:: *i'd still want to be a lasalista pa rin* ::
Monday, October 02, 2006
:: *closing cycles* ::
i've always loved this prose written by Paulo Coelho. it points out what is already so obvious. if something has ended for you, i urge you to read this. this essay has helped me move on and it can do the same for anyone else. CLOSING CYCLES by PAULO COELHO One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters - whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. ****************************************** Close your cycles. Move on. It's the only thing you can do. The past will remain in the past. No miracle can bring you back to when you were contented. The people around you, the ones who care, can only do so much. Change has to come from within. Stop waiting and do the move yourself. Let go of the things you left behind or have left you behind. Begin a new chapter. Seize the day. Enjoy the rest of your life. Live. Love. Learn.
Sunday, October 01, 2006
:: * XANGSANE * ::
this is a funny video. i love it. i'd still want to be a lasalista pa rin.
ANIMO LA SALLE!
niKay wrote this story at..
5:12 AM
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Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents’ house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden? You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won’t take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at astandstill.
None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot forever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back. Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away.
That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts - and getting rid ofcertain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.
Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisionsthat are always put off waiting for the “ideal moment.” Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important.
Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.
niKay wrote this story at..
10:47 PM
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Not only did Milenyo uproot trees and topple billboards and power poles, its brief onslaught on Thursday also emphasized the growing social divide in the country.
The Trinidad family is no stranger to long blackouts triggered not by natural calamities, but by poverty. In August, they spent about two weeks without electricity for failing to pay their bills. They’re expecting another disconnection order soon.
It’s one problem that’s seemingly alien to wealthy families seen by the Inquirer trooping to expensive hotels the other night. Not a few came in home attire -- shirt, shorts and slippers -- apparently expecting the cool hotel rooms to be home for the next two days or so.
Not far from the hotel, two shopping malls were packed with actual and window shoppers. The apparent common denominator was the yearning to escape the oppressive heat at home.
Lesson No. 1. Power and telephone lines must be buried in the Makati and Ortigas commercial districts like what has already been done in the Fort.
If the Philippines wants to be globally competitive in the call center business, then, by golly, we must provide these BPOs power and phone service 24/7.
2. The LRT and MRT must have a dedicated power connection 365 days a year.
As it is now, the light rail system depends on a number of several Meralco substations to deliver electricity and run the trains; when, say, the south of Pasig River Meralco franchise goes dead, the entire Baclaran-Monumento service unfortunately goes kaput as well.
3. Like the LRT, traffic lights also need independent power supply, plus back-up power source (battery and solar power) like those used in train crossing signals in other countries.
4. Edsa, C-5 and the South and North Luzon expressways must be rid of billboards.
5. To ease gridlock in the Makati commercial district, Ayala and Buendia can and must be converted into a one-way loop.
6. Builders need to review their condominium templates, especially those built like glass and concrete cages. Generators, no matter how powerful, are not designed to run nonstop for days.
7. Malls have now become the extensions of sala+dining+TV rooms of Metro Manilans. Rockwell did roaring business Thursday night--the lone mall left open with full power--from Makati village residents and condominium dwellers who were escaping the heat and the boredom of their darkened houses.
8. The local telcos will have to rely more on Wimax and other wireless means of delivering service to literally untangle themselves from the vagaries of nature.
9. When the weather cleared on Friday, the banks' ATM network, the supermarkets, and the malls were back on their feet despite electricity still unrestored. Should the government need insights on how to overcome supply-chain difficulties, the industry's backroom boys can fill up an entire how-to manual.
10. Filipinos, despite their toxic politicians and feckless bureaucrats, are still a cheerful lot. Eavesdropping on their exchanges of disaster stories, you would think that Milenyo was one big adventure.
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6:18 PM
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