Arbitrary Mind Picks #98

1. There's nothing like the holiday season to make people feel more jekyll & hyde-ish.
Everything is extra irritating but you also feel like you're compelled to be extra nice.
Weird.

2. Family traditions are awesome.

3. I love giving presents. Especially when i know exactly what to get and the recipient likes it and they do that face when they finally see what they got. Yeah, you know what i'm talking about. Love it!

4. Christmas is just THAT much better when it's cold.

5. I'm on sugar overload. There goes my diet. *womp womp*

Happy Holidays!

A Thousand Words...

"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."

Maurice Sendak

We think we know what we need.
We spend our time figuring out how to get what we want-
Who can help us, who's in the way.
We make our moves and sometimes we get lucky.
We get exactly what we want...
and life gets worse.
Simple truth #22- be careful what you wish for, brother.
Be very very careful.
-Augustus Hill, Oz 1997

My Soho Skyline

The view from my Makati balcony

Once upon a time (more like 6 months ago), this view was enough to make my heart swell with pride. Standing there, looking out, listening to died-down Manila traffic at night, and thinking, "I did it".
I need to remember that more often.

Options

You change for two reasons: either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to.

Arbitrary Mind Picks #97

1. Jason Mraz was amazeballs. I want to keep him.

2. Everything happens for a reason... so even though my weekend was not spent in a foreign land i had my heart set on for the past month- i believe that things worked out as they should have.

3. Hangovers get worse the older you get.

4. I don't know what it is about the air up here... but it's nice to be home. #Baguio

5. My son hit another growth spurt sometime during the last week. He's just bigger every time i see him. I missed this crazy kid.

6. Looking forward to the calm. I really need this.

Arbitrary Mind Picks #96

1. I went from hella ecstatic to crazy bummed in about 2.7 seconds as i heard the words, "Filipino passport holders need a visa for entry..." slowly uttered.
It really really really sucks.

2. Snippets of optimism is the last thing i ever want to hear when freshly bummed. One week should be an efficient amount of time. Maybe 5 days minimum. Just saying.

3. Lesson learned. Again.

4. PMS and disappointment is not a good combo.
I am better off locked up in my apartment than out and about snapping at my friends.

5. I'm gonna stop now.

6. Jason Mraz on Sunday isn't such a bad consolation prize. Ridiculously funny how things work out. I meant that in the most sarcastic way possible.



He is my only hope.