iOS Notes from 2024 (part 1)
Year 5 of the almost poetry series.
01/08 This year.
I shall seek more clarity in my mind. Less concern about other people. Less heartache when they sever ties. They have their reasons and it should not bother me since they are not in close proximity.
01/09 This is my color.
Or is it? Lisod kaayo magtype. Pero keribells ra. It takes getting used tol. Magmove na ka sa imong laptop.
LOLOLOLOL
She sells seashells by the seashore
She sells seas hells by the seasore
Supercalifragelisticexpialidocious.
01/12 Bunkers of Switzerland š§®
01/14 Spotify, please
For the next #SpotifyWrapped could you please change it to new stats like Most Added Song (out of all the playlists I that created) and Most Played Playlist. Not sure of my grammar but you geddit.
01/14 Why did I make this playlist?
Wondering in the bunkers, two days later.
01/14
Yo no enamorado.
01/14 Arroz lake. Over the years.
01/14 GTA
I think I might actually like Grand Theft Autoās soundtrack. Creo que lang gyud ha.
01/15 Search for the cheapest mobile contract (postpaid) in Spain. š #migration101
- Orange 15e 100GB
- Vodafone 17e 50GB
- Movistar 16,95e uh, 8GB?
- Yoigo 13,50e 20GB
- Digi 7e 15GB
- Lobster 10,99e
01/15 TIL nascent
01/15 Actually, if you truly listened carefully, youāll see.
When we think, why can we āpictureā it and āhearā and quite possibly āfeelā it but not āsmellā it. Like it has to be in close proximity to validate a thought that what youāre smelling could actually be something.
01/16 The colors in both photos matched!
Also, when you have an idea that you think is cool, do you:
- send it to a loved one?
- write it in a note?
01/16 What on earth am I talking about here? lol
Make a reel based on this timestamp. Like life in Malaysia
01/17 Ć©l es un Ć©l
If the milk is good, the butter would also be good! Whyād no one tell me itās so easy to make butter? š§
01/17 Oh my god. Belgian chocolates.
Tastes like home, but new.
01/23 I sometimes wonder
if people see me as a terrible person because I end up being let go most of the time.
01/25 OML dude
Are you my parallel uni version? Your album names are so right on and your songs open a set of jigsaw. Playlist.
01/25 New fear unlocked: As Bestas
I suppose even wild beasts have a sense of loyalty, sometimes. As bestas foram ferozes este inverno. They are mighty fierce this winter, the beasts.
01/26 What an interesting piece of job haha
01/27 Iām quite pleased with this.
01/28 Amelie
If they ever counted how many songs Iāve added in different playlists in a day, doodles Iāve done in a week, flashes of images of people in my head every 15 minutes, the times I spaced out or totally blinked. Itād going to be like that of the trailer of Amelie.
01/27 Coworking Space.
How about a ācoworking spaceā at the police station for online market sale exchanges? Everyone would feel a lot safer with that no?
But then again…
01/27 In our house..
we donāt see car traffic al fondo magnificent sunsets like the view I had in Vista Damai. In here, thereās just a steady flow of airplanes passing through, itās beautiful.
01/29 Fiat 500
The teal colored Fiat 500 convertible at the PWD parking.
01/30 Redacted
Soo.. my blog email when redacted looks a lot like wtf.
02/02 Rough Guides
Got in the mail today the 3rd travel book to complete a @roughguides collection of every country that my housemate @bboidagasuan and I lived in. This has been a plan since our first home in Barcelona in 2022ā-it is to bookmark š with a photo every place we have a memory of with friends, moments, career or family.
Iāve so far created a placeholder for the relevant pages (which you can find in the b&w photo here) but itās the picking of material to print to āmemoriesā with that Iām having difficulty of deciding. Let us see how this project unfolds this year. :)
02/03 Stage Manager
I wonder if the creator/ideator(?) of the Apple’s Stage Manager felt strongly that this view and layout is the future of multi-PC familiarity. š¤·š»āāļø
02/05 A Filipino Tour Guide
Someone really should register a legit business catering to Filipino families who wish to travel in Spain with a designated driver just how we’d do it in Luzon.
02/05 Cheers!
Only one hit. š»
02/05 Taste
Iāve had a taste of freedom, and itās so difficult to stay in one place after that one.
02/06 Photos
Trips that produce great vacation photos usually become the best ones when you talk about to people. Photos matter it seems.
I also think Iām a better party planner than a tour guide. I like walking in peace.
I think genuinely, even from deep within, I am also a very social person because I also like looking at what my friends are listening to in Spotifyās Friend Activity. It gives me pleasure listening to new songs and learning what type of songs they like. The world is so interesting.
02/07 Distance
Todayās probably a good time to keep track of people you still communicate with after moving continents š
02/08 BBD
Best of everything. Bbd. Ć
02/08 Sibs
As I grow older, and more settled, reality creeps up to me more and more: that my relationship with my siblings is not strong at all. This I didnāt give any attention to over the years. I was so hell bent focused on my career and travels I never bothered to look. But I see it now, and it makes me wonder if itās a bit sad to realize that.
02/10 Dayumnn lotus
02/10 This outfit!
02/12 What I Did For Love
Do you also feel like your life is in a movie or that you are living a movie? I feel that sometimes, especially on a warm, blue-skied day with a plane approaching my direction on the horizon, and I see a plant, a book, an iPad and this song was playing. And I have a love who loves me back.
02/16 Is this for real??
02/18 Praga
02/20 Detox 3.0
02/24 Fortune Cookies
How interesting what fortune cookies from years past would be tell. Very appropriate for my current situation since moving continents. I do need to let go of the tropical weather and embrace the changing seasons of the Mediterranean seas. I need to be patient with learning the language as it is with the job hunting for soon my time will come. It always does because we are all bound for g
02/24 Shoe Sizes
-UK 5 salomon high cut boot -UK 4.5 nike -UK 3.5 tenata iati -UK 5 volcom womens sandales
02/26
I think us in Asia are so spoilt with good weather that we tend to disregard its value. Here in the EU, they have months where itās too cold to swim and so you go to the mountains to hike. Every person take turns in soaking up nature. Something along the lines of: The beach bum will avoid the ocean during fall and winter. Instead, they will bundle up with warm clothes for a hike in the hills. This gives the ocean some chance to breathe, while the trails are littered with hikers. For the brave at heart, they will come in wetsuits to surf during winter. This is usually the time they are done with their big projects in terms of climbing. It will be too cold to hike the Himalayas right now, so one guy says. Besides, with no tourists to manage, they can enjoy the whole sea to themselves. Cross-country skiing would be way too good by that time too! And the instahikers you would find in those types of mountains during winter would be no hay ninguna.
02/26 Game Idea
Sweet Valley High but make it Stardew Valley design.
02/27 What have yabeen smokin?
TIL Belle Ćpoque - Wikipedia āThe Beautiful Eraā usually considered to begin around 1871ā1880 and to end with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Belle Ćpoque Mf that Aladdin genie song was taken from this oldie. Put A Lid On It
02/28 Add to book
I wonder if he could see how sad she was.
03/10 Love you kerbs
03/10 Suffice
If taking a photo is not so much of a hassle, I would. But in situations where music is meant to be appreciated, a voice recording would suffice. Like this one: https://on.soundcloud.com/32jHHE8J9mueAbK26
03/11 HELLO en esp
Hola, me llamo elder price. Yo quiero dar contigo un mejor super cosa.
03/12 Fallas
Fallas is such a beautiful tradition for this province. Shared between parents and their children. Bonding through fireworks and firecrackers.š§Ø
03/13
A wes anderson and tom hiddleston film.
03/18 Jobs for Kids
Kidzania with jobs for kids but make them cleaners of wind mills, solar installation, and gyms with kinetic energy that will power up the street lamps while they jump around, cycling or something.
03/18 Book Idea: NAOMI RODRIGUEZ
Refugees, ālisten mama, itās fireworks, just like fallasā Naomi - targeted schools for the bust, but the ivy league schools were spared. Unfair. Chapter title: CONSEQUENCES IN LIFE
03/19 Spooting Kaayo
I love how the elderly here in Valencia seem to make sure their shoes š are clean and shiny when they go out.
03/20
When @bboidagasuan decided to move to ValĆØncia from Barcelona, my only knowledge of the place was how it ranked Top 3 in best cities to live year-on-year. Suffice to say marketing campaigns wooed us over. He was alone last year during the #fallas festival because my residence visa application got holed up at the consulate. He sent numerous videos of falla (the giant paper machĆ© efigies) and the cremĆ (the burning of the artwork) but I never fully understood its scale until I experienced it in the past two weeks. A year of preparation to create the monstrosity, and 4 days to view before itās gone forever–in flames. No same falla is designed each year, that’s what makes it special. What a tradition to the welcoming of spring! With his Pentax and 50mm lens, I shot every single detail of las fallas. I thought I could sift through them today, but I took almost 300 š so perhaps Iāll upload it in YouTube over the weekend. š¼ https://youtube.com/@cstpimentel There are plenty of cremĆ burning š„ sites all over the province of Valencia. I picked the one in my barrio last night (see last video in this post). The 15 minute vid is up in YT if you would like to see how they do it. En fin, vivan las fallas, y por muchos aƱos! š
03/20 Donde
Where would you go if you could go right now?
03/22 Pues
03/25 Abono
Thereās so many ways to save on transport here in Valencia, but only if one bothers to look.
03/31 Well..
I honestly think ācomfortā if the real killer.
04/01 Saw this on the train from CastellĆ³n
04/01 Another form of freedom
One other way to say I have absolute freedom is when I have a Macbook where I have my own login, the device is all mine, with my files intact, I work around its storage just as I please with no one to answer to.
04/04 Amunt!
04/04 #relationshops
Everyoneās other foot is always left outside the door.
04/04 Serendipity
Sometimes, you think you found a soulmate simply by looking at their Drivers License and seeing your birth dates fall only one day apart. Sometimes, itās about finding that one photo in their instagram feed, or that one time you attended a conference in Hong Kong and he was there too, maybe you saw him, maybe you didnātābut the idea fascinates you. Armed with a couple of what ifs and what-could-have-beens flood the inner goings in your head. And you fixate on that idea until it hurts too much, until it consumes you, until you never find anyone else because you don’t bother looking–just latched on to the idea of serendipity. It is stupid, and yet here you are.
04/04 Another IPA
Unnecessary melancholia.
04/04 Hay Pinas
Looking at the world right now, I donāt think I can survive being a senator in the Philippines. Thereās so much pain involved to fight for what is right and just for our people. It hurts just realizing this.
04/04 Men and Food
There are certain types of food you would associate with men, and hereās a few of mine:
Paulo - 2 piece chicken, 2 piece burger steak (shared/split) Herson - adobo with patatas Biboy - halang-halang Titoy - regular yum Henry - anything good at the carenderia Bo - always a takeout
04/04 What was I talking about??
Highlight Videos arenāt exactly the full vids, so revisit them. Stopped the animations and the thorough sweep of all content at June 20, 2012. Resume later.
04/05 Che Vuole Questa Musica Stasera
04/05 Marketing One’s Self
I think deep inside I dread getting another corporate job. I feel like all these job hunting efforts were half-baked because I donāt think I truly wish to go back working for money. I think I want more meaning to my life, working on sustainability, on renewable energy. And that I will expect to accept nothing less. At times, I think of trying the off-grid life just to prove a point to myself that I really am tired of marketing oneās self out there. Maybe at the end of all this, Iāll become an entrepreneur. A role I dread having.
04/06 Fetty’s Team
I truly understand the woes of our video editors now that Iāve started editing videos me self. š„ŗ If I ever became a video editor I would look for clients who have experience in editing vlogs because man itās hard work to just sort through random shit looking for incriminating audio and editing the transitions etc. Itās making me dizzy. šµāš«
04/08 Bebe Neuwirth
She just made me want to watch Chicago now.
04/08 A spy company named Uhura.
Business idea! Wait what tf am I talking about? And why is the church bell ringing? Or is it just in my mind. Hmm, strange.
04/08 Cuenca is nice
Also.. What if we can help a starfish š¼ grow arms through implants?
04/08 But what tf did I just find!
04/08 Yo, this is a nifty tool.
https://emojidb.org/starfish-emojis
04/08
š š š š THE SEA IS MY DESTINY š š š š
04/08 Corden
Wow that was an absolutely wonderful show! It was moving and it was live!
04/08 Poor Ejemplo
Does the wholeness of a digital file lose bit by bit the more you transfer it? Por ejemplo: SD to MacBook through a usb card reader, from MacBook to iPad and though a usb cable, from iPad to iMac via usbc cable, and then from iMac to iPad (otra vez) via iTunes and cable, and now itās still exporting a Falles 2024 iMovie and mucha tiempo pasado ya.
04/08 Another beer name or a CHAPTER
A costly mistake.
04/08 The Mini
I realize now that more than any Apple product, the Mac mini is the most worth the buck!
04/09 The Love Story of Josh & Alisson
The trust they have for each other.
04/09
Swear to God I couldnāt see shit right now. Itās all so blurry. I am typing this in Colon while Biboy is waiting for his new pair of glasses.
04/10 THIS IS SO FUCKING LIT
04/10 Life Content Updates
Think about it: instagram and twitter have an equally fair share of life update content! (š¤·š»āāļøor should we call it like the not-so-old-times blogging) Instagram takes photos, memes and reels. Meanwhile, Twitter can handle links, voice, Live and text. What else did I forget?
04/10 Barajas
When they decided to make waterproof playing cards, did they consider making the box waterproof too? š„“
04/10 The Apple Ecosystem
I love the iPad and the Macbook, but nothing beats the speed of a PC like that of an iMac or the Mac mini.
04/10 Workaway
What an interesting Facebook page!
04/10 Senyor pirotecnic pot comenƧar la mascleta!
La mascletĆ” me enseĆ±Ć³ sobre la velocidad de la luz contra a la velocidad de sonido.
04/10 wtf lol
04/10 It starts with a question like this:
Answered with a:
And then finally:
And then it was the beginning of the gentle romantic love affair:
04/10 Next ham radio. š»š”
04/11 Wow Them
If I have one advice to give my younger siblings, it is that: you donāt need to be great at everything! Just be really good at one, and show it to the world. That will wow them more.
04/11 Libst Mikh Sertse (Skybell & Babiak)
That was absolutely a beautiful love song.
04/11 Another beer name
alcoholkampailation
04/12 Yiddish
The more I watch plays in different languages the more I learn. It has made me humble, learning about new languages. I listen to their songs and my usual critique self is blown out of the water because there is so much to understand, and so I look at the art and beauty instead of falling into my preconceived biases.
04/12 Fear is the mind killer.
Comfort could make a person weak. Dependence is unacceptable.
04/12 Post-Its On The Wall
TIL I like having a home office of my own because I like picking up on inspirations Iāve gathered over time, like these post-its on the wall.
04/12 Holy sjit.
This is why you should never watch spoilers. Go to the theater. Thank god my goosebumps hinted I should stop watching because itās such a painful scene. Mygod Hadestown!
04/12 Amazing stuff you find in Reddit.
āThe grass isnāt greener on the other side, the grass is greener where you water it.ā
04/13 Ohmygod hendrix
04/14 A Pill
A song has the power to change your view in life. Could give you the strength you needed even.
04/17 Viva EspaƱa
Living in a country where I needed to learn a new language really humbled me. Itās absolutely humbling.
04/22 The Crisis
Do I really need to be something else at this age already?
04/22 TODAY:
I feel so passionate less otra vez! And I feel cold š„¶
04/24 Cartas Philippinensis: The Only Playable Tarot Cards With Philippine Themes
“Saul HofleƱa Jrās opus, Cartas Philippinensis, with images by artist Guy Custodio, is a set of Tarot cards that reflects an esoteric religiosity. The cards are glimpses of the syneretism of the Catholic Faith which when fused with the forces of nature, enrich and balance what is sacred to the Filipino people and bring to the fore a Spanish identity rooted in Christian tradition.” Published 2016 Box set of 22 Illustrated Cards & a 110-page Guide Book
04/24 CARNEY
Hadestown is an absolutely beautiful representation of the tragic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
05/02 Jonny Lang
RACK ‘EM UP Live at Montreaux 1999
05/14 ETTA
I’d Rather Go Blind (Live at Montreux 1975)
05/22 Dicen que: “Draw something”
06/11 Fallout Shelter
06/15 What was BBD trying to show me here?
06/23 Outdoor Activities
My interests in outdoor activities keep leveling up. It first started with motocross, I dated a local rider who competes and felt the rush riding. Then it led to hitch hiking at the back of sugar cane delivery trucks, my first college boyfriend and his brother would do this often if not carpooling more than capacity on the way to other cities. And the roadtrips continued with the fraternity leader I saw for a while.
After uni, I mellowed down a bit, pursued some freelance journalism since I dated a writer. He played ball, but it wasnāt really my thing. And then I joined weekend climbing groups, this is thanks to the next ex boyfriend whose older brother invited us to attend. One weekend led to another, and it eventually led to a breakupāmainly because our interests were no longer aligned.
Post breakup I climbed and joined fun runs. I ran in the morning on my way to work, saying hi to colleagues in the carpark around 6 to 7am. Took a shower at the gym in the office, clocked out at 5 and would spend an hour at the gym again before running back to the house. They must have thought I was going bananas, but this internal hype went on for a few months. And I also kept climbing in the weekends. Met strangers every week in camp.
Camping. I think this interest is a product of my familyās upbringing. Me and my siblings have vivid memories of trips to relatives homes in far flung towns. Mostly with lakes and beach houses. The most fun one is the family compound in Balingasag and Lanao, where our muslim cousins reside. They had a beautiful place and we would swim for hours at the beach. Have live music from my dad and uncles who plays the guitar while the aunts are cooking delicious meals that would feed an entire barangay. Thatās core memory material. And then along came Biboy. Solid love for hiking. Surfing a veces. Bien en ajedrez. Camping tambien. And joined me in on rock climbing too! And quite recently - sailing. Whatās next?