Posts

Showing posts from June, 2009

Paranoid and Anachronistic... I'm Honored

Book in Hand: Turncoat by Jim Butcher Song in Mind: Come Closer by Rico Blanco (Awoooooo... what you do to me...) If you’re twenty-something like me, and feeling a little lost like me, and maybe just a tad bit paranoid like me… you would have noticed that without meaning to, you’re starting to sound like your parents. Honestly, I thought it wouldn’t start until I was well into marriage with a kid of my own who I’d have to stay vigilant against grime, mayonnaise and boo-boos for. But the voices in my head, although undeniably mine, sounds like something I have heard before. Be it my father’s mantra about carelessness: “Ay, na lang ba ang kapalit?” to my mother’s colorful description of people such as “naka-isputing at namumukadkad ang kulay ng karsunsilyo” --- I find myself repeating their pet expressions even if I could handily and more fashionably replace it with OMGs and That’s Hot. It could be that I’ve advanced to this stage because they both are not with me anymore, and I find som

I'm a B- traveller ... in the Philippines

Image
My Lakbayan grade is B-! How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan ! Created by Eugene Villar .