Simple kind of life…

This is why I love kids! They have the simplest answers to the most complex matters… like LOVE! We should listen to them more often. Sometimes they do make better sense than the adults… Love doesn’t have to be complicated… It only has to be true

What Does Love Mean?

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8
year-olds, "What does love mean?"

The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have
imagined. See what you think:

• "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love." Rebecca- age 8

• "When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth." Billy - age 4

• "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." Karl - age 5

• "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs." Chrissy - age 6

• "Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired." Terri - age 4

• "Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." Danny - age 7

• "Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss!" Emily - age 8

• "Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening
presents and listen." Bobby - age 7

• "If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who
you hate." Nikka - age 6

• "Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it
everyday." Noelle - age 7

• "Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well." Tommy - age 6

• "During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore." Cindy - age 8

• "My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night." Clare - age 6

• "Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken." Elaine-age 5

• "Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is
handsomer than Robert Redford." Chris - age 7

• "Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." Mary Ann - age 4

• "I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones." Lauren - age 4

• "When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." Karen - age 7

• "Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn’t think it’s gross." Mark - age 6

• "You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget." Jessica - age 8

And the final one — Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a
contest he was asked to judge.

The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.

The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an
elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard,
climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy
said,

"Nothing, I just helped him cry"

I dunno why… but I just have the hots for Dennis Trillo for quite some time now… oooh… that’s a first! i never had any Pinoy celebrity crush before… Oh gawd!!! I don’t like Darna, but when i have the chance, I watch it just to take a glimpse of this guy… *eww* i know.. but i have no choice… :p

Thanks Paulie for the link Whew! it suddenly became hot here in the office! kept me warm all through out the shift. *LOL*

Yep! I’m OVER commuting to work and braving nasty weather conditions coz soon I’ll be OUT of the house!!! I have decided… I’m moving out and I can’t wait!!! I’ll be a walk away from my office… and a walk away from all these bars and restaurants… livin in the city like i used to during college… Awww yeah! Although, I’ll be sharing the unit with some co-workers… and my budget’s gonna be tighter as ever… but heck, that’s good enough for me! Anything to get me out of that god-forsaken place… I just never really felt at home at Cainta anyways… Makati will always be my home… Ortigas is my second… and now probably Eastwood’s gonna be my third… :p Once a city girl… always a city girl!

The best news is… I’m never gonna be late for work… ever again! (right… hehehe!). So Ton my man… hurry things up will yah?! We better find them flatmates! I can’t wait to get my ass out of our house… *LOL*

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And since I’m already raving… I just wanna say, I had tons of fun the other weekend at Antipolo!!! Happy Birthday Erika!!! Thanks for the blow-out!!! That was some adventure huh? That’s what you get from hanging out with a cowgirl like me… *LOL* And who says you don’t know how to commute?!?!? She freakin rode a tricycle!!! Anyway… I wish you find the right man who truly deserves you… not some greedy, egotistic, chauvinist coward! A little harsh, I know… but I’m sorry, I just hate persons who are driven by their selfish and materialistic desires… and I really hate guys who do not know how to respect women. Like that gives them the right to trample on other people’s feelings or put other people in danger… They’re as cold as the cash that they’re yearning to get… *ugh* He’ll get what he deserves, I swear! And you’ll have your revenge my dear…

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In case he reads this… well, I know your dirty lil secret… what you did was just plain *stupid*. I’m just really upset that you almost got us into trouble because you were only thinking of yourself… You’re nice in general… but I find you really selfish. The way you treat women as second class citizens is just intolerable… And I hate the way you always treat everything as business… even relationships!!! Women are not commodities, you know… You messed with the wrong persons… I’m known to cast karmic spells on persons who do bad things… seriously… though i don’t really do anything about it… but my will-power just usually speeds up the karmic process… so be scared… you’ll get your karma real soon… *evil laugh*

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Ok… That rant was uncalled for…  So on to raving… ^_^ the whole techwriter team checked in at Astoria hotel in Ortigas for some non-office related fun… and today we’re goin there after work! 2 days of anything goes!!! *LOL* a long dip on a hot tub… swimming in an indoor pool… booze and videoke all night long… hell yeah! i’m so looking forward to this!!! :)  so that’s it for now… Over and out!!!!!

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*sparkle, sparkle* baby… nothing but magic

Finally!!! A more personalized Friendster profile!!! Been spending days customizing my page… hahaha! I am sooo loving it!

As I was on my way to work last night, I passed by this residential place that I’ve been wanting to get a house from. I see they are building new sections of condos now *sigh* then thoughts of how I could get my own place there haunted me all the way to work… and when I got there, I wasn’t able to end up with a conceivable approach as to how to go about it… for the fact is it’s really way out of my reach right now *deeper sigh* I have responsibilities at home that I have to take care of… and it’s during these times that I would really hate my parents for putting me in this position that I never thought I’d be in. But only during these times… I still love them to death, and it’s for that reason that I’m still taking care of them.

I can’t blame them though. It wasn’t my dad’s fault that he caught some friggin illness and had to retire. He retired voluntarily though… he can still get work if he wanted to…  and I just blame him for not trying to get back to work for thinking that I, and his little water business (where the money that we got from selling my car went… *ugh*), could already support us. He retired without much savings left because our home’s been under “finishing touches” for years now… and I would hate them for that too, coz they did almost a dozen renovations already but never really did finish the house entirely. So that’s where all our money went. Oh, and not to mention my fucking overpriced tuition fees… to which I’m grateful for…  that’s why maybe I’m not complaining… or more accurately, trying hard not to complain… as much… but it’s so fucking hard!!! Gosh! I’m only 24 and single!!! I should be out there having fun! Which I still do from time to time, by the way… but you can’t imagine the sacrifice I have to take just to go out for drinks with friends. I’m just so frustrated to the point of crying right now. I’m not sure how long I still have to deal with this… I just hope that by some miracle, one day I’d be able to fully take care of things and finally be set free of this plight.

Hopefully soon… I still have so many dreams… and I can’t pursue them coz I’m still stuck in all this shit.

The stupid government’s even making it difficult for all of us… I shouldn’t be paying my taxes just so we’ll be run by no-good, dim-witted sons of bitches. Fucking morons!

Sometimes I wonder how it would be like to fully enjoy one’s hard-earned cash… It seems I have forgotten already. If things were still the way they were 2 years ago… I probably got my own pad there right now.

Or better yet, I’m somewhere, thousands of miles from here… *SIGH*

I can’t complain… Life’s a fucking bitch… I have to be one too…

But despite that… I love you ma, pa and be!!!

Today’s Forecast
Wait until the fog lifts before you make a decision, especially if new information is about to arrive. What you hear next could really change your perspective on the situation and open up a whole new world of options.

Have you ever paid any attention to your Friendster horoscope every time you open your account? Well, I have… not that I believed in it… but sometimes it tells you the most interesting and positive of things that it usually makes my day. The world is full of too much bullshit that most of the time it helps to not think about them. So I guess reading this horoscope thing is one of my ways to forget about life’s miseries coz it makes me a bit hopeful or feel a bit better about my life. Sometimes that’s just what we need… a lil encouragement… a lil optimism… to go through life amidst whatever hell we are going through.

In Detail
Something substantial comes about on the job, thanks to your hard work and struggles. When you finally take that next (big) step forward in your career, you can expect more job fulfillment, recognition and, oh yeah, cold, hard cash. Go ahead and treat yourself to a victory spree — and spend some time with friends and loved ones who haven’t seen you in far too long because of all your overtime at the office.

See what I mean? Who wouldn’t like to hear (or read for that matter) something like that?!?! Now that’s nice… although, it would be a lot nicer if it were to become true… but of course that’s just one of them horoscopes that I don’t really take seriously. Like I said, it’s just a way to release some of my stresses. It always helps to hear/read something good for a change, don’t you think?

Do you believe in destiny? Hmm, I dunno why I’m suddenly interested about this topic again that I have to write another blog entry about it. I guess it’s because I watched too much Star Wars episodes the past 2 days (I had a marathon of all the episodes, except for episode 3 *LOL*). But then again, it’s that one topic, aside from love, that usually arouses the interest of the human mind. Ina believes that everything is a conscious decision. Do you agree? Well, like I said before in one of my blog entries (where I told of the time I went to a psychic), I believe in destiny. But like Ina, I believe destiny is what we make of it. All my life, I have proven that fact… from the schools that I wanna enroll in… to the company that I want to work for… would you believe, I would always apply to only one school or company, and I would always get in! Same thing goes for my modeling. It’s one thing that I’ve always wanted to do, have had so many opportunities in the past, but I just let them pass me by because my parents wanted me to finish my studies first (yeah, despite my stubborness, I actually obeyed them on that one). But that didn’t stop me from pursuing it. And even though I know I ain’t really there yet… well, I’m almost there… almost!!! (i just need one measely project to make it official :p) and somehow i could at least say that I have fulfilled that dream (thanks to Chad for believing in me and Dex and the Facets family for the support… I love you guys forever!!!).

So this is why I believe that we really do make our own destiny… you could always be what you want to be… only if you set your heart and mind to it. Of course you cannot achive anything if you don’t do anything about it. That’s why I find it sad, and sometimes irritating, to know that some people don’t really know what they want in life… and then whine about it and how miserable they are… which brings me to another question…

Is there really such a thing as "victims of fate?" Those people who claim they’re helpless and cannot do anything about their situation because that’s just the way it has always been for them? I’m not sure if you get what I mean… but I guess I couldn’t really explain it clearly because I don’t believe in such crap. Yes, maybe we cannot do anything on some things that happen to us. But like I said before, fate can only bring you somewhere, and at that point, it’s up to you how to deal with it. So I guess there’s still a conscious decision to it. Change is the only constant in this world… if you don’t like where you are right now, don’t fucking whine! You could always do something about it to change that, right?

I remember what that psychic said to me before after telling him some history about my situation and asked if it’s gonna work out… he said "Oo naman…" after looking at the card I picked out that would supposedly decide my fate. Although that hasn’t happened yet, that thought changed my mood that night from depressed to amused… then giddy… and eventually determined to do something to really make it work. You don’t always have to believe everything to read or hear…  just let it guide you, and who knows… it might just come true.

The Bottomline
Grab a hankie — your friends are about to show you how much they love you.

Awww… That would be awfully nice… but then again… it’s up to you guys!!!

Hmmm… I don’t really know what exactly that means… but heck! It sounds good to me… or at least it sounded good in the song Ever After by Bonnie Bailey. I’m not really a big house music fan (although I appreciate it), but after hearing this song, I immediately had a sudden taste for it… thanks to an officemate who just out of the blue popped me asking if I liked house music coz he was gonna send me some. Well, I love music in general, so I said, sure why not? And well… I fell in love with it… it’s so sweet but not in a sappy way… it’s a feel-good song that I can dance to my heart’s content. I guess I have a new music flavor of the month… Awww yeah!!! I feel like goin to the club now. *lol*

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Speaking of music, i was trying to get a hold of U-Turn’s new album, By Request for more than a week now, and finally I got it! Bought it just the other day at Galleria (last one in their stack!) after being frustrated for not finding it the night before at O Eastwood because they freakin ran out of copies. Wow! Kudos to U-Turn, I guess it must be a really good album. But I have to hear it for myself… actually so I could decide if it’s good enough to send it a thousand miles from here (since I already sent out MYMP’s Versions album last month). But knowing me… regardless (or should I say irregardless, as Paul would put it *lol*) if it’s good or not, I’d most probably still send one… coz he loves acoustic music and he particularly loved U-Turn’s first album, which I sent a year before… yeah, a year before… OMG!!! A year now?!?! uh oh, I feel a flashback coming…

cessie (8/25/2005 6:01:17 PM): ayus… colleen, i just realized uve been into him for ang tagal na
colleen_m15 (8/25/2005 6:01:37 PM): more than 2 years man!!!!
cessie (8/25/2005 6:02:05 PM): nice! pwede ka ng patayuan ng monumento
colleen_m15 (8/25/2005 6:02:40 PM): hahahahaha!

Aww… I miss you Cessie girl! Don’t forget me when you get to Singapore! Damn! Everybody’s goin away!!! *waaaaaah* Has it been that long? Fuck!!! I just realized it’s already September!!! Oh man… Why does time fly by so fast?!?! And some things happen so slow? *sigh*

Anyway, goin back… I think I like the 1st album better. Although I liked the songs in this new one, I kinda find them sad and a lil depressing. Gawd! If this album is really based on the most requested songs at U-Turn’s gigs, then I guess Filipinos must really be martyrs and masochists… friggin sentimental fools… much like I am *hehe* But anyways, it’s a good album… a lil refreshing for those acoustic enthusiasts coz they usually sound different from most acoustic bands that came out.

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Changing gears now… the other day I watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It’s an Audrey Hepburn classic, which I bought instead that fateful night at O (again, much to my frustration… i just had to buy something :p)…

"Hepburn’s exquisitely eccentric Holly Golightly is an impetuous, big-city social butterfly determined to live fast… and marry rich."

Hmm… mirror, mirror on the wall… seems like it’s about me after all… well, except fot the marrying rich part. Yup, like Holly I live fast… I’m free-spirited… "a wild child" as my friends from IT would call me, hehe! But unlike her, I don’t intend to marry rich and I ain’t afraid of true love. Although, loving a rich man won’t be such a bad idea *lol*. This is probably my most favorite Audrey Hepburn classic of all time.

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And now we’re slightly weathered, we’re slightly worn
Our hands grip together eye to eye through the storm yet
I still believe in ever after with you…

You are my twisted sunshine…