You can fight the fire that’s in your head
Lay it down, the hour has come to end
Walk around without her just for a bit
Looking back upon the way things had been

Man, I’ve been wasting so much time
Walking the same street every night
Don’t you think maybe it’s about time?

You can light the fire that’s in your head
Put it off, tomorrow will come instead
We don’t watch the tower that tells us when
Pull the wicked flower out from its bed

Man’s been wasting so much time
Sending the children out to fight
Don’t you think maybe it’s about time?

- The Dodos | Walking

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Chanced upon the song above while watching Skins Series 3 – a teen TV series about a group of Bristol kids that makes “Gossip Girl” a Parents Television Council gold star winner. Skins3 still offers the fluff (but not the icky kind), and the grit, and the unusual in-your-face feel to the episodes that I’ve liked since I watched Series 1. I particularly like the coloring (something looking vaguely like cross-processing and lomo~ing but I dunno) that they do on some of the episodes, particulary the Effy jumping into the lake scene and the Emily and Naomi biking into the woods one, as well.

… to make me dream of you.

Stone Sour | Wicked Game

Singapore is a tiny, tiny country and some of my friends told me you could explore most of it in 4 days. But because of my stupid allergies (I know, excuses, excuses, excuses), I wasn’t able to maximize my stay there. Add to that the fact that I’m lazy as hell and so I only got to photograph a few spots. Anyhoo, few places explored whatever, my vacation was still definitely a blast.

Anyway, what’s a trip without photos, eh? The following are shots from those rare times that I actually hauled my ass out and sauntered around the streets of Singapore.

Camera: Nikon D80
Lenses: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor ED 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF DX VR (Thanks Gyabo!), Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor.
Strobe: Nikon SB-600
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Phuket was amazing. But I’m not sure it’s amazing enough to compare with the beaches back in Pinas. The only thing Phuket has on Boracay or Palawan, etc is that it is very very convenient for a common traveler to go there. Also, the food was amazingly affordable, at least compared to the food prices here in Tokyo.

I enjoyed taking pictures in Patong Beach where we stayed and around the islands that were included in the tour. Here are some of those shots.

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Even the stars
Sometimes fade to gray
Even the stars
Hideaway

[ Hideaway | The Weepies ]

“When you first arrive in a new city, nothing makes sense. Everythings unknown, virgin… After you’ve lived here, walked these streets, you’ll know them inside out. You’ll know these people. Once you’ve lived here, crossed this street 10, 20, 1000 times… it’ll belong to you because you’ve lived there. That was about to happen to me, but I didn’t know it yet.”

L’auberge espagnole (literally The Spanish Inn or The Spanish Apartment) is a 2002 French film directed and written by Cédric Klapisch. It is about Xavier, an Economics graduate student studying for a year in Barcelona, Spain as part of the Erasmus programme, where he encounters and learns from a group of students who hail from all over Western Europe. The story follows him as he decides to go to Barcelona and leave his girlfriend, Martine (Audrey Tautou), behind in Paris.

There are a lot of happenings in the story, not only those that are in direct connection to Xavier (like his story with the “not cool” French couple that he met on the flight), but also to the other occupants of the flat. Wendy, the English girl, probably had the best if not the most lengthy story other than Isabelle, the Belgian.

Some of the memorable lines that I managed to store inside my very volatile memory space are:

“I told you that because I knew it would hurt you. I know you loved me. But sometimes, we need to hit where it’s going to hurt.” - Martine, referring to what she said (“but you never loved me, because you’re not able to love anyone”) to Xavier when they broke up.

“All this complicated path, to arrive here today, without her,” - Xavier, after seeing Martine for the last time.

“I found myself in the streets of Paris where no Parisian go. I was a stranger among strangers, “ - Xavier, end sequence.

Three Storm players are in (voted in, btw)!

Congrats, Sue, Swin, and LJ.

The starting line-ups for the 2009 WNBA All Star Game are as follows:

[West]
Sue Bird, G SEA
Becky Hammon, G SA
Lisa Leslie, C LA
Swin Cash, F SEA
Lauren Jackson, F SEA

[East]
Katie Douglas, G IND
Alana Beard, G WAS
Sylvia Fowles, C CHI
Candice Dupree, F CHI
Tamika Catchings, F IND