August 2011
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“Life is pleasant.
Death is peaceful.
It’s the transition that’s...”
– Jimi Hendrix
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“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in...”
– Carl Jung
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath
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A Heart of Gold →
I just read this very heart-warming blog entry by Zarah Hernaez that got me all teary-eyed. There’s still hope for the rest of us because of people like Zarah who have golden hearts. And I know she is not alone. I just hope we all could learn from this and do acts of kindness in our own little ways everyday, because we all know a little kindness goes a long way.
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“…then laugh, leaning back in my arms, for life is not a paragraph, and...”
– e.e. cummings
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From the Archives
Closing Cycles By Paolo Coelho
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist onstaying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters. Whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the momentsof life that have finished. Did you lose your job? Has...
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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almost sober
the narrative is familiar — i ask you to be near, to be within reach. instead, i reach out for a glass, drank the half full, the ice cubes hid beneath the froth. i hid the bitterness, hold the mic. the music played, and i am alone again, with another song that has no meaning other than your distance, your elusiveness.
someone asks for another round, the night is young. the beer is cold...
“The gestation of a true, committed reader is in some ways a magical process,...”
– Motoko Rich
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Of eggs and pesoses
When I first moved to Cebu City, I rented a reasonably priced studio apartment three minutes away from I.T. Park. I had no job at the time and was living off the cruel joke I referred to as my savings. In the evenings, lacking anything better to do, I used to head over to Ayala Center and on the way, stare into the windows of The Waterfront Hotel, wondering what went on in those well-appointed...
“Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate...”
– Dr. Iannis in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
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(No) Smoking Here
It’s popular to believe that every smoker was brainwashed, sucked in by product placements and subliminal print ads. This argument comes in handy when you want to assign blame, but it discounts the fact that smoking is often wonderful. For people like me, people who twitched and jerked and cried out in tiny voices, cigarettes are godsend. Not only that, but they taste good, especially that...
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“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
– Lily Tomlin
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