Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Is there an AutoLoadMax shortage all over the archipelago? hehe
i was thinking what to post in my blogspot, but i wasn't able to think of any... i wanted to write about my excitement of procuring my passport tomorrow (but before that, NBI and Barangay Clearances first). i don't know how long it will take me to acquire those documents. all i know is that, i need that for our teach and study program in China (hopefully i will be included in the final list). Enough of those side stories (hehe), i asked my friend to load my cellphone with 60 pesos but dyaraan! "wala daw autoload sa buong pilipinas!".. oh! what a pleasant surprise! what will happen next? do i have to buy a cellcard (maybe the cheapest which is 100 pesos), but i find it hard now to scratch the silver coating (if that's what you call it) :-) just to reveal the card number and card pin.. For me, that's too much effort. Oh, that's too indolent of me! hehe.. Am just sharing my sentiments, you know! i will be doing my analysis regarding these things later...
Friday, April 21, 2006
my stomach aches...
after skipping two meals (breakfast and lunch), i took a well-deserved meal together with weber. Duh! i found sufficiency with "footsilog" (footlong, sinangag, and itlog) plus an 'extra' rice... instead of drinking water, i drank pop cola. And now my stomach aches... sorry for being so insensible, forgive me.
confused and still hurtin'
i don't know why but i'm really hurtin' deep within - - - what's with that smile that melts my heart? what's with that laugh that serves as a music to my soul? what's with you that makes me happy? whenever you're around, whenever i'm with you, i can't explain how and why, but there's this magic that lingers my entirety... i know it seems foolish but i'm truly gettin' addicted to you, it may not be right but the hell i care, yeah! i love you! no, i really have fallen in love with you... but 'til when should i wait? it's impossible for you to love me the way i do... i tried to pull away but i just can't... damn! you're always in my mind, whatever i do, wherever i am, you're always there! isn't enough? are you numb? can't you feel it? minamahal kita... wag mo na akong pahirapan pa... :-(
Thursday, April 20, 2006
My Book Review on By The River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept
By Paulo Coelho
Translated By Alan R. Clarke
By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept is a story of two lovers that come together again after 12 long years. The woman is named Pilar who has become independent and strong. Her childhood friend has become a handsome spiritual leader. She has learned to bury her feelings, while he has turned to religion as a refuge from his inner conflicts.
The book discusses life’s big questions and presents realizations on our contemporary religion. It also showcases insights about love and the other elements that love encompasses.
The story’s beginning is its ending. It started by Pilar’s recollection of what had transpired in her reunion with her childhood friend. The work is structured through the use of dates in a span of one week. It helps to understand and visualize the situation they are in. it also justifies how the two major characters spent a day of being together again after 12 long years of longingness and concealment of their true feelings.
The story is told from the perspective of the woman (Pilar). She is revealed to the readers as someone who longs to see her friend since she was a child. To take a woman’s perspective would present emotions and ideas that are once not free from the biases and prejudices of the society. It also implies that not only men have the monopoly over things that concern insights and ideas on love, life, societal issues, and religion.
Pilar and her childhood friend (whose name was never mentioned) in the story, and the other minor characters represent the many conflicts that besiege us in our quest for love. The characters that were not named represent anyone who sees themselves to any of the characters in the story. They conveyed to us that sadness, suffering, and abandonment are elements of ‘love’ that we need not fear of experiencing. The characters are fictitious, but they let us realize that we have to overcome our fears, because the spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.
The time setting of the story is conventional and the place set is Spain and France. The story did tackle of religions of the human race and the place setting helps the readers understand where the characters are coming from since Spain and France are nations enveloped with religion.
A crystal-clear discussion on love and life is fascinating. This book talks about love and life that go hand in hand, and is equated to saying that this book is fully-fascinating.
The book also tackled the possibility that God has a feminine face. Enough to say that this book used the perspective of the feminists. I respect Coelho’s idea but I decline to delve on that matter, not because I close my mind regarding it but because I chose not to go beyond the religion I grew up knowing. Moreover, our faith keeps us going and the truth resides where there is faith.
By The River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept is the fourth novel of Paulo Coelho that I have read. The other three are The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes, and Veronika Decides To Die. All these books were able to touch my heart’s soft spot. Coelho’s works moved me and appealed to my senses. The Brazilian author never fails to let his readers appreciate life more and give clear-cut thoughts about it.
Publisher: Harper-Collins Publications
Number of Pages: 180 (excluding the Author’s note)
To Love is to Lose Control… marcky_24
By Paulo Coelho
Translated By Alan R. Clarke
By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept is a story of two lovers that come together again after 12 long years. The woman is named Pilar who has become independent and strong. Her childhood friend has become a handsome spiritual leader. She has learned to bury her feelings, while he has turned to religion as a refuge from his inner conflicts.
The book discusses life’s big questions and presents realizations on our contemporary religion. It also showcases insights about love and the other elements that love encompasses.
The story’s beginning is its ending. It started by Pilar’s recollection of what had transpired in her reunion with her childhood friend. The work is structured through the use of dates in a span of one week. It helps to understand and visualize the situation they are in. it also justifies how the two major characters spent a day of being together again after 12 long years of longingness and concealment of their true feelings.
The story is told from the perspective of the woman (Pilar). She is revealed to the readers as someone who longs to see her friend since she was a child. To take a woman’s perspective would present emotions and ideas that are once not free from the biases and prejudices of the society. It also implies that not only men have the monopoly over things that concern insights and ideas on love, life, societal issues, and religion.
Pilar and her childhood friend (whose name was never mentioned) in the story, and the other minor characters represent the many conflicts that besiege us in our quest for love. The characters that were not named represent anyone who sees themselves to any of the characters in the story. They conveyed to us that sadness, suffering, and abandonment are elements of ‘love’ that we need not fear of experiencing. The characters are fictitious, but they let us realize that we have to overcome our fears, because the spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.
The time setting of the story is conventional and the place set is Spain and France. The story did tackle of religions of the human race and the place setting helps the readers understand where the characters are coming from since Spain and France are nations enveloped with religion.
A crystal-clear discussion on love and life is fascinating. This book talks about love and life that go hand in hand, and is equated to saying that this book is fully-fascinating.
The book also tackled the possibility that God has a feminine face. Enough to say that this book used the perspective of the feminists. I respect Coelho’s idea but I decline to delve on that matter, not because I close my mind regarding it but because I chose not to go beyond the religion I grew up knowing. Moreover, our faith keeps us going and the truth resides where there is faith.
By The River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept is the fourth novel of Paulo Coelho that I have read. The other three are The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes, and Veronika Decides To Die. All these books were able to touch my heart’s soft spot. Coelho’s works moved me and appealed to my senses. The Brazilian author never fails to let his readers appreciate life more and give clear-cut thoughts about it.
Publisher: Harper-Collins Publications
Number of Pages: 180 (excluding the Author’s note)
To Love is to Lose Control… marcky_24
My Vision to a Better World
Helen Keller once said, “The most pathetic man on earth is one who has sight, but has no vision”. Before, I only see the problems and the flaws of the society I am in and did finger-pointing without resolving any of these. I concede that I do not have the right to complain, when in fact, I just see these problems as problems. Now, I am better. Problems are now challenges I have to take. I know I have to start it with myself and it would somehow lessen the burdens of the society.
My vision to a better world is when the time comes that everyone would realize the purpose of their existence. The world is better when everyone knows what role they should perform and able to live not only for themselves but for others. Selfless living is equated to a world where the ‘essentials of life’ is present: trust, love, respect and faith.
Let us remember that vision without action is just a dream, action without vision is just passing the time, and vision with action can change the world. I challenge my fellow youth to take chances, create a stand and make a change. We are the catalyst of social transformation, and we have the fate of the ‘better’ world in our hands. Just keep the faith.
My vision to a better world is when the time comes that everyone would realize the purpose of their existence. The world is better when everyone knows what role they should perform and able to live not only for themselves but for others. Selfless living is equated to a world where the ‘essentials of life’ is present: trust, love, respect and faith.
Let us remember that vision without action is just a dream, action without vision is just passing the time, and vision with action can change the world. I challenge my fellow youth to take chances, create a stand and make a change. We are the catalyst of social transformation, and we have the fate of the ‘better’ world in our hands. Just keep the faith.
An Introduction
One night, before I went to sleep, I stood before the mirror in my bedroom trying to ponder about the many changes I had undergone. I came to a realization that so many things had changed in me, from the physical to my intellectual attributes. I am no longer the chummy friend I knew before, the childish and immature one. I present a different me now.
Let me tell you who I am now in three descriptions that speak well of me:
First, I am a warrior in the ways; I surpass the toughs and roughs of life. Circumstances never hamper my options in life, since I don’t allow it to do so. Another, I usually detach myself from the world but it doesn’t mean that I don’t let experiences penetrate me. Instead, I let it in fully;
Second, I am a hopeless romantic. I don’t search for someone to love because stupid it may seem, I believe that it will come knocking on my heart’s door. I put high value on coincidences, serendipity, and destiny. I believe in soulmates, that someone is intended to meet me at the crossroad, in the process of pursuing the blueprint of my life.
Lastly, I am an extremely sensitive person. Sometimes, my emotions overpower my more logical side. I embark upon a course of action, only to change my mind halfway, because it simply doesn’t feel right.
I am a warrior, a hopeless romantic, and an extremely sensitive person. That’s how I know myself but the moment I face other people, they give me another definition of who I am. It doesn’t confuse me; it only proves to show that I deal differently with different people. I ask myself over and over again whether, “Am I being unfair when I treat them with certain leveling or maybe I simply give them what they deserve from me?” Admittedly, I’m still in the phase of finding out the answer to this mind-boggling question.
The people in my circle give me the three “Essentials of Life”, which is love, trust, and respect. I also do the same, only I give it out, too easily. Yes, I give out love, trust, and respect that easily because I have this firm disposition that all deserve it regardless of who they are and where they come from. But once the one I love hurts me, I will remember the pain. Once the one I trust, betrays me, I will remember the betrayal. Once the one I respect disdains me, I will remember the contempt. It is disheartening to admit that once these Essentials of Life are gone, redeeming it would shy away from the possibilities.
My imperfections keep me going and it gives me an everyday struggle for perfection. As they say, “Nobody’s perfect,” but everybody tries to be perfect. I know what I stated will make eyebrows rise inches above its original location. Nothing is wrong to aim for perfection and nothing is wrong to set standards of my own. To be perfect will stop me from my noble pursuits of making this world a better place to live in and of promoting peace among the entities that survive along with me. I’m imperfect but absolutely doing just fine.
I have made myself known to whoever reads this paper; you have created your impressions of me in approximately three minutes. If destiny will permit, find me in the campus where I roam around, and give me the only chance to know you and you to know me, and you will have reasons for me to stay in your life. Right there and then, you can conclude who I am. Again, I’m imperfect and I don’t have everything, because to have everything will undermine the values of needing and wanting.
Let me tell you who I am now in three descriptions that speak well of me:
First, I am a warrior in the ways; I surpass the toughs and roughs of life. Circumstances never hamper my options in life, since I don’t allow it to do so. Another, I usually detach myself from the world but it doesn’t mean that I don’t let experiences penetrate me. Instead, I let it in fully;
Second, I am a hopeless romantic. I don’t search for someone to love because stupid it may seem, I believe that it will come knocking on my heart’s door. I put high value on coincidences, serendipity, and destiny. I believe in soulmates, that someone is intended to meet me at the crossroad, in the process of pursuing the blueprint of my life.
Lastly, I am an extremely sensitive person. Sometimes, my emotions overpower my more logical side. I embark upon a course of action, only to change my mind halfway, because it simply doesn’t feel right.
I am a warrior, a hopeless romantic, and an extremely sensitive person. That’s how I know myself but the moment I face other people, they give me another definition of who I am. It doesn’t confuse me; it only proves to show that I deal differently with different people. I ask myself over and over again whether, “Am I being unfair when I treat them with certain leveling or maybe I simply give them what they deserve from me?” Admittedly, I’m still in the phase of finding out the answer to this mind-boggling question.
The people in my circle give me the three “Essentials of Life”, which is love, trust, and respect. I also do the same, only I give it out, too easily. Yes, I give out love, trust, and respect that easily because I have this firm disposition that all deserve it regardless of who they are and where they come from. But once the one I love hurts me, I will remember the pain. Once the one I trust, betrays me, I will remember the betrayal. Once the one I respect disdains me, I will remember the contempt. It is disheartening to admit that once these Essentials of Life are gone, redeeming it would shy away from the possibilities.
My imperfections keep me going and it gives me an everyday struggle for perfection. As they say, “Nobody’s perfect,” but everybody tries to be perfect. I know what I stated will make eyebrows rise inches above its original location. Nothing is wrong to aim for perfection and nothing is wrong to set standards of my own. To be perfect will stop me from my noble pursuits of making this world a better place to live in and of promoting peace among the entities that survive along with me. I’m imperfect but absolutely doing just fine.
I have made myself known to whoever reads this paper; you have created your impressions of me in approximately three minutes. If destiny will permit, find me in the campus where I roam around, and give me the only chance to know you and you to know me, and you will have reasons for me to stay in your life. Right there and then, you can conclude who I am. Again, I’m imperfect and I don’t have everything, because to have everything will undermine the values of needing and wanting.
Monday, April 17, 2006
starting over...
omg, i want to start the school year right, and the right thing is to have a blogspot... hehe. my friends have been constantly encouraging me to have one and i finally did! Expect that i will regularly update my blog. Hey! why sentiments? hehe, simply because what i will post here are my sentiments over things. I am a person who's full of sentiments... hehe. So watch out!
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