360 degrees

it took me about 360 days to turn my life around...what a thought...

"swept away"

going down the elevator of my office building has always been a treat. not only am i going to a place where i can smoke but i also get to hear the sounds of the guards of the graveyard shift. if i get lucky, i share the elevator with someone...

I never had anything happen so fast
I took one look and I shattered like glass
I guess I let it show 'cause your smile told me you knew
That you're everything I ever wanted at once
There's no holding this heart when it knows what it wants
And I never wanted anything more than to know you

I was swept away
No one in the world but you and I
Gotta find a way to make you feel the way that I do
I was swept away
Without a warning
Like night when the morning begins the day
I was swept away

And so it begins
This journey of love
The summer wind carries us to places all our own
The words of a look
The language of touch
The way that you want me means so much
And I never wanted anything more than to love you

Seeing my tomorrows in your eyes
I was swept away

I hope I wake up soon
I'm a victim of that crazy moon

The very first time you said my name
I knew it would never sound the same
Something about me is changed forever

text message from a friend:

(from a book she read)

there's no use in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance.

Norah Jones Live!

Araneta Coliseum March 12, 2005

i forgot to put an entry for this...

i want to wake up with the rain
falling on a tin roof
while i'm safe there in your arms

so, all i ask is for you to...

norah jones sang about 20 songs straight without intermission, including my favorite song, humble me. i just wish i can watch her perform again in smaller venue while drinking wine by candlelight...

Ever had the exact same dream twice?

(yeah, that's what i thought so, too.)

after 2 months,

i finally knew what to tell the jeepney driver when he'd ask me where i would go down.

for the longest time, i knew where i was going. i just couldn't tell other people, who didn't know, where it is exactly. i guess, now, i can.

On Written on the Body

As Jeanette Winterson puts it.

I wanted to look again, (I am always looking again) at love's ability to shatter and heal simultaneously. Loving someone else destroys our ideas of who we are and what we want. Priorities change, friends change, houses change, we change. Part of the strangeness of being human is our need of boundaries, parameters, definitions, explanations, and our need for them to be overturned. For most people, only the positives of love and faith (and a child is both), or the negatives of disaster and disease, achieve this. Death comes too late. The final shattering affects others, but not ourselves.

Why is the measure of love...loss?

and when will i ever get it right?

"this year"

watched serendipity, again, this morning before sleeping, so, here's the song of the day:
by chantal kreviazuk

This year,
is gonna be incredible
This year,
is gonna be the one
All the planets are lining up for me
This year,
I'm gonna have fun
This year,
I'll paint my masterpiece
This year,
I'll be recognized
I can feel like I'll fall in love for real
This year,
this year
January,
I'll learn to fly
February,
love's gonna find me
March, April, May,
I'll get carried away
Oh, oh...
This year,
I'll reach the pinnacle
This year,
I'll get to the top
People will ask where she gets that energy
This year,
I'm never gonna stop
January,
I'll learn to fly
February,
love's gonna find me
March, April, May,
I'll get carried away
Oh, oh, oh, oh...
This year,
is gonna be incredible
This year,
is gonna be the one
All the planets are lining up for me
This year,
I'm gonna have fun
I'm gonna have fun
Just watch me now
This year...

text message for a friend who's feeling blue:

get some rest. then, start your day like it's a totally new day, like it's the only day of the year. that way, you don't bring the bad things from yesterday and also, you can make sure tomorrow's gonna be ok.

it has been a mystery to me how to do what Ralph Waldo Emerson had written to write it on your heart like it's the last day of the year.

now, i can.