Imagine the world without a cellphone?

Paano kaya kung hindi naimbento ang computers? Edi walang cellphone? Kaya mo pa bang mabuhay ngayon ng walang cellphone

Noon

Walang cellphone, kapag nag-uusap ang mga tao, focus lang sa kausap walang distractions

Ngayon,

May kausap ka na personal, may kausap kapa sa text, dagdag mo pa ang ka-chat sa internet. Walang focus at nakakabastos

Noon,

Kung anong napag-usapang oras, ‘yon na ‘yon, wala ng bawian

Ngayon,

Napag-usapan na ang oras, nababagago pa, walang konsepto ng “man of honor’

Noon,

Kapag naghihintay ng sasakyan, nakikipag-usap kahit hindi kilala. Pampalipas oras, nagkaroon ka ng kaibigan

Ngayon,

Dedma, naglalaro sa cellphone.

Noon,

Sa bahay nangliligaw, nanghaharana pa.

Ngayon,

Sa text nalang ang panliligaw at wag ka, hindi pa nga nagkikita, aba mag jowa na.

Noon,

Praktisadong practisado ang pakikipagkapwa tao

Ngayon,

Praktisadong praktisado ang pagfofollow sa taong hindi kakilala, nakikipag eyeball pa, e namoduss, tsugi ka.

Ano pa ba?

J

MIRROR

What do you see as you look at the mirror?

A pretty face or a pretty soul?

We are too conscious about how we look to others, but we are not concern about our attitudes towards other people.

The moment you wake up, straight from the bed you’ll go to the mirror and you’ll see how you look. And will whisper “napaka ganda ko talaga”. Holding your camera, you’ll make a selfie shot and directly post it to facebook with a caption “just woke up, good morning”

Well, as I observe to most of the young people nowadays, they are more concern of how they’ll bring themselves physically, leaving a good attitude behind.

Yesterday, I saw this young pretty lady, walking on a pavement, suddenly an old lady approached her and held her on her arm, and then I heard “nanay, yung damit ko, ano ba, wala akong pera.”

Attitude.

Youths today were not wearing their values anymore. They wear make-ups instead, nice clothes, high shoes, and an ego.

You, what do you wear? J

TEARS (random thoughts)

How important tears are?

Tears are the blood of our soul.

It comes out whenever we are emotionally damage or distracted.

It falls exclusively for worthy people, it falls for things which we value.

People who often cry, are the people with wounded souls.

People who seldon cry are the ones challenged by circumstances.

People who never cried are impossible.

Life give us tears to ease the pains were keeping inside,

It has its majestic power which heals that nobody can understand.

It knows when to fall, and for whom it will fall.

Tears are like diamonds, once it shown it means so much.

J

ALONE

It is good to have time alone, especially before the day ends.

I call it, self-assessment.

I try to meditate the things I have done, decisions I made, and the connections I did to somebody.

It makes me feel better when I am productive and have lot of things done. Im glad when I did good connections. And whenever I have a not-that-good day. I’ll make “bawi” for the next day.

Doing this “self-assessment” helps me know myself more. How I make decisions, how I connect to people, how I make decisions.

I also make this time private. Me talking to God. Telling Him my stories, Lifting up my circumstances and struggles to Him, asking Him Questions, Praising Him.

Well, what do I want to say?

Have your time alone as well. it will bring you peace, and will give you time to enjoy yourself.

Be a loner, even for an hour. J

Turning back time

 

If I will be given a chance to turn back time. I will choose to turn it in during my high school years.

I wasn’t enjoy my high school days. I was a prisoner.

SCHOOL-HOME that was my life. I haven’t experience going out at night, with my friends. Playing late, pranking others. I was a boredom during those moments.

 Well the first factor why im a school-house boy is my Librarian mother in our school.

Hmmm.

I can vividly remember, how she scolded me whenever i go out at night without telling her, and then she will picked me up once she knew I was not at home.

I could say

I was forced to be a good boy.

If only I had experience those moments I will still be a good boy I guess, or I don’t know, nobody could tell.

Well how about you, if you will be given a chance to turn back time, will you turn it? J

How do I make people happy?

Simply, by just putting a smile on my face and let the smile reach everybody.

Smile is powerful, it helps you to connect to people you don’t know. It may lead to friendship, or partnership, or any relationships.

Smile is not expensive, I give it for free.

In fact,It attracts positivity, so if I were you, all the time I will smile.

J

Messing things up

Have you ever felt that your plans are messed up?

You felt like your world fell into pieces.

That your plan is not taking in a good place. That everything seem so unpredictable, and you can’t handle it anymore.

You know what?

It is because, you are not the one in control of your life. It is Him who lend you your life. It is Him who is mighty and could change everything in a sudden.

Whatever your plans are, if it’s not for you. It’s not for you.

 I am not saying that “don’t make plans” or waste your time in planning” what I am saying here is that,

Make your plans, but let  Your Lord know your plans, lift it up to Him, believe in what He can do and trust Him with all you heart and with all your soul.

According to Him,

To human belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of tongue (Proverbs 16;1)

Commit to the Lord whatever you do and you will succeed.

God has greater plans for us, but on the other hand, expect that it is harder to achieve than what we have in minds. So when time gets rough look up and tell Him, “Your will be done”, “I surrender all my plans to You” “I have faith in You and “so something good is about to happen soon”.

GODBLESS US PEOPLE J

Amazing things

Think of the things you have, and things you didn’t have.

Then after that,

Think of the children you see on street begging for food. Think of what they have, and what they don’t , which you have.

These little things that we have, we didn’t find amazing, right? But to those who are less fortunate, they see those things so amazing.

But you know what, what really amuse me is how this kids survive every single day. Because as I can imagine them sleeping on a cold night, gets wet when rain pours, and wiped-up when flood rises, amazing grace covers them.

Let us learn to appreciate little things. J

Pointed or Pointless?

 How do you live your life?

BORING?

Everytime you wake up, you always complain “hay umaga na naman, ordinary day”

BUNKRUPT?

You don’t have anything, even peaceful mind and wisdom.

BITTER?

In Everthing you does you see no good.

Or you’re living your life this way:

BALANCED

Everything is under control, everything is at place.

BEAUTY

Everything you does you find ways to see beauty on it.

BLESSED

What you do you make sure you always bless somebody.

Life is simple, people just complicate things up.

In fact we could be living a pointed life whereas there’s BALANCE, BEAUTY, and BLESSINGS. And leave a pointless life, BORING, BUNKRUPT, BITTERNESS behind.

We are the ones who are making our life, we have freedom to do anything we want to. We are the one who decides what road we will run, or what journey we will explore.

There are times we’ll be in our hard days, but we could lift up all our burden to our strong God. He’s always there for us. Keeping His eyes on us, waiting us to call unto His name, and catch all His blessing towards us.

God loves us, all He wanted for us to do is love Him back, and recognize Him us our Father.

Godbless J

SORRY PO,

“Sorry”.

Bakit ba ang hirap sabihin ng isang maiksing salitang ito na mayroong 5 letra?

May iba na nagsosorry ng labas sa ilong nila, may iba naman na nagsosorry nga pero laging may kasunod na, “e kasi ikaw e,” “e kasi ganito e”, E kasi ganyan e” palaging laging mayroong sinisisi.

Hindi madali para sa karamihan na sabihing “sorry, it’s my fault ” “sorry, mali ako”, “sorry, kasalanan ko, hindi ko dapat ginawa yun.” “Sorry”

Nagsosorry sila (kunwari di ako kasali) para matapos lang yung issue.

Nagsosorry sila kahit hindi naman nila nararamdaman.

 O Sadya lang sigurong may mga taong ganun. Insensitiv kung baga. Hindi nila nararamdaman na nakakasakit na sila kaya bakit sila magsosorry? Kung mag sosorry man sila yun ay dahil tawag lang ng pangangailangan. Matapos lang ang alitan.

 May mga tao namang sobrang sensitive kaunting kibot, masasaktan, kaunting tukso magmumokmok.

Pero bakit nga ba may salitang sorry?

Sabi nga sa isang teleseryeng aking napanuod, para saan pa raw ang pulis kung pwede namang humingi ng sorry sa bawat kasalanan.

POINT?

Ang sorry para lang sa mga taong nanakit ng hiindi nila sinasadya,

Halimbawa, naapakan ko ang paa mo, yan pwede magsorry.

Halimbawa, nakalimutan kong gawin ang pinapagawa ng nanay ko, yan pwede akong mag sorry.

Halimbawa, nasira ko ang cellphone mo, pwede akong mag sorry.

Ito naman ang mga hindi katanggap tanggap na hingan ng sorry.

Halimbawa, sinaktan mo ako dahil nagsinungaling ka sa akin. (ang kapal ng mukha mo ha**p ka)

Halimbawa, nahuli kitang nakikipaghalikan habang syota mo ako (ay talagang napaka-kapal ng mukha mo at talagang ha**p ka talaga)

At,

Haimbawa, ninakaw mo ang lollipop kong nasa bulsa ko lang (ay sobra talagang napaka- kapal ng mukha mo, at sobra talagang talagang napaka ha**p mo naman)

Ang sorry karapat dapat lang yan kung ang kasalanan ay hindi sinadyang gawin, samantala ang hindi karapat dapat na hingan ng sorry ay yung mga bagay na pwede namang pigilang gawin pero ginawa parin kahit na alam naman niyang makakasakit sya.

Kaya’t…

Wag masyadong kapalan ang mukha para humingi ng sorry kung ang ginawa mong kasalanan ay intentional mong ginawa. Wag ganun tol.

J

FAILURE

I have failed. Everyone does.

For me failure makes us stronger and fiercer.

When we fall, our instinct is to get up and keep on walking. Whenever we get wounded, our instinct is to clean the wound and put med on it.

Failures help us grow, it helps us understand life. And most of all, It helps us closer to God.

I could imagine how we cry whenever this earth is challenging us, I can imagine how catholics kneeled, bow down and pray during crisis.

Yes.

That is why God let us fails, because He wanted us to communicate with Him. He waned us to talk to him and he wanted us to have a personal relation to have.

That is what failures for.

DREAM,

What is your dream?

Mostly we are dreaming about mansion house, millions of money, expensive cars, and trips abroad.

Dream!

 That’s what our parents taught us, right? To dream big and aim always for the best.

Dream!

That’s what we do when we get bored, and before going to sleep

Dream! Oh, How we wish to live in our dreams.

Dreaming is good but dreaming most of the times is bad. With that we forget that we are living in this real world, that we indeed chose to live in dreams than to face the things that we have here on earth.

Whenever we get afraid we run away we hide and go through the fancy world, a world where nothing bothers us, where everything is always under our control, where everything is alright.

Hey,

There’s nothing wrong about dreaming, but if you want to live in your dreams, you have to wake up, and do something to reach that dream. J

PAPER

Im staring at this blank paper in front of me wondering what to write on it.

5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1 and a half hour, till I decided to write about this piece of paper before me.

What about a Paper.

When I was a thudler I love having a pad of paper and I will consume it in drawing different lines and forms. When I was in grade school I started using my paper to write my name on and my teachers name as well, I also learned to use it as “bangkang papel” and let it flow in the stuck water outside our classroom, an “airplane” and let it fly towards my playmates.

When I reached my highschool, I started to use my paper as a medium to connect with my crush, I remember how I took time just to make the paper more pleasing so that my puppy love would appreciate it. I learned to make an origami as well and displayed it.

Now,

I found my bestfriend in paper. Where I wrote my experiences, my joyous moments, my adventures, my failures, disappointments, frustrations, dreams and nightmares. It helps me to ease the pain I am keeping inside. It makes me feel relax everytime I am in tension.

Well, Paper is like US will you believe?

We started as blank papers of this universe, what we get from the world is what we are writing in this life.

Sometimes we get folds, sometimes we get scratches, sometimes we get mistakes.

But after a long run, with these folds and scratches, we’ll be a good paper formed as a beautiful Origami. J

ABRUPT CHANGE

Naranasan mo na bang gumising ng maaga, na ang gaan-gaan ng pakiramdam mo? Hindi dahil nakaamoy ka ng white flower o kaya nakapaglagay ka ng vicks sa ilalim ng ilong mo. Yung pakiramdam na ang peaceful at refreshing hindi dahil nakakarinig ka ng mga kuliglig, at nakakaamoy ka ng car freshener. Pero ang malupit, yung kukuha ka agad ng libro, tapos babasahin mo agad, hindi dahil may exam ka mamaya o oral recitation ka. Yung pakiramdam na dahil maaga kang nagising, gagawa ka ng breakfast hindi dahil gutom ka at hindi ka nakakain kagabi kaya gusto mo na agad kumain. Maliligo ka habang kumakanta at itataas mo pa ang mga kamay mo na parang nagkokonsyerto sa araneta, at may pag pikit pikit pa ng mga mata. Sasabunin mo ang buong mong katawan na tila ba ayaw mong may matirang dumi sa katawan mo kahit isa, yung tipong pati taling mo dahil kulay itim, gusto mo ring alisin. Yung maglilinis ka ng buong bahay habang mahimbing pang natutulog ang mga kasama mo at nakikita mong tulo laway pa sila. Yung magkakape ka tapos maiispan mong maglaba, hindi dahil gusto mong isuot ang paborito mong damit na nasa labahan pa o dahil wala ka na talagang maisuot.

Yung pakiramdam na masaya ka.

Masaya kang gumigising.

Masaya kang nagluluto. 

Masaya kang naglilinis ng bahay.

Masaya kang naglalaba. 

At higit sa lahat, 

Masaya kang napapagod para sa iba. 

Hindi mo alam kung bakit.

 

Parang kaplastikan sa pandinig mo, pero masarap sa pakiramdam pakingan ang sarili ko. 

Tulad mo, tulad ng iba na katulad niya, katulad nila, at katulad pa ng marami pang iba, ako ay naging katulad na katulad niyo rin. 

*late tayo gumising. Nag-alarm ka na, I a-udjust mo pa.

*ayaw nating iniestorbo ang tulog natin.

*gusto lang nating kumain, paggising natin.

*ayaw nating maghugas ng pinggan, Badtrip kaya yun. Mamaya nalang

*nakakainis magbasa pagkagising na pagkagising mo palang,magkakape muna tayo, o milk (para sa mga katulad nating mayayaman)

*ayaw nating maglaba. Maglalaba lang tayo kapag wala ng maisuot. O kaya si mama nalang maglalaba.

*at higit sa lahat, mahilig tayong mag reklamo. ANO BA YAN! 

Pupusta ako, (hahaha, magsusugal pa) basta, ito ang masasabi ko.

Walang araw na hindi ka nagreklamo sa buhay mo. 

Pagising palang, “ano ba yan, natutulog pa ang tao e” 5 minutes pa.

“itlog na naman ang ulam?”

“ako na naman ang maghuhugas ng pinggan?”

Sa pagligo, “ang lamig naman” grrrrr.

Sa jeep, “traffic na nga, siksikan pa” (insert bad words)!!!” 

Kahit saang lugar, nagrereklamo tayo. Pero naisip ba natin ang mga taong dapat na nagrereklamo?

Ikaw? Reklamo ka? 

Araw-araw gumigising ka sa malambot mong kama, naisip mo ba ang mga taong natutulog sa kalsada? Ikaw, may pinggan ka na pinagkakainan, naisip mo ba ang mga taong walang pagkain, ikaw nakakaligo ka sa malinis na tubig, naisip mo ba ang mga taong gustong-gusto nang maligo at naiirita na sa amoy ng katawan nila? ikaw na nakakasakay sa jeep, at nagrereklamo, naisip mo ba ang mga taong pangarap ang makasakay sa jeep? 

Lahat ng bagay, maganda man o mabuti, hinahanapan natin ng dahilan para ayawan ito. Hindi tayo marunong mag appreciate ng maliliit na bagay na meron tayo. Hindi natin nakikita kung gaano tayo ka swerte dahil tayo, Meron tayong food, may home, basic needs baga. Itong computer, Camera, iphone, tablet, at iba pang mga gadgets, bonus nalang to. 

Kaya ikaw, kung gusto mong maexperience ang abrupt change na naexperience ko, itext mo lang ako. Ipapakilala kita sa Kanya.