All That Survives

Of telling photos and fleeting words

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“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”

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Lately I’ve been replacing my “I’m sorry” with “thank you”, like instead of “sorry I’m late”, I’ll say “thanks for waiting for me”, or instead of “sorry for being such a mess”, I’ll say “thank you for loving me and caring about me unconditionally”, and it’s not only shifted the way I think and feel about myself but also improved my relationships with others who now get to receive my gratitude instead of my negativity.

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Color my world

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“You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get to bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.”

John Mayer, Storytellers (2009)

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Strange night, blurred memories

“Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.”

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By the end, we leave somewhere too long to ever wander back By the end, we give someone too much to ever close their hand

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Tell me things that no one knows Where does all your sorrow go When you find yourself completely alone?

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Who are you in the darkest hours of the night When I’m not looking And do I really wanna know?

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Electric dreams

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When I was a kid, good grades would get me a new family computer game cartridge or the one for the Sega console. My older cousins would bully me by resetting the game and I always end up crying haha. I guess these classic consoles taught me patience and focus (walang memory card to save game progress!). _ Now this is a handheld pocket family comp console I bought online last month! Impulsive purchase haha, but I guess a good buy for all the memories it brought back. The graphics, sounds, and gameplay. Analog! 🤓

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These are screenshots from 'The End of the World', a short side-scrolling exploration game. First column photos are flashbacks. The storyline is simple (and perhaps cheesy), but the beautiful art/animation and good music make it something out of the ordinary. May be a trigger for the 'broken hearted'.😅 Set in Newcastle, the character to play is "a lonely man in a world that ended when he lost his love."

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Leave the lights on.

A couple of years ago, I used to take late night photos of surrounding buildings from the 12th floor of my former office. Stressed and worried about so many things back then, watching the building windows with the lights on served as momentary, well-needed distractions from my still unfinished work day. I wondered about the rooms with the lights on: were they happy about their day? or as stressed as I was? Were they up late at night worrying about tomorrow? Or were they waiting for someone to come home?

Well, I haven’t taken that many night time photos since then; I haven’t worked overtime in quite a while. I took this photo from my present office early evening, and I realized there is no need for distraction now. Days end well.

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You either have the feeling or you don't

These are illustrated pages from Daniel Handler’s Why We Broke Up, a book my sister says I bought for her at a book fair last year. I still cannot remember buying it, though.

Not a fan of photos in novels (let the words paint pictures in the reader’s mind), but I particularly like the art in this book. Plus, they’re all printed good in glossy paper!

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Dreamy x Gloomy 📌Siem Reap | November 2016

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Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via quotethat)

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They were kids who grew up watching the sun set this side of paradise.

📌Melaka | November 2016