September 4, 2011
Driving is intense multitasking.

  • There are great demands from the hippocampus for directions and measurement estimations, which I am not particularly a master of.
  • I thank God for giving me a very patient dad. I am treated as an adult and I don’t feel like a n00b at all. Except when I press on the brakes too hard, too quickly. Like a knee-jerk reaction when I see a dog from three feet away. (Cue applause.)
  • I completely understand when my dad/my female boss/my brother, at times, ignores my stories while driving.
  • I am amazed at the accomplishment of singing Blondie’s “One Way or Another” while driving. Complete with key changes and such. Like a baws.
  • Imagine having to quickly change views: rear-view mirror, left side mirror, right side mirror, the road, dad. Intense. View of front passenger is unnecessary but unavoidable when the person begins to speak. Especially with me being the type who usually looks at the person talking in the eye. Thank God I am still alive.
  • This short attention span of mine has to go. It has to go to a far, far away land called Improvement. (Whut.)
  • St. Paul Road in Makati is a killer. We have double-parked cars on a two-lane road! And today at the end of that street during practice, I had the car wheel’s mags scratched against the sidewalk for trying to avoid the quick (SURRRPRISSEE!) apparition of a string of taxis entering the street.
  • And another realization: driving is where I practice my faith the most. Good job, self! :)

Filed under: note to self :) :| The List babble 
at 4:37 pm
July 13, 2011
This is so true and it frightens me.

This is so true and it frightens me.

(Source: theawesomeworld)

Filed under: work :| 
at 12:10 am
October 20, 2010
How to Be Honest

I’ve been failing to pour my heart out on things that actually matter. So instead of spending idle time wasting it (eh), I tried Googling for some help.

The page linked above actually exists.

Filed under: note to self :| link 
at 10:36 pm
October 8, 2010

Been wondering about whatever has happened to my sense of logic. It appears that I’ve been relying on my feelings for decisions in almost everything I do. To know what’s right, it has to feel right. The gut (or heart) does 80% of the job by dictating while the mind simply follows and tells the rest of the body to move. I feel this is why only a tiny bit of what I do or say makes sense to people.

Cheesiness aside, I’m trying to put my emotions on a break (in the process of discovering if this is actually possible.)

Filed under: cheese :| note to self 
at 10:37 pm
October 2, 2010
Spot the John

In order not to ruin a supposedly ‘magical’ concert experience, the only thing one should really prepare for is to be surprised. Raincoats and umbrellas, secondary. I know for sure that I partly ruined the experience by having researched on past tour setlists. I was playing a guessing game in my head almost the whole time I was watching listening.

But still Mr. Mayer, you were great as expected. You always have stories waiting to come alive in song and we’re just here waiting, willing to listen! I will watch you perform again someday and you’ll no longer be just a little white speck of light from where I’ll be standing.

And the setlist (which, according to my research, appears to have the same songs in this):
Chest Fever > Vultures
No Such Thing
Perfectly Lonely
Ain’t No Sunshine
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
(Keith Carlock drum solo) > Waiting on the World to Change
Daughters intro (He made the audience pick which song to play.) > Stop This Train (This song won.)
Your Body is a Wonderland
Who Says
Heartbreak Warfare
Gravity
Do You Know Me
Why Georgia
Half of My Heart > Don’t Stop Believin’
Encore - Edge of Desire

(I’m obviously too lazy to geek out on the details at this hour.)

Filed under: events music :| JM557 
at 1:02 am