THIS is THE best entertainment to come out of our local TV channels since the Ted Failon BS. My personal take is that Ted Failon was the one who released the videos to take focus away from his wife's "suicide". HAHAHAHAHA!
Sheesh, from all the stories and all, I had high hopes for the videos... mildly erotic to say the least. Both Katrina Halili and the Brazilian girl were boring to say the least... only the other girl's video (Maricar) was worth watching, and considering that she was Hayden's GF at the time the video was made, I don't even see what the big deal is. Ok, gee, they had sex... wow... ok... they were a couple, duh!
If the senate puts even HALF the effort into most corruption cases, our country would be 3000x more productive.
My best friend gave me the best advice, He said each day's a gift & not a given right Leave no stone unturned Leave your fears behind and try to take the path less traveled by That first step you take is the longest stride.
If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late Could you say goodbye to yesterday? Would you live each moment like your last? Leave old pictures in the past? Donate every dime you had? If today was your last day
Against the grain should be a way of life What's worth the prize is always worth the fight Every second counts 'cause There's no second try So live like you're never livin twice Don't take the free ride in your own life
If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late Could you say goodbye to yesterday? Would you live each moment like your last? Leave old pictures in the past? Donate every dime you had? Would you call those friends you've never seen? Reminisce old memories? Would you forgive your enemies? Would you find that one your dreaming of? Swear up & down to God above That you'll finally fall in love. If today was your last day
If today was your last day Would you make it up by mending a broken heart? You know it's never too late To shoot for the stars Regardless of who you are So do whatever it takes 'Cause you can't rewind A moment in this life Let nothing stand in your way Cause the hands of time are never on your side
If today was your last day & tomorrow was too late Could you say goodbye to yesterday? Would you live each moment like your last? Leave old pictures in the past? Donate every dime you had? Would you call those friends you've never seen? Reminisce old memories? Would you forgive your enemies? Would you find that one your dreaming of? Swear up & down to God above That you'll finally fall in love. If today was your last day...
I wish I played golf... Golf courses are always so nice, specially at dawn... I just can't bring myself to wake up at 5am to whack a tiny ball and chase it... hahahahaha...
It's 3am... can't sleep... I think I had too much coffee today... hahahahaha... and I have to be in Ayala Greenfields at 5am... maybe I'll just go and sleep there instead...
...back from a quick overnight at La Luz Beach Resort... am I a beach person? hmmm... I'm wondering if I really like the beach or just scuba diving... maybe I'd like the beach more if it wasn't so hot... I think the sun should have a dimmer... hahahahaha (kidding)
Hmmm... although I had big plans coming up for Jan 2010, things might get bumped up sooner than I planned... I'm still trying to decide if I should bump it up or not...if that's a good or a bad thing... well, in all honesty, it's good, if it'll come sooner. I just wasn't expecting to take it on this on this soon... but I'm also a firm believer in the "better late than never" is BS. There is such as a thing as too little... too late. And I HATE being late. So at the very least, my plans will either be on time... or sooner than expected... just have to delay a smaller plan/project I had in mind that was supposed to be done in Dec 2009. Let's see if I can get things moving sooner than I had hoped...
As we all get older, talks of marriage, families, kids, etc... all become common place. One of my pet peeves in the Phil is how people (aunts mostly) keep asking/pressuring newly weds to have kids. It's not an effing puppy. You'd think these aunts are the ones that will fund the baby and change diapers and all. Sheesh... all they want to do is play with it like a toy for a bit. Get a life... buy a dog.
Sometimes you get a fwd email that actually contains words of wisdom...
don't commit when your'e not ready, don't keep others waiting endlessly, to fulfill your parenting fantasies, get a puppy, don't bring another life into this world for all the wrong reasons, to keep yourself warm, buy a jacket, in the long run, it will be less complicated and less costly, take care of yourself, don't wait for someone to take care of you, no one completes you -- but you...
What if you had a year... ok, say, five years left to live... would you live the remaining year(s) of your life differently than you are living it now? I wonder how many people would answer yes to that question... most of the time, when a question like that is posed, the usual response it "No, I'd do ___________" whether it be something they haven't done... or something they want to do... or something they plan to do, but much later in the future.
The funny thing is, no one knows when their "last day" will be. There is no such thing as postponing life... you're either living it... or you're wasting it.
I think I'm lucky that life has taught me this lesson early on in my life... granted I'm not young anymore, but still younger than most that pick up on this when they're 40, 50 or much later. The last 2 years of my life have taught me that so much can happen in 2 months... or 5 weeks... or 4 days... or 18 hours. Big things. Life changing things. Can you imagine how many changes can happen in the hours... days... weeks... months... or even years to come?!?!?!? COOL!!!
Woohoo! Just got back from Macao! Had a side trip to Hong Kong as well! Photos will be up on my Multiply site soon! Still sorting all the photos from my camera and phone.
Show your loved one that you REALLY care about them.
Valentine's has always been about love and family and food. It has also always been celebrated on February 14. This year, why don't we celebrate Valentine's everyday?
Some restaurants are helping Virlanie do this by being Virlanie's Valentine. When you eat in the following restaurants, part of the proceeds of your meal will feed a child for an entire year. Imagine that!
For more info on how to become a partner restaurant,
Woohoo... I've got big plans for the end of this year... something involving the colors blue & white... hmmm... what could it be? Hehehehe... It's something I will have to save up for...
But that's still a year away... a lot can happen in a year. Til then, I'm off to Macau til Monday! Woohoo! (Not the same woohoo as my upcoming big plan, but a different woohoo... hahahaha)
I was watching Evan All Mighty, and I never really found it that funny. But there were a few lines in the movie that I found very moving.
"When people pray for patience, does God give them patience? Or does he give them opportunities to be patient?"
Sometimes, we pray for signs... and foolishly wait for literal signs. God sends us signs all the time. And provides us with opportunities to get what we pray for every step of the way.
But, he can only show us the door... we have to choose to walk through it.
After YEARS... I finally added ONE more link in my portfolio for my photos... under "Pixels". Hahahaha... hopefully I'll find the energy to add my music, and larger pop-ups of my graphic work as well some time. Hahahaha...
(New Year's Countdown at Fort Bonifacio 31-12-2008) HAPPY 2009!!!!!
May this year be filled with unexpected twists... turns... corners... bends... detours... (this is getting a bit too driving oriented...) surprises... ...and everything else that makes life interesting!!!
I've been very blessed throughout my life. I've never had a bad job, and I've always been good at managing the little money that I make. I've also never been much into charity (I never really believed in it)... but this year, I felt like doing something different. The Virlanie Foundation is selling Christmas cards, which I bought to give out as gifts to my friends. For a few of my closest friends, I decided to secretly pledge a year (hopefully I can afford to sustain it much longer) in their name. They will get a letter from their sponsored child. as well as regular updates from Virlanie. It's not much, but I hope that the little I can give would at least inspire some of them to donate (or convince their employers or companies to do so) as well.
Virlanie feeds, clothes, houses, and most importantly, educates homeless children with the hope that they may make a better future for themselves than what life has dealt them.
I've recently found a few quotes that I really seem to like now...
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." - Charles Darwin
"Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow." - William Pollard
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Every time you look into the future, it changes... because you looked at it." - Nicholas Cage in the movie Next
Having a cold keeps me from going out... still wanting to be productive (or out of sheer boredom), I decided to continue my never-ending saga of spring cleaning.
I'm just amused at some of the things I found in my pile of junk (It's like an Indiana Jones archeological dig!)... most of them are still functional!
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."-- J.D. Salinger
There was an old man sitting on his porch watching the rain fall. Pretty soon the water was coming over the porch and into the house.
The old man was still sitting there when a rescue boat came and the people on board said, "You can't stay here you have to come with us."
The old man replied, "No, God will save me." So the boat left. A little while later the water was up to the second floor, and another rescue boat came, and again told the old man he had to come with them.
The old man again replied, "God will save me." So the boat left him again.
An hour later the water was up to the roof and a third rescue boat approached the old man, and tried to get him to come with them.
Again the old man refused to leave stating that, "God will save him." So the boat left him again.
Soon after, the man drowns and goes to heaven, and when he sees God he asks him, "Why didn't you save me?"
God replied, "You dummy! I tried. I sent three boats after you!!"
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I was watching "Pursuit of Happyness" on HBO again, and I remembered this part of the movie... John's moral... some people are just dumb... hahahahaha...
I think it's sad that the world had to wait for this whole milk crisis thing to happen... but in a way, I'm glad it did. I'm so sick of everything being made (poorly) in China. I'm sick of the whole fantasy of having 'cheap quality'... sorry to all the delusional economists out there... you get what you pay for. In the end, the idea of having 'better, cheaper, faster' products... one will always be sacrificed, and in this day and age of microwavable-I-need-it-yesterday-crap... 'better' is always the first to go.
I'm happy that in the search for alternatives to China, companies are now looking to closer neighbors. Some Austrian & German companies are outsourcing to Poland or the Czech republic. US companies are going back to outsourcing in Mexico. Makes more sense, with the rising fuel prices, pay less for logistics, and more for labor. Buy local, buy quality... don't buy just because it's friggin' cheap.
Hopefully this teach consumers a lesson as well. Quality over quantity.
...I miss walking in Paris... not just for the sights... but walking to everything. I miss walking to my corner baker to buy my breakfast. I miss walking to the Metro. I miss walking along the Seine at night. It's funny because I'm not exactly the type who longs for exercise. I would walk a total of at least 10km everyday.
I actually walked to the local deli tonight to buy bread to make myself a sandwich. I think I can do this tomorrow morning... I've always wanted to be a "morning person"... it's just that the morning always comes so early! Hahahaha. But I enjoyed walking to the deli. Maybe I can make this my morning walk...and give myself an excuse to watch the sun rise.
Most of the things I've learned in life, I've learned from my Lola. When she passed away a couple of years ago, it was the first time I had ever lost anyone that close to me. I do miss my Lola a lot... more during the happy occasions (Christmas, her birthday, family gatherings) than her death anniversary or anything.
It's funny but I still can hear her voice of wisdom whenever I need it. I think it's because when you're really close to someone, a part of their consciousness gets passed on to you. Although, logically, I think this is just my subconscious telling me the right thing to do and using the memory of someone I respect to get me to listen to myself... No matter how you look at it, my Lola still guides me now.
And if there's anything I learned from her, is that life is too short... live it to the fullest, happiest, and funniest!
What if you had one month to live? Have you done everything on your "bucket list"? Being in France has made me realize that, well... my bucket list is pretty much complete. This trip was initially one of those things you keep planning for but for some reason, always gets pushed back... until I realized... I kept making excuses for why I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing. Call it practicality, call it logic, call it whatever you want... at the end of the day, I wasn't living the life I wanted, because I kept finding excuses/reasons on why I wasn't in France.
I realized that it's so easy to come up with reasons... "Life" always gives us reasons. Until we wake up and see that the only reason... the ONLY reason we haven't done (or aren't doing) what we want to do... or are not where we wanna be... is because we accepted those "reasons":
-not enough money -not enough time -waiting for a better time -waiting for a better oportunity -not the right time -work first to save up
I can think of a thousand reasons why I wasn't in France... until I just decided to go. Then, when I stopped making excuses for myself... things fell into place... not just perfectly... but effortlessly. I'm so glad I stopped planning this trip. It arrived faster (and is turning out better) than I expected! I just love how life always throws nice surprises and knocks you off your feet when you least expect it! And if there's anything I've learned here in France... is how to live life, and not just watch it go by! As the French say... C'est La Vie!
Started my "backpacking" trip around France by heading off to Bordeaux. Happened to chance upon a wine school that was holding classes while I was there, so... where else can one learn about wine but Bordeaux?!?! And of course, after I finished the class, I made my way to visit a couple of Chateaus (one that specialized in sweet white wine, and the other that made red & dry whites)... this is THE place for wine lovers... the passion & refinement they have for wine is just on a totally different level! Next stop... Marseille...if I don't get lost! Hahahaha...
There are a lot of times when we need to produce copies of important documents... birth certificate, driver's license, financial documents, etc... I've been making copies of all my documents... but then I decided to make things easier... I scanned all my important documents... and made one single 'print ready' PDF which I can now print anytime, anywhere... and I keep a copy of it on my phone just in case!
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THIS is THE best entertainment to come out of our local TV channels since the Ted Failon BS. My personal take is that Ted Failon was the one who released the videos to take focus away from his wife's "suicide". HAHAHAHAHA!
Congrats to Batch 2009
