I'v been coughing so much, the other day i threw up. Now i've lost my voice, i go "Testing, testing..."and i sound like a 90yr old chainsmoker.

Taxi ride from eastwood to home. Streets almost totally empty. It was grim in a way, word goes out and in a matter of hours everyone falls in line.

Mao said revolution isn't a tea party. Except in the philippines.

Celebrated mutineers walk out on their publicized trial, apparently the MPs guarding them had gone turncoat, sided with the rebels. People in the streets, tear gas was used. Curfew in effect, but screw that. Some are fearful, but many just see it as an inconvenience, spectacle. This is how democracy works here, elections don't have enough drama, so once in a while we have to have street theater.

Usually it's not so bad when the late night buses go to warp speed. It gets scary when it's one of those ramshackle rattletraps that sways on mushy shocks.

Watching the prodigy Marc Yu on NGC. Let's put this kid on the watch list and check in on him in about ten years. Hope you make it, kid.

A fit of coughing/ I taste blood in my mouth. This/ has been a bad week.

Performance evaluation at work says i'm both empathic and confrontational. I don't think i'm unnecessarily confrontational, and when i am it's intentional. But yeah, empathy, not sympathy.

I see more pretty girls when i'm not wearing my glasses

Now cough syrup gets me to the fun kind of drunkenness: loopy, altered perception, loquacious.

Iain m. banks, jack vance, china mieville, and frank herbert are the best at making up unique, memorable fantasy and sf names.

Jing: King of Bandits, got volume 3 and 5. Jackpot, good stuff. Wonder if there's any chance i could still find the rest of the manga.

I don't like Heroes. Watched the season 1 finale, the voiceover with the platitudes, now there's some truly horrible writing. Pretentious cliches posing as supposed enlightenment.

At the end of Amelie, it's said that there are more connections in the brain than atoms in the universe. I hope that's a mistranslation, because it's dumb. Neurons are made of atoms, and are part of the universe, non?

Mini angkor

Watching the Aeon Flux movie, it's its own thing, distinct from peter chung's series. And charlize theron looks damn tasty in a catsuit.

I need a change. Imagine a smarter man in my shoes, what would he do? And a dramatic gesture to mark the occasion. Head's already shaved, what else? Rearrange furniture? Buy a bike maybe? I need more cardio in my life.

Watched Fight Club again, switched on the captions, they had edward norton's character as "Rupert,"the first nametag. I thought of him as Jack. Then Amelie, i liked A Very Long Engagement better.

Someone at work gave me robert jordan's The Eye of the World. Didn't ask for it, tried jordan some years ago and didn't like it. Instead i'm re-reading iain m. banks's Against a Dark Background, this is the story joss whedon was shooting for but didn't reach: intensely character-driven sf, grim, moving, heartbreaking, unforgettable.

Shop from the future

Found the shooting script for the star trek tng Tapestry episode, one of the best ever. Wish they'd done an expanded book-length version.

Daisho

Daisho

Feel weird, heart rate up to 95 beats per min because i haven't had any coffee in a while.

LRT Araneta Cubao Station

I've always liked cubao, it's the truth. Trying to turn into makati, but much of it still has a retro 80s vibe.

Re-reading my tom robbins books, then segued to frank herbert's dune books. The hippie thing is the common thread, i guess.

Secret garden

Feeling self-possessed, but joyless. Anhedonia. Behold, i can acknowledge the reality of my inner state without surrendering to it, and i can function just fine. But there's still a lot of anger, on tap. Tightly wound in subtle ways.

Fortune cookie says "You discover treasures where others see nothing unusual." Writing cookie fortunes must be a fun job.

My company file says i'm female. Heh, in that case maybe i could score some maternity leave too.