| BRGY SOUP KITCHEN goes EVERYWHERE!!! |
[Sep. 30th, 2009|03:28 pm] |
You donate the ingredients! We haul the industrial stove from PenPen. We cook the Arroz Caldo on the site. We serve it with Hard-Boiled Egg + Pandesal to those who need it. As opposed to dropping off relief goods to barangay centers, we personally make sure the evacuees RECEIVE it! (Apparently, there are Barangay officials who take advantage of the situation.)
INGREDIENTS we need for ARROZ CALDO:
MALAGKIT/GLUTINOUS RICE
KASUBHA/NATIVE SAFFRON/SAFFRON
GARLIC
ONIONS
GINGER/LUYA
GROUND PEPPER
COOKING OIL (gallons)
PATIS/FISH SAUCE (gallons)
ROCK SALT
PAN DE SAL or TASTY BREAD
WATER GALLONS!!!
TRUCKS/ SUV's/ 4x4's / VANS/ PICKUP's would be great!
Also hardworking & speedy COOKS or RESTAURANT KITCHENS!
I am personally shelling out all that I have right now. Leni Velasco and team of DAKILA volunteers are helping out with manpower. So any help would be greatly appreciated. We are no longer accepting CHICKEN & EGGS since they are hard to store, but if you have ingredients deposit them @ PenPen Restaurant. You deposit monetary donations @ any BPI branch to:
CRISPIN C MEDINA II BPI MORATO SAVINGS ACCOUNT NUMBER 3149 0943 84
Keep 'em coming! Thanks much :)
- PING
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| Out of canned relief? Join BARANGAY SOUP KITCHEN! |
[Sep. 29th, 2009|02:31 am] |
Canned goods not within budget? Supermarket lines too long? Relief goods too hard to transport? Then BARANGAY SOUP KITCHEN is calling you!!!
SOUP is the most basic need right now. It contains CARBS PROTEINS VEGETABLES & most importantly, WATER... Dehydrated kids cannot properly digest! Follow these 3 easy steps:
1) Go to your nearest PALENGKE/WET MARKET... Prices are lower there!
2) Now what's your FAVORITE soup? Chicken Sopas, Arroz Caldo or La Paz Batchoy? Purchase ingredients needed.
3) Go home and make a huge KALDERO of your most lovely comforting soup!
DONE??? Organize a community SOUP KITCHEN in your own BARANGAY!!! You will find that there is a RELIEF CENTER near you.
(Soup is the ultimate comfort food for the rainy season. But don't forget, it goes perfectly with BREAD :)
I'M PROUD OF YOU ALL! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
- Ping
( UPDATES on bargain prices, hearty meals & priority areas ) |
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| Pen Medina Acting Workshop! (Batch 2) |
[Jun. 16th, 2009|08:34 pm] |
ReINTRODUCTION: A Different Approach to Film and TV Acting
A Workshop by Pen Medina
"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."
- Rosalind Russell
Learn important elements in acting such as:
Acting for Auditions
Subtext
Acting Truth
Building A Character
Relaxation
Improvisation
Slots are limited to eight (8) students per class! Workshoppers will get a chance to make a final short film. Shooting will start at the end of the workshop.
Schedule: Sat & Sun, 1-7pm.
Duration: July 11 to August 2.
Fee: P8,000.
With special insight from Spanky Manikan and Joel Torre. :)
See you at the workshop!
*** To reserve a slot, please pay a nonrefundable 25% of enrollment fee. Full amount must be completed on the first day of the workshop.
Venue: Nuevo Mundo Innovative Learning Center. Loyola Heights Condominium, Esteban Abada St., Loyola Heights, Quezon City
CP: 09175347464
Landline: 9961907 |
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| LET'S GO GUYZZZ!!! |
[Apr. 10th, 2009|11:54 pm] |
ReINTRODUCTION: A Different Approach To Film And TV Acting
A Workshop by Pen Medina
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
~ Rosalind Russell
Learn important elements in acting such as:
Acting For Auditions
Subtext
Acting Truth
Building A Character
Relaxation
Improvisation
Existing film scripts (written by Ping Medina) will be used as acting exercises. These exercises will be shot to produce a short film for the students to take home at the end of the program.
16 yrs old & above:
MON-WED-FRI (1pm - 6pm) April 27 - May 29
SAT-SUN (9am - 4pm) April 25 - May 31
* Fee: P8,000. (full, installment or deferred payment)
8-15 yrs old:
T-TH (1pm - 6pm) April 28 - May 28
* Fee: P6,000
Maximum of ten (10) students per class.
With special insight from film and TV actors Joel Torre, Ronnie Lazaro and Willie Nepomuceno.
Venue: Nuevo Mundo Innovative Learning Center (Katipunan-Xavierville area).
For inquiries, please call 996-1907 or 0917-5347464.
See you at the workshops! :)
(Acting workshops WILL CONTINUE after the summer! We also accept late enrollees.) |
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| For Every Woman |
[Mar. 22nd, 2009|04:17 am] |
For every woman who is tired of acting weak when she knows she is strong, there is a man who is tired of appearing strong when he feels vulnerable.
For every woman who is tired of acting dumb, there is a man who is burdened with the constant expectation of "knowing everything."
For every woman who is tired of being called "an emotional female," there is a man who is denied the right to weep and to be gentle.
For every woman who is called unfeminine when she competes, there is a man for whom competition is the only way to prove his masculinity.
For every woman who is tired of being a sex object, there is a man who must worry about his potency.
For every woman who feels "tied down" by her children, there is a man who is denied the full pleasures of shared parenthood.
For every woman who is denied meaningful employment or equal pay, there is a man who must bear full financial responsibility for another human being.
For every woman who was not taught the intricacies of an automobile, there is a man who was not taught the satisfactions of cooking.
For every woman who takes a step toward her own liberation, there is a man who finds the way to freedom has been made a little easier.
By Nancy Smith
Copyright 1973 |
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| Strawberry Shortcake: How to Love a Woman (and All You Will Ever Need To Know) |
[Jan. 14th, 2009|11:45 am] |
From page 100 of Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood", my 2nd favorite book from the author. :)
“… So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I was still in elementary school at that time — fifth or sixth grade — but I made up my mind once and for all.”
“Wow,” I said. “And did your search pay off?”
“That’s the hard part,” said Midori. She watched the rising smoke for a while, thinking. “I guess I’ve been waiting so long I’m looking for perfection. That makes it tough.“
“Waiting for the perfect love?”
“No, even I know better than that. I’m looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you’re doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don’t want it anymore and throw it out the window. That’s what I’m looking for.”
“I’m not sure that has anything to do with love,” I said with some amazement.
“It does,” she said. “You just don’t know it. There are times in a girl’s life when things like that are incredibly important.”
“Things like throwing strawberry shortcake out the window?”
“Exactly. And when I do it, I want the man to apologize to me. ‘Now I see, Midori. What a fool I’ve been! I should have known that you would lose your desire for strawberry shortcake. I have all the intelligence and sensitivity of a piece of donkey shit. To make it up to you, I’ll go out and buy you something else. What would you like? Chocolate mousse? Cheesecake?’”
“So then what.”
“So then I’d give him all the love he deserves for what he’s done.” |
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| 2009 is the chance to get it right/mess up all over again |
[Jan. 2nd, 2009|05:40 pm] |
"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."
-- Charles Bukowski
KAMPAI FRIENDS! :) |
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| an update |
[Dec. 8th, 2008|06:25 pm] |
I've been good! How you been? Things have been moving quite a bit around here. Lots of plans. So many things to do, but doing one thing at a time. Quite scared when I'm visualizing plans, but I always think, what the heck. My tito just passed away, and I might do the same at whenever.
I quit smoking! Ever since I moved out and away from all the ciggies at home, I've been the cleanest chimney Santa can ever pray for. I rarely get cravings, and it's usually the very negligible kind. Withdrawal was nonexistent, so I believe in the power of the mind. Now if I can only "power of the mind" my health. I've been hovering between eating and exercising and this stupid holidays cough (even though I haven't smoked in ages). My weight has been hovering too, sometimes I'm pudgy, sometimes I'm meaty, sometimes I'm just plain dried out. Good thing the cough and phlegm's starting to subside. Time to be healthy again! Have to get ready for the holiday parties hahaha!
My first Syquoia Xmas party was great! My camera died on me early in the night though. Stupid me, I opted not to charge. Will post about it in a later time. Brought Megra along because I know it's her dream to live in Syquoia. She dubbed it, "the best party ever." We're good. She makes me smile and laugh on a daily basis. And I learn so much from her all the time. She pushes me to be a better person by barking like a crazy attorney. Those are the very important things.
Rest in peace, Marky Cielo. |
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| Tito Mel |
[Dec. 5th, 2008|05:45 pm] |
At four in the morning came a sudden intuition to call Dad. He passed up watching a Mike De Leon film the day before because his youngest brother, Tito Mel, had passed away that morning.
I had a feeling he was already in Pampanga to tend to the wake. So now I'm checking up on him, to see how he was dealing with the sudden loss of his youngest brother, six years his junior, to a sudden heart attack, the same way he lost my grandfather Apong Seong to a weak heart, while Dad himself has been dealing with his own heart problems as of late.
My father tells me they're burying Tito Mel's body in a few hours, not opting for a prolonged wake, and nobody bothering to tell me because they thought I had work. The realizations choked me; Tito Mel won't be singing karaoke this Christmas, and even though Dad was telling me, "Baka ikaw pa yung mag-breakdown ah," his voice sounded different, it was just him quietly grieving on the other line, and I had to leave now.
I take the first bus going to Arayat. It's a trip I take every year with my family. Now it's all so strange, taking a bus full of strangers, a trip three weeks early, heading to Arayat for an entirely different ocassion. But with funerals, especially the sudden death of my 52-year-old Tito, who is relatively young, one can never really know what to expect.
I arrive to my brother outside, distant relatives greeting me, close relatives all puffy-eyed from the night before, Tita Nina still high-strung from it all, my Dad listening to the tail-end of the sermon. I see Tito Mel's photo, and the open casket.
The procession starts, I haven't had any decent sleep, I don't feel an ounce of tiredness, passing out from the heat was the last thing on my mind. It's the last thing I am ever going to do for my Tito Mel. I walked and remembered he smoked a lot, liked drinking with us Christmas Eve then Christmas afternoon, liked singing karaoke and always wanted us to sing. I thought it was still too early for him to go. I shook my head a lot of times. I told my tito's and tita's it was still too soon for him to go. He didn't even say goodbye, he just got up and left.
We will miss you, Tito Mel. See you soon. |
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| instant connection (electrification! when i met you) |
[Sep. 24th, 2008|12:19 am] |
I'm really getting old, you know. But as they say, Age Is A State Of Mind. (Do not ask me what stage I'm in!)
My budding interests do not reflect my real age! Instead of feeling and experiencing, the river has started flowing to creating and building. And it is starting to flood! Good thing I'm damn good at being a beaver.
It'a good thing too, you're a crazy b*tch who makes me laugh with all your megaphone decibels of expressing your thoughts and emotions. And I'm really happy that you're starting to trust me the way I trust you. Bah, told you it's normal at the start of every relationship.
Whenever I'm alone with you... You make me feel like I am young again... :)
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On the other hand, this really makes me feel special. Really. I think. HAHAHA thanks for trusting me enough to post this! It's a good thing you know, trust :p WE SHOULD PRACTICE IT MORE OFTEN, MEG!
meg
are you free sunday?
cat, my really good friend
wants to meet you
i wanna take you to her mom's cafe
in merville
and try her
pinggoy
i'm kinda intimidated with the wants to meet you part
haha
meg
salad with mango vinigrette (did i spell it right?)
pinggoy
vinAigrette
meg
she's been a witness to my years of dating mishaps
thanks for spelling correction
so i need to introduce you
pinggoy
haha
okay :)
meg
and when i say years of mishaps, i mean YEARS of dating MISHAPS
hahahahahahahaha!
from dating japanese models wearing plunging shirts
pinggoy
didnt you wanna hit that
oh yeah
so i'm like the fluke, eh?
thanks.
meg
you're the anomaly |
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| a friendly reminder |
[Jun. 8th, 2008|07:55 am] |
"Chemistry, they say, is what attracts people to one another. That may be. But if, after the chemistry does its work, you don't rise to a higher level of consciousness, the chemistry will eventually turn into hatred. The passion will still be there, but the attraction will become malicious and revengeful. That's what soap operas are based on, and a lot of so-called great literature. That's what a lot of people still call love."
~ William Ashoka Ross |
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| bagong umaga |
[May. 28th, 2008|11:30 am] |
| [ | 現在の気分 |
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| [ | 現在の音楽 |
| | Barry White - Let The Music Play | ] |
Ito yung 'pag gising mo sa umaga, maiisip mo siya. Maalala mo yung mga nangyari kahapon. Tapos maiisip mo kung ano na talaga kayo ngayon. Simula sa araw na ito.
Iiyak ka na. Iiyak ng iiyak. Ito ang gagawin mo pagkagising na pagkagising mo sa umaga. Halong ayaw mo at gusto mo ang mga luha mo. Bubuhos lang ng bubuhos.
Iiyak ka kasi kahapon na-realize mo kung ano ang bigat niya sa buhay mo. At ngayon, kinabukasan, alam mong hindi na siya magiging sa'yo. Nahuli ka na naman. Palagi kang late bloomer.
Nalasing na ako kagabi. At matagal ko nang hindi naramdaman yun. Yung gusto mo talagang malasing. Yung kailangan mong malasing. Nanuod ka ng Urban Dub. 'Pag uwi mo, nagwawala ka sa "Let The Music Play" sa kitchen. Tapos sa kama, nasa "Cannonball" ka na.
Hindi titigil yan. Kasabay ng sarap ng musika ang walang tigil na pagbuhos. Kasi sa bawat patak ng luha, papalabas sa sistema mo, na tagaktak sa pisngi mo, dahan-dahan siyang sumasama. Hanggang sa pag-alis niya, aalalayan mo siya at iingatan.
This is part of letting go. Sabi nga ng tatay ko, ganyan ang buhay. Ibuhos mo ngayon ang lahat. Namnamin ang sarap ng lahat ng nangyayari sa'yo.
Tapos, piliin mo ang sarili mo. Kasi matapang ka. |
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| one of my fave films last year |
[Feb. 13th, 2008|12:52 am] |
Endo opens February 13, 2008 at the following cinemas:
SM (Megamall, North Edsa, Manila, Southmall, Fairview, Centerpoint), Ayala (Glorietta 4) and Gateway.
Visit endothemovie.com and endothemovie.multiply.com
WATCH THE TRAILER!!! |
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| my facebook status: Ping Medina is Searching for. |
[Sep. 24th, 2007|12:38 am] |
| [ | 現在の気分 |
| |  accept & embrace my inner geek | ] |
| [ | 現在の音楽 |
| | Thomas Newman - Any Other Name | ] |
Random but important stuff for this entry.
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Good news! I got nominated this month at the Urian Awards. And we're starting this afternoon Kristine Hermosa soap to be aired this October. I play the role of a young and idealistic fresh graduate policeman. So if anyone's been seeing me on Jack TV with that stupid coconut hair, blame ABS-CBN. Anyway, I didn't win at the Urian. But the guy who beat me in supporting actor category, Mr. Rafael Rossell, is Kristine Hermosa's love interest in aforementioned soap. So I'll be seeing that fucker quite often. Kidding of course! I'm really happy for him. :)
Prinsesa ng Banyera! To be directed by this total performer dude, Andoy Ranay, who's incindentally totally gay and "bonggacious" and an absolute great fun to be hang out with on the set. :)
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I've been addicted for about a week now to facebook. www.facebook.com. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM. It's like friendster, but with really cool statistics games like HoboWars and Fight Club and everything under the sun. Which basically add 1million cool points. (Remember that college A1 bench friends? When I used to spend hours on the bench making high scores on dopewars, oblivious to you strange people living in the real world :p HAHAHA!!!)
What the hell, why am I plugging it??? Don't join aryt? If it becomes popular it won't be so cool anymore. Plus I like facebook because it is somewhat a private site. Kinda like myspace.
fezbook
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PenPen friends! To all those who might be wondering, yes Manikako is still the featured group for the month of September. And I'm still actually very open to extending their residence because as it turns out, it's tough finding a worthy replacement for them. (Any suggestions for young and dynamic groups out there?)
click your clicker on this if you don't know what PenPen is:
really gorgeous review of Bea Acosta for ClickTheCity
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I am a Leo man. July 23 is my birthday. So that makes me a Leo cusp. More specifically, the Cancer-Leo cusp. Because my birthday falls on the Cancer side instead of the Virgo.
Cancer (Jun 21 - July 22)
Leo (July 23 - Aug 22)
Virgo (Aug 23 - Sept 22)
Wala lang. I've been quite interested in all this love astrology shite lately. Realizing the duality of my signs, no wonder I've been confused my first 21 years of life!
( THE CANCER-LEO MAN: how to love me right ) |
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| at last! |
[Jul. 31st, 2007|06:24 am] |
*hawak kamay with*
Hi guys!
I kinda got into some kind of business. The FOOD business that is. Well it's not really MY business, because I am just helping out. Anyway to cut it short, my Mom has this little kainan just off Tomas Morato, aptly named PenPen. Haha.
Are you hungry? Click on this cut!
Do you care about other peoples in general? Click on this cut!
It is the entrepreneurs who have the power to harness the creativity and talents of others to achieve a common good.
- John Gokongwei
( All my hard work for the last few months ) |
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| birkenstocks was "in" at the time |
[Jun. 5th, 2007|10:35 pm] |
| [ | 現在の気分 |
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| | Bro So Scene - Stars and Sons | ] |
So I posted this really sloppy elchay entry November of last year, about my retired Nastase sneakers. But Mr. Jerome Gomez texted me yesterday he wanted to use it for a MetroHim issue. It's really sloppily written, quite long with lots of digressing and pooping around. So I edited it for about 50 minutes today to bump it up to MetroHim standards.
I don't know how much of it he's going to use, or if he's going to use it at all. But he only told me to send the damn thing already. So... Just thought I'd repost it. And enable the commenting. Because the old comment-disabled entry didn't really do Nastase full justice. I changed the photo from B&W to a colored one.
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| yay internet! |
[May. 7th, 2007|02:20 am] |
the modems have been screwy mofos today. IT REALLY PISSES ME OFF TO SEE MY WIFI METER GO ZERO AND THAT PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED SIGN GOING UP. but i get such pleasure from knowing that all i have to do is turn it off and on and im back again! hee hee, such a kick out of it... eniweiz
TODAY! the live recording we did january last year i think got played on "in the raw" all so sudden and unexpected. it was like,
huy may sesend ako pakinggan mo tell me what you think...
sige! patugtog namin mamaya sa in the raw sunday ngayon.
OKAY.
but wow, it was WOW. first time i've heard anything of ours on the radio. anyway, mr. brew commented:
- compelling sound (you're jerking me off! ;p)
- nice arrangement (haha! thanks i'm better there than playing the geetar)
- like the japanese sounding guitar part in the middle
- and ping if you're listening, there's this thing called "tuning"
haha sorry i was still tuning slightly half a note higher back then. second-hand multifx don't come with manuals and my ears are no good it has to be half-note out of tune for me to notice :p
anyway that particular song has evolved a lot since then, better guitar parts and some added arrangement by jp and denden. i was having that last single problem with the arrangement and they took care of it while i wasn't around. that's so sweet. and convenient for me.
but yea shit. i like encouraging comments but i don't take them to heart? even if it came from the likes of mr. kiko himself. i know we still have a long ways yuh! add to that our vox left us a while back which brought us back down to like... 2 1/2 songs. har har. now we are looking for a vocalist: sana medyo cute ang boses, medyo cute din, mabait sa tao, does not abhor pop the good kind anyway. most important though: loves life and singing and performing.
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lately it's been busy and meditative for me. lots of contemplating and searching for recipes that i would heartily eat myself, simple yet great ones i can proudly serve to peoples. although my time is pretty flexible, the accumulated stress and anxiety can get tedious over time. this an entirely different putahe. over the past few months i have learned to:
make BEEF KEBAB from scratch, relying not on internet recipes but instincts and years of love for persian food.
make great creamy squash soup (try it!), which my kuya taught me
mini cordon bleu! bleah :p
PLUS A BUNCH OF OTHER COOKING STUFF. like learning how this and that ingredient works and all that chef stuff. i get it all from the internet. oh what would i do without you worldwideweb? WWWWWWWW...
tomorrow i'm learning how to make yoghurt! i didn't know it was that simple. looked it up on the net, all you need is milk thermos kitchen thermometer and two tbsps starter yoghurt. that's basic homemade yoghurt fer yer fatty ass! whowuldathunk
was supposed to blog about my favorite cats in the world and how grown up they are now (sniffle huhu, proud-ness yay hahaha i love you my favorite cat Prozac hahaha shet yuck hahahhahaa taena stop it! hahaha yuck)
but i felt like i had to blog about these things first. hmmm... mebbe for the next entry :) hehehehe yak hahahhaha mwerf stop it!!!!!!!!!!! haha (okay stop it!) mwerf |
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| it has to be bold font |
[Mar. 16th, 2007|04:04 am] |
| [ | 現在の気分 |
| |  awake | ] |
| [ | 現在の音楽 |
| | mono | ] |
from 2006 - present.......... tada
through those years i have learned to be patient
to the person i'm talking to:
if you don't get it, does not mean you're stupid
it just means i have to explain a little more
give effort a little more
months and months of half-waiting, half-pursuing
i've learned that if you don't work hard
for the things you love the most
it doesn't hold much meaning
(although there is the occasional fluke, wonderful fluke, very meaningful fluke)
if you suspect that you're working too hard
you probably are
and it's probably about time
that you ask
is this too hard or
is it really not just for me?
i am happy with what i have learned
i do not wish to know everything in the universe
i am happy with what i know
with what i don't know
i'd like to get drunk sometime the entire night
without having even a single realization about love
without the words beer belly crossing my line of vision
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