top ten

i chanced upon time's top ten lists for 2006 and after discovering new books & movies to hunt for, i resolved to make my own lists:

top 5 events of 2006
1. UP graduation
2. bicol getaway
- butandings, bagyo & everything
3. being a new hire@HP
- meeting SWAT, BI/DW, & planning the Nth new hire presentation...
4. jam@hp gigs
- dream come true for a frustrated musician :o)
5. caveman ink
- first serious shot at entrepreneurship. who could forget the binondo adventures?


top 3 songs of 2006
1. alapaap - eraserheads (jam@HP's first gig)
2. going under - evanescence (rock on, tanya!)
3. kapag nawala ka - stonefree (astig.


top 3 sites i could not survive without in 2006
1. google.com/ig (starts my every day. i swear by it.)
2. youtube.com (to get through my bakit-kaya-wala-akong-ginagawa? moments)
3. deviantart.com (nothing to say but loooooooove)


top 3 discoveries of 2006
1. panic at the disco
2. rockstar supernova (i first watched this while on the treadmill at fitness. i ditched the gym; i'm still watching the videos.)
3. stephen colbert (i just love him, love him, love him.)


top 3 things i miss most in 2006
1. getting up late in the morning
2. card games @ the tambayan
3. catching up with old friends


top 3 things i'm grateful for in 2006
1. P80 dvds (hindi ako makatulog dahil sayo, did you know? buti na lang hindi mo din ako pinapatulog tuwing night shift ko. :p)
2. LNS (wheeee!)
3. friends, new and old (double wheeeeee!)


top 3 lessons of 2006
1. kahit ano pang sabihin mo, family first.
2. regret's not a bitch. it's a he.
3. all things shall pass. bloom where you are planted.

for thought

After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a HAND, and chaining a SOUL,

and you learn that LOVE doesn't mean leaning, and company doesn't mean SECURITY,

and you begin to learn that KISSES aren't contracts, and presents aren't PROMISES,

and you begin to accept your defeats with your HEAD UP and your EYES OPEN, with the grace of an ADULT, not the grief of a child.

After a while, you learn that even SUNSHINE burns if you get too much.

So plant your own GARDEN and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And your learn that you can really ENDURE... that you really are STRONG.

And YOU really have worth.

it's all good

[ if you're looking for a rant post, then scoot. ]

during my birthday weekend, my HS crush, my college crush & my HP crush greeted me. yep, it's all good.

sometimes, we do feel that we have it all. even if just for a while. even if just for a trivial thing. yep, heaven's definitely here on earth.

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[ non-geeks stop here ]

whoa. an ancient supercomputer.

rock on

it still overwhelms me, how we got from here to there.



well, it doesn't matter how anyway.



all i know is that it feels so damn good.



jam@HP, astig ka.