100 Days After Valentine’s Day, 100 Epiphanies by Don Vittorio C. Villasin
Copyleft 2015 by Don Vittorio C. Villasin. All rights reversed. This project is for free & may be copied, plagiarized, photocopied, vandalized, destroyed, burned for barbecue grills, fanned on sweating necks & armpits, or thrown at the riot police, even without naming the source. True art does not beg for money or credit, for true art stands as true art even without ownership rights and the artist. #FuckyouCapitalists #Anti-Copyright
First Published last May 26, 2014. This edition, 2015. Typeface set to Comic Sans MS.
Introduction to the Second Edition. The need to re-publish this work is the same as the need to revise. The first edition was written purely out of discontent— discontent in terms that my life took a drastic turn in the months before its publication and I just wrote away like an idiot voter salivating on campaign ads. While I know that I will not gain any artistic or even creative merits for re-publishing this one-year old project, I wanted to do it simply because my gut tells me I should. And even though time has passed and my wounds have healed (I got married and my wife gave birth to our son—things are getting better!), I am not doing this to set anything straight, but rather to reflect on my past to answer my future, and to assess my past and laugh at it. This edition will still contain some of the ones present in the first. Some are omitted simply because I know they shouldn’t exist anymore, and in their place, new ones emerged. If you enjoyed the first edition, then I hope you will enjoy this one too. DVCV Bacoor, Cavite 2015
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“You’re just a sad song with nothing to say.” --My Chemical Romance
1 “The past is a story we tell ourselves.” from the movie “Her”.
2 What-if questions are never really meant to be answered.
3 Hindi ngiti ang kailangan ko.
4 Noong kinalabit mo ako habang nanonood ako ng basketball, sa totoo lang, nagpanggap lang ako na nagulat. Actually, nagpapanggap lang din akong nanonood dahil ang totoo e matagal na kitang pinagmamasdan, sa malayo.
5 “Being cool� does not mean you have to be popular.
6 “Europe”, “Asia”, “Africa”, “America”, & “Australia” begins and ends with the same vowel.
7 It’s really difficult to forget.
8 People are always united by sight, but divided by merely looking.
9 People need what they want but does not want what they need.
10 Hindi ka mamahalin ng taong mahal mo nang dahil lang sa skills at fame mo.
11 May mga taong ayaw ka pang diretsohin.
12 People will normally reject.
13 Things in your dreams remain in your dreams.
14 Going against the flow never really works.
15 When you ask anyone for a date, they’d doubt your true intentions.
16 People are liars.
17 This statement is false.
18 Nobody really loves their enemies.
19 Never try to love your neighbor.
20 10 years from now, you’ll just laugh at everything happening today.
21 Hindi porke lagi kang tinatawag o laging may pinapagawa sa ‘yo ang prof mo e paborito ka na niya.
22 Kung araw-araw mo siyang iniisip, araw-araw ka lang masasaktan.
23 If it ain’t broke, FIX IT.
24 Sarili mo ang dapat mong sisihin.
25 Writing 50 poems for one girl does not make you attractive.
26 “Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off.” –Panic! At the Disco
27 Jannet Lim-Napoles will die without any answer to the Pork Barrel Scam.
28 Nakita ko kung paano mo pinandirihan ‘yung mga sinulat ko. Alam kong binasa mo, pero nung pumasok ako sa office, nakita ko na agad-agad mong binitawan at dahan-dahang nilayo sa mga daliri mo ang mga sinulat ko.
29 Hindi porke mababaw e hindi ka na malulunod.
30 A falling leaf is never loneliness. It’s dying.
31 Ang mabait na tao umaapak sa basahan bago pumasok sa bahay.
32 Hindi business ang lahat ng bagay.
33 You could spend hours crying over spilt milk, or you could spend countless hours wondering where do LRT/MRT cards go once you insert them in the gate.
34 There are no second chances.
35 A journey of a thousand miles begins with A.
36 Hindi porket mataas ang grade mo e mamahalin ka na niya.
37 Grow up.
38 Things that are far away will remain there.
39 Maraming tao ang walang pakialam.
40 All you could do is to watch other people. Like a CCTV camera.
41 Michael V. is a genius.
42 This is the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything.
43 Wala kang karapatan na magalit.
44 Should you be happy for honesty, or should you be mad about it?
45 Wikipedia is reliable only if you know how to check w/c is right, and w/c is dumb and tampered.
46 Love moves through the internet.
47 Kahit kailan hindi naging magaling ang taong puro salita.
48 It’s best to write a poem when one is drunk.
49 Secrets don’t make friends. And friends don’t make secrets. If secrets make your friends, then your friends are secrets.
50 Chance determines your birth. Choice patterns-out your death.
51 The moment you meet the person you want to marry is the same moment she becomes impossible to approach.
52 You have the ability to destroy a person.
53 Break-ups are never easy.
54 Nobody really moves on. You just get used to have moments in the past hanging on your chest. In time, it becomes natural, & you’d just realize it once you accept that moments in the past will forever remain in the past.
55 There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand in the whole world combined.
56 You are breathing manually.
57 Every time you speak, I stare at your lips not at your eyes.
58 Every time you smile, I stare at your eyes not at your lips.
59 When we eat, I stare at your teeth. May tinga ka kasi e.
60 Money can buy you love.
61 Our skin never brushed against each other.
62 We never had a picture together.
63 The person you want was the first to jump when you farted.
64 You got me on my second look.
65 Never take advantage when someone is hurt.
66 Ang mga taong assuming laging talo sa huli.
67 Ang naniniwala sa swerte, malas.
68 Mas ayaw niya sa ‘yo.
69 It’s awkward when you pretend like nothing happened.
70 I never understood the relation between selfie pictures and bible verses.
71 Hindi lahat ng iceberg ay nakakabutas ng barko.
72 “Peace be with you,” I said. But what I really meant was “I love you.”
73 I lost your one and only letter.
74 Some will never acknowledge your existence.
75 Sweetness can rot your teeth.
76 You are not worthy because you are not worthwhile.
77 “Whatever makes you feel bad, leave it. Whatever makes you smile, keep it.” –a text message I received last May 8, 2014 at exactly 11:50 PM.
78 “I need your guiding light to help me overcome this confusion.” –Typecast
79 The truth hurts but it’s the truth.
80 You are not just another pretty face. But you like to be one.
81 Para saan pa ang buhay kung pera lang ang gusto mo?
82 You’re the only one who appreciates you.
83 “I’m used to being a coward. That’s all I’ve ever been. I quit before I win.” –D.R.U.G.S, Mr. Owl Ate my Metal Worm
84 She will always say she’s ugly. If you agree, she’ll be mad.
85 She will always say she’s beautiful, but if you acknowledge it, she’ll think you want to fuck her.
86 A person will always make an excuse.
87 Distance is an aggressive space connecting our separation.
88 Language does not define a person’s sense of nationalism.
89 “Moving on also means to accept the truth and face the reality of it.” –a text message I received last May 14, 2014 at exactly 9:05 PM.
90 “Sometimes, if you turn feelings into words, they will become lies.” –Milan Kundera
91 Minsan, totoo: it’s not love. It’s dove.
92 Love is not a question. It’s an exclamation.
93 “You” is not complete without “Y”. So why you?
94 Ang pag-ibig ay hindi kundisyunal. Walang nagsabing dapat ka ring mahalin.
95 Mahirap kumilos kung walang pera.
96 Walang pupuntahan kung puro sigaw lang.
97 Does non-existence exist?
98 You are just passing through a corridor.
99 You used too many words to cover up what you really wanted to say.
100 Huli na ang lahat. Pwede kang magsisi, pero lahat ay tapos na.
Don
Vittorio
C.
Villasin recently passed the Licensure
Examination for Teachers. At least it’s something. He creates literary/creative/shitty projects distributed freely in the Internet. These include: 100 Epipanies After 100 Days After Valentine’s Day; Notes to the Missing Self; My Life: The Movie; However; elemeants; Araw-Araw Kaarawan sa Panitikan; Bitter 2.0 and is a proud member of the collective calling themselves Mga Gago sa Disyerto.