January 2009
34 posts
“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or...”
– John Updike passed away today at 76. (via tmblg)
apparently melamine in milk isn’t the only thing good for you. even lead and industrial bleach in your noodles are fine! yum. (i’ll never look at sotanghon or cellophane noodles the same way again)
“In 2004, testing by Chinese authorities determined that some brands of cellophane noodles produced in Yantai, Shandong were contaminated with lead. It emerged that several...
“Congratulations to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on its 13 Oscar...”
– Stephen Colbert (via tmblg)
“Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous we do our...”
– —“Words” by Anne Sexton. A friend and I were talking about her a few days ago. And then she cropped up again at an interview I was transcribing. She’s a difficult poet to like. You kinda have to be in a bad mood to appreciate her. But this one, I like. (via terrie)
Love this poem Ters :)
“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via littlemiss)
went for a run this morning. countered endorphin boost by listening to sad bastard music by embrace. countered the calories burned by eating tocilog afterward. da best.
Hello! Sino Pinoy dito? (Pinay, pwede rin.) :)
inothernews:
Yo yo yo, Pinoys REPRESENT!
(via sortofkinda)
uy marami rin pala :)
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you...”
– Stephen King (via littlemiss)
How writers, artists, and other interesting people... →
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(via jessicabigarel)
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster....
My mom is cleaning her room, which has cabinets and boxes of things, most of which she’s forgotten about. She found a drawer of some of my dad’s old things, which she thought she’s donated all to charity since he passed away. There’s the cervical collar my mom bought to help him keep his head up. He hated it. My brother used to put it around his neck and they would fight....
“The conversations you overhear tell you what sort of people you’re among.”
– Paul Graham, essayist, programmer, and programming language designer
Thanks to the long quote below and the link to his site (with all his essays and web-related work), I have a new site I can regularly read. Happy new year indeed.
December 2008
30 posts
“Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around...”
– Great Read.
Cities and Ambition
(via joshuatuscan)
(via sharingtime)
Made me think of the cities here. What messages do they send?