Monthly Archives: October 2007

Music for the dead

Speaking of dead, believe it or not this is the second time I’ve been online since MBS1, and the first was like a couple of days before yesterday. Clearly, if you’re in the kind of practice I’m in, being offline that long should be a crime. If you checked my last post BEFORE the last one, you can tell that I can go for more than two days and I know you should all get my head for that…

But really, last night I had some really shocking news about someone who died. You see, few months ago, Kaye rescued a kitten when she was on her way home. We learned later that the kitten’s mother was just around the village and whenever we see her sauntering the streets by herself, I tell Kaye that one of these days we ought to reunite the kitten (now a cat), jokingly named “Pipao” with her maternal unit. Last night, on her way home, Kaye found Pipao’s mom lying DEAD on the street: as in Road Kill dead. I was devastated too since I’ve grown endeared to Pipao. You know, I feel strangely relieved that no human can cat-talk their way into explaining to Pipao that her mother had died.

If I may digress, again, a few years ago, my friend told me about this Hungarian song that had some really morbid themes surrounding it. The legend goes that the composer wrote a song for his former lover who after the release of the song killed herself. The composer later killed himself as well. Hmm…

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On Mindanao Bloggers Summit: Ought to confess…

Why me? Hah, aside from being almost tongue-tied, in hind sight, I tend to think that there were several things I never got to say on my talk today because, you know, I really didn’t know what to say to begin with. Anyway, I thought my task was to identify the difference between being being an emo blogger from a niche blogger. But I guess I failed to mentioned, if I hadn’t implicitly said so already, that you can be an “emo blogger” without betraying your niche.

I used to go through the trouble of writing about my purely indulgent life – if that’s not redundant or what. I guess, part of why I deleted my “too personal” blog accounts, I figured out one day that I’m not so interested in myself anymore. If I want to talk about myself, it’s because I’m really interested in something.

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