A Daydreamer's Question (One)

 Q: Would you rather live till the age of 50 or 250 (or 205 *I had a typo while asking a bunch*)?

I don't really know why I'm asking this question.

It's just one of them random things that I think about.

Would I rather die early at, probably, the peak of my life (Well, 40 is probably the peak of life); at the time when I'd probably have my first grandchild? Would I rather choose to die when I most-likely will finally have enough money to live like no one else and travel like no one else and eat like no one else??

OR

Would I rather die late at, probably, the end of the pop culture (Well, the pop culture is already so different now from what it was ten years ago. And at this rate, I highly doubt that I'd be able to comprehend the slang and jargon of teens in two-hundred years. LMAO. *I had to google the meaning of that one*); at the time when the existence of my very own teeth would seem a distant memory? Would I rather choose to die when most--let me say that again--all, of my loved ones would have pasted, a.k.a died??

Honestly, I don't really know.
The mere thought of me choosing when I'd die is scary. What if I die at the age of fifty but I was actually meant to discover a vaccine at the age of fifty-one? And as a result, the vaccine was instead discovered five years later after thousands of unnecessary deaths. (Although, it is highly unlikely that I discover a vaccine for some disease. But, you never really know right?)

George Clooney is aged 51

Or what if I didn't die when I was supposed to at the age of eighty-three? And because I didn't die, I didn't inspire a certain individual who would've, in response to my death, started a revolution that would've changed the world?

eHhhEhe... this is my mind running wild right here.


"If I were to find my ultimate true soul mate, I'd live till I was 205" That's what Danny said when I asked him if he'd rather die at fifty or two-hundred-five. Pretty interesting if you ask me. I would too if I had someone to share all those long years with. Though, he'd have to explain to me what he meant by "soul mate" (Ha ha ha, you're really the romantic aren't you?)

 A few other answers I got:
Bea Fabregas answered "205 is way too long :| and 50 is way too short! but 205 as long as i'm healthy and not this useless old person that sits all day"
And I love Neal Jordan's response: "depends.. do I get to keep my body as it was a 21 year old? :P"
Haha dude, I should've known! Of course, you'd wanna be Forever 21. Anyway, who wouldn't? =p

The ageless Mister Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

(I had fun reading this book, fyi.)

My favorite answer though was the answer Nicole YSP gave me. "If by living to 250, the aging process slows down, then definitely 250. But then again, I get so caught up in things like the scary end times and wonder if I'd rather skip that as an old woman, so maybe 50, and I would be driven to accomplish more, have a tragic death, and live on in legacy. "

After reading that, I finally decided that, if I had to choose, I'd rather live till fifty. And also if I knew that I was dying so early, I would drive myself to make the most of my time here, and as she said, accomplish more and have a "tragic" (I would pray for at least a peaceful death since I was dying so early, haha) death and live on in legacy.

That would be a good way to go if you ask me. Living on in legacy is probably the most that the lot of us could ask for. But, again, it would only be worth-it to die that early if we made a big enough impact to live on in legacy. And fact being, only a small handful of us would ever achieve such an honor to live on in legacy.

(Oh, I just remembered that the King of Pop died at the age of 50.)

Yet even if the chances of me living on in legacy are quite slim, I'd rather die early solely for the reason that I would drive myself to make everyday a day to remember. I would cherish my love one's ever more dearly. And I would put a great deal more thought into things.

All in all, death is not a pleasant thought. And I, just like you, would put off that thought for as long as possible. I just amuse myself with these random daydreams and wonder what I would do differently if I only had fifty years to live. I sometimes play around with the thought and pretend that I had a mere month left. Who would I hang out with? Where would I go? What would my priorities be??

As we all know, death is not something we could escape from; it's inevitable. And although we cannot choose when we die (unless of course, we take matters into our own hands, suicide for example), we can choose how we live.

And to me, living like there were no next year, or no next month, or even no tomorrow as the expression goes, seems like the way to go. I'd rather make the most of my time here on Earth than to always procrastinate and put things off as if there were always going to be a tomorrow. Well, 'cause for one thing, there'll come a time when there is no tomorrow, and heck, I wanna make my life count.

Here are the other answers I got:
(ha ha, it's fun to see how some people react to the question)

• "OMG @_@ 250... I'd rather be 250 but that would be so sad. Haha." - Nina Peña
• "Hmmmmm... So either die young or live to be as old as the people in the bible??? Well I'd rather live to 250 for as long as I'll die with the strength of a 50 year old. hehe" - Lalli Kier  
• "HAHAHAHA next question please :P" - Maan Villanueva
• "250. I don't have a good reason." - Elle Battung
• "50. 250 would be too much for me. :) " - Josh Fish
• 50. I'd rather not see the people I love die. Too heart breaking. - Elle Cabiling
• 50. im not sure my body would be any use after the age of 100 up haha - Tony Kelly
• woah DIFFICULT. It's either, miss seeing your kids grown up, or outlive them by a century.  - Rachel Louis
• Maybe 50 :)) - Marlo Acosta
• 50 =P 205 is kinda long. =D - Jason Lyne
• That was soooo random. :))
• 50 nalang but i wont claim it cos i wanna live till i see my grandchildren :D :D just for blogging's sake :) id rather 50 dude than 205... daymmm i wont even have friends alive na (anymore) hahah - Jem Ferrer
• tough one man... id say 205 but Id rather die earlier than live for a few years as a vege :P - the rest of Neal Jordan's
• Hmmm... good question. 205. But i would not own a mirror. :) You? - Marielle Fabregas

I asked more of you, but I finished this blog before you could reply! I'll post your answers here when you reply! :)

A 250-year-old mummy at Sumapima Village of Baliem Valley 

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Ask Me Anything via Formspring.me

I just randomly asked the people I follow on Formspring.me and the people I saw on my Hompage in Facebook.com and the people at the top of my head. If you want me to ask you these random questions too, either get a formspring.me account and let me know you have one or just message me so whenever I come up with these random questions, I'd ask you too.
Anyway, I'm a nice guy, really. (Haha! Right Nina?)

New pictures.

This is my balog entry, a.k.a. my blog entry, for today.

(Sorry, only Elle would get that)

The Sound Board

Today. What can I say about today?

I woke up late then took note of my mental-note-to-self "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" after which I got myself a bowl of cereal.

Aside from playing lego with Sabina, nothing much happened.

At first I wanted this to be my sort-of "journal". Don't think that would work out as I can't seem to get myself to write what I really feel and think.

I started reading "Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl". I saw it on the "2nd Item at 50% OFF" rack in the bookstore and without even thinking, impulsively as you would say, I bought it. The second book that I got at half price was Roald Dahl's "Danny the Champion of the World". I was hoping that Sabina, my sister, would take fancy and read it. Instead, she said it looked, looks, boring and won't even bother trying to read it. Fail. I did want to read anyway. So it wasn't a total waste.

Anyhow, Anne Frank's story is so... interesting. I haven't finished it yet (and I don't think I'll ever finish it) but... man, I can't even imagine being in her shoes, experiencing what she experienced. She disappeared, or went into hiding, when she was thirteen; she was in hiding till she was fifteen and she passed before she was even sixteen.

Back to me writing a journal: I don't think I can write like her at all, haha. It's so intriguing reading her 'letters' because before she was in the Secret Annex and her first year or so, you can tell she's still a girl. But as time passes, her entries become more complex and her thought patterns change drastically. She had to grow up all of a sudden. In a way, her childhood was stolen from her.

Kind-of like Hit Girl from "Kick-Ass". I don't recommend you to watch it. But just to say, I loved it.

[It's a pity that Chloë Moretz is so young. But six years ain't that bad, right? Eh, it is bad, Joe]

Mindy Macready, aka HitGirl, Chloë Moretz's character in the movie, was also deprived of a childhood.

I realized that so many kids these days must be deprived of a childhood. So many of us probably had to grow up right away.

Anyway, I can't really write as well as Anne Frank.
To all young girls in your tweens, I suggest you read the book; you'll find that you're not alone.

Even for a guy, some... a lot, of the things that she went through (in areas of identity especially) I can identify with.

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Shifting gears, remember that film camera I bought? The one that had an underwater case too? Well, I finally develop (had it developed) my first roll.

The first picture in this entry is from that same roll.

Here are more:

Sabina. I love it!

We had to do this shot twice. I forgot to wind it up and I had to ask her to swim towards me again, hehe.

Luis, front flip.

Note: keep your fingers away from the lens and hold the camera properly. heh.

Sabina's doing the Brother Eddie pose.

And lastly, the sun and our backyard.

What it wouldn’t be, it would...

I got this from Design You Trust - Part 6. The original post is from Here.

“What captured me the most is the title of this project: "What it is, it isn’t." beside the image of awkward looking cabinet, of course. Then, I realized the text was taken from ‘Alice in Wonderland’, which is written by Lewis Carroll and this project by Ontwerpduo get its inspiration from it.

What it is, it isn’t.
‘If I had a world of my own,
everything would be nonsense.
Nothing would be what it is,
because everything would be what it isn’t.
And, contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn’t be.
And what it wouldn’t be, it would.
You see?’
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.


To describe the work better, these are exact text from Ontwerpduo:

‘Objects are how we perceive them to be. Our minds make things what they are and for us this is reality. Think of a branch hanging in the water. We see, with the refraction of light, the branch under the waterline in a different angle. But we know that in reality the shape of this branch is different. We learned how to see the world… read the rest and see more pictures here”

 Photo credits: "Alice in Wonderland" from here.

101 Dreams - Part 1

My Dreams. 

One to Twenty-five 

[1-25]

(Fulfilled dreams are "bold") 

 Directions to this exercise are here.

March 25, 2010

1. MacBook Pro

2. iPod Classic sports strap

3. Old leather notebook

4. Really nice fountain pens

5. Collection of tumblers and mugs

6. That grayish hat from TopMan

7. TopMan Sweater

8. Adidas Porsche Design shoes

9. Whole lot of Ray-Ban shades

10. Rolex Watch

11. Watch bag full of watches

12. Wardrobe full of designer clothes

13. Jet Ski

14. Whole lot of Kayaks

15. House in Palawan, Philippines

16. Rooftop Apartment in Manhattan, New York
17. Apartment in Paris [France]
18. Place in Madrid [Spain]
19. House in Porto [Portugal]

20. House in the south of France
21. House in Barcelona [Spain]
22. Grand Piano

23. Nikon D90
24. Smena
25. Lomo Camera

...to be continued [Part 2]

Photo credits:

"Zugster Leather Moleskine Cover" by Adam A.

"El Nido, Palawan" by Google

"Porto, Portugal" by Luis Marques

"Grand Piano" by Jerry Ipsen Photography

Tumblr Finds One

Fritz Panzer, Drahtskulptur für Raymond Carver, 2005
wire sculpture consisting ladder, lustre
chair, floor space 180 x 160 cm, hight 190 cm

(via iheartmyart's tumblr stream)

From Design You Trust .

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 

by Gustav Klimt

josetonio.tumblr.com

Dream, dream, please?

*Gasp!* Justin Beiber is in the hospital. It seems he fell of a ladder trying to reach puberty.

Sorry about that. I honestly have nothing against the guy, but it was too good to not share. I got it from Neal Jordan. Ha, ha, ha!

Quick update: everyone's back home-- and we love Apple. (Jem, remember that dream you had about us having so many 'gadgety stuff'? I think it's coming to pass!)

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Something to do:

• Get a piece of paper and pen.
• Number the paper from 1-101.
• Give yourself twenty minutes and SHORTLY list your dreams! Long-term. Short-term. ALL. 

Example
1. Buy that Zara sweater
2. Speak French
3. Visit all inhabited islands in the Philippines.
4. iPad
5. Work with Johnny Depp and Helen Bonham Carter ...


Now you.
Get creative! Don't stop! No matter how small or big your dream may be. Write it down. 


Then (if you're up for it) email me your first ten or twenty. [jose.dhenson@gmail.com]
I'll try to compile your answers and post it here. If you want to be anonymous or if you want me to put your name-- let me know! 

GO!!

Note: You don't really have to limit it to 20 minutes. You could take all the time you want really. The purpose of the time limit is to keep you from writing essays for every number!

Keep a look out, I'll post what I wrote on my list. I'll post maybe twenty at a time. (I did it a few weeks ago) Or I'll choose from my list-- haven't decided yet.