Repost Mula kay Ape Daga

Got this post from April's site. Tsk tsk, di pa rin kumukupas ang mga linya ni April, bitter but sweet. Ah, para to sa mga masukista. At sa mga mahilig sa espontanyong ligaya:

Bakit hinayaang umusbong ang di napapanahong interes sa isang ispiritung ilang beses mo lang nakasalamuha? Ndi kailngan ng salita. O ng pang-unawa. Ipakita ang nararamdaman, bigla na lang naintindihan. Ligaya. . aspetong mahirap iexplika. Basta andun na lang. Kumapit ka lang. At mararamdaman. Ang kakaibang tamis. Likha man ng alak na nakalalasing ng katawan at isipan, ndi maikakailangang my namuong unawaan. Saksi ang paligid, manalamin ka.

City of Angels - Memorable Lines

I was in love with this film the first time I saw it. And I fell in love again last Sunday. The ending was tragic, and yes, Seth was too late. But who knows? =P

Susan: What good would wings be if you couldn't feel the wind on your face?

Maggie Rice: I'm not afraid. When they ask me what I liked best, I'll tell them, it was you.

Maggie Rice: Those eyes. The way he looked... right down into me.

Cassiel: To smell the air.
Seth: Taste water.
Cassiel: Read a newspaper.
Seth: To lie.
Cassiel: Through your teeth.
Cassiel: To feed the dog.
Seth: Touch her hair.
Cassiel: What are you waiting for?

Maggie Rice: I wait all day, just hoping for one more minute with you, and I don't even know you.

Seth: I came to take Mr. Balford... and I saw you. I couldn't take my eyes off you. How you fought for him. And you looked right at me... like I was a man.

Seth: I was there in the stairwell... when you cried for your patient. And I touched you. Why are you doing this? Because I'm in love with you.

Maggie Rice: I don't understand a God who would let us meet, if we could never be together.

Seth: I fell.
Ann: Evidently. Off a train?
Seth: I fell in love. Please help me find her.

Maggie Rice: Do you feel that?
Seth: Yes.
Maggie Rice: And that? How's it feel? Tell me what it feels like.
Seth: I can't.
Maggie Rice: Try.
Seth: Warm. Aching.
Maggie Rice: It's okay. We fit together.
Seth: I know.
Maggie Rice: We were made to fit together.

Seth: Am I too late?
Maggie Rice: Too late?
Seth: Jordan?
Maggie Rice: I couldn't marry Jordan. I'm in love with you.

Seth: I always asked the dying what they liked best about living. Wrote it down in my book. This is it. This is what I like best.

Maggie Rice: We have our whole lives together. You and me. Mr. and Mrs. Plate.

Seth: To touch you... and to feel you. To be able to hold your hand right now. You know what that means? Do you know how much I love you?

Seth: You're a good doctor.
Maggie: How do you know?
Seth: I have a feeling.
Maggie: Yeah, well that's pretty flimsy evidence.
Seth: Close your eyes. Just for a second... what am I doing?
Maggie: You're... touching me.
Seth: How do you know?
Maggie: Because, I feel it.
Seth: You should trust that. You don't trust it enough.

Seth: Hello Maggie! It's nice to see you again.
Maggie Rice: It's weird to see you again.
Seth: Weird is nice.

Ann: Never date a guy who knows more about your vagina than you do.

Seth: Let's go.
Maggie: Where?
Seth: Anywhere.
Maggie: What'll we do?
Seth: Anything.

Maggie: Something happened in that room. I got this jolt that... something bigger is out there. Something bigger than me, bigger than you. Does that sound crazy?

Maggie: Why do you wear the same clothes all the time? Why won't you give me your phone number? Are you married?
Seth: No.
Maggie: Are you homeless?
Seth: No.
Maggie: Are you a drummer?

Seth: What's that like? What's it taste like? Describe it like Hemingway.
Maggie Rice: Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like?
Seth: I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.
Maggie Rice: Sweet, juicy, soft on your tongue, grainy like a sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth. How's that?
Seth: It's perfect.

Seth: I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.

Seth: Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

Maggie: What happened?
Seth: Free will.

Seth: The little girl asked if she could be an angel.
Cassiel: They all want wings.
Seth: I never know what to say.
Cassiel: Tell them the truth. Angels aren't human. We were never human.
Seth: What if I just make her a little pair of wings out of paper?

Seth: Why do people cry?
Maggie: What do you mean?
Seth: I mean... what happens physically?
Maggie: Well... Umm... Tear ducts operate on a normal basis to lubricate and protect the eye and when you have an emotion they overreact and create tears.
Seth: Why? Why do they overreact?
Maggie: [pause] I don't know.
Seth: Maybe... maybe emotion becomes so intense your body just can't contain it. Your mind and your feelings become too powerful... and your body weeps.

Nathaniel Messinger: Seth knows no fear, no pain, no hunger, he hears music in the sunrise. But he'd give it all up, he loves you that much
Maggie Rice: I don't understand
Nathaniel Messinger: He can fall, he can give up eternity and become... one of us, human

Mack Truck driver: Where are you headed?
Seth: Tahoe!
Mack Truck driver: Reno.
Seth: Tahoe!
Mack Truck driver: I'm going to Reno!
Seth: I'm going to Tahoe!
Mack Truck driver: Well, hop in, we'll figure it out when we get there.

Maggie: Are you a visitor? Who are you visiting?
Seth: You.

Nathaniel Messinger: Listen, kid: he gave these bozos the greatest gift in the universe - you think he didn't give it to us, too?
Seth: Which gift?
Nathaniel Messinger: Free will, brother. Free will.

Maggie Rice: We fight for people’s lives, right?
Maggie Rice: Do you ever wonder who it is we're fighting with?

Company Outing 2008 Subic SweetWater Resort

Chronicles of a Love Untold

Zizek on Love

Sometime during college, a friend of mine made me read Zizek's opinion on Love; and today, while browsing, I came across those texts again, here they are:

"For me there is one measure of true love: you can insult the other. Like in that horrible German comedy film from 1943 where Marika Röck treats her fiancé very brutally. This fiancé is a rich, important person, so her father asks her why are you treating him like that. And she gives the right answer. She says: 'But I love him, and since I love him, I can do with him whatever I want.' That's the truth of it. If there is true love, you can say horrible things and anything goes."

Then here's the comment of the blogger who quoted the above texts ~~~

"Possibly Slavoj Žižek is a silly old bachelor like myself."

And now, that friend of mine who showed me those texts remains to be single.

Heres another link about Zizek on Love: https://loganfidler.wordpress.com/

What Zizek said makes sense to me now. Unlike before.

Pagdalaw sa Site ni Teo

Ilang mga partial repost mula sa Blog ni Teo Marasigan nang minsang mapadaan ako:

Header ng Entry na Ramdam ang Kaunlaran?:

“Progress” affects few. Only revolution can affect many. ~~~ Alice Walker

+++++ for a change? Hehe. :-D

Mula sa entry na Krisis the Moment:

[Maganda ang tawag ni Prop. Margarita “Maita” Gomez ng Action for Economic Reforms sa neo-liberal na ekonomiks na itinuturo sa UPSE: autistic. Sa isang banda, insulto ito sa mga may autism, dahil hindi naman sila nakakapinsala sa isang buong sambayanan. Pero tinutukoy nito kung paanong may sariling mundo ang ekonomiks na ito, na kaiba sa mundo ng nakakaraming tao. May sarili itong mga pamantayan ng kaunlaran at pagbuti ng ekonomiya. May sarili itong pag-unawa sa mga suliranin ng bansa, gayundin sa mga solusyon sa mga ito.]

+++++ Nakakatawa dahil madalas naming gamiting magkakaibigan ang salitang AUTISTIC bilang paglalarawan sa mga katrabahong pumapalya sa pakikisama at mga gawi sa loob ng opisina (mean girls!)

Mula sa entry na Ang Birong Bastos ni Borat:

[Hindi ko pa napapanood ang pelikulang “Borat”. Pero ayon sa isang kaibigan, tungkol ito kay Borat, isang Kazakh o mamamayan ng Kazakhstan – isang bansa sa Gitnang Asya – na naglilibot at gumagawa ng mga kalokohan sa Amerika. Naikuwento sa akin ang isang eksena rito, na bukod sa nakakatawa, o dahil nga nakakatawa, ay mainam na pag-isipan dahil may sinasabing makabuluhan hinggil sa gera ng US sa Iraq. Sa isang banda, may mahahalaw ring pagsusuri sa todong gera ng rehimeng Arroyo sa Kaliwa.

Nagpunta si Borat sa Texas, ang estado sa US na pinagmulan ni Pangulong George W. Bush at kilalang balwarte ng konserbatibong patriyotismo ng mga Amerikanong puti. Pumasok siya sa rodeo stadium – kung saan nagpapakitang-gilas sa baril at kabayo ang mga cowboy, na laging puti, na napapanood sa lumang mga pelikula. Sa isip nating mga Pilipino, at marahil ng mga mamamayan ng US at ibang bansa, katumbas ng cowboy sa US ang ninja sa Japan – simbolo ng sinaunang tapang at dangal ng kanilang bansa.

Doon, pumunta siya sa mikropono kung saan kinakanta ang pambansang awit ng US, at binibigkas ang mga anunsiyo para sa mga naroon. Emosyonal si Borat. Sigaw niya: “Ako ay isang Kazakh, pero mahal ko ang Amerika!” Palakpakan ang mga tao. “Mahal ko si George W. Bush!” Palakpakan ang mga tao. “Sinusuportahan ko ang gera ng US sa Iraq!” Palakpakan ang mga tao. “Nawa’y laklakin ni George W. Bush ang dugo ng lahat ng bata, babae at lalakeng Iraqi!” Katahimikan. Natigilan ang mga tao, natigalgal.]

+++++ Clap! Clap! Clap! Mukhang magandang panuorin ang peilkulang Borat. Pangit kase ng title kaya kahit madalas ko makita sa video rentals, kinikeber lang...

Disorder

There are things that I can't explain I chose to feel. And it's scary & risky for you wont know where this feeling is leading you.

Leche. Bwisit. I'm trapped in this shit I prepared for my self.

Afraid + + +

Clocks 'Only Time Will Tell'

Lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
You've put me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead, singing
Come out of things unsaid, shoot an apple off my head and a
Trouble that can't be named, tigers waiting to be tamed, singing
You are, you are

Confusion never stops, closing walls and ticking clocks, gonna
Come back and take you home, I could not stop, that you now know, singing
Come out upon my seas, curse missed opportunities, am I
A part of the cure, or am I part of the disease, singing

You are, you are, you are, you are
You are, you are
And nothing else compares
Oh no nothing else compares
And nothing else compares

You are
Home, home, where I wanted to go,
Home, home, where I wanted to go,
Home, home, where I wanted to go,
Home, home, where I wanted to go...

Ang Pagsundo sa Balikbayan

Last April 2 ~ 10:30 pm, Ateng Laraine arrived at the airport. Three years in Dubai is such a very long time for us to miss her so much. She's my only girl cousin on my Father side, that's why we are almost like sisters. :-D

Enchanted Kingdom Gala

March 30, 2008 ~ ending the month with fun at Enchanted Kingdom! Kapagod but it's worth it, loved the Anchor's Away ride. Gaby's sooooooo kulet, refused to watch the 4D show. Haha! And Willy riding the carousel 5 times!

Banaue Escape

From Feb22-24, I was in paradise, away from everything, except Ate Joan, Szaby & nature around us. :-D Realy unforgettable experience, can't wait to go back there.

Dear Life

Inherently, I know I have to accept the responsibilities.
Staying would mean mourning till I can say you're really mine.
We can actually let ourselves grow with this experience, let each day count.
But here 'he' comes, a sudden thought cripples me.
And everything will never be the same again.
I'm waiting for an absolution, save me or prolong my pain?

"Love can tear you apart... It can kill you.
But if you’re lucky, it can put you back together."

Everything Is Shit

Blogismo.. Kung anu-anu na lang.. Ayan, bahala na kayo maghusga sa mga remark sa ibaba. Para lang di maborlog, at sa lahat ng stress na dumating at dadating pa in the next days.. Lenten na daw, ayan, timely ang post ko na ito. Wahahahah! :-D

Moses: Everything is law
Jesus: Everything is love
Marx: Everything is money
Freud: Everything is sex
Einstein: Everything is relative

Nakita ko ang remark na ito mula sa blog ni KC Conception. For me, you cannot reduce the achievements of these great men into simple words like sex, money, etc. Siguro pwede icategorize into kung sino ang materialist at sino ang mystical. Pero papayag ba si Jesus na mystical ang mga sinabi niya? Or si Marx, na plain truth ang sinabi niya sa mga sinulat niya? What a wanderpul layp [as per Irisk].

The Gypsy Queen

"The Left did not create the troubles of the world, the troubles of the world creates the Left!"

Dati, may propesor kame sa UP na sabi, kapag Marksista ka, dapat intelektwal ka. Sa dinami-dami ng argumento na pinagdidskusyonan sa unibersidad, kanya kanyang opinion, iba't ibang teorya, anu pa rin ba ang dominanteng kaisipan?

Nitong nakaraang Miyerkules, biglang pumunta sa bahay ang isang kasama, may business kase kame.. Kumustahan, kwentuhan, chikahan ng mga nagaganap at ang ikinagulat ko, ang "Balbalan". Hindi literal ang ibig sabihin ng term, ginagamit namin ito as tagalog for "Intellectual Masturbation". Wish ko lang walang mahalayan.

Do we have the right to say something with regards to the state of the Movement when we're not there to participate? - tanong namin sa sarili namin. Then this Gypsy Queen said - kung sinasabi ng propesor mo na dapat intelektwal ka para may 'say' ka sa mga bagay, di ako naniniwala jan. Sa karanasan ko sa Movement, masasabi kong ito ang pinaka-HUMBLE na org, willing to listen kahit pa sangkatutak na lait ang ibigay mo. Dahil doon nila ibabase ang analysis. Well, hardcore kase si Gypsy Queen. At tama naman siya.

Bakit, may krisis ba? Krisis ng bansa, obvious ba? Tinanong lang ako kamakailan ng Boss ko kung sasama ba ako sa rali, at may sinabi rin siya tungkol sa paglaki ng middle class -  na base sa study ng isang Govt Agency. Hay, di nako updated. Pero lumalaki nga ang service sector ng Pinas. Hindi ko matanggap na sinabi ni Gypsy Queen na isa na pala akong Worker. Mula sa pagiging peti-b. Pero sandali, hindi naman ako CSR ah, Accounts Receivables Staff ako. Anu bang klaseng kontradiksiyon ito? Pati iba't ibang uri may iba't ibang kontradiksyon di ba? At sa dinami dami ng mga tanong namin, hindi namin matanggap, totoong nakakatigang ng utak pag wala sa Loob.

We can't have everything in this world. You are not what you are. The choices you will make will not end as is..

Pero natapos ang usapan na hindi resolbado ang mga usapin. Balik sa realidad. May anak siya. Mag-aaral pako. At magpapatuloy ang kontradiksyon.

Kinagabihan, napabalita - may natagpuang dalawang bangkay ng babae.

Dinner with Vyvx Team

Thanks to Vicki Carter for this night. Bonding moment with my teammates together with Sir Dino, our OpsMan.

Moments of Fun

Pictures with friends at Incoho Phils. Inc. - first company I joined right after graduation.

Apocalypto

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Action & Adventure

Watched this film way back in December - as what the critics say, it's "an adrenaline-drenched chase movie" and "a visceral visual experience."

I can also relate it to the politically shaken administration of GMA. Her rule is oppressive, unjust and anti-poor and its doom is near. See quote below from the website - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto:

“The corrosive forces of corruption are illustrated in specific scenes throughout the movie. Excessive consumption can be seen in the extravagant lifestyle of the upper-class Maya, their vast wealth contrasted with the sickly, the extremely poor, and the enslaved. Environmental degradation is portrayed both in the exploitation of natural resources such as the over-mining and farming of the land, but also through the treatment of people, families and entire tribes as resources to be harvested and sold to slavery. Political corruption is seen in the leaders' manipulation, the human sacrifice on a large scale, and the mass slave trade. These themes are prevalent throughout the movie and often overlap and blend together, creating an overall sense of sadness, devastation and destruction.

The Ancient Greek verb αποκαλύπτω (apokalýptō) means "I uncover," "disclose," or "reveal." Gibson commented about the movie's title: "[It] just expresses so well what I want to convey. I think it's just a universal word. In order for something to begin, something has to end. All of those elements are involved. But it's not a big doomsday picture or anything like that."

Great film, Mel Gibson is very good. How I wish there's a Part II.

Life for Rent by Dido

I haven't really ever found a place that I call home

I never stick around quite long enough to make it
I apologize that once again I'm not in love
But it's not as if I mind
that your heart ain't exactly breaking

It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't lean to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

I've always thought
that I would love to live by the sea
To travel the world alone
and live my life more simply
I have no idea what's happened to that dream
Cos there's really nothing left here to stop me

It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

While my heart is a shield and I won't let it down
While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try
Well how can I say I'm alive

If my life is for rent..

Walang halong spiritual mode ito ha, my life is for the masses.. Dapat!