My year in lists

Major projects completed:

1) A full-length indie film: Suppose the Night Tasted Like Sugar 

2) Album cover design for my dad’s second solo release, “Laro”

3) A play for Sydney Fringe Festival: “Aussies of the Magic Mic and Adobo Kind”

4) An entry for the Sydney Chalk Urban Art Festival

5) A 3-d soda pop bottle for the Castle Hill Orange Blossom Festival

6) An entry for Toni and Guy Yen Young Australian Artist Award.

Cities/countries visited:

1) Manila, Philippines

2) Barcelona, Spain

3) Sao Paulo, Brasil

4) Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

5) Iquitos, Peru

6) Lima, Peru

7) San Francisco, California, USA

8) New Jersey, USA

9) Philadelphia, USA

10) New York, USA

Regular Haunts:

1) Cafe Giulia’s

2) The Sandringham Hotel (for the life-drawing)

3) The cemetery (I’m weird)

4) Cafe Ella

New Skills Learned:

1) 3-D chalk art

2) First Aid

Major Hurdles:

1) Ze break up

2) heart ache, angst, and loneliness

3) Finding a new place to live

Major Growth Spurts:

1) Overcoming aforementioned major hurdles through love, patience, and forgiveness. 

2) Being promoted to supervisor at work

New Skills Learned:

1) First aid

Biggest Surprises:

1) Ze break-up

2) My round-the-world trip. 

3) Two of my best friends coming to visit from Manila. 

4) The most unexpected people being there for me during times of trouble and need. 

5) My beautiful new house!

Significant Losses:

1) Salvadore “Badong” Bernal, a Philippine National Artist in theatre design whom I was lucky to be a student of in uni. 

2) RJ Rosales, a beautiful soul, gone too soon. 

Inspiring People I Got To Connect With (lucky me):

1) Aracelli Limcaco Dans (Manila), Filipino painter

2) Cindy Kurleto (Lima, Peru), ex-MTV veejay, mother of one, and a woman of substance.

3) Rodrigo Luff (Sydney, Australia), damn good painter/ illustrator

4) Sara Meier (Manila) and Victoria Herrera (Sydney) aka “The Dolls”, two Pinay celebrities with something to say. 

5) Valerie Berry and Felino Doloso- two very talented, passionate Australian actors whom I’ve admired since I first saw them onstage. 

Albums I Overplayed:

1) The entire Erykah Badu catalogue

2) The Suburbs- Arcade Fire

3) Doolittle - The Pixies

4) Voodoo- D’Angelo

5) As I Am- Alicia Keys (my secret guilty pleasure)

6) Desire- Pharoahe Monch

7) The ArchAndroid- Janelle Monae

Concerts/ Gigs Watched:

1) The Kills

2) Exzibit

3) Goapele

Books Read:

1) The Beach- Alex Garland

2) The Elephant Vanishes- Haruki Murakami

3) Everything is Illuminated- Jonathan Safran Foer

4) The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera

5) Survivor- Chuck Palahniuk

Most worn fashion Items:

1) My Nike blazers

2) Skinny jeans

Personal Zeitgeist for 2011:

1) Free-thinking, inspired, dynamic, growing, positive, grounded.