the way i am...

If you were falling,
then I would catch you.
You need a light,
I'd find a match.
Cuz I love
the way you say good morning.
And you take me the way I am.

If you are chilly,
here take my sweater.
Your head is aching,
I'll make it better.
Cuz I love the way
you call me baby.
And you take me the way I am.

I'd buy you Rogaine
when you start losing all your hair.
Sew on patches
to all your tear.
Cuz I love you
more than I could ever promise.
And you take me the way I am.
You take me the way I am.
You take me the way I am.

MISSING YOU....

...6 years and 2 days ago, i was packing my bags to fly off to bacolod on the first flight out...

...it's been 6 years but i could never get over how it feels...you couldn't breathe...and your heart just feels heavy...and a warm feeling crawls up your chest...you want to shout out and pour all those tears out...but....it wouldn't bring him back....

i miss you tatay!!!

...wish you were here...you'd have a kick at having all those coffeeshops around greenbelt...the starbucks that you're soooo fond of is juz around the corner....can see you reading through your 3 sets of newspapers (always amazed me how you needed 3 sets everyday - but then, we always won the newspaper drive at school - miss you!!).....bet you'd love window shopping at all these stores...there's bally and colehann nearby...plus...the bars where you can have your beer or two...you would've enjoyed watching the ateneo lasalle game with us...bet you would've shouted louder than i did!!

...remembering...miss how we'd go grocery shoppin and we'd leave nanay with yayping...we'd go to those choclit and candy area and you'd get us what we wanted (not letting nanay know)...miss how you'd wake me up in mornings for school and patiently dried my hair after my shower (thought all dad's did that...i was wrong) - miss you!!!...miss how you'd play your nightly solitaire and you'd let me play with you telling you which cards to open...miss how you'd let me take a sip of the foamy glass of beer that you'd have while watching news on tv (but i never did like it)...miss how you'd try to carry me and hush me from crying (right after you'd scold me...come to think of it...i was trying not to breathe coz if you hear me sobbing and catching my breathe in between sobs you wouldn't put me down)...miss how you'd think i was asleep and you'd bend over to kiss my head and rub my back to whisper goodnight...

...birthdays drawing near - yes all 3 lourdes...miss coming home and seeing your "glowing" head amidst the crowd trying to catch a glimpse of me and my sister in the baggage claim area...you'd be at the airport an hour before our flight lands - geeez..just so you'd get the prime parking spot...i miss you sooo much!!!

...still crying even as i write this one up...6 years and 2 days ago - i missed the chance to say I LOVE YOU and hug you for one last time...i didn't make it early enough for that... :(

COMMERCIAL BREAK!!

as i've said...i've been tv-fied...here're a few commercials that gets me to smile after a day of hard work.... some old..some new....some are hysterical....some touches the heart...

COMMERCIAL # 1: Why are there no male cheerleaders??

couldn't find the english version that they show here in Manila but it should be the same except for the voice over





COMMERCIAL # 2: BIOLINK VCO HOTOIL COMMERCIAL

COMMERCIAL #3: CHIPPY!!

COMMERCIAL #4: MCDONALDS (old commercial)

this is where karen sarmiento got her nickname

COMMERCIAL #5: COKE - the beat (old commercial)

memories..i can still memorize the claps for this...who can't?? hehehe...

COMMERCIAL #6: FITA COMMERCIAL

TWISTED THOUGHTS

...when you start getting along with someone that you do not like....does it mean that they've changed...or...could it be that they've changed - YOU? waaaaaaaaaah!!



QUAAAAAAAACK!!!

BELIEVE IT OR NOT....

I seldom pay attention to the AOL homepage even if it is my default page that loads when i launch my IE explorer...I'd normally type a different URL and hit enter...but today, this one had me stop the load and hit the IE back button to reload the AOL page....

...this had me thinking - would i want to know?? instant answer would be YES OF COURSE!! but then, i take a step back...

....belief is trusting in something that you have no tangible proof of but you reasonably believe to be true...but what if reason shows proof of something that shakes the very foundation of your belief - it shakes the very foundation of this world - and of who we are....i could not even think of death and of the point where we no longer have the answers....coz it is at this point that faith rules...

Freska!

..got invited by weeza today to visit her resto...been there a few times...and they serve good food - seafood and other ilonggo cuisine! biased? yeah probably coz i'm a local..hehe...but you should go try it....yummy!!

...for this round i tried the following:

....tempura oysters...interesting...they deep fried the oysters and coated it with flour and wasabi...then they dripped some mayo over it...hehe...weeza said it tasted good - so all right i ordered a plate...it didn't taste bad - but - i still wished i ordered the classic oyster with four cheese....hahahaha...

...batchoy - yummy!!

...crispy catfish with mango salad! yummy!! stopped myself from eating the whole plate coz weeza said we should leave some for the "photographer"...hahaha...

...bananas de molo - it was fried crispy thin molo wrappers laid one on top of the other with caramel ice cream on top...choclit drippings all over the plate plus cut-up bananas coated with brown sugar on the side...hehe - this one was yummy...wanted the caramel ice cream all to myself!! but weeza said leave some for the photographer!! hahahaha...

yun pala...libre ni rhiza...no wonder she was stopping me from devouring the plate...she paid for snack ala dinner as she requested us (well it was juz tebs) to take pixes of the beer balloon...what's a beer balloon? its a dispenser that's filled with 10 bottles of beer - in place of the normal pitcher...

visit freska!! they've got branches at promenade 2nd floor..and another one along katipunan (near ateneo)...yeah this is free ad for weeza...after all she paid for dinner...hahaha...

Tu vida en 65...

...your life in 65...in 65 words...this was the title of the spanish movie i saw yesterday...very light but leaves me thinking...

is 65 words enough to describe life? will you need more than 65?or is 65 too much?

when you limit yourself to 65 words, you get to weigh what's important - hopefully at the end you'll realize that you've got more than 65 important things in life to be happy for...or...sadly, you just don't have enough to fill the 65....

time to wake up...set the limits - not to limit yourself...but to go beyond...

QUACK!

il mio desiderio... per spenderei un tramonto con...

juz spent the sunday with friends...watching ateneo-lasalle game at nsg (a.k.a. we were a bunch of folks who were not able to get tickets...around 23K people filled araneta colliseum for the game - so i heard)...

as we cheered on...was looking thru the crowd at some die-hard lasalista or atenista...hey..hey don't look at me...im not one of those die-hard folks but i love a good cheer now and then...one of the best i've heard so far - "BEAT ATENEO, ANIMO LASALLE!!" - wow!! that boosts atenean morale to a hundred fold...they live to beat ateneo...that says a lot for depth doesn't it? hahahaha...

put that in parallel to 2 movies that i've seen today (oh yeah..took a day off from work...got this splitting monday headache) - 300 and devil wears prada....


300 guys with nothing less but 6-packs prancing around the entire movie is not the parallelism that i was thinking of here...a closetful of dolce & gabana, chanel and jimmy chus - not exactly parallel to a bunch of sweaty guys running around the courts...BUT hey they speak of one thing...passion...living for something in life...and both movies end with a strong point...they chose how to live and they defined how they wanted their lives to be...can we say the same for the mighty lasalistas? SPELL LASALLE!! D-L-S-U!! SPELL LASALLE! (check their latest cheer dance number...hehehe)


wrapping it up....one thing i can say - life lived with passion is life worth living...even if it means trying to beat ateneo....hehehehe...

seriously, what's the passion that drives you to wake up every morning?

i'm thankful i have something to live for...to work for...

QUACK!!!QUACK!!