with or without…

I love this song. Gentle, yet intense. It makes me calm and composed on the outside, but overflowing with emotions within. Like you just want to explode, but you’re held back by a necessary restraint…

With Or Without You
U2

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I’m waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live
With or without you

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

My hands are tied
My body bruised, she’s got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live
With or without you

With or without you
With or without you
I can’t live
With or without you
With or without you

gademmit

i’ve been staying up late a lot recently. the result? pimple breakout!

it’s 1:00am. ayoko pang matulog.

i’m tripping on With Or Without You (U2) and Fields Of Gold (Sting) on a loop (ahhhh aural bliss).

gademmit, what gives?

moleskine

i just can’t resist the urge. ever since i was a kid, i had this fascination for clean, pristine pieces of paper.

when i was in grade school, it was always a requirement that each student had to have four sets of pad paper: size 1 (the biggest pad - letter size i think), size 2 (a horizontally cut size 1), size 3 (a vertically cut size 1) and a size 4 (a quartered size 1). along with this arsenal of pads, parents would also provide their children with an array of notebooks. so you could just imagine how many untouched sets of paper i had at the start of the schoolyear. ^_^

i have no idea what it is about that, but it just made me want to write something… draw something… or just downright doodle. a clean piece starting me right in the face just called to me and i found it hard to resist.

anyway… fast forward to the future…

just yesterday, we were looking around in fully booked and i saw this set of beautiful notebooks - moleskine notebooks - and even though they were plastic-wrapped, one could just see that this was high-quality material right here: oilcloth-covered cardboard… acid-free paper… i don’t actually care that they claim that these were used by the likes of Picasso and Hemingway. it just looks purrrrty.

240 pages @ 13×21cm for php1000.00 is definitely overpriced, but i might pass it off as the occasional semi-luxury item. ^_^ hehe.

clean… purrty… pristine… untouched… i just want to write on it.

…

freud is gonna have a field day psychoanalyzing this one =p

h&h

after r&r in subic comes…

h&h in makati…

HOT & HUMID.

!@#!@%!!!! ang inet!!! h&h everywhere!

T_T 

on r&r and lost wallets…

nothing beats good old r&r.

the david quiazons + mau and noel quiazons spent the long weekend at grande beach in subic as a double birthday celebration for jop and jon. the verne quiazons were either already in the US or flying out to the US (epecially now that jane susana has arrived), so it was too bad the Q’s weren’t all there. Here’s the "group pic". Syempre wala ako diba kasi I’m behind the cam. Demmet talaga, hindi ko dinala yung tripod…

 
(L-R: Bapa Noel, Ating Tin, Auntie Dol, Jon, Mau, Jet, Mama, Jop, Papa)

3 days and two nights of:

• sleep all you want
• swim all you want
• eat all you want 

ahhh… good times. the sleep was especially great, considering that the earliest i slept for the entire week before that was 2am.  there are several scenery pics below.

too bad that the trip had to end on a sour note, as i discovered that i lost my wallet… T_T it’s kind of stupid really, that i realized my wallet was gone two days after i last saw it. the funny thing is that what bugs me more is not so much that i lost my wallet… but rather the fact that i can’t pinpoint with even a little bit of confidence where, when and how it got lost. it’s like trying to remember something so hard that you can’t even sleep.

i had my cards closed and replaced. there wasn’t too much cash inside. bad trip lang kasi may sentimental value just for the mere fact that i’ve had that for quite a long time now. hassle pati. 

oh well, shit happens.

r&r ftw \m/ 

"Sand And The Sea"

"Grande Sunrise"

"Grande Beach"