#ask omyk

1. Would you go if someone from Tumblr asked you out for coffee?

2. Who among your Tumblr friends/moots you’d love to have coffee with?

Yeah, sure!

Hi Anon! Sorry, I didn’t post the 13 Characters publicly online or here in my blog. Na-post ko lang sila dun sa FB group namin ng school paper members back in college.

For context, I created those characters to represent a person or a group of people from the batch of school paper members whom I led—I mean during the school year na ako yung Editor-in-Chief. The characters’ stories reflect all the issues I had with each member.

So for the game, I asked those same people to guess who the characters represent and the first to get all of them correctly wins a box of Krispy Kreme. 🍩😊

Hi @josephdimasalang 😊

Though there are tons of songs I can think of, this one will always be the first to pop in my head when you say 90s.

I was born in 1994. That same year, the movie Reality Bites was released. This movie was directed by Ben Stiller—his directorial debut—and it stars him, Winona Ryder, and Ethan Hawke.

The lead single for the movie’s official soundtrack was “Stay (I Missed You)” by Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories.

This is one of the first songs I learned how to play on the guitar, and is also one of my favorite songs to play. I wish I could share my own cover of it but I couldn’t find any recording. Haha! 😄

Hi Anon 👋

Thanks for asking! 😊

I’m generally feeling quite fine, although I’ve seen better days.

The past two weeks were the busiest I’ve been at work so far. But I never saw those days negatively for some reason. It was one heck of a fun challenge for me. Honestly, if there’s one good thing about my life right now, it’s probably my career. I’ve actually passed my probation period earlier than expected—I was to be regularized on my sixth month, but somehow it was done days before my fifth.

And… yeah, that’s what’s keeping busy nowadays. And it’s one of the reasons why I haven’t been blogging as much as I used to or wanted to.

Regardless, I’m still alive and kicking. 😊

Depende sa lakas ng ulan. Hahaha 😂

Kapag malakas, pwede yung mga songs na need kong bumirit, like Adele's "Chasing Pavements" or kaya "Rolling in the Deep" para okay lang kahit sumabit, walang makakarinig. 😅

Pag saktong ulan lang, pwede yung mga chill songs. Naaalala ko dati pinag-aralan ko yung song na "Bloom" by The Paper Kites nang may bagyo, tapos walang kuryente for a few days. So I did pretty much nothing aside from mag-practice nung finger picking pattern nya.

I don't pursue, I am the one pursued.

Charooot

For the memorable moments…

You know these shows or videos we had on TV or YouTube back then that recall the best of moments of the year? That was my inspiration, ‘coz I saw a video back in 2013 of the top ten events that happened in the world that year.

So I thought… why don’t I make my own version about my most memorable moments of the year. I deliberately didn’t say “best” moments because some events in our life may not be the best yet are still memorable. In 2013, I lost my grandmother, and I wanted that to earn the top spot on my list.

I continued this the following year, then again on the following year, until it has evolved to what it is today. Other than the fact that I enjoyed recalling the stuff I did for the year, it was also a good exercise to reflect on the things that happened in my life.

From 2013 to 2015, I based the ranking solely on feelings. When 2016 came, I listed down 17 memories as contenders for the list—still the record holder for most number of memories—and I couldn’t decide which ones to put through, so I made a scoring system with a criteria. I followed this system until now, but there are times that I do switch the places of some memories just because my feelings tell me to.

For the books…

On 2015, I started doing the same for the books that I’ve read. The inspiration for this was the chain posts on Facebook where it requires you to list down your ten favorite books then tag three more people to do the same. I thought, since I’m a bookworm, that list would have to change as I read more books, so I just decided to do a Top 10 every year.

Same with the memories, I thought it would be nice to reflect on the books that I’ve read that year, and to give honor to them in my blog, especially if some of them made a significant impact on my life.

For this, I averaged my personal rating with the books’ Goodreads rating to arrive with a ranking, because there are times that I really couldn’t pick which book is better than the other.