We never met personally, but Ate Gigi (known as Ate Sienna among netizens) has become one of the nicest and most dependable people I know in the Internet.
In late 2004, she opened the Pansitan webspace to more users, and I was one of the lucky ones to be given a subdomain. I started posting using the Pansitan address on January 2005. It is now 7 years and 5 months I’ve been there and early this month I said goodbye to Ate Sienna and to Pansitan.
I have been pruning lately, the only reason being: It is time to let go.
Pansitan has been a big part of my Internet life and as I told Ate Sienna, I say goodbye with a heavy, but a very grateful, heart.
Meanwhile, I will keep on writing here. A domain will come in handy in the future though, when I learn html and start adding more content (photos, videos, slideshows, haha). For now, it’s really just text. All these stories I want to tell you.
Ate Sienna will take down this space on July 11 or thereabouts. Good times, good memories. (-:
June is here!
Here be the tailend of the set of songs I listened to most this past month:
Such Great Heights – The Postal Service (Ben Gibbard acoustic)
Hummingbird – Julia and the Doogans
Volcano – Damien Rice & Lisa Hannigan (interspersed with Phillip Phillips’ version THIS VERSION. I mean, the cello! /I rest my case)
Polite Dance Song – The Bird and The Bee
Heaven Tonight – Hole
We are Young – fun.
Houdini – Foster the People
Shake it Out – Florence + The Machine
Walk in the Park – Beach House
A link to the playlist. Hummingbird isn’t on Grooveshark so head on over here for the audio.
Also, the songs here! Thank you Kate for this. As she said these songs are apt for rainy days. Consider this.
This is good stuff, too. Sample this.
Most of this music is from the awesome season 2 of Lip Service. For more info, I direct you to Kate again.
*Heavy Repeat Playlist
Being inside muffles the sound of rain.
June is almost here. I’m busy, busy figuring out the difference between robbery and thievery (force vs stealth / grandeur vs subtlety). Also, trying to appreciate unexpected kindness, trying to be useful, trying, just trying. Someone once said to me that it’s because she was already trying, that’s how she knew she had to leave. What’s the opposite of trying?
It’s this relentless assault of the past that we tell ourselves stops us from making a step forward. If we just maybe stop making excuses? Say No if you mean No, say Yes if you mean Yes. Let’s make it simple.
Consider these: All those times someone else was chosen.
Ending a conversation abruptly by being polite.
Waking up right.
If sadness can be seen, what will it look like? “Someone looking up, but you would have to look closer at the eyes, because there you’ll see the resignation.”
“Why is the person looking up?”
“Still hoping.”
“That’s sadness?”
“That’s sadness.”
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This is how you can be happy: Be happy.
Here, I’ve been listening to this nonstop for 3 days now. Gives me goosebumps. Listen using earphones, please.
I learned of Beach House from Heather. You should really consider reading Heather.
I was going to tweet “Restraint,” but then, well: Restraint.
These past few weeks I have learned the importance of keeping important things to yourself, keeping quiet about those that matter to you most, those that cause you pain, those that give you great joy. I will go far as saying that May had been the worst and best month of 2012 for me so far, and that I will always remember it with fondness (because it taught me a lot.) and that I am eagerly waiting for September because it is going to rock.
Anyway, how have you been? Have you heard Florence + the Machine’s Shake it Out? Have you watched How I Met Your Mother S07E17? Have you heard Ben Gibbard’s acoustic versions of Such Great Heights? Have you seen a summer sunset this year? Have you been to the beach? How do you feel about the rain? How is your heart? I seriously want to know how you’ve been.
