February 2012
7 posts
Mountains, dreams, etc.
I have a funny … relationship … with mountains.
I often dream of waking up to them every morning. I’m always longing to be in their presence. They just have this inexplicable way of making me feel small, but grand at the same time — insignificant, while being truly something else, too. I suppose it’s safe to say that I really, really like mountains. In every season,...
January 2012
5 posts
3 tags
A Tribute to Life.
“When you kill a man, you don’t just kill a man, you kill an entire world. You kill a father, a son, a brother, a friend, a hero. And all that jumbled up — you kill the whole world. They killed our world.”
I spent the whole day today and even some of last night working on Tito Gerry’s death anniversary video. Though it has been a long day filled with syncing video...
Sixteenth.
Lost, but found.
Sometimes I wonder how passion comes to be. Does it just happen? Is it something taught, ignited, passed on, innate? How does the fuel of our lives come about?
Where do we derive such supernatural, out-of-this-world feelings that allow us to experience extraordinary moments, extraordinary things?
Jesus said that we ought to love Him more than our parents, brothers, more...
First.
Maybe it’s been too long and I cannot remember being this hopeful, this ecstatic about a new year. It’s just somehow, something about 2011 made me realize how much more I can discover for the rest of my life if only I allow life itself to happen. To listen to the God-planted seeds of desires in my heart, and surrender the reins to my Maker himself.
Although the idea of feeling absolutely free,...
December 2011
4 posts
You've got female.
Allow me to share with you a reflection I just had to write down on a scrap piece of paper back in July. I honestly have forgotten about that moment, but I knew — God knew I had to clean out my closet four months later and remind myself. Little did I know, this writing is to be a letter sent to myself where its meaning will forever remind me of the one calling I’ve had since I was a...
Crammer's Best Friend →
udacadsuccess:
http://sleepyti.me/
Ever feel groggy even after 12 hours of sleep? Yeah, because you keep waking up in the middle of a sleep cycle. Since Finals are here, you don’t want to be groggy at all! I don’t know why it took me this long to share such a wonderful secret… maybe because I really don’t encourage cramming, you cramsters!
But, just keeping it real — and sending out every...
November 2011
5 posts
Ask. Learn. Improve.: Final tips. →
udacadsuccess:
You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I’m telling you why…
Fina-als are coming to town (More specifically, Dec. 10-15th for you UD-ers.)
Actually, please do watch out. Cry now. Pout now. Once all of the aqueous layers of your tear films have escaped your almond-shaped…
Study tips for Finals!
"You can't always have happiness, but you can...
First class.
Seriously, where does time go?
As I begin this, naturally, I look up to the ceiling hoping to find in the fluorescent lights the answer to this question. It’s as if I’m blanking out on the last page of an exam and this is just what I need to guarantee myself that A — I swear I know it, though; it’s familiar in my head, I just don’t know how to answer because...
October 2011
4 posts
Yes, I did.
Yes, I really did take the time to do this because there is no one here to celebrate my accomplishments with me at the moment.
The moment that I have been waiting for all weekend — the end of this Spanish paper with my art paper turned in and my human bio finally taken. I’ve analyzed Augustus’ face and marble body. Even though I now obnoxiously refer to everything using...
Home.
rudyfrancisco:
“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.” -Donald Miller
So true. Too true.
I always wonder why it is in our condition to gain better appreciation for things we ordinarily love when we’re away; when we realize who we are without them. Why is it so much more difficult to wake up everyday, be...
“Our responsibility is to keep trying, keep improving, and keep getting better...”
– Amen.
(via elenacollado)
There's a time for everything, but it's always...
September 2011
4 posts
Whoa, man.
Let me say it now before I ever forget: I love being a woman.
There’s this paradox, as there is in all things Divine, about being a woman. We have arms gentle enough to cradle a newborn baby; we have arms strong enough to protect our loved ones from harm. We have hearts that are more prone to fear than me in a rat-infested room, but at the same time we have hearts prone to loving...
Be still.
Thanks to our human condition of being such dynamic creatures, I can’t help but to be filled with so much longing to do, to realize, and to move towards every desire that has been planted in my heart.
Actually, I’ll take back the finger-pointing and just say my condition since it’s always been in my nature to be so impatient, constantly moving, and every other word that is...
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August 2011
6 posts
greatest gift
I feel beyond heard, favored, and blessed… all undeserving of such blessings, but I won’t let a moment go by without being grateful for it all. The best way I could ever thank You is to take all this, not waste nor hoard any blessing, so that what I give to and share with others will return to You with great price, with meaning, with value. This, for all the love You give everyday.
God loves.
Have you ever sat in silence, in His presence, simply in wonder of just how much He loves you? Oftentimes, in my poor attempts to measure, to feel, and to understand the immensity of God’s love for me, I fail. I keep asking why and how I could still be loved despite our differences, despite my weaknesses, shortcomings, and most of all with my difficulty in loving him selflessly in return....
Love is patient...
If you turn to page 252 of your Merriam-Webster’s Pocket Dictionary, you’ll see that ‘patient’ is also defined as ‘one under medical care.’ Maybe it isn’t so ironic that it’s this way. Maybe I should also study the etymology of the word, but right now, I think I can understand perfectly what and just how much this virtue means to me (and probably the rest of the world.) I really can’t stand it...
The more time I spend in the church, the more I...
maeeeday:
aboveallhis:
But I also learn the true meaning of unconditional love.
truth.
“Love for a person must consist in affirmation that the person has a value higher...”
– Pope John Paul II (via aheartwhoseloveisinnocent)
July 2011
6 posts
Beautiful beginnings...
I know, I know… It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.
But let me tell you about the comfort, peace, and inspiration of knowing your beginning; you began somewhere intangible, invisible, unseen. When your amazing Maker could have just easily snapped you into existence, he didn’t. He made sure that the journey was near-impossible to finish.
Whenever I trace...
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Big picture.
Contrasting personalities, differing opinions, and all the other unique and quirky traits of every individual of this planet paint a ‘big’ picture that portrays the raw beauty of our humanity. Zooming into the details of how each of our own opinions and subjective truths weave into the next thread of your next door neighbor’s differing ideas, instead of becoming clearer, it seems...
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And...”
– St. Augustine (via gregwho)
June 2011
10 posts
Girl Fight.
Thanks to my youngest brother who takes after my nocturnal habits, he linked me to some ‘girl fights.’ Now, I sadly credit R3B3CKA and MARiS for finally moving me to write.
I apologize now for the upcoming bad jokes if there are any. I tend to come up with even more ridiculous analogies when kind of angered.
Clap, clap, you can punch another girl. Clap, clap, you can wrestle. So...
BE-YOUtiful
“Don’t say, ‘That’s the way I am-its my character.’ It’s your lack of character. Esto vir! Be a man!” - St. Josemaria Escriva
I read this from time to time to remind myself that as much as I am proud to be the unique being that I am, it’s okay if not necessary to always find myself, and to keep discovering the uncharted parts of myself — to...
wordless babies.
Don’t hurt me, but I used to not be a fan of that song, More than Words. You see, as a lady fascinated by the threadlessness and the naked thoughts humbly exposed by others, I’m not one of those word-haters. I like seeing evidences of people’s thoughts and feelings. I like stories. I like the way words dance with each other. I take people’s word to heart, and when I give...
World's Greatest Dadvice
Let me tell you about my papa. Let me share with you the greatest things that anyone has ever said to me. Anything and everything this man has given me and continues to provide me with shapes me. Seriously, I have 23 of his chromosomes. I obviously got his sense of humor, too.
But honestly. I spend a lot of time with my dad since he drives my buttocks everywhere (that’s another...
roots of love
Where to begin?
My thoughts are flooding my restless mind right now trying to narrow down possibly one solid message I’d like to sign, seal, and deliver through this entry. You’d think I’d be asleep by now since I was probably the most active I’ve ever been in my life today. Did I also mention I’m running on a 2-hour nap on someone’s shoulder in the car?...
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Mistakes.
We make them all the time yet we try to steer the direction of our lives away from any signs pointing at the mistakes we are at risk to make every single day.
If this isn’t you, feel free to mentally change the plural form of the personal pronoun ‘we’ to its singular use, ‘I,’ and, please, allow me to share with you a part of myself. This alone is difficult in...
the best of the best
This whole week, I’ve been truly grateful for the best friends I have ever had — my siblings. Yes, I know, ORIG. Nevertheless, I unapologetically write this Ode to the best of the best.
When I was younger, like everyone else, I got into plenty of fights with them. I was always competing with them for my parents’ attention. My sister, who is the best, and I never even got along....