Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Life with Magz Series: Motorcyle Accident
Monday, September 9, 2024
“Kawatan” Indeed
So today marks our Autumn in Europe trip. I’m currently here in Marhaba Lounge in Dubai, waiting for our connecting flight to Amsterdam. Funny how I managed to sneak my way to the lounge without my actual Priority Pass. Ninja moves for the win. 😄 Dad would’ve called me “kawatan” again had he been with me. Bad girl!
P.S. First time I noticed this Journal app in Iphone so yeah, got curious and tried it.
Sept 7, 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Monday, July 29, 2024
7 years ago
Friday, July 19, 2024
Friday, July 12, 2024
Wake Me Up When September Comes
These past months gusto ko na lang talagang maging Disney princess. Hahaha. So I wouldn’t have to work. Kaya lang Princess Sarah ang achieve na achieve ngayon. Yung panahon na wala na syang tatay at kelangan nyang kumayod para mabuhay. Ganern!
Hay. Sobrang pagod lang siguro tlga eto I need to rest. If only I could just wake up when September comes, I really want to skip the 1st half review and 2nd half planning, the hustle-and-bustle of Cisco's quarter- and fiscal year-end and the planning again that comes after.
Saturday, July 6, 2024
You = Me
Does it ever drive you crazy
Just how fast the night changes?
Everything that you've ever dreamed of
Disappearing when you wake up
But there's nothing to be afraid of
Even when the night changes
It will never change me and you"
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Life with Magz Series: First Ticket
The inner lane. That's where you'll mostly find me when I'm in the streets. It's the fastest way, and I have little-to-none patience when it comes to driving. And that short patience somehow scares me.
Anyway, I went out on a public holiday to submit documents. As usual, I was taking the inner lane, even though there was no traffic. Little did I know that at the end of the flyover were policemen working on a holiday, catching motor vehicle (MV) violators using the bus lane––which happens to be the inner lane in some parts of the metro. It was too late to change lanes; they already spotted me, plus there's a blue MV to my right blocking my way.
So there. I was issued my first violation––disregarding traffic signs (with notes at the bottom that read: unauthorized passing of MV through busway)–with a penalty of 5k. Crap. 5k for a first offense. Crap again.
But maybe that's a good thing 'coz I've been inclined to live a life where I can brush off minor rules because I know I can almost always get away with it. And this is a good reminder for me that there's a price to pay for not minding them.
That changed my perspective.
But, I dunno, I guess the heavens love me too much it still kinda worked in my favor for I was only asked to pay 1,010 when I was retrieving my license. Lol. I guess the staff didn't read the whole violation and so what's put on record was only the 'disregarding traffic signs,' which costs only that amount.
I never thought I'd be this ultra grateful for someone else's lapses. Hahaha. To that encoder, you just don't know how thankful I was for your mistake. 😁
To Magz, cheers to your first appearance in a public video. Lol. But sorry just the same that it had to be that way. 🙈😁
No worries. I learned my lesson. 😁
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Every Now and Then
I'm almost over you
I guess it was just a matter of time
I've started going out
How long can anybody go without
Before you start goin' out of your mind
Even so, I confess
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN MY HEART RULES OVER MY HEAD
I find myself wondering about you baby
Seems now and again
I can't escape the thought of all that
might have been
Every now and then
I wake up dreamin' 'bout you and I
Some days I can't remember them all
Evenings are painful still
I can't help wondering if they always
will be
I can't help noticing this emptiness-
baby
I don't cry, every night
Just the ones when I feel like I feel tonight
I find myself wondering about you baby
Seems now and again
I can't escape the thought of all that
might have been
Every now and then
When I reach, reach for the phone
Why does everything good
Make me think of you baby
I find myself wondering about you baby
Seems now and again
I can't escape the thought of all that
might have been
Every now and then
Monday, March 25, 2019
Paradox
Saturday, March 10, 2018
An Allegory of the Sweetest Downfall
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Yet again
Friday, December 2, 2016
Jaded
One moment it takes you to Cloud 9, to dreamworld, to the highest of highs, to the heavens, and before you know it, it starts hurting you like hell....that you begin to ask yourself, is it worth having after all?
Lucky are those who found true love and kept it. By saying that, I don't mean that everything's perfect--that there are no arguments, no misunderstandings, no hurts, no pains, no bad days. But perfect love surpasses all. Only love can be perfect. Not the persons, not the circumstances.
I used to believe in forever. Just forever. And then life opens your eyes to the kind of love the majority of the real world has--unexclusive; shared for those taken, even "knotted". And suddenly, forever's not just enough. So you elevate your thinking and finally settled for "happily ever after". 'Coz not all taken are happy. Not all married are happy. Not all forevers are happy.
So what is love, really?
For Christians like me, love is described best in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. "4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
And then I think, apart from the love of God for us, can anyone be capable of giving such kind? Can a mortal love you like that? Or can you? Maybe to some, yes. But me? Aaaaah....
And then I go back to what I used to think--that (I guess) love isn't meant for me just as I am not meant for love.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Helpless
Friday, July 29, 2016
Somewhere Out There
Habakkuk 2:3 KJV
[3] For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
While this song brought with it hope...
Somewhere out there,
Beneath the pale moonlight,
Someone's thinking of me,
And loving me tonight.
Somewhere out there,
Someone's saying a prayer,
That we'll find one another,
In that big somewhere out there.
And even though I know how very far apart we are,
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star,
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby,
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky!
Somewhere out there,
If love can see us through,
Then we'll be together,
Somewhere out there,
Out where dreams come true...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
FIX ME
Saturday, June 2, 2012
thoughts on the last hump day of May 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
musings
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Lovin' BORA.....the second time around
i'll take you this time to 2008. the time i revisited the ever-famous bora. but lemme correct what i had written there. it's 2003 and not 2002 that we first visited the place. click the link below. have fun!
Lovin' Bora the second time around
p.s. hmmmm....maybe i should maximize the use of my multiply account again. i remember signing up there 'coz it's the best way to keep photos and the easiest way to upload pics. yeah, from now, i'll upload all my travel pics there. stay tuned! :)
Friday, January 27, 2012
Sleepless not in Seattle, but in Antipolo
nights these past couple of months, i can say, were nightmares. the more i try hard to sleep, the more i stay awake. the more i push the thoughts away, the more they come rushing in. just random thoughts about the future from tomorrow to 2 or so years from now, about the past from yesterday all the way down to childhood, about the present from 45 minutes past midnight to 46 minutes to 47 and so on. i've thought of just about everything! from thoughts about what i wrote on a slumbook when i was a first-grader to thoughts about the job interview that is still yet to happen. from thoughts about the persons that had come and gone in my life to thoughts of the mistakes and the lessons learned. from thoughts of dreaming and succeeding to thoughts of future conversations to thoughts that happened to thoughts that should've happened and to thoughts that didn't even happen! tell me something and maybe i had thought of it, too! haha! imagine that?!?!?
i just dunnoh why my mind functions so fast at a time when it should be resting. a couple of my relatives advised me to take iron supplement 'coz most prolly i got a low blood. "low bloods" have a hard time sleeping. or so they say. alright, so maybe a low-blood zombie i am. what the heck! and suddenly a thought struck me. i was anemic, or maybe still am. and if that anemia will worsen to leukemia, and the latter will turn into death, then maybe i'll finally have the good night's sleep that i've been deprived of for weeks! morbid thought, ain't it? told you, thoughts just continue to rush in, even morbid thoughts. bull.
oh, Lord, pls. make me sleep now. i wanna sleep. i need to.
ha! those are my most often-used words lately.
so there. my late-night status on Jan. 22, that turned 23 just a few minutes after.