Fashion and Guantanamo

I came across this article during work (I got the job! W/c explains why I'm MIA lately. Squeezing a post in before I go home). Alex Gilvarry writes about Filipinos in his debut novel with two completely different subjects - fashion and Guantanamo, the most notorious prison. I'm really curious how that'll turn out.

If you were here beside me, instead of New York

I do love a song with beautiful lyrics. Songs are like poetry. Press play! I promise you won't regret it. Perfect for thoughtful nights, for times when your mind drifts between reading and random thoughts.

New York by Snow Patrol

I want to fly

My heart is beating wildly like it’s grown a thousand wings fluttering,

and all I want to do at that moment is take off.

To feel the wind in my face, the stars in my fingertips,

the blinding lights blurring in a straight line as I go faster and faster,

away from my bed,

above the ground,

and take me to that magical fountain

where I tossed that quarter with all my wanderlust in it.

(Photo taken at Central Park, New York)