rehydrating

and so we are no into a week in manila. tomorrow we fly to bicol, mayon volcano permitting.

in seven days i have:

• met the dentist

• got a massage (not yolly though, some korean spa near the house)

• got a haircut (some korean salon, at the ground floor of the spa)

• read 5 pinoy books and 1 pinoy graphic novel

• finished a first draft of a graphic script

• ate a lot (from restos to the finds at q-mart)

• drank a lot (from sunny’s house to bars to the house)

• met almost of all of the people i want to meet and then some.

tonight, more beer at a bar in tomas morato for another perspective in life. some packing to do for our flight, and then maybe start hammering another script for my self-appointed january 5 deadline.

onwards, bravely to twenty ten.

the bests of zero nine

no listing of finalists. here goes:

book:        ”the city and the city” by china mieville

album:      ”black gives way to blue” by alice in chains

film:            district 9

things that rocked:

•camerabag iphone app

•metallica live

•jude law as hamlet

•another story published (on actual, combustible paper)

and…

•ICU-free for two years straight.

onwards bravely to twenty ten.

things thought at 2.44 ayem

i’m so excited of coming home i’ve been on melatonin for a week now. i don’t know if, aside from the weird dreams, this is good. because if i can correct my circadian cycle this early, this would mean that i’ll be asleep at the normal time without any jet lag. think about the wasted beer time. as of now it’s near 3 AM already and i am still awake. in a while, i am trying its effect with rum and cranberry and lime. sleep is good, the packing is not yet done and the house needs to be kept as we have guests staying over the holidays. time to hide the tentacles.

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one thing i know to be true but can not prove. people in the creative business (which doesn’t really mean that they are creative, only that they are in the business) turn to photography to showcase their creativity that just couldn’t be unleashed in the business setting. i wonder why.

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another thing i know to be true but can never prove. the only way to get published in rogue magazine is to submit a story oozing with puns. preferably one that starts right in the title. like “pun de sal”. this could work on so many levels.

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okay, the blank page says enough of the tomfoolery, time to nail page 24.