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 :)

the gift that is constantly giving...

JESUS at the nativity...the source and the way to the fulfillment of our hopes...the best screen saver ever and the best work of art is one that depicts the birth of our saviour, Jesus Christ...image is from the www, thanks to you who created it...it is truly great...what i wish this Christmas and for the New Year is happiness and peace for all human kind. and not only during this holiday season but in every single day of the year...

the new year is but hours away so i have a resolution that i want done this year and that is less time on blogging. i will peek and speak but not as loud as i used to, laughs, maybe just to post some poems made in my own way, sounds good to me :)...life is timed and we all have so little time to live the life that we have imagined. now moving on to the right direction and whatever we do let's move forward and never backwards and let love reign, always :) plus never make other people cry for at the end you will have those tears in your eyes in return for that is divine justice or karma, clear? let's remember, life or love is never a joke... thanks for your visits this if you are one of the few that landed in this blog... i love you all...have a great new year!

warmer climates mean flowers :)

all bloomed in my garden except for the lovely rose for it is a shot i took from the shrine of the little flower church one nice summer...yeah flowers never fail to make me smile for i see them as God given free gifts for us to enjoy...it is a proven gift that will make sick patients smile in hospitals as well. with that reason alone, i am sold to blooms :) they are never called shits but are sold as gifts to your many muses guys, laughs. oh well.

let's thank God for brand new years :)

as new years are new beginnings...new year also means change...since it's winter here this image fits but i would rather have a warm new year like where president obama is...where? in hawaii but the philippines will do just fine. yes, i can dream, of course for without dreams there is no reason to live :)

new year, new dawn, new dream...

as we paddle quietly across the river Nile
the air is humid but it is flowing and blowing
as it touches our hot, sun covered skin
it is cooling and refreshing as we move
our tired bodies, reviving our sunken spirits
that are ready to sprint in the air

as we walk slowly in a timeless thick forest
covered with green canopy of trees
we can hear the birds as they tweet their daily drink
of fresh sweet dew from the drying leaves of
the all time favorite evergreens that thrive
even in the coldest and deepest of winters

slowly as we try to walk in a secluded beach
the sand suddenly is so intense that it won't record
the footsteps that we ever made making us lived
like nomads, like a nobody in a disappearing world
no clues, no marks, no signs, no sound to remind us
that we ever existed in this planet earth

as your hands play with the strings of your guitar
the melody is familiar but it did not reach the beat
like appointments that are just illusions marked
with words that did not pass the test of time
for it is a mirage that dies as you get nearer
and nearer for its life is a lie

new year, new hope, new dawn
are you really there
new song, new beat, new tune
are you really made to entertain
or are you just one music
that will slowly fade
as the sun sets in the east
and bids its farewell...

new year are you really hope
but that... as it's always been...
it remains to be seen...

love and music are important, we all knew that :) top dawn art is from the www and the bottom art is by the filipino great master painter, amorsolo. hmn, "amorsolo" would that be "one love" translated? then this man was a keeper, laughs, plus a great artist, just wow!

a passionate xmas

blue memories of Xmas past esp. if lovers, significant others, muses, princes are gone...hmn, see i am not selfish i think about you, laughs. but seriously i did not even buy anything for me "yet" and it is Xmas eve...but i think this is my present to Jesus, i just think about Him, not of myself, but of others :) ...blue Xmas...yes, nice music interpreted by ms. Nancy Wilson. music yeah, you are definitely the language of our soul :> but no kidding my present is my family being us all together again this Xmas and nothing beats that. although i miss my Phil. family...as usual we can't have it all...not enough though to make my Xmas blue :) but it could be better though i try in every Xmas that God gives me... i give, give and give without expecting anything in return :) now i can think of the new year with lots of promise that will make me truly a happy and a complete person...here's a little interesting trivia :) did you know that according to popular belief people with eyebrows that meet in the middle of the forehead are hot tempered, violent, loud, impulsive and no good, beware guys and gals, just a warning, laughs...but hey not all naman siguro, so let's take our chances :) although people that i know with such features do tend to have these characteristics but maybe just coincidences for they do exist, hmn...

and the president signed the law that will repel don't ask don't tell policy in the military meaning that gays and lesbians can now openly serve without fear of persecution. be true, live true and serve true :) kudos!...the Obamas are in blue Hawaii, the prez birth place, with its world class beaches, a really good place to celebrate Christmas after hearing mass of course. i remember my benefactor's family always go to Tali beach in Batangas for the Xmas holiday and back to Makati in time for the New Year's revelry. wow i really got it good for i am privy on how the rich live. being poor myself i can now compare the two with so much ease based on true experience for you have to live it to be able to feel it, similar to you have to be in that shoe to know how people walk. i will make the comparison and it is like this...most people in the Philippines that are poor are truly happy, i dunno maybe because they don't know what they're missing in life, while Americans with so much good things around them they seemed not to be truly happy...go figure that out. hmn, maybe because they lost their homes for their jobs flew to China :? ...and yes! President Obama is now 9 months smoke free :) if he can do it, so can you :> again, a very blessed, happy Christmas :) let's always remember that Jesus is hope, forgiveness and love :)

blue christmas

why is there a blue christmas
when we can have a happy one
why is there an eclipse
while we can ask the sun and
the moon to shine all the time

why are there raindrops
falling from the sky
when we can ask God
to decorate it always
with dangling, shining stars

why is there so much sadness
when we can have magic
why is there so much tears
when we can smile with our
heart's content

by golly it's christmas
let's forget that life is full
of hardships and challenges
let's celebrate with Jesus
His birth is here as promised

blue christmas, nope, let's make it hot
let's make the sun dance
and the stars to twinkle all night
let's build a fire to light up the deepest ocean
and let's swim with happiness
celebrate and let's forget that we're apart

blue christmas be gone
blue christmas pls. depart
so we can replace it with
a happy christmas with all
smiles, dancing, singing and
with so much abundant love

blue christmas, it shouldn't be
blue christmas, goodbye :)

happy 4th anniversary of blogging to me heralded by a lunar eclipse to boot :)

i'm very happy :)...for as when relationships come and go, when love like the tide has its ebbs and flows, blogging, will it stop and go? that is the question...after four years of typing away my thoughts i did surprise myself that i am still here, while lots of folks have long deleted theirs...so many times i tried to quit in this journey but i failed, as in so many times that i am so disappointed in life, i prevailed and blogging is one of them...i had it in one shot, started in blogger and will also end my blogging with blogger...one shot to make it right and so far so good although it could be better and that i am fully aware of :) this is an on line sort of a journal of what i am, what i believe in life and it has been a part of my life for the last four years now...gardening, my hobby is marked here tremendously, my love for flowers. my new found love in poetry although my string of words here could be far from that, laughs, my despicable singing, laughs, and my beginning wonder and amazement in the world of the arts also is fairly documented here. nothing could set you free than freedom of self expression and of speech and i found its realization here in the world of blogging. hope it will continue as the days go on and on...thank you for your visit, to the few that were lost and landed on this page of the www. i tried to make it very private but it is true that once you are in cyberspace nothing is private anymore for nothing is in your control once you type and post so the least that i can do is to be very careful and selective in what i do here...it is censored so to speak, laughs. but one thing for sure, i love every minute of it for blogging is a kind of an outlet sort of, of my thoughts and of the things that i like and love plus the things that make me happy which God is first and foremost, of course :) how many years more to come, how many words more to type and how many images more to post, that is the question...i am tired but i'd like to keep on going, i am old, laughs, so maybe 30 years more? who knows...but i am thankful that i remained blogging to this very day...so blogging it will be again and you can bet on that, laughs, although at times i'd really want to stop for sure but i failed, maybe this time is the time for that...(^&*)... but who cares anyway and you will be surprised for no one does except only me...how true...i am celebrating this milestone with a rose, one beautiful thing produced by nature that guys give or has given to their past muse, present muse and future muse, laughs, but in this case i am giving it to my blog and pls. watch your language in describing it for we are what we speak...beautiful eh? yes, i never use this eh expression but for celebrating this anniversary, why not? :) and sure these roses are still alive for my own roses are dead for now but next spring they'll be alive again :> so whoever says that nature is dead my friend, got it sooo wrong...images are from the www, thank you for sharing your pretty images :)

lunar eclipse tonight

i love the moon... so i am very fascinated by eclipses either by the sun or by the moon...really the planet which we live in is full of wonderful phenomena that is beyond our control. proof that there is a higher power that brought us all together here, for a little time or for the longest time to enjoy and be enchanted with them...12-21-2012...are you really real or just one hype of the human mind again. it won't be long, we will see the truth. i'm pretty sure a lot are taking notes...

and for Jesus, why not :)

it's His B-day and that gift is you won't even spend a cent...smile and kindness but there is a caveat, smile like you meant it and be kind not just in words but in kind or deeds for i would imagine that Jesus is sold and would only believe in your deeds not words... for it is easy to say it but comes the dicey part if you really meant it, same in real life right? the proof is in the pudding, laughs. the proof is in the pudding means that the outcome is uncertain until the task is completed :)... but seriously in any thing that we do in life words mean nothing, for action speaks louder than words...mind you there are a lot of players, pretenders, users and abusers out there...so guys and gals let's be wise like these 3 wise men...and when you are a rich girl do not or never be a spoiled brat, that's a no-no. act or do whatever that you can do to unburden your maid's work for you are an adult that can do those things for yourself and you are not disabled for one :) hmn, that is really a good xmas present for your maid if you are one dependable and reliable person but maybe since you are not you needed somebody to do those things for you...here in the US the beautiful people here meaning these famous rich actresses even drive themselves and without maids so i wonder why third world country folks that are poorer rely on somebody else to do the jobs that they can do for themselves, wow, Jesus would not really have approve, laughs, this i would imagine :)

I closed the book...

i closed the book that i was reading before
the pages were torn and the story
just do not interest me anymore
i reached a rope and fastened it around
so that the book would never be
opened up by anyone

same as life when tears are rolling down
i wipe the sadness that
is keeping in my mind
it isn't worth the time of counting cuts
for it will bleed more and more
and the blood will all be gone

i closed the door that the charmer
was standing once
not to be opened again for
the tricks are no more fun
i said goodbye, good riddance
please be gone
for no more laughter
when you are here around...

and this is kindness to all of us at hand, so that smile will come back charging in our world one more time :)

what a very funny scene, one video which a wife is going after her husband's mistress...lady that is not the right way to go, leave, laughs. love is gone so for God's sakes... leave your husband, is the right thing to do...give happiness to someone else in this case your husband and his mistress diba? mahirap namang ipinipilit mo ang sarili mo sa kanya eh obvious naman na ayaw na sa iyo, let's have a little self respect naman :) but that is very funny, i am bad for i will be laughing if i am one of the spectators for it is a comedy to me, in real life pa ha :> sorry!

salamat sa iyo...

Salamat sa Iyo
Aking Panginoong Hesus
Ako'y inibig mo
At inangking lubos

Koro:

Ang tanging alay ko
Sa Iyo aking Ama
Ang buong buhay ko
Puso at kaluluwa
Hindi makayanang maipagkaloob
Mamahaling hiyas o gintong sinukob
Ang tanging dalangin
O Diyos ay tanggapin
Ang tanging alay ko
Nawa ay gamitin
Ito lamang Ama wala nang iba pa
Akong hinihiling

Salamat sa Iyo
Aking Panginoong Hesus
Ako'y inibig mo
At inangking lubos
(koro)
Di ko akalain
Na ako ay 'Yong bigyang pansin
Ang taong tulad ko'y
Di dapat mahalin
(koro)
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a humble and a thankful heart can never really hurt us...

odds and ends...

it is a very busy day before the holidays here for the lawmakers. after passing the bill that would continue the bush era tax cuts' incentives giving more tax breaks to the highest earners here those big time corporations that mostly ship jobs outside the US for more profits in their pockets. the republicans got their wish for they've won the majority of the lower house of congress this past mid term election. the president was forced to make a deal in exchange for unemployment benefits and a payroll cut of around 800-900 USD per year starting 2011 and that includes me :) thank you, mr. president but if you figure out the millions and millions given as tax breaks for the wealthy bec. that is what the republicans are fighting for which they've gotten btw bec. of their win in the recent elections. pres. Obama would just want it only to extend the tax of the bush era for the middle class and wants to revert it to the amount they were paying when bill clinton was president that's why the economy was in a surplus mode then and  after that bush took reigns and put trillions of deficit in the economy for he gave big tax breaks to his rich friends in the millions...Obama is for us working Americans but his hand was held hostage to the demand of the republicans who will oppose his wish of only cutting taxes for us middle class here and taxing more the wealthy who btw do not need more money for they own most of the wealth here in the US now. the poor and the middle class has long been defeated, their jobs and their homes lost due to the shipping of most manufacturing jobs here in the US to China. that is the reason for the near collapse of the banking industry and the economy here for they hold these mortgages that went into foreclosures for families do not have jobs to pay their homes. now these big corporations will keep more of their money to create jobs for the American people, really? that will remain to be seen. it is a dilemma, for if they create jobs then Obama will be re-elected for a second term which of course the republicans do not want...so my take is they will keep their money instead and not create jobs here...the solution to these present bad economy here although signs are it is on the mend, the solution is to create things here in the US again, to revive new manufacturing industries that can not be shipped overseas, so that the American people will have jobs. they say maybe in 10 years, wow, that is a long time. yes, batteries for soon to be battery operated cars is on the way and researches to replace oil in running industries is being done here and all over the world. whoever will come up with that new green technology that is friendly to our planet will be the next super power which right now America is the only one who holds that distinction. who will win in this race for that green technology? hope it is the US for we needed jobs, alright? and i will be very glad when that happens and i might for the first time will drink to that victory :) why not...(^&*)...

sorry for i tell the truth. that is one perk of living in a first world, first rated country, you'll know things first hand not only on the things that you read in papers or magazines for you live it yourself. i've travelled yes, although not to so many places in just a few days for just vacations and for pleasure, i can also travel and go places where the haves go visit but it is my choice not to do that...maybe to save more money for i am just a very poor middle class, laughs. the truth hurts...but it is in being poor when you know how to live right for riches most of the times blind us and hid us to the real world and prevent us from living truly by ourselves for the world is being handed to us in a silver platter...would you be rich without working for your own identity and being drawn under the skirt of your wealthy parents or relatives, or would you be poor and be knowledgeable on how to do it yourself, learn how to do that in your very own way and find happiness or are you just a weakling blabbering your wealth and that is just about who you are, it ends there...the choice is easy that even a child would know the answer :) right on, let's stop superficiality and work with what matters in this world...more fun don't you think than by talking or writing about make ups, lipsticks, plastic friends, bunnies and nail polishes that would prevent your nails to really breathe just for vanity's sakes...wow...but rest assured you are not the only one in this world, though that is not really a consolation. this write up is to wake us up who are in the lap of luxury who has the means to do more for the poor and to contribute more to this needy world around us, just saying...you may close your eyes or wake up but again, just saying...and yes, merry xmas btw. now hope you'll have a happy one and i mean that :>...and plus you don't even have to remind people of who you are for if you do good to others they will know who you are for sure, for you stand alone in greatness :) and you won't even wonder if people just like you for your connections like they work for your company and you hold their jobs in your fingertips right? so they better be good to you, laughs...see the possibilities are just endless... of thoughts i mean, laughs. although yes, pls. excuse my English and my language but again this is meant for us not to close our eyes to the needy, the downtrodden and the hopeless...it's Christmas, change means hope, then help, then true happiness...well said? only if results will come :)

and i am happy with what Ms. Aquino is doing for the poor and the hopeless. she was lost but she is trying to make up for it. her life showed that if you lost trust, love is also lost for these two are inseparable, but her gift of shoes to the apple? of her president brod's eyes? is not so good for they say that whomever will you give a gift of a shoe to, he or she will step on you in the future, hmn...just a thought, hope not...that's the reason i am not a shoe giver, laughs, not unless i was asked for it but this is requested not me giving it voluntarily, there is a difference to that...shoes are what one former first lady went famous for around the world and we have the same b-day, but i am not into shoes to make that clear, a few pairs because of necessity will do just fine for me, that simple for i am poor, simple and a nobody...so that's that :)

yes i leave people alone, those that do the right thing :> and give praise and thanks to them as well...(^_~)...maybe it's my time to go out of cyberspace because i've said all that i can say, laughs, maybe... but as usual tomorrow is another day, more thoughts, more things to say from me, gosh! almost 4 yrs. of yapping, making string of words, a little bad singing, laughs, marking what i believe in life and what i like and love is the reason why i blog and continue my blogging. if you don't speak people will speak for you and that won't be justice to yourself...better to define what you believe yourself and what is the means to that? blogging :) so happy 4th year of blogging to me soon :) on the 21st...but special thanks to blogger for making it a possibility...and to the reason why i started this in the first place. what do you know that unusually not good people is that reason, but here i am for that... so thank you as well...now you know me well enough to judge or say that i am not what you think in the first place...i gain what could i say and more because of blogging. the world that we live in can be strange sometimes but God will lead us and will direct us to what is good and what is right...that is true and that is for sure...to the few who visits me, i love you all and thanks :) have a blessed christmas and a blissful new year to come. it's the holiday of love, giving and caring and let's remember that not only this time of year but for always...

wow, a very long entry from me, maybe because it is a 4th year anniversary thing, sort of, laughs. i'd like to think that i talk er write of things that are not that nonsense and when i type i open eyes not close them, that i could only hope for...

i ask jesus...

why is the sky always blue
even after the rain had
finished flowing through

why do the tide always rise
only to retreat back after
watering the plants at the river bank

why do people climb
high mountain peaks
risking their lives in the process

why do the trees shed their barks
after a time under the sun so hot
leaving the old brown covers thrown out

then why there is spring after winter
when the colder air is changed into
a warmer summer breeze

maybe because as the stars
move far out
the giant sun remains
maybe because as the moon
says goodbye
the golden sun will again soon rise

or maybe as there is tomorrow
after a dark, cloud filled night
or maybe as there is hope
that will spring eternal
after a journey that
is heavily laden
with tired bodies
tired minds and
tired hands

these i ask jesus if i am right
since he is coming soon to us
it's xmas and the universe
is filled with love, laughter
cheers and light...

"pasko na naman"...by freddie aguilar

and what have we done...maybe if you're just like me, not much...hope that in the future that will change. yup keep on hoping i told myself, laughs. oh well. life must go on and hope should be a part of it...for if you don't have it, life starts not to exist...and we won't even care if it is Christmas...time flies like a jet, the happiest season is almost here once again and thank God for that :) O Holy Night is the best xmas song, for me at least :>...and the best saying that i like is...if someone throw a stone at you, give them your other cheek as well or throw them bread instead, the christian way...today i just did that...rain comes but the grass and the trees are nurtured by it...i thank people that do me no good for in it i had the chance to show God that love is better than hate, that time spent in hate is time spent in hell and life is timed so i better dwell in the positives than wallowing in sadness, sorrow and regrets. and look around us there are much more better things that life has to offer... plus it is my choice after all on how to live my life in this beautiful planet earth...do good, the best that i can, understand to the fullest that i can and to always remember the 3 resources that is available for us to work with, to ponder and to make use of...they are love, prayer and forgiveness...it is hard to forget but we do need to forgive for time is fleeting, time do not wait and also time is today for me to say thanks to those that made my life a lot better to live like my benefactor, my family plus those people that i met every where that truly cared... but of course first and foremost thank you, God :) ...God is love, happiness and all that is nice, after all :) ...life is great in spite of the pain, life is wonderful in spite of its troubles, as life is a gift for us to treasure and to hold dear for it won't last long as it surely will end, sadly... (^&*)...just we don't know when...happy 4th year anniversary of blogging to me soon :) and a blessed xmas and a blissful new year to come... to us all...let's celebrate :>

"instead of goodbye how about so long" larry king...

his last parting words in ending his 25 remarkable years as host of "larry king live" a journalistic career at its brightest. interviewing great minds, the best of the best...there are programs that not only entertain but give riveting intellectual moments and unsurpassed humor and his tops them all. nothing more to say for the mind is full and his program filled it to the rim. watching larry king is watching the universe unfolds and dissected by talented creatures that ever lived. no one did ever interviewed presidents, kings and the common man as special as mr. larry king. so long indeed. thank you mr. king, the greatest king of the microphone that ever lived :)

the most expensive, the 11 million USD christmas tree

what would have Jesus said...

in search for that perfect tree

the smaller the tree the better for it takes only a little time to decorate it, ergo i am lazy decorating trees, laughs. why do santas look chubby all the time? do they need liposuction or the more weight the better for them, hmn, no i think because they carry these kids on their laps who come to them for gifts so the more weight the better...no lipo pls. santa :)

kite catchers

the alluring wind whistles for the rope to fly
it blows and blows until it entices one kite to bite
up high in a summer blue sky without a cloud
the scene is perfect words are not required

one man flew several kites at once
the colors ranges from black to white
no pinks no reds none colorful as a smile
absence is silence for now rain is about to come

words are shuffled cleverly as thoughts are intertwined
no direct meaning deceiving kite catchers of the sky
roads as zigzags roads lost not found
straight as an arrow, not, so it failed and it didn't passed

when you want something would you say you want a cream
to mix with your black coffee so the taste would be better
but when you say i want sugar, honey and cream
three crossroads, three choices, you won't ever win

like kite catchers of the sky just running and running around in circles
kite catchers are dreamers but on the wrong side of the planet...

kite art is from the web, artist unknown...

giving gifts this christmas

since i am far away from relatives whom i want to give gifts i just mail them some paper dollars :)... but to the most special person in my life... who else... my benefactor, i gave her 3 aprons, i huge pack of US made clusters of cashews with almonds, a set of decorated steel measuring cups and a book about baking holiday cookies for her grandchildren's delight :) yes she has everything in this world but i made sure like for 20 something years now that i have some little things for her twice a year, on xmas and on march 14th, her b-day. you know it's true that the zodiac had served me well...she is a pisces based on it and i am a cancerian, we both are water signs in the zodiac so maybe the reason she did help me with my education :) and remembering about loving the water, they built a very beautiful beach house in nasugbu, batangas :> wow, that place is heaven, you can hear the splash of the waves most of the time, although the beach sand is not as white like patar... patar is way, way more prettier, beach wise but who cares :)

and speaking of yayas aka your dedicated servant or maid :) what will you give them kaya this xmas. maybe money, maybe a free paid vacation, or maybe something else, but the best thing to give your old yayas are respect, kindness, empathy, understanding, compassion and love, always, for nothing beats these :)  and now if i wanted to whenever i am in the phil. i can hire as many yayas as i ever wanted to or need but i will never do that for i can be a yaya to myself plus i am an expert of this profession so no one is better than me, laughs...been there and done that :) diba...

it's winter wonderland now :)

here in our part of the world it won't really have a christmassy feeling if there is no snow, so look and behold what the heavens sent us today :) now i don't even need a xmas tree for i just look out at the window and here they are plenty of trees, all free plus they're coated with flaky, feathery and pure white ice crystals. what could be better than that :>...last year we were in a warmer climate prior to this holiday so a very different scenario like going back in time, plenty of time, that is when i was young, laughs...but still the spirit and the feel of this yule season is no lesser to me but just the same. i love christmas for it makes me happy, it makes you happy and it makes everyone happy :) and why is that? because it's the source of our happiness b-day :> but at times snowy weather makes us sometimes down and sick...

hope matters...

the mind has endless boundaries and it clings on hope to realize some of its aspirations...it relies on divine guidance as its eternal compass for reaching its destination. ideas are born out of incredible need and to meet that need is its sacred goal... to alleviate human suffering, to restore human dignity, to let people live as human beings not like animals that thrived on the streets without covers above their heads, homeless, abandoned, without love, without care as to what the future may bring. it is time to change this, make way for hope...the task has begun...the journey is just beginning...

GREETINGS!!!

November 22 – December 21
Here we have the philosopher among the zodiac signs and meanings. Like the Scorpio, they have great ability for focus, and can be very intense. However, they must channel their energy or they will waste time and wear themselves out going in too many directions at once. They are not very patient and expect quick results. However, when encountered with failure they make extreme comeback often against incredible odds. They make loyal friends and lovers, but they do not handle commitment well as they refuse to be tied down while chasing philosophical pursuits...

TING...HAPPY B-DAY!!! MAY YOU HAVE MANY MORE BLESSINGS, MANY MORE LOVE, FUN, GOOD HEALTH and HAPPINESS TO COME :)...to my only brod? who is a genius in business, laughs...and let me see...moral, maybe... fearless 50-50, independent, check...generous, check... free? in what sense, i do not get that, laughs...yeah, birthdays are numbers we want to count when we are young, but birthdays are numbers we usually ignore when we are old. though we forget that the more we have birthdays, the more should we realize that we are blessed by God :)...so let's be positive about it, the more birthdays, the more time to celebrate life, the more chance to touch someone's life even in tiny ways that we can for it is the thought that counts and it is the deed that matters after all...

but to a more solemn note... today is "The Feast of the Immaculate Conception" a holiday of obligation. let's make sure to hear mass...(^_~)...use EWTN at the touch of your mouse if you can't be at church physically, a virtual reality, sort of. this i don't think God will mind :) but again it is our choice...for it is our own life...(^&*)...

the fountain of youth

the search for the fountain of youth is on going as we speak...and could you imagine the implications...longer lifetime to enjoy the beauty of our universe, i like it!

with the passing of time

the hands of the clock is there to greet us every day. it sounded on every seconds that it is so deafening we ignored it away. it kept on ringing and ringing until the years turned into a spin of decay. spent and wasted our ears did give out as the clock ticks its last. unheard by us the sound is the same only it never lasted for our ears had given out. as the passing of time we are left by the tick of the clock. it moved away and left us behind and never to catch up. for the toils and the tools of our bodies had eventually cracked and could no longer do its job. old age, tired tracks and slowly dissipating strength made us lost our race with the time that is now lost in our hands. but wait... as the fountain of youth will now be on its way, to stop the clock of life so maybe we could live forever for eternity...hopefully...

music spinning, music playing round and round over and over is like years adding up...but music is eternal, and life is not...