Let Go, Let Flow

Today I went home with a certain sadness. It’s been a long time since I last wrote a personal poem or essay or just simply my story. I write when I am greatly inspired and at this particular moment, I reckon my law could apply, and the timing could not be more perfect. I confess that I am greatly inspired by a force stronger than anyone or anything I have ever come across in my existence. And for this, I am stunned and speechless. Writing another chapter in my life could be a difficult road to tread, but like they always say, life experiences are the best teachers, and I continue to welcome them with open arms. I know God always has a purpose for teaching us life’s eternal lessons.

And so my story goes. Before that, a simple question. Do you believe that love is always the greatest and surest path to happiness? My answer is just as simple: naturally, without a doubt. Albeit heartbroken and rejected, through the years I have remained steadfast in my personal belief that all we really need is love. It is our human desire to be liked and understood, acknowledged and praised, touched and hugged and kissed, and thought of and cared for. Wow, those may all account for our being so demanding when it comes to love. But isn’t it all we dream of and cherish, for instance, from someone we like or have a tremendous fondness for? We dream that someday, that special someone may likewise feel the feeling we have for him. Over centuries, psychologists have all attempted to analyse Mars from Venus, or Adam from Eve. But no exact explanations to several hypotheses were ever born. Men and women were altogether left existing, breathing, doing their mundane activities, but harboring a sudden magical and surreal feeling at the same time, putting that exclamation mark and breaking the monotony in our lives.

Lest we talk in circles, my real case in point is actually a strategy to alleviate the melancholy that seems to linger inside of me for quite sometime now. I reassess my life and in the course of doing it, I discover a feeling that I can evade or escape from if I wanted to, but I know I could not get away from, unless I let go of it, to let it flow and take its natural course. Sometimes I guess letting my guard down just a little is one way, I think. As I hit this paragraph, an old Jimmy Durante song is playing on my iPhone, and it’s true what the song says, “Where’s the real stuff in life to cling to? Love is the answer, someone to love is the answer. Make someone happy, make just one, someone happy, and you will be happy too.” I am letting my guard down on this force and I am confident that as I let go of how I feel, fate wouldn’t be too harsh on me and it will all flow just as water runs freely. After all, I know I have nothing to lose and no timing is more perfect than the present time one has on his hands. Otherwise, the moment might just pass us by and we find out we have not gotten even the faintest chance.


This may be the reason one day I instantly had the brio to come to work, for now my purpose in life is revealed to me in high definition full color and a greater motivation sprung out of it to encourage and inspire me. That force is dynamic and bright, and is starting to empower me to be the best I can be now. In the beginning the force must have seen me in grayscale, but now I am determined to let it go, to let it flow. But wait, this story has already been to the moon and back, and yet all we ever talked about is the force. What is this force anyway? All I know right now is whether the force is here or on the other side of the world, it has captured me immensely to love, to dream, to wish, and to know that whatever happens, one day, I’ll decide to face it and tell the naked truth…..in my dreams, of course! Kidding aside (I always like to kid myself), I am more than thankful for the fond memories, great laughs over pizza, those seven days in sunny June of 2009, the commanding presence, and that horsepower of sophistication.

True to form, the force knocks me off my feet and I am not afraid to blurt that. As long as I am cautioned and guarded enough with wisdom and lessons from the past, I know I am in a freaky but safe place. This is my comfort zone that allows me to do my best (although sweat like a pig whenever the force is proximate), to open my awareness to new things or challenges that I know the force would be glad about. I think this brings me to say I am made much happier with my work now, and as long as I could, I shall stay on until the force is here. Three to four times a year is fine by me, every minute is totally worth it anyway, minus the racing heartbeats and butterflies in the tummy, that is! The force is gone tomorrow, and it’s back to square one the day after that. I couldn’t care less to wait in vain. Let go, let flow.

Chupsies do the Irish dance!

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Uno The Explorer

Timezone is simply paradise for Uno. He explores and shows real interest in these rides.










But this one I think is becoming his favorite now. Watch.

I Was There For Tony Blair

I came, I waited, I saw, and I listened to him. The Special Envoy Quartet on the Middle East. A man of faith, and a man of peace.



Tony Blair donning the La Salle green jacket after being conferred the Signum Meriti award led by Bro. Armin Luistro, F.S.C.




He is indeed a walking book of anecdotes and I was simply dazzled by his wisdom. Here are parts of his speech that were most relevant to me:

"If you want to change the world, you have to understand the world as it is, and not as you would like it to be, especially that we live in a fast changing world, in an era of low predictability, and where the shift of power is to the east."

"People don't like change. They like change in general, but not in particular. In this modern world, there is no room for complacency."

"There are no enemies, just human beings with different perspectives."

"Change is also for personal development. One should always be in perpetual revolution."

"Don't lead for the sake of leading. Lead for a cause you believe in."

"What is forgivable is to fail. What is unforgivable is not to try at all."

"Countries have to find their place in the modern world. They have to define themselves."

Ramon Lee's Fried Chicken

Just a couple of snapshots from where we bought chicken and yang chow rice for Ron's birthday lunch last weekend.

This is Ramon Lee's Fried Chicken Restaurant along Ronquillo Street in Sta. Cruz, Manila.





Don't look for the food shots now because they were gone fast even before I could think of taking pictures! How about the next time? In that case then I owe you one!

RAMON LEE'S FRIED CHICKEN SINCE 1929
546 Ronquillo Street
Sta. Cruz, Manila
Telephone: (632)733-0642

"Warholizer"

I don't know why Campbell's Soup comes into my mind when I hear the name Andy Warhol. Maybe because when I read about him in Wikipedia, I found out that as a commercial illustrator, he was most famous for his pop art on Campbell's Soup advertising.




After that I came across another Warhol creation, this time a Marilyn Monroe image using multiplied silk screens that show Monroe's nine faces.



Amazed by this amusing and unconventional art, I found a link to a site that allows one user to "warholize" an image, as the name of the web tool suggests. I tried on several color tones and these are what came out.







Pretty fun wouldn't you say so? Now you can try doing your own "warholized" images by going to this site.

Giant Birthday Pizza

I never knew Shakey's had this big a size for pizza. My uncle surprised his son Anton with this giant birthday pizza late last year and on it he blew his seven candles!





It is a pretty unique idea to come up with a product variation such as this. Now this makes me think of getting one for Uno's next birthday.

Mama's House

I thought I'd post a picture of my grandmother's house in Cavite. This house is very special to all of us for this is where we celebrate all important occasions in our family the whole year through, except of course when we hold the parties in private resorts in Laguna.



I took this photo in December last year when Tita Leigh put up all the Christmas lights! The house looked so festive and I have to tell you the weather in that part of Cavite somewhat close to Tagaytay was the chilling cold one!

Wish it was Christmas time again!

My 25 Random Things

I missed this blog of mine!!! Christmas and New Year came, and January was still a bit of a vacation for me. But February is welcoming me back to the web logging world!

So let's roll! I did this list on Facebook and I would say it was fun writing down the random things about myself. Here goes.

1. Swimming is my sport. I bested my colleagues in the swim and sink event and brought home a medal when I joined the Coke sportsfest back in 1998.

2. I auditioned to be a news anchor when SkyCable was launched and they conducted a newscaster search during my junior year in DLSU.

3. My first job was a desktop publishing and graphic design officer for an advertising company in 1996. Aldus Pagemaker was the design sensation back then! Hee!

4. I clean my bag and its contents every single day! How obsessive compulsive is that? Spring cleaning, organizing anything, bring it on!

5. I can compose a poem when greatly inspired. No possibility of it on a gloomy, rainy day.

6. Ergo, I love sunshine! I'm in my element under the ray of light. =)

7. It is still my dream to be able to write for and design a fashion and lifestyle magazine and become an Anna Wintour of sorts (less fierce though).

8. I wish I was born and raised in England. I love watching and hearing these famous Brits talk: Kate Winslet, Hugh Laurie, Rob Pattinson, Hugh Grant, Jamie Oliver, Emily Blunt, Jeremy Irons, and many others.

9. It was only recently that I realized I do love classical music, thanks to Paul Potts' rendition of Nessun Dorma.

10. My favorite hollywood celebrity is Ellen Lee Degeneres. Because who doesn't adore her?? A great host, comedian and dancer. She doesn't even look like 51 golden years to me!

11. I wrote an article on the psychology of males and females which got published in the valentine issue of the Bulletin in 2002. The movie "Someone Like You" inspired me to come up with the article.

12. I love memorizing and reciting monologues in romantic comedies such as Carrie Bradshaw's opening lines in Sex and The City The Movie, Iris Simpkin's opening narration in The Holiday, and Jonathan Trager as he was reading his own obituary in Serendipity.

13. 整理, 整頓, 清掃, 清潔, 躾. The 5S. I love it, I live it. =)

14. I have not missed a single episode of Grey's Anatomy, seriously! Thanks to Limewire. =)

15. I can listen to film scores all day. There is such resonating energy from this genre. Currently listening to: Theme from Mirror Has Two Faces and While You Were Sleeping.

16. I am a sucker for TMZ! Or Hollywood TV. Need I say more? Hahaha.

17. My sisters Dominoe and Diana are my true best friends and movie dates!

18. It was Marti who introduced me to Everything But The Girl. And I guess not just EBTG, I ask her what's new on her "Billboard" list from time to time. Hehe. Thanks Marti for DJ Harry's All My Life, I like it a lot now! Keep them coming! =)

19. I finished reading the entire Twilight Saga in a month. New Moon is my favorite of the four books.

20. I think it's about time Leonardo DiCaprio gets an Oscar. Back from Blood Diamond I think he really should have been honored big time.

21. Jim Carrey is my ultimate comedy warrior. Think Dumb and Dumber, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, and now Yes Man. Go watch him when you can. =)

22. I also got addicted to reading Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series. And now it's a major motion picture...can't wait to see it!

23. I am a frustrated chanteuse. I joined singing competitions back when I was with Coke and San Miguel and became a grand finalist for two consecutive years. On my audition night as a performer at the Hyatt Regency, I sang about twenty-four songs but never came back for my actual singing stint, I decided I may not be able to juggle day work with singing during nights.

24. I truly love this verse: "1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

25. Facebook is one of the greatest inventions for me. In the true hierarchy of things, it should be God, family, relationships (social networking that is!) hehehe.