Pinoy Wasteland

Hi! I haven’t been doing any updates and to clarify on my previous post, the domain would still be the same. However, I will be transferring hosts next month but I don’t know when yet. I will do that once my mapping expires here and I have time to work on it.

But worry not! I will be here. Blogging is a lifestyle that I am not yet prepared to give up. I now realize that I like writing regardless if no one reads my posts. My first 5 months as a blogger nobody reads my posts, I write because I want to have something out there, an outlet for my ideas. And this, I do today.

I have been writing a lot in paper. I have been sending postcards through postcrossing. And I am happy so far. I have received postcards, I really like the ones from Finland. They have stamps that apparently have Braille on it. Cool.  The dorky stamp collector from High School is back.

I realized that after leaving college, I lost a great deal of endurance in writing on paper. After an hour or so, I found my thumbs, index and middle finger numb. Oh yes, I will try to write more on paper! I have been doing most of my writing on a keyboard and I have missed reading my own and other’s handwriting… an art on the brink of possible extinction.

I have also been drawing a lot. My girlfirend is an influence in my life right now and reminded me of how much I love to draw. Last night, I spent drawing characters from The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien) like Beorn and Gandalf, and from The Sandman (Neil Gaiman) like Death, Dream and Desire (I had some trouble working with him) and all was done with my own interpretative image. I think that’s good.

I was able to finally finish my short story and is the best one I have written (because it is the first that I was really able to finish). Had it sent and part of me hopes it will be published which I doubt due to (a) the flawed writing; (b) I sent it with a .docx extension; (c) I forgot to send my updated resume, and (d) parang NPA kami kasi baka lumipat ulit kami and we might be unreachable if they find my work even in the remotest way engaging.

My lover and I have decided to do letter correspondences. Yes, we are one weird couple. But we just give each other letters every time we meet (effort lang ang pagpunta sa post office) and she’s doing a better job than I do. It’s kinda romantic and I get reminded of Napoleon’s letters to Josephine that I have read long ago (and nobody make smartass quips about tyranny while I am a pacifist and all). She has these stationery from way back when little girls collect them because they were kawaii.

I was able to finish The Hobbit yesterday. It is a shame that after raving about the LOTR trilogy (yes, I have read the book) in college and it is only now that I have read The Hobbit. It was a fun read, only a bit sad that Thorin and Bilbo’s friendship had a wrong turn in the end. It was very sad. I have gained a new kind of respect for Bilbo Baggins being a young idealistic hobbit which was far from the aged one that I have sensed from The Lord of the Rings. The nature of the ring was not really fully explored in this prequel. But it was absolutely delightful and did not have the dark air that was on the more popular epic story.

I was able to finish Albert Camus’s The Stranger this morning. It got to me. It was also something I borrowed from meowy (she really knows my taste). In many ways, I understood Meursault because he exhibited behavior unlike most people. He was not judged fairly because of his inability to believe in God or show emotions like normal people. And he had to die! I hated the prosecutor, the sanctimonious people who surrounded him. He was sentenced to death and the basis of that was because he refused to cry during his mother’s funeral and the other testimonies for his character was ignored. He is a nice man, complacent about life and yet these people persecuted him because they did not understand him. It’s like how most people in the world are, they sometimes ignore facts and just get easily agitated by lesser people. While he may not be entirely innocent, he did not deserve that.

So this is the last post before I depart. I don’t think it would be that long. I will be mapping a lot of things in my life in the month ahead and I will be uber-busy.

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