I so hate the feeling of being unproductive. I mean there were days that we need to relax a bit and just let anything go of the hook. But as they say, too much of something isn’t good. It’s been days and I am not doing my job. As in I am not doing anything as of this moment. With too much obsessive compulsiveness, I don’t lavishly indulge myself into fruitless hours doing nothing but star gazing or daydreaming especially at work.
NYC
Basically, at home I find time to watch “UGLY BETTY” (it’s one of my favorite series). Sometimes I am so hooked that I was able to finish 3 episodes before going to sleep. (That was last night). The other week I was able to finish “Gossip Girl” XOXO, that I got so frustrated because the DVD that I bought somewhere, down the pedestal part of Makati, because it was not complete. And 3 weeks ago I was able to see the most anticipated movie of the year, “Sex and the City”.
They all have something in common, what else, NYC. The setting of each T.V. series revolved around the streets and events in the BIG APPLE. It’s one of the celebrated places that I want to go to, sometime. I was so fascinated with its busy streets, prominent trademarks, the most watched stage plays, its diverse culture, and most of all it is where the American dream is.
New York City is a place full of dreams. From the high-end Manhattan to the streets of Brooklyn, from the ghetto Bronx to the old folks of Queens, It is somehow influenced/s us. I, for one, since living in the Metropolis of Makati somewhat relates to the lives of the characters of these T.V. series, though there’s a huge difference. Being surrounded with New York inspired phenomenons, lifestyles, personalities, and commodities such as YELLOW CAB, BROOKLYN PIZZA, DKNY, NY FRIES, 42ND ST, HAIRSPRAY, NEW YORK BEST SELLING BOOKS, NY TIMES, CS NY, NY KNICKS, NY YANKEES, MARIAH CAREY, NAPOLIS, TIFFANY’S, HIPHOP OF BRONX, and a lot more!
And speaking of New York enthused, How can I forget the movies that moved me such as, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER, KINGKONG, PHONE BOOTH, 13 GOING ON 30, HOW TO LOOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, YOU’VE GOT MAIL, SERENDIPITY, HOME ALONE, LITTLE STUART, SPIDER-MAN, THE TERMINAL, RAISING HELEN, GANGS OF NEW YORK, ENCHANTED, 27 DRESSES, SWAT, I AM LEGEND, GODZILLA, as in so many pa..
I remember a quote from someone saying “If you were able to survive in New York, you can survive anywhere”, I say, Filipinos can survive everywhere so why not conquer the Big City.
I have been dreaming to be there, I want to be a part of it… New York, New York!
Friday, July 04, 2008
JUNE 17
I was at the Mall last weekend to buy my best friend a gift for his 26th birthday. I never failed to give him something every time there's an occasion and he never failed (well, almost) to give me a present as well.
While I was in search for the best gift at The Block, I suddenly realized that since he is earning more than I do (not to sound bitter or what) and since he is now capable of buying material stuff for himself, It suddenly came to me that I should give him something that is different, something not usual or something that can easily fade.
I, then, decided to go straight to "Fully Booked" (has been my favorite bookstore) and scavenge for the best book. He used to read and I know that it’s going to be the perfect gift. I want him to remember me or our friendship, how it began, whenever he reads the book. So I picked “Running after Winston Charles” the author of the book, “The Devil wears Prada”. The book, according to its description, is “so us”.
I also used to read well I still am but I the last book I finished was the 7th Installment of Harry Potter Book, “the deathly hollows”. It’s been a year and I would love to read and it was very envious of me because I want that same book I gave my best friend.
The next week, my office friend, Chery brought a book from the infamous Bob Ong. It is called, “stainless longganisa”. To be perfectly honest, I am not a fan of him. Maybe because of so many forwarded messages that I’ve been receiving almost everyday about Bob Ong’s famous lines which really annoys me. But to my surprise, I found myself scanning the pages of the book.
What caught my attention was not his writing skill nor the content of his book. What it made me hooked to it as I sat down at the corner of the room was something we have in common, we have the same humor. And it was then I realized that I just finished Page 35 just after a few minutes. The book revolved around the concept of writing and the unfolding of his writing abilities. He was able to juxtapose his experiences as an author and his inspirations as he grows.
It made me looks back at the days that inspired me to read and somehow, write. From the Grimm Brothers to Hans Christian, I counted some of the first readings I had. The comic book Archie is definitely one of them. I’m fond of reading comics even the local ones and I have this fondest memoir of asking my sister to lend me her copy of “your daily Horoscope”. It was one of the top sellers before and It has one of the best tagalog stories I read from a comic-book wihich eventually became a hit Movie, “Sa isang sulok ng mga Pangarap”.
Reading books is one of the things I usually do usually if I’m alone of there’s an available one to read. I am fascinated with the works of John Grisham (The Client, The firm, et al), Patricia Cornwell’s Hornet’s nest, Dan Brown’s “Angel’s and Demon’s”, and “The Vinci Code”, And some of the works of Mario Puzo, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Candace Bushnell, Mitch Albom and of course, J. Rowling.
I can definitely read almost any books about anything under the sun. I am not particular with any genre. There was this one incident wherein I found myself reading one of the novels of Bienvenido Ramos, An author about romance pocket books. Well, that was a long time ago and I was just a kid.
From books, I used to read magazines too. I had a bunch of FHM Magazines and I stopped purchasing when it became very commercial and “gasgas” that everyone knows it and reads it. My first FHM subscription was the July 2001 edition and it has Myle Dizon. It was magnifying to me because of its feature articles about man’s lifestyle that you can’t find through the pages of COSMO, PREVIEW or METRO. I also used to read CHALK Magazine because I was, then, a freshmen student and it used to feature a lot about College life. Then now, I have new sets of magazine subscription which I ought not to dwell on.
And then there’s BLOG.
While I was in search for the best gift at The Block, I suddenly realized that since he is earning more than I do (not to sound bitter or what) and since he is now capable of buying material stuff for himself, It suddenly came to me that I should give him something that is different, something not usual or something that can easily fade.
I, then, decided to go straight to "Fully Booked" (has been my favorite bookstore) and scavenge for the best book. He used to read and I know that it’s going to be the perfect gift. I want him to remember me or our friendship, how it began, whenever he reads the book. So I picked “Running after Winston Charles” the author of the book, “The Devil wears Prada”. The book, according to its description, is “so us”.
I also used to read well I still am but I the last book I finished was the 7th Installment of Harry Potter Book, “the deathly hollows”. It’s been a year and I would love to read and it was very envious of me because I want that same book I gave my best friend.
The next week, my office friend, Chery brought a book from the infamous Bob Ong. It is called, “stainless longganisa”. To be perfectly honest, I am not a fan of him. Maybe because of so many forwarded messages that I’ve been receiving almost everyday about Bob Ong’s famous lines which really annoys me. But to my surprise, I found myself scanning the pages of the book.
What caught my attention was not his writing skill nor the content of his book. What it made me hooked to it as I sat down at the corner of the room was something we have in common, we have the same humor. And it was then I realized that I just finished Page 35 just after a few minutes. The book revolved around the concept of writing and the unfolding of his writing abilities. He was able to juxtapose his experiences as an author and his inspirations as he grows.
It made me looks back at the days that inspired me to read and somehow, write. From the Grimm Brothers to Hans Christian, I counted some of the first readings I had. The comic book Archie is definitely one of them. I’m fond of reading comics even the local ones and I have this fondest memoir of asking my sister to lend me her copy of “your daily Horoscope”. It was one of the top sellers before and It has one of the best tagalog stories I read from a comic-book wihich eventually became a hit Movie, “Sa isang sulok ng mga Pangarap”.
Reading books is one of the things I usually do usually if I’m alone of there’s an available one to read. I am fascinated with the works of John Grisham (The Client, The firm, et al), Patricia Cornwell’s Hornet’s nest, Dan Brown’s “Angel’s and Demon’s”, and “The Vinci Code”, And some of the works of Mario Puzo, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Candace Bushnell, Mitch Albom and of course, J. Rowling.
I can definitely read almost any books about anything under the sun. I am not particular with any genre. There was this one incident wherein I found myself reading one of the novels of Bienvenido Ramos, An author about romance pocket books. Well, that was a long time ago and I was just a kid.
From books, I used to read magazines too. I had a bunch of FHM Magazines and I stopped purchasing when it became very commercial and “gasgas” that everyone knows it and reads it. My first FHM subscription was the July 2001 edition and it has Myle Dizon. It was magnifying to me because of its feature articles about man’s lifestyle that you can’t find through the pages of COSMO, PREVIEW or METRO. I also used to read CHALK Magazine because I was, then, a freshmen student and it used to feature a lot about College life. Then now, I have new sets of magazine subscription which I ought not to dwell on.
And then there’s BLOG.
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