AJ Jorge August 29th, 2009
Kung ang buhay ay isang umagang nakangiti
At ikaw ay ang lupang sinusuyo ng bituin
Di mo man silip ang langit
Di mo man silip, ito’y nandirito pa rin
Kung ang lahat ay may katapusan
Itong paglalakbay ay makakarating din sa paroroonan
At sa iyong paglisan, ang tanging pabaon ko
Ay pag-ibig
AJ Jorge August 25th, 2009
Let me take you down
’cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real
and nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Living is easy with eyes closed,
misunderstanding all you see.
It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out,
it doesn’t matter much to me.
Strawberry Fields forever
AJ Jorge August 21st, 2009
Me and BFF Don will be off to Cameron Highlands at Malaysia later tonight. It will be an 8 hour bus ride from Singapore to the mountain regions. We’ll be staying at Strawberry Park Resort. As far as I can tell, it’s a Baguio-like scenery there with strawberry plantations and tea factories all over the place. Hopefully there will be no rains when we are there and the weather will permit us to shoot the outdoors.
penny August 20th, 2009
I wanted to share this learning I had today, and it is best described by a quick Google search, where I found the following from this website: http://www.buddhanet.net/metta_in.htm
An Overview of Loving-kindness Meditation
Loving-kindness meditation can be brought in to support the practice of ‘bare attention’ to help keep the mind open and sweet. It provides the essential balance to support your insight meditation practice.
It is a fact of life that many people are troubled by difficult emotional states in the pressured societies we live in, but do little in terms of developing skills to deal with them. Yet even when the mind goes sour it is within most people’s capacity to arouse positive feelings to sweeten it. Loving-kindness is a meditation practice taught by the Buddha to develop the mental habit of selfless or altruistic love. In the Dhammapada can be found the saying: “Hatred cannot coexist with loving-kindness, and dissipates if supplanted with thoughts based on loving-kindness.”
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penny August 11th, 2009
BEFORE THE SEMINAR
I am currently stressing about attending this seminar. It is 1.23 pm and the seminar starts at 2.00pm, and here I am thinking to myself, why did I sign up?
Ah heck. I’ll get myself ready to attend. I have to walk down to lower campus, it’ll take about 7 minutes to get there. I still have time. Let’s see how it changes me, if at all, when I come back.
I’ll update this post in a little while.
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AFTER THE SEMINAR
4.25 pm
Okay, here’s my take-away for the day that I will share, and also to remind myself of it:
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— Shakespeare (Hamlet)
Perhaps as I come across anything else I’ll keep on sharing them here.
Oh, and another thing, I found out that I really am stressed out these days. Here’s a simple test to find out if you are too:
Deep breathing exercise
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penny August 9th, 2009
I am popping bubble wrap.
According to my calendar, right now I should be straightening up my junk in my bedroom… but no, here I am sipping tea in between popping bubble wrap.
Ah, I know what can motivate me to clean my room.
Now I am pressured to get an AFTER picture up later on. But before that, some things in focus. I-SPY game TIME!!!
Bubble wrap, pooh mug, bangaw shades, cow sticker, tip of red pen, headphones, pc speaker, pair of pink earrings, white socks, tissue box and Alec Baldwin.
Ah well. So… as the social networks say in grey-font “What are YOU doing now?”
penny August 2nd, 2009
So who’s a bigger Disney fan than I?
Sure, all the stories are sugary sweet and unrealistically happily-ever-after. But I grew up with hand-me-down magazines with the Epcot Center often shown on the front page and articles about Herbie (the car) and stories about Mouseketeer fun!
I never owned Mickey mouse ears nor went on fancy trips to the Magic Kingdom. We never went to see Disney on Ice in Araneta. But… I loved the animated movies. Soooooooo much, that when I was old enough to watch the movies, my first entry to a cinema was to see Pinocchio. My oldest cousin (from whom those hand-me-down magazines came from) brought me to Quad 1 (now the demolished Glorietta 1), I was hardly starting school then.
But we never had the copies of videos at home, I did not have any Disney toys. No storybooks. There was no money for any of those. Everytime I was brought to visit my cousin, in her company I was able to watch the videos in her home, play with her dolls, and read her books. I would burn those images and stories in my head, for as I said, I did not have anything Disney that was tangible in our own house.
So when we went to see Disney on Ice at the Acer Arena, Sydney Olympic Park today, I hope you understand how a “dream-realised” moment it was. The music started, and Tinkerbell came out, and I was almost crying with delight. Every new routine from the different flicks kept me giggling inside with joy. The ending was more perfect than the little princess inside me expected.
I can safely say I was the happiest (if not the oldest) kid in that arena.
penny August 1st, 2009
This morning, Pinoys lost a former president to cancer.
Cory had said in an interview about her being named Time’s Woman of the Year [not verbatim] “This is it. Pwede na ko mamatay.”
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