Write, Stan. I do not even know what to type at this very moment. What I know is that I just have to start typing something not related to my work or else I would get more anxious. The more anxious I get, the more close I am to insanity.

Wait. Not knowing what to write IS making me feel more anxious. Not knowing what to write when all I have done ( Read more... )

"We cannot put policemen at the borders of an economically integrated world. Interchange is already and economic and ethical necessity." -Onorato 1991

By Dr. Jose P. Rizal

Unfold, oh timid flower !

Lift up your radiant brow,
This day, Youth of my native strand !
Your abounding talents show
Resplendently and grand,
Fair hope of my Motherland !

Soar high, oh genius great,
And with noble thoughts fill their mind;
The honor's glorious seat,
May their virgin mind fly and find
More rapidly than the wind.

Descend ( Read more... )

Hearing problems with my left ear has made me less of a music person. In fact, my iPod has become more of a PIM and social networking device than a media player. Still, the bubblegum popping disco boy in me has made me succumb to pop acts in spite of disability.

So I was listening to Kylie Minogue, Cher, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera when I ( Read more... )

Ika nga ni Mareng Natasha, "Today is where my book begins, the rest is still unwritten".

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are ( Read more... )

Those are one of the first questions that entered my mind after my ex decided to break up with me. For a moment, I thought I lost everything. The only thing I was keen on was to be there for him, to make him smile because his happiness meant everything to me---because his happiness used to be me.

I remember telling myself I will be okay and I ( Read more... )

The pain will not go away. Bakit ako naiiyak pa rin?

So I am caught in another moment of weakness. It's a vicious cycle, really.

At this point I still get sad when I hear your name. I still find it hard to bear that to you everything is done between us.

I keep on asking myself what could I have done to save us? Where did I go wrong? Was not all that we had worth anything?

Am I trash?

And the saddest.

A couple of weeks ago, I lost the love of my life to the big world out there. What I once considered mine is now the world's possession. I was too selfish to let go knowing that once out there, everything becomes out of control and unpredictable. That to him, my existence becomes shrouded by the multitude of stimuli the outside ( Read more... )