February 2012
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The Night That Went Too Fast
There have only been two nights in my life when I felt truly, honestly alive: the first one was last 10/10/10 aka GlaManila, and the second one was last night, 02/17/12, this year’s Junior-Senior Promenade. In both instances I temporarily forgot the problems and worries in my life and let the endorphins in my body loose. You all can imagine what happened in the first one, so I shall relate the...
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Ikot-toki in Diliman
In preparation for our future escapades in the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD), two friends (names disclosed due to personal reasons, but let’s call them Kristel and Ivy) and I made our way into the heavily-polluted city, armed with only a meager amount of money and our wits to save us from thieves, sex-addicts, and whatnot.
Our adventure had something that passes for an...
January 2012
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22/01/12 - 28/01/12 -- A Week Minus One Day in...
Had a very, very, veeeery busy week at school! I was initially going to post a day-by-day breakdown of the happenings but I got lazy so now here are gifs.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
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Saturday
Some gifs stolen from Michelle Collins awesomesauce post.
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Sunday Night Boredom
I’m sooooo bored right now so I’m going to do something I haven’t done in a while! GIF MEME! I changed the number of the last half because I have like 99 gifs in my “for tumblr” folder and… yeah. Here goes!
The 1st gif in your folder is who you are:
This doesn’t mean anything at all! Yay!
The 9th gif in your folder is how you feel today:
Close...
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World War Z - Max Brooks
First book review for this year, yay! No webcam pictures tho, heehee!
Last week, I read this zombie apocalypse book stylized as “An Oral History of the Zombie War”, World War Z by Max Brooks.
It’s basically this “record” of interviews conducted by a UN agent (I had to Google that lol) about the zombie war. It relates how it started, how it spread, and how it...
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Catch-up Saturday: Fandoms
It’s a beautiful Saturday morning and it’s the official start of my long weekend! I’ve been having such a busy time at school with all those exams and projects, not to mention the worry and stress the entrance exam results gave me and my classmates! It’s all good now, though! I passed all three (USTET, ACET, and UPCAT! FUCKING UPCAT, MAN), and I feel I have something good...
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HELLO DILIMAN
‘Nuff said.
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Drum-roll Please!
Oh, hey! I’m going to go straight to the point because my laptop’s about to die and I’ll be cut off from the internet soon.
I, well…
That’s from Ateneo de Manila University’s online database of the ACET passers. Upon seeing it, I did this…
But more of this…
It’s an honors course I qualified for, which is something like a quota course....
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So…
I just finished watching Total Eclipse (that wonderful movie with David Thewlis and Leo DiCaprio) when I received a message from my classmate saying she passed the USTET. And I was totally like
I immediately reached for my phone and checked the goddam website. I ACTUALLY felt like my heart was going to come out of my mouth. My hands were all sweaty and aksfkjslajdasjl!
And when I...
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The Last Day – Christmas Break 2011, Day Sixteen
Well, here it is: the goodbye. What more is there to say? I enjoyed those two weeks and two days of sitting around at home, reading till my eyes fall out, shopping till all the money in the world disappear. I enjoyed this, my last Christmas break in high school.
In the coming months, I’ll be busy with school: exams, activities, events… you know it. And dear God, the entrance exam results are...
December 2011
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2011 Rocked!
This year is almost over! Hell, it’s the 31st of December. I’m supposed to be somewhere else right now but tada! I stayed at home to type this crap so I can say I made a “Best of 2011” post. Well, this doesn’t focus on what happened neither to the world nor to my country. Rather, it revolves around my world lol. So sit back (or stand. Makes no difference lol) and enjoy (or not. Whatever floats...
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i-gif-things-so-you-dont-have-to asked: Hey, I remember when you were in that Adam Lambert phase....
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You don’t want to read this.
Is it bad that I dreamt of Sansa and Tyrion having sex happy together? Is it bad that I kiiiiiinda ship them now? The dream itself wasn’t too crazy. A little talk here, a little sex there. What kiiiinda troubles me is I didn’t entirely just dream it. I mean, I was half-awake when the dream started. It was like I consciously started it. So it’s...
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A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
This is more of a fangirling post than a proper review. View at your own risk. Major spoilers ahead!
I just cannot fucking believe anything right now. Just, ugh! George RR Martin is such a sadistic writer. I thought I was gonna lose my head while reading A Storm of Swords. Well, I may have. Who knows? After all those battles and weddings and fuckings, it would be a wonder if anyone didn’t.
The...
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The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
No spoilers in this one, I promise.
The Imperfectionists (Tom Rachman) isn’t a cheesy book about, say, a struggling genius working at a newspaper agency or whatever; it’s about everyone. The whims, the mistakes, the joys, the everything. Of everyone. It reads like a romcom movie, only with more depth and poignancy.
I must admit, the book did not turn out as I expected. I foresaw a more, I...
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Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan
Half Blood Blues is a story about a group of jazz musicians in Europe during the Second World War. It focuses not on their glory, but on their destruction.
OK, destruction may be too harsh of a word. It’s prolly more of a breaking down thing. Whatever. So it starts out with the narrator’s (a kinda-black man) account of what happened one fine day in Nazi-occupied Paris. A bit...
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One Size Too Sbig – Christmas Break 2011, Day...
Let’s play a game, shall we? It’s called “What Do You Think is the One Activity Marrhon Hates Doing?” Got your answers ready?
OK, time’s up! Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit’s …
Minus the smile, of course. Most people who know me think it’s because I’d rather spend my precious money on books and gadgets. This is partly true. The real reason is that, with my size (tall and slimmer than the letter “t”), it’s...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John le Carré
To me, spy novels mean a lot of “action”: midnight heists, highway pursuits, dramatic shoot-outs, and all those things you see in movies like Mission Impossible. Alas, when I read John le Carré’s first installment to the Karla trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, I found out Hollywood had lulled me into a false sense of this “action”.
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD!
Sure, it’s cool seeing hunky men like...
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Cold Winds and Warm Beds -- Christmas Break 2011,...
As in almost every post I make, I am obliged to say, “What the hell happened to time?” It seemed to me only a few seconds have passed since I woke up to find that it was already 2011. Now, it’s December 18 and my last Christmas Break as a high school student has begun. Technically, tomorrow is the real start, because it’s Sunday and, as a rule in my book, Sundays do not...
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The Passage - Justin Cronin
The concept of an experiment that basically destroys humanity is not new to me. I’ve seen a number of movies with human beings morphing into some kind of monster, turning against those that haven’t been infected. In the end of these movies, almost everyone dies; if not, there is an indication that the virus will spread, meaning there will be a sequel. I usually don’t enjoy...
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12/08/11 --- Random
It’s 12:00 nn on a chilly Thursday. We don’t have classes today because it’s the Feast of Immaculate Conception. I think we’re supposed to see mass but… never been really religious. I dunno. But that doesn’t mean I’m an atheist.
I actually came close to deciding to be one. After some ~things, I realized, with the help of the people around me, that God is...
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Heart-eyes or...?
After a week and three long days, I finally had the time to (re)watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, alongside the special features included in the DVD. And as we all know, special features are not complete without the deleted scenes. Guess what ASTOUNDED me? You shan’t think too long, for it THIS!
I mean, like, GOD. I was almost pissing myself when I saw Remus and Kingsley;...
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MIA no more!
Did I die? Well, if anyone out there is wondering, I obviously didn’t. School almost killed me, but I survived!
Just what did I exactly do all these weeks of silence? Hmmm, lezze… I competed in copyreading contests, wrote more than a dozen poems, prepared a school paper, edited and re-wrote several articles, watched Narnia, developed a crush on someone HIGHLY inappropriate, came...
November 2011
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Marrhon on Google+ →
Add me to one of your circles! Shameless self-promotion yo!
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Literary Geniuses
Some thoughts on the last three books I borrowed from the school library.
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Simple yet touching. George Milton and Lennie Small’s tragic tale will perhaps stay in my heart for a long time. Despite the hardships they faced, especially since it was The Great Depression, the unlikely duo never failed to keep that one thing everyone should have: a dream.
The...
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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
You know what? This was sad. FOOKING SAD.
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Barefoot in Fire: A WWII Childhood - Barbara-Ann...
I picked up Barefoot in Fire from the library the day before our sembreak and read it after A Clash of Kings. It’s this true story about a girl’s childhood in the Philippines during World War II. It’s nothing salient, especially after all the drama in ACoK. But it was a refreshing read. There aren’t many books (that I know of) about the Japanese Occupation in my country so...
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