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Where do you get your happiness?

I grew up watching all the must-watch cartoons for any well-raised child of the 1980s – Japanese robot anime, Disney classics, and perhaps one of the most underrated animated films of all time, the Peanuts adaptations.

I must admit it was disconcerting hearing Snoopy’s voice (didn’t he always communicate through thought bubbles?), but it helped make the characters more real, more visceral for me.

Here’s a short clip from “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.”

It tells us that happiness is not in the glitz and glory; it’s in the little details that we almost miss, the happy accidents that paint the delightlfully sloppy mish-mash of experiences that make up day-to-day life.

Be happy, and find peace.

She was special.

One of my fondest memories was waking up, throwing the curtains open, and seeing her going for a leisure stroll in the driveway below my window, her hair rippling in the morning breeze, and her nose snuffling on the ground.

snowball

We haven’t seen her since she ran away.

Snowball, we love you.

We hope you made a delectable adobong spitz for the carpenters working down the street.

Vintage class pic circa 1999.

(I don’t know whether to thank Vinci for sending this to the A99 mailing list, or if I should punch him in the face)

The hair! The fashion! The loud plaids and stripes! The horror! The horror!

First one to spot MDJ Superstar in his developing years gets a free cartoon from me.

For more bad hair days, hop on over to MDJ Superstar’s blog at WordPress.com!

Was going through my old geocities site and dug up a heck of a lot of really hilarious wild pictures. On my current theme of “DRAMATIC HAIRCUTS”, I must say I’ve had a lot of looks throughout the years.

  1. The choirboy haircut.
    This is my twin and me back in 1987 – we were coinbearer and ringbearer to someone’s wedding, although I can’t remember who was what. We were very angelic looking kids, and this was the hairstyle that I thought back then made me look the cutest. See that one strand of hair going down the middle of my forehead? That was no accident. Sadya ‘yan. I made sure to meticulously arrange that everytime I went out. And that dalagang bukid don’t-show-your-teeth smile na pa-demure was incredibly rehearsed as well. I thought I was the hottest shit going in those days, fo’ sho’.

  2. The undercut.
    Now this is a relic from the late 90′s – grow your hair out as long as you possibly can, lift up the sides, take out an electric razor set at “0″ and shave everything between your ear and crown. Voila! An undercut! This was taken on my prom night at Edsa Shangri-La. Looking back, I can’t understand why Bea said yes when I asked her out…

  3. No haircut.
    No rocker kid makes it through college without going all-out punk rock, and this was my take on the long, scruffy haircut made famous by Kurt Cobain. This was taken at one of my old band’s biggest gigs ever – The Strip (remember that place?) on Katipunan. That place was cool. For the five months that it actually lasted. That’s Outerhope’s Mike Benedicto on guitar, and Mic Tatad on vocals. We sang such hardcore, intense tunes as “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”, “Waiting In Vain”, “Your Body Is A Wonderland”, and that all-time staple to “unplugged” bands everywhere, “Crash Into Me.”*dies from shame*

    Take note. This was waaay before the era or MYMP and Paolo Santos. I therefore absolve us of any baduy-ness.

  4. The hedgehog haircut.
    This was my last style before shaving my head, taken on a night out at Fiamma. Incredibly versatile, just like Lady’s Choice Mayonnaise!

  5. And then along came my current shaved-head-and-goatee look, somehow unconsciously inspired by the full-on awesomeness of Marlou Aquino and his fifty peso Reyes Haircutters buzz-cut.

 

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