House of Memory

Along with the queue of all the Oscar-nominated films this year, the Sound of Metal was the first one I got to see. Having no heightened expectations at all, perhaps just a little exposure from Lou’s eyebrows on some Twitter posts, I got to watch the film with such an unfamiliar ease. I like to believe that since I haven’t seen the actors starred in any films I watched before, it helped me to see the Sound of Metal as what it was, with no influence of any existing attachment from their past roles, just from the film itself. With the scene opening with Ruben, the noise seems all over the place when you have your earphones plugged onto your ears. Ruben was gripping his drumsticks and pounding its weight against the drum, his eyes were afloat but protruding with fixation. After seemingly staring at nowhere, his eyes from time to time keep coming back to Lou’s back whose vocals are madly screeching in the air. For an opening, this rather gave off a strong impression driven with all the a

It is said in the beginning, when everything idyll was beyond the shadow of a doubt, there was only an overwhelming emptiness that laid upon the face of the deep. And there was a deity who was standing in the midst, Dunabe, who was bestowed with exceptional size she could almost caress the Cosmo and embrace amorously the emptiness as soon as she unfolded her arms. She was visibly unsurpassed, for her hair that was gluttony clouds aloft, that the wind who was her beau would rather whispered solemn promises and blew kisses of infinity than to breathe an air. Then with her face that was perfectly spherical in shape whereupon- in the daylight, she broke into blossom and filled the firmament with the sigh of her bliss. And in the eventide, she awed the darkness with her nocturnal beauty while the constellations winked and blinked that resplendent her stance even more. But it was the crown surmounted on her fontanel that the darkness faltered then faded away. The crown was no ordinary for it

1. TRACK YOUR MONEY...CREATIVELY I have been tracking the ins and outs of my money just few months after I started working. Sure, it was strenuous in the beginning and tested so much of my commitment, but as the saying goes, what's worth doing is worth doing well so I just had to embrace the challenge of making it as a habit. I think what helped also is the idea of incorporating my fancy in journaling to my money tracker. By purchasing a decent journal and making use of some washi tapes and colored pens, it made me enthusiastic to write out my expenditures. This forced commitment has become my bi-weekly habit since then. It is effective to review your previous expenses and compute your budget to meet your required target savings for the whole month. Doing this might be exhausting– and makes you feel obligated (which is a must, actually) but putting your own creativity actually works on me. So, it is always a trial and error but once you find your own groove on something it will be

It is strange that we have been five days past the 2021. Looking back we were still trying to make end meets, thinking that we might barely survive the year so we're silently praying for the universe to give us even just a belated plot twist. No plot twist to me, though. If 2020 felt like a passerby, the year followed felt almost like a bird of passage. It wasn't as quick and blurry, but kind of in a hopeful phase- taking more time then to test the water, to wait for a different trajectory, but still moving persistent. With the stretch of pandemic from a catastrophic 2019, everything has to still fit in with the new normal- just like cinema, which for more than a year has also had to compress their ambitions to a smaller screen. Then the big screen came back later in 2021, but people are bothered with the threat of the pandemic still lurking in the corner. I haven't taken the bold chance to set foot in any theaters. I think if it weren't for streaming platforms like Ne

2021 hasn't officially ended yet, and here I am already in the process of listing down my Top 10 songs that I had, for a long time being, put torturously on repeat without the world knowing. Putting my earphones on is actually one of the best decisions I made this year when I had to look steady despite losing my cool already during working hours.  Listening to my playlist especially during afternoon, two or three hours after I take my lunch, has been my routine since the year started. It is a test of patience when I had to exhaustingly look for a fresh and friendly kind of playlist-- the ones with some songs I am already familiar with but are mixed in with other songs that have this certain snap of mystery to tell to a first-time listener. It is more than rare to find something like that since you are more comfortable listening to your self-made playlist. Speaking of which, this year I have gone through many self-made playlists: I think, I have created five or more which at one poi