I’m feeling out of sorts right now and so I am not thinking straight. I hate to start this week’s post with a bunch of rants, but I guess this is the only way I can blow some steam.

There’s actually 2 people whom I wanted to say these things to.  Read more…

According to Wikipedia, divorce rates for 2010 is comparatively lower than the previous year. What’s interesting to note though, is that statistics also shows that the rate of marriage also went down on 2010 compared to 2009.  In reality, divorce is still very rampant, and Hollywood is making it look even cooler. Read more…

Last night, I decided to download the movie Hachiko: A Dog’s Story. I was definitely warned that it’s a sure-fire tear-jerker. It is a story about a friendship about one man and his dog. One cold night, fate brought man and puppy together and set them on a journey of love, friendship and unconditional loyalty. It’s a true story about a dog who’s unwavering loyalty for his human carried him on day after day, season after season, to wait at the train station where fate brought them together,  for 9 years since his human died. He was there, never missing a day, still awaiting the return of his dear friend.

My words wont do justice to Hachi’s love and loyalty, please watch the film and see how one dog is capable of such devotion. No other creature is deserving of the term – man’s best friend, but a dog. As a little boy once said when asked what love is: its a puppy wagging its tail excitedly, eager to see you, even if you left it alone all day. Hachiko: A Dog story perfectly encapsulates the deep bond a man and a dog can have.

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This morning I made myself a cup of coffee while my boys are still asleep. I’m a morning person and so at night, the usual scene for us is that minutes after hitting the sack, no matter what the father and son are up to, I never fail to doze off. They in turn are late sleeper. It works for me since I get to have some me time in the morning, aside from preparing their breakfast and the little boy’s vitamins and all.

Earlier while having my coffee, I realized how much little interaction I have with my friends now. I miss hanging out with my friends till the wee hours of the morning. I miss having girl talk, how we sometimes get so involved in our discussion be it something as mundane as our quest for the most effective fat burner product or the something as serious as matters of the heart.

Oh well, hope I could touch base with some of my friends in the coming days.

Just received an invitation in the mail today from Florida for my newest godson’s christening celebration on Feb 20. I wish I could fly to Florida for the said occasion but there’s just too many things to consider to make that happen. Like visa application, which is tedious, and of course the airfare and all that. So I guess I’ll just wait for his first birthday on December when they will come back here in PH to celebrate it here.

In the meantime, I’m going over some good websites to get an idea on some personalized baby gifts that would be good to give my godson.

A few months back, my marriage took a terminal down-hill path. It was messy, heart-wrenching and absolutely traumatic. Right now, I still find myself hurting whenever I am reminded of the chain of events that lead to what happened. Even after my husband came back home after leaving us for almost two months, when I saw those damn pictures of that girl - her pictures in my husband’s phone with them side by side in something that looked like this…

it’s as if my heart is being stabbed. It is too painful that it translates to a physical pain.

I am a very possessive and jealous person. On the otherhand, let me identify and justify the reasons for my seemingly blown out proportion jealousy and anger towards this girl:

1. She is married with one child, who as of this writing is not even one year old.  With her being married, you’d think that she is sensible enough to think about how her “close” male friend’s wife’s possible reactions with her text messages. I’m not paranoid, but these are just some of the examples of her text messages:   (a.) “Kumain ka na?” (Did you already eat?) (b.) “Bahay ka na ba?” (Are you already at home?) – I mean why the need for a status report? Are you his wife? (c.) text messages that doesn’t seem to be of life and death importance (translation: absolutely trivial and to some extent flirty or trying to be cute) sent during the wee hours of the morning or late in the evening. Read more…

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

I couldn’t agree more!

This video broke my dam of reticence this morning. Watch it and I’m pretty sure you wont be able to hold your tears as well.

Back in the early to mid 90′s, the “in” thing in terms of communication gadgets are pagers. But then again, prior to the time it became affordable to ordinary people, the said service is mostly used only by doctors due to the urgency of their jobs. Then, of course, more and more people decided they want to have one as well and so more companies started to offer the service, as such, the rates became more affordable enabling more common people to take advantage of it as well.

In the late 90′s to the early 2000′s the pager became completely forgotten with the advent of text messaging. Text messaging became a massive thing that it completely obliterated the pagers. For one, you no longer have to relay your message to an operator, thereby, taking away any censorship or inhibitions (of course depending on your comfort level with the person you are sending a text message to.). Although, in some cases it may be a good effect, but then again there are still disadvantages. Ergo, as we go through the disadvantages of text messaging, let us also go through some points I’d call Text Messaging Ethics. Read more…

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The word became pretty popular in Facebook since the option became available to technically “unfriend” or remove someone from your friends list in the said social networking site. The act of cutting ties and burning bridges with someone who used to be dear to us (whether in a platonic or a romantic way), is nothing new. It happens all the time, as people say.

In my younger, immature days, I would opt to unfriend somebody, even if the reason is somewhat petty. Fortunately, God made a way to bring these people back into my life. We’ve all grown up and reconnected and decided to renew our ties. Now that I am older and my years have somehow made me wise, I have decided to unfriend someone in order to follow an advice from a song I like way back in college – Sunscreen. Well, it really is not a song if you listen to it, it’s just a narration of a man’s simple pieces of advice with a background music playing along as he gives out his insight on various things. Anyway, one of the things he mentioned is to – “stop putting up with people who are reckless with your heart”. Read more…