November 2011
1 post
Write Place, Write Time: Joe Hill →
Love the idea of a “Shelf of Ten” :) I’m putting together my own pile now!
writeplacewritetime:
So one time I wrote this comic where a kid uses an impossible key to unlock his head. Inside his head there’s a secret world, filled with dinosaurs and legos and space invaders and so on. It’s a mindscape, crowded with the stuff he loves and obsesses over.
My office is kind of...
July 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable...”
– Aldous Huxley (via mlq3)
November 2010
6 posts
“This is what you do. If you feel low, you stand tall. You mess up, you move on....”
– Hobson Brown (via mlq3)
461. In battle, all cover is temporary. Keep...
June 2010
1 post
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks...”
– Thomas Edison
April 2010
3 posts
“If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein (it’s a silly Monday ;)
September 2009
1 post
When I see birches bend to the left and right,...
So I was once myself a swinger of birches And so I dream of going back to be It’s when I’m weary of considerations And life is too much like a pathless wood
—from BIRCHES by Robert Frost
July 2009
1 post
“the sad ritual of gathering
your things to yourself
and yourself
to fold...”
– from Kristine Fonacier’s BOXES. Yes, we are moving again!
June 2009
1 post
“I have always loved my poor country and I am sure that I shall love her until my...”
– Jose Rizal. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
April 2009
4 posts
“Virtue is its own punishment.”
– Aneurin Bevan
I'm a bibliophibian—living partly in the world and... →
“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.”
– George Iles
March 2009
6 posts
“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill (allegedly—I just saw this quote from the tumblr homepage and have not verified its source ;) In any case, going by this logic is as good a way as any to console myself after finals.
What I could be doing if I weren't wasting my time...
1. Getting a pedi 2. Watching Big Bang Theory 3. Shopping 4. Brunching 5. Getting a massage 6. Finishing Un Lun Dun 7. Earning a living 8. Dropping off shoes for resoling at Mr Quickie 9. Getting my new pants altered 10. Sleeping in
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no...”
– Stephen King
Thank you and farewell
Minsan ay hindi ko na alam ang nangyayari Kahit na anong gawin, lahat ng bagay ay mayroong hangganan Dahil ngayon tayo ay nilimot ng kahapon Di na mapipilitang buhayin ang ating pinagsamahan Ngunit kung sakaling mapadaan baka ikaw ay aking tawagan Dahil minsan tayo ay naging tunay na magkaibigan
—Minsan (Circus, 1994)
“We must face tomorrow with determination, joy and bravery.”
– Mr Magorium in Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
February 2009
4 posts
I don't know why but I'm quoting Einstein on...
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me. A system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
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The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the...
January 2009
11 posts
Change has come to the White House. →
The White House has a blog?! Incredible unbelievable nearly too good to be true. I love it!
So that's why he paused →
President Obama has a run-in with split infinitives!
Krafty - New Order
Got this from Iggy!
1. Put your iPod on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. 3. You must write that song name down no matter how silly it sounds. If someone says “Is this okay?” you say Call Me When You’re Sober - Evanescence (HAHA!) What do you like in a guy/ girl? 32 Flavors (and then some! ;) - Alana Davis How do you feel today? Have Fun,...
“Twelve Cylon models. Seven are known. Four live in the fleet. One will be...”
Salon | What on Earth? SciFi's "Battlestar... →
I second most of Heather Havrilevsky’s complaints. (Spoiler alert, btw ;) Sayang ang opening ep! Hope things pick in the next few weeks, tho, coz of course we’re seeing this thing through til the end!!
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
– Jack London
“Look back and smile at perils past.”
– Sir Walter Scott
Steve Jobs finally speaks →
on his health, skipping the keynote at Macworld, and how he will always put what is best for Apple first.
Zune Extinction Event: Microsoft Music Players All... →
Typical :P
December 2008
18 posts
Happy New Year from Cayie & Gie!
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“I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the...”
– Whitman, quoted in Netherland (MMD’s most excellent Christmas gift!)
Write or Die: Dr Wicked's Writing Lab →
I’m almost afraid to try this, but it might actually help improve my turnaround time at work! Eheheh
“I’m really dragged, but nothing gets me down.”
– title of a Nat Hentoff novel, quoted by Steve King