October 27, 2007 • 1:33 am
LOVE actually is around, as presented to us by the movie LOVE ACTUALLY written and directed by Richard Curtis. True, but most of the time we fail to recognize its presence because we are so involved in looking up the negative plane of the world, addressing hatred and transforming it into L-O- . . . L-O-V-E. Sure, media plays a crucial role in gate-keeping our discourses and limiting it within the bounds of violence and physical destruction. But shouldn’t we blame ourselves, too, for failing to identify love when it passes us and only mentally listing up personal dislikes about a person or thing? After belatedly watching LOVE ACTUALLY today, I learned something special I want to share with you. I bet almost half of the poor young generation in the Philippines today does not know why we celebrate Christmas. We keep telling that it is more than the lights and trees and gifts we share. For the Christians, it is the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ who humbly celebrate his birthday in a manger, contrary to the way we celebrate his birthday now. But the truth is Jesus is born rich with the love of his mother and father and the animals. Through LOVE ACTUALLY, I learned that in Christmas, unlike any ordinary and routine day, we tell the truth. That truth is LOVE. It only seems right that this coming Christmas, we recognize the LOVES of our LIVES: our parents, siblings, grandparents, relatives, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends, teachers, and classmates. Show our gratitude to them because they help place pieces of our lives together so that we will come out as one good package, prepared to see and meet the world with similar love and gratitude, not to treat it as a freaking war zone. Merry Christmas, everyone! Strive to love and be happy!
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October 26, 2007 • 3:32 pm
WHAT is it with corners? Well, I love corners. Corner of a jeepney. Corner of a classroom. Corner of an office space. Corner of streets. Even a corner among friends. From a silent, inconspicuous corner, I see and hear and even weave a lot of wonderful stories. From a corner, I can widen my perspective and be strategic. Observe. Know your friends. Draw the lines. Unleash your imagination. Be safe. From a corner.
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I ADMIRE smokers and would-be smokers plainly because they know what’s going to happen but they still risk doing it. I think smoking is a risk factor. In the international perspective, smokers risks their body and their environment to sweet chemicals that decay them. In Cebu, a smoker risks, too, his personality in the midst of swarming conservatives. In my home, a smoker risks himself to humiliation–because Dad will really ask him to get out of the house. I belong to a family of asthmatic darlings, that’s why. But I shall never know these risks, not until I try smoking myself. But I would tell myself that I’m already a smoker–a second-rate one, that is (you know, inhaling all the fumes from all kinds of mufflers no matter how much I try to suffocate myself with my handkerchief). And I would wonder if this is just one of my many ways of contributing to air pollution and global warming. And I would wonder, too, how several smokers would discourage would-be smokers not to take the risks of smoking because it is unnecessary, it is dangerous, but they themselves could not discourage themselves yet from taking the risks. I wonder how they could still manage to hold on to one stick after another with already quite shaky hands. Or how smokers would puff off smokes before each other’s faces unintentionally and still manage to create a great conversation. Amazing. Plain amazing. I admire smokers for their unnecessary and dangerous risks, and nothing else. Well, you could at least smoke to that, folks.
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THE prima donnas I know sing on television. It’s a bonus if they can dance. Or cook. Now, I see them just about everywhere. And they just don’t sing, or dance, or cook. They are also public speakers, speaking for or in behalf of other people, with or without their consent. It’s amazing how they can just talk; only this time, there is no rhythm or rhyme. Just plain inhuman outburst. From my silent corner (as always), I gape with awe, transfixed at what I am seeing and hearing. Sympathy drains the wits out of me–for the victims, the targets, the subjects of the heartless composition. I feel numb with helplessness. And choose not to speak. And choose not to join in the singing of another kind of music. Bad music. I’m familiar with it. I just don’t like it. I’m certain I don’t have to like it to be liked. So I choose my modest corner instead, and sing happy thoughts to myself. I pray I won’t find my feet tapping to the rhythm of their music.
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I STOPPED blogging more than a year ago. That was when I was hooked to computer games like Sims 2 and became lazy. I still am now (hooked to computer games, that is), but I’m quite bored with it. Funny how I can build fantasy homes on screen when I couldn’t even save up, no matter how much I tried. I just don’t know where my money goes. Well, that’s dangerous, I know. I have expensive tuition in school, for one. So I will stop studying for now. And work. I buy and eat a lot of sweets, too. Those who know me wouldn’t be surprised if I have gained some seven to ten pounds from my ideal 118 lbs. over the past three months. So, as I was saying, I got bored with Sims 2, Rocket Mania, Box World, Insaniquarium, and other computer games that are within my mental capacity. So I went back to blogging. At WordPress. Not only because someone–a computer genius, I must say–recommended it, but perhaps the word “press” rings a whole new world of possibilities with words. Well, I hope I can stick around longer this time.
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