I found some cheap incense to satisfy my incense fix. Hahaha. They’re the kind that are inside two test tubes. Got them for P20 per two test tubes in Cubao. They contain around 15 sticks and 8 cones. Yeap, they’re cheap, but they’re effective.
I always loved how incense smelled. They remind me of peaceful, peaceful temples.
My friend, Athena, wrote in her blog,
I want to build an ARK. and to be able to do that, I need to have Acts of Random Kindness.
As time goes by, i learn and realize a lot of things in life. And God never fails to give me the best things in life. There are challenges galore, pero those things help me become a person who will change this world into a better place someday =)
Although I don’t know what she has already done (and will be doing), I really would want to help. I’ve been through a few outreach programs, most of them required by my alma mater, but, outreaches feel much much better if you voluntarily went and helped.
I’ve been asking my Mom (to no success, hehe) these past weeks to schedule a visit to either CRIBS or RSCC. But alas, it’s been hard to squeeze a visit in our schedule. Hopefully we could visit soon, before the semester begins to be hectic.
If ever, sino gusto sumama? :)
Or pwede ring GK or Habitat for Humanity. Tagal ko nang hindi gumagawa ng bahay. :)
Sino nasa Loyola Memorial Park mamaya bukas? Hahaha. BABALA: Matrapik. At may dalawang “robot” sa harap (pakana ni Mayor Fernando. TSK)
Whenever I feel like it, I wake up early and jog 2 laps around the UP Academic Oval.
That would’ve sounded great, but remember, I only do it whenever I feel like it. And I rarely feel like doing it!
This morning was one of those mornings. So I woke up at 6:30, prepping myself up to jog when all of a sudden my brother asks me to drive him to his girlfriend’s house. So I did. When I got home, I dressed up in my jogging clothes hoping I could jog already, but my sister asked me to drive her to Katipunan. Tch.
So after that, off I went to jogging. And as all the other jogging mornings I had, it went like this:
1/4 of the oval warming up.
1 whole oval jogging.
3/4 cooling down (Read: WALKING).
HAHAHAHA.
I get tired easily. I guess it’s because I was never exposed to sports when I was a kid. I was a geeky kid back then, playing Commander Keen instead of going out to play basketball.
Anyways. This morning was weirder because Dad gave me P100 McDonald’s money for bringing my siblings to their respective destinations. So, after jogging, I went straight towards McDonald’s Katipunan’s drive-through and bought myself a longganisa meal and a hashbrown.
So much for exercising. :p
After watching numerous videos of the Cebu prisoners in Byron Garcia’s Multiply Profile, Pinoys should make a PINOY PRISON MUSICAL.
BWAHAHAHA
I hate reading the social/lifestyle sections of newspapers.
It reminds me that there are people in this world who spend, spend, spend lots of money on worthless material stuff such as clothes on fashion weekends…
… while there are naked kids on the street who work, work, work just to get by each day.
I’m not a fan of online stores. Online stores mean spending, and money is not a luxury I have.
Big problem: when I’m with Kara, I almost always end up spending money (movies and tuesdays with Jen and Kara).
Bigger problem: Even if I’m not with her she still finds ways to make me spend my money (P60 cupcake, anyone?).
Biggest bigger problem: Kara now has an online store! (oh gosh I think I hear my wallet weeping). And that’s a baaaad combination. Kara + Online store = SUPER GASTOS. HAHAHAHA.
GOOD THING that she’s only selling mostly girly-girly stuff, which, of course, I wouldn’t be buying (though I heard she would be expanding to personalized silkscreen printed shirts. Oh noooo).
Anyways. This post is basically a shameless plug, so, HAHAHA.
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Payments are made through G-Cash or on delivery for meet-ups. Items are sent through XEND
Meet-up locations include MRT Stations, SM North/TriNoMa Area, UP/Katipunan Area.
Kara, you’d better pay (and thank!) me for this. Or better yet, cancel my P60 cupcake utang, and give me another one for free,
I light the second stick and smoke and the fragrance of jasmine immediately fills the air. I toss the blackened matchstick away.
Burning, burning slowly.
The essence consumes steadily. The aroma wafting to my nostrils. Jasmine intruding my soul.
Slowly, slowly burning.
To ashes.
Farewell, dear fragrance.
More incense, less nonsense.
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I had an awfully weird dream the other night.
In my dream, out of the blue, I decided to finance the construction of a columbarium. Being the financier, I was given the privilege to choose whom I wanted to do the designs of the columbarium. Since they were good friends of my brother I entrusted Conrad to do the designs, and Dondi to oversee the construction.
The next thing I saw is that they constructed a gigantic green, yellow and pink columbarium, with a pink and yellow flower on top of a dome.
The duo toured me around, and eventually showed me my final resting place, the flower.
I woke up, puzzled.
Taken from
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Marcos Antonio Torres
Hope you can help me be the first Filipino torch bearer for the first time since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. It is said that the first and only time a Filipino held the torch was during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics 44 years ago. If he doesn’t carry it now, we may not have a Filipino in the next 50 years as it may take awhile again before the Olympics are held in Asia. Winning an Olympic gold has been elusive for the Philippines. This is an opportunity to unify all Filipinos towards a single golden Olympic cause.
Should I get chosen, I will take it as an opportunity to promote China to the Philippines and vice versa. There is truly more to China than the Great Wall, it is after all one of the earliest civilizations, and China has a lot of unique and interesting things to share the world. This is probably why despite over a year of exploring, you just can’t get enough of China.
China and I
I have been living in Beijing for over a year now. I moved here to be in the most exciting place one can be….Beijing is where it’s all happening. While many cities took decades and centuries to build (Rome was definitely not built in a day), modern Beijing is being created within a year. From a flat landscape of the most beautiful imperial temples and palaces, you see fantastic creative buildings rising. Beijing must have the record for most landmarks, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and now you have the Bird’s Nest (Olympic Stadium), the water cube (Aquatic Stadium), the Giant Egg (Grand Opera House) and the Z (CCTV Tower). All iconic structures which symbolize Beijing. Such strong identifiable symbols that you know it cannot be mistaken for any other place when you see them.
I love Beijing and I love the Olympics. Proof of this is that I declined an opportunity to move to Shanghai if only for the Olympics. I also know now that my destiny of being in the Olympics will be fulfilled.
Why vote Marco?
Marco embodies the Olympic spirit of constant exploration and striving for excellence and has made contributions to the building of a harmonious society.
1. Marco believes in the Olympic spirit - as a natural athlete, he believes in sports and the need for a healthy mind and body and in fact excels in volleyball (captain of his college team), badminton (has won several amateur tournaments) and tennis. He has also done sports anchoring work as he is very, very knowledgeable about sports.
2. Marco strives for excellence in anything he puts his heart to. He longs to go “Citius, Altius, Fortius” whether it be at work, in school (a Dean’s Lister as well as being President of the Student Council) and doing social community work (Project Chairman - Junior Chamber of the Philippines, Katipunan Chapter) .
3. Marco is a member of the Philippine Jaycees and was a Director for Business of the Katipunan Jaycees Chapter which won the “Best New Chapter in Metro Manila, the Philippines, Asia Pacific and in the World” for community works that supported the environment, cancer patients and street kids.
4. Marco supports the Games and has in fact seen several Goodluck Games.
5. Marco is very passionate about his love for China and Beijing and its culture and history. He continues to explore the city almost every weekend and posts them online to share with his countrymen in the Philippines. I don’t think there is a place he hasn’t seen in Beijing: Cuandixia, Luguo Qiao, Underground City, Qianmen, Yuanmingyuan and the list goes on and on.
6. Marco as a Marketer of M Moser helps to ensure designs created in China likewise influence the rest of the world.
7. Marco is also a very proud Filipino and proud of showing to China the Filipino’s talents and capabilities.
Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! Go for the GOLD!
We got our hopes up. Turns out, only three meters of property was demolished and I hope that’s as bad as it gets. But anyway, the MMDA are freaking con artists! ‘Baklasin lahat niyan! TEN METERS!!’ huh. My ass. They said if we gave them money they might be able to talk their superiors out of it. WHATEVER. They just wanted some mullah. It wasn’t supposed to be 10 meters really, but them sidewalk-vendor-burning squads were too highly evolved not to think of something brilliant to save the day. After some moments of confusion and senseless attempts at conversation, dad finally understood what Mr. MMDA was trying to say; Cough up the cash and maybe we could put a stop to all of this.
How much did he want? a thousand? five thousand? No.
He wanted a hundred thousand pesos.[...]
The next day, the real superior came to the demolition site and told everyone, “Three meters. That’s all.”
Yeah. suck up Mr. MMDA. And never ever show your face here again.[...] You just don’t know how it feels like to be kicked out of your own place, and done so in a way that’s deprived of all sensitivity. You don’t know how horrible it is to watch how a helpless old man is beaten into pulp. To watch him cry as his cart bursts into flames. To see policemen shout and threaten witnesses. [...] To see all that, and know that you can’t do anything about it. To know how much everyone else have to suffer, and to come to realize, that what you thought would always be there could be gone in just the span of a day. You don’t know how it feels like.
It was raining like hell this afternoon, and I wanted to bring the car to school even if the MMDA vehicle coding scheme did not permit me to do so. I was even preparing a few hundred peso bills in case I would get caught by the authorities. But I was doubting it since the boundary between UP and my village was but a small traverse. But, then I thought, “what if not all officers are like that? What if he didn’t accept my 200 pesos?”
So I went against bringing the car to school.
By Miguel Antonio Lizada
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Chapter One: Before The Storm
Fr. Bienvenido Nebres SJ was just finishing the day’s work when Harry Potter, a senior of the Ateneo de Manila, burst into his office.
“Fr Nebres!” Harry shouted
“Harry!” a surprised Nebres said. “I thought you were out of school destroying the horcruxes to kill Lord Voldemort.”
“That’s what I wanted to tell you. I discovered that there are two horcruxes here in Ateneo itself. Voldemort has enlisted the help of the De La Salle University and the University of Santo Tomas. They are coming.”
“Don’t worry, Harry.” Nebres said “You know for a fact that Ateneo– its teachers and students — are more than capable of defending our Loyola campus. We will hold them off while you search for the horcruxes and destroy them. You will need this.” He waved of his wand and out of the air appeared a sword. “The sword of St. Ignatius.” Nebres said. “Powerful enough to destroy the two horcruxes.”
“Thank you, Father” Harry said. And with that, he sped off to findthe last two things which protect Lord Voldemort.
Nebres then waved his wand once more and this time, four people appeared in his office. “Marlu, Rudy, Toby and Joey. The school is in danger”
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