Me: LOLing forever
Dad: Di bale, darating yan pag di mo hinihintay.
Me and Mom: *retching noises*
Just because we pretend the feelings aren't there...
“Having grown up in New York, I always wonder what it would be like to see this...”
– Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares (via woocie)
“In the end, you decide to become a serious journalist and you strive to become a...”
– Conrado de Quiros (Speech delivered before the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication graduates, April 25, 2010)
barbarianne:
alwaysmythunder:
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