2013: The Year of the Fix

January 8, 2013 by 4 Comments
Let's em-brace changes this year. Right, Katy?

My housemates were weirded out by how different I sounded after coming back from a 2-week holiday stay at my parents house in Batangas, and shocked by the ugly metal wires that fenced my teeth. So I got myself braces to correct the alignment of my teeth. It's not like my housemates didn't know about it; I had been very vocal about how I wanted to do this. I guess they just didn't realize I was dead serious about it. These braces are giving my teeth an excruciating embrace and making me harbor an emotion that never in my life I thought I would feel towards mealtime --- dread. But if … [Read more...]

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What I Think About When I Think About Blogging*

October 29, 2012 by 10 Comments
yoshke blog diary

My scriptwriting professor failed to show up in class that Wednesday afternoon because of a schedule conflict and I was left in between two choices on how I would spend the rest of the day. The left side of my brain was trying to persuade me to go to the mall and watch a movie. The right side, the lazy side, was convincing me to just walk into an Internet shop and kill time surfing the web. In this "what to do when you're bored" battle, the latter won. It was the best decision I had made in my life. Minutes later, my web surfing would lead me to a blogging platform and I would sign up for … [Read more...]

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The Poser Phase

March 13, 2012 by 16 Comments
got 2 believe y tu mama tambien

Y Tu Mama Tambien. Everyone nodded in approval. I heard a couple of Wows and someone quipped “Great choice.” I was at a college organization’s Orientation of Applicants. I was an applicant, scared shitless. Y Tu Mama Tambien was what I blurted out when I realized it was my turn to share what my favorite movie was. I panicked. The truth is, at the time I had only seen that film once and I did not even like it. Later on, I would fall in love with it after a couple more viewing but I surely was not loving it the first time. Why I said it was my favorite film, I was not sure. No … [Read more...]

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We All Need Saving*

February 17, 2012 by 3 Comments
We all need saving.

People will never understand how we have gotten to be so close within such a short period of time. Or why. When I first met you, you have this cloud of positivity circling around you. Your movements were big, your smile was wide, your eyes were glistening with happiness. But there was sadness in your eyes, too, that I immediately noticed. And it looked mighty familiar. It looked just like my sadness years back. Turned out that it wasn't the only thing we have in common. We share the same background, same heritage, same dreams, same nightmares, same insecurities, same fears, same … [Read more...]

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The New Yoshke.com

August 29, 2011 by 22 Comments
new-yoshke

New look. New attitude. New experiences. Honestly, I had been neglecting this blog the past few weeks because of my awfully hectic schedule. Work had been unforgiving on weekdays and I had been traveling on weekends. There had been moments when I felt like I lost the drive to blog. I needed a new inspiration. The "inspiration" was not really an inspiration but a wake-up call. It came in the form of a global hacking incident. My blog had been affected and unavailable over the weekend, along with many other blogs.  I realized I shouldn't take this blog for granted for this contains the … [Read more...]

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What Goes Around Comes a-Round

June 17, 2011 by 13 Comments
yoshke in cebu

And I have come 'round. Like, really round. Last weekend, I was in Cebu for the fifth time. While preparing for this trip, I checked out photos from my very first time in Cebu in 2009.  And so, to see just how much I have changed and how "round" I have grown over the past two years, I decided to wear the same shirt and planned to have a pic taken at the same spot. And the result? I remember a conversation with a friend. Friend: Kung ikaw ay alak, ano ka? Yoshke: Ginebra. Bilog na bilog. WAAAAAAAAAAH!!! I WANT MY MOMMY!!!!!!! … [Read more...]

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And We Wonder Why We Don’t Move Forward

March 12, 2011 by 11 Comments
Photo by Vky Mendoza

Sometimes, we are THE problem. … [Read more...]

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Happy Birthday to Me!

March 6, 2011 by 23 Comments
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Hey shorty, it's my birthday! Today, i turned a-quarter-of-a-century old. So the people around me should expect some sort of quarter-life-crisis-related tantrums soon. Haha. I'm celebrating a serene birthday here in the shadow of Mt. Hibok-Hibok in Camiguin. The place is paradise. Was in White Island yesterday and it was unbelievable! I can't think of any place better to celebrate this special day in. Well, except Europe. Will write about the trip soon but right now, will seize every birthday second as i feel like my younger days are over. Quarter-life crisis starts now. Lol. … [Read more...]

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Yoshke’s Weekend in Bohol in 4 Minutes

June 9, 2010 by 3 Comments
yoshke in bohol philippines

Hi guys, just sharing how my weekend went told in images in less than 4 minutes to the tune of Christina Aguilera's MONDAY MORNING from the deluxe edition of her fourth studio album Bionic. (Haha. Sorry for plugging.) [youtube HluKYH5RmP4] I'll be narrating what happened on my Bohol trip in detail soon. I just need to find time as I've been awfully busy. And oh by the way, I did not drop any of my four trips the past month. So now I'm tired, broke, and my skin is freakin' flakin'. Sunog na sunog. LOL. … [Read more...]

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What’s On My Mind?

May 21, 2010 by 35 Comments

"What's on your mind?" Every night, while lying in bed before we go to sleep and I'm unusually quiet, you'd look at me and ask, "What's on your mind?" I'd answer with a dismissing, "Wala lang. (Nothing.)" And then, we'd talk about something else. The truth is, I wasn't thinking about nothing. I was thinking about you. Have you ever wondered why I would always make sure you go to sleep before me? That's because I love looking at you while you're in dreamland. I would look at you, just look at you. And then I'd just find myself praying, "God, what good did I do to deserve him?" The … [Read more...]

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