Giselle Elgincolin

U.P. Diliman; St. Theresa's College, QC

early childhood educator

Currently music, the gym, internet site-seeing, movies, TV, beaches, well-written novels, children's books, bazaars, my bed!, iPod, playlists, wind chimes, kaleidoscopes, Figaro with my kids, U.P. on Sunday mornings, jamming sessions, eloquence, making lists and checking them twice; Wish I had more time to play badminton & volleyball, and basically explore the great outdoors

Any inspirational and poetic book like A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Mitten Strings for God by Katrina Kenison; Engaging and beautifully written stories like The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd, On Beauty by Zadie Smith, and A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton; Short stories by Alice Munro; Witty and music-laden novels by Nick Hornby; Poems by e.e. cummings; Stories and poems by Shel Silverstein

The Painted Veil, Once, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Elizabethtown (I don't care what the critics say!), Under the Tuscan Sun, The Company, 21 Grams, Moulin Rouge, Joy Luck Club, Heartburn, You've Got Mail, Woody Allen flicks

All-time favorites are Counting Crows, Travis, Duncan Sheik, Coldplay, Lifehouse, Everything but the Girl, Dishwalla, Radiohead, Phantom Planet, Snow Patrol, Eraserheads, Sandwich, Sarah McLachlan, Frou Frou/Imogen Heap, Nick Drake, new age music by Narada artists, and Reisa's piano pieces; Currently exploring Death Cab for Cutie and Aqualung

Amazing Race, Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy, Will & Grace, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under, Felicity, Discovery's Travel & Living, National Geographic series, and DW-TV's Euromaxx.

Gemini

Someday Soon
KT Tunstall

I think it's time to put myself away
Seek out a little silence
Close the doors and sit a while
Walk a little

And as I put my words away
The flow slows
See this penny in a stream
Picking it up is easy.

Follow the shape of it.
Jump in.
Swallow it whole.
Jump in.

Even though I know my way around
Possibly there's something I'd have found
Holding on for finding solid ground
Someday soon.
Someday soon.

I'm gonna turn myself into the grass
And I'll grow
Take this space above my head
And live in it a little.

Gonna wear my feather headdress
Like an Indian chief.
Gonna stretch out both my arms
I'm gonna test the temperature.

Follow the taste of it.
Jump in.
Swallow it whole.
Jump in.

Even though I know my way around
Possibly there's something new I've found
Holding on for finding solid ground

Even though I know my way around
Possibly there's something new I've found
Holding on for finding solid ground
Someday soon.
Someday soon.

Maybe walk a little
Someday soon.