8:00 |: tries to remember strong images in the dream
and scribbles them
8:30 |: turns off handy phone
|: meditates and warms up
|: a quick shower
9:00 |: stops at the j.y. newsstand for the
Php10.00 day’s issue of the paper
|: a quick brunch in the balcony of
the golden arch QSR whilst reading
the opinion page of the day’s paper
|: tucks the day’s paper whilst filling the cart at the junction grocer
10:00 |: back at the boarding house and scrubs the week’s worth of laundry
|: prays hard the weather will be sunny all-day or else side c. LOL
12:00 |: fills the backpack with two books and packs of
dried mangoes and grabs a quick lunch
|: takes the 04L and heads to the shoebox mall
|: gets a new Garcia Marquez in the specialty store and thumbs a new coffee table book on display at the store’s entrance.
|: sees a writer-acquaintance, but in a bashful mood to say hi
4:30 |: finds a space in a roomful of Cebu’s film gods
Allan Jayme Rabaya and
Bien Fernandez with Dr. Alburo,
Dr. de la Cerna and Radel Paredes
|: watches the “binaliw” short film
|: listens to the Hambin lecturer on Cebuano film, Ron Tan
|: watches the 2006 and 2007 prize-winning Sinulog documentary
|: asks a copy from the sinulog foundation chair of a sinulog docu with ace lensman Ossie’s p.o.v. (for the school’s photo club)
6:00 |: small talk with a university professor on the way
to the jeepney stop.
(saves Php6.00 on the way to i.t. park) yay!
|: turns on the handy phone
7:00 |: orders dinner from an i2 resto by the koi pond and secures a table by the walkway
|: rips the plastic cover of the Garcia Marquez and immerses in a world of unsettling familiarity.
9:00 |: heads to the turtle’s nest/kukuk’s nest, nurses a sanmig strong ice, flips a clean sheet of paper, makes some notes and attempts at an opening line of another poem, then rewrites a one-act play draft
12:30 |: hails a cab and homeward-bound