Joey Albert

I remember the boy...
But I don't remember the feelings anymore.

(sobrang cheezzyyy!!!)


10:40pm
23 December 2009
Wednesday
Cable-landia

Dumbo

I am now in Chiang Mai. Around this time last year, I was also here. But unlike today, I was on vacation last year.

I can't really complain because I enjoy what I'm doing... so it doesn't really feel like work.

On my way to Chiang Mai (the land of elephants) from Bangkok, the Thai airways flight kept on playing xmas songs. For the first time this year, I felt xmas. I actually felt a tug in my heart (tagalog translation: kurot sa puso). Not the painful kind, more like a nudge, a reminder that this beating organ still exists. I made a mental note to make use of it soon. Me heart needs some exercise -- literally and figuratively.

As the plane was about to land, I was smiling. And as I looked out in my window, I swear I saw little Dumbo, flying in the Chiang Mai sky... his snout brightly glowing with a red color, and Santa's sleigh tied at his back.

Merry xmas, Dumbo!


10:30pm
15 December 2009
Tuesday
SP Hotel
Chiang Mai

Bite My Tongue

They say that when you have nothing good to say, don't open your mouth. Bob Ong, a Filipino contemporary author known for using humor in writings, put it in a more interesting way. But I forgot how we said it.

Anyways... my point is... where I am now made me realize that with all the potholes, pollution, garbage, poverty, greedy politicians and killings in the Philippines, we are still better off -- in a lot of ways.

I wanted to say more, but I don't want to say bad things about another country (and more importantly, I don't want to be deported). I don't like hearing foreigners describing the Philippines in a negative light, so I will just keep my silence.

However, there are words which I will forever associate with this place...
... dust
... sad eyes
... old

But I am almost sure that I will have more words, more beautiful words, to describe it in the future.


11:00pm
December 08, 2009
Tuesday
Golden Buffalo Hotel

TV Addict

TV addict...

nope, not me.

my neighbor.

from my room's bath, i can hear my neighbor's tv on overtime mode. i think they NEVER turn it off! and for that, thai telenovelas and tv ads are part of my room's ambient sound.

that's my neighbor...
scientific name: televisionus adiktus


10:05pm
03 December 2009
Thursday
Ladprao Soi Nung
BKK