LISTS!

2009 Play list (aka soundtrack of my 2009. Suggestions for a less cheesy, more dorky title?)

1. I get ideas – Louis Armstrong

2. I’m on Fire – Sara Bareilles cover

3. Three Rounds and A Sound – Blind Pilot

4. You Don’t Know Me – Michael Buble cover

5. Omaha – Counting Crows (“In the middle of the day there’s a young man rolling around in the earth and rain. Hey, mister if you want to walk on water, you know you’re only gonna walk all over me.”)

6. Satellite – Dave Matthews Band (“Satellite strung from the moon and the world your balloon / Peeping tom for the mother station … Everything good needs replacing. Look up, look down all around, hey satellite.”)

7. Spoon – Dave Matthews Band

8. Mr. Blue Sky – ELO

9. I feel it all – Feist (“I'll be the one who'll break my heart. I'll be the one to hold the gun.”)

10. King of Wishful Thinking – William Fitzsimmons cover

11. The Christmas Song – Aldrine Guerrero arrangement on ukulele.

12. Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Lauryn Hill cover

13. Creature Fear – Bon Iver (“So many foreign roads so relatively fucked. So many forests of creature fear.”)

14. Flume – Bon Iver (“Only love is all maroon / lapping lakes like leery loons / Leaving rope burns reddish ruse.”)

15. For Emma – Bon Iver

16. Skinny Love – Bon Iver (“I’ll be holding all the tickets, you’ll be owning all the fines.”)

17. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park – Tom Lehrer

18. Heart to Heart – Kenny Loggins

19. Locked Up – Ingrid Michaelson

20. Maybe – Ingrid Michaelson

21. Nightswimming – Ingrid Michaelson cover (“Nighswimming deserves a quiet time.”)

22. Collapsible Plans –Jason Mraz

23. My Patch – Jim Noir (‘If you ever step on my patch, I’ll bring you down!”)

24. Love and Memories – OAR (“Didn’t you love me???”) Experiment: Listen to the song after watching Eternal Sunshine Of a Spotless Mind J

25. Geek Love – Nerina Pallot

26. Tonight You Belong To Me – Patience and Prudence

27. Desperado – Nato Ryuzaki arrangement on ukulele

28. Something – Jake Shimabukuro arrangement on ukulele

29. Santeria – Sublime

30. Hidden in the Sand – Tally Hall

31. Drop baby drop – The Mana’o Company

32. Australia – The Shins (“Keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters.”)

33. Jesus Etc. – Wilco (“You were right about the stars, each one is a setting sun.”)

Significant Things that Happened in my 2009

1. Went to Hong Kong and reconnected with my Chinese half.

2. Almost got quarantined for the AH1N1. (I had flu hours before a flight).

3. My first casino loss. Just a little over a thousand pesos but still! I hate losing.

4. A fiction story was shortlisted for the Ampersand (anthology of DECL)

5. Got my first ukulele

6. Finished my first sheet music

7. First something I am trying to repress here.

8. Got Yvonne Chua to tell me that I write nicely. Haha. Yes, significant siya. Cmon it is The Yvonne Chua. Maybe I could actually have a shot at this writing thing.

9. I survived Avecilla. Even managed for a tiebreak on his Jeopardy game!

10. I survived Lambino. Oh, but not without the torturous scrutiny. Lambino-style.

11. Started to rid my body of Prozac and my affinity of super sanitary hospital clinics.

12. I’m alcohol-free since August 2, 2009!

13. I, not the most avid hiker/proverbial indoor girl, hiked Mount Taal (the world’s smallest volcano.) In my defense, we trekked it using the harder route and that was really, really hard.

14. Got rid of my eyeglasses. It almost etched out my stereotypical dork but then…

15. I acquired my braces early December.

16. I discovered Bon Iver and Kelly Link.

17. Pact with geography buddies to tour all of Manila.

18. Pact with literary buddy to attend all University-wide writing events.

19. 154 Movies watched.