In a child's eyes we tend to forget the harsh realities of life. We are always concerned of what we shall do next when our mother calls us. Or if we quarrel with our playmates. Oh how we love portraying roles of our parents like playing house. Sometimes, it becomes a fantasy for us creating a world where we don't feel worried about increasing prices such as oil, rice, tuition fees, and other commodities.
From the harshness of life today, we certainly hoped to never become an adult where there are a lot responsibilities. But when we were still young, we hoped to become grown up suddenly. Dreams formed in our minds that someday we will become.
The world is so different in a child's eyes, everything seems gay and full of innocence. As adults now, we certainly hoped to still possess a child's eyes. If all of us has this, the world may also be different from what it is now. Don't you think?
Friday, July 4, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
How Important Is Money Today?
When trugding on a unfamiliar territory, we never know what will ever happen to us. Its the same as taking risks, betting your 500 peso bill for a lottery hoping that you'd win the jackpot prize. Its a risky business when your household relies for you to come home and hands in your salary so they could buy rice which is now ranging from 40-45 pesos. If you win then they would say you are lucky enough among the rest who has tried everyday but has never won the jackpot. But what if you have lost? Your wife, would be mad and your children wails for hunger. Its a sham!
This is how people face reality this days. Money begins to be too important for us. If we don't have it then we may not have food for the family. Every penny that comes out in our pockets has value. Gone are the days where we can buy a 5 cents for a candy. Sometimes we wonder how life begun to be miserable with every passing day it becomes so hard to live without money in our pockets. And no friend to turn to when we are in dire need of it.
Money, money, money they always say should be hard earned. If you got it then try not to waste and spend it in one day. Its hard to find real friends when you have a lot of it. Better be thrifty and save it for rainy days.
Life's too short to miss this kind of experience. A Realization!!
This is how people face reality this days. Money begins to be too important for us. If we don't have it then we may not have food for the family. Every penny that comes out in our pockets has value. Gone are the days where we can buy a 5 cents for a candy. Sometimes we wonder how life begun to be miserable with every passing day it becomes so hard to live without money in our pockets. And no friend to turn to when we are in dire need of it.
Money, money, money they always say should be hard earned. If you got it then try not to waste and spend it in one day. Its hard to find real friends when you have a lot of it. Better be thrifty and save it for rainy days.
Life's too short to miss this kind of experience. A Realization!!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
My Outback World
I always enjoy spending time in an outback place. I'm referring to the province where I always spent my summer vacations and in weekends when I have no work in the office. Its like being a child again when I vividly recall my life there. It was so full of fun.
I always treasure the moments I spent my life there with my grandparents. They have planted fruit-bearing trees like rambutan, durian, pomelo, guavas, bananas, mangosteen, lanzones and jackfruit aside from the crops they have as a means of their livelihood like coconuts, coffee, cacao, and other rootcrops. Although, now it was already converted into banana plantation. It is income generating to due to exportation to Asian countries.
Oh, we used to climb the guava trees early in the morning. The tree was just outside the front of the house. We were like birds on top of the tree looking for something to eat. Whenever grandpa sees us, we scampered and jumped off from the tree because he was carrying a belt for us.
Way back before 1998, there was no electricity in the area. People rely on kerosene lamps for their light in the dark when night time falls. We always take dinner early at 6pm, wash dishes afterwards and listen to the horror stories over the radio. Grandpa's radio is battery operated which has at least four eveready big batteries which may be consumed for a month. At dawn at exactly 4.30 am the radio could be heard. Then during the day, when grandpa is having his work or siesta we borrow his radio and listen to Visayan dramas as we were doing tasks assigned to us each day. Everyday that's the life we have at granny's place.
We still use the "pugon" for cooking. It is like a fireplace that has a chimney. Although it is a little bit smaller than a firplace where there are two holes for the pots and a little oven on the side. We use either wood or coconut husks for cooking. A lot of people like to use this kind of tool for cooking they say that its more enjoyable to eat the food because it tastes better as you savor the its richness of the food than the ones cooked using LPG. The fact that we use the raw materials found in the area we are able to save money instead of buying a gastank that is costly nowadays.
My errand is always at the kitchen to cook the meals during lunch and the dinner. Grandma cooks our breakfast because she's the early riser unlike me who wakes up at 6.30 am. I have learned to cook because of her. She taught me how to make suman, biko and especially the puto made from cassava.
So now, you wouldn't be troubled of why I have grown so big! I was a heavy child when I was a baby. My cousins and relatives used to pinch me because I'm so cute then but now they say I have grown into a beautiful woman and they say I'm still at the age between 25-29. I still look younger at my age it really doesn't show on my face because I have no wrinkles, yet.
In the farm, we walk miles inorder to reach our destination. Motorcycles are not yet the fads those days. So we hike at least thirty minutes to reach the highway, that is, if we don't tarry and get delayed along the way. And sometimes when the soil is wet and muddy it may also cause our delays. We really need patience to be able to reach our destinations.
Life in the province, is sometimes too tough and too ardous but when you take it lightly all will be well. It is thru persevering that we can be able to reach our goals. I am at least more comfortable staying in this world since its a familiar territory.
I always treasure the moments I spent my life there with my grandparents. They have planted fruit-bearing trees like rambutan, durian, pomelo, guavas, bananas, mangosteen, lanzones and jackfruit aside from the crops they have as a means of their livelihood like coconuts, coffee, cacao, and other rootcrops. Although, now it was already converted into banana plantation. It is income generating to due to exportation to Asian countries.
Oh, we used to climb the guava trees early in the morning. The tree was just outside the front of the house. We were like birds on top of the tree looking for something to eat. Whenever grandpa sees us, we scampered and jumped off from the tree because he was carrying a belt for us.
Way back before 1998, there was no electricity in the area. People rely on kerosene lamps for their light in the dark when night time falls. We always take dinner early at 6pm, wash dishes afterwards and listen to the horror stories over the radio. Grandpa's radio is battery operated which has at least four eveready big batteries which may be consumed for a month. At dawn at exactly 4.30 am the radio could be heard. Then during the day, when grandpa is having his work or siesta we borrow his radio and listen to Visayan dramas as we were doing tasks assigned to us each day. Everyday that's the life we have at granny's place.
We still use the "pugon" for cooking. It is like a fireplace that has a chimney. Although it is a little bit smaller than a firplace where there are two holes for the pots and a little oven on the side. We use either wood or coconut husks for cooking. A lot of people like to use this kind of tool for cooking they say that its more enjoyable to eat the food because it tastes better as you savor the its richness of the food than the ones cooked using LPG. The fact that we use the raw materials found in the area we are able to save money instead of buying a gastank that is costly nowadays.
My errand is always at the kitchen to cook the meals during lunch and the dinner. Grandma cooks our breakfast because she's the early riser unlike me who wakes up at 6.30 am. I have learned to cook because of her. She taught me how to make suman, biko and especially the puto made from cassava.
So now, you wouldn't be troubled of why I have grown so big! I was a heavy child when I was a baby. My cousins and relatives used to pinch me because I'm so cute then but now they say I have grown into a beautiful woman and they say I'm still at the age between 25-29. I still look younger at my age it really doesn't show on my face because I have no wrinkles, yet.
In the farm, we walk miles inorder to reach our destination. Motorcycles are not yet the fads those days. So we hike at least thirty minutes to reach the highway, that is, if we don't tarry and get delayed along the way. And sometimes when the soil is wet and muddy it may also cause our delays. We really need patience to be able to reach our destinations.
Life in the province, is sometimes too tough and too ardous but when you take it lightly all will be well. It is thru persevering that we can be able to reach our goals. I am at least more comfortable staying in this world since its a familiar territory.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Simple Things I Want In Life
I find life a bore when there is nothing for me to discover. So, I look for something special about what life offers in its humblest nature. Something that could not be bought or it need not be expensive to feel its life.
Simple things I want in life are the following: one, a native wooden house, a caricature of my mom's house (in the province) yet this one is a miniature. I guess I find it safe and secure if I own something like a house which has a personal touch of mine. I can have my own space and relax.
Second, make my own garden that is full of flowers in bloom and in different arrays of colors and fragrance. It soothes my senses especially when I'm lonely and stressed from work. I enjoy looking at it because whenever there are flowers there are also butterflies around. I like the colors, it fascinates me and it gives me hope to live and carry on whatever life has to offer.
And lastly, this one would be a vegetable garden since I like planting. It is better to have fresh food all the time and that I may have a healthy lifestyle, too. With the fresh air around that is free from pollution I can finally say its a perfect haven for me to unwind.
I hope to have acquired all this in the near future. All these things could be for permanency. A life I hope to live by being single.
Simple things I want in life are the following: one, a native wooden house, a caricature of my mom's house (in the province) yet this one is a miniature. I guess I find it safe and secure if I own something like a house which has a personal touch of mine. I can have my own space and relax.
Second, make my own garden that is full of flowers in bloom and in different arrays of colors and fragrance. It soothes my senses especially when I'm lonely and stressed from work. I enjoy looking at it because whenever there are flowers there are also butterflies around. I like the colors, it fascinates me and it gives me hope to live and carry on whatever life has to offer.
And lastly, this one would be a vegetable garden since I like planting. It is better to have fresh food all the time and that I may have a healthy lifestyle, too. With the fresh air around that is free from pollution I can finally say its a perfect haven for me to unwind.
I hope to have acquired all this in the near future. All these things could be for permanency. A life I hope to live by being single.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Is this real love?
When do you begin to say that what you're feeling now is really love?
We always fall in love with men on whom we thought he had all the ideals we have in mind but when we get to know him better we are surprised with what's in him that we had at first sight thought him to have passed all those criterias we have in mind. It was just simply an infatuation. In reality, we often look for it in the man but due to limited numbers of men in the area we often single out the man among the rest.
So, when do you begin to say that what you're feeling now is really love?
Maybe, when you also feel that he begins to care. Its not just about giving attention but also sincerity of that person towards you. Simply said but others don't follow the same rules. Anyways, it becomes a give and take relationship now. You begin to be in one with him.
Love never limits you. Its does not control us but it gives us strength to support each other. It would be selfishness if we try to control the person we love. Our loved one is not a robot that we try to control whatever he does in life.
Respect of each other's opinion matters, also. There are times when men wants their women to just listen to them. Give them time to be heard! There is a right time for everything if not this time then maybe later.
Finding love is never too easy. There are lots of trials around. But with two people sharing and acknowledging each others weaknesses and strengths it is a good attitude to start a relationship because you may never know what may have happened without trying it first. It is really a risk. At the end, we always find it fulfilling to learn to love and felt loved.
We always fall in love with men on whom we thought he had all the ideals we have in mind but when we get to know him better we are surprised with what's in him that we had at first sight thought him to have passed all those criterias we have in mind. It was just simply an infatuation. In reality, we often look for it in the man but due to limited numbers of men in the area we often single out the man among the rest.
So, when do you begin to say that what you're feeling now is really love?
Maybe, when you also feel that he begins to care. Its not just about giving attention but also sincerity of that person towards you. Simply said but others don't follow the same rules. Anyways, it becomes a give and take relationship now. You begin to be in one with him.
Love never limits you. Its does not control us but it gives us strength to support each other. It would be selfishness if we try to control the person we love. Our loved one is not a robot that we try to control whatever he does in life.
Respect of each other's opinion matters, also. There are times when men wants their women to just listen to them. Give them time to be heard! There is a right time for everything if not this time then maybe later.
Finding love is never too easy. There are lots of trials around. But with two people sharing and acknowledging each others weaknesses and strengths it is a good attitude to start a relationship because you may never know what may have happened without trying it first. It is really a risk. At the end, we always find it fulfilling to learn to love and felt loved.
Friday, May 30, 2008
A June Event
Tiaras, veil, cord, cushions, pouch bags and a headdress. . . what do you think these materials are for? Hmmmm......keep guessing? It may be an unforgettable event in a woman's or man's life or it may be yours, too? All these comes into a package without the other is like missing a piece of your love to that man or woman.
How we always treasure mementos and memorabilias of our loved ones. Parents cry as they give their daughters away to their husbands to be. Even us feels exhilerated when we are part of the entourage. It is as if we are witnessing our own wedding marches.
Many youngsters wants to be the bridesmaids. Who wouldn't? Lucky for those who are chosen. But for those who don't try the next wedding march you may be chosen by then. Usually brides chooses the beautiful bridesmaids for her entourage and the groom his friends or his nearest of kin as groomsmen. As every woman wished not only to be the bridesmaid but also to be the bride in the future. Brides always wished it to be grand in a special way.
This event should never be forgotten because its the time for everyone to be merry and it is always fun remembering how life has evolve. As couples celebrate weddings, whether it be silver and gold. It is a pleasurable sight to always look back how we spend weddings in a Filipino way.
How we always treasure mementos and memorabilias of our loved ones. Parents cry as they give their daughters away to their husbands to be. Even us feels exhilerated when we are part of the entourage. It is as if we are witnessing our own wedding marches.
Many youngsters wants to be the bridesmaids. Who wouldn't? Lucky for those who are chosen. But for those who don't try the next wedding march you may be chosen by then. Usually brides chooses the beautiful bridesmaids for her entourage and the groom his friends or his nearest of kin as groomsmen. As every woman wished not only to be the bridesmaid but also to be the bride in the future. Brides always wished it to be grand in a special way.
This event should never be forgotten because its the time for everyone to be merry and it is always fun remembering how life has evolve. As couples celebrate weddings, whether it be silver and gold. It is a pleasurable sight to always look back how we spend weddings in a Filipino way.
Summer's End
The season has ended although the sun continues to shine during the day but in the evenings rain pours down this was what happened this summer. Something has drastically changed with our weather or season these days. They say, its due to global warming. Based on personal experience during this summer and from the weather reports it has begun to alarm a lot of people. Cite for example, from the place where I had my vacation and worked part time the weekdays were always too hot for me to handle and at night time there are always thunderstorms. We never know why its too hot during the day and its too cold by night time.
I hope that by the summer's end there will be a new season for us all to venture and not just rain.
I hope that by the summer's end there will be a new season for us all to venture and not just rain.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
when the moon is bright......
What happened when everything you've wished has come true? Would you be happy? That for such a long time God has granted all your prayers? Or would you be mad because its not yet the right time? You ask yourself, "Why now when I am at the peak of something more important?"
Yes, it always takes us by surprise. Some people would be so happy about this chance of a lifetime. Whatever it may be; whether it's about promotion from work, a visa abroad, a new car, a new baby, or the right man or woman comes along. Everything you have wished for in life has come now. We'll never know the reason God has given it to you. Or maybe God is telling us something of importance that we tend to disregard his commands. That is, to stop and rest for awhile whatever we are persevering.
You may be a career-oriented woman or man where career is your utmost goal in life. Security and stability is what you want to achieve at this specific age. If you have this, you can't loose nothing but thinking its more pleasurable to be on a safety net where you don't have hang-ups in life because you could buy whatever you desire, spend money and travel around when you reach that desirable age in life to retire.
Striving hard is what one wants to attain and meet the goals to achieve in life. It drives you mad if you can't meet goals. And somehow without realizing you become a monster bossing around people. Blaming is an act of sin and it is unforgivable if one does not attempt to reconcile and admit one's frailties.
What happens when the moon is bright? (Try to gaze at the skies and see for yourself). Imagine anything can happen at an instant. Plop!! It would be fanticizing or magical so it seems. We tend to outlast the impossible! As there are lots of surprises in that direction.
Do you see oneself as having gray hair, visible eye bugs, and knees beginning to buckle. What a joke it would be? Having a nice car but nobody to share it to. Affection could not be bought, even love is sacred so don't be too sure that all these will last long. There is no security with the life we have on earth. So, while you are still young and free keep on inspecting about your ways.
Anything can happen even God's wisdom we could not fathom. Its a miracle! Thank God for such unexpected outcomes. Because these may lead us to realization of what we have become if we continue what we are doing now.
Yes, it always takes us by surprise. Some people would be so happy about this chance of a lifetime. Whatever it may be; whether it's about promotion from work, a visa abroad, a new car, a new baby, or the right man or woman comes along. Everything you have wished for in life has come now. We'll never know the reason God has given it to you. Or maybe God is telling us something of importance that we tend to disregard his commands. That is, to stop and rest for awhile whatever we are persevering.
You may be a career-oriented woman or man where career is your utmost goal in life. Security and stability is what you want to achieve at this specific age. If you have this, you can't loose nothing but thinking its more pleasurable to be on a safety net where you don't have hang-ups in life because you could buy whatever you desire, spend money and travel around when you reach that desirable age in life to retire.
Striving hard is what one wants to attain and meet the goals to achieve in life. It drives you mad if you can't meet goals. And somehow without realizing you become a monster bossing around people. Blaming is an act of sin and it is unforgivable if one does not attempt to reconcile and admit one's frailties.
What happens when the moon is bright? (Try to gaze at the skies and see for yourself). Imagine anything can happen at an instant. Plop!! It would be fanticizing or magical so it seems. We tend to outlast the impossible! As there are lots of surprises in that direction.
Do you see oneself as having gray hair, visible eye bugs, and knees beginning to buckle. What a joke it would be? Having a nice car but nobody to share it to. Affection could not be bought, even love is sacred so don't be too sure that all these will last long. There is no security with the life we have on earth. So, while you are still young and free keep on inspecting about your ways.
Anything can happen even God's wisdom we could not fathom. Its a miracle! Thank God for such unexpected outcomes. Because these may lead us to realization of what we have become if we continue what we are doing now.
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