i have to do 3 minimum-fare rides from home before reaching the main bus going to work. minimum fare is 7.50 pesos, so 21.50 total (2 tricycles, and a jeepney. tricycles’ worth 7 pesos). that means, my 20-peso bill is a little short its worth everday and i have to have some spare 1.50 coins which is a little bit annoying as i have to check if i have enough loose coins every morning (’cause normally early tricycles don’t have enough change).
i was just surprised that in the jeepney i took this morning, i got a grand total of 4-peso change when i gave 10-peso coin! just then i realized i was given the grace of a student fare rate (6 pesos)! not that i want to take advantage and keep the extra but i just kept silent. 
i feel bad for the driver later on. but on the other hand, how could he have thought i am a student? haha
well, as a matter of fact, i finished uni about 4 years ago!
and if you think about it, if i were indeed a student i would still have change for my 20-peso bill should i need to take 3 minimum fare rides each day (total of 18 pesos, 6 * 3). so, i guess it’s really a big help for our students. well, i’m done with that, but one incident i just couldn’t forget was when i deliberately said "estudyante po" to the jeepney driver back in los banos on a very late sunday night (to get the discount)! (for in that case, it’s a little obvious that your adventure ride is nowhere school-related) hahaha…
among all those music (talking about instrumental scores) that were used for movies, i found the deep bass riffs in 28 weeks later and 28 days later very effective…as well as symphony ‘requiem for a dream’ for the movie of the same title.
it’s by clint mansell, had several versions, became a popular hit, and was used in other productions like lotr: the two towers, the da vinci code, and (my favorite) tv series lost.
so, let’s be a little artsy for now. this is a piano render of requiem for a dream. sorry for some wrong timings and bad notes. although it may not appear/sound to be hard, some parts are really challenging reaching and shifting from octave to octave.
‘recently finished ‘hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world’ by murakami. this was a tip from pao, and it was really a good read. 
it’s a little confusing in the beginning, seems that there are two completely distinct stories. odd chapters are entitled ‘end of the world’, even chapters ‘hard-boiled wonderland’. i was even planning on reading all odd chapters first, and then going back for even, that’s how different the plots are. but eventually, i decided to read it like i would a normal book. well, not to say that this book is abnormal, hehe, it’s just odd in some ways. apart from the layout like i mentioned, the protagonists and characters are not named. the author uses more of characters’ profession and adjectives in addressing them.
both plots are really simple, and you don’t get confused with so many characters. the ‘end of the world’’s protagonist is a calcutec, a profession whose job is to decode data in a mind-consumming process and shuffling for an organization called the system. he was assigned to worked on an under the table assignment, which later on revealed to be a part of an experiment and he’s the only living lab rat among all calcutecs (to be a calcultec, they have to do something in your brain that allows you to decode/shuffle). meanwhile on a different world in ‘hard-boiled wonderland’, there is a dreamreader, whose job is to read dreams from unicorn skulls. this part of the novel appeared to be more fictitious ranging from the characters and ideas of shadows and minds to the setting which is a walled town (where nobody is allowed to get in and out except for the unicorn beasts).
somewhere along the middle, you’ll see a connection between these two stories. the novel was well written and surprisingly, i even enjoyed shifting from one story to the other! so you really have to read it like a normal book!
this is my first of murakami’s. it’s sci-fi surreal book, and if you fancy mind-split-schizophreniac literature and movies like a beautiful mind, the fight club, butterfly effect, cashback, and the science of sleep, among others, you’ll definitely love this novel.
mind, really is a very powerful entity of humanness. it’s so amazing and without a doubt, each of ours has the capability of becoming limitless.
