Was at the Eagles of Hope Bazaar this afternoon
look at what i found
Solveig Sandes’s album! “ANALOG” hehehe
takes me back to the late 90’s
if you don’t who she is you might remember her song “Marie”
the one that goes “Marie, Marie, Marie you’re a shiny pearl…”
it’s on sale for Php 50 so I bought it immediately.
Was at Starbucks Katipunan for the remainder of the afternoon. what an expensive way to get a clean well lighted place to read.
You should be careful when traversing this branch of Starbucks. Cause no matter what you say it is blue-blood territory. but still i spent the remainder of my bday sharing a table with 4 kolehiyalas. thankfully they’re not the loud kind.
Starbucks & I
i never went to starbucks katipunan as an undergrad basically because i can’t afford anything on the menu. but i really didn’t care during that time cause I wasn’t really a coffee drinker. so why do i go there now? NO. it’s not to reclaim something lost from childhood, it’s just that whole artsy-intellectual thing in cafes, is. well. true for me.
Yeah it sounds so pretentious I know, but it works, cafes are kinda conducive to anything contemplative. or maybe i’m just justifying the whole experience cause a frappe costs a 100+ hehehe so even if I now have a job, i still don’t go there as often as I’d like cause yeah, i still can’t afford it (frequently)
to illustrate:
everytime i go to the counter and order my staple non-coffee based frappe/green tea and get asked what size i say, “uh the largest?”
the first time i ordered, and got asked what name to put on the cup…I gave my first name & surname LOL
takes me back to my TFA class where in my classmate Rama told the prof that poor people go to Starbucks just to be seen that they ARE going to Starbucks. yes they order something and drink the damn product till it lasts but when they go home they eat galunggong (cheap fish)
cracks me up everytime hehehe
just goes to show how this consumer culture is just tough to break.
anyways…
for the roughly 2 hours I spent with my seatmates i’ve managed to prove a couple of things
1. english speaking, they are. but. you can’t blame them somehow the twang is infectious.
yes. when i got home i was speaking english hehehe so imagine if all of your classmates are like that, and you’re with them everyday.
2. ateneo has math majors in hot pants. as murdoch said “cleverness can be sexual power”
how true.
3. listening to kolehiyala 1 explaining greek drama to kolehiyala 2 can be interesting.
cheers to starbucks then. I hope they open one inside the campus.
and stupid me. who said that you should buy the courtesy latte just to be able to sit there.
Heck! a lot of those kids do it, yeah! i’ll join the club
and get turned out.
peace.
Here at the office right now, at Ateneo, this gated community that’s kinda growin’ on me already. So today is my 22nd birthday. And it got off at an unusual start coz I was at Sheng’s wake till early AM.
Ayeen tagged along with Zia to the wake as well, so at least I had someone to talk to since the Girls were busy with the AVP and stuff. Ayeen is Ziaan’s younger sister who works at GMA 7 one of the bigger TV networks here in the Philippines. And so what better way to exploit her position than to know the latest dirt about the “Kapuso” celebrities/shows.
Whoops.
I think the stuff we talked about is confidential so I can’t really talk about it.
But it was a nice chat, she’s a young smart girl, I can see she’s going places hehehe and i think her jobs more exciting than mine. well yeah if you compare it to gigay’s stylish agency life right now and hers mine looks so boring, well not boring–idyllic?
Movin’ along, well basically it’s a basic “adult” birthday so far. no balloons. no gifts (except for Mama’s, luv u mwah.) and at this point not much money. my haiskul/college/work frends are all asking for a blowout but I just shrug and tell them that my online purchase is arriving (hopefully) this week and that I’m broke pretty much after that. and the next payday and the Christmas bonus have all been budgeted to fit the things I wanna buy 
scouting for a decent vacuum cleaner in the mall I guess, oh and my new bookshelf is arriving this week too.
I had a decent sleep time last night even though I’m still awfully sleepy almost everyday. sigh. brain. consciousness. we will get through this. stay with me!
So here’s to another year. World. Universe. Earth. Life
XOXO
This morning a friend, someone I know, passed away.
We weren’t close-close but still I’m shaken. It’s different, you know, when someone dies. There’s just no chance you can ever meet again and that brutal finality is just so harsh.
My friend Sheng passed away today. And it is just awful.
Yes.
How it reminds me again of how life is so short. Because when we were in college, I never thought that this would happen somehow you always feel like you’ll live for a LONG time. But you don’t. And all your plans, dreams and hopes for the future will just be irrelevant /erased. But the thing is you’ll never know when your time is up. So. We all still plan, dream and hope.
Goodbye to you Sheng.
I’ll keep in my heart:
the time we talked about literature.
the time when you talked about the loves of your life, your husband and kids.
my gush of gladness, to know that I wasn’t the only one in the Philippines who loves Coupling (TV Show).
It’s so weird to read your comment again from my post of summers ago.
In that better place where you are, we’ll be thinking of you.
word on the street