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Sunday, April 30, 2006
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Quote Quiz Puzzles (Part 2)
Here's the second part of my collection of The Daily Informer Quotequiz puzzles...
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
---Anne Bradstreet
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
---Herbert Hoover
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
---Cicero
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
---Jerome R. Jerome
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
---Hosea Ballou
The first and worst of all fraud is to cheat oneself.
---Gamaliel Bailey
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those which come as the result of hard fighting are the only ones worth having.
---Henry Ward Beecher
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
---Don Herold
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
---Oscar Wilde
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
---Aubrey T. De Vera
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering.
---Robert Lynd
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
---Mark Twain
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
---Charles William Dement
Maternity is a career imposed on you without any inquiry into your witness.
---Adlai E. Stevenson
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
---Ingrid Bergman
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
---Joseph Conrad
Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
---Job E. Hedges
A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.
---Lord Chesterfield
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
---William Blake
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
---Aristotle
There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.
---Josh Billings
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which independence is equal, the dependence is mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
---Louis K. Anspacher
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
---Jean Paul Richter
Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.
---Leo Tolstoi
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
---Anne Bradstreet
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
---Herbert Hoover
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
---Cicero
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
---Jerome R. Jerome
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
---Hosea Ballou
The first and worst of all fraud is to cheat oneself.
---Gamaliel Bailey
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those which come as the result of hard fighting are the only ones worth having.
---Henry Ward Beecher
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
---Don Herold
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
---Oscar Wilde
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
---Aubrey T. De Vera
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering.
---Robert Lynd
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
---Mark Twain
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
---Charles William Dement
Maternity is a career imposed on you without any inquiry into your witness.
---Adlai E. Stevenson
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
---Ingrid Bergman
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
---Joseph Conrad
Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
---Job E. Hedges
A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.
---Lord Chesterfield
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
---William Blake
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
---Aristotle
There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.
---Josh Billings
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which independence is equal, the dependence is mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
---Louis K. Anspacher
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
---Jean Paul Richter
Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.
---Leo Tolstoi
Logic Problems
Think you're smart? Then test your know-how on these simple Logic Problems! And drop by the tagboard to say HI!
Bachelor Binge
One week five bachelors agreed to go out together to eat the 5 evening meals on Monday through Friday. It was understood that Eric would miss Friday's meal because of an out-of-town wedding at which he fervently hoped to catch the bride's garter. Each bachelor served as the host at a restaurant of his choice on a different night. Use the clues below to determine which bachelor hosted the group each night and what food he selected.
1. Carl hosted the group on Wednesday.
2. The fellows ate at a Thai restaurant on Friday.
3. Bill, who detests fish, volunteered to be the first host.
4. Dave selected a steak house for the night before one of the fellows hosted everyone at a raucous pizza parlor.
Notable Neighbors
There are five houses in a row, each of a different color, and inhabited by 5 people of different nationalities, with different pets, favorite drinks, and favorite sports. Use the clues below to determine who owns the monkey and who drinks water.
1. The Englishman lives in the red house.
2. The Spaniard owns the dog.
3. Coffee is drunk in the green house.
4. The Russian drinks tea.
5. The green house is immediately to the right of the white house.
6. The hockey player owns hamsters.
7. The football player lives in the yellow house.
8. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
9. The American lives in the first house on the left.
10. The table tennis player lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
11. The football player lives next to the house where the horse is kept.
12. The basketball player drinks orange juice.
13. The Japanese likes baseball.
14. The American lives next to the blue house.
Exam Logjams
Ten students, sitting in 2 rows of 5 each, took their 500-point final exam in advanced calculus. The students' scores were all multiples of ten with no two of them receiving the same score. Use the following clues and the professor's seating chart below to determine which students sat in which seats and the test score each student earned.
1. Hugh sat next to both Ida and to the student making 82%, which was the lowest grade on the test.
2. George and the student scoring 470 sat in diagonally opposite corner seats.
3. Chuck sat somewhere between Bill and the student scoring 410, although these 3 students are not necessarily in the same row. Similarly, Ann sat somewhere between Eve and the student scoring 490.
4. The sum of the scores of the students sitting in the first column is 880.
5. Jerry's score was 10 points better than Dolly's but 50 points less than Frank's.
6. The average score of those in Column 2 is the same as that of those in Column 4, but is 5 points less than the average of those in Column 3.
7. The student with the lowest score of those in the first row sat directly in front of the student with the highest score of those in the second row.
8. The average test score of those in the first row is 46 points higher than the average of those in the second row.
Bachelor Binge
One week five bachelors agreed to go out together to eat the 5 evening meals on Monday through Friday. It was understood that Eric would miss Friday's meal because of an out-of-town wedding at which he fervently hoped to catch the bride's garter. Each bachelor served as the host at a restaurant of his choice on a different night. Use the clues below to determine which bachelor hosted the group each night and what food he selected.
1. Carl hosted the group on Wednesday.
2. The fellows ate at a Thai restaurant on Friday.
3. Bill, who detests fish, volunteered to be the first host.
4. Dave selected a steak house for the night before one of the fellows hosted everyone at a raucous pizza parlor.
Notable Neighbors
There are five houses in a row, each of a different color, and inhabited by 5 people of different nationalities, with different pets, favorite drinks, and favorite sports. Use the clues below to determine who owns the monkey and who drinks water.
1. The Englishman lives in the red house.
2. The Spaniard owns the dog.
3. Coffee is drunk in the green house.
4. The Russian drinks tea.
5. The green house is immediately to the right of the white house.
6. The hockey player owns hamsters.
7. The football player lives in the yellow house.
8. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
9. The American lives in the first house on the left.
10. The table tennis player lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
11. The football player lives next to the house where the horse is kept.
12. The basketball player drinks orange juice.
13. The Japanese likes baseball.
14. The American lives next to the blue house.
Exam Logjams
Ten students, sitting in 2 rows of 5 each, took their 500-point final exam in advanced calculus. The students' scores were all multiples of ten with no two of them receiving the same score. Use the following clues and the professor's seating chart below to determine which students sat in which seats and the test score each student earned.
1. Hugh sat next to both Ida and to the student making 82%, which was the lowest grade on the test.
2. George and the student scoring 470 sat in diagonally opposite corner seats.
3. Chuck sat somewhere between Bill and the student scoring 410, although these 3 students are not necessarily in the same row. Similarly, Ann sat somewhere between Eve and the student scoring 490.
4. The sum of the scores of the students sitting in the first column is 880.
5. Jerry's score was 10 points better than Dolly's but 50 points less than Frank's.
6. The average score of those in Column 2 is the same as that of those in Column 4, but is 5 points less than the average of those in Column 3.
7. The student with the lowest score of those in the first row sat directly in front of the student with the highest score of those in the second row.
8. The average test score of those in the first row is 46 points higher than the average of those in the second row.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
On (Bad Hand)Writing
Amusingly, I came in contact with quite a number of my English teachers today. Well, let me just have my time in patting myself on the back. They all say I've always been good in writing, in English, and everything else in between. Well, just to rain on my own parade, one of them also told me that I had a terrible penmanship.
I'm not quite sure when I came to realize just how terrible were the marks and hieroglyphical scratches I made on my notebooks, but when high school came, none of my classmates missed to inform me that I held the coveted distinction of having the crudest handwriting ever (Felizer only came second.)! I've just been able to realize just how much of a hard time I gave my teachers in reading my writing. I'll bet they thought at the back of their minds that I had good ideas on the topics discussed, but my writing was so terrible that they weren't sure exactly. Lucky me, I'm sure they ended giving me the benefit of the doubt which is why I managed to survive all my writing courses.
I do feel lucky to have been blessed by some of the best English teachers around! I'm indebted most of all to Ma'am Aida... I truly believe that I wouldn't be able to write the way I do now had it not been for her super strict rules.
Wonder where she is now...
I'm not quite sure when I came to realize just how terrible were the marks and hieroglyphical scratches I made on my notebooks, but when high school came, none of my classmates missed to inform me that I held the coveted distinction of having the crudest handwriting ever (Felizer only came second.)! I've just been able to realize just how much of a hard time I gave my teachers in reading my writing. I'll bet they thought at the back of their minds that I had good ideas on the topics discussed, but my writing was so terrible that they weren't sure exactly. Lucky me, I'm sure they ended giving me the benefit of the doubt which is why I managed to survive all my writing courses.
I do feel lucky to have been blessed by some of the best English teachers around! I'm indebted most of all to Ma'am Aida... I truly believe that I wouldn't be able to write the way I do now had it not been for her super strict rules.
Wonder where she is now...
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Shocked by the Code
I wish people would read the novel with an open mind. Others go to extreme lengths of criticizing it without even reading the novel completely.
Friday, April 14, 2006
The Daily Informer's Quote Quiz
Back in college, I had a lot of fun solving the Quote Quiz puzzles found in The Daily Informer. I was so hooked to the puzzles that I even cut them out and collected them. A few weeks back, I found them nestled inside my rotting folder and decided to encode them for future reference. Here are some of those quotes...
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
---David Seabury
Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
---Dr. Joyce Brothers
I just love when people say I can’t do something… because all my life people said I wasn’t going to make it.
---Ted Turner
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
---Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t focus on the days when you failed, focus on all of the days when you won. Keep a chart monitoring your successes and don’t give up.
---Robert Butterworth
Your thoughts determine your actions. Your actions determine your habits. Your habits determine your character. And your character gives birth to your destiny.
---Unknown
Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
---Oliver Goldsmith
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy are those who are convinced of the general opinion.
---Benjamin Franklin
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
---Horace Mann
That cause is strong, which has not a multitude, but a strong man behind it.
---James Russell Lowell
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seems to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
---Man Lerner
Act nothing in furious passion. It’s putting to sea in a storm.
---Thomas Zuller
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
---David Seabury
Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
---Dr. Joyce Brothers
I just love when people say I can’t do something… because all my life people said I wasn’t going to make it.
---Ted Turner
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
---Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t focus on the days when you failed, focus on all of the days when you won. Keep a chart monitoring your successes and don’t give up.
---Robert Butterworth
Your thoughts determine your actions. Your actions determine your habits. Your habits determine your character. And your character gives birth to your destiny.
---Unknown
Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
---Oliver Goldsmith
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy are those who are convinced of the general opinion.
---Benjamin Franklin
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
---Horace Mann
That cause is strong, which has not a multitude, but a strong man behind it.
---James Russell Lowell
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seems to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
---Man Lerner
Act nothing in furious passion. It’s putting to sea in a storm.
---Thomas Zuller
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
A day for the journals
This morning, I came across three journals of mine that I had in highschool and college, back when there weren't any blogs to broadcast your angst to. Yep, angst. I just realized how depressing my adolescent life had been just by reading all those journal entries that I made! It makes me thank GOd that I'm still alive by now. Goodness, if someone were perusing those entries, he might've thought that I ought to go to a psychiatric facility!
Well, I hope this blog doesn't reflect the same vibe as my journals did. I'm just glad adolescence is over! Now all I have to deal with is a life filled with yuppie angst... will it ever end?
Well, I hope this blog doesn't reflect the same vibe as my journals did. I'm just glad adolescence is over! Now all I have to deal with is a life filled with yuppie angst... will it ever end?
Monday, April 03, 2006
My Pagbutlak Entry
I wrote this article back when I was Associate Editor of Pagbutlak. I forgot if I wrote this using a typewriter or a computer. Made me recall what May Ann told me back in high school (I was Editor in Chief of Kasanag, together with Paeng Lobrin... ), "Kung handwritten lang mga articles sa KASANAG, madulaan gid ta Editor!"
I do not disagree one bit.
I do not disagree one bit.
***
The Victory Rally in Perspective
While history was being made when Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was controversially sworn into office as the 14th president of the Republic of the Philippines by Judge Hilario Davide amid the festive cheers of the voluminous people in EDSA, every UPV constituent, from the administration, the faculty members, the students, down to the staff and personnel all probably had one thing in mind --- what about Monday’s rally?
A little later, that probing question was somehow answered for me when I received a text message (Ah! The beauty of technology…) claiming that the plans for Monday were going to push through --- only this time, UPV was staging a victory rally.
I didn’t quite know how to react. My source was fairly reliable, but the content of the message seemed like those “pass-this-to-13-of-your-friends-and-get-lucky” type. It was the kind that makes you smirk and delete the message instantly. In other words, the content of the message seemed like a sick joke.
I’ve been involved in rallies since I was in high school. I’ve encountered many situations where people marched to the streets with placards and banners in hand, tirelessly hollering at the top of their voice, their disapproval and resentment towards all sorts of reasons --- from an exorbitant oil price hike, to an unjust bureaucratic system, to an unreasonable phase out of a school. But never had I seen people parade into the steaming asphalt, bare the heat of the sun, and cry their lungs out for a victorious cause. The idea seemed far-fetched to me. That’s why the message seemed like a sick joke.
I would have diligently dismissed the said message right away if I didn’t hear that firm voice of authority on the radio confirming that indeed, everything will go as planned on Monday. Placards and banners will still be made and paraded, a mass will still be held, speeches will still be listened to, and the entire UPV community (read: attendance will be checked!) will still be marching to the Rotary Amphitheater and be part of a program with a whole new different theme --- victory.
Then, I was really confused! Everything’s been said and done already. What was the point in staging a rally? Couldn’t we just modestly admit that we were, in fact, a little late and slow in mobilizing ourselves to make a definitive stand and let our voices be heard? Sure, there had been a noise barrage, a torch parade and even a walk-out but these measures were obviously very tiny drops compared to the bucket of water that we were capable of splashing!
Feeling a bit more cynical than I usually am, I made up my mind to attend the rally just for kicks, but I decided to arrive about an hour later than the supposed time of assembly. Besides, I had less faith in the nationalistic fervor of my generation than in my ability to finally develop a legible penmanship.
Imagine, therefore, how humbled I was to arrive on Monday morning and see the quadrangle brimming with Upinians of all shapes and sizes, soberly listening to the rather entertaining, yet still-solemn voice of Father Boy Celiz, who was celebrating the mass.
My thoughts of cynicism were gradually turning into a feeling of pride. Understandable, the march solicited varying reactions from people in the streets. People were cheering --- and jeering at the same time. The jeers were excusable, of course. We couldn’t expect everybody to share the same sentiments. In fact, it was more disappointing to arrive at the Amphitheater panting and sweating like a pig only to be greeted by those who were fresh as the morning dew, simply because they chose to go there in a faster, more efficient way. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
The program in the Amphitheater was arguably the best part of the entire day. Songs of social awareness filled the air as fiery speeches were being delivered and a victory dance was performed by no less than the UPV Faculty! The students joined in the lively celebration in no time and everybody seemed to be having lots of fun.
Everybody knew that the fight was far from over. It will take years, new administrations, and an awful lot of hard work and still, we may never get the kind of government that we need so badly. But at that moment of euphoric relief, nobody really seemed to care. At that moment, everybody was relishing the thought of overcoming one gargantuan obstacle. Everybody seemed to be comforted by the thought that after being trampled so low, there was absolutely no way to go but up.
Heck! At least we’ll live to fight --- and party --- for another day!
While history was being made when Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was controversially sworn into office as the 14th president of the Republic of the Philippines by Judge Hilario Davide amid the festive cheers of the voluminous people in EDSA, every UPV constituent, from the administration, the faculty members, the students, down to the staff and personnel all probably had one thing in mind --- what about Monday’s rally?
A little later, that probing question was somehow answered for me when I received a text message (Ah! The beauty of technology…) claiming that the plans for Monday were going to push through --- only this time, UPV was staging a victory rally.
I didn’t quite know how to react. My source was fairly reliable, but the content of the message seemed like those “pass-this-to-13-of-your-friends-and-get-lucky” type. It was the kind that makes you smirk and delete the message instantly. In other words, the content of the message seemed like a sick joke.
I’ve been involved in rallies since I was in high school. I’ve encountered many situations where people marched to the streets with placards and banners in hand, tirelessly hollering at the top of their voice, their disapproval and resentment towards all sorts of reasons --- from an exorbitant oil price hike, to an unjust bureaucratic system, to an unreasonable phase out of a school. But never had I seen people parade into the steaming asphalt, bare the heat of the sun, and cry their lungs out for a victorious cause. The idea seemed far-fetched to me. That’s why the message seemed like a sick joke.
I would have diligently dismissed the said message right away if I didn’t hear that firm voice of authority on the radio confirming that indeed, everything will go as planned on Monday. Placards and banners will still be made and paraded, a mass will still be held, speeches will still be listened to, and the entire UPV community (read: attendance will be checked!) will still be marching to the Rotary Amphitheater and be part of a program with a whole new different theme --- victory.
Then, I was really confused! Everything’s been said and done already. What was the point in staging a rally? Couldn’t we just modestly admit that we were, in fact, a little late and slow in mobilizing ourselves to make a definitive stand and let our voices be heard? Sure, there had been a noise barrage, a torch parade and even a walk-out but these measures were obviously very tiny drops compared to the bucket of water that we were capable of splashing!
Feeling a bit more cynical than I usually am, I made up my mind to attend the rally just for kicks, but I decided to arrive about an hour later than the supposed time of assembly. Besides, I had less faith in the nationalistic fervor of my generation than in my ability to finally develop a legible penmanship.
Imagine, therefore, how humbled I was to arrive on Monday morning and see the quadrangle brimming with Upinians of all shapes and sizes, soberly listening to the rather entertaining, yet still-solemn voice of Father Boy Celiz, who was celebrating the mass.
My thoughts of cynicism were gradually turning into a feeling of pride. Understandable, the march solicited varying reactions from people in the streets. People were cheering --- and jeering at the same time. The jeers were excusable, of course. We couldn’t expect everybody to share the same sentiments. In fact, it was more disappointing to arrive at the Amphitheater panting and sweating like a pig only to be greeted by those who were fresh as the morning dew, simply because they chose to go there in a faster, more efficient way. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
The program in the Amphitheater was arguably the best part of the entire day. Songs of social awareness filled the air as fiery speeches were being delivered and a victory dance was performed by no less than the UPV Faculty! The students joined in the lively celebration in no time and everybody seemed to be having lots of fun.
Everybody knew that the fight was far from over. It will take years, new administrations, and an awful lot of hard work and still, we may never get the kind of government that we need so badly. But at that moment of euphoric relief, nobody really seemed to care. At that moment, everybody was relishing the thought of overcoming one gargantuan obstacle. Everybody seemed to be comforted by the thought that after being trampled so low, there was absolutely no way to go but up.
Heck! At least we’ll live to fight --- and party --- for another day!
Sunday, April 02, 2006
First Love
They say first love never dies. I'm not sure if it really doesn't. But I'm quite positive that if it does, it keeps coming back to haunt you.
And when it does, the memories of those sleepless nights, the irrational mood swings, the semi-empty promises, the illogical belief that you'll be together for all eternity... all the bittersweet memories of that first love come flooding back like they were never gone at all.
You end up asking yourself what went wrong, what if, and what could have been. Then you'll realize... you'll never know.
And when it does, the memories of those sleepless nights, the irrational mood swings, the semi-empty promises, the illogical belief that you'll be together for all eternity... all the bittersweet memories of that first love come flooding back like they were never gone at all.
You end up asking yourself what went wrong, what if, and what could have been. Then you'll realize... you'll never know.
Ice Age 2 and The Buzz
Watched Ice Age 2 (I kept saying Ice Craze 2! Yep, I admit craving for Jollibee's Ice Craze --- Mais Con Hielo Special!) with my sisters this aftrnoon. The movie was nice though I felt sleepy in the course of watching it. Or maybe it's just coz I haven't been having a lott of sleep lately. Still bedcrashing with my sis!
***
This afternoon, the Celebrity Big 4 were interviewed in The Buzz. Interiewing Zanjoe and Bianca was useless coz they didn't admit to anything anyway. These two are impossible! While inside the house, you could swear their ready to pounce on each other if there weren't any cameras around. And yet when they're interviwed, they act as if it's no big deal. COME ON!!!
I didn't care about John Prats' interview. Though it had more pizzaz.
But Keanna? She made me laugh more than I laughed at Ice Craze... er, Ice Age.
Keanna Reeves --- PBB Big Winner
Yep, it's official --- Keanna Reeves is the Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition Big Winner!In her own words... "Woman Power!"
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Bianca Gonzales and Toni Gonzaga
I really liked Bianca. Sorry for being judgemental, I guess it's a person's nature to be that way. I just wish she didn't act the way she's acting inside big brother's house right now.hmmm... i guess i still like Toni better although I personally don't think she's as smart as she looks.
The Da Vinci Code
This book has made me go through a roller coaster of emotions... anger, fear, paranoia, disgust, and embarrassment. I won't dare go to through the details of these emotions, though. It's a really good read. And I think, in all its essence, what the book is actually trying to tell its readers is that you don't necessarily have to swallow everything that's shoved in your mouth. You've got to think, you've got to think...And while other sappy novels have driven me into falling in love, this book has actually made me realize that I had to break off from the love that I've long been feeling, to look at him in a much different light than what everybody else have been shoving into my face.
Faith is a very powerful thing. Not religion, but faith. I wish I could say that to his face.
missing
i recall my message just before the bus rolled away, just before we had to part ways...
"i'll be a lost soul without you, wandering the streets not knowing where to flee or where to hide. only when you come back will i find once again my life's true purpose..."
i honestly don't know how i will last these agonizing days being empty and well... empty. i guess it's times like these that have made me love Orange and Lemon's song...
"umuwi ka na baby, di na ako sanay nang wala ka
mahirap ang mag-isa,
at sa gabi'y hinahanap-hanap kita...
hanggang kailan ako maghihintay na makasama kang muli
sa buhay kong puno ng paghihirap,
at tanging ikaw lang ang pumapawi sa mga luha at
naglalagay ng ngiti sa mga labi...
umuwi ka na baby...
umuwi ka na baby...
umuwi ka na baby..."
"i'll be a lost soul without you, wandering the streets not knowing where to flee or where to hide. only when you come back will i find once again my life's true purpose..."
i honestly don't know how i will last these agonizing days being empty and well... empty. i guess it's times like these that have made me love Orange and Lemon's song...
"umuwi ka na baby, di na ako sanay nang wala ka
mahirap ang mag-isa,
at sa gabi'y hinahanap-hanap kita...
hanggang kailan ako maghihintay na makasama kang muli
sa buhay kong puno ng paghihirap,
at tanging ikaw lang ang pumapawi sa mga luha at
naglalagay ng ngiti sa mga labi...
umuwi ka na baby...
umuwi ka na baby...
umuwi ka na baby..."
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