Little phones are glued
To our fingers all day
Desperate lifelines
To the god of work
Not lifelines
To each other, no
You cut me off whenever
It suits your purpose
Still I answer
When I hear the beep
You again?
I keep it short and sweet
OK.
NOTED.
COPY.
TNX.
When what I want to do
Is wring your neck
Is tell you off
Is … …
There are entire
Impolite CHAPTERS
I have spared [...]
Poor baby Nina. Stuck inside Gildamic for the next couple of months, she has no choice but to sit and listen to the various laments of her depressed titas. Tita Blue Sneakers, for one, is particularly blue at the moment.
Gildamic had a feeling Tita Blue would be in Coffee Bean again today, and she was right. Gildamic is psychic in an unobtrusive, non-exasperating [...]
There’s this guy.
That I like. Really like.
And have liked. For a long while now.
I know. That he knows.
He isn’t, after all, stupid.
Or blind. Or deaf.
Or lost in space.
He is, in point of fact,
Incredibly fast on the uptake.
Which is why. I know.
He knows.
The only slow thing about him.
To tell you the truth.
Is the way he reacts to me.
Oh did I mention.
He doesn’t like [...]
It’s hell waking up in the morning.
For a couple of minutes, before I even open my eyes, there’s the intense pain of feeling empty and totally, absolutely alone. What’s the point in living? Is there any reason to get up? Am I really me without him? Who am I?
I think all my friends who have husbands or wives [...]
I have no reason to feel tired. I just am. Drained.
This blue energy gets depleted really, really quickly.
I feel like I’m driving a car at dusk on a very long expressway. I just found out I lost my headlights. Plus I don’t remember where I’m going. But I have to keep up the pace or I’ll [...]
There’s a long-haired, skinny character in the office famed for his drunken excesses. He wears shades indoors, even in the windowless edit rooms, hiding what I imagine to be a pair of bloodshot eyes. Sometimes I worry when I see his skeletal body shaking from the cold during edits, even when he wears a thick jacket.
After work every night, he invites colleagues to [...]
So there I was, at the neighborhood coffee shop. After hours of mindless, directionless walking.
Started reading about, of all things, a detailed account of a stranger’s first sexual encounter on his blog. It wasn’t supposed to make me cry.
But the chorus of “I’m Your Angel” started playing on my ipod. And my eyes suddenly pooled with tears. Sentimental shit.
Somehow hearing, [...]
Need to get out.
Can’t stand this.
Am counting the days. They run too long.
Need to see the sun. Need to breathe. Need to feel alive.
Need to go beyond these walls. Need to get away. Far, far, far, far away.
Want to wake up barraged by the noises of an alien city. Want to hear voices speaking words [...]
Been having trouble sleeping.
Can’t stop thinking. Tortured thoughts.
My body clock’s confused, doesn’t know what time zone it belongs to anymore.
Some days I get to bed when our morning shows start to air. Today’s worse, it’s 9 am and I’m still hanging around waiting for my own night to fall.
Though I’ve at least been blessed with the sight of pretty, [...]
I didn’t cook anything at all this Christmas. No paella or pesto or marinara, no prawns or steak or sea bass, and no favorite spinach pie. No attempt at something creative like an Indian curry or a Greek moussaka or even just plain sinigang. As in nothing.
He will always be my friend but I don’t [...]
I sat for a long time today outside the Bayon temple, staring up at its main tower. For some reason, the darkness of it coupled with all those eyes looking down at visitors from every angle, made me think of Tolkien’s Mordor.
The Bayon does not have a religious vibe. It has the aura of an [...]
