This electronic diary is continued on Tony Perez's Electronic Diary (March 15, 2017 - ) at tonyperezphilippinescyberspacebook35.blogspot.com.

Forgive for little things. Otherwise you will be made to forgive for big things.

Alkaline drinking water delivery.

Now Aubrey needs to buy a few things for a school project.

Bought three boxes of ice cream from the Sitio Catacutan Magnolia depot: Ube-Caramelized Sugar, Mango-Dark Chocolate, and Mangoes and Cream. Also bought a carton of broccoli juice and will see how the granddaughters will like it.

Finally coordinating with Gallery Frames the pick-up of Sarah's three paintings from my studio. They then need to be properly packed and shipped to Paris.

At Shopwise you always need to take care of two things:

--The cashier will charge you for items that she set aside for herself.
--The bag boy will pocket a small item from your bag.

Back from jalan-jalan and major groceries. Been putting this off for a while. It'd gotten so that I'd come across something in the house and tell myself, "We're running out of that."

Now we have more than enough of everything.

"You wake up./ Suddenly you're in love./"

But I would rather that you fell in love with me long before you fell asleep.

Truth is always greater than any science's or any religion's frames of reference.

As such, truth is not exclusive to any one science or to any one religion.

Two cups black, Robert Timms coffee.

The clouds are nests for dragon's eggs.

Good day, Cubao!

Lunch alone.

A great day to go jalan-jalan and do groceries because everyone is either at school or at work and the city is all MINE!

The werewolf crossed the street to the burger stand.

If you need to hear some mild bitchiness to perk you up, watch May the Best House Win on etc. Just finished watching the Sunday marathon.

All of my visitors are pre-scheduled, at least a week in advance, and the time I usually agree to see them is 2:00 PM. From 3:00 PM onward my time is for myself and my family. The rest of the time I am resting, sleeping, writing, or painting.

Please do not show up spontaneously and expect to be let in. It just won't happen.

Your Messenger message:

"...I dreamt I designed two unique bathrooms with very modern see-through fiberglass material . One is colored fuschia -lavander and the other , mint green. Only the exterior stood out in the dream . I didn't see the inside . It is not clear whether I owned the house or not ."


My reply:

Hi __________,

Your dream as recorded is a mere fragment and has no narrative, but, based on what you gave, here is my interpretation:

Your psyche is telling you that you need cleansing at this time: spiritual cleansing (lavender), which can be fully attained only if you let go of a romantic relationship (fuchsia) that continues to haunt your subconscious, and physical cleansing (mint green, or any shade of green, usually representing healing that is needed by the body).

It is possible that you did not see the inside because of the defense mechanism denial, or because, at this time, you do not know what form each cleansing must take.

Regina visited and gave me a ruby tumblestone pendant for my birthday. She also gave me a leg and foot massage, which made me drowsy but energized me after.

She is one of the few witches in the Philippines whose vision and energy are real and reliable. When she looks at my antiques, she tells me about their various histories, all of which are spot on. Some of the most effective items she'd given me in the past are a porcelain, Japanese bishimonten statuette and a copper bangle for protection, and a variety of antique snuff bottles and porcelain bowls. Today she said that my mother's spirit sent her over to give me a healing massage

Some time last year Regina visited Malaysia and brought me, among other things, a bottle of kasturi hitam (black musk oil). I placed the bottle inside my potions cabinet and then planned to take it along with me for a GMA7 interview on gayuma last February--but couldn't find the bottle. This afternoon I told Regina that I'd lost the bottle. She said that a black elemental borrowed it because it was attracted to the oil's black color. She also said, the elemental promised to return it promptly.

After Regina left today I opened the potions cabinet again. Sure enough, the bottle of kasturi hitam was there.

All magical items made of wood must be fed and rubbed with extra virgin coconut oil at least once a year.

Do not get disheartened when someone sells you an allegedly magical item and it turns out to be ineffective or inert.

Bring it to a real mage and he will reprogram and recharge it for you.

No one knows any longer what a Caspar Milquetoast is.

Leave 1/3 of your black coffee in the cup. Let it sit and consume it much later in the day.

The first two things psychosis releases in a person are compulsive speech and compulsive behavior.

The same thing occurs in victims of Alzheimer's disease.

The handsome guy who turns out to be a psycho may provide audiences eye candy but not food for thought. That is why TV is still called the boob tube.

Proactive competition always begins with the necessity to race for something.

It is the open-minded person who can put two and two together.

Many failures in life are due to the inability to see, recognize, and interpret signals.

It is your family that will always rescue you from many a scheming flirt.

Knowing what your family members like is not enough; you also need to know what they do NOT like.

The victorious warrior chooses only one of two things: to marry and live a predictable, normal life or to become a hermit and explore heretofore unknown battlefields.

The condor is a truly awesome power animal.

The branches of trees, in the wind, are like galloping horses.

Love it whenever others disagree with you, as long as you are the intelligent one.

Charity always benefits the receiver and the giver.

The summer heat lays its tired head on my chest.

Everyone needs private, sacred space to just sit and be in.

Sometimes everything goes on hold not for yourself but for the people you love.

Many years ago he paid a weekly magazine to feature him on its cover. Since he had no real talent, however, he became the nobody that he still is today.

Quiet Sunday afternoon. I think I'll sit inside the small loggia and write a bit.

Learned two things today:

1) Filling the roof deck with plants to look like a forest is not appreciated by my granddaughters; they prefer that the roof deck have a lot of clear space.

2) When facebook Friends from other counties message me and ask me to go visit them, they are not making small talk; they are serious.

Aubrey back from her senior prom. The students stayed overnight at the hotel a la Prom Night minus the serial killer. They'd had lunch already.

Lunch with Angelique.

Watered the plants. Most therapeutic.

The problem with most students of magic is that they blindly gravitate toward teachers who are big failures in life.

An authentic teacher of magic must first be successful in life, and only after that in magic.

Good morning, Cubao!

The sun kisses a little girl's sparkly hair clip.

Watched the replay of Public Enemies on HBO because I am a Johnny Depp fan. Aside from Johnny Depp, toward whom I am biased, the success of the film hinged on superb editing.

The editing actually reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock's works.

A single act of kindness changes a person's life and future indelibly.

Computers can perfect its renditions of lines, colors, shapes, musical notes, and sounds.

Only the human brain, however, can perfect language and its wide range of nuances.

That is why Google Translate--and other such attempts--can never give us true literature.

What happens when a TV station increases its commercial time?

Everyone hops on to other channels.

Our family dentist's associate passed away. So sad. I recall that she used to stand in for our family dentist whenever our family dentist was not available. I also recall that, some time last year, before the associate fell ill and was hospitalized, I gave our family dentist a necklace of antique, chevron beads and the associate looked on wistfully. I was secretly embarrassed and wished that I'd brought something for the associate as well. Now it's too late, and it's another lesson that we should make others happy whenever we can, or that, whenever we pass on an opportunity to make someone happy, the opportunity never comes again.

Our family dentist went to their hometown to attend the funeral and came back only yesterday morning.

Wearing cologne spray by Pierre Cardin of Bullport, New York.

My Art S. Buck Artist's Mannequins Inside A Glass Cloche

Placed my pair of Art S. Buck artist's mannequins inside another glass cloche.

The rain drops ladders we can climb from the earth to the sky.

Good day, Cubao!

A crazy day. Could it be because I'm wearing my Crazy Jack T-shirt?

Chito, Chevy, and Vinci arrived before I woke up. They rang the antique, Maranao bell in the small loggia. I did hear it, but it was incorporated in a dream.

Bought lunch for Aubrey, who left soon after for their senior prom at a hotel. Gave her money to make her feel confident and secure.

Chito, Chevy, Vinci, and I went to the center. Had lunch and brought Chito to the dentist. Ice cream snack, a banana split and a Toblerone and choco chips blizzard.

Now back home and waiting for Angelique to come home from university.

Now on page 187 of the book on Thai magic. This section is on magical tattoos. Thai mages prefer tattooing to wearing inscribed vestments.

Punish only the guilty and not the people who surround him.

A bowl of ice cream never fails to heal an acidic stomach.

The twin raised by warriors and the twin raised by amazons were never excluded from the company of boys, girls, men, and women, though that is the impression the story gives.

The werewolves meet in spirit even when the moon is not full.

You cannot wait for memories to come back and become reality all over again.

Let the house stir and stretch and creak like a giant shifting in his sleep.

When you go to the beach, you need not step in the water. Merely sitting near the water can heal you.

A house without an altar is a place without a spiritual spine.

Altar rituals must be performed twice a day--once in the morning and once in the evening.

Gnomes like residing in the spaces under beds.

Sometimes it is when you stop chasing something that it willingly comes to you.

Your cup runneth over when the person pouring has bad reflexes.

Errata are the stuff of new ideas.

Like playing music and painting with watercolors, maintaining a relationship is the art of good and proper timing.

She was a stunning beauty when we were in graduate school. When I recently visited her page, she looked like the Wicked Witch of the West, and I thought she was the perfect illustration of the fact that all beauty is transient.

Recognize the inner child in everyone, keeping in mind that it looks nothing like its adult version.

Do you remember the time when fundamentalists insisted that dinosaurs did not exist?

Lust, or excess sex energy, is best merged with painting and writing, but is best compartmentalized from everything else.

You are unable to sleep because your body is uncomfortable but you don't know it.

1) Lie in a FETAL position.
2) VERY SLOWLY allow your body to unfold. Do NOT lead it. It will stop unfolding on its own at the position it wants to sleep in.

Parenthood is the art of expecting the unexpected, and of selflessly keeping your cool no matter what.

It is impossible to put a true artist down. His works will always defeat you.

Practice magic individually rather than in groups, for in groups, the stronger members will absorb your energy.

Always listen to the wind, for it is well-traveled, experienced, and tells the most interesting stories.

Fundamentalists turn their backs on new ideas because they are really afraid of being swayed by reason.

Tony Perez's Art of War:The hardest blow to your enemies is when they discover that, despite their criticisms, you are so much better off than they are in life.

A garden plant, when neglected like a weed, perishes.

A weed, when cosseted like a garden plant, also perishes.

Cold breezes always precede the news.

Dry leaves riding on the wind are like paper boats being borne by gutter water.

Both are images of memories of the past.

Tony Perez's Art of War: There are only two steps for an artist to succeed and conquer the world:

First, know that you are right.

Then proceed against all odds.

Tony Perez's Art of War: When people go out of their way to disagree with you, it is a sign that they are trying to be in control of you but are miserably failing.

Rejoice whenever you see things differently than other people do. It means that you are ten cuts above the rest.

Two cups black, Robert Timms coffee, and my Friday morning is complete.

Dragon pens are like expensive chocolate. I just can't have enough.

Wearing Charlie Blue by Revlon of London.

Morning Delight

A new dragon fountain pen arrives. Now I have six (one of them is actually a Dionysos pen).

This one's a black dragon with beady, red rhinestone eyes!

For writing dark spells?

Good morning, Cubao!

The sun blazes on the nib of a fountain pen.

Always give your children a regular allowance that is more than what they need, whether they have classes or not. It makes them stop dreaming about being able to save money in the future, when they have jobs, and teaches them to save up for what they want NOW.

I still have 30 DVDs in our DVD library that I haven't screened!

Still planning to view in special sessions, among others:

--The Bourne Trilogy
--The James Bond Collection
--The Greek Mythology Set
--The Harry Potter Series

The werewolf crossed the street to the burger stand.

Angelique and J. are studying for their exams at a coffee shop.

Placed the Balinese sandstone statues that June gave me as a gift inside a big, glass cloche in the studio den.

Wearing Charlie Blue by Revlon of London.

Your Messenger message:

"Good afternoon, Sir Tony. I came across a new sleep experience...today. I was having a bad dream when I knew that it was just a dream so I decided to snap out of it and wake up. I thought I did, at first, but later on realized my dream continued but it changed course. I will try to remember the entire dream as I write to you.

"March 08,2017 "I dreamed about mostly involving calendars. I was in a building when there was someone who saw a part of the eye bleeding. They were trying to cut and cleanse it but nothing happens. Nobody was in pain except that they knew, in the end, it was actually me. So they decided to sacrifice themselves in order to oust me. Luckily, the leader tbought differently. I was spared. In a building, I was robbing these calendars and carefully placing them in places where the owner can't find them. The owner has already had a hunch about me trying to steal them so I decided when I took each, piece by piece, I would place them in places that are obvious enough that they will not care to search them there. But, I was wrong. One girl saw right through me and found it in a blink of an eye before even the owner managed to set foot back in his office. I can't remember so well anythicng after that. "I was in a wedding. I dressed so well. It was a sunset wedding, I dreamed of something of no particular importance, after that. "During nap, I dreamed of something peculiar. I was at our helper's house when I asked for fruits before I left. I specifically asked for wintermelon. She gave me wintermelon and a bonus of one big papaya. Other visitors asked for it, too, after seeing her give me some. "I was somewhat in a veranda when I saw a girl being pinned down by two other persons and made to stretch her legs. I was watching but I was not sympatgetic. She wasn't harmed anyway. I was busy enjoying having fun, instead, with a certain guy (handsome but someome I do not know of) in the corner when my mom snapped and was furious. A video on the phone was emitting great negative energy, and it had been haunting us since. It turned out to be one specific girl. One has to have a chalk on his hand and jump from a reasonable height in order to restrain her from following you. I do not know the reason why we are keeping our distance from her. We just knew that it was the right thing to do. But, she just has too many followers. One was particularly jealous because I was with a guy who has the key to solving all these. The key is to find the black ring to eliminate them. The girl found me before that. We were in a ship in a middle of the sea when I attempted to go downstairs where it met the ocean. The guy was trying to follow me but was blocked by the jealous girl. Just a bit later, she threw the whole detachable staircase into the ocean where I was seated. I snapped out of the dream because I knew it was just a dream. I just had to wake up from it. The dream changed course. But I have not woken up from my sleep, though. I just managed to change it. Now my dream went back to when I was with my sister. We were canvassing for some fresh ingredients in the market. Then, I woke up. Strange.
My reply:

Hi ____________!

Your dream is in four parts, each part meaning one and the same thing.

As in your previous dreams, you are the other characters in the dream: the person with the bleeding eye (your difficulty to really see yourself and others), the girl who saw through your scheme (your conscience), the girl being pinned down (your desire for freedom), your mother (also your conscience), the girl in the video (the mistakes you made in the past that are always haunting you), and your sister (your wish to live a normal, peaceful, and happy life).

Did you by any chance watch the HBO replay of One Missed Call: Final before you had the dream? It has the same leitmotif, which is being summoned by fate and karma and deciding whether to pass on the negative energy to someone else or not.

You want to be too many persons simultaneously, and you want to cheat time before it catches up with you. This prevents you from perceiving yourself correctly, which results in your frequent inability to perceive and assess others.

I dreamt of a former supervisor. I think that he is now very ill.

I have an obsessive-compulsive quirk. Whenever I give the neighbors food in my dishes and they return the dishes the following day, even if they'd washed the dishes I wash them all over again anyway.

Vernissage, March 9, 2017, 2:12 PM

His claim to fame is that I met him one night and purchased something from his novelty stall. I want to meet him again and counsel him toward his development, success, and true fame.

There is always something Twilight Zony about someone sending me a Friend Request and I reply, "I can take you in, but I have to unFriend someone first."

Lunch at home with Angelique. She has no university classes today but must go and attend to something in the city.

As soon as I am home alone I will commence varnishing Sarah's portrait.