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Thursday, March 31, 2005
howie day

sunday morning song

It's not that bad
We could have died
Chalk it up to being young
Prove it was me

No morning drive
No blurred headlight
from the corner of my eye
If only you were here right now,
you'd tell me..

Wouldn't it be somethin if everything changed
Wouldn't I be somethin in your way
Wouldn't it be more than livin' in your wake
If you and I would ever cease to be
Yeah.. yeah..

Your summer dress
A late downpour
and how it caught us on the stairs
That silent song you'd sing to me
keeps singing..

Wouldn't it be somethin if everything changed
Wouldn't I be somethin in your way
Wouldn't it be more than livin' in your wake
If you and I would ever cease to be
Yeah.. yeah..

No, my love
Hold on

We bend, I break
You fall, we scrape
I blame it all on being older now
I'm still singing...

Wouldn't it be somethin if everything changed
Wouldn't I be somethin in your way
Wouldn't it be more than livin' in your wake
If you and I would ever cease to be
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
well...today...finished up printing my pictures...and i did invite kim and showed her how to make prints...and it was fun...in a way

and then i went to bianca's birthday and she's there as well...and we sat next to each other and we get a chance to talk...so it's nice...in a way
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
finally got the paulness done late yesterday afternoon...it was quite fun...we get to draw cloth...and try to capture the clothness of the cloth...whatever that means...anyways...i like the way i'm approaching the drawing...try not to create gradiant through smearing the charcoal...whereas i'm and letting the streak of the charcoal show...i think it adds that sense of making and dynamicism to the drawing

yesterday...i get a chance to talk to paul and marco about my project...a lot of great ideas came up and i will try my hardest to make them work...we'll see how that goes...there's no harm in trying...there's only harm in not trying...(hey that sounds like the scenario that i'm in now...so live life like design??) but i'll try nonetheless

oh...listening to marvelous 3 now....but here's some new stuffs that y'all should check out:

gimme fiction by spoon....ful album
lullabies to paralyze by queens of the stone age...full album
Sunday, March 27, 2005
not much happening today...just a whole lot of wandering in my so called universe....but to round up the day, it was productive nonetheless...got my section ...well, the important portion of it done so i can proceed to the collage section. this week doesn't seem there's a lot of work....but i do need to print stuffs out for autocad...do some drawing for paul's...and head out to 14th street to take some photo...if the weather permits. well...i'll let my roommate sleeps...so i'll stop typing.
showed kim my pictures on friday and she likes them. and she likes this particular one that i took of the ceiling of union station and i told her if she want, i'll make her a print. SHe ask me if there's enough room for 2 people in the dark room...and i said yes...and she ask me if i'm making print next time...let her know and she would like to make the print with me cause she never seem it made before...so i said ok...

been lazy at home doing nothing...well...i kinda working on it at home...trying to figure it out...and there's some development...away from the studio...so it's cool...

i also need to head to school and do some pastel drawing for the paulness
Thursday, March 24, 2005
telling you this....why does certain people just fall in love with the same lousy ass guy that treat them like dirt?? they said it's a riskier choice...but is it??? is it considered risky when you know how it's gonna end?? (end badly of course)
photography is over...and it's nice

kim left me a note saying she'll come by to look at the pictures after she's done working...and i was like...ok...what ever...if she comes...she'll come...not to my surprise...she didn't...and it's fine...i dont give a crap anymore...
finally got a chance to experience the csi marathon and what csi has to offer. big fan that i am...oh...by the way...started watching from the pilot when it was aired right after a show called the fugutive back in 2000. those were the good old days

photography midterm is tonite...
this new set of photo i've taken...it feel that they are something great. each and single one of them have a certain emotion that carries along with it and i'm sure others can sense it as well. it is not just one single photo...but a collection as a whole. when i began to picture every single one of those images...i can't help to sense the feeling of lethagic, restlessness, waiting, letting time slip away, and crossing....i just feel that this set is a great set of photo as a collection. and they are told in a very interesting, third person kinda way in which i am the outsider looking in and tell the story that way.

oh...it's kelli's birthday today...and i made her a pinada....a mini one

what else??? i guess that's all
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
chronicle of yesterday (tuesday)

woke up...
watch ed then switch to csi marathon
head to school
did some paul drawings
went to marco's semester for a disertation
dinner back home and watched some simpsons
went to paul's drawing class
autocad
from 10 to 3, dark room developing pictures...
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
to chronicle the happenings of yesterday:
went to monday meeting
went to union station for photograph
went to marco's lecture in CUA
went back to old towne for dinner at five guys
went back to school to develope my negatives
Sunday, March 20, 2005
in the eve of another monday, here i laid on my back, on my bed to write you this: a poem or a song that will somehow or in someway, touch your heart.

situated in the corner i look to the other three,
wondering to myself if they are more comfortable.
i decided to remain at where i stand.
so i stood at this moment in time,
without worries, without pain,
without the complications that leads to worrise and pain.
so i stood at this moment of timelessness
wondering how my life can be, would be, should be, could be...
all i can wonder is how my life will be.
how can you say i never love you when you never know?
how can you lie to me when you never tell the truth?
how can i ever truth you anymore?
so i stood at this moment questioning my actions in life.
did i made the right choice?
why do i keep making the wrong choice?
I love to pondering about questions that have no apparent right answer.
it is merely a personal judgement.
these are things that keeps me alive,
and these are the things that keeps me standing in this moment.

draft 1...need to keep working on it
Saturday, March 19, 2005
it's been a relatively crappy day. I woke up with a headache and a stomach ache...and just feels like crap the entire day. you know...one of those feelings in your stomach that make you feel hungry and want to puke at the same time. I want to eat something...and in another way...i dont want to...well...i got through most of the day with out starving myself...had some apples, juice, bread, and some soup...that'll keep me alive....and another thing...i strain my back lifting a keg...which i probably wont be drinking from it cause that's gonna make me feel much more shittier. we'll see...

another funny thing happened this morning is when i was in the shower...sam called me...and we talked for like 10 minutes when i was in the bathroom half naked. how funny is that?

it's been a long week...and i'm glad it's ending...but it's ending with me in pain...sucks to be me...this week consist of all niters...and multiple changes to my design, presentation, dinner with kim, poker, getting sick...yea...it sucks
Thursday, March 17, 2005

this is the style of necklace i got kim in new york and we just put that together earlier tonite
st patrick day.

day started nicely...woke up late and just relax the entired day...

i dropped off a nice brownie for michelle...cause i can't find a muffin...she's my boss you know.

went to dinner with kim and we had a good time just hanging out. it reminds me how much i missed hanging out with her. as weird as that sounds...we think alike in many ways and it's nice spending time with her and talking to her. and afterwards...we came back to my studio and we finally got the necklace i got her together...it's nice...and she love it...and we hugged and she's happy.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
after a week worth of non-stop working and idea changing...it's great that i got it done and presented...it's time to get some much needed R and R
Friday, March 11, 2005
harsh left after a week here...all good things must end..tha's just how things are in life. If things are so great all the time..it wont be as fun of a ride...right?? besides, i got design that i desparately needed to bump out...thinking that i should get a haircut...it's getting a little annoying lately...so i might do that today. what else do i need to do?

well...recap of last nite. It's sammy's birthday and i got her "happy birthday in a box" which includes everything you need for a birthday party minus the cake. lemme try to remember what's in it...table cloth, banner, balloons, noise makers, tops, plates, cups, spoon, forks, candles, birthday hats, red noses, and confetti...oh...and pin the tail on the donkey game...and sam absolutely love it...and i am so happy that she does...she said it's all she ever wanted and that makes me so happy. and she hugged me...and i gave her a birthday kiss...it was wonderful...

one sad note is that sam might be interesting in steve....but as long as she's happy...i'm fine...but i do want to let her know how i feel.
Thursday, March 10, 2005
I need to say one thing...happy birthday sammy!! today is all about you!!...hopefully the gift i got her come in time...i should check the tracking...

new song from ben folds!!! it's called "landed" and the album is coming out in april...it's been a while since he got an album out...

here's the lyric

We'd hit the bottom
I thought it was my fault
And in a way I guess it was
I'm just now finding out
What it was all about

We moved to the west coast
Away from everyone
She never told me that you called
Back when I was still
I was still in love

Til I opened my eyes and walked out the door
And the clouds came tumbling down
And it's bye-bye, goodbye I tried
And I twisted it wrong
Just to make it right
Had to leave myself behind
And I've been flying high all night
So come pick me up
I've landed

The daily dramas
She made from nothing
So nothing ever made them right
She liked to push me
And talk me back down
Til I believed I was the crazy one
And in a way
I guess I was

When I opened my eyes and walked out the door
And the clouds came tumbling down
And it's bye-bye, goodbye I tried
Dragging the sea of a troubled mind
Had to leave myself behind
Singing bye-bye, goodbye I tried

If you wrote me off
I'd understand it
Cause I've been on
Some other planet
So come pick me up
I've landed

And you will be so
Happy to know
I've come alone
It's over

When I opened my eyes and walked out the door
And the clouds came tumbling down
And it's bye-bye, goodbye I tried
Down comes the rain and the telephone's on
It's ok to call
Now I'll answer for myself

Come pick me up
Come pick me up
I've landed

This song might take several listening to get the true meaning...but right now...to me, it's a good piece of music...and there's just this somber feeling to it...it's about coming back after leaving...maybe??

yesterday, got to see steven holl lecturing..that was pretty cool...it can be better...but anything can be better...but i enjoyed it. kim came by couple of times to me to say hi...i guess it's just out of niceness...and she asked me if never went out to lunch with her...so we decided to go after our midterm pin up...it's gonna be weird nonetheless....anywho...it's still a week and a presentation away. I should be okay til then...
Monday, March 07, 2005
i've been noticing that i've been putting up too much song lyrics on my blog....but you know what...i dont give a damn cause i think it's cool...and it speaks more than my words sometimes. either way...here's a summary of my day:

went to dc...first to the air and space museum which was really cool...i almost bought one of those old school rubber band rudder airplane...but i didnt...but i will definitely get it for my kids...cause my dad got me one when i was a kid...and it's one of the few memory that stuck in my head. and afterwares...we went to lunch at the american indian museum and i had a much needed buffulo burger. then, we when to hirshorn museum to look at some modern art by noguchi. and then we went to the east wing of the gallery. i think that's all we did in dc...then we went back and we chill and ordered pizza...

i also ordered a book for sam's birthday. the book is called americans by robert frank. it's a photography book that according to our photgraphy teacher...if you going to buy one book on photography...that is the only one. I really hope she likes it....and i had an aim conversation online with her...this is how it went:

machine612 (6:11:14 PM): hey sam, just ordered you a present online
TsunamiSam007 (6:11:46 PM): really???
machine612 (6:11:54 PM): yup
TsunamiSam007 (6:12:08 PM): cool
machine612 (6:12:29 PM): yup..it's coming in on wednesday or thursday
TsunamiSam007 (6:13:37 PM): awesome
TsunamiSam007 (6:13:43 PM): where is it from??
machine612 (6:14:25 PM): what do you mean?
TsunamiSam007 (6:14:58 PM): nevermind
machine612 (6:15:24 PM): it's from my heart if that's what you want to hear
TsunamiSam007 (6:16:15 PM): exactly

that was kinda cute....took some quick thinking...well...i think that's all i got for tonite

Sunday, March 06, 2005
Metarie by Brendan Benson

Met a girl, introduced myself
I asked her to go with me and no one else
And she said, "I’d really like to see you everyday
But I’m afraid of what my friends might say
You need a bath and your clothes are wrong
You’re not my type I can tell we wouldn’t get along"
I just laughed what else could I do
Just then her friend chimed in, singinh "get a clue
Get a life, put it in your song"

There’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you
There’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you

I’d had enough couldn’t take it anymore
So I turned and I ran straight for the door
Bought some mags on my way home
For later on, you know, when I’m all alone
Bottle of wine and some cigarettes
Watch TV and go to bed
I know a guy, lives in Los Angeles
Sometimes his life there makes me so jealous
And I'd have a life and put it in my song

There’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you
There’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you

I’d like to move out of this place
Change my name, maybe get a new face
Sleep all day stay up all night
And everybody I meet thinks I’m alright
I'd have a life and put it in your song

There’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you
There’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you
There’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you
There’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you
what's new mike...friend of mine is visiting this week and just gonna hang out and show him the surrounding areas...but he's been out with his relative in maryland...so it's just me right now...but it's good...i got a chance to get some work and thinking done...

well...on friday nite when we're hanging out...me and him got kicked out from a bar cause we're just couple of regular bad asses...but i did kissed sammy on the forehead on the way out...hehe

what else?? talking about sammy...her birthday is coming up and i need to get her a present that'll top the one she got me...what can that be?? still pondering....

came up with some new idea for my project...it's still digesting in my brain right now. It's the idea of interfacing...interfacing in term of the firm material between 2 softer fabrics to give it form whereas the fabric themselves alone doesnt. ex. is a collar. interface also can be used as a surface forming a common boundary between adjacent regions, bodies, substances, or phase. It is also a point at which independent systems of diverse groups interact....so that's how my museum gonna be like....but i have to put that into a the design so people can see...and i feel that i got the small details of this building down such as material, construction, and the way things should be organized and how people, tools, structure, and space would all interact...but it's a lot of work...and like always...not enough time.
Saturday, March 05, 2005
"better together" by jack johnson

there's no combination of words i could put on the back of a postcard
no song that i could sing but i could try for your heart
our dreams they are made out of real things
like a shoebox of photographs of sepia tone lovin

love is the answer at lease for most of the question of my heart
like why are we here and where do we go and how come it's so hard
it's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving
i'll tell you one thing it's always better when we're together

mmh it's always better when we together
yeah we'll look at the stars when we're together
well it's always better when we're together
yeah it's always better when we together

and all of these moments just might find a way into my dreams tonight
but i know that they'll be gone when the morning light sings
it brings new things for tomorrow night you see
that they'll be gone too too many things i have to do
but if all of those dreams might find a way into my day to day scene
i'll be under the impression i was somewhere in between
with only two just me and you not so many things we got to do
or places we got to be
we sit beneath the mango tree now

yeah it's always better when we're together
somewhere in between together
well it's always better when we're together
yeah it's always better when we're together

i believe in memories
they look so pretty when i sleep
and i .. and when i wake up you look so pretty sleeping next to me
but there is not enough time
there is no.. no song i could sing
there is no combination of words i could say
but i will still tell you one thing

we're better together

I absolutely enjoy the new jack johnson cd...especially this song...it's kinda the way i would live...i live for little moments and memories...and these little things somehow would find there way in to my life. It's one of those things that's sweet....like spending time with someone you love...you dont have to be living in a big house, driving a nice car...as long as we are together....that moment, that memory would be as sweet as anything...knowing that you fall in love despite the house or the car...you fell in love because of the person. I also love the part about these moment appearing in his dreams and his dreams appearing in to his daily life and how he's living in between....i think that's just a great metaphor about what love is...love is something ideal...much like a sweet dream....and how falling in love is like living in dreams in his real life...gosh...that's great.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
happy birthday to me...i have to admit it's one of the finest birthday i ever had...well...i'm kinda too drunk to tell you the details...but i just want to say it's been a blast of a day...and i want to thank every single person around me...it's true that the center give back more than what we put in and i can feel the love...lots of them...

list of people i want to thank
Sam, you've been awesome..thank for the mini keg, thanks for the effort you put in to the card...i absolutely enjoyed it...and i just want you to know i will do everything in my control to make you happy...and i want you to know i love you...you made my life just a little more bearable.
Dr. Wong...you've been one of the best buddy i got here...and thanks for all that time you listen to my shit...i tends to drag on and on with my story...but thanks for your continual support...and thanks for keeping me sane.
Jen...i know there's a lot of ups and downs in our friendship...but i realized that our time here together is limited and i want to let you know that i already over what i'm uncomfortable...and just want to see you happy.
shinji...thanks for you gift....
waac band...thanks for letting me play even if i suck...
michelle...my favorite neightbor...i really glad you're my neightbor...i can imagine anyone else sitting next to me...you seems to make any late nite just a little better...just you being there...thanks
Bianca..thanks for everthing...i can't really believe you're one of my cool friends here...i enjoy talking to you just about everything...and it's cool hanging out with you...it's a great surprise that we get along so well.
the round ups....hamid, chris, matt melody, lydia, frankie, emily, ricado, matt, nash, george, nicole, ellenora, ellen, kristina, oona, kelli, kim...thanks you all...i think i'm the luckiest person today.

final words...sam...i really enjoy your company...even though if you have someone else in mind...i dont really care...i just think that you should do whatever you want so you'll be happy...i just want you to be happy...and you deserve nothing but the best...i love you...i love you more than you ever know...i cherish ever single moment i spent with you...and i did miss you truely...i never felt such an emptiness inside me. when you're gone, i flet this void in my heart. and i felt this fullness when you're around...i dont know if it's love...or infatuation...but it's a feeling nonetheless. seeing you with other guys doesn't really hurt me...it's your way of finding happiness...i wish one day..that guy would be me...i want you to find happiness in me. Love you.