hey there walking on water blogger version. it's been a long time.

so i guess i am a blogger. and a blog hopper too. because i follow people's blogs and because i hop from one blog site to another. i cannot contain myself. haha. anyway. i think i am coming back here for a while. it's starting to become crowded on tumblr and i am becoming my old i-just-want-to-write-but-i-don't-want-it-read self again.

a lot has changed. for one, i am finally finished with my thesis. i will be ranting about the board exams now. change topic. haha. plus a whole bunch of other stuff. but after i review. nuks :))

The love we are most familiar with is the love that grows out of admiration. Something is loved because of its beauty or value be it in the outside or the inside. But as john ortberg puts it, there is another kind of love that "creates value in what is loved". He nailed it.

timeline

Before there was

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and even

there was

i forgot how old i was when i watched this with my mom and sister in the now gone theater in our place. but i would never forget this movie. catching a glimpse of it in cinema one every now and then is a factor. but then that is only a minor one. the guys were cute but considering i was a kid then, i don't think it was them who etched the movie in my mind. yes, it's anne curtis' first movie. however, i was not much of an anne fan during those days so that doesn't count either. i guess it's the story itself, the magic, the heroism and the friendship that captured me. 

Damortis is a faraway kingdom ruled by empress sophia (maricel laxa). then one day, as with most stories, a villain turns out, kills her and takes the kingdom away from her. in this story, that villain is basilicus (mark gil) who is also her brother. cool costume, btw. princess dahlia (anne curtis) together with her ever loyal blind assistant (jomari uy) managed to escape through the help of gaman (sorry. don't know him) who led them to amain (jun urbano) and his students jobert (jason salcedo), samuel (junell hernando) and oman (janus del prado). one night, jobert and company went to serenade some girl (alessandra de rossi) leaving behind dahlia with amain who during that time was still recovering from a fight. the same night, basilicus' forces attacked. luckily, they only managed to take amain. and that was the beginning of their adventure to save amain and damortis. in the end, basilicus died, damortis was saved, dahlia became empress, gabriel (william martinez) became her general, and the three kids went back to talisay with their amain. happy ending :)

"bagay sayo ang pula. matapang ka kasi."

"isang dakot na apoy."

"kapag nasalo mo, sayo na."

 i wish they would make more movies like this. may substance. hindi yung puro special effects, kilig factor and patawa nalang. haaaaaaaay.

can't help but search my childhood fandom. and here is what i found.

from being the innocent and sweet princess dahlia, anne curtis is now the other woman.

    
like anne, janus del prado is still in the business. in my opinion, playing the same role- the sarcastic but funny character. 

 

now for the surprise.

junell hernando with family. he's in the us now. well. obviously.

jason salcedo is also in the us. heard he finished architectural drafting. no, not heard. i checked his fb account. hehe.

jomari uy is also now married and has a child. he finished architecture in pup. my gehd, so near!

 it was a shock seeing them as they are now. maybe because in my mind they were always those kids. of course i knew. but still i was not prepared when i saw how much they grew and how far they've moved on. time does fly. 

oh well. need to move on with my own life.

random attack

things you get to read in yahoo.
-somebody from somewhere i forgot named their twins fish and chips. cute, yes. but the names were banned.
-the same telenovela plots.it's just funny when somebody points them out.
Now every show is looking for a lost child.  There was a time that almost every other telenovela had one character suffering from amnesia...And just when you thought that this whole epidemic of amnesia would come to an end, the distraught executive was confronted by another mind-boggling dilemma.  As she finished monitoring all the shows, she screamed, "Bakit lahat ng shows … may kinidnap???"
haha. 
i wish i could write about more sensible things. oh well. they made me laugh.
 

this is walking on water

you can plan your life as much as you want. But there will be times that another path you were not expecting will open up, and you have to make a decision whether to take it or not. Sometimes, you'll do great, sometimes you will fail, but that is a part of it all. My life did not go as i planned it, but with hard work and a positive attitude, I ended up where I am now. And I'd like to think I didn't do so bad.
--bianca gonzales

life, after all, is fair. it hands everyone a battle to face. you can do what you want with it- complain, act like you don't care, give up or fight. for a long time, i chose to hide in a corner, pity myself and ask and wait for things i don't like to go away. only recently (like a few minutes ago) did it hit me. it was me who was being unfair. yes, i am beautiful, but still, life cannot excempt me. it will hand down what it needs to hand down. people around me are fighting. my parents, my sister, my leader, my pastors, my co-12s, my disciples- everyone is fighting to pass the test. everybody experiences failure, pain, frustrations, and confusion. most have it worse than i do. but they continued. i stayed under a pomegranate tree, wasted precious time. amazingly, my rants overpower theirs.

...

time to shut up, stand up and fight alongside them. time to rise up to the challenge and deliver. 

 

goodbye steve

Steve Jobs Resigns As CEO Of Apple

Title says it all. More to come. For now, the letter from Steve Jobs himself:

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Steve

Update: Apple has confirmed that Apple COO Tim Cook will replace Jobs as CEO, following Jobs’ own recommendation. Considering that Cook has filled in for Jobs in the times of his medical leaves (including the one he has been on this year), this has been widely expected if and when it came time for Jobs to step down.
Also as requested, Jobs has been elected as Chairman of the Board and will remain with the company in that capacity. Cook will join the Board as well.

article taken from techcrunch.com

who would even think of resigning when you're seemingly at the peak of your career? this dude just released the iPad. few months later, he resigns. try to figure out how his brain cells work. but crazy as it may seem, i believe he made the right decision. he's steve jobs after all. to me though, he's not apple's big man. he's someone who delivered this simple speech that inspired me big time.

 "you can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something. gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

"sometimes life's gonna hit you in the head with a brick. don't lose faith."

"i am convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that i loved what i did. you've got to find what you love. and that is as true for work, as it is for your lovers."

"as with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

"remembering that i'll be dead soon is the most important tool i've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

tama ng melan!

果敢なき夢を撃て　孤独よ自爆せよ

Fire off your fleeting dreams

SELF DESTRUCT THE LONELINESS.

--Zero, AAA