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John Pucay
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September 2020
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Karinderya Love Songs
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| The book's title and message may seem simple at first glance, but when we're overwhelmed by the various challenges of life - it is the only advice we can really apply: To take one day at a time. Whether it’s work, relationships, personal goals, and s ...more | |
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An important reminder for anyone going through life's struggles and uncertainties The book's title and message may seem simple at first glance, but when we're overwhelmed by the various challenges of life - it is the only advice we can really apply: T ...more |
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This book felt like watching a Filipino indie film. I got that vibe almost immediately after reading the blurb. Karinderya Love Songs follows an unnamed narrator as he navigates modern-day dating and ends up meeting a college girl named Kayla. The" Read more of this review » |
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“They're the people sitting on carpeted floors in their padded, imported socks, opening presents handed to them by fate, by luck, by whatever perverse force that allowed humans to be born not equal. And I wanted sooo badly, to have a taste of those gifts through the women who opened them.”
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“I wondered why I pined for women like Kayla. Rich girls have always been out of my league as a kid, so I'm probably compensating in adulthood...
Over time, I realized it wasn't just their looks or economic status I wanted. It was the contrast. They are the people who sit comfortably in their cozy worlds and believe they are enough; that all they must do is love themselves for who they are and they shall find friendship, intimacy, love, success, and all the good things people like me must painstakingly earn and seduce for.” ...more John Pucay |
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FINALLY someone who somehow gets it. All these reviews from the Mr. Butlers of this world are nauseating.
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"The average review is more nauseating than cod-liver oil
(p323) *** Jack London himself was a working class guy who got the audacious idea he wanted to be a writer, and by sheer Stakhanovite mind-over-matter vein-popping sleep-denying force he did so. H" Read more of this review » |
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“Order gives birth to constants, and constants yield expectations. When two people have unprotected sex and both are fertile, and the sperm reaches the egg, the woman gets pregnant and a baby is born. There is an order to things and thus, a reasonable expectation can be made. That’s what two decades of school teach you. Do things a certain way, and you’ll get the results you want.”
She gulped her beer and sighed. “But life is different. It doesn’t work that way. And dating is the stupidest mechanism of life.”
“Why is it the stupidest?”
“Because the rules are all fucked up. You do one thing, supposedly the ‘right’ thing, and you get a different result, which is usually no result.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
She gulped her beer and sighed. “But life is different. It doesn’t work that way. And dating is the stupidest mechanism of life.”
“Why is it the stupidest?”
“Because the rules are all fucked up. You do one thing, supposedly the ‘right’ thing, and you get a different result, which is usually no result.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
“Maybe that’s how it is. Some people drink, gamble, or work longer hours. Others get abortions or fuck committed people. When we’re fed up making the same mistakes, maybe we change for the better.
Become less fucked up.
Happier.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
Become less fucked up.
Happier.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
“I wondered why I pined for women like Kayla. Rich girls have always been out of my league as a kid, so I'm probably compensating in adulthood...
Over time, I realized it wasn't just their looks or economic status I wanted. It was the contrast. They are the people who sit comfortably in their cozy worlds and believe they are enough; that all they must do is love themselves for who they are and they shall find friendship, intimacy, love, success, and all the good things people like me must painstakingly earn and seduce for.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
Over time, I realized it wasn't just their looks or economic status I wanted. It was the contrast. They are the people who sit comfortably in their cozy worlds and believe they are enough; that all they must do is love themselves for who they are and they shall find friendship, intimacy, love, success, and all the good things people like me must painstakingly earn and seduce for.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
“We learn our lessons through the broken shards we pick up, piece by piece, later, when everything is over and apologies are realized too late.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
― Karinderya Love Songs
“I wished I was blessed with the talent of poetry, of coaxing words into a sonata of the soul where I might sing my pain, my gratitude, my meager, little happiness, into the echoes of the universe and maybe, hopefully, people who feel the same might find this song and find comfort in it and, for an inch of a moment, we'd be together; a virtual community beyond tech platforms, across space and time.
But I'm no poet.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
But I'm no poet.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
“Rain in Metro Manila is like a love affair: Short and fleeting; or torrid and flooding with tragic casualties left in its wake.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
― Karinderya Love Songs
“Online dating is not bad. Just tedious and mediocre.
It's like going to the karinderya and they've got plenty of ulam (viands) but you don't fancy any of the ulam. Or you see something you like but it's overcooked or has too much oil or too little flavor. Bland and tasteless, a drink that doesn't refresh, a meal that gorges but doesn’t sate.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
It's like going to the karinderya and they've got plenty of ulam (viands) but you don't fancy any of the ulam. Or you see something you like but it's overcooked or has too much oil or too little flavor. Bland and tasteless, a drink that doesn't refresh, a meal that gorges but doesn’t sate.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
“I tried running roads, hung out with road runners. But it's not for me. Being on the road means people will see you, so your outfit matters and you can't blow your nose and wipe it with your hands and brush your hands on the pavement.
It's like going to the gym. Sweat, odor, athleisure fashion, being self-conscious—none of those matter in the mountains. You'd slam your shoes across rivers and slap your ass on muddy trails and swing your dick out while running. Pee on the run because stopping to pee takes too much time. You don't bother with trivial matters.
Instead, you thank the universe you didn't fall off that cliff or your knees didn't collapse or you finished the race with only calluses, maybe a cut here and there, sore and stiff muscles, but alive and without broken bones. You're in the moment. It's more fun that way.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
It's like going to the gym. Sweat, odor, athleisure fashion, being self-conscious—none of those matter in the mountains. You'd slam your shoes across rivers and slap your ass on muddy trails and swing your dick out while running. Pee on the run because stopping to pee takes too much time. You don't bother with trivial matters.
Instead, you thank the universe you didn't fall off that cliff or your knees didn't collapse or you finished the race with only calluses, maybe a cut here and there, sore and stiff muscles, but alive and without broken bones. You're in the moment. It's more fun that way.”
― Karinderya Love Songs
