oh, just little things.

in a rare (or routine?) show of lack of social graces and schmoozing strategy, I now regret ever turning down invitations to the MTV Pilipinas 2005 awards night, missing the opportunity to not only to watch music history (radioactive sago project & junior kilat jamming? a depressed lourd + a sick budoy? oh the possibilities!) but also to be recognized as a fellow cog in the starmaker machinery. the cogs don't usually get to "volt in" as it were. i now vow to always ask for at least 6 VIP tickets to all events, the number of executives in the office, including me.

in other news, i think i will sell my beloved SLR camera to marky. i am very attached to it, as it is my very first major acquisition in my life, blowing off my savings of my first 9 years of banking (8-17). it also came with me on very nice trips to sagada and cebu, and gave me opportunities to be published (i.e. the manila bulletin for said cebu trip). but hey, if the price is right...

in other, other news... i am excited to be shopping this weekend at the second rockwell vintage sale. i have not had a bare weekend all to myself since neil gaiman's visit, nearly 2 months earlier, and i even had to fight for that one. i was so excited to shop that yesterday i started already by splurging on 2 books at national bookstore's previously owned books section, where i found a history of san fransisco 1849-1906 and a novel about a bear/jazz musician, each for 75 bucks. not bad eh? now i have 3 books waiting to be read, including the music industry manual i bought several months ago. but i still have 200++ pages to go in umberto eco's "the name of the rose", which i'm enjoying because of its subtlety. karl told me about this novel after i told him about reading dan brown's "angels & demons" which reads like a bad hollywood movie. so he says it sounds like a bad knock off of "the name of the rose", which i now completely agree with, because, as i said, it is written with subtlety and an attempt to demonstrate the logic of solving murders in the medieval days, as compared to the superficial drive and highly unlikely divine interventionsssss used in moving "angels & demons" to a conclusion. so much for a good history lesson and good research.