Yesterday, Kristel, Ian and I had a little hangout. Initially, we wanted to go to The Nook Cafe, a Harry Potter-themed place, at Mahinhawa St., but apparently they're closed on Mondays! Bummer. A lesson: before checking out a certain place, make sure they're open first to avoid disappointment and embarrassment in front of kuya tricycle LOL.
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| The Nook Cafe when closed. Quite a sight..... |
We decided on going to Katipunan instead and eat at Chubby Chicken. I literally screamed when I remembered the place. It has been more than a year since I last ate there (review days). I discovered the place through Hansel, who in fact celebrated his birthday yesterday but he's in the U.S. right now so we didn't get to meet at all.... Anyway, when we got there, only a few people were eating (and they were outside) so we kind of had the place all to ourselves. Yessss.
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| Kristel was extremely terrified of that cat that Ian had to scare it away HAHAHA |
"They say all atoms came from the belly of a star so maybe I was with you when we first came to life."
YUM. THE BEST.
After our little food trip, we went to Ateneo Art Gallery. Kristel and I planned to go there last week but we learned that visitors can't enter unless an Atenean is going with them. That time, Ian was in Canada so obviously, we were not allowed to enter :(
If I were an Atenean, I think I'd be here everyday. Perfect for reading and writing.
Lahar, 1993 by Conrado Mercado
Relative Nothing
"In these images, the fabric of Buenconsejo's existence rendered in seemingly infinite loops on screen, case studies of how light conveys everything and nothing."
"With these new works, Buenconsejo does not only jokingly push his viewers towards getting sick of his digitized face, he also asks how it is possible that we are not yet sick of our digitized selves."
"In their gleaming surfaces - both a portal and void - we see our own faces staring back."
Sanctuary
"....indeed hope does spring in strange and odd sanctuaries such as assembled fallen twigs, abandoned nests, a single branch and a barren tree as suggested in his wall-bound and installation works."
"For him these kinds of spaces form an abode for mutual self-growth, in a way that interwoven human relations enrich each person, complementing each other without diluting one's identity."
"Each woven nest becomes a metaphor of stories shared, people encountered, places visited, and events attended."
"In this way, foreign places are spaces to be engaged in as an adventure of broadening horizons and deepening relations."
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| Matchy matchy |
Details
"Thus, in this exhibition, Napay has explored the potential of art to make sense of various sanctuaries such as trees and nests as potential spaces of homeliness in one's itinerant experience of being in transit, between one's home/studio and another place."
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| Those braces.... |
After, we went to see Paper Towns. I liked the film. I just wish they extended the part where Margo and Q set out on an adventure in the middle of the night. Anyway, I looove the soundtrack. Sam Bruno's Search Party and Son Lux's Lost It To Trying are two of my favourites.
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