Photomemories of Paris

i feel like i didn't explore Paris enough.
New Year's in Champs Elysees will never be forgotten though!

but still, i feel there's so much more i want to experience in Paris!:)

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ho paura

im scared of the daunting and seemingly gargantuan task ahead of me.
seemingly? scratch that. obviously gargantuan task ahead of me.

forgive me for the off-the-net photo. sbucks net is too weak to upload photos of my own. :)

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it's Easter again! Prague Entry!

hello peeps!
its holy week! easter sunday brings me back to last year's in Bohemia!
Prague, Czech Republic and basically the whole easter trip of 2010 was just awesome! i remember not having any hosts and was prepared to spend loads on hostels but each time i got to my new city, a host would accept me or offer me a place after seeing my post in the emergency couchrequests! it really amazes me how much good there is out there, from mere strangers who basically have my online profile to base their knowledge of me from.

During my first night, i got to learn how to swing when my hosts brought me to this Prague Spring Swing where everyone were dressed in their 1920's inspired costumes, i got to experience a new Christianity when they brought me to church(not in the usual Roman Catholic way but the more interactive and less sermon kind of way), then went around and met random people, took the sandeman's free tour, lost a scarf, made a good friend with the same intense levels of wanderlust in us, etc!

anyway, here are some more pics from last year's in Praha!

David Cerny's Miminka Babies on Prague's TV tower

Statue inspired by the works of Franz Kafka

graffiti by Czech Inn Hostel

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i want these back

1. the past 8 months
2. the 3 hours of commute i have to endure from work to my place
3. park9/my own place
4. more of what i want to be and less of what i must be (dreams over money)
5. sleep

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ps pics random pickings of the net except p9 foto

another 'into the wild' entry and a little 'the beach'

Piccole Dolomiti w/ Luca and Roby(man in pic)

i haven't had the chance to catch up on my reading and so my entries on 'into the wild' has not materialized until now. yesterday, a saturday, i opted to leave the laptop behind and took my copy of the book and sat in a shop while eating. i sat there and consciously forgot the deadlines i am currently working on. it was a simple pleasure and i enjoyed it very much. then, i realized there's a lot of simple pleasures that i have forgotten while on this road of earning money. i hate it. i hate money and that we need a certain kind of currency to live. i hate that to live a simple life means to live a hard life, at least here in manila(debatable, i know.)

an officemate said, 'you're in the corporate world already...' that's when i woke up, a jolt of reality hit me. like when chris/alex(movie version) went back to society and imagined himself to be in a suit acting just like one of them. or when richard(the beach, movie version) went for that rice run and saw the world outside the island. thing is, they both went back and rejected the idea of once again being part of it all. i didn't.

chris mccandless said to ron franz: "Mr. Franz I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one."

heavy. very heavy things have been written and i'm sorry it has to be out there.
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some excerpts from the book:

everett ruess' letters
"After all the lone trail is the best...I'll never stop wandering."
"I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly."

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

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up for the challenge

i miss dressing up. getting up in the morning and putting a lot of thought into what i'd be donning for the day. you see, it's quite hard to do here in Manila especially if you have no car. with the heat and all. that's why i take it more as a challenge to pick clothes accordingly.
and especially in my case now, living off a bag with limited supply of clothes. its like im couchsurfing again but its been almost two months! :)

pic is from a daytrip me, fran, owen and philip took to Udine, Italy

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scandinavia longing: a design pursuit

lighting i would've bought if i lived in stockholm

oops you did it again eraser

interior of the Opera house in Oslo

artpiece in stockholm museum

i have been forcing the creative juices out of me for the past few weeks for a couple of projects and it delights me to be able to use my travels as inspiration. i've been going through a lot of scandinavian sites and looking at my past pictures from there. well, mostly swedish sites. because i love sweden like that. it inspires me to design. naks. :)

andy warhol installation in one of the museums in stockholm

neumeister has the most beautiful packaging and i was happy to know that they designed the bottle packaging i really liked. i even brought that bottle back to Padova! anyway, as i have probably discussed here before, to me, stockholm is one of my top cities in europe because the creative vibe is just so strong. although, advertising has the aspect of knowing the market and making it for them and i think these designs and having adapted it to my personal style does not translate well with the filipino market which sucks big time.

the sheep in stockholm were very gute. just wanted to share

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