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Oily and acne scarred. Dark circles beneath my uneven eyes. Technically overweight and terribly out of shape. I won't turn your head in a crowded room, but I'll make you feel wanted because you are.

Pinay American writer with a penchant for book hoarding, daydreaming, and laughing too too hard. I don't know what to do or how to deal with myself, but it's wonderful discovering the world and my/its/your intricacies the deeper I delve into this strange existence.

A (somewhat) brief outline of all that touched, repulsed, triggered, inspired, loved me. Life is full of apathy and indifference but this is where they don't exist.

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February 26, 2012

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What an ideal place to read. Underwater and on top of a crocodile red creature, so dangerous hehe. But man, it’d be so cool.

I miss reading but I’m starting to do it more. Reading The Lover’s Dictionary by David Leviathan again and I can’t help but feel moved. I was supposed to do a review of it like over a week ago, but actually for a different book called “The Unconsoled” by Kazuo Ishiguro, but I’ll get to that eventually. It’s pretty long, the latter, and I would’ve taken too long, but hopefully I’ll be done with that one within a week after I do the former’s review before the end of this month.

Anyway, here are some places I’d like to read one day:

at an aquarium, preferably beneath a school of fish
at the zoo
on a lighthouse
in a garden, but an extravagantly big one as well as a regular one
on a cliff with the ocean crashing against it
behind the waterfall
in a cave
in a tent
in the arms of someone I’m in a relationship (of sorts haha) with
on a bridge
in the NYPL (main one please)
beneath shooting stars
in a cemetery
on a ship
in a rowboat
at a photoshoot
in a theater
on a movie set
at a concert
during an opera
or while an orchestra is playing
at a poetry slam or story telling bit
at a fashion show
during a comic convention
on a rooftop
somewhere in the rain, but i’m in a shelter of a sort like a bus stop
in a cab
in a car wash
in a limo
while i’m getting tailored
in a hospital bed
while it’s snowing but again, i’m in some sort of shelter and i can stick my hand out to touch it whenever i want to. i’m also bundled
NAKED.
under a bridge
on railroad tracks
in a museum
in an art gallery
in a thrift store
in a flea market
getting fondled hehe
while being painted or sketched
in the middle of a street
in a jail cell
while legit cooking something
while getting a tattoo
on my deathbed
lying in a field
or in a bed of flowers
in an abandoned house
in an antique store
while getting a massage
while getting my hair done
while getting my body painted
during a flashmob
while being a part of a flashmob (even better!)
getting hit on by a stranger
while being serenaded
while getting drunk
at a bar
at a farm
in a vineyard
in a wine cellar
sunrise
sunset
eclipse (lunar and solar)
in a planetarium
on a rocket ship
on the moon, asteroid belt, or in a galaxy far, far away

…there’s probably more but I just checked and I hit 68. I could do one more and make it one of my favorite numbers hehe, but 68 is a lovely number in itself.

I think I’ll definitely aim to do at least a few of these places before my birthday. And then day of my 24th year, I’ll pick one of the more outlandish ones and definitely do them. I gotta remember that.

In fact, I’m planning on doing a bucket list birthday. Since going to all those art galleries and doing new things like the today show concert on my 23rd was so much fun and led me to so many endeavors, I figured I could do something really brave or new to me and it’ll really start my 24th year right.

It should be quite lovely, or really scary hehe. I’m so pumped for both! It probably won’t be scary but exciting but either way, I’m so looking forward to it.

I’ll definitely try to chip my way at this list though, as well as the bucket one. I want to see how many I can do less than four months from now.

I’m especially going to look forward to the ones I haven’t even thought of at all. Those are pretty grand hehe.

The most random of happenings can be the most special. Even when they seem quite ordinary, when you look back they can be so much more extra.

It’s weird how the mind works, isn’t it?

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