5 posts tagged “friends”

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.

Lace and Kim told me about the newly opened Mozu Cafe over at Amethyst Street in Ortigas. So I checked the place out, and we had lunch. I'll be putting up the article after I rewrite my draft.

Lunch at Mozu Cafe

Finally back on track after dropping everything to help mom with stuff before she headed off to Spain... and man do I need to get my mind back on writing and on work. Otherwise I'd go crazy if I don't do anything productive.

Last night, I headed over to my friends' house at Santa Cruz for their parents' anniversary. It was good to touch base with them again, even for just an hour and a half (had to leave early so that I wouldn't be late for work the next day).

Looks like my good buddy Jec has formed a twosome band of sorts, and now they play in weddings and lounge-type gatherings, I take it. Sounds like a sweet gig to me! His cohort David is using a Stradivarius handed throughout a mutual friend's family that is over 100 years old. It is in surprisingly good condition, save for the worn finish. It still sounds fantastic, and that's the important thing.

Video got cut off because an ill-timed text message suddenly came in.