Sic Parvis Magna…But of Course

NestlÃ© Milo wasn’t being original when they first aired the “Great Things Come From Small Beginniiiings” TV ad here in the Philippines. But the phrase stuck, the image of kid athletes transforming into grown-up supermen stuck, the product stuck in the minds of the consumers. So, mission accomplished.

If you think about it, Sic parvis magna merely states the obvious…which is, “Men don’t know the obvious, and it takes some wise guy to concoct some wise line for them to be wisely reminded.”

“And preferably in Latin.”

With that in mind, I wanted to write something brutally terse for the first page of my new Moleskine. What I came up with on December 26 was far from a “lit piece”.

All the inaugural page declares is Phillip Kimpo / Ang Korsaryo, written in both Alibata and the Latin alphabet.

Was the European moleskine meant to dance with the Alibata script? No, and that made my “first page” all the more ~~mystical~~ memorable for me. (Of course, you know that this is just an excuse for such hasty work).

In any case, once I got over the hump, the writings on the black notebook (sounds dramatic!) came like a deluge. Deluge, as in four works in the span of two weeks. Anyway, I’ll be posting some of my “Made on Moleskine” pieces here from time to time. I do hope that in my case, something great will actually sprout from the small!

Don’t forget to check out the new Moleskine page.

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You’re always funny. Especially about everything. :)

(Hey, your moleskine is relatively big!)

cors! thanks for the greet..changed ur link as well on my page na…

i love moleskine! i got my friend 3 mini sketchbooks for xmas…theyre just so amazing to write on..

ia, i’m funny? and “about everything”? wow. and i thought i got too much angst for my own sake, hehe.

thanks, too, claudz! did you get one for yourself? your friend is lucky, 3 sketchbooks — that must’ve cost a lot :)

damn you and your enthusiasm about the moleskine. now i want one, too. even if i have a thousand (well, of course i’m being melodramatic) suitable notebooks already stacked at home. damn capitalism. damn advertising. damn creating-a need-from-a-want. just…damn. anyway, that’s some pretty intriguing writing you have there.

okay, moving on. i’d love my name in alabata for a new tatt.

p.s. nowadays, i’m not as elegant as i am “polished emo punk.” (i’m going through another phase.) :)

oh, and nothing but CBTL (the coffee bean and tea leaf) for me. actually, anything over starbucks.

hey hey hey…congratulations on the new moleskin. oooh the thrill of having crisp pages in a new-book smelling tome of your very own… *sigh* lovely

anyway, i’m finally back on the net, after intense exams and strange holidays :P

later!

illyria dear, damn capitalism indeed. look at me, it has its yoke on my neck! grah. not to mention it’s the same capitalism that gives me work and as a consequence, less time for writing. i think the same applies to you? hehe.

alibata for your name? for i-li-ri-ya, or for the transience of old? though the latter’s more difficult to do.

p.s. whatever the phase you’re in, it’s still a wonder to behold.

kita, that was some absence! thanks, and i am mightily glad that you’re back among the living bloggers. :)

strange holidays? write about it..i’m intrigued by that. :P

dude ang mahal na ng milo ngayon.

i tried writing on a notebook once, pero *&%&^ sa sobrang gulo di ko na maintindihan. :)

but somehow writing using Word wasn’t any better… Shift + F7 kasi e…

olrayt, oo tama ka, lalo na sa mga vending machines hehe. ah yep, *that* shift-f7…lends itself to abuse :P

[...] Second, one of my poems has been featured on the popular Moleskinerie.com (thanks to sir Armand Frasco!). I actually got stuck coming up with the accompanying picture, and I was saved by my alibata necklace (familiar symbol?). Incidentally, the inaugural page on my notebook was written half in alibata (see the Sic Parvis Magna entry). [...]

another blog using baybayin like me :)

the baybayin script died a natural death due to being unfit to modern times. it was popularly called the alibata

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