Travel Music

I’ve frequent traveling so much - long bus rides over the weekend and jeepney commutes everyday, so it’s necessary for me to listen to some music to set the mood.


here’s my list of songs i’d like to listen whenever i go out here there and everywhere:


Beautiful by Nathaniel

Bishop’s Robes by Radiohead

Blue Moon by Rod Stewart feat Eric Clapton

Broken Wings by Mr. Mister

Bullet Proof… I Wish I Was by Radiohead

By My Side by INXS

Can’t Tell You Why by Eagles

Casting Lazy Shadows by Puressence

Centrefolds by Placebo

Come Undone by Duran Duran

Creep by Radiohead

Drugs Don’t Work by Verve

Dust in the Wind by Kansas

Everybody Hurts by REM

Everything Will Flow by Suede

Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead

Fix You by Coldplay

Funeral of Hearts by HIM

Girl, You’ll be A Woman Soon by Urge Overkill

Goodnight Moon by Shivaree

Hotel California by Eagles

Human by Killers

If You Could Only See by Tonic

Illegal by Shakira

It’s Probably Me by Sting

Lavinia by Veils

Lost Without You by Delta Goodrem

Love is Blindness by U2

Love To See You by Enrique Iglesias

Lovesong by Cure

Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies

No Ordinary Love by Sade

Not Me, Not I by Delta Goodrem

One I Love by REM

One by U2

Ordinary World by Duran Duran

Out of Sight by Hooverphonic

Painted on My Heart by Cult

Say What You Want by Texas

Silent Lucidity by Queensryche

Smooth Operator by Sade

Sonnet by Verve

Stars by Simply Red

To the Moon and Back by Savage Garden

Trouble by Coldplay

What if God Was One of Us by Joan Osbourne

Wild World by Mr. Big

With or Without You by U2

You’ll Follow Me Down by Skunk Anansie

social networking sites

Whether you agree with me or not - NO, YOU NEED TO AGREE - there are lots of creeping social networking sites in the internet. Yes, indeed. And i'm one of those many peeps who are addicted to it. Why? I dunno. Maybe because this is the so-called communication generation. coupled with the idea that we're living in a technologically defined space. whoah. so now we can creep into each other's profiles in the net. Have fb account? tweeted lately? posted a new blog entry? YES.

these are friendly communities, but they're social suicides too. of course, that would be up to you. be sure don't gripe too much on the net. or write TOO personal status messages, especially when they're TOO corny. freaks the hell out of people. unless you want to prove you're that kind of person, mushy and oversentimental.

you might think i'm too bossy for this, after all it's not my business what the hell you might be doing. at least do it good, and with attitude. yeah.

meanwhile here's a list of my public accounts:

twitter: khareen
plurk: khareen
dailybooth: khareen
wordpress: www.kyrillevin.wordpress.com

other accounts pose a certain kind of exclusivity, it would be weird adding unknown people in your friendly community, don't you think?

Thesis Mode

Yes, hell it is but it is my thesis year. Writing short stories can be really tiring but satisfying at the same time, but I'd like to say that when revision comes in - whoah - revision a bitch. But only through revisions (painful, endless, embarrasing, you name it) can you prove how good you are. Workshops help. Criticisms help. So there you go.

I've written my short stories, i only need to edit them this Christmas break. The problem comes in with writing the preface. It's even more difficult to write it since it's kind of embarrassing (in a way) to write how do you write and your inspirations, your writing experiences so far and blah blah. Sometimes i'm kinda hesitant too divulge pretty much about myself. i always end up being an egoist, if you know what i mean.

It's been so long since I've written in this blog so I'm pouring it all out here. Aside from my thesis matters, i still have to contend with other difficult subjects like philosophy or classical literature. Creative nonfiction/essay class is really interesting, although it demands too much and so it's scary. But anyway, life goes on and i have to endure these subjects like any other.

Summer

So it's summer huh? Yes, in a few weeks. Lots of things to do in for the month of april. At least these must-do's won't be too cerebral. Hahaha.

Harry Potter is coming!

Gah! the change of release date from november 2008 to july 2009 only heighten the excitement among HP fans! yeah, and now that it's the harry potter year, there is definitely a reason to celebrate! cheers!

Translated version

from english to tagalog?

it's kinda weird, it's machine translation by google. if you feel like browsing the translated version of my blog, here's the link.

Of Snakes, Moral Lessons and Darwin's Theory of Evolution

The usual misconception about Mr. Darwin’s theory is that it meant that humans are great great descendants of apes. And I’m guilty of believing that, of course, I thought I have known it by heart all through out high school, my teachers discussed about it, they settled debates in which sometimes I am shunted to the affirmative side and forced to defend Mr. Darwin. It was only in college that I realized the whole truth that the theory was really about the idea that apes and humans have the same common and one ancestor. The idea came really as shocking to me, as we have been taught that we really were descendants of monkeys. But even worse was this idea of mine that Mr. Darwin formulated this theory because of his self-realization that he looked like an ape. ***

Whenever we talked about stories in high school, we never really discussed the story as it is, not in the same way that we discussed it in our major class. We don’t talk about the historical and cultural contexts, the underlying motives or the author’s background. The main focus for the story itself is not even the plot construction, how the events unfold, but it had always been about the moral lesson. Yep, I knew how to derive moral lessons out of those stories. But I remember one time when we were tasked to review a story and surprisingly, I couldn’t derive a single stinking moral lesson out of it. Why though?

I forgot the title of the story and the whole idea, but all I could remember was it was just a reflection of something, a realization of an event perhaps, but I couldn’t categorize it as a moral lesson really. That disturbed me a lot. Are all short stories required to have a moral lesson? I think not, but it should have an insight to ponder on at least. And for me, an insight is equally different from a moral lesson.

Maybe that time the moral lesson of the story couldn’t penetrate in my head. Or maybe I was turning bad. Sigh. Either of the two will do. ***

There was a time when I forgot the readings for the next major class. As I can’t concentrate without my own personal readings (with marginal notes and own private scribbles, haha…) I went back to the boarding house which was just a walking distance from school. The creepy part was that, as I was about to reach the main library, I encountered a snake just a step away from me. It was a green snake, all through out, and totally gross. You might puke yourself if you’d see that. I ran back to school, I could almost climb the oblation statue for help. Jeez, that snake, when I think about it in my head, it gives me the creeps. I ran back to school and cried. Uh huh, the fear of death because of one grossly animal. Because of that incident, I couldn’t visit the main library anymore (which was actually loaded with more interesting books) and I couldn’t go home without someone to share death in case the green snake will strike again.