Blessed
We were recently called upon to look at the Chancellor's office for re-layouting. We had the opportunity to go inside his excellency's office. It feels like we were in campus heaven, meaning we were in the realm of one of the highest official in the campus. Then we saw the University Mace, or the sacred staff of power. We excitedly took pictures and touched the mace (secretly shempre), hoping that its powers might suddenly chage our luck within the university. Malay natin bigla na lang maiba ang appointment sa papel, tsaka tumaas suweldo hehehe.
Outside, employees were holding their regular rallies at the Quezon Hall grounds, asking for an across the board wage increase. I then had the idea that what if I suddenly grab the mace and show it to the rallyists, announcing that I have the object hostage, maybe people will cheer for me.
Daydreaming at its finest. Baka puede rin ipa-imbue yung staff ala Diablo 2.
Let's Get Physical!!!
The Summer Months are here!!! (Or not, due to the rains???). In any case, the College of Human Kinetics is again offering recreational programs for the months of april to may. I'm choosing between tennis again, dance lessons again, aikido and badminton. I think it's time I go beyond tennis just for the mere fact that I miss sleeping way beyond 6 a.m. So whoever wants to join lets go get physical!
Rock On!!!
Kitchie Nadal rocks! We watched the recent concert at the Bahay ng Alumni. It was my second time watching a major concert, with Bamboo being the first last week, also in the Alumni.
Her band was good, belting out mostly heavy riffs and drums. Kitchie and her band is a far cry from the former sound of Mojofly. But then again, I haven't listened to the Mojofly albums, except for the songs Another Day and Scooter Boy. Her songs in the present album has heavy tunes and nice lyrics.
Her stage presence was very good, in tune with the crowd. She allows the crowd to sing along and even invited somebody to sing on-stage with her.
The concert was a good respite from all the loaded nights doing schoolwork.
Kitchie Nadal rocks! We watched the recent concert at the Bahay ng Alumni. It was my second time watching a major concert, with Bamboo being the first last week, also in the Alumni.
Her band was good, belting out mostly heavy riffs and drums. Kitchie and her band is a far cry from the former sound of Mojofly. But then again, I haven't listened to the Mojofly albums, except for the songs Another Day and Scooter Boy. Her songs in the present album has heavy tunes and nice lyrics.
Her stage presence was very good, in tune with the crowd. She allows the crowd to sing along and even invited somebody to sing on-stage with her.
The concert was a good respite from all the loaded nights doing schoolwork.
Inspiration Part 1
Closing Cycles
By Paulo Coelho
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying 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 moments of life that have finished.
Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden?
You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister,
everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we
cannot forever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back.
Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it maybe!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Let things go. Release them. Detach
yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose.
Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else. Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the ideal moment.
Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when
you could live without that thing or that person nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important.
Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, and shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.
