so it ends for the fed

Roger Federer talks to the press after his loss to Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open 2008 tournament.

clarity of passion

do yourselves a favor and watch atonement as soon as you can. this movie is a work of art, each frame is like a painting. of course i do not have to add another superlative to the on-going ian mcewan worship happening all over the literary world -- the story is original and it will not disappoint you.

i love keira knightley in this film, she plays a character whose properly disturbed and nonchalant at the same time. james mcavoy is superb. no matter how his character is suppose to mature as the story progresses, he retains enough boyish innocence to keep our sympathy all along.

towards the end, robbie tells cecilia that he longs to return to her with the "clarity of passion" that they had once shared in the past. this strikes me as particularly fascinating since we often speak of "passion" as akin to a frenzied state of mindlessness. interestingly enough, the tagalog word for lust (which is essentially passion in the physical sense), is libog -- visayan for confusion. in the story, this passion was far from madness: it was single-minded, focused, clear.

even war and deception became peripheral.

goodbye, pig

i don't like the chinese zodiac or any kind of zodiac for that matter. but i do like pig. and pork. and since the chinese ancients have mystically assigned 2007 to our dear beloved pig, let me say adieu to 2007 thru this picture of my favorite girl wearing my favorite animal. (coincidentally, pigs are colored pink, banne's favorite color.)



Happy New Year everyone! and if you're dumb enough to play with firecrackers then, there you go, you're dumb. Let's all have a great 2008!

and now... a dodong picture

photoshop courtesy of brian and banne. :P

my sister's home!

after almost four hours of waiting at the airport, she finally came. my sister. in a family obsessed with giving nicknames, she is known as "tutak".

Merry Office Christmas !

Here are some more pictures from our office pictorials. :)

Bantayan Island

Azeus Cebu lakwatsa at Bantayan Island. What a way to start my Cebu work life. Went to Bohol a month ago. Will post pictures soon. (Am writing like this coz phone blogging is a bitch. Hehe)