Wide Awake

I know you are wide awake too. I am not the only insomniac in this side of the world. So what are you doing besides staring at your computer screen?

Hahahahahaha!

Do you want me to do something I've never done before? Hahahaha!

Up There

More than thirty thousand feet above the ground, a tear fell down my cheek... Those places in the dream where the encounters were supposed to happen I've set foot on...but the person to experience that ritual with and the tools, were nowhere in sight...

Sharks

Are you one of them???

Effects of Cold Water

I saw this image as I was surfing the net earlier today. I am not sure if it is 100% percent true but if I am going to base it on what my mother's doctor told her, then it must be.

The other week my mother had been taken to the doctor for a general check up because she had not been feeling well. After a series of tests, the renowned doctor (he is a notable doctor with a noble cause), he prescribed a bunch of medicines and told her to stop drinking cold water or drinks. He did not prohibit fatty food or such like other doctors do but only told her to stop drinking cold stuff and told her to take everything in moderation.

He got his point, too much of something can really kill!

What do you think? Do you believe that cold water has such effects on the body?

Love is All WE Need

"'All You Need Is Love' is a song written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney. It was first performed by The Beatles on Our World, the first live global television link. Broadcast to 26 countries and watched by 400 million, the program was broadcast via satellite on June 25, 1967. The BBC had commissioned the Beatles to write a song for the UK's contribution. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it at #362 in their 500 greatest songs of all time. "

-Wikipedia

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.

There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

Something potent for the weekend...

Reminiscing

"There is a person in your life whom you would want to annihilate but you can't because that person is already part of your life story. Eliminating that person is like deleting a chapter (or two, or more) of your so-called autobiography. When you're going to delete those chapters, the hollow crevasses will be obvious not only to you, but also to the "readers" of your "book", highlighting the fact that there are missing fragments in your otherwise, "colorful" life."

Quoting my old self from my old blog. First posted almost 4 years ago.

Watch Your English!

Today had been quite a day for us here in CDO since we are experiencing/had experienced another day of bad weather. On the way to work I had to go through heavy traffic on our normally traffic-less road, and the only available public transportation I was able to get my a$$ into had to go through knee-deep water. Thank goodness we were able to pass through.

As the day progressed and I surfed some sites for news, I came across this article by one of my favorite columnists Mr Butch Dalisay. Mr Dalisay is adept with writing in English and he is a professor in one of the country's prestigious universities. In his article he mentioned irritating Pinoy expressions most of us erroneously use either consciously or not. He also mentioned his article in the previous week where he started the discussion of such annoying expressions. I thank him for writing those articles since it opened up my eyes and made me reflect.

Majority (if not all) of us Filipinos do not have English as our first language thus we tend to have difficulty in communicating in the language. English is being taught in schools from elementary to tertiary school yet most of us still have a hard time in expressing ourselves in the language. We can only conclude a few things: either the English taught in our schools and our English teachers were in poor standing; we never paid attention during English class; or we never really gave a damn and we refused to learn.

English and Reading had been my favorite classes in grade school and I commend our English teachers for being tough on us when it came to spelling, subject and verb agreement, and sentence construction. In high school our English teachers scrutinized our schoolwork and encouraged us to polish our grammar. In college, our instructor in Basic College English (may her soul rest in peace, she passed away last month) was very kind to us and showed us how to be better with the language. For the rest of the college English classes I had, I can't remember if my other instructors had been strict with the rules of the language. I never really gave a damn.

English is an important language since it is used in many fields internationally and locally. However, one's knowledge of the language does not necessarily measure what kind of person he or she is. It is a great advantage for a person if he or she has a good command of English and he or she can apply it in his or her daily life especially on his or her job. Nevertheless knowledge of the language does not automatically mean that the person who can communicate with it will have a better life than those who can't.

I work as a content provider for websites and I am quite alarmed that my grasp of the English language is quite limited. I even have a hard time constructing quality articles since I have not had formal training in writing but I am trying my best to be less erroneous and ignorant than I had been before.

I am currently laughing at the title of this post. I have a feeling that it is not appropriate. If it is indeed wrong, please tell me so I can correct it.

I have a feeling that it is another irritating Pinoy expression!

Well I don't give a damn...

Freedom from a Cold Heart

Many months ago I came across this poem by Cyantre on deviantArt and I found it heart-wrenching... So sad... So honest...

Incapable of Love
by
Cyantre


Don't trust me.
You may say that you love me,
and I might say it too,
but don't believe it to be true.

Don't get in too deep.
I am shallow,
and I won't allow you to drown.
I'll turn your whole world upside-down.

Please don't trust me with your fragile glass heart.
In my hands, it's guaranteed to break apart.

I can't handle love's flames.
Ice runs through my veins,
just to keep me sane.

I'm sorry.

It was real, but then it faded.
It's not your fault that I'm this jaded.

You deserve better than me,
so I will let you go.

Now, you are free.

Then sometime yesterday I found this other poem still written by Cyantre:

Move On
by
Cyantre


The year may change, but you stay the same.
Vines and brambles hold you down,
to twist the sounds of all your saying.
A heart-half yours, is worth betraying.

Snakes alive, like your lies,
braided together. Bitten
as the colorless liquid of self-esteem
drips from my mind
onto the soft desert sand.
I remain parched, alone,
searching for warmth.

The dark heart I loved
can only be seen
when candles are held up to you.
Extinguish the flame,
and walk away.

Trust not the voice of insincere regret,
as choices like stones remain set.

Better to be alone,
than to be held down
by a lover always on loan.

Whatever Happened to My CDO?

Whatever happened to my garden of black roses?

Video by mommy764

Since the beginning of 2009, my dear hometown had been drenched in hostile waters. It has had experienced a few sunny days but in a span of a week, Cagayan de Oro had experienced severe flooding and a lot of people had been displaced due to high waters.

I know a lot of people might scorn me and tell me that I don’t have the right to blog about the floods since I have not experienced them first hand. Our house had not been among those which had been flooded since it is situated on an elevated area yet I have a lot of friends and some relatives who went through that deluge. I am not as cold-hearted as I seem because my heart goes out to all those who went through it. Besides, who would want to see one’s hometown suffering from such an undesired and unexpected calamity? Who would want to know that the river rafts normally used by people for adventurous adrenaline rush had been used as rescue boats? Who would want to know that children have gone missing and a person died because of the said disaster?

There had been many causes why CDO had been flooded. We just can’t blame the bad weather. Each of us is to blame for what caused it. All of us had been careless in taking care of our environment. Improper garbage disposal, air and water pollution, and non-conservation of energy and resources could be the root causes of such a disaster. Other more organized activities such as illegal logging, illegal quarrying and illegal mining can also be pointed as the culprits of destruction.

Blame it on the weatherman for not predicting such heavy rains to come…but then the weather is expected to change unexpectedly…It is fickle like a woman… Well, these floods are the results of our contributions to climate change.

Nobody wanted these floods to happen…but they did!

Can we keep on blaming other people?

NO.

Who is to blame?

Yourself.

Myself.

Ourselves.

We're all connected... In our own little ways we can help prevent disasters such as these to happen.

If you don’t know what else to do, then PRAY!

My Apologies, Some Of My Blog Links Vanished Into Cyberspace!

I was stupidly playing with my blog layout this morning and due to my carelessness some of the links in my blogroll vanished!

Since Day 1 I have alphabetically arranged all the links of my blog friends and if you look closely right now, most of the links from A-N are lost in cyberspace.

I am so sorry if your links became victims to my ignorance. Please comment on this post and please include your links if they are among the ones included in the flush whirlpool.

I am hoping for your consideration as I try to figure out what the heck went wrong.

I am also trying to change the blog background. I just want a plain dark background. Maybe you can help me out choose a design. A free background would do.

Thank you. :D

Laughter Is Still The Best Medicine

My dear niece Gwen and I were at the mall the other day and while resting on the benches she told me to take videos of her. Well the little tot acted silly and laughed to her little heart's content.

Gwen's giggling just made me take my mind off negative things. Watching her laugh makes me laugh and I feel better already... :D

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Early today I had a brush with negative energy and suddenly this phrase came to mind and got stuck there for a while. Well I guess it got stuck for more than a while because it became my Skype and YM status for the whole day and I even bothered to post an entry about it! Tsk tsk!

Anyway, whoever though of this phrase? Some say that it is an Arab proverb and others say that there is an identical Chinese proverb with the same connotation. It is a phrase appropriate for two people or groups or countries who have a common enemy, thus they become "friends".

This phrase does not apply only to people and foreign policies but it is also being applied in nature, business, and all other fields which create friends and enemies of each other. There are even verses in the Bible which mention being allies with an enemy's enemy.


It's already 2009... Make love not war...

As for those who still love sowing negative energy around, tsk tsk... Good luck to you! :D

My Heart Calling

Last night I was just hanging around watching TV and saw Joan of Arc on Cinemax. I have seen the movie many times already but I keep being amazed by the story of the saint even though it had been quite fictionalized a lot in the movie. This is the soundtrack of the movie and I must say I can relate to it right now.

There are just some things in this world we can’t explain by pure logic or rationalization... It's not easy dealing with one's own spirituality.

My Heart Calling by Noa

Tell me who I am
Tell me what I'm hearing
Is it God or man
Leads us to our fate

Tears cried through the night
So much we've been fearing
I know I can fight
Soon will be too late

It's my heart calling
It's my heart calling
It's my heart seeing
What it wants to see

It's my heart crying
It's my heart flying
It's my heart trying
To set me free

Darkness turns to light
While my soul is healing
I know I must fight
This war deep inside

It's my heart calling
It's my heart calling
It's my heart seeing
What it wants to see

It's my heart crying
It's my heart flying
It's my heart trying
To set me free

Waving banners, swinging swords
Queens and kings, and other lords
And the battles of our pride
Greed and hunger deep inside

All the sorrow born of pain
Cruelty and cruelty again
Who will stop this vicious spin
Open arms and let love in
Open arms and let love in
Open arms and let love in
Open arms and let love in

Hola 2009!

Hello World! Happy new year to everyone! Cheers to 2009! The year 2008 already came and went and even though it had not been perfect, it had been a good year for me.


So to all those who had been good, bad, and nevermind to me in 2008, cheers! Let bygones be bygones...