Nick of Time Again

Finally! It's done...
It took them so long that they even beat FOREVER.
😣😤😭

I have to blog it because there is no one I can rant and whine with it.

Bear with me blogger! 😓

Lifer

While most girls say "Kilay (eyebrows) is life"...
Ohhh! I say COFFEE is LIFER!

Nothing is Coincidence?

While reading my new book and reaching this page... I realized that the song playing on my playlist is "Cool Change" by: Little River Band.
It caught my attention because as I read those words... COLD. CHANGE... It simultaneously sang with me.
Weird because the book also tells about how NOTHING is coincidence. 😬

Now it give me creeps. 🤔

Let It Be

All of a sudden it's becoming clear.
If it's your destiny... Let it be.
If it's meant for you... You will have it...
If you accept it and take whatever it takes to have it.

Captures and Captions

Captioning my photos be like...

"🎶🎵...kiss me under the light of a thousand stars...🎶🎵"
- (Thinking Out Loud - ED SHEERAN)



"🎶What day is it? And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive🎵"
- (You and Me - LIFEHOUSE)



"🎶 That God blessed the broken road that led me straight you...🎵🎶"
- (Bless the Broken Road - RASCAL FLATTS)


"🎶 Here comes the sun doo doot doo doo...🎵"
- (Here Comes the Sun - THE BEATLES)



"🎶 when my love for you is blind, but I couldn't make you see it... I couldn't make you see it 🎵"
- (Blind - LIFEHOUSE)



"🎶🎵 And if all the world was perfect
I would only ever want to see your scars
You know they can have their universe
We'll be in the dirt designing stars. 🎶🎵"
- (So Beautiful - DARREN HAYES / SAVAGE GARDEN)



"🎶 You say good-bye
Every day and night
With writing on the walls
Everybody's gonna need somebody
To take our troubles, and our worries, and our problems all away...🎶"
- (Hey Now - AUGUSTANA)



"🎶 'Cause there'll always be, an empty room waiting for you
An open heart waiting for you, time is on my side 🎶"
- (It Don't Matter to Me - BREAD)


"🎶I would fly you to the moon and back
If you'll be, if you'll be my baby...🎵🎶"
- (To the Moon and Back - SAVAGE GARDEN)



"🎶 Yeah you'll lose the side of your circles
That's what i'll do if we say goodbye 🎵🎵"
- (The Day You Said Goodnight - HALE)



"🎶 I think I need a sunrise
I'm tired of the sunsets 🎵"
- (Boston - AUGUSTANA)



"🎶You don't know me, and you don't wear my chains...Oh yeah 🎵"
- (Boston - AUGUSTANA)



"🎶🎵It's just that everywhere I go all the buildings know your name
Like photographs and memories of love🎶"
- (The Lover After Me - SAVAGE GARDEN)



"🎶 I remember laughing on that river's edge
Trying to get you to jump with me
Trying to get you to fall for me
And your trembling heart it beat so fast
Holdings hands you promised me
Holding hands we counted to three🎵"
- (Dublin Sky - DARREN HAYES / SAVAGE GARDEN)

Hide and Seek

(Since I can't moved on by the wits of that 9-year old boy who thought that I'm a vampire, I ended up writing this...)

Tama na itong pag-lalaro natin ng tagu-taguhan
Ng ating mga nararamdaman
Hindi naman kabilugan ang buwan
At lalong hindi na tayo kabataan.

Itigil na natin itong pag-lalaro ng tagu-taguhan
Bakit hindi na lang tayo mag-aminan
Hindi tayo naka-P.E. uniform para mag-takbuhan
Hinihingal na din akong makipag-habulan.

Tagu-taguhan kahit halata naman
Kaya tama na itong deadmahan
Hindi naman natin ito ikakayaman
Kaya eto na, aaminin ko na, mahal kita... Pexman! 😬
🤣🤣🤣
Inspired by: John, Sam and Ed - the characters of "The Boy Who Believed".

...been waiting the whole day to capture this moment, all for the love of sunsets.

The Boy Who Believed

When a cute, 9-year old boy plays with you and shares to you his funny little secrets... Then all of a sudden he asks you - "so how old are you 13? 14?"

My freakin reaction was - "oh my! You gotta be kidding me! I am way up to 30's!"

EPILOUGE:
This boy now believes that I am a vampire because he said I look like 14 but I'm actually older than his mom.

And I can't imagine how his mind works. 😬🤣

P.s.
Hanging out with a kid could really make your shitty day better because conversations with them are funny, innocent and no judgements at all.
For a couple of hours I spent with this kid in the lab, we talked about werewolves and vampires, books and shoes, his crushes and friends... And he doesn't have the slightest idea that I am not a VAMPIRE. 🤣🤗👶🤭

No better way to spend the remaining time of your day but with ART.

For the love of sunsets... And shooting stars.

Bless the Broken Road

***
Why wait for someone to sing a love song for you if you could sing it for your self?...

I am much stronger because I have loved myself deeper.
I'm a warrior because I've known and accepted myself long before I was hurt.
I am much better because I learn from my mistakes.
And I'm much BRAVER to trudge that broken road now because I have FAITH.

(Bless the Broken Road - Rascal Flatts)

I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through

I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you
That every long lost dream lead me to where you are
Others who broke my heart, they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms

This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
Yes it did

I think about the years I spent just passing through
I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
But you just smile and take my hand
You've been there you understand
It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true

Every long lost dream led me to where you are
And others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know it's true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
Yeah

And now I'm just rolling home
Into my lover's arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

I Loved You Since 2014

The day after Valentine's
I started to think about the things
Things that I hate since
I met you on that scene.

But until now I can't think of any
Like your jaw and your eyes so beautiful to me
Your humor is my perfect comedy
Your voice is a soothing remedy.

The day after Valentine's
I got blinded by your charms
And your smile is a good sign
Thinking if I can call you mine

And I still remember everything
How your eyes glowed like beam
Trying to find your flaw and still looking
But all I can see is a perfect being.

Was it your heart I'm hearing
Or is it my heart fast beating.
The day after Valentine's it finally sinked in
That I loved you since 2014.

I always thought we will gonna make it through,
But I wanted to hear it first from you. - Dublin Sky

Weekend Life

Sometimes we have to get our hands dirty to make something beautiful.

Weekend sessions

The Perks of an Overthinker

Conversation with my 6-year old daughter after having her vaccination.

Her: Mommy why does it hurt? (the vaccination)

Me: It hurts because what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. When you got hurt, you get stronger after the pain. So when you had your vaccine, it hurts, but then, you will become stronger.

Her: Mommy you should say - it hurts because of the needle and that's it!

Me: yeah, I haven't thought about that... BECAUSE OF THE NEEDLE.

...the perks of an overthinker.

Just a thought over my morning coffee...

If you like strong coffee, just be sure you're stronger than your brew.

We tend to have this image of confidence to disguise the inner chaos we have. But what is important is that we are much stronger than what life has to offer.

Trying to change the world while hoping it won't change me. 😣

Coffee Please!

A hard week and another hard day...

Playing in my mind like a track that keeps me going...
"You don't wear my chains" - Boston (Augustana)

Just Because

I can see it coming
Like red flags on butterflies' wings
Clear are the writings on the wall
Right off the bat like a cannon ball.
Lines and curves losing sides
Leaving it all behind
For what is the difference between honesty and lies
The gray in between is where the truth is disguised.
And I could be a fool for 3 minutes
A little kindness could hurt your pride but it won't make you sick
I'll pretend not to know your schemes
Smile in your deepest realm.
And I'm looking for an inspiration arbitrarily
Faces and places, moments and coffee
No, I don't miss you but I remember you so I paused
For things I try my best to linger just because.

Life is a Cup of Macchiato

When your kid wants to eat at Mc Donald's but you're craving for macchiato...
We compromise.

Compromise is not an act of cowardice...

For in wisdom we learn that we could win even without a war.

For the love of Eli and Coffee

Writings on the Wall

I tried reading in between the lines
But I can't see any clue.
Or was I reading too hard?
That my eyes got tired of looking for you.
So I fast forward then rewind,
Maybe I can find something behind.
But all I can see is a blind faith
Guiding me to my own fate.
I was asking for assurance,
Something to hold on to.
To give me the courage
To cross that line I drew.
But bridges burn.
And while the ember is losing that tiniest spark...
There you go igniting it again,
Yellow, red, orange in the dark.
And where can I ran to
If all the bridges lead to you.
I swear I had known love before
But I wonder why all those places felt like a rented home.
Now I know what happened all along
Because there in your heart is where I belong.
So again I asked for something to hold on.
But then He said - No, you just have to believe in me alone.

Evening Phase

A cliche says "Being alone is different from being lonely"...
While most people say they'd rather be alone than be with someone but still feels empty...
I say... I'd rather be alone with MACCHIATO.
We can find happiness anywhere...
Sometimes, its just in a cup.

Morning Phase III

Everybody needs an inspiration to fill in our empty lives.
While everyone says they want to have one...
I say, I want... YOU!
Naaahhhh! I got you on three!
You really thought I'm gonna say COFFEE - right!
Well I could be cheesy too...
And I bet you're tasting that saltiness in your cup of tea right now, though.

Watchers

Dear Time,
How could you endure yourself?
Don't you get bored proving yourself over and over?
What kind of self-fulfillment do you get when you lose one's patience?
How do you manage to overcome destiny?
How could you hurt love?
How could you heal the wound but not the pain?
How could you erase yourself but not the memories?
How could you be so fast yet so slow and so eternal?
And Time, could you tell me when?

Because it's hard to endure.
We get bored.
Soon we'll lose our patience.
We might give up our destiny.
We love and got hurt.
The wounds are closed but from time to time we still feel the pain.
We still remember and it hurts.
We forget and we hurt.
Fast or slow we're always catching up on you.
Until we can no longer catch up.
So I wish you could impart wisdom on how you do it.

Morning Phase II

Everybody needs a friend.
While most say that A dog is man's bestfriend...
Mine is COFFEE.

The Girl in the Middle

I've always believed that love is just an illusion... invented to help us get through our shitty days.
And after that, it will fly away and again, the cycle continues.
I don't believe in forevers as much as I don't believe in centaurs.
Love takes us so high so that we could fall...
For how can you fall if you ain't been up?

Oh! the art of falling!

So I learned it too good that whenever I fall... I NEVER crash...
I just land... Safe.

But you made me believe in promises even though you never even made one.
You only made me buffalo wings once and it made me fly.
You made me want to believe.
And now I want to believe that everything is true...
Even though I still have doubts...
Lots if it.
You didn't promise to stay...
But you never walked out of my life.
And I always thought that my empty chair will forever be unoccupied...
Until you came and sat beside me.
I didn't ask you to stay,
And yet, you never left me.

Call it cliche,
Call it too romantic blue...
But I feel the stars lined up for me and you.

I could paint you a thousand picture.
I could write you a thousand words.
I could give you a thousand prose to read everyday.
But how will you know that I love you?
Cause you know most of my secrets but this one for sure is new.

You are my palette in every art.
You are the sound on the tip of my fingers when I play my guitar.
You are the lense when I capture a picture.
You are the name behind my every song.

Could you be my reason to finally believe in all the unreasonable clause?
Could you make me belong finally?
Could you make me cross that line I drew a long time ago?
Could you help me finally take the risk?

To take your hand and hold it.
To touch your lips and kiss it.
To build our dreams and live it.
To look into your eyes and die in it.

Cause I'm tired of being the girl in the middle.
Being the center of attention but my eyes are set only to you.

And I hope you brought my bible with you always.
Cause I slipped my heart in one of its pages and I hope you noticed.

Morning Phase

There are some things in life we just can't live without...
While most say its Love...
I answered COFFEE.

Lost in Autumn

It seems like she's stuck here forever
One fine day, 17th of October
And she's not sure which memory to remember
Your face, your kiss, your name
Lost in Autumn weather.