Beautiful

I'm walking home, a little past midnight.  The world floats past me at every step, and it feels like I'm air jogging.  It's a Thursday night and my head is awash with endorphins and it's fuzzy.  My face is turned upwards, my nose taking in the cool night air, the ghosts of yesterday's molecular pollutants at the heart of every breath.  It seems all beautiful. 

The Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a movie that could've turned out wrong in many many ways and it didn't and I am pleased.  The fast pace and development of the plotline, turned one notch faster or slower could have been horrendous.  I'm absolutely against any form of CG animals posing as pseudo-humans living with humans (Stuart Little, G-Force and the like) but I loved the character designs of the apes and found myself cheering for them.  It was very beautiful.

I watched the movie with a girl I liked back in college (around ten years ago my garsh).  We spent two and a half hours talking, and with the few meet ups we've had sprinkled over the course of a decade, conversation with her always been like that: rich, riddled with humor, always a comparison of insights and experiences of the twenty somethings.  She's got this natural allure about her and she's terribly smart (she just passed the med boards), but for some reason perhaps she is not aware of this, which adds to the appeal.  It is so rare to find someone to connect with in so many levels at this point in life--in the working context, in the late twenty something run, in the city and the urban culture that makes human relationships utterly fragmented and difficult.  Finding people like her in the city is a joy considering it's among the mess of uncertain dreams, among streets dotted with red tail lights as if it were bleeding from a million machine gun bullet wounds and among zombiefied grownups, who on the outside seem lifeless and detached from the real life.

I walk home seemingly flushed and sedated at the same time. A strange cocktail indeed.

Shet.  Ang sarap ma-in love sa lungsod at sa buhay.