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a few good pictures to remember 2024 by (and some notes from susan sontag)

the techbillionaires have officially ruined instagram format, and i have no idea where to dump the pictures i keep taking, so maybe this blog will serve as a dumpsite of sorts. taking pictures has been a hobby since college, when i was first gifted with my own digicam (i remeber it's a sony cybershot) and soon enough, i was firing shots from film cameras as well (i stopped because film rolls are now priced at P600 upwards per roll). imagine my delight when i was able to get my hands on susan sontag's on photography (thanks, lunti!)--essays about a hobby i never thought twice about. here are some favorite passages from sontag's essays:

"People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad (p. 10)."

"A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence (p. 16)."

"But the aestheticizing tendency of photography is such that the medium which conveys distress ends by neutralizing it. Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle. As much as they create sympathy, photographs cut sympathy, distance the emotions. Photography's realism creates a confusion about the real which is (in the long run) analgesic morally as well as (both in the long run and in the short run) sensorially stimulating. Hence, it clears our eyes. This is the fresh vision everyone has been talking about (p. 110)."

and probably my most favorite:

"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph--only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones (p. 141)."

sontag's essays helped me put into perspective a mundane hobby i've carried on for more than a decade. i dream of a house filled with framed pictures on display--family portraits, pictures of pets (alive or not), or even objects that are no longer in place. my office cubicle is decorated with pictures i have taken of places and people i want to remember. when sontag wrote early on in the book, "to collect photographs is to collect the world"--perhaps this old hobby is as simple as that.

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Hello lovelies, . Happy caturday from Aster. This is not the first time she's seen it snow, but she seems obsessed with it this year. Maybe because our apartment is tiny and she's bored. She wasn't happy when I closed the curtain on her. . I uploaded the lgbt earrings to etsy! Ace ones will have size-appropriate cupcakes soon. And I'm waiting on charms for trans butterfly earrings. They are customizable, though. . If you have suggestions for punny charms for pride flags, let me know. . Have a great day, all! . . . . https://www.etsy.com/listing/957794163/lgbt-punny-earrings . . #maine #cats #caturday #snow #tinyapartment #lgbt #earrings #punny #sleep #etsy (at Bangor, Maine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9cNn9regR/?igshid=x6bk3h4nyn2y

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hanash lately: shoulders, syllabi, slowing down, and other shenanigans from the last two months!

luntian had raved a few times about her boss's memory: "she remembers everything. you know why? she journals every day."

i told her: we should do the same.

but here i am failing miserably at keeping this blog updated. i had intended to write about our trip to baguio during the tail end of may, my 33rd birthday in lucban, our anniversary spent watching plays and a stand-up act, and my mundane teacher's leave. however, as i type this, another semester has opened and details for the past two and a half months are almost slipping away!

when we got back from japan, i had to prepare for a conference in baguio where my colleagues (who are also close friends) would present our current research. luntian took a leave and tagged along. we dined at oh my gulay! and she took me to bencab museum: it was my first time. i was happy to see works by santi bose and antipas delotavo in the flesh.

in june, i celebrated my birthday by having dinner at a taiwanese restaurant in quezon city with luntian and my closest friends, rogelio and faith. the celebration continued when we spent a full weekend in lucban. one of my best friends, june (not to be confused with jeane), had an airbnb there and her entire family was happy enough to host us. my mother and luntian's family went as well. we were well-fed for almost three whole days. we visited my dad's grave. i introduced luntian for the first time. she and i ran on saturday morning and discovered that lucban's uneven streets were not kind to our feet. on sunday, my mother, luntian, and her mom went to mass before heading back home. my jesus year could not have started any better.

the highlight of july was our first anniversary, which we spent at ace water spa for free (for free!). luntian was heading a paralegal training for work and had free accommodations (buffets included!) at the water spa's hotel. for that saturday we watched sir vlad's back-to-back theater plays (prinsipe bahaghari left us in tears and puting gunaw left us haunted) as well as atsuko okatsuka's full grown tour in manila. on sunday, we woke up early for an almost nine-kilometer run around up diliman campus punctuated by a well-deserved breakfast buffet at the university hotel. what a weekend!

and soon enough my most awaited teacher's leave began. i went home to cavite to spend time with my dogs and my mother. i started watching sex and the city. i tried finishing an ongoing research i'm writing on queer coming-of-age films, but it's still in my drafts folder. i ate my mom's baked goods. and in a blink, it's august again.

august had a disorienting start. though i was able to tick off most of the errands on my to-do list during our leave, i suffered two shoulder dislocations in the first two weeks of the month. luckily, i managed to pop them back in less than an hour for both incidents, but healing and rehabbing them will take a considerable amount of time. i guess that means no pickleball for a while.

i've had this injury since i was nine: i got hit by a speeding tricycle (probably a faulty assessment of a highway at my age as well) and broke my right clavicle. even though it healed as young bones have a pretty good recovery rate, it dealt a permanent blow on my right shoulder. it would dislocate for a few seconds if i twisted my arm on a weird angle or when i kicked too hard in high school soccer. i'd be immobilized for no more than five minutes, but it would pop back like nothing happened. i didn't understand what a shoulder dislocation meant then and just called it "spasms."

throughout my adulthood, i would endure three severe shoulder dislocations (i'd call it severe because i can't put it back on my own) where i'd end up at the hospital. the most recent incident was just last year. the doctor told me that my best resort is surgery (which i can't afford right now!). the consecutive dislocations just this month were frightening because it happened in my sleep.

while rushing to curate readings to update my syllabi in time for the school opening, i'd alternate tabs on researching about my condition. once you've had a shoulder dislocation, relapse is about 90% certain. it's called shoulder instability. some heal properly through physical therapy (i've done this after my second hospitalization), but the best hope is surgery. coach aivi, who happens to have the same condition as mine, but had the surgery told me that building muscles on your shoulders is also a big help. while this is comforting as i do enjoy physical activity, it would have to wait until my shoulder is stable enough to at least lift a decently weighted dumbbell. i hope i'm patient enough to wait for that.

the first week of school opening is also the first week of getting used to wearing my shoulder braces daily (i use different ones for daily wear, sleeping, and sports) and applying cold packs every night and morning. all these additions to my daily routine are unexpected and quite frankly irritating as they slow me down (especially in the morning!), but perhaps it IS a necessary reminder to indeed slow down.

slow down and wait for my shoulder to heal. slow down while i save up for surgery. slow down and take time to write more every day (to remember more about every day!). slow down to bounce back better and stronger. slow down, slow down, slow down. if i'm patient enough to rehaul my syllabi (i cannot wait for my students to read john cheever and doris lessing though!) then maybe i could be patient enough to wait for and work on my recovery.

slow down, slow down, slow down.

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Making the most of a small space. Barely a room at all and yet there they were: a bedroom bathroom living room and parlor all. A broken coffee machine plays neighbor to a surprisingly healthy potted plant. There is a cigar box with a few sugar cubes left inside. The ladder to the bed is hard on bar feet. . . #paris #ig_paris #parisfrance #parisapartment #tinyhouse #tinyapartment #travelphotography #travel #airbnb #inthekitchen #morning #morningcoffee (at Rue de la Mare) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqrkPFvhxgx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14bpj4bgifw9a

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Finally after almost 5 years of been single and heartbroken, I decide to date someone and we been together for a few months, it feels so good have someone by my side and supporting each other and for the other side my apartment sometimes feels like a punk squat because a lot of friends always crashes here and even I took out the sofa and put a bed in the living room for that reason.

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