went for a walk with the kids today. it's so nice to have a park in the middle of makati. a park where they actually allow dogs on the grass and not just on the parking lot concrete.

will walk there more often. i think there's also a delifrance, amici and a gelato stall somewhere in the park. there's free wi-fi too, but it's a park so i really didn't care for it while walking with portia and the kids.

 when i was younger, i was able to watch horror movies on my own.  

now,, i scare easily.  my imagination's too active and i guess i've become a little more paranoid.

though i am still a horror movie fan.  it's quite refreshing to have a great ghost story when so far all the horror movies around are gore flicks.




then comes paranormal activity.  dammit.  it's one fun ride!

 when i watched U2 in tampa florida last october 9, i watched with rica and elvin.  i missed portia too much because she didn't come with me to the US.

then youtube announced that they'd be streaming the 360 tour.  yay!

watched it live with portia, finally.  we watched "One" together!  

it's a good day to be sick at home.  

thank you, u2 and youtube.

 







wonderful.  wonderful.  wonderful.  

this is how i'd describe 500 days of summer. 

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 i've been a doc martens fan since high school (yes since a long long time ago).  and i could never resist 8-hole dms.  i had almost all the colors.  i eventually gave away some of them, but i kept my cherry reds, black, and crazy horse leather dms.  

last year i had marci buy me a nice black-silver pair.  very nice.   i also wanted the bronze and white pairs, but i had to stop myself.

so when rica brought me to comptoir des cotonnieres in soho, i saw that dms had a collab with comptoir des cotonniers.  a brand that sold mostly grey and black and the occassional blue-colored clothes.

when i saw this,  i couldn't sleep and had to go back for them two days after:



it's a steady kind of grey.  

 


not as good as bruce lee vs. iron man, but  any individual who can do this with a consumer camera and final cut gets a standing ovation from me.

 

it's been a week since i lined up outside the manhattan center, waiting giddily and eagerly to get to the hammerstein ballroom to see kylie.  lord, i'm still not over it.  and i thank god i watched.  because if i hadn't, i would've killed myself after meeting up with rica's friend lia (because she saw it the night before i did and she gave a smashing review.)

her us tour put together the best parts of her previous show and lumped all the juicy parts in one of the best two hours of my life.  i'm shallow like that, but who cares.  

i saw this:


and this:
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and this:



she had about 5 costume changes, and she had her ate vi/alma moreno moments where she was lifted up, but again, who cares.  

yes yes.   i love her.

dancing for a full two hours with a sea of gay men was tremendously fun.  i hope she tours again, in small intimate venues so that i can just lose myself in another big kylie party.

 my two week vacation, sadly, came to an end as soon as i said goodbye to elvin at the 2nd avenue/77th street corner yesterday.  i had a tremendous time in new york with rica, elvin, and billy.  met new people and saw things that i will never ever see in manila.  i've been to ny many times in my life, but this has been the best trip to nueva yorka so far.  i'm broke.  but i'm happy.

i remember everything, and yet everything's a blur.  more reasons to travel and visit again.  next year i promised elvin that we'd go to new orleans and vegas.  yes new orleans- beignets and crawdads; and viva las vegas!

thanks elvin for sharing your two weeks with rica and myself.  and rica, i don't know if you'll ever read this, i had a lovely time in nyc with you.  even if you brought out your camera twice throughout the entire trip- which also explains that there are more photos of you than me.  i love you both.  i have not experienced such a flurry of activity, wine and beer in a long long time.

billy, it was wonderful to see you so happy.  thank you for bringing us out and for giving me the best shoppiing advise (bilhin mo na yan,  kikitain mo naman ang gastos mo.)

U2 and Kylie Minogue (my love).  ah yes.  words cannot even sum up what i felt while at your shows.

enough talk...

 



today we watched wicked and a steady rain.  a play-filled day it was!

hugh jackman signed my playbill.  whee.

i so do not regret the impulsive decision i made earlier today to watch kylie minogue perform in nyc.  i love her.  i love her.  i love her.  she killed it!  she was awesome.  

(photo from flickr, by theartfulmichael) (photo from flicker, by RaqAttack))
(photo from flickr, by theartfulmichael)

 





outside an office trip, this is the first time i've ever travelled with a friend to the US.  am not complaining.  in fact, it's quite an experience.  though since i'm in such a beautiful city and with beautiful friends (who are also our hosts for this trip), it brings me to think that i  wish that i had prodded portia a little bit more to join this vacation.  when i walk in soho, i wish that i was with her.  at the u2 concert, while listening to one, i wish that my arm was around her while singing along, and when i saw the van goghs and the monets and the picassos, i wished that she was standing next to me as i took everything in.  gahh.

i want to stay on in this city for another week.  but i also want to go home because i miss her so much it hurts sometimes.  

oh well, enough of this sadness.  i'm off to the museum of natural history.  see you soon, t-rex.

 





jude law in hamlet.  he was excellent.  i am always in awe of actors who can do shakespeare without breaking a sweat.  

i liked the staging of this hamlet.  simple but well styled.  the costumes were contemporary, but doesn't date the production.

we waited for jude law outside the theatre after the play.  he signed our playbill.  when i was about to take a photo, some dude turned around and blocked my view.  dammit.

this is one of my best new york trips.  will do this again next year!

 



elvin, rica and i hied off to tampa, florida thursday.  rented a car and made for the U2 concert.



we were in the cheap seats but who cares.  it was U2!!!

 


i really needed this.  and am having fun.  

as soon as we landed, elvin took me to have, in my opinion, the best onion rings in the world.  onion strings, actually and they came in a bucket.



so far, we're eaten in a thousand restaurants and have bought tickets to see many plays.  on sunday, we see jude law in hamlet.  we almost bought tickets for "a steady rain" with daniel craig and hugh jackman, but the next available tickets are for thanksgiving na!  we are still on standby for next week's show.

we watched "god of carnage" too.  james gandolfini, jeff daniels and marcia gay harden.  powerhouse kung powerhouse.







had pastrami at katz's.  then kate hudson walked in.  whee.

 


tyra banks' twitter posts:





thanks tyra!  we need all the help we can get.

 heard somewhere that some strangers attempted to rescue this christine reyes.  but she opted to wait for richard gutierrez who arrived on a speedboat, and rumor has it, rescued ONLY christine reyes.

what idiots.  

 


sadly, we won't be able to go to the wake in pampanga to pay our respects.  in remembrance and prayer, we went to breadbox to light candles for the eguids.  there were some guitar picks in the melted wax- probably left by some guitarists who played in saguijo and were lucky enough to be served wonderful food by the family.

rest in peace, peng, ariel and adrian.

 



this year has been marred by so many tragedies.  another one happened yesterday, near dawn.

when our office was still along guijo street, we'd frequent this little joint in front of saguijo.  it was a small and cozy restaurant called breadbox.  the owners, who were the most gracious people in the world, and from whom we got free desserts and other food, were found stabbed to death this morning.  victims of disgruntled waiters- at least that is what the police is going on now.

my friend and colleague cheese lived in the same building as the eguids.  he lived across their apartment.  he told me about the killings at around 10am today.  i was rattled because i knew the family and was extremely fond of them.  cheese was more than doubly rattled than me- and understandably so.  

i hope the killers are caught and brought to justice.  this has got to stop.

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yes.  in sunny tampa of all places.