• How's Moving Castle (January)
• Isa Pa, with Feelings (February)
• My Amnesia Girl (February)
• Framing Britney Spears (February)
• The Teenager Who Hacked Twitter (February)
• Dominic Fike, At First (February)
• To All the Boys: Always and Forever (February)
• Made You Look (March)
• Molly’s Game (March)
• Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (March)
• Casino Royale (2006), (March)
• Operation Varsity Blues: College Admissions Scandal, (March)
• The Hustle, (March)
• Iron Man (Rewatch), (March)
• Iron Man 2 (Rewatch), (March)
• Marvel's The Avengers (Rewatch), (March)
• Iron man 3 (Rewatch), (March)

• Statue of Liberty
• Empire State
• Double Decker Bus
• The Highline
• The Vessel
• Hudson Yards
• Central Park
• The Whitney
• The MoMA
• WTC Memorial
• Williamsburg
• Brooklyn Bridge
• City Hall
• Dumbo
• Rockefeller Center
• Rockettes
• Ellis Island
• Wall Street
• The Bull and Brave Girl
• Met Cloisters
• Grand Central Station

• Juliet, Naked
• Aladdin
• A Marriage Story
• Knives Out
• To All the Boys I've Loved Before (rewatch)
• P.S. I Still Love You
• Bridget Jones' Diary (rewatch)
• BJD: Edge of Reason (rewatch)
• When Harry Met Sally (rewatch)
• Something Borrowed
• Mamma Mia Here I Go Again
• La La Land
• I’m Drunk, I Love You
• Smaller and Smaller Circles
• Passport to Paris
• Kissing Booth 2
• A Silent Voice
• Il Mare
• The Lake House (Rewatch)
• The Old Guard

• Rock Your Plot, Cathy Yardley
• Like Nobody's Watching, Tara Frejas
• Level Up, Cathy Yardley
• Better at Weddings Than You, Mina V. Esguerra
• Emergency Contact, Mary H.K. Choi, June 8, 2018
• You Are a Badass, Jen Sincero, November 23, 2018
• I Believe in a Thing Called Love, Maureen Goo, December 30, 2018

• Rica B.
• Tina M.
• Arriane S.
• Tin L.
• Someone successful in business
• Someone who seems blissfully happy
• Someone in the publishing industry
• An inspiring reviewer - maybe Myra G.B.
• A musician
• A forward-thinker
• Someone who makes their own rules
• A great public speaker
• Someone who has championed a great campaign

• Bossypants, Tina Fey, January 7, 2016
• Yes Please, Amy Poehler, January 14, 2016
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, January 19, 2016
• The Getaway Car, Ann Patchett, January 20, 2016
• An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Elizabeth McCracken, February 4, 2016
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, February 18, 2016
• Every Day, David Levithan, March 27, 2016
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, April 9, 2016
• Unless, Carol Shields, May 9, 2016
• The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin, June 15, 2016
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman, July 7, 2016

• Begin Again @
• Elizabethtown @
• June in January
• A Boyfriend for Christmas @
• English Only, Please
• Admission
• Persuasion @
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2
• And So It Goes
• Barefoot
• That Thing Called Tadhana
• The September Issue
• Bill Cunningham New York
• Annie Leibowitz: Life through a Lens
• The Last Five Years
• I Give It a Year
• Clueless @
• Serendipity @
• Drinking Buddies
• Playing It Cool
• Passport to Paris

• Jan 6 - Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
• Jan 6 - Grandmither, Think Not I Forget - Willa Cather
• Jan 7 - 31 - Catullus
• Jan 7 - The City - C.P. Cavafy
• Jan 7 - from Zeitgehoft - Paul Celan
• Jan 7 - from the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
• Jan 7 - You Called Me Corazon - Sandra Cisneros
• Jan 19 - Kinds of Happiness - Alfred Yuson
• Jan 19 - Of Being - Denise Levertov
• Jan 20 - Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge - Hart Crane
• Jan 20 - Voyages (III) - Hart Crane
• Jan 21 - The Past is the Present Only Colder - Ben Purkert
• Jan 21 - Poem in the Contemporary Manner - Malachi Black
• March 5 - What We Talk About When We Talk...

• Different Countries - Clarissa Militante
• Tall Story - Candy Gourlay
• Banyaga: A Song of War - Charlson Ong
• Fish-Hair Woman - Merlinda Bobis
• Banana Heart Summer - Merlinda Bobis
• Sonetos Postumos - Rio Alma
• The Stories of Estrella D. Alfon
• The Paraplegics - EK Tiempo
• Spooky Mo - Marivi Soliven Blanco
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
• Butterflies - Suzanne Gervey
• Peeling the Onion - Wendy Orr
• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
• Places I Never Meant to Be - Judy Blume
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Benjamin Adams
• The Known World - Edward P. Jones
• The Three Incestuous Sisters - Audrey Niffeneger
• The Gryphon - Nick Bantock

• Corregidor
• La Luz Batangas
• Anvaya Cove, Subic
• Balai Isabel, Talisay, Batangas
• Tagaytay (Feb 2014)
• Anilao, Batangas (March 2014)
• Singapore (April 2014)
• London, England (May 2014)
• Paris, France (May 2014)
• Rome, Italy (May 2014)
• Florence, Italy (May 2014)
• Venice, Italy (May 2014)
• Milan, Ilaty (May 2014)
• Lucerne, Switzerland (May 2014)
• Bern, Switzerland (May 2014)
• Zurich, Switzerland (May 2014)
• Singapore (May 2014)
• Talisay, Batangas (July 2014)
• Las Vegas, Nevada (November 2014)
• San Diego, California (December 2014)
• Honolulu, Hawaii (December 2014)

• A Short Guide to a Happy Life - Anna Quindlen
• SAWI: Funny Essays, Stories, and Poems on All Kinds of Heartbreaks - Edited by Ada J. Loredo, BJ A. Patino, Rica Bolipata-Santos
• Second Chance - Jane Green
• Awkward Situations for Men - Danny Wallace
• Tales of Enchantment and Fantasy - Edited by Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
• Maynard and Jennica - Rudolph Delson
• Smaller and Smaller Circles - FH Batacan - June 27 2014
• Jenny and the Jaws of Life - Jincy Willett - July 17 2014
• Manila Noir - edited by Jessica Hagedorn - July 28 2014
• Banana Heart Summer - Merlinda Bobis - August 10, 2014
• Tender at the Bone - Ruth Reichl - August...

• History or Hagiography: The Commissioned Biography by Dr. Jose Dalisay
• First College of Arts and Letters Graduate Students Colloqium
• In Santa’s Workshop: How the Elves Create Stories for Children by Heidi Eusebio Abad
• Soul Project: Teaching Creative Writing in the Only Undergraduate Creative Writing Subject in the University of Santo Tomas by Nerisa del Carmen Guevara
• The Role of Mentors by Shirley Lua
• Creative Writing, the Net, and Creative Writing Programs by Martin Villanueva
• “Exploring the End” by Carljoe Javier
• 52nd Silliman National Writers' Workshop
• Idiom Wind: Bob Dylan and American Literary Expression
• Use What You've Got, Take What You Need
• True Lies: Blurring Boundaries Between Fi...

April 30

• not spending for dinner
• being able to watch the taste
• humility of still needing to do the chores
• finishing the draft text
• coordinating a dinner in spite of busyness
• getting my checks deposited
• being able to say goodbye to the little girl
• egg salad for brunch

April 29

• finishing Kita
• finishing the layout
• finishing love
• burger dinner
• time to think

April 28

• Starbucks for ratatouille sandwich
• Pino for team lunch
• Pipino for team dessert
• Sandwicheese for the roastbeef sandwich, banapple for the maple cheesecake & candied bacon
• Old Oven Art Cafe with Ana
• Razon's for halo-halo & Le Ching with Z
• Reyes barbecue takeout
• Kenny Rogers for dinner with Kip
• Brasas with Z, Sebastian's for dessert
• La Taqueria Amiga Mia again
• Panciteria Lido for dinner with family
• late dinner/dessert at Fleur de Lys
• late lunch with L at Icings
• treating the fam to H Angus Belly
• Lido again for takeout
• Manang's for post-pitch dinner
• Pizza dinner at Yellow Cab
• Overeating at Buffet 101
• Manang's, Chooks for takeout

• King of Nothing to Do by Luis Joaquin Katigbak - early Feb or late Jan 2012
• Arcadia by Tom Stoppard - March 24, 2012
• Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen - May 26, 2012 - 10:40AM
• The Good People of New York by Thisbe Nissen - June 14, 2012 - 6:40 PM
• How to Make and American Quilt - Whitney Otto - July 14, 2012 - 10:31 AM
• Heartburn -Nora Ephron - July 23, 2012 - 3:40 PM
• Van Gogh Cafe - Cynthia Rylant - November 9, 2012 - 3:00 PM
• Literacy & Longing in LA - Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack - November 22, 2012 - 9:30 PM
• The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - December 16, 2012 - 1:19 PM

• Moshi-Moshi
• Cafe La Carmela - Never again!
• Mad Mark's Man Sandwiches
• CAB Cafe
• Teriyaki Boy
• Felicity with Diane
• Impromptu delish dinner with family
• Cocktails at Bugsy's
• Kenny Roger's
• Kitchen's Best for Kippy's birthday lunch
• Lunch with Anna at Black Soup Cafe
• Manang's late late lunch
• Cafe Uno for Vday dinner
• Romulo Cafe for PYFP dinner
• UCC for Chocolate Chaud waffle
• Distillery for Joanne's birthday drinks
• Zubuchon Cebu
• Casa Verde Cebu
• Lab-as Dumaguete
• Gabby's Dumaguete

• Say "Good morning" to a person standing next to you in the elevator.
• ✔ Take a minute to direct someone who is lost, even though you're rushing.
• Write a letter to a child who could use some extra attention. Kids love getting mail.
• Give a homeless person your doggie bag.
• Say "I love you" to someone you love.
• Out of the blue, send flowers to a friend.
• Say "please" and "thank you"—and really mean it.
• ✔ When you're on a crowded train or bus, offer your seat to an elderly, disabled or pregnant person.
• ✔ Don't interrupt when someone is explaining herself.
• ✔ Let a fellow driver merge into your lane.
• ✔ Put your shopping cart back in its place....

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• Nine Stories by JD Salinger
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Life's too short to always be straight. It's about time I did something isn't it?

• Write anonymous letters & leave it inside books in public libraries
• ✔ Send a postcard to a stranger around the world
• Make art for someone
• Throw a Cocktail Party
• Learn to cook a new dish every month
  • ✔ April: Replicated Noodles in Peanut Sauce from Shi Lin using bargain basement ingredients
  • ✔ July: Garlic pasta
  • ✔ August: Roast chicken
  • ✔ August: Artichoke dip
  • ✔ August: Fish in white wine sauce
  • ✔ September: Spinach and scallop soup
  • ✔ September: Garlic pasta
  • ✔ September: Pasta alla Il Selvaggio
  • ✔ October: Red Wine Marinara

Race to 50 and beyond!

• Coming Home - Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo - January 1, 2011
• Been There, Done That, Doing Better - Natasha Josefowitz, January 4, 2011
• Guerilla PR 2.0 - Michael Levine - January 19, 2011
• Letters from a Nut - Ted L. Nancy - January 31, 2011
• Jemima J. - Jane Green - February 21, 2011
• The Powerbook - Jeanette Winterson - February 25, 2011 1:50AM
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - February 26, 2011 4:30PM
• Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart - Nikki Gemmell - March 12, 2011 8:05AM
• Shampoo Planet - Douglas Copeland - March 26, 2011 - 3:05PM
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - CS Lewis - April 5, 2011 - 3:07 PM

One thing I used to really love about my life was that I always had an abundance of friends to hang out with and do stuff with. But I've been hiding out a lot because of certain insecurities and this has really caused me to cut down on the people that I meet, and it has gotten mixed results on my end. (On the one hand, you get the feeling that there are friends that you really have outgrown, on the other, you sometimes get overwhelmed with loneliness).

January

• Trix and Chris at the Megamall Opening
• Joanne and Kathy for dinner at Kathy's house (post-Christmas get-together)
• Joanne and Kathy (to visit Kathy after she gave birth to Baby Mylo)
• Lunch with Zara at North Park in Trinoma
• Quick meal with Len and Omar at Abbondanza Megamall

It was sort of late when I began actually documenting books that I have read, back in 2007. So this list will be updated once every time I come across a book I have read in the past. I can only hope that when I die I will have reached at least a thousand. Will that be enough? I wonder.

• Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisenberg
• The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
• Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
• Bergdorf Blondes - Plum Sykes
• The Red Tent - Anita Diamant - January 2, 2007
• The First Wives' Club - Olivia Goldsmith
• My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult - March 8, 2007
• The Romanov Prophecy - Steve Berry -
• The Bride Stripped Bare - Nikki Gemmell - April 1, 2007
• How to Find Your One True Love - Bo Sanch...

• The Twelve Dates of Christmas, Jenny Bayliss, January 8, 2024
• In Waves, AJ Dungo, May 28, 2024
• Niki Nakayama: A Chef’s Tale in Thirteen Bites, Debbi Michiko-Florence et al, May 28, 2024
• Sandwich by Catherine Newman, July 11, 2024
• The Bookstore Wedding by Alice Hoffman, October 17, 2024
• Remember Me Tomorrow by Farah Heron, October 21, 2024
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, November 19, 2024

• The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary (February)
• Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn (February)
• Show Your Work, Austin Kleon (February)
• When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi (May 4)
• Totally Engaged, Mina V. Esguerra, June 14
• Kiss and Cry, Mina V. Esguerra, June 28

• Shake Shack
• Spotted Pig
• Radiance Tea House
• Grace Street
• Spot Dessert Bar
• Laut
• Sticky's Finger Joint
• Prince Tea House
• Black Tap Burgers & Shakes
• Roberta's Pizza
• Oddfellows NYC
• S'Mac
• Mimi Cheng's Dumplings
• Veniero's Bakeshop
• Morgenstern's Ice Cream
• Five Napkin Burger
• Big Gay Ice Cream
• Chipotle
• Paul's Da Burger Joint
• Veselka
• Pies N' Thighs

• American Panda, Gloria Chao, May 24,2020
• What Kind of Day, Mina V. Esguerra, June 25, 2029
• Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto, August 2020
• The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillermo, August 28, 2020
• Dreamology, Lucy Keating, September 5, 2020
• Sweet on You, Carla de Guzman, October 26, 2020
• Emergency Skin, N.K. Jamison, November 15, 2020.
• Ordinary Light: A Memoir, Tracy K. Smith, December 30, 2020

• The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang, January 2, 2019
• Attachments, Rainbow Rowell, January 18, 2019
• Choco Chip Hips, Agay Llanera, Feb 2019
• Mango Summer, Agay Llanera, July 2019
• The Rules Don't Apply, Ariel Levy, September 23, 2019
• Pride, Ibi Zoboi
• Hello, Universe, Erin Entrada Kelly, October 21, 2019

• Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic, January 5, 2018
• ASSCAT at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Hell's Kitchen, January 7, 2018
• 54 Sings Jason Mraz, Feinstein's/54 Below, January 9, 2018
• Min Jin Lee reads from Pachinko at Second Saturdays, January 13, 2018
• Avenue Q The Musical, January 26, 2018
• An Eclectic Evening of Boxer's and Briefs, March 10, 2018
• Book of Mormon, November 7, 2018

• Blue Man Group, Jan 1, 2017
• Waitress the Musical, Jan 10, 2017
• Chamberfest, Julliard, Jan 11, 2017
• National Book Critics Circle Awarding Ceremonies with Margaret Atwood, March 16, 2017
• Subversive Lives talk with Susan Quinpo at the Asian American Writers Workshop, , March 19, 2017
• New York City Teen Author Festival Kickoff at the Strand, March 19, 2017
• Here We Are: Feminism for Real World Authors, March 20, 2017
• Brooklyn Sofar show at Ode to Babel, March 27, 2017
• Saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom at The New School, March 31, 2017
• Quiet YA Panel at the Blogbound Convention, Jefferson Market Library, June 1, 2017
• Book Blogger Panel at Blogbound, June 1, ...

• A Night at the Opera, January 19, 2016
• The Game's Afoot, January 24, 2016
• Three Stars and a Sun, February 18, 2016
• Constellations, February 28, 2016
• Almost Maine, March 12, 2016
• Fifty Shades of Grey the Musical, March 20, 2016
• Stepping Out, April 22, 2016
• AMP Big Band at 12 Monkeys
• Lovestruck, August 12, 2016

• The Intern
• After the Ball
• Cinderella (2015)
• The First Time
• Cinderella (1997)
• Man Up
• Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation
• Divergent @
• Insurgent
• I'll See You in My Dreams
• The Intern @
• Pitch Perfect 2 @
• New in Town @
• Joy
• Grease @
• Grease Live
• Bridge of Spies
• Love Again
• Love Under the Stars
• Allegiant
• Mockingjay Part 2 @

• Beauty and the Beast (Jan 9, 2015)
• Time Stands Still (February 28, 2015)
• Project Voice Manila: Phil Kaye and Sarah Kay (March 2, 2015)
• 4000 Miles (March 13, 2015)
• Bach vs. Beatles (March 26, 2015)
• Soundtracks and Symphonies (April 23, 2015)
• Run for Your Wife (May 2, 2015)
• Baroque of the Ages (May 21, 2015)
• Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady (June 6, 2015)
• Quatro Prieres (June 14, 2015)
• Macho Dancer: A Musical (June 25, 2015)
• Huling-Huli (June 25, 2015)
• Ang Nanay Kong Ex-NPA (June 25, 2015)
• Manila Improv Festival 2015 Finale Show (July 12, 2015)
• It's April: What are We Doing Here? (October 17, 2015)
• No Filter 2.0 (October 25, 2015)

• The Sentence, Anna Akhmatova, July 28, 2014
• Mansion, A.R. Ammons, July 29, 2014
• Will, lost in a sea of trouble, Archilochos, July 30, 2014
• Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold, July 30, 2014
• Blue, Sally Croft, July 30, 2014
• The Improvement, John Ashberry, July 31, 2014
• Variation on the Word Sleep, Margaret Atwood, August 1, 2014
• Fitzi in the Yearbook, Lyn Lifshin, August 1, 2014
• In Memory of W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, August 2, 2014
• Refugee Blues, W.H. Auden, August 3, 2014
• Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (For Kellie Jones, born 16 May 1959), Amiri Baraka, August 3, 2014

• August: Osage County (Repertory Philippines)
• Rak of Aegis (Peta)
• Cock (Red Turnip Productions)
• Wicked (London)
• Dani Girl (The Sandbox Collective)
• Rabbit Hole (Red Turnip Productions)
• Rusalka: A Fairy Tale Opera (Up College of Music)
• There We Have Been and Without Stars (James Cousins Dance Company)
• Cirque du Soleil's Beatles Love

February

• Boieng Boieng
• Ballet Philippines' Midsummer Night's Dream

March

• No Way to Treat a Lady
• Kalabit ng Kalabit Classical Guitar Concert by the UP Faculty

April

• The Graduate

May

• MoonWhisperer: A Reading and Book Launch for Cesar Ruiz Aquino
• Rhythm Recital: A Celebration of Performance Poetry
• Huni ug Balak: A Celebration of Music and Poetry

June

• So B. It by Sarah Weeks, January 13, 2013, 6:31 AM
• I Hate My Mother, January 17, 2013, 3:25 AM
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, February 3, 1:21 PM
• It's Not the End of the World by Judy Blume, February 9, 2013, 2:35 AM
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, February 11, 1:43 AM
• Displaced by Aneka Rodriguez, February 15, 2013, 7:17 PM
• From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler February 16, 2013, 11:30 AM
• The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium by N.E. Bode, March 9, 2013, 11:50 AM
• The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan, March 10, 2013, 12:15 AM
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, March 21, 2013, 12:25 PM
• Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume, ...

January

• met up with Z for a walk
• met up with Z for another walk
• team lunch at Pino with E, I, A
• impromptu free mani pedi date with Ana
• Sunday brunch and wholeday hangout with Z
• Saturday impromptu dinner and Metrowalk with Z
• Saturday catchup and overnight with L
• visit with Z
• food run with Z
• dinner with Tarie
• buffet dinner with Z
• hangout with T, C & M
• whole day hangout with Z
• dinner and movie with ana
• recto adventure with z

February

• Boieng Boieng with Z & K

• Author at Once workshop
• Book discussion by FWGP
• Author at Once workshop2 - book marketing
• The Wisdom of Non-Attachment
• Seatca Social Media Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand
• Tobacco Control Journal workshop
• National Competitiveness Council Dialogues on Corruption
• Globalization, Television, and the Future of Mass Media - Graeme Turner Lecture
• LitRiffs - discussion on literature and music

• Cebu
• Dumaguete
• Zamboanga
• Davao
• Cagayan de Oro
• Bangkok, Thailand
• Bali, Indonesia
  • Kuta
  • Ubud
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Baguio

January

• RIP
• Love, Loss and What I Wore
• Next Fall

February

• Mamma Mia!

March

• Leading Ladies
• Jekyll & Hyde
• Fuerza Bruta

May

• Forbidden Broadway

June

• Return to Song Ateneo College Glee Club Concert
• Rock of Ages

October

Sometimes it's nice to be a tourist in your own country!

• Boracay
• Banaue(Rice Terraces & Beyond)
• Marinduque
• Vigan
• Pagudpud
• La Union
• Baguio
• Cebu
• Davao
• Butuan
• Camiguin
• Sorsogon
• Puerto Galera
• Tarlac
• Tagaytay
• Subic
• Clark
• Angeles
• Ilo-ilo

I used to really love eating out. Budget and time constraints have really put a hamper on my eating out habits, but I want this year to mean something! Hopefully making this list will inspire me to try new food and new places again!

• Abbondanza Megamall
• Gerry's Grill
• Cajun Megamall
• Mr. Jones (Greenbelt 5)
• North Park Trinoma
• Don Henrico's Tomas Morato
• Chef Tatung Private Dining
• The Burger Project at Maginhawa
• Delish at Maginhawa
• Luk Foo for Chinese New Year
• Bonchon Chicken (Greenbelt 1)
• Wheatberry (Scout Castor) - only tried the Florentines!
• Lusso - last meal of the Demi-pound Foie Gras Burger and Dates and Speck which was...

So I promised that after the horrors of September I will see as many movies as I could, to soothe the numbing pain and to distract myself from rehashing the horror that was the 2010 Bar Examination.

$ = New @ = Rewatch

• Pretty Woman @
• Ice Castles $
• Chocolat $
• Riding in Cars with Boys $
• Becoming Jane $
• The Bounty Hunter $
• The 6 Wives of Henry Lefay $
• I Love You New York $
• Greenberg $
• Veronika Decides to Die $
• You Again $
• Jack and Jill vs. The World $
• From Paris with Love $
• Life as We Know It $
• The Other Guys $

• Hongkong
• United States
• Canada
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• Cambodia
• Malaysia
• Australia
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Indonesia
• United Kingdom
• France
• Italy
• Switzerland
• Taiwan

• I Was Their American Dream - Malaka Gharib, February 13, 2023
• When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead, March 14, 2023
• XOXO, Axie Oh, March 24, 2023
• Happy Place, Emily Henry, July 16, 2024
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, October 19, 2023
• Chloe and the Kaishao Boys, Mae Coyiuto, November 19, 2023

• Sara Blakely

• Crash Landing On You
• Something in the Rain
• One Spring Night
• While You Were Sleeping
• What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim
• Itaewon Class
• Seventeen Again
• Oh, My Venus!
• My Love from the Star
• She Was Pretty
• Goblin
• Coffee Prince
• Fight for My Way
• Romance is a Bonus Book
• King: The Eternal Monarch
• Second Twenties
• Touch Your Heart
• Her Private Life
• Strong Girl Bong Soon
• It’s Okay Not to Be Okay
• Dinner Mate

Birthday Proper

• Homecooked dinner with family - come up with a Friday Menu
  • Make a cocktail
  • Appetizers
  • Pasta
  • Protein
  • Side or Salad
  • Have someone else bring the cake
• Sunday Brunch with the girls - Go to Dumbo and take pictures
• A Broadway show - Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen, Hello Dolly (Book of Mormon with K & P)
• Date with Debbie - life planning, goal setting
• Belated birthday picnic with Debbie, Cara, and Chiqui
• Karaoke night with girlfriends (very late, but karaoke with K, P, & E

• The List, Siobhan Vivian, February 1, 2017
• The Absolutely True Story of a Part-time Indian, Sherman Alexie, February 8, 2017
• Please Ignore Vera Dietz, A.S. King, February 15, 2017
• All-American Boys, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, February 22, 2017
• Looking for Alaska, John Green, February 27, 2017
• A Wizard of Earthsea, April 5, 2017
• Feed, M.T. Anderson, April 6, 2017
• Tell Me More, Kelly Corrigan, December 28, 2017
• When Dimple Met Rishi, Sandhya Menon, December 30, 2017

• Baguio, Feb 5-7
• Subic, Feb 12-13
• Tagaytay, Feb 20-21
• Puerto Princesa, April 29 - May 1
• Laguna, June 13
• Baguio (Book launch), July 23
• Princeton, NJ, October 6
• Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, October 7
• Maryland, October 8
• Washington, DC October 9-10
• Philadelphia, October 11
• Cold Spring, NY, November 12
• Jacksonville, FL, December 30
• Orlando, FL, December 31-Jan 4

• January 5 - From a Photograph, George Oppen
• January 5 - Pluralisms, Anna Maria Hong
• January 5 - Poetry Failure, Mark Halliday
• January 20 - Bodies on Water, Shane Carreon
• January 20 - Big River City, Shane Carreon
• January 20 - Return to Sta. Rosa, Shane Carreon
• January 25 - Hesitations at the Door, Margaret Atwood
• January 25 - The Death of Attile Jozsef, James Atlas
• January 25 - Movements, Charles Tomlinson
• February 9 - Prologue, Linda Bierds
• February 9 - The Highland, Linda Bierds
• February 9 - For the Sake of Retrieval, Linda Bierds

• Baguio, February

• Flipped, Wendelin Van Draanen, January 12, 2015
• How They Met And Other Stories, David Levithan, January 22, 2015
• The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, Jennifer E. Smith, January 27, 2015
• An Abundance of Katherines, John Green, February 24, 2015
• Fast Food Fiction Delivery, Edited by Noelle Q. De Jesus & Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, March 6, 2015
• After This, Alice McDermott, April 12, 2015
• Larry's Party, Carol Shields, June 20, 2015
• Midnight Champagne, A. Manette Ansay, July 1, 2015
• The English Major, Jim Harrison, August 8, 2015
• I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron, Se...

• Antonio's
• Bawaii's
• Kettle
• Dulcelin
• Basil
• Sarsa
• Ramen Nagi
• Paul
• Pott's Point Cafe
• Ramen Daisho
• Mendokoro Ramenba
• 100 Revolving Restaurant
• Big Daddy Jay's (17th Ave Cubao)
• BITE Contemporary Cuisine
• Black Olive Cerveseria
• Brasserie Girolle
• Burgers & Brewskies again
• Calderon
• Quirky Bacon
• Gaucho
• Grace Park

• Austenland
• Starting Over Again
• ABNKKBSNPL Ako
• About Time
• You've Got Mail
• The Proposal @
• When Harry Met Sally @
• Second Chance
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Man of Steel
• Mean Girls @
• What a Girl Wants @
• She's the Man @
• Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit
• Robocop
• Three Days to Kill
• Monuments Men
• Last Vegas
• Bakit Di Ka Crush ng Crush Mo - blech.
• Sleepless in Seattle @
• Hope Springs @

• The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love
• Christmas in Wonderland
• Fright Night
• Under the Mistletoe
• Skyfall
• Must Love Dogs @
• The Mirror Has Two Faces @
• Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
• Looper
• The Wishing Well
• A Separation
• The Switch @
• Maid in Manhattan @
• Elizabethtown @
• Sabrina @
• Jane Austen Book Club @
• Under the Tuscan Sun @
• Something's Gotta Give @
• Zero Dark Thirty
• What to Expect When You're Expecting
• Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria (The Dream of Eleu...

January

• January 2, walked with z around the village for at least an hour
• January 3, walked with z for about 40 minutes
• January 22, walked for over an hour

January

• Met up quickly with Ana and discussed my work.
• Hung out with Zara and went to the grocery with her
• Dinner with Anna C. and an extremely long conversation
• hangout with Z and Jan
• Met up with Deng for the funding colloqium
• Watched Nic's play with Deng
• Stopped by Anna's house for a bit
• Dinner with Pi and Ejay
• Inuman with Z and J
• Sushi dinner with Z
• lunch with Diane at Felicity

February

• Drinks with Z
• impromptu lunch with Anna
• Billiards and Bidyoke with Ejay and Pi

• Everything You Want
• A Chance of Snow
• All I Want for Christmas
• Iron Lady
• One Day
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• New Year's Eve
• The Incredibles @
• Crazy Stupid Love
• Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol
• The Vow
• Horrible Bosses
• Meant to Be
• Chalet Girl
• Geek Charming
• You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
• Captain America
• Goodbye, Columbus
• The Avengers
• The Note
• Santa Baby

• King & I
• Oliver!
• Nunsense
• Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Anna in the Tropics
• 42nd Street
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• Rent
• Phantom of the Opera
• Avenue Q
• The Joy Luck Club
• Equus
• Shakespeare in Hollywood
• Into the Woods
• Cinderella
• They're Playing Our Song
• Les Miserables
• Miss Saigon
• Camelot

Because what else do I do now except make lists and watch movies?

• Morning Glory
• The Bourne Ultimatum @
• How Do You Know?
• You Again @
• The Bourne Supremacy @
• The Tourist
• The Ghostwriter
• The Romantics
• The Finisher
• The Incredible Hulk @
• The Lost Valentine
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• Mission: Impossible III @
• The Fast and the Furious 4
• Limitless
• Source Code
• Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
• Bells are Ringing
• Thoroughly Modern Millie @

So my life has been at a stand-still lately. But it hasn't always been this way. There are some things that I am truly proud to have done, and it helps remembering them for times when you don't really have an idea of what to do next. This is a sampling of events that range from seemingly mundane to really woah.

• Went on a month-long tour of the country performing for a musical with reformed ex-convicts (Bagong Silang the Musical)
• Organized a university event and got interviewed and recognized by MTV Pilipinas - never got to see it though!)
• Dropped everything to go on a beaches of the Philippines roadtrip with org friends (San Juan La Union, Vigan, Pagudpud, some Pangasinan place I don't recall)
• Interned for the Presidential Chief of Staff at the Malacanang, was one of 100 graduates chosen to participate in this

Travel always makes me feel like a better person. I'm not sure if it is because I myself feel that I am not at home where I actually am, or because I internally get to check off a to-do whenever I am in one. But whenever I do, I really do feel like a better version of myself. I like myself so much more when I am traveling than when I am here at home.

• The United States
  • Illinois (Chicago)
  • California
    • Los Angeles
    • San Francisco
  • New York
  • Florida
  • Washington DC
  • New Jersey

I love going to the theater! It's too bad that the whole law school thing has put this love on the back burner. That should be changing now that I am finally rid of law school.

• The Joy Luck Club (Repertory Philippines, Seen with Kate)
• Shakespeare in Hollywood (Repertory Philippines, Seen with Mom)
• Mobile French Acrobatic Show with Ana
• Bawal Baduy: A Benefit Gig at Big Sky Mind
• Fierce Tales: The Bellydance Festival with Ejay and Frances
• The Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber
• Handog: AGCG Homecoming Concert
• Noli Me Tangere: The Opera
• Madz et Al Concert
• Flying Ipis Music Video launch at B Side, the Collective