Suffering…
Alex @ August 17, 2008 | | Personal | Comments (1)
…from my worst bout of writer’s block to date.
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Brains… Bolinao… Brainless
Alex @ June 11, 2008 | | Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Photos | Comments (6)
My friends are a bunch of smart people. You can mess with the permutations but to sum it up, we have four cum laude, two magna cum laude, and one summa cum laude graduates (of UP Diliman at that). We have a math professor, two discourse analysts, a software engineer, an EC engineer, a web developer, an award-winning digital artist, a painter, two law students (soon to earn their LLBs), a med student (soon to be an MD), two published writers, a systems analyst, a project coordinator, and two people who can speak Nihonggo fluently. An impressive roster, indeed.
However, we, as a barkada, have one basic flaw. We tend to be brainless when together. Give us a spot where we can congregate, whether it’s over iced coffee or bottles of beer, and every hint of intellect would then slowly fade into obscurity. Then out come the evil monsters spawned by repressing lifestyles and demented childhoods. Next thing you know, you’d think that you’re not seeing what’s supposed to be a bunch of decent young professionals who have respectable careers. Pretty much like how Bruce Banner turns into the Hulk, only with less physical mutation but pretty much the same level of insanity.
So is the tale of our trip to Bolinao.
Tags: Beach, Boliano, Friends, Solomon's Paradise, Sugoi
Vacation, beach, typhoon season: 24 years in the making
Alex @ May 27, 2008 | | Personal | Comments (2)
Just to give you an idea how pathetic my childhood was - our family never went on a decent vacation. No out of town trips to decent destinations. No beach trips. Not even a trip to a theme park.
Probably why I’m starting to overcompensate now. Now, that I have a bit of spending cash, I am finding myself deviating from my former miserly (and miserable self). Yes, in less than two weeks’ time myself and Team Sugoi and some of our dear friends will head out in our first out of town trip together. It will also be my first semblance of a vacation in 8 years.
I don’t care if it’s just before the start of the semester (as I won’t probably be taking classes this semester) or if it’s already typhoon season. Bolinao, here we come!
Survey: See how demented my childhood was
Alex @ May 14, 2008 | | Personal | Comments (6)
Reminiscing about your childhood can make you suddenly count the number of gray hairs you have sprouting. Never really bothered me at all since I used to have salt-and-pepper hair as a kid. Anyway, here are some tidbits about how I dealt with childhood in relation to popular culture.
Sorry to those who can’t read Tagalog. Nakaw galing kay BA.
