I made some illustrations for my friend Duffie. We’re hoping to get these published. Crossing fingers, Duff. I’m very honored to be your illustrator.

“New..will always change the world. Exciting isn’t it. It’s neither good or bad, right now it’s just potential….”
I love the copy writing.

It’s hard to ruminate over past experiences. I feel pained that the Spaniards taught Filipinos the notion of sentimentality. But at the same time, they’ve made us very resilient people. I’m broken, but I think I’ll be okay. I think it’s time to go back to the drawing board and work on those paintings instead.
[photo at Sapiso Piso Waterfall, Sumatra].

I think they’re right. Maybe there is no such thing as reality, maybe we are all projections of something else. Maybe we only live in relation to other beings. Multiversal objects that collide and change. We’re all malleable according to our desires…….. Yes,the idea of parallel universes still wig me out, and fascinate me.

via: http://daily.finerminds.com/spirit/spirituality/reality-does-not-exist/

Not to be reductionist, or even presumptuous, the virtue of this exercise is to see the value of our travels, and how that sums up parts of ourselves.

Here goes..

Manila, Philippines — jeepney
Batam, Indonesia — boats
Bintan, Indonesia — wayang
Saigon, Vietnam — xe om / motorbike
San Francisco, California — tiffany’s
San Jose, California — circuit city / silicon valley
Hongkong, China — commerce
Singapore, Singapore — work

It looks like I’ve covered much of what I want to see in Asia.
The only ones left (at least the ones that I want to see) are:

Tokyo, Japan ** — Quite possibly the most expensive Asian country to visit. This one I’d have to save up for, big time!
Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Angkorwat. Need i say more…?
Phuket, Thailand — Beaches are beautiful!
Jakarta, Indonesia — I love the vibrance of the city.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia *** — I haven’t set foot in Malaysia yet, but I’m due for a short airport stopover for my trip to Indonesia. This should be interesting. (even if it’s only 2 hours)
Malacca, Malaysia — I love the portugese influence, and how it blends in with Malay culture. Will plan for this sometime.

Just came back from Hongkong for a weekend trip. It was great. I loved the city-meets-nature vibe. It was a kaleidoscope of fun – but somehow, I still felt like something was amiss. Not like Indonesia, I felt like I was so different, that I didn’t blend in somehow, and I wasn’t meant to belong there. I guess we just have a general vibe about these things.

I also would love to visit Istanbul one day. I’ll probably cry my ass off if I get the chance – It’s always been a frustration of mine =)

More of my travel-day dreaming later… i have to go back to work now.. =)

I want one. Like. Now.

I’m a sucker for diagrams. Like these. I understand things better through visual representation – even nonsensical stuff like these. Hehehe.

Shooting the serifs has never looked this glamorous.

To kern or not to kern.

VCR

You used to have all the answers
And you, you still have them too
And we, we live half in the daytime
And we, we live half at night

Watch things on vcrs
With me and talk about big love
I think we’re superstars
You say you think we are the best thing
And you, you just know
You just do

I wanna find myself by the sea
In anothers company
By the sea
I wanna walk out to the pier
I’m gonna dive and have no fear
Cos you, you just know
You just do

Watch things on vcrs
With me and talk about big love
I think we’re superstars
You say you think we are the best thing
And you, you just know
You just do

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Breathless (French: À bout de souffle; literally “at breath’s end”) is a 1960 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

Godard’s first feature-length film is among the inaugural films of the French New Wave. It derived from a scenario by fellow New Wave director, François Truffaut, and the film was released the year after Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Together the three films brought international acclaim to the nouvelle vague. At the time, Breathless attracted much attention for its bold visual style and the innovative editing use of jump cuts.

The walls were impregnated by a chocful of oriental goods, full of red , chinese flavour.