IF I FIND YOU SUBMERGED IN MY INTROSPECTION, IT'S BECAUSE I AM ONE WHO OVERFLOWS WITH IT. MY EXISTENCE IS CAPTIONED BY THIS PREDICAMENT OF A LIFE LARGER THAN THE MARGINS PLACED AROUND ITS EDGES.
MY BITTERSWEET STATEMENTS IN SUPPORT OF THE FREEDOM TO EXPRESS..
I sneer at people who can throw invectives at others without knowing where they are insufficient... Those who rage in anger over things they never understood - like how two strangers connect without spending time to talk..Or why it seemed like they have known each other before?... In the paradigm of sacrifice, I am the one that always needed something to believe in, in all the aspects of my life. To live, to protect my children, to love and fight for others and everything that matters to my existence. I learned, slowly, in the length of time too stretched and far away that hope the same as love is the simplest of word we can think of and give. And ironically, the hardest to get in this world where deceit and betrayal can sometimes disguise themselves as over-bearing. The purity of heart will always remain the wall that shields us. It's certitude.
♥ON BOOK POWER!♥
I love books, I treasure them like my life. I spend thousands of minutes in Powerbooks - reading from prologues to epilogues before paying for them. And it's one freaking habit I carried on to ppl close to me - they're adddicted to it! .
♥MY TAKE ON KIDLAT TAHIMIK AND HIS SUNFLOWER HOUSE!♥
Truthfully,I would celebrate each day I get the chance to meet people who think this way. Kindred ideas of equal mindset... People who idolise Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Coelho's Warrior of the Light...People who can relish every second of conversation with Eric De Guia as he talks about the planks of woods he used to build his atelier on Session Rd..And how art is desecrated by wannabe's.
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♥ON THE SWIFT PASSING OF TIME...♥
Youth is fleeing, temporary. In this life, family & friendships are like the air that I breathe. I feel if you let go of those, just like your youth, everythin will be BLAH. We should keep them - like how you imagine a child holding tightly a lollipop in his hand..
♥WHAT ABOUT THE PALM READER?♥
An old soul, so said by a palm reader. One blink of my eyes would mean a thousand ideas conceived and processed... Do you know what constitutes the basic idea of being a woman of substance? When intelligent conversation matters more than sex itself.. I am starting to patronize that...How many reincarnations ive transcended? Caffeine-freak. Walk into my skin... Soulful.Ethereal.
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5.28.2004
MY DAUGHTER ROXEANNE




Isn't she a cutie? :D
She's the daughter I've always loved, as I do her Ate..All with the same amount of love, same magnitude..same style...

We call her Sasan..When she was born, Roxeanne by The Police was in the airwaves..Actually,
I was already recovering in my room at the hospital where I gave birth to her.
We named her Roxeanne Blue.
She looks exactly like her dad. I tell you, there can never be another who could look like Richard except Roxeanne!

I couldn't scan the photo I have of my other daughter, who, they say, looks exactly like me!Her name is Winona..She's always loved to be called Wam...
Probably later tonight, I'm gonna bug the IT guys (who wanted to kick me in the ass already
for always bugging them for my personal effects like this one) to help me with it...

Later!..I'm cramming to be home...

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5.25.2004
LIFE IS, ACCORDING TO BENJAMIN...

Recently, I was able to browse through the blog which Benjamin wrote.It was so heartfelt. One characteristic of any writing, for it to be called simple but brilliant.
I posted the 2 blogs he wrote..Some parts, only true-blooded Upians can relate to.
Please read on...And after, you will realise how much blessings we have around us, but we just look for something more to take them for granted. Like the stars you can gaze at night when you take your trash outside your house...Or the sound of the rain falling down hard...-Charisse



what is life? this question i tried to answer years ago. i began to pore over my existence and acknowledged the little things that made life worth living. here's the list i wrote in 1999:

LIFE IS...


- my little corner on the bed in the middle of the night with only my lamp on, listening to the whir of the electric fan and the buzz of the lamp's ballast
- being with my family during breakfast and making chitchat while washing dishes afterwards
- watching the leaves fall down
- a gust of wind bringing the leaves into a dance
- the dreary, foggy afternoon mist covering the sloping hilly grounds in UP
- long walks from far ends of the campus
- the rain falling down hard

- watching a starlit blue sky
- the moon casting shadows from the rooftops and brightening up the night
- the house at 2am

- good paper
- a comfy bed and sharing conversations with an old friend
- sitting on a wooden bench, looking out at the lagoon, and just staying there all afternoon
- loving your family
- eating lunch at 4pm and dinner at 10pm
- spending the afternoon with friends at the library
- keeping your toiletbowl warm and nice reading a good book, comicbook, magazine or the day's paper

- orange juice at dinner
- oatmeal and powdered milk
- choir rehearsals and singing everywhere walay ulaw
- concerts at the sunken garden
- discussing films as if you really have anything to say
- travelling by bus
- comfy outfit

- rulers, triangles, techpens, and erasers
- walking through a crowded street
- sitting behind the bulletin boards in FC and watching shoes pass by
- stuff on my bed
- isaw sa may ilang2x
- rodic's
- the beach house and the area surrounding the main library

- lots of 2nd hand books
- throwing things out
- fishing them out from the wastebasket and keeping them again
- sorting through stuff and rediscovering them
- lying down in the middle of the sunken garden at 9am and praying to God while staring the bright cloudy sky

- enjoying the sight of everyday people
- learning that every person has his own sense of art and loving, character habit, need or craving, manners, upbringing, outlook in life, and other eccentricities which him more interesting and, at the same time, more human
- the night
- the day at 8am
- the afternoon at 3pm
- the night at 7pm
- the night at 3am

- mexico
- killing time at gaisano city in the afternoon
- 10am piano concerts at home
- potluck lunches at home
- keeping to yourself and learning more about the person God made you to be
- headaches, hardships and pain
- opportunities to work, earn, and learn
- enjoying life


LIFE IS ALSO...

- being surrounded by pencils, paint, chalk, etc.
- the smell of newly-sharpened pencils, pastel, watercolor
- ruling pens
- being in an unfamiliar place and documenting it on film
- studying and living out art
- being human
- movies!
- video stores and picking out titles to rent or buy using imaginary money won from pera o bayong
- tower records and their film soundtrack collection

- the art galleries in megamall (art accessible to the masses)
- the interior center in megamall
- shangri-la and the various film festivals it hosts
- my bag filled with all kinds of stuff: paper, art mat'ls, my little pouchbag, a pair of underwear maybe, tubao, a book, nailcutter, cutter, techpens and markers, and my organizer
- my star wars organizer bigay ni cuzin edge
- my boxes in my room filled with all paperstuff from yonder years
- my underwear drawer with all my underwear and my cd collection

- life is this green folder of mine filled with ideas and concepts for future films
- daydreaming of making a film
- dreaming of winning 100,000 to buy a good mini-dv and an editing machine
- designing your life story and thinking of how to lay it out on a book
- book designing

- sleep
- sleep
- not being able to sleep because you got too excited listening to rent

- life is looking up my ceiling filled with glow in the dark stars
- meeting and saying hi to the moon when taking out the garbage at night
- my e.t. stuffed alien i got from my dad for my 11th birthday
- trying to improve one's self

- life is adobo, lots of rice, and a glass of iced coke
- lechon ribs, lotsa rice and coke
- chicken al fresco sa cogon market!
- spanish class
- travelling during vacation breaks
- eating chocolate when you have a fever
- orange juice when youre sick

- doing your laundry and sorting them by color
- doing the dishes
- thrashing when im really angry (which happens rarely)
- silver rings and bracelets

- life is not getting frustrated because youre doing something
you really love! like playing the piano all day or painting and taking
photographs or singing or watching films or sleeping or living...

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