noel alanguilan

tropical
corner of legarda and recto
manila

when i walk this way in the morning i constantly see someone waiting for somebody. the corner apparently became a meet up place where friends, classmates or relatives agree to meet before school or work or after.

the start of the year was “traditional” enough—we welcomed it at midnight with festive lights and noise often with a meal and maybe with wine or ale. then maybe before going to sleep we think of what we want to change or do or where we’re heading off to in the coming days. old habits.

2010. its a fresh year and fresh new decade and it comes with its own handful of old and new resolutions as well as tired and fresh targets. it’s cliché but everyone seeks change for better fortunes and easier paths.

i have my own plans, aims and hopes for the coming days and most of them are not really for public consumption. but i can list down the one that i consider “safe”.

loose 1½ stone. you calculate. jog. ride my bike more. ss. endeavor not to take anything too seriously. this is more for my sake than anyone else’s. give more time and effort to creative projects. play soccer. learn each day. take no more crap from anyone. take better photos. run. get up that mountain. grow grass. spend more time out of the metro. go see more sunsets. spend less. not that i have any money. slim down. its not the same as loosing weight. spend less time online. its not as hard as you think. say what’s on my mind. when asked.

life is anything but predictable. let’s see.

if you have stumbled here for one reason or another, i bid you welcome and wish you a happy holiday season. peace.

kikay
san miguel, manila

this is one of the first few pictures of kikay–my bike. she was still brand spanking new i was just savoring the knowledge that she was still unscratched at the time.

part of the lost rolls

maong

this is just one pair of jeans that i have. all of them have at least a hole on them. its really not by choice as i don’t go around tearing up my pants. they just start to unravel thread by thread and before i know it there a gaping hole (or two) there.

it wasn’t in the list of available videos i can embed in fb from youtube so here it is courtesy of mtv music, i saved the world today, eurythmics.

well, it crept up on me. food tastes a lot better after i quit smoking. lots better. even plain rice tastes good these days. it doesn’t help that my girlfriend’s culinary skills have vastly improved.

but the price is that i have a harder time tying my shoe laces. i come up for air every handful of seconds. and my pants can now be called corsets. i actually popped a button once.

my weighing scale tells me 67 kilos. my doctor’s scale is less forgiving — 71 kilos. but everyone knows this type of weighing scale is not 100% accurate. they may show more than you actually weigh. or they may show less. which is actually worse.

in any case, i’m putting on weight which is only good if i were a toddler. so i have to cut down on my rice intake. ugh.

i don’t get to exercise as much as i used to. i get to walk a lot but the kilometers taken in stride does not fairly match the calorie taken per bite. i have get back to cycling. and soon.

it was too hot in the house — 37 degrees centigrade on the mercury and 39 on the digital clock. nifty little thing. and since ironman hit the big screens yesterday i invited my wife and son to watch it. it was a good excuse to go to the mall and pay my overdue phone bill.

as for ironman, i say watch it. watch it on the big screen because this is one of those effects movies that is simply “more” on the big screen. its begging for a sequel.

linkin park – breaking the habit

its been 19 days…

ssh filesystem (sshfs) is filesystem client based on the ssh file transfer protocol.

to mount a filesystem:

sshfs hostname: mountpoint

to unmount a filesystem:

fusermount -u mountpoint

reference: ssh filesystem