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Oh hai, Neal Cruz! 

Disclaimer: All photos ripped from the intarwebz. Thank you Google image search. 

What I Think About When I Think About the Midyear

When I started blogging here I swore to myself to keep from being too emotional, whenever possible.

The goals were pretty much like these:

Oh shit the world is ending on 2012 because the Mayans said so—NOT.

No, the world isn’t ending. Which means you’re going to work until you’re all wrinkly and grey-haired and arthritic. Here, here, let me give you a hug. 

You Can’t Be Lazy on May 20.

In case you didn’t know, I’ve been passionately supporting (insert warm, fuzzy feelings that remind you of sunshine, unicorns, butterflies, and little children laughing at the park) this small community of yogis and yoginis who are making a difference by helping people who are affected by HIV and AIDS along with their families and friends. And I think the group has being doing a great job spreading awareness regarding the disease as well as breaking the walls of discrimination against people living with HIV (PLHIV).

This coming May 20, 3 P.M. at the Promenade area of the Quezon Memorial Circle, YOGA FOR LIFE  will be holding an open-for-all yoga practice entitled ONENESS THROUGH WELLNESS,  in celebration of the 29th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial. The event is a commemoration of the lives of those we have lost to AIDS, a celebration of the healthy and happy lives of People Living with HIV (PLHIV), and a call to the public to fight the stigma and discrimination of PLHIVs and their friends and families.

So if you like doing yoga and you want to do something for society, come. The community will appreciate your support, and your body will thank you for the activity. Seriously, would you rather do yoga or spend your Sunday afternoon sitting in front of your TV, eating chips and feeling sorry that you’re such a slacktivist slob?

Interested? Find out more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/226464297457922/

We Are All Made of Stars.

“The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth the atoms that make up the human body are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them went unstable in their later years they collapsed and then exploded scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas cloud that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up – many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big – but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…” -Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D.

So You Haven’t Found Someone Worth Having In Your Life

Last year, I tried to skirt around this whole mushy issue because to be frank, Valentine’s is just not my type of day. And after seeing a lot of people making googly eyes and carrying flowers and all that romantic shitshattery last night, I swore to myself that I will avoid densely populated places forever. (Take note of that statement because this is where my downward spiral to cat persondom shall have begun.)

Anyway, don’t worry, my aversion is not directed towards you because I know you were crying in your living room last night while pigging out on a tub of vegan chocolate ice cream while listening to Adele.

There Are Still Many Things Right in This World.

And this video will make you realize what they are:

You’re welcome.

You Can Have Your Toblerone, I’ll have Tablea Anytime. (Theo & Philo Please.)

(The spirit, and not the letter)

www.itsmorefuninthephilippines.com

Google, You Are on the Running as “The Corporate World’s Next Top Emotional Manipulator”.

These companies are out to get us and manipulate our heartstrings! Run! And run very quickly! Take your spouse and children and flee from this capitalist wasteland, and thou must never look back lest ye turneth into a pillar of XRoads™ Philippine Natural Sea Salt!

The Soy Boy’s 2012 New Year’s Resolutions

I’m lame when it comes to fulfilling new year’s resolutions. Last year, I swore to finish one of my novels-in-the-making, but so far, all I’ve accomplished that’s close to anything worth reading is the juicy list of the misdeeds I’ve committed this year. Okay, that was a lie–you’d be interested to know I’ve written superb stuff about inspiring artists and great places all over the world during my magazine stint, plus I’ve done some amazing press releases when I was volunteering for the MyShelter Foundation project, Isang Litrong Liwanag. (I know you’re still not over the list so let me repeat: the list does not exist and I did not video myself doing something scandalous…like, say, stuffing my mouth with food at midnight like a fat boy relapsing on his diet.)