a nice forwarded quote and other musings

"Here's a sweet truth : Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else."
(courtesy of Lucy, a day before her phone got stolen. Tsk tsk..)
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Mama treated us at ATC today to celebrate her new credit card (hehe). First she bought us dinner at our fave restaurant - Pancake House. Then she made us choose one item we want --- Papa chose a pair of brown leather shoes at Bass, Anne also chose shoes, some nice pointy black at Cinderella and I so wanted a new blouse/polo but can't seem to find anything I like anywhere. So I already told Ma she can postpone her treat for me when we passed by Powerbooks and even though I know I won't have time to read, I made her buy me three books! Hehehe.. Here are my latest literary purchases:

1. Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes


2. By the River Piedra I sat down and Wept, Paulo Coelho


3. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman, Louise Plummer

I also almost got The Google story but Ma said to reserve it for another time. Oh well. Til the next credit card then, or perhaps til my birthday =)
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This Monday will be the start of another job. I have my day job at FACA and my night job at a Web hosting company. Excited. Nervous. Worried. Happy. Hoping my health won't fail me. I should be able to pull it off for 30 days. Please God let me.
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I have reasons to believe that this year is my best year yet. And I'm thankful everyday.
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Printed in the introductory page of Flowers for Algernon:

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because (he is) unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.
-Plato, The Republic

Read the novel and you'd certainly appreciate this perplex logic more. Plug: You'll find FFA at major bookstores in hot pink paperback with an illustrated mouse (rodent, not the input device)in the cover, P359 only. =) I actually have read FFA already during college as a requirement in a humanities class. Very touching talaga. Promise.
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I always get this question, may boyfriend ka na? and I always answer by shaking my head while stifling a laugh. I don't mind being asked at all, but the follow up one-word question, bakit? is so simple and complicated at the same time that I can only answer, "wala pa e"...or sometimes if I don't feel like answering, I just shrug, though every time I have about a paragraph long reply in my mind.
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I need to upgrade my PC! Grabe ang slow it takes about 2 minutes just to crop a hi-res image. =(
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Hearing the song SIMPLE THINGS makes me happy, even if all the YOU pronouns are yet to be named =) I don't know why but I listen to it in the morning and it wakes me up.

LYRICS (courtesy of Helex, my tech bro)
Hey, Time won't wait,
Life goes by,
Every day's a brand new sky,
Every tear, comes to dry.

All that really matters,
In this crazy world,
Is you and I together,
Baby just remember.

The first leaves off the tree,
The way you look at me,
A thousand chiming church bells ring,
The simple things are free
The sun, the moon, the stars,
The beating of two hearts,
How I love the simple things,
The simple things just are.

So here we go,
Let's just dance,
Teach my soul to take this chance,
Put my heart, in your hands.

Out of all the moments that,
We leave behind,
Turn around and tell me,
Baby we'll remember.

Chorus 2:
The thunder and the rain,
The way you say my name,
After all the clouds go by,
The simple things remain,
The sun, the moon, the stars,
The beating of two hearts,
How I love the way the simple things,
The simple things just are

Chorus 3:
The ocean and the sky,
The way we feel tonight,
I know that it's the love,
That brings the simple things to life,
The sun, the moon, the stars,
The beating of two hearts,
I love the way the simple things,
The simple things just are.

I love the way the simple things,
The simple things just are.
Simple things just are.
Simple things just are.
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My kabarkada, Ai Bituin is coming home from Dubai tonight! And Teng is coming back from Cebu too. Perfect timing for a Block Reunion? I hope so! Miss them so much!