Babbling Point

Brandie got me this book for Christmas. And he got it for two reasons: 1. Because the book cover looked cool. 2. And because it has the same title as a story made by the TAGG boys. Brandie scanned the "atom" design and used it as the main design element of the gift wrapper. That yellow atom on a red background is now in my cubicle. It's sort of my icon or sigil. To remind me to focus. That there can be power in something so small. Other Voyager Classsics are now available at Powerbooks. Makes me want to collect all of them just because they would all look so cool on my bookshelf. All of them are priced at P339 even though some are thicker than others. Makes me want to get a new copy of Neuromancer ... just because. Sci-fi is a forgotten love for me. One of the books that I read back in the summer of `93 was this thick sci-fi anthology from around the world. I ended writing one of my only sci-fi stories. Hope to get that published one of these d...

Note to self: STOP OBSSESSING!!! *sigh*

It’s 11:50pm of a Sunday and I’m here at the office because I felt that I had something to write, but not really sure what it is. Just watched the movie HEARTS IN ATLANTIS which was based on a novel by Stephen King . It was one of those slow movies that could have been shown on RPN9 and something we could have watched on one of those slow Saturday afternoons. There was something about the story of the boy, his childhood, his growing up, his finding a mentor, his first love, that was compelling. King has told this same story in various forms. He told the same story in THE BODY and it was a the same setting in THE IT. There’s something about going back one’s childhood that’s… that seems to be the story that I want to tell. But which one? The TAGG story? The “Darna's barkada” story? The “Comic Book Café” story? They all seem to be the same story, told from different points of views. Then again, that’s what King did. He was able to tell a horror story and a co...