→ Kawaii metal in Manila #

Joey Dizon interviewing BABYMETAL on PULP Magazine:

Moametal: We’re all people who love metal, who want to break down the barriers in metal and who want to see metal thrive[…]

Su-metal: Our number one goal moving forward is to headline a metal festival. […] We want to show that we are the next generation of metal, and we believe that headlining a festival is the ultimate destination for that… so we’d love to do it someday!

Momometal: It was just so much fun! We were definitely excited to see what kind of audience was waiting for us–and we got to see them at the show and made the best memories with them. I was so hyped when I heard the BABYMETAL chant before we even took the stage!

This has been so much fun and refreshing. I’ve been overwhelmed after the show. It’s so good. I can’t help but feel emotional during ‘Road of Resistance’; it was my the first time hearing it live.

Don’t think, feel.

\m/ 🦊

Back to my roots

I had enough time wandering so much. Being mostly distracted and easily hooked on things that really does not matter to me if given thought.

Time to go back to my roots and focus on that.

Orion’s belt is directly on front of me while writing this. Wake up! It is time to disrespect your surroundings.

PS: Cheers to ten years, Teudoongi!

Seiya soiya

We are the kids from yesterday, today.
https://youtu.be/YXiLHIYqb_Y

Schools that boast their rankings for marketing to get more students, seem to me like they’re just focused more on other things rather than on education itself. The advertised employment rate of such schools fits in that circle as well. This somewhat tells what the system is all about.

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

The need to win

When an archer is shooting for nothing
He has all his skill.
If he shoots for a brass buckle
He is already nervous.
If he shoots for a prize of gold
He goes blind
Or sees two targets
He is out of his mind!

His skill has not changed. But the prize
Divides him. He cares.
He thinks more of winning
Than of shooting-
And the need to win
Drains him of power.

from “The Way of Chuang Tzu” by Thomas Merton

https://youtu.be/lXwJbj9UpMg

Let’s migrate all from my self-build custom Android ROMs to the available official builds at the moment, trying to save some by avoiding servers for now. No Google Apps (GApps) and even microG for my main daily driver.

It takes a large appetite to bet on your one wild, precious life and decide what is best for you, to get offline, even when the whole world is shouting at you to better get yourself on LinkedIn, create Instagram to not miss out on the whole entire world having fun, to be well suited for life in the 21st century.

Man, I was just so tired of losing my time, attention, energy, humanity to Big Data.

There is no reward for losing all your life, so decide.

Take your freedom.

It’s free to be free.

You decide.

- Mehret Biruk