I was once a very prolific blogger. I was the blog-every-teensy-detail-of-my-life, oversharing kind of blogger. While I must admit that what I write these days, mundane as they may be, definitely surpass the blabs I wrote during my prolific-blogger days, it’s still pathetic that I’m down to one blog entry per month when I used to put up an entry every day.
The problem with blogging is that you can never tell who exactly may be reading your thoughts. I’ve since come to learn that there are some things that are too trivial to be worth the bother–and there are just some things that are too deep, too special, too meaningful to share. And since my life has been full of semi-trivial and overly special, uh, life events lately, then where does that leave my blog? In a corner of the cyberworld rotting and developing its own mini-ecosystem, I suppose.
Anyway, let me just share a few things that I’ve been thinking of.
Photography
In as quick as a millisecond, a person’s smile, expression, or gesture can change. What I like about photography is that it gives us the ability to keep a token of these fleeting moments. Because of photography, we can keep the image of a daughter’s smile, a lover’s sparkling eyes, a friend’s familiar laugh in our pockets or in neat photo albums. We tabulate our lives and keep a history of who we are, where we’ve been, and who we spent our life with.
There is no trace of a joke when I say that memories mean a lot to me. Duh (haha).
And this is why I am very grateful to my officemate, who somehow unexpectedly captured one of the sweetest 1 second or so of my life with his D40 camera.
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No doubt about it, this has got to be one of our prettiest pictures together. It’s hopeful, happy, and optimistic.. pretty much everything that our relationship was–and still is–despite and because of everything. I look hideous, what with my hair all over my face and my sticky-out teeth. But vanity factor set aside, I still consider this picture a very valuable keepsake. So thanks, Nan, for managing to freeze and illustrate everything that we are with this picture. 
Sexism
A recent cyberspat with a certain blogger made my anti-discrimination instincts go nuts. A few lines into her entry (which she now pulled out) and my head was hotter than a fresh-out-of-the-oven baked potato.
At first glance, her entry may seem like a trivial thing. It wasn’t even well-written enough to merit even an inch of credibility. Some even claimed that her entry is not worth that much attention.
But it is. At least, I believe so.
Because it is an indication how religion sometimes foster hatred and prejudice. Because it is a taste of something nastier, uglier. Because it is a symbol of how rampant and alive sexism is until now. Because she is a representative of exactly why a lot of people shun organized religion. And because she is a reminder of why I cannot exactly blame those who chooses that path.
Come to think of it, even priests do not have any right to dictate who has a right to this or to that. And if going to heaven means harboring ugly, bigoted thoughts like they do, I would happily go to hell if it means they aren’t there.
TV Shows
I have to admit that Gossip Girl is the first show to ever make a fangirl out of me. A wallpaper-making, I’ll-develop-withdrawal-symptoms-if-I-don’t-watch, spoiler-hoarding fangirl. It’s almost embarrassing how much I really like the show, even though in my opinion Gilmore Girls is still the best TV show ever (at least, in the days when Amy Sherman-Palladino is still there). But Gossip Girl is so glamorous and addicting and exciting that I cannot help it. Urghh.
So now I’ve decided that I will now use my Multiply account to blog about mundane stuff like Jenny stealing the Valentino, Georgina Sparks messing up Serena’s life, and how much I absoeffinglutely adore Blair Waldorf. And her wardrobe. It’s the only way to placate this fantabulous teenybopper side of me.
first of all, the picture, I LURVE! ang ganda PROMISE. kilig*
and i also am a certified BLAIR-natic. Kamusta naman at nakipagmeet pa ko sa isang nagbebenta ng Blair Waldorf inspired headband kagabi. at suot ko sha ngaun! Yay! you know, the red one with the big ribbon. Nakakaadik eh. Even Brent is hooked with the show, Kamusta naman yun.
Ayun lang, natuwa lang ako sa post mo. tekker olways. Muah!
The blogosphere needs more bloggers like you, camz. Too much crap all over the net these days. It’s definitely a breath of fresh air to read real and beautifully crafted posts once in a while.
And the picture? Lovely. True love does happen.
In that case, you should blog more often as well.
I miss reading your sincere and very touching entries. 
True love? Yup, WE both know that it really does exist, hehehe
everybody’s talking about gossip girl! cge babasahin ko kung ano man andun sa multiply mo, para na rin akong nanood ng series na yun. =)
Maganda sya Gwenny!!! Promise! Nuorin mo, I promise you’ll love Blair din haha
at least you haven’t lost the touch.
and, yep, that’s one happy couple in a happy photograph.
(i promise to come back with a mightier link. watch, people. watch. muahahaha!)
Hoy! Bakit entry ang ginamit mo jan! Pa burger ka naman!!! Burger! Burger!
At anong mightier link yan, ha???
We look so happy, don’t we?
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“And this is why I am very grateful to my officemate, who somehow unexpectedly captured one of the sweetest 1 second or so of my life with his D40 camera.”
Honoured to do take it. LOLZ
How senti naman. LOLZZZ