Strange Friends

Such a sad realization...

Knowing that we're good friends...

But I can't even say hi

On your day.

JEWEL

It's four in the afternoon

I'm on a flight leaving L.A.

Trying to think about my life

My youth scattered along the highway

Hotel rooms and headlines

I've made a living with a song

Just a guitar as my companion

Wanting desperately to belong

Fame is filled with spoiled children

They grow fat on fantasy

I guess that's why I'm leaving

I crave reality

So goodbye Alice in Wonderland

Goodbye yellow brick road

There is a difference between dreaming and pretending

I did not find paradise

It was only a reflection of my lonely mind searching

For what was missing in my life

I'm embarrassed to say the rest is a rock and roll cliche

I hit the bottom when I reached the top

I never knew it was you who was breaking my heart

I thought you had to love me

You did not

Yes a heart can hallucinate

If it's completely starved for love

Can even make monsters seem like

Angels from above

You forged my love like a weapon

And turned it against me like a knife

You broke my last heart-string

But you opened up my eyes

So goodbye Alice in Wonderland

Goodbye yellow brick road

There is a difference between dreaming and pretending

That was not love in your eyes

It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting

What was missing in my life

Dreaming is a good thing cause it brings new things to life

Pretending is an ending that perpetuates a lie

Forgetting what you are

Seeing for what you've been told

And growing up is not the absence of dreaming

It's being able to understand the difference between the ones you can hold

And the ones that you've been sold

Well, truth is stranger than fiction

And this is my chance to get it right

Life is much better without all of your pretty lies

So Goodbye Alice in Wonderland

You can keep your yellow brick road

Cause there is a difference between dreaming and pretending

That was not love in your eyes

It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting

It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wishing

That you were what was missing from my life...

🎶🎶 Oh and I've got all that I need

Right here in the passenger seat...🎶

Road To The Masters

            I always believed that life is a continuous learning process that is why, despite of too much pressure in handling two sections in my work, I still pursued to take Master’s Degree in Public Health. I believe that there is still so much to learn from school and I always wanted to become an academe. I wanted to teach. I wanted to teach because I believe that knowledge is useless if not imparted to others. Knowledge is useless if not shared to everyone and applied in our daily lives. And in order to impart more knowledge, I must learn first. I must learn the ways on how to reach out and to understand different people, because teaching is useless if you lack the skills in communication. In teaching, you have to understand your people, you have to speak their language so they can understand you, and thus, you can impart your knowledge, hence, they will learn.

            I remember when I was in college, my psychology professor once asked me – “If you could change the world, where will you stand?”, and I answered – “if I could change the world, I will stand in the minds of the people because I cannot change the world alone, I have to convince a lot of people, I have to educate  them, I have to win their trust for them to believe in me, and only then the world will be changed.” After all these years, I still hold on with my answer that in order to make a difference we must impart our knowledge, and little by little, people will learn.

            So, this is just another step towards my goal in teaching. I must learn first, and learn more, so I could impart more. And hopefully one day, someday, finally, I will be able to stand in front of my students, teaching what the Institute of Community and Family Health, Inc. imparted to me.

The fourth coffee for today...

While doing my lecture for work and my research for my class... All at the same time.

When cramming is Life 😭

Something to Lennon

IMAGINE the world if you were not born.

Sound without music.

Words but not lyrics.

Rhymes short for poems.