7 posts tagged “evergreensd”

The End Starts Something And Ends As Something Starts

Sep 20, 2008
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Planning to move back to WordPress... and I've decided to take only the posts with the most personal value to me. This means just the most well-thought out posts and the ones that mark an important point in time in my life will make the cut.

While my primary motivation for dumping Vox is really just because it doesn't want to play nice with the idea of open commenting, I also want a large degree of control over the blog's design. As much as I love Vox's media utilities and quite possibly unlimited storage provisions, I don't like being tied down and settling for "it works just fine the way it is". No. If I can't make it work the way I want to, it doesn't "work just fine".

I'm getting tired.

This blog has been a personal chronicle to what can pretty much be summed up as "my trying to decide who I really am, who I really want to be (hey, sounds like a 30STM song!) and what I really want out of my life" (five jobs, dives into depression, a couple of personal epiphanies, etc). I have found it. Though it goes beyond words, I have affirmed it to a degree worthy of the label of certainty, methinks.

This blog has also been a witness to me during my weak moments, when I could not restrain myself. This blog has recorded the deaths of friends and loved ones who left too soon (just this Tuesday, Eddie Wong, father of my childhood friend Jared, died of a stroke at the age of 53; sometimes I wonder if it's even worth posting at all, for all the bad vibes it stirs up inside). This blog also contains a lot of crap (all blogs do, of course). I want to consciously create things that are of good quality, regardless of medium, and I figure that which I record and organize my thoughts and experiences upon would be a good start.

This blog began with the end of something I loved doing, and it will ironically, albeit fittingly end with the resurrection of that very same thing.

Time to finally start a journey with one true destination in mind, so to speak.

Funny, whenever I start a new phase in my life I also tend to switch blogging services. Hmmm.

A Good Day

Sep 11, 2008
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My best ideas come to me when I'm out, about, alone, and with a cup of coffee in my hand. Most of the time, though, I'm caught unprepared, as I prefer to travel light without anything that can encumber my movements. So...

A Bad Phone Camera Photo Of A Cup of Coffee and Notes On A Napkin

It was a nice breezy day, with chilly air and spots of light rain, so I decided to grab my jacket and walk over to the Starbucks on the other side of the tracks for brunch. I read today's Business Mirror (a broadsheet which I so love, for some reason), wrote a concise but encompassing comic script for a story I'm working on, and had a nice chat with one of the baristas.

Well That Was Stupid.

Sep 7, 2008
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The Good:
Today, I was able to write a really good storyarc script, wholly enabled by imbibing possibly immoral amounts of Arabian coffee.

The Bad:
Now I can't sleep becuase I drank possibly immoral amounts of Arabian coffee.

The Stupid:
I also ate half of an 18" pizza; now I feel like I have rocks in my stomach in addition to my being wired.

One Week Hiatus

Aug 21, 2008
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So far I'm enjoying my first stress-free week in a very, very long time. I've promised myself that I won't ruminate on anything other than things I can do to enjoy myself; I'll save that stuff for next week.

I want to:

Get back into art (forcibly, if necessary)
Watch bad B-movies (like Eight Legged Freaks! So bad, it's good)
Declutter my room
Finish all the errands mom wants me to do (some dating back to April of this year... bad Andre! Bad!)
Sleep all day EVERYDAY! Whoooooo

Anyway, one thing I am heavily considering is a reboot of EvergreenSD. It was a mess when it ended, because I wasn't really dead-set on what I wanted it to be and on how I could actually make it worth my while. Now I know how to do those two things right; it's just a matter of me getting off my lazy ass and doing it. (Besides, I just renewed my hosting for another year... that's another $95. Can't let that go to waste! T_T )

Oh well... all up for consideration next week. This week I paaaar-taaaay!

A Week Of Coffee, Tea, Country Music And Sleep (Or The Lack Of It)

Jun 4, 2008
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Man, things have been crazy the last four days.

I've been revisiting my old artwork, trying my hand at writing short stories, sleeping close to seventeen hours in one day, drinking different kinds of tea (Green, Oolong, Chamomile), trying (and failing) to finish leftover coffee beans that have stayed in rotation for a little bit too long. I mean, after the novelty wears off, who really wants to drink pepper-flavored coffee on the regular? Seriously.

I also tried to clean my 4-year old keyboard... which was interesting, to say the least. Okay, it was disgusting. Vacuum, Wipeout, Soap and Water. Good riddance, E. Coli.

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I was supposed to attend a coffee seminar at Starbucks Waltermart this morning, but I overslept due to a short story that I had to just bang out 'cos it wouldn't let me sleep. It's about a guy who wakes up in an empty room to find that everyone in his city has turned into a zombie (original, I know). But it's the delivery and the context that matter. Plus, I still don't know if I really want zombies or giant, pink, gene-spliced mutant bunny-roaches with lightsaber carrots. I also plan to insert some socio-political commentary somewhere in there about socialized healthcare. It'll be a hit with the kids, I tell ya.

I managed to roll off my bed and give myself a concussion by falling off the floor, so I'd have no choice but to stay awake or die. Then, I headed off to Origin Cafe to do an interview with Ms. Gina Sy, the proprietress. I expected to do a 15-minute interview, but it was so much fun we ended up talking for 90 minutes. After that, I stole a cappuccino and headed off to Glorietta.

Tumaas nanaman ang pamasahe? Kamote. Kamote kayong lahat. Tse. 11 pesos na sa bus, 8 na sa jeep.

Headed over to Starbucks Makeroom to my homies in the coffee industry (what up Jay, K-rissy, Chai; keep pullin' those shots right and we be down) to pick up my stash (a fudge brownie, decaf drip, and a replacement beaker).

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Went home, unloaded my digicam and the digital audio recorder. Gonna be workin' on those tomorrow. The interview should be up on coffeerev within the next two weeks; still have to transcribe and edit it, make it available as a podcast, and then there's the new Africa Kitamu coffee beans that I have to review.

I've also come to a realization that not all country music (or similar-sounding genres) has the tendency to inflict temporary retardation and/or loss of cognitive and motor functions. Lately, I've been listening to some Carey Ott, Assembly of Dust, and Neko Case... they blend in well with some of the lighter pop/jazz/bossa songs I've got on one playlist (like Better Than Ezra, Coldplay, Jamie Cullum and Miho Hatori).

I'm also now really seriously thinking of a reload.

The next few days will be fun. Now if I can just get some sleep and not die due to lack thereof.

Images. Words. Colors. Love.

May 31, 2008
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Contemplating A Reboot

Sep 13, 2007
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I'm giving serious thought to going back to school.

It's hard enough getting a decent job in this "credentials-mean-more-than-actual-skills" country with a degree (I'm only a Certified Internet Professional); much more so without one. I know it first hand. I've applied for lots of jobs, a lot of them turning me down because I didn't have a degree. One time, I applied for a call center job, and they took some guy who could barely stutter English words over me. Because he had a degree! Even if English comes even more naturally to me than breathing does to that guy! Talk about your HR department being full of idiots.

Fine. I accept that there will always be a disproportionate ratio of morons to the adept in this world.

I've two options:

1) Continue my Studies at Informatics

2) Transfer to CEU

3) Transfer elsewhere

It's been hard for me at Informatics. A lot of times there aren't enough students to start a class for a certain subject. Sometimes a class starts and the no one from the school informs the student (which they are supposed to do). In my C programming subject, wherein the Teacher got lazy nearing the end of the term, she just shoved code in our faces and said "examine that, copy, and just customize to your needs". At first I thought, okay, I can deal. As it got closer to the project deadline, I was piling up errors that weren't covered in the previous class discussions and lectures. And the teacher was getting harder and harder to get a hold of for assistance. Needless to say, it was either cheat or fail. I failed. I had this classmate who was better than me at programming, and he had to cheat to pass the subject.

Up to this day, I'm still seething about that whole experience. And I thought she was a good teacher, too. I've had more than my fair share of bad teachers at this school, and that just disappointed me. There were some good teachers there, but they were in short supply, if you ask me.

I'm not ruling out the possiblity of still returning to Informatics. It's still one of the options. Perhaps a different branch.

Centro Escolar University sounds like another good option. I'm thinking of going for Language Arts, since I've already got some background in that. Heck, I could end up teaching in Spain. I'm just wary of the four years (it's semestral, which is more comprehensive but it's really slow) it takes to finish everything, since I've already wasted enough time screwing around in life. I've since started developing a dislike for depending on my parents for support, and this isn't gonna help that. They've got enough problems as it is.

Or, I could just keep trying to find a job.

I'm gonna have to do some deep thinking for the next few days.