does it also feel this way to you
Manila, 30 April—And so we come again to the end of the month. April felt like I was catching my breath throughout, hitting the ground running from Easter to Cebu to Sagada and to this moment.
How was April like for you? Was it as Tita Susan predicted at the beginning of the month? I'm not really a horoscope kind of girl but I do enjoy doing a comparison sometimes between the things that were originally set forth and the things that actually went down. Like a performance assessment, that sort. You should try it sometime, it's actually pretty amusing.
Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Lecture
Someone tweeted a quote from Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Lecture, and it really struck me as important, so I looked for the entire thing, which can be found here.
Here's the longer quote:
One person writing in a quiet room, trying to connect with another person, reading in another quiet – or maybe not so quiet – room. Stories can entertain, sometimes teach or argue a point. But for me the essential thing is that they communicate feelings. That they appeal to what we share as human beings across our borders and divides. There are large glamorous industries around stories; the book industry, the movie industry, the television industry, the theatre industry. But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it also feel this way to you?
These days, it feels like I'm just going from one day to another, trying to get it right. Trying to come across as right. It's addictive, that air of correctness. I've almost forgotten how it feels like to communicate a feeling; to seek to be understood.
Does it also feel this way to you? These days, it's been more and more difficult to take 'no' for an answer.
Perhaps that's something worth working at.
Westworld Season 2 official trailer
Rec alert: Season 2 of Westworld is here! Caught up with the premiere and as expected, I now have more questions than answers haha. Still gruesome, still hella confusing. Can't wait for the rest of it! If you're watching, maybe we can yell together.
Completely spoiler-free Avengers: Infinity War official trailer
Rec alert: Caught Infinity War at the cinemas over the weekend. So if you want to yell about this, we can do this too haha I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS AND FEELINGS. NAKAKALOKA.