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Tag Archives: friends
It’s impossible to learn to tell jokes by watching cartoons
Since I started college four years ago, 2014 had been the year that I looked forward to the most. It was my graduation year, which will mean the end not only of my college schooling but also of my required … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Films, Personal
Tagged adolescence, adulthood, buddhism, cancer, education, enlightenment, ernest hemingway, essay, f. scott fitzgerald, family, film, friends, grunge, into the wild, j.d. salinger, jonathan franzen, kurt cobain, literary theory, nirvana, personal, pessimism, philosophy, richard linklater, solitude, tarlac city, writing
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Anaemic loyal tea
One of the things I miss now that I’m no longer studying in Manila is riding the bus. (Aside from my friends, of course, which I miss very much.) But I’m not talking about riding the bus in Manila. I … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged bus, city of manila, commuting, essay, fast food, friends, mcdonald's, metro manila, overthinking, riding the bus, solitude, university life, writing
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Oh no, not me, we never lost control
There’s this scene from Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver that I particularly like. Actually, I like it so much that I even imitate it from time to time. But anyway. This scene that I’m telling you about, it’s the one immediately … Continue reading
Posted in Films, Personal
Tagged death, essay, food, friends, grunge, health, jogging, martin scorsese, nirvana, pain, pastries, pessimism, self-improvement, sugar, sweets, tarlac city, taxi driver, the man who sold the world
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Pluvial bebop
It’s funny. A friend told me that his girlfriend is a female version of me. “Babaeng ikaw” is how he puts it. My friend says that like me, his girlfriend is also an admirer of Ernest Hemingway, also a fan … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged armi millare, arthur schopenhauer, bebop, blues, david foster wallace, ennui, ernest hemingway, essays, f. scott fitzgerald, friends, health, jazz, jonathan franzen, life, literature, loneliness, misery, personal, pessimism, rain, rainy season, sadness, suffering, sylvia plath, writing
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Might as well
Ernest Hemingway is often quoted in the internet—particularly in Tumblr—as to have once said that “When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead.” Usually that quote comes with a picture of a man water skiing … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged arthur schopenhauer, ataraxia, boredom, ernest hemingway, essay, f. scott fitzgerald, friends, fun, happiness, happy, pain, woody allen, writing
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Family blues
I was never close to my family. My mother, father, brother, and sister were to me just people who I live in the same house with, no more than that. Our being related by blood and our having the same … Continue reading
Conversations, confidences, and correspondences
I’m not really a conversationalist. In fact, I’m one of the worst persons to have a conversation with. And it’s because I don’t know how to respond to other people. I mean, I have no problem answering people’s questions—say, if … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged arthur schopenhauer, confidant, confindence, conversation, correspondence, email, essay, friends, friendship, inner warmth, interaction, j.d. salinger, life, madness, people, writing
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Anonymity
We had a rather interesting discussion on our Group Dynamics class. Our topic last Friday was about Self-awareness, Self-perception, and Self-disclosure. As usual, the reporting wasn’t conducted in the usual chalk-and-talk way and instead it was done with activities and … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged anonymity, arthur schopenhauer, essay, friends, happiness, insomnia, johari windom, life, madness, philosophy, porcupines, psyhology, solitude, university life
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Circumstances and cowardice
Last Friday, around three in the morning, a character named “Etta” commented on my essay “Mistake.” “Mistake” is this crazy reflection I wrote a month ago after having an adventure with my high school friends. The essay is about my … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged change, circumstances, cowardice, essay, freedom, friends, letter, life, madness, maturity, perspective, philosophy, suffering, university life
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Mistake
Perhaps I was wrong with everything. With every decision I had made, with every opinion I held about politics, philosophy, and art, with the way I saw life—perhaps they had all been a mistake. Perhaps I never had been right … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged college life, egoism, essay, friends, growing up, high school life, ignorance, irrationality, lao tzu, life, madness, maturity, men, objectivity, prudence, subjectivism, subjectivity, suffering, tao te ching, taoism, women
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