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free time to myself. for a week and a few days more.

go to bed late, wake up late, sip on 3-in-1 coffee while staring into space, surf the net, watch movies, go out with friends, cruise along with each day.

a week and a few days more. any longer than that, i'll start getting fidgety again. because i want the whirlwind to be my life, every now and then. idleness is the devil's playground. except at times when you're up to something inside your head. something that will matter to you much more than being out there in the whirlwind, fueled by other people's passions, working for money.

that was my plan for december. to concentrate on something for the dream. if luck would have it, maybe i'll have the time. maybe the lord will find time for me.

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been seeing a friend, @dolf alix, jr., in a production house in makati. @dolf used to be a co-writer for kew-pids the kilig show, but he was much more than that way before he actually joined the writing team. my first awareness of him was when i picked up a newspaper and read an article about him and some writing award he'd won. truly one of those writing heroes for me, almost like a--ya guessed it--stalwart.

and now this dude is a full-fledged feature film director with his award-winning film, d0ns0l. a beautifully-photographed arthouse film with a simple, heart-tugging story, it's currently in theaters right now (i hope you guys catch this film before the slew of mmff movies take over the tills! argh). strange, but ad0lf actually reminds me of the Direk in a lot of ways--they're both boy-wonder writers, they move the same, walk the same, even direct scenes the same. haha. this much i told @d0lf. to his amusement.

"pano mo sya nakilala personally?" i asked him, feigning, well, innocence. of course i was very interested in what was going to be the answer. anything about the Direk will (quite unsurprisingly) interest me. naloka ako sa sagot. he said that he had met the Direk on the awards night of a famous scriptwriting tilt. 2nd prize daw si Direk.

"punyeta, ibig sabihin ikaw ang first prize?!" i asked him ludicrously. haha. hindi naman ganon ka-ludicrous yung possibility, magaling naman talaga ang kaibigan kong to, but you know how the stalwart-struck, romanticizing mind can make heroes out of ordinary people--up until that moment, no one could possibly outdo the Direk when it comes to his craft. as far as this silly crazed-out fan is concerned.

hehe. somehow that little piece of trivia brings him a little closer to ground level, in my eyes.

bagyong reming is on a roll. except when they start hurting people and property, i actually love rainy days. so let the winds begin. (pero syempre, not to the point of destruction!)