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are you too busy to even save your own loved one?

ang ulan

oo, kailangan natin ng ulan dahil may water shortage/drought.. natutuwa ako na unti-unti nang tumataas ang water level sa mga dam natin.. pero, hindi rin mawala sa aking isipan ang mga taong nahihirapan sa ulan: yung mga walang tirahan, yung mga binabaha, yung mga nasisiraan ng bahay (at buhay).

template

Naiinggit ako kay Kuya Nikko dahil nagpalit siya ng template. I tried changing mine pero ang olats ko, di ko mapalitan. :( Haha. Kaya stuck pa rin ako sa template ko. Di bale, aayusin naman ng Ate ko na magaling sa computer ang template ko e (hint hint). hehe. :)

Ayun.

Walang kwentang entry dahil mamaya na ako magseseryosong entry.





Ipagdasal natin ang mga nasalanta ng bagyo.

DESIDERATA

Humayo nang panatag
Sa gitna ng ingay at pagmamadali, at tandaang
May kapayapaang matatagpuan sa katahimikan.
Hangga't maaari nang walang pagsuko,
Makipagkapwa- tao.
Bigkasin ang iyong katotohanan nang mahinahon at
Malinaw, at makinig sa iba, kahit sa mapurol o mangmang:
Sila ma'y may kanilang salaysayin.

Iwasan ang mga taong maingay at magaspang; sila'y
Nakakarindi sa diwa.
Kung ihahambing mo ang sarili sa iba, maaaring
Maging hambog at masamain ang loob pagka't
Laging may hihigit sa iyo at may hihigtan ka.
Masiyahan ka sa iyong mga natamo, gayundin sa iyong mga balak.
Manatiling buhos ang iyong kalooban sa mga gawain, gaano man
Kababa; tunay itong kayamanan sa nagbabagong panahon.
Maging maingat sa pakikipagkalakalan pagka't ang mundo'y
Batbat ng panlilinlang. Subalit huwag hayaang
Makabulag ito sa iyon sa anumang kabutihang mayroon; maraming
Nagpupunyagi para sa mga adhikaing dakila; at sa lahat ng dako,

Ang buhay ay lipos ng kabayahinan.
Huwag magkunwari laluna ng pagmamahal.
Huwag ding tatalikuran ang pag-ibig, pagka't sa gitna ng
Katigangan at kalungkutan, kailanma'y uusbong
At nabubuhay itong tulad ng damo.
Maluwag na tanggapin ang payo ng katandaan; banayad
Na isuko ang mga bagay ng kamusmusan.
Arugain ang tibay ng loob na sasalag sa mga biglaang
Sakuna. Ngunit huwag panlulumo sa mga guni-guni.
Maraming takot ang dulot ng pagod at kalungkutan.
Sa kabila ng malusog na disiplina, maging mabait sa iyong sarili.

Anak ka ng sanlibutan, tulad ng mga punungkahoy at bituin;
May lugar ka rito. At malinaw man sa iyo o hindi,
Walang alinlangang bumubukadkad ang daigdig ayon sa nararapat
Kaya maging panatag ka sa Diyos, anuman ang pagkakakilala mo sa kanya,
At anuman ang iyong mga gawain at mithiin, sa maingay na
Kalituhan ng buhay, panatilihin mong panatag ang iyong kalooban.
Sa kabila ng panlilinlang, kawalang-buhay at mga gumuguhong pangarap,
Maganda pa rin ang mundo.

Mag-ingat. Magsikap lumigaya.





ipinadala sa email ni ate Tish.

ang gwapo ni Matt. :)

Ipinalabas ito sa GMA7 noong 21 Hulyo 2007 sa Jessica Soho Reports.
Inaanak ko si Matthew, at nakatatandang kapatid ko si James (at si Aleka ang kasama nila sa simula). :)

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nag-reply si Ivory sa text ko kagabi. Sabi niya, "Jaymee, what have you been doing?"




What have I been doing?



Hay. Life.

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Gusto ko magsulat ng bagong entry, pero wala akong maisulat. :(
A lot of things are just so wrong.







Samahan mo naman ako.

that's not luck

Hindi ko alam kung paano ko sasabihin sa text kanina, kaya dito nalang.

Siguro hindi ko masasabi na "maswerte" ka. Hindi ako masyadong naniniwala sa mga luck na yan.. Hmm. Paano ba. Maybe I could say that you are blessed with people like them. :) Ayun. You are blessed.


Ang daming nagmamahal sa iyo, Ivory. Nakita ko sila sa mga blockmates mo. Mahal na mahal ka nila.



Tandaan mo nandito lang din ako para sa iyo. Pwede rin naman ako maging "ate" mo paminsan. :)




(oo sa blog ko kasi gusto ko ipaalam sa buong mundo kung gaano kabait ng mga blockmates mo. mahal ko na rin sila.)

You Fill My Heart (Prayer of Therese of the Child Jesus)

Music: Arnel dC Aquino, SJ; Lyrics: Johnny Go, SJ

You fill my heart full with sighs,
Breathless they dance in the sky.
And when You whisper Your sad lullaby,
Tears fill my eyes.

You fill my night full with stars,
Restless my soul seeks Your eyes.
Soon as it shimmers, Your smile in the night,
Dreams fall into flight.

I long to be Your child,
Your song to fill this dark night,
Light for the lost in this lonely exile.
I need to hear Your word,
To be near You in this scarred world
One little sound is a song if it soars in Your heart.

I'll fill your world full with love,
Roses shall rain from the skies.
And as they scatter, gather the flowers
He shall reign in our lives.

As long as you're His child,
His song shall fill your dark night,
Light when you're lost in this lonely exile.
We need to hear His Word.
Would you bleed to heal His scarred world?
Your little thorn is a rose if it grows in His heart.

As long as you believe,
Roses shall rain from the skies.



Ikaw nagturo sa akin tungkol dito. I may not really know how to be there for you at these moments, please just remember that I am always here. I'm praying for you and for your family.

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Salamat! :) Hug.

“Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is brother and sister and mother to me.”

Many people say: “We are of good will.” But they don’t have God’s will. They want to have their own will. They want to tell our Lord that things have to be done in this or that way … In all things, it is God’s plan that we give up our own will. Saint Paul talked a lot with the Lord and the Lord with him, but none of that was of any use so long as he could not say to him: “What is it I must do, sir?” (Acts 22:10) For our Lord knew very well what he would do with Paul.

It was the same when the angel appeared to the Virgin Mary. Everything that each of them had said would never have made of her the Mother of God, but from the moment she gave up her own will, she immediately became the true Mother of the eternal Word. She immediately conceived God, who became her natural son.

Nothing in the world makes true human beings of us like giving up our own will before God... If we succeed in abandoning our own will, if, for love of God, we dare to go without everything, both what is interior and what is exterior, then we will have realized our profound being. Thus, you have to abandon yourself entirely to God, with all that you are, and no longer worry about what he will then do with what belongs to him… The more we advance on this path, the more we are truly in God.

- Master Eckhart (around 1260-1327), Dominican theologian

Congrats, Ivory :)

Development Society organized a trip to the CSR Expo yesterday, but because I could not cut my Padre David class (that's definitely suicide!) Jus and I just followed. We left Ateneo by 12, and arrived at Sofitel (formerly Westin) around past 1:30pm. Great. Let's move on, taxi ride memory is not worth my blog space..

Figaro's organic coffee was matapang! Yey! I love the bitter taste of coffee (hehe, dulot ng practicum kaya ako natuto mag-kape. Coffee people ang ilan sa mga kasama ko sa FOLPMI). Anyway. I wasn't really able to go around the exhibits because there were a lot of people already, and I was quite lost with the schedule. So I just sticked with the DevSoc people. Haha, I didn't want to be left behind, I had to get back to Ateneo by 430pm for my Bus Stop.

Anyway. I think the only thing that made sense to me was when I sat for less than 30mins inside Samar (tama ba pagkakaalala ko?) Hall to listen to Mr. Ino talk about his philosophy on teaching art to kids. My gulay, I love his belief. :) Galing.

(Ivory ito na yung isa kong utang na kwento)

He said something about nourishing the child's potential in art. Though he did not explicitly say, art would be of great help in developing a child's being. His/her being human is practiced when s/he does art. Anyway. He told an anecdote on how a certain child (whom he revealed later on to be his apo) loved to draw on the walls. Instead of scolding the kid for vandalizing the walls, what they did was to frame the wall. :)

As a kid, I also loved to scribble on our walls at our home when we were still residing in Paranaque. My mom then told me one time that I could only draw on paper, not on the walls. I agreed. One night when my mom got home, she was again welcomed by murals on her wall. She asked me why I drew on the wall again, and I answered "Sabi niyo po sa paper ako magdrawing, diba paper naman yan?"

I referred to the newly put-up wallpaper. :)