Archive for June, 2007
June 18, 2007 at 12:13 am · Filed under Emo Posts, Hamster Chronicles
A few days ago, I was just telling him that I couldn’t imagine how I was going to feel when my hamsters die. I didn’t realize I’d be blogging about this, this soon.
Today, when I got home, I found Chichi dead. :( Immediately, tears started falling from my eyes. I went away, called Mom and asked her if she could check on her to make sure — I didn’t have the courage to hold her cold and dead body. :( Mom said Chichi didn’t have any wounds, nor was there any trace that she was attacked. She just.. died.
As Mom took her out of the cage, I sat on the couch, holding the other hamster, Chuchu, on one hand, texting Jayvee with the other hand to tell him the news (we always shared this love for our pets), and silently wiping my tears away.
I think, though, that I am quite an improvement now compared with my hysterics when Chuchu was attacked by a giant house rat. I have this certain emotional attachment to my pets, one I can’t describe with words. But I guess I’m beginning to learn that while it’s okay to cry, crying does not change the situation, it’s merely a way of releasing what’s inside so that you have more room to breathe, and more space to fill with strength so that you can face the music gracefully and move on.
I’m sad. But I know this, too, shall pass.
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June 16, 2007 at 3:19 am · Filed under Emo Posts
Unlimited second chances — we see this all the time. It can be regarded as the idea behind everydays. You wake up, spend the day, do what you can, live to the fullest, and set aside other things for tomorrow because 24 hours is just not enough. You retire in bed knowing that tomorrow is another day, to make things right, to make the right choices, and if any, to accomplish the carryovers of the day that was.
But sometimes, second chances only come once. And then it ends there. No more third or fourth chances. No more begging for another chance. Just that one make-or-break chance to correct the wrong choices of the past and make things right — and then the moment is gone forever. Just that one flicker of hope which you can either blow away or try to keep burning — and then the flame dies down.
In my life I have failed many second chances, some of them haunts me until now in the form of should-have-beens and what-ifs.
(And I couldn’t help but think that today, we just lost ours.)
But one has to keep moving, to keep breathing, to leave the torments of yesterday behind and focus on what lies ahead. After all, today’s another day. And, if God wills, there’s still tomorrow to look forward to.
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June 15, 2007 at 8:19 am · Filed under Around the Web, Just Making Kwento, SE Marketing
And for some reason, I chose to blog it here because I want to keep that blog, as much as possible, sanitized from occasional outbursts such as this one unless the outburst is because of a new pink gadget, or me getting an email from, say, Search Engine Journal or Matt Cutts (LOL!) telling me that they want to interview me (pathetic, I know) or they want me to write with them (dream on Riz!) or something like that. Anyway.
I have a pending meme to work on, plus piles of SEO stuff to do, and some backlogs at 901am. In short, there are a lot of things I should be doing now. But let me pause everything else for this overwhelming, funny, and unbelievably cool news flash.
Oh WOW. Guitarchic.Net ranking fifth is unbelievable enough. Getting 5th and 6th places is outofthisworld!! :upsidedown: So hey, Andrew, I don’t know you (and I’m sure you don’t know me either) but because I’m benefiting a lot from your little project over there, and because I love that you’re promoting the local, Filipino-powered blogosphere, you’re now officially my most favorite person in the whole wide web.
Okay. Just for today, lest you start to think I’m psycho or something. Hehe. :)
And because I’m overjoyed, here’s more link love to Andrew dela Serna the man behind all of this, and to Ratified.Org.
Ratified.Org. Ratified.Org. Ratified.Org.
Ok. I’m stopping now and will try working on my composure offline. Hehe. Be back later. :)
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June 12, 2007 at 12:02 am · Filed under Blog Memes
Responding to a tag by Jayvee, in celebration of Independence Day. :)
Apparently, someone found this weird looking post-card which depicts this weird race that Filipino is. Now, they’re spreading it around. Join the fun. :)
Tagging: Joni, Liz, Tina, Mae, Jeric. Go go go! :)
The Rules:
1. Download the scanned front and back of this postcard and resize to fit your blog.
2. Enter your independence day message on the back and post both images on your blog.
3. Title of post should be “Only in the Philippines!”
4. Tag five fellow countrymen :)
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June 10, 2007 at 1:36 pm · Filed under Defining Moments, Emo Posts
At this point, I’m left without a choice but to accept that I am a writer. Coz sometimes, I wonder.. if I’m not a writer, then what else am I? If I’m not gona write, what else am I to do? If I can’t be good at writing, where else could I be good at?
It actually takes a lot of courage to admit these things to myself (which I have to do every single day by the way), much more to disclose these thoughts to an audience that includes professional writers and bloggers around the world who are brilliant at what they do.
I am what most people would call a jack of all trades, master of none. In wikipedia, this means
A person who is passably competent with many skills but is not outstandingly brilliant with any one particular skill.
Let me explain further.
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