the dark side of the moon

tuna + donardo's garlic chili sauce + mama sita's barbecue marinade = one great meal

my will to write has been absent for quite a while now. i am currently caught up in quite a few matters, and when i get a respite from all this madness i shall make up a suitable entry. for the meanwhile, i present two passages from the first few pages of "the picture of dorian gray" which have made their own individual impressions on me and which i wish to store somewhere for future digestion:


"I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted, for there is such a little time that your youth will last - such a little time. The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself."

I've just downloaded Flock, a new web browser built on the Firefox engine. It's still beta, but it seems to have its features up and running properly. Basically Firefox built for social websurfing, it comes in handy if you're a blogger (yes, Livejournal is supported) and/or use Photobucket or Flickr.

No, that wasn't an automatically generated paragraph. I wrote it to test the posting capabilities of Flock to my LJ account.

my dad went crazy in the states, he started buying a LOT of shoes. 6 pairs for himself, i think. thankfully, dinamay niya ako. he got me - apart from loafers, vans shoes, and leather shoes - two new pairs (or i think my uncles got them for me) of football shoes! and not a moment too soon, because my shoes just ripped along the seam on the inside of the foot. ugh.

that would normally be perfect, because my dad's arriving on tuesday, but the thing is, i have games on both saturday and sunday!

fuck.

guess i'm off to mr. quickie. here's to hoping they don't give it back to me one size smaller like last time, cause of the stitching.

happy happy.

joy joy.

no matter how seemingly unethical or misplaced my joy might be.