a look at our backyard :) ...a garden recall...

and there is h. saya, our lovable cat :) ...

beautiful blooms...

what a day to begin with
when you see flowers at your desk
what a fresh start to unlock the day for
no one knows what it is lurking at its end

flowers, their perfumes are bottled
to be spritz and splash in your collar
to make you smell like a million dollar
man or woman for your muse and love

jasmine aka sampaguita you are that
together with ilang-ilang, rosal
dama de noche and champaca
your sweet scent rules these balmy nights

i plant flowers for the bees to suck
i plant blooms for my garden to be plucked
by admiring hands, smiling enthusiasts
with golden hearts, of the old and the young

sampaguita you are so bonita
pure and white, clean and bright
you've been picked, bundled as a lace
and sold in front of churches

sampaguita, your silence speaks
your perfume captivates
the tired, the old, and the lame
the poor and the barren in spirits

but most of all and the best
you are tossed at the feet of saints
hung on their hands and necks
and laid to adorn Jesus on its feet

then your existence is justified even how short it is...

beautifully arranged sampaguita in a vase...pic is from the www. thank you for sharing your perfectly presented true flower art, the best :)

calling the awesome power of weaponry

when rulers stay a seemingly forever grip on power for decades without being questioned there will come a time that their people will question their government's legitimacy. and when retaliations are directed to its citizens in protest seeking freedom and change killing them in the process then the community of civilized nations could not just stand by and watch. operation "Odyssey Dawn" was launched. same power that was unleashed in the Balkans in Kosovo, in Iraq and now in Libya. Mr. Qaddafi certainly would be defeated at the end, the only question is how and when... similar maybe to the fates of the former Yugoslavian and Iraqi presidents...only time will tell...democracy is a dear form of government by the people where the majority rules brought about by elections. power should not only be concentrated or held by one hand for ages for chances should be given as well to the rest of the populace esp. to the brilliant who has the qualities to lead...image is a tomahawk missile on cruise...

only love, nothing less & nothing more...

a nice mantra for all of us to live by...but it takes walking that extra mile to reach it for there are other unkind emotions that are competing against it... maybe if we think or visualize that cross where suffering is etched, it might help for sacrifice is suffering and suffering is a sign of love. i need to keep this always in my mind...(^&*)...pic of a heart-shaped bloom taken in my garden one great summer :)

tell that to the wind

i don't know if the wind has ears
i don't know if the sea has sheen
i don't know if the waves is strong
that it can carry us as we tread along
not like a tsunami that will kill
not like a tsunami that will break
our spirits, toss our bodies, own our lives
leave us devastated and bury us
in our graves alive

i like the wind to be blowing softly at my hair
i like the sun to be shining in shimmers in that canopy of trees
i like the moon to be smiling at me at night
i like the stars to be a necklace adorning my chest
i like the earth to be a paradise filled with love
full of compassion, understanding, mercy and the likes
but most of all...i like us to be friends forever
even if you're mad and i'm mad...

music is magic...

a very soulful rendition...

where are the robots?

Japan is tech superb but i was just wondering, where are their robots to work on these nuclear plants that humans are the ones being sent doing these very dangerous jobs of fixing these damage reactors. did no one thought of this before or they are just so confident that none of this horrific event would even come to happen in the future as it did now...wow, and this expert as i just heard in the news today described it as if it is a 15 round boxing fight we are just at round 3. so we are just barely caught at the start of this dire and desperate spectacle in nuclear terms. i really hoped that robots could do this work instead of humans which really would make perfect sense to me at least...

a professor of physics here just made a grim assessment of what is going on in Japan's nuclear reactors. that meltdown is on the way if it hasn't happened yet, so he is talking of the last resort of calling the army like what Mr. Gorbachev did in Chernobyl. they dumped sand bags and poured concrete to seal that place. and you can not even imagine the great sacrifice of these japanese workers there. they are literally giving up their lives. the government officials are just new in their office so there is a scramble of what to do in that government. how sad and how heroic if you think about people involved in this seemingly race against time of winning a losing battle...

at the end...

let's make music reign...in the hands of the masters :)...yes, music where my name is related to, laughs, plus some other things...okay, i am trying hard to live to my namesake's specification :)...happy? i do try :>...helper, yes, i've done that! princess? nope, just a queen for a night when i was younger and that was ages ago, now you know that i'm an old geyser, laughs. oh well. but music is definitely my like and my love :) and in japanese i run across the field, that i can't figure out, for what? hmn, used in a sentence..."a spectacular run across the field of all things soccer" and "The rink ran across the field from first base to third base with second base being... means the Cubs have won...so maybe my name's japanese meaning is not bad at all. just a trivial stuff of non-importance to anyone except me, of course...(^_~)...

till the end of time

how many swallows
have you counted so far
how many jets
did you see passed above
that were ready to land

how many magic or illusions
did you see casted
by the man that disappeared
and never came back
in our eyes

did you see eternity
in these moments
of our time
that stayed
and never ran out

love is just today
for you can tell that
the river was filled with lies
love that till the end
of time that never was

tell the swallows
that the song is just
a dream that never came

tell the swallows
that at the end
of the rainbow
there is no gold

there is no story
for it's an empty promise
that the bees just
buzzed all around...

love songs are like dreams in the night that it's gone when we wake up. it is like our loves, our muses, our partners that are unfaithful, untrue, so weak that they can't withstand the test of time...and they wanna be free from our grasp. but hey who knows people change if love is true, even if i am against second chances, this is just for myself :)...so let's give them that second chance :) as if we did not learn our lessons well...but we are just humans so that is the reason why :> and true love conquers all as that passage had said eloquently in the past and still haunts us today in our times, why? for it's very true :)  and that love is like a drug, or an alcohol or a smoking habit that it's hard to kick out, laughs...then we are just prisoners of the memories created of that past...like a stinky rat that comes back in our sight, laughs. but life and love is like that, until the end, until the end of the rainbow that we see up above but its end is devoid of color, no gold, no light which is kinda sad, but at some point we must accept the truth, that love after all is an emotion that may last or it may never stay forever in our lives...

let's prolong life, let's aid a life...

we are "born to care and to make smiles appear again" thanks johnson and johnson for noticing and making this commercial. not only nurses who can make a difference, we all can in different means and in different ways :)

we all came from dust be our blood is tinged with nobility or not, ash wednesday the official start of lent always reminds me of that :)

on going evacuations...

today the U.S. department had issued a 50 mile evacuation area of its citizens from the damaged nuclear reactors while Japan had only issued a 12 mile perimeter evacuation area of its citizens. multi-national corporations based in Japan are also evacuating their employees out of harm's way, meaning out of the country so airports are jam packed and airlines are adding extra flights to accommodate people who would want to fly out. the levels of radiation measured 20 times of normal levels in Tokyo today per reports and even my favorite doctor sanjay gupta and anderson cooper, both had to wear a measuring device for detecting radiation levels and he, the best MD :) was exposed to abnormal levels from where he is in japan now. U.S. experts are working with the Japanese to activate a power source which hopefully will work in 24 hrs. at the site to help in the cooling of these reactors. japan has 55 nuclear power plants and the U.S. has more than a hundred but the philippines has zero. so that is why the philippines is a third world country and the two are rated first in modern times. you've got to have a power source to support growing industries but now this is the sad drawback. i am really concerned as well that the philippines is a neighbor. i know the proximity is quite far for toxic levels to reach it but radiation also invades the water and our food supply. so even worry is not a healthy feeling for the body, it remains there for me...and i am glad that no planned vacation for me this year to my country of birth :)

with these very unfortunate triple whammy of a catasthrope... of an earthquake, tsunami and now nuclear crisis, this country really is being tested on its resiliency...but in all of these what struck reporters from here in the U.S. is that there is no looting observed in Japan in contrast to what had happened in similar disasters here. the people of Japan are in the helping mode instead of in the stealing mode which is very, very commendable...

may the suffering in Japan comes to an end, let's pray...that their efforts to contain any nuclear meltdown will be successful for the news is not very encouraging right now. everything happens for a reason but only God has the power to stop any apocalyptic events in our universe. let's pray for His grace and mercy in this time of urgent need...

and even with the presence of sad news in the world, music must continue...i sing even with mistakes of pronunciations, lyrics, out of tune and all, laughs, for music is an outlet for me and it gives me true fun. that is my own perspective :) and i'm pretty sure jane and joe have theirs as well :? and it won't be a surprise if it is different from mine. reminder... live and let live folks :)

everything changes in 12-21-2012?

the intelligence of humans is remarkable by just putting this alone, but the intelligence of God is much superior He who knows it all...ergo, 12-21-2012 when it comes will tell the truth :)

a strong earthquake hit japan, let's pray for...

the victims and hope for a tsunami free casualty to countries who are on its path...

like a thief in the night

what force would let you stop
the thoughts in your mind
and pay attention to the
ceiling up above

what movement would leave you helpless
that all you can do is to grab
the chair behind, in front
or at your back

that time is ticking too slowly
as the seconds felt like eternity
the wind is stuck at pause
forever at your foot

as the ground, grind, shake
rottle and tremble
as the matches of buildings
sway back and forth

life you wonder, will it end here
or will it unfolds
life which is too short
will it come now closing at your door

we seem to think forever
that life is just a journey
that moves along as we grow old
and very tired to the bones

but when the earth moves in sudden
slow phase like it did today
our lives as humans come in jeopardy
as we face the reality of our own mortality...

earthquakes, tsunamis and the likes are thieves in broad day light. they come with force and sometimes without warning to take home human lives. for "dust we all are and to dust we shall all return" it is just a matter of time...age, gender, society's stature, wealth, profession, no matter...when it comes to bid goodbye, all must leave, all must die...sad, but it is a true fact of this life. let us never forget, let this be a reminder of the fragility of our lives...that the quest for glory, the quest for riches, the quest for fame are just worthless endeavour sometimes. when life can be snatched by the sudden movement of the earth, without warning and without prior notice like a thief in the night...

the Man who is larger than life... Bill Clinton :)

i just finished watching the MSNBC documentary by chris matthews on former president bill clinton, the 42nd american president, titled "the president of the world" the bill clinton phenomenon. there is no other U.S. president that i remember who was very dedicated, who cared and loved the global community than this man. with his CGI, the clinton global initiative whom he created after he left office with the goal of changing lives and millions of it at that he is a rock star in his own right, in humanitarian terms. i would never forget his "FMLA" family medical leave act that he passed while in office which helps families like me to be on leave from work and take care of our disabled family member without fear of losing our jobs. this only demonstrate the scope of his love for us working class here in the U.S. i can't find the you tube clips of this one hour program but i've never seen a show that had aroused my total admiration for a man. at age 54 after 8 years of being president his way of continuing his service and molding his legacy is remarkable. no one had ever made this leap of extending a helping hand to the global world be in eradicating poverty, seeking cure and distributing medicines to HIV victims in poor countries, helping the tsunami victims in asia and quake victims in haiti, going to north korea at the request of kim jong il, the president of that anti-american country in exchange for the freedom of two journalists who was captured by his army while on assignment in china with the charge of entering north korea as spies, you name the good work, he did it. president carter had a nobel peace prize for his humanitarian works after he left office and hopefully pres. clinton will have one as well in the future for he deserves it :) yes, this pic above is the younger president with his sign of love, for i thought you would rather see him in his younger years than now :) although for me, old age is a gift that needs to be cherished not despised or put down in writings or what have you for you forgot that you will pass that route as well someday. this if you are lucky enough and blessed enough to have plentiful years of life on this earth given by God :)

400, 4 centuries, 4-100 years...

UST College of Nursing, my dear alma mater...

400

4 centuries old, 4 golden globes
4 hundred years, 400 graceful years
filled with catholic pride and of Jesus Christ
you are the one, the center of our lives

millions of minds you've nurtured outright
to care, to aid and to help us human kind
in your basement library with books in our hands
we found knowledge, we found hope
we found ourselves and our path

be in the arts of healing and caring
of drawing, building and of singing
as years turned over we graduated
we moved on with pride

to face the unending challenges of this life
we've emerged victorious and glorious
for you've guide us and you've mold us
and trained us right

the reason you've endured
the reason you're still standing there
after hundreds of years
had folded and passed...

happy 400 years of existence dear school of mine
i'm sure with God's grace years will be more coming
adding in your front steps for you are an exception
a school that is truly one of a kind...

University of Santo Tomas...1611-2011...400 years and counting...proof of an enduring institution of learning :)

the second best thing about UST that i love is its front wide space garden like look, but the first is the chapel :) ...images...UST's main building with a rainbow is by philstar, thank you :)...the rest are from the www, thanks as well to all owners :)...

welcome back shuttle discovery for the last time, mission complete, 10 mins. of awesome video

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery aimed for an on-time touchdown today to wrap up a long flying career.

The world's most-traveled spaceship was due to return to Earth - for the last time ever - three minutes before noon.

"Right now, the weather looks great," Mission Control informed the six astronauts.

With just a few hours left to circle the world, commander Steven Lindsey wondered aloud whether Kennedy Space Center was the only landing site under consideration. Mission Control replied that it was, and that the backup landing strip in California had not been activated.

"I know you're from California," Mission Control told Lindsey. "Is there something you were thinking?"

"No, just curious," Lindsey replied. "No, we want to bring Discovery back to Florida."

Minutes later, the astronauts closed the payload bay doors in preparation for Discovery's final fiery ride through the atmosphere.

NASA's oldest shuttle has flown 39 missions over nearly 27 years. It's being retired after this voyage.

Discovery is headed back from the International Space Station. Its crew delivered and installed a new storage compartment, complete with a humanoid robot.

The mission added 13 days to Discovery's lifetime total of 365 days in space. Its total mileage is 148 million miles.

Once back at Kennedy Space Center, Discovery will be decommissioned over the next several months and sent to the Smithsonian Institution for display. Endeavour and then Atlantis will fly once more each in the next few months. Then they, too, will be retired. Their final resting places have yet to be chosen.

Endeavour - scheduled to blast off in less than six weeks - will be moved out to the launch pad Wednesday night.

NASA is under presidential direction to spread its wings beyond low-Earth orbit. The goal is to send astronauts to an asteroid and then Mars in the decades ahead. There is not enough money for NASA to achieve that and maintain the shuttle program at the same time. As a result, the shuttles will stop flying this summer after 30 years.

American astronauts will keep hitching rides to the space station on Russian Soyuz capsules, until private companies are able to provide taxi service to and from orbit. NASA expects to get another nine years out of the space station.

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Online:

NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/news/index.html

the crew of the final flight of shuttle discovery getting ready to go to the launch pad and then lift off. shuttle endeavour's lift off in april and the last is shuttle atlantis' launch this summer and that is it folks...the shuttle space program will be phased out. sad in a way but there would be much more cost effective and saving space flights that will take over in the future i'm sure, let's just wait and see...but always spectacular are shuttle launches, big amazing machines that can fly up in the sky and beyond and only here in america folks...i am lucky to be one spectator of such an extra ordinary event created by science and fueled by the genius mind. who could ever ask for more...



amazing machines that can fly...the final launch of shuttle discovery and it will return to earth soon :)

Discovery prepares for final flight home
By Associated Press

POSTED: 02:54 p.m. EST, Mar 06, 2011

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: The space shuttle and space station crews hustled to take care of last-minute business Sunday before sealing their hatches.

Shuttle Discovery will undock from the International Space Station for the final time Monday morning.

When Discovery returns to Earth on Wednesday, it will be retired and sent to the Smithsonian Institution.

The space shuttle and its crew of six have spent more than a week at the space station. They delivered and installed a storage compartment that held a humanoid robot.

The robot, named R2 for Robonaut 2, has yet to be unwrapped. The space station astronauts will get to it within the next few weeks.

Mission Control gave Discovery's astronauts two extra days at the orbiting outpost. They took advantage of the bonus time to empty the storage unit of all the gear that was carried up. The bonus days stretched the entire mission to 13 days on top of the 352 days logged during Discovery's previous 38 missions.

Immediately after undocking, Discovery will fly a victory lap of sorts around the orbiting lab, essentially to take pictures. Then the shuttle astronauts will pull out an inspection boom and survey their ship for any signs of micrometeorite damage.

Discovery's six astronauts accomplished everything they set out to do: installing the storage unit and an equipment platform at the space station and taking two spacewalks.

''Just a friendly reminder,'' Mission Control joked in a morning message. ''Before closing the hatch tonight, make sure everything and everybody is on the correct side!!!!!!''

pink dancing flamingos, for it is a lonely life out there?

i don't think so. for where nature is, be live animals, birds, on water or in forests or farm lands, there is the real world, and reality is pure happiness :)



dog trainer saves dog with CPR...this dog had a seizure before he stopped breathing. lucky dog aka "sugar" nice sweet name :) for they were in a dog training camp or gathering and that a dog trainer was around so sugar was saved :)...i am always reminded during michael's seizure episodes which comes 1-2 episodes in a month to always watch for his breathing. epileptic episodes are scary in itself where those around should try to protect the victim's head from bumping into hard surfaces which may cause brain damage and to observe proper positioning for optimum breathing capacity, in either back to sleep position or side lying...and be ready to do CPR if no heart rate or no palpable pulse could be felt and no breathing could be heard for each second counts. the early the CPR is done, the greater the chance for recovery. so guys and gals make sure you know your CPR for you'll never know when a life will depend on you for survival...ex. heart attack victims, choking victims and drowning victims and any other emergency situation that may or can suddenly arise in your presence :)

the truth will set us free

meandering in an endless rain forest
is a deer with soft antlers
all alone sniffing its path amongst
the dense and thick grass
it can't find its way for the trees
are just blocking the light

in the meantime a blind human
is feeling through the tracks of life
without sight his cane is only his guide
tapping, feeling, hearing then walking
gently and gingerly at the cemented
pavement that is harsh if his gait
will miss the mark

in another region of the earth
lived an honest woman
without a doubt she trust
and depend on the simple
notion that people are good
not stealers, not liers, not users
but dependable and right

on the contrary there is a
wolf that lived nearby
untamed, unloved, wild
it charged and charged
and aimed its teeth to
an unsuspecting prey as
it died and was eaten
as a game, alas

in life there are predators
as there are benefactors
there are users as there are saints
there are gamers as there are believers
so to get inside their minds is
to lay a trap, an unsuspecting trap
that they'll be caught and can not
deny for once, defeated in their game
the truth is here to be laid at last...

...for we really do not know the inner make up of other humans except ourselves...top art is from the www, artist unknown, thank you :)

"i did it my way"

if there is one song that could make me cry, this is it...JC and me went to the shopping mall today to pick up some stuffs and there was this musician singing this song at the sides for passersby with his music paraphernalia around him and a money box is in front to put some money for token of appreciation of his music and i put 10 bucks for i am poor, laughs. he did really justice to this song. my heart stopped and i paused and listened and truly i was teary eyed. yes! this is my all time favorite song in the world i told JC and i'm gonna blog about it :) in our life we do what we have to do in our own way and can you believe it for i won, although sadly it is not in the way that most people define winning, but in my book it had to be a win...my way...and yes, the final curtain did fell but instead of blocking the horizon it did the opposite for me :)

it's karaoke time...again just for fun why not :) it would really be better if i can record the whole song but blame it on this gizmo, laughs, for its recording power is very limited. and this is only for friends and kind folks okidok :>

If You Forget Me... by Pablo Neruda

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour, I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine...

now this is really "the" poem :) ...no wonder, a Nobel Prize...ala pablo neruda, here's my take...yes, i am dreaming and pls. don't wake me up, laughs.

"valentine, here i am"

i want us to stop
and listen to the splashing waves for once
as we stroll on the shifting sands of time
the ticking hands of the clock
that never goes back
as it winds and leaves
it ticks like a beating heart
as lovers caress, hug and kiss
are we here now or just millions
and billions of sounds apart

we can not tell
the shadows are just shades
of black cocoons of hidden butterflies
that are just dormant, asleep
as silence prevailed each passing nights
in an unending dreamless universe
until dawn, until morning comes

we open our eyes
the beach is gone
covered by the rushing tide
the sands so white
is now nowhere to be found
as we held hands looking
at that empty space above
no sun, no moon, no stars
no birds, no kites
the sky is black
as we hear the wind
as it silently plays with the grass
as its blades rustle and dance
it is the only music that we have
the moving waves
the swaying grass
are just barely keeping us alive

and now the beach is gone
but only for awhile
only to come back again
same time, same place
somewhere
is this deserted land
that we found each other
as we repeat this sad story
of our lives over and over
until death do come to us

life after all ends
life after all yelds
life after all is just us
birds in search of paradise
that is nowhere to be found

for valentine is just a figment
of the mind
as love is like the sun
it is hot at noon
but it will be cold at dawn
as the sun will rise
the moon will sleep
and the stars will
have to wait
to show their traits
of twinkling forever in our midst...

as we each catch our valentines asleep...

happy love day you all... enjoy life, make it always a valentine's day :)

i will serve you...

let's all serve Jesus the best that we can for even in the smallest possible way it counts to Him...and in between let's recharge and my way of doing it is heading to the beach :)




i am a sucker for memories. i love going back in time. here is a similar scenario infront of our house. lots of snow here, so i am dreaming of patar beach again :) my favorite spot on earth :)

patar beach, the paradise on earth and i don't even have to ride a plane. just 45 minutes drive from our place in the province :)

love's ebbs and flows

the dawn
won't come again
for the flowers are
fading without the rain

the sun
won't shine no more
for the moon had taken
over the endless horizon

the stars
won't twinkle again
for their energy had fallen
into the roof of impending doom

the love
will end here
for the trust is broken
and it will have no cure

until a new root
of a new growth will
sprout once more in a garden
filled with sleeping, unendless hope :)

love that is given, is love that is returned. while love that is taken away is love that is missing and it might or might not be ever restored. painted pink hydrangeas, artist unknown, ems' art, loeniv afremov's art. some valentine's thoughts and observations :)...hydrangeas, the bloom of the haves featured in their million dollar homes. flowers shaped like a ball with so many tightly packed mini-cluster petals. nice but i am not rich that is the problem (^_*) so...look at those flowers left of my asiatic lilies' pic taken one glorious summer, those are called phlox, a hydrangea look alike and they are mine...needless to say i prefer that :>...click image for a bigger view :) the on going tune for valentine's day is "have you ever really loved a woman" by bryan adams...very cool, for this music separates the impostors, the players, the illusionists from the true and the sincere :) and they thought women could not add up, laughs. oh well...we only have one life and sometimes it is a struggle to fill it with love esp. if we are reminded of people that had done us wrong. but time is only wasted with hate, that is why there is the love month, laughs. but seriously it is so sad that life is not guaranteed to anyone like tomorrow. we are all at the mercy of God, rich or poor, ugly or beautiful, young or old. we are not the keeper of our lives and destinies for again we have an infinite power to allude to, to answer to and to ask for grace and blessings...the universe is vast and with it lies mysteries that is incomprehensible to the human mind...for the truth is we rely on those that came before us for wisdom but it is not really enough. at the end we can only understand so much. ergo life's origin is a mystery not unless we are a believer of God's magnificent power who created the universe but one can argue that we are not there then at that time, so who knows...again life is like that, so many questions but not enough answers. so many whys with so little because and all we know is that life will breath its last somehow, someday, somewhere, for sure. whether you are rich, poor, young or old, no discrimination...with this knowledge before us, will our perspective in living our lives will change somehow? that is the nagging question...and i bet you, nothing will ever change at all...(^&*)...but... if there will be...a nice start will be your soon to be muse or your present lovey dovey :) tell them they are the one :>

women of substance

compassionate, that is Mother Teresa...very intelligent, former first lady, former senator and now U.S. secretary of state is Hillary Clinton... the pioneer and founder of EWTN, the eternal word television network goes to Mother Angelica plus this nun is also full of wit and humor :) our world is blessed with their dedication, sacrifice and their love to serve humanity...the true lady valentines of our times...

sunrises are brand new days

one of my favorite quotation in life is this "Some men see things as they are and ask "why" Others dream things that never were and ask "why not" by George Bernard Shaw...why? for it denotes extra-ordinary flexibility, intelligence and human endurance to achieve the seemingly impossible to some, but it can really be done. all it takes are dedication, courage and the fortitude to persevere till you reach that destination or you won and prevailed :) and sunrises help you move along towards that goal. it is hard to work without daylight even with the help of artificial means for you could only go that far...

as new years turn over
and open new doors
sunrise is the key
that started it all

as that great ball of fire
so far up above
will rise up in the sky
slowly as time flies

a new dawn
a new life, a new hope
will soon spring eternal
for all of us to smile at

dawn then day
as night comes
over and over
dawn then day
as hope will
live in us forever...

without hope we are lost. hope is the engine that makes us go once more. hope is the sunshine that makes the planet move. hope is there because we do not know what tomorrow holds...and always remember this formula, "help equals hope then happiness" ...cheers to eternal hope, forever sunshine, beautiful nature and the thirst for living...(^_~)...

there will be a snow fall that is significant coming our way, i hope it will move a little bit down south for i am working in these coming days...i can't wait for spring, summer and autumn for better driving conditions for one and of course for my garden to come to life again :)

love, one perspective

love is like money
that it could buy you a heart
but without a fee

love is like a river
that flows and flows
until it breaks free

love is like a flower
that blooms in springtime
and peaks at summer's heat

but love is like fall
that gets into the ground
at the blazing colors of autumn

as love is like old winter
that gets colder and colder until
it turns into a white ashen field of dreams...

love is a pain, sometimes...but if there is no pain, there is no gain :) happy valentines' day to you all, soon :> to relatives and friends...and to the lost visitors in this blog who landed unintentionally here, laughs, thank you for your visit as well...(^_~)...

boracay...is it a good place for a vacation? i've never been there and my brod is constantly saying, let's go there for he's been there. i wonder if the planes are safe to fly there for one...i am leery, really. yes, the phil. airport toilets are shameful to tourist never mind us balikbayans na lang. it should be fixed, renovated or modernized kasi it's true, third world country na nga kahit man lang restrooms nang airport it should be a little presentable naman sana...wala pa daw toilet paper, gosh!

"Being dull is always unattractive, no matter the face"...hmn, i read this as a tweet :) then "do not judge a book by its cover" as that saying goes, should be my kind response :) though somehow i agree, laughs. but what do you think about men who love dull women? are they also dull? that is the question...my answer is this men like beautiful women, laughs, and who can blame them? they want a prize statue without brains? but as long as mabait, dullness should be ignored :) for character trumps it all, either beauty or brains and that is the final answer and let's add to that another saying which goes like this "love is blind" :> and if one lady is not mabait, relationships will suffer and there will be a split. now that is wisely said, by me :) and if you are following this blog, do not complain if i add stuffs and take out stuffs every now and then for that is my own prerogative, it's my blog to fix, so you can also say that i am dull, laughs, so maybe i better stop blogging then :? maybe...but maybe not for it will come in due time and you can surely tell. i will be very busy doing fun stuffs by then...(^_~)...and i hope it will materialize as i envisioned it to be and i need God's grace and prayers for that to come true :)

aged numbers

it wasn't glowing as it used to
it wasn't shining as a new shoe
the soles are tampered with wrinkled dirt
the white is now covered with gray dots decked with filth

the sun had risen so many times before
that now you have to wait longer for its shine
the light is now flickering as it dimmed
as the porcelain vase could no longer be seen

aged numbers sketched in a tree of life
adorned with painted colors that are peeling off its bark
falling as the wind carried it to the ground
to rest and to be buried for eternity of time

like love so fresh and full of hope at first
like rain that is refreshing and radiant
as it drops and falls into your skin
now love had faded, blown by the wind of change

aged numbers, piled with calendars of memories
stored and etched in cyberspace for many years
an open book written as footprints of one life
one speck of sand, one aged number under the sun

to be blown away
in a wind gust
to be tossed away
as the wind howls...

ultime amour

different flowers adorned my vase
with fragrances that spun my head
one is so light it made me fly up in the sky
one is so heavy that it made me dive
into the deepest part of the ocean

different fishes flashed in my beautiful pond
one shines as colorful like magic that
transformed me into a rainbow of all time
but one is gray that made me sunk and be lost
under the current flow of tide

mi ultime amour which art thou
you who made me sang with joy
or you who pushed me into
the depths of dark despair
freeing my hands as we stroll
over the hot sand bed of time

sad and lonely, happy and cheery
full of hope or an empty space
with no one to haggle with
a ray of sunshine versus a ray of defeat
a gift of wisdom or a bottle filled with nonsense...

mi ultime amour, who art thou...

for the coming love month...we each choose our ultime amour...(^_~)...a pic of roses from my garden i took one past summer :)

preview...state of the union address by pres. obama, tomorrow

"winning the future" it is really a dream of the so many of us, famous, nobody, poor or the haves...i am very fascinated with politics. it is one hobby of mine that is not much discussed in this blog. i tune in when very important events are on the horizon...this president had accomplished the impossible, being president in spite of the cliches, being middle class, and being black. who can more understand me than him? for being in one's shoe in the barometer of feeling the true essence of one human being...the solution to the present problem engulfing American families here is the creation of replacement jobs that were moved to China by the owners of these rich manufacturing companies here for more profit, because of low salaries in China. now this country is on the rise while America is suffering. no jobs, homes are foreclosed bec. they can't pay for them. the American dream is fading for millions here. the rich won, while the workers or the middle class lost big time...i hope the race to invent for the new technology that will replace fossil oil or gas to run our cars and our industries of what is remaining of it actually is won by the U.S. for other countries are also hoping that they are the ones to invent that technology...then and only then that jobs that were lost here will be replaced. we don't make things here anymore, most are made in China. it is about time to make things here again...for this country's sakes and its people...China wasn't conquered or won by war by America. it is won by the genius of economics...the manufacturing industries moved there benefiting only a few, the rich and the owners of these companies at the expense of the working Americans...so much of the wealth of this nation is dominated or owned by the top 2% of rich Americans. the disparity is just too big of a gap to bridge for money talks and can buy votes and agendas...the democrats, the party of our current president fight for the working middle class while the republicans only fight for the rich who are rich already and do not need more dough...for what i may ask, for they will have more profit already for the billion people in china will also be their customers...it's time to shift gear and help your countrymen, someone needs to remind them that...i hope God will let them see the light...for people leave this earth and die while lasting legacies are forever left and remembered by those touched and history will record it forever for a fact as well...

our vice president, Mr. Biden is called for jury duty and he showed up to fulfill one of the duty of an American citizen here. he was released though maybe because of his work, the second most important person in the U.S. for he will become the president if Pres. Obama is incapacitated, God forbids...but jury duty is something that is taken seriously here for if you ignore it you can go to prison for contempt of court...the justice system here works like this...the judge presides in court but it is the citizens like us who will decide if the accused is guilty or not of the crime he is being accused of. very different from the Philippines where the judge gives the verdict, here it is done by the jurors composed of 12 selected members. and interestingly JC is just called for jury duty as well this week...but he is still a student taking his bachelors in interactive media and web design. the court would probably will dismiss him like the vice president :) but...i was also called for jury duty years ago. i went and joined the 300 something people who were called as well and lo and behold out of the blue i was selected to be one of the 12 remaining at the very end to decide the fate of the guy accused of murder, a young Mexican man killed a black guy in that case...so here we are 12 selected jurors and for the last time before we begin hearing the case the judge asked each one of us if we have any concerns. i raised my hand and told the judge if i can be excused for three days for my mother will have cataract surgery that week. and thank heavens for i was also dismissed and saved from the misery of hearing murder weapons, killings which i abhor. God and my mom saved me then, laughs. following that i was again called maybe 3-4 times but i made sure that the court knows that i have a special boy to attend to and since then i am always not selected anymore...wow, Michael was young then and wasn't diagnosed with autism yet...murder cases run for weeks here, so you could imagine what a torture for me that would be like if ever...and yes, college education here in the U.S. is very expensive...4-5 million, Philippine money. so without student loans where the U.S. is very generous to its student population, education is hard to have but not here in the U.S. the government will help its students tremendously...but half of that tuition is from parents, of JC that is, laughs. now again i am reminded of how lucky and truly blessed i am for my education at UST came free, courtesy of the generosity of one beautiful, kind hearted person, my Virgin Mary look alike Spanish lady benefactor, my aunt's boss :) and thanks to Pres. Obama for more financial aid given to students during this administration. the vote of the youth helped him get elected to the presidency. he never had forgotten to give back...thank you mr. president :)

music is just forever magic to the ears...

"Some men see things as they are and ask "why" Others dream things that never were and ask "why not" ...George Bernard Shaw

"welcome to my world" by newell oler...it is not much but it is full of hope, on the bright side as in walking on the sunny side of the street instead of looking at the rain...it is not a bed of roses but you can feel the breeze coming in and the sunshine seeping in...it is not a carriage filled with gold and diamonds but decorated abundantly with plants, flowers, fruits and all gracious nature may bring...it is not a gift of horror but of smile, laughter and cheers...i have plenty of positive dreams that will keep off the tide from rushing in, flooding my wishes and not making my spirit sink in...for i look at the glass half full not as half empty as others may do with their drinks. we have the choice to give the gift of hope and sunshine to our love ones or usher doom and gloom, yes, our choice...do we want our love ones to cry and leave us or do we want them to stay and celebrate life with us until the end, our choice really as it boils down to this at the end for we can't live in the dark. we needed sunshine to thrive and that is a given...we live our lives as we see them in our own world of reality and that is in tune with the rest of humanity i would like to think, who mostly wants love, peace, acceptance and unity...it is a small world after all. we bump into each other in many ways and in unimaginable places. the least that we can do is to give each other space and the chance to excel... plus respect, we should give to each other as well, for life is fleeting, life is timed as life will end...yours, mine, ours...it's just a matter of when...i hope it will be a long and a fruitful life as i hope it is filled with smiles, laughter and cheers :> as we can only hope and pray to God our heavenly Father :) ...now the melodies in this blog will play one by one, piece by piece and turn by turn...happy, sad or what not...(^&*)...music art is by d. hurd...

Is It I Lord...

how to stay young...or live longer :)

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop," the devil's name is Alzheimers.

4. Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young, that is all that you can afford. When they are in college, that is all that you can afford. When you are on retirement, that is all that you can afford!

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so much that you can be tracked in the store by your distinctive laughter.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be alive while you are alive, don't put out a mailbox on the highway of death and just wait in residence for your mail.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next country, a foreign country, but not to guilt country.

10. Tell the people you love, that you love them, at every opportunity.

11. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away...

Author Unknown...
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...but i'd like to add, always keep the faith and let God comes always first, then everything else will follow in their proper order :) pray a lot even if it is over and over again for God always listens. have patience for at the end He might as well grant your wishes, dreams and wants, let's hope :)

two pictures i took of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Shrine in Baclaran in two different years during vacations...the top one was taken at the end of June which is the fiesta of Baclaran aka Mother of Perpetual Help Day :) so you can see those nice colorful streamers above and the bottom was taken November, 2009 during a Pacquiao fight so you can see that there are just few devotees going to visit this church...but there is one weird thing in these two pics which i just noted yesterday... a man is present with the same reddish pinkish shirt in both pics that i took...are they the same person? if ever what is the chance of me snapping them years apart with the same clothes pa, laughs. i wish i'll know the answer...Nora Aunor singing a Tom Jones' song, " Help Yourself" hmn...yes, that will be a guy's line... those with more than one muse :) hope this accomplished lady gets back her golden voice...

sampaguita memories :)

yes, this is my own sampaguita plant one past summer...here are good memories...my benefactor's husband always collect sampaguita blooms in their yard in san lorenzo village every morning after reading manila bulletin whenever they are in bloom and he puts them in their altar :) isn't that neat? plus it was also him who had gotten a hold first of my mailed US working visa petition to work here in their mailbox one morning and called me maybe wondering what on earth was it is all about and that it was coming from the US embassy pa, laughs. this family was really God sent to me. every star lined up for me in that particular time :) sampaguitas, divine altar, benefactors, education...i am truly lucky and blessed and would never forget that for the rest of my life...pilipino music is just mesmerizing to me and magical esp. this lady's voice, lovely! the one that i like, so can't resist to post :> ...and click the highlighted sampaguita bloom words above and enjoy AMORSOLO'S enduring, amazing, beautiful, superb art creations while listening to a classical guitar music of what else...the sampaguita flower :) and interestingly enough mr. pasigenyo also had a guitar version of it, wow, good :)