12.29.2008
Travel/Vacation @ 8:53 PMToday was all about Travel and Vacation.
Planning, I mean.
1. I renewed my passport
2. Started the process of booking my flight to the Philippines
3. Booked a reservation with my aunt's timeshare in Cancun
---> Going to Cancun and Isla Mujeres, Mexico during Spring Break (if my Aunt is given those days off) or before I leave for the Philippines in May!
4. May/may not go to Toronto, Canada in August before school starts (depends on when my cousin is having his baby's baptism)
Was going to go to Channel Islands (particularly Santa Cruz Island) on Friday, but weather and beach is too cold in winter to Kayak the Sea Cove/Cave. Most probably will go in August instead.
Now planning a drive up PCH highway 1 to Cambria, Pebble Beach, etc, on Friday, unless a better destination comes up.
How's it going, guys?
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12.26.2008
St. Anthony Reunion @ 11:14 PMLife does not last forever. Obviously. And a span of 5 years seems like a span of infinity and yesterday, the trip feeling like the whole walk around the world and then back. Wow.
Seeing the people you haven't seen in a thousand days when you used to spend a thousand minutes with them per month, easy. It's surreal, mind blowing, out of this world. Everyone is old and young, you want to hug them and don't want to see them at the same time. I was afraid they might think I am exactly the same, and totally different all at once. What do I want them to think? I wish I knew who I would be now back when I was 13. I wish I knew who everyone was going to be. Would I have treated them how I did? Would I have chosen differently, folded and hung the relationships and friendships that I was proud of and still am? I'm babbling on and on about what was. But what could be? Is it too late to change the course of our friendships now? Too late?
It's saddens me to think that we will part our ways eventually, not be in each others' lives the way we are now. We can't be neighbors our whole life through. But when we do see each other again, my friend, I hope you will remember me as I remember you.
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12.19.2008
How I Met Your Mother @ 10:05 PMNow that I have conquered 3 seasons, +/- 66 episodes, +/- 36 hours of The Office, next on the list: How I Met Your Mother. Over winter break. It will happen! I already saw the first two episodes and couldn't stop laughing.
Check out the "How I Met Your Mother" cast's re-enactment of the important events of 2008, yo! Care to take a guess?





Answers:
1. 4X200m US relay team, 2008 Olympics (Cheering for Phelps)
2. The Jonas Brothers + fans
3.Indiana Jones, Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls
4. Sex in the City, Wedding breakup scene between Mr. Big and Carrie Bradshaw
5. Sarah Palin and John McCain, duh!
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Evolution @ 12:48 AMIt's unfortunate that due to the parameters of time, we are unable to witness extreme evolution before our eyes. Wouldn't it be most absolutely mind-blowing to witness a progression of geographical, astronomical, scientific normalities and abnormalities spanning millions and billions of years?
There are, however, "evolutions" most apparent to us that happen as we look into the mirror from day to day and year to year.
I've dressed up emo, punk, retro, posh, prep, and plain lazy. I've dyed, cut, grown, twisted, braided, corn-rowed, pigtailed, bunned my hair; applied and re-applied, removed, caked on make-up and when stripped of all of this, I will look the same.
The same. The same Vannalyn, surely, aged with time, but the same round faced, thick-lipped, dark-eyed blend of palette of my mom's gene, my dad's gene, of the same Mitochondrial Eve that we share. The mix of DPI's that I see printed on pictures, or reflected by mirrors of myself are mine.
The best of all? I am witness to my own evolution!
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12.16.2008
Curse them Evil Leprechauns @ 12:28 AMI guess I should clarify somethings about my blog.
Sometimes, I write about things that I think about but not necessarily believe. I like to question things that are of the other side of the argument. My previous entry regarding Death and Immortality was not meant to impose a certain idea on anyone, or is it in any way a statement about how I view the value of life and the importance of death. The beauty of questioning and taking the other side of the argument, thus allowing ourselves to think like someone else, expand the picture to a wider view. Thinking outside of the box or walking in someone's shoes, so to speak.
If you ever catch that the direction of my blog is taking a different turn, an unusual course away from the main road, please consider this: I read the blogs that I have written in the past, and yes, sometimes they seem morbid and sometimes sad. I write them, yet I do not believe that I am a person who can be read like my blog. I can only hope that is normal? What I write about is an extension of my thoughts and only a fragment of my thoughts. I'm sure if I wrote about all that I think about, you all would be bored, right? =)
Sometimes I feel like a different person everyday.
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On the upside, I read somewhere that I had to post 16 random facts about me. Curse them evil leprechauns, if I don't they'll come after me!
Well, maybe not. I'm sure the evil leprechauns have more important things to do than read my blog. =D
Facts:
1. My feet are most extremely sensitive to cold. They and only they feel hypothermia even when it's 60 degrees.
2. I don't really have coins in the coin pocket of my wallet.
3. Instead I have a rosary,
4. a guitar pick,
5. and a cool looking shell.
6. I always wonder what it feels like to be in prison
7. I could live off of a bacon diet/ indulgement. =)
8. Ever heard of the phrase, "love at first sight?" it doesn't make sense.
9. If it does, then how can it be that "love is blind?" =D
10. My eyes feel like magnets. Does that explain to you why I sleep a lot?
11. I cried watching Blood Diamond, but not the Notebook, Titanic and other dramance movies.
12. Oh, beeswax. I am aDdiCTed to Burt's Bees!
13. I, like Bianca (wink wink) probably open the fridge about 20 times a day.
14. I feel like a bitch for wanting to listen to music more instead of sitting and talking to others while waiting for class to start.
15. Fifteen, my birthdate. I wanted so badly to have the same birthday as a famous painter, so I can say that I am an artist resurrected. Salvador Dali, perhaps?
16. Bianca says that I can't be a lawyer, because I would lose everybody with my logic.
No she says I gotta go study!
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12.11.2008
Death after Life, Life after Death @ 11:59 AMIn a serious attempt to delay what one must do before/during hell week (no, not procrastination! i swear!), I post another question that dances around a certain topic that most of us are afraid of: death.
I've heard several times from sources on different occasions that expecting death allows us to live and truly live. Search for death quotes, among the famous ones: "He not busy being born is busy dying" (Bob Dylan) or "Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives" (A. Sachs).
I guess my question is: Does impending death and knowing that we are all born to die drive us to live? What if we were immortal and time was no object?
I quote from a friend, Veronica:
Death is an ingenius structure of life, for without it, we live forever, thus what do we live for, without the drive to achieve anything but continue merely as a zombie? With an expiration date, we set ourselves personal targets.
Though I see the side which considers death as an ultimatum or a deadline to enjoy all earthly wonders, what if we had forever?
Maybe I wouldn't feel so bad about sitting down to watch TV, sleep an extra hour, take the longer and unplanned road ahead. Maybe I would consider taking the time to write a book, sip coffee by a window instead of just go go go!
Don't you feel so rushed with life? But then again, my question may only have minimal to do with answering Death vs. Immortality. Instead must I consider: Where is the line between living recklessly, without fear, or with every apprehension to waste time? Where?
Maybe I wouldn't feel so bad about sitting down to watch TV, sleep an extra hour, take the longer and unplanned road ahead. Maybe I would consider taking the time to write a book, sip coffee by a window instead of just go go go!
Don't you feel so rushed with life? But then again, my question may only have minimal to do with answering Death vs. Immortality. Instead must I consider: Where is the line between living recklessly, without fear, or with every apprehension to waste time? Where?
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12.08.2008
I am Cold @ 4:21 PMSo, your idea of having fun is partying it up
Thursday Night
Friday Morning,
Friday Night,
Saturday Morning,
from sundown to dawn,
Saturday night and
Sunday morning?
Passed out on the lawn
looking like in mourning?
So your idea of having fun is lighting up
Who knows what,
from God knows where
on some street corner,
at a park, on a bench,
and dusty, old, cold stairs
gasping for air while you smoke,
you're barely there?
You jump for joy
and sing for laughter,
waiting for the approval
of your sad and lonely "friends"
Tomorrow it won't even matter
to you or to them
that you wasted your time
wasted.
So your idea of having fun
is getting drunk, crunk,
sunken on a bar seat
counting beats and
eyeing some men, eyeing you,
counting one, two, three,
to take you home?
Is this your idea of having fun?
*oh, will our world become a dystopia because the youth of today will pass on to youths of tomorrow the ugliest, nastiest habits, until, until...until, the line of homo sapiens or "wise men" are nothing in history books but a bunch of extinct, forsaken drunks and insert other ugly nasty words ____here_____?
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What do you See? @ 4:02 PMMost of my inspiration come from visuals and spoken stories that I encounter, like an accidentally discovered web page, a texture on somebody's skirt,or the shape of a tree as defined by shadows and the sun.
From the mixture of seeing others write religiously on a journal (ex: Melissa), with the discovery of a book in Barnes and Noble, 1000 Journals, I now embark on a journey to fill a journal with mixed media, mixed art, mixed emotions and a platter of inspirations.
The TOOLS
1. 4x6 in. Artists' Sketchbook, hardbound, in black
2. 0.7 metal tip Ink Pen
3. Green Art 12 Acrylic Paints
4. Higgins waterproof ink and fine tipped sketch blade
5. HB-8B General's and Prismacolor Drawing Pencil
Here are 6 of the 13 pages already inked.

Follow the Links for info on 1000 Journals Project:
1000 Journals
SFMoMa Exhibition
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12.01.2008
Little Ashes @ 8:54 PMI'm dying dying dying to see a movie that will not be out in theaters until March 2009! Oh how do I wait for this?

Little Ashes stars Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dali and Javier Beltran as Federico Garcia Lorca.
"In 1922, Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at the university; 18 years old and determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university's social elite - Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunel. Salvador is absorbed into their decadent group and for a time Salvador, Luis and Federico become a formidable trio, the most ultra-modern group in Madrid. However as time passes, Salvador feels and increasingly strong pull towards the charismatic Federico - who is himself oblivious of the attentions he is getting from his beautiful writer friends, Margarita. Finaly, in the face of his friends' preoccupations - and Federico's growing renown as a poet - Luis sets off for Paris in search of his own artistic success. Federico and Salvador spend the holiday in the sea-side town of Cadaques. Both the idyllic surroundings and the warmth of the Dali family sweep Federico off his feet. Salvador and he draw closer, sharing their deepest beliefs, inspirations and secrets, convinced that they have found a kind of friendship undreamt of by others. It is more that a meeting of the minds; it is a fusion of souls. And then one night, in the phosphorescent water, it becomes something else..."- IMDB SUMMARY
Salvador Dali, one of my FAVORITE PAINTERS! Art! 1920's! Robert Pattinson! Spain! Are there any other keywords that I won't be excited about?
:D
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Random @ 10:35 AMAnother gray day in Berkeley! Eyeluvit! :D
Speaking of love, I want AC/DC's new Black Ice album! They still possess the same sound after 30+ years! love, love love!
---"I've Just Seen A Face" by the Beatles (sweet, ain't it?)
I've just seen a face,
I can't forget the time or place
That we'd just met, she's just the girl for me
And I want all the world to see we've met
Na na na na na na
Had it been another day
I might have looked the other way
But I had never been aware
And as it is I dream of her tonight
Na na na na na na
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