miss Universal

it may well be my last drinking session with lani around at least for the next give or take 2 years and my last seeing chandy play in the sand with the so mature batchmates that we are.
also for the next give or take 2 years

and i didn't see trixie or rj there for the 30 or so minutes that i dropped by.
i would have proposed a toast.
of pinkish lambanog, watermelon vodka or some egg whites.
kudos to gia yza fretzhie for stepping up and pulling it off.

nikki looked like she had fun. that alone merits distinction.
she was our indie critic too, while watching little miss sunshine.

that reminder of a movie and how the word fuck can be put to good use.
and i share here
what Tony Blair learned:

[Interdependence] means we have a clear self-interest as a nation in what happens the world over.
nothing at all to do with the movie or my reminiscing of drinking sessions but i share it 'cause i read it and noticed how even the older of us could still grow and mature and paraphrase some of the less interesting but more insightful notions development literature has to offer.

he speaks of foreign policy, of terrorism, of China and India with so much self-awareness, his experience i envy.
he speaks of values universal.

i remember using 300 as an example of what i think is a good movie and how people reacted as it being anti-asian. i was dumbfounded. it's nice to have a heightened sense of awareness towards the subliminal. but sometimess we miss the universal, the beautiful, the good. until we're caught offguard from the very things we guarded ourselves against.

i pray saturday lessons of arabic in some public school in quezon city will push through, sir aleem jabbar.

lisnin to Linkin Park, whose new album is a lot less noisy. Valentine's Day is, i think, well-written. no wonder kit loves them
sortof readin summit documentation
feelin kinda mellow.