Of the moments last month:

• A year into the work life and thinking that, "Nothing has changed and yet everything has."
  • The immediate effect of a different focus
• Press event for a craft beer festival
  • How to make a good impression
• The first leave, registering to vote, walking along UP, meet-up with Patricia, finally getting a copy of The White Album by Joan Didion
  • "This was always my favorite part of the oval kasi downhill na."
• Football again
  • And Bamboo playing in the open field next to us
  • Not caring that I got hit in the face because of the music
  • The day after thinking of "Last night's perfection."
• The actual craft beer festival
• Pulled groin
• "The idea is not unique but rather than finding that a setback, it is encouraging to find one's ideas inside of larger ones."
• QC Film Fest
  • Ang Nanay Kong Superhero
  • Anino sa Likod ng Buwan
• PRO Career Talk
  • "Join interest-based orgs. Learn everything that you want to learn habang libre pa. When you work, you have to pay for everything."
  • "It's okay to be lost, cause you will find your preference ...and what you don't want."
  • "'Willing to work in Makati' is important."
  • "Enjoy unemployment."
  • Being mostly the comic relief to Anj's seriousness
  • Her speech was wonderful, I wish I remembered her actual words
• First time to get sick again since February
• A copy of Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen for P39 at Books and Mags
• How Friendships Change Into Adulthood
• *Elena Dementieva's retirement was 5 years ago and still not being over it
• "Casualness, though, does have its limits. Dinner parties, for example, are an act of love."
  • At Bello's with the Lunch Crew
  • Up in the mountains
• A tea date and perhaps never looking at tea the same way again
• A tea exchange with Papa after Sunday lunch
  • "Gagawa ako ng tsaa. Gusto mo ba?"
  • "Ayoko...anong tsaa yan?"
  • "Yung kay Tito Reza."
  • "Sige, bigyan mo nga ako. Kuha na lang ako ng baso."
  • I will always have fond memories of you, Tito.
• "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
• Streak of re-reading
  • The White Album by Joan Didion (essay)
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Music
  • Coming Home by Leon Bridges (NPR Tiny Desk version)
  • Riptide by Vance Joy
  • Skunk Anansie Acoustic and Live in London
  • Nina Simone Revisited
  • A revisit of Lauryn Hill
• It has actually been a wonderful month,

--nothing has changed and yet everything has.