IF ONLY

... A true story of a day less extraordinary! I woke up this morning, feeling lazy to get out of my bed, but I've got some important activities to do today, so I got the Bible, start my morning devotion (the usual routine) and then... I went back to my bed... Huh! Do I really have to spend this whole day working for our thesis?!!! Whew! It sucks! I've been waiting for this day cause I thought its my "free day" as in no-duty and no-work day... But heck with it! So I text a few friends and ask if we're on "IT" today - (the thesis work!), and our captain of the shit - he!he!he! - group leader replied "you've got to accomplish something today" - sort of like that "words". So I hurriedly took my shower, get myself done and leave home. While walking along the street, my mind was a total blank... Suddenly a man almost bumped me... Its a good thing I was attentive enough to switch direction... So, ok! Fine! I'm about to cross along the road when a motorcycle came along from a nowhere direction... And again! It almost bumped me!... So with a lazy morning but obliged to get up and all those damn "almost bumped" ceremony this morning, I told myself " oh well! Its not my day!" I entered the hospital hallway where I'm currently having my internship, with the usual people around, the doctors, the nurses, the PGIs, and patients waiting at the lobby. I went straight to the laboratory with a surprise phone call for me from a co-intern telling me that the whole plan for the day is cancelled. So that means, I woke up this morning, I was too lazy to get myself done but obliged because of the work load "supposed to be done" today, with the two "almost bumped" ceremony on the road, and now... Strike 3!... For the cancelled activity with a late notice! Damn it! Right?!! It was only 9:35 am and I'm fed up with all these damn! Heck of a thing! So I left the laboratory with a bitter feeling about all those damn S**t! That just happened. I got in to a taxi, again, my mind was a total blank... So what happened?... I missed the street I'm supposed to stop for home... So instead of getting out of the taxi with a bitter feeling of missing my supposedly destination, I headover to the mall nearby. I entered the mall without anything on my head... Again!... I'm not hungry, I've got no money to shop, and I was just so damn bamboozled... So I told myself - I'll better go and watch a movie... But what movie?... uhm! The one on cinema 8... Why cinema 8?... I don't know, its just the number! I went into the silverscreen and later did I've come to know that the movie being shown on cinema 8 was "If Only". I haven't seen this movie yet but my big bro already told me how the story goes... But I've got no choice... I told myself - cinema 8! So here goes the real thing... The story is about second chance, second chance to prove your love... Yes, it doesn't matter whether you've got 5 minutes left or 50 years ahead, what really matters is now. There's no such thing as the "right time" cause its all just the same time. What matters is you do the right thing right this time. Don't wait for the right time... It won't come, cause its already here, right now... "One day... Someday... Is here!". The question is why is it that it is so hard for us to show our love to the one we really love?... Agree with me? Why can't we show our affection to the one we really love? ... Because we're afraid of what?!!! Why be afraid to love that person when you already love him/her? Afraid to get hurt?... Will you agree with me if I say that, "Sometimes, the one who hurts us the most is the one who really loves you more that his life?" - ironic? Love is ironic! Sometimes the more you wonder why, the more it seems to get worse, and the more you ask why, the harder it is to accept the truth. Sometimes we're fed up with all the lies in our life, we're searching for truth but the truth is not even quite true... Why can't the lies set us free?.. And why do we keep on holding the truth inside? Errr! I hate this!... I can't stop crying! I've been crying inside the movie house, I was still teary-eyed on my way home, and now I'm bursting again while writing this. Am I too pathetic, emotional, neurotic to the bone?... Huh! You know the feeling of loving someone but you were never given the chance to love him at all? - silly! Right? Who damn cares?... Who damn cares with all these feelings in the world?!!! Ha!Ha!Ha! Look who's trying to put a s**t on it!... Ok! I hold back what I've said... I know we all care about our feelings... And yeah! We give a damn on it! So, who says we can't change our destiny?... Love will show everything... What will you do to change the things in life that must happened but you don't want to happen?... Show your love... And love will show you everything... Today, at this very moment... We bet our lives... Are you ready to lose?... What if you'll never have the second chance?... What if the only thing, for sure, that you can hold is the 2 words "If Only"? Dare to show your love... And love will show you everything... "An incomplete heart is heavier that a full heart." ***I've got this quote from my dream 2 years ago, I was talking to an imageless man and He told me those exact words... Until now... I haven't forgot it!

LoNg LoSt FriEnD

I've been a stranger for so long to my own self and its so sad that I didn't noticed it. There's a dramatical change in my life this year, sometimes when I think of all the downs that I've been through, I just sigh and say - " I'm done with this year, though the year is not yet done with me!". Actually, I feel so jaded and weary, yet I haven't done a thing. Its like I'm wrestling with my own self, trying to win but not noticing that I'm hurting ME.

Funny and ironically as it may seem, cause the dream that I once knew and the same dream that came true turned out to be a nightmare that bites more than reality. Now I've found myself too afraid to dream yet more ambitious than I was. Funny isn't it?! Strange, because the more I surrender, the more I struggle, it seemed like there's no other way but to fight and wait until you win. I'm tired of winning the games I didn't play. I came out of the blues only to find out that I've entered the black hue, and its far darker...

Suddenly after so long, I remembered Him, my bestfriend, the one I used to walk with, talk with, and share my everything. I wonder why He's not with me - did I wander away from Him?... Did I sent Him away?... No! I can't remember doing such things, but why am I alone out here?...

Then I cried, all those sleepless nights and weary days. Suddenly someone pat me at my back, I didn't know who was it, but then He whispered - "what's up?!!!"... I recognized that sweet voice immediately, so I turned around and hugged Him cause I know its Him though I can't see Him.

Yes, He was with me in that dark and lonely scene, I was just too blind to see Him cause it was so dark out there, I was just too numb to feel His presence because it was so cold out there. But He was there!... Yes! He was there... : )

Seek And Ye Shall Find... Not The One You're Searching For...

So there it goes, " Seek and ye shall find...Knock and it shall be opened." Matthew 7:7
For almost 3 consecutive days, I'm wasting all my allowance (supposed to be) in renting a computer in a nearby internet cafe. For what sense am I doing this?! I'm stuck in front of the computer for almost 10 hours a day without a break, the owner of the computer shop knows me already, and the worst of all... I'm running out of money (da' freakin' heck!!). And I bet you'll call me stupid when I tell you what the heck am I searching via internet... Well I'm searching for this guy, an old classmate actually, I just thought that maybe I could reach out to him through internet. I'm searching everywhere, from hi5 to friendster and all I get is the same name but different person. Well, if you think that's the end of it... Certainly not!....
I was totally exhausted from a tiring school work this morning but I manage to hang out once more and try just once again to search for him... So, suddenly the owner of the computer shop is in front of me, giving me the stub and the number of the computer I'll be using... Suddenly I was doing that searching game again as if I'm a detective trying to find a villain.
So I gave up!... I closed my eyes and said ... "One last click and its over"... So... "Click!" it goes... Then on my screen I saw a familiar picture... A very familiar picture actually, but for the benefit of the doubt, I tried to view the profile of that familiar person... And... Eureka!!!... My hypothesis is true beyond reasonable doubt... Conclusion proven!... Nope! He's not the guy I'm searching for - ya know the old classmate!....He's just a fellow church goer I always see every Saturday.
In my surprise and curiosity, I checked out his site and there it goes... He is ...BLAH!BLAH!BLAH!.... In short, the guy version of me. I can't believe I've just found someone who has the same interest and attitude like me. It was some kind of funny destiny because just a couple of weeks ago, he was sitting next to me at the church and the flirting side of my mind was playing then, asking some flirty questions like "what if he ask my name?" or " what if we're meant to be?" ha!ha!ha! - silly me! and so, the last thing on my mind then was, if he won't talk to me after the service ends... Its the end of it... No further hopes, just the end of it. And so the service ends and nope! He didn't talked to me. And now, by a serendipitous chance, he's not the one I'm looking for but its him I've found...
Ofcourse not!... I'm not saying that it is some kind of a destiny, soulmate, whatever you call it!... That's not what I mean... Its just that... Sometimes, we seek and yes! We do find... But the funny thing there is... Sometimes, the one we've found is not the one we're searching for... LOL!!! c",)

I'vE mAdE It ThRoUgH ThE pAiN

Date written : 7/24/05
Its Sunday morning, I woke up @ around 9 am, saw the sun shining at the window but just too lay to get out of my bed so I hugged my pillow and let this cozy morning make me feel asleep again! - oh boy! Its just another ordinary off-duty lazy Sunday. Suddenly I choked... Don't know what kind of foreign matter got into my throat but then I remember my old time long lost stupid *o** - better not to mention! So I got out of my bed, took a shower, went into a grocery store nearby and bought some chocolates - just to complete my day... Morning! Huh! And now 'em writing this journal with matchbox 20's CD as my background music to suit up my morning mood. ... So what the hell am I suppose to write?... Well nothing's really happening in my life right now except for the fact that 'em enjoying my life for awhile!!! - oh... Really??? uhm!!! ... Well, yeah right!!! 'em enjoying my life with all those crazy gimmicks and night time parties everywhere... Actually I've got another party tonight!!! What a life! Let's get wrecked!!! Yeah ! My friends say I've changed a lot from an in-door girl who just stay home when there's no work around to an outgoing punk girl who stays late at night... Well people change... People evolve... Its typical ... Its instinct...Ok!Ok!Ok!... What damn shit happened to me?... Huh! I don't know either... 'em just trying to live my life ... Sort of... But what I do really appreciate in my life right now is the fact that 'em done with all those pain I had before... ya know... The pain of falling and ending up totally broken into pieces and don't know how to bring it all back together.Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! I told myself before I'll get over *I*... And yes... I did! Well, big thanks to that BIG GUY up above for overcoming all those struggles I had.... For healing the pain but letting the scar remain to remind me that I've made it through the pain.

BeTwEeN NiGhT AnD DaY... ThErE LiEs ThE DrEaM!

I'm writing this journal right now without anything to say. I don't even know where in the world did I get it's title... But surely I agree with it.

Dream is a goal, an ambition, something that make us strive with all our efforts. But where did it all started? How come we realize that somehow, someday we wanted to be like what we are picturing in our frame of mind?

Certainly, when we were younger... Much younger than today, our dreams are quite different. Just like me, when I was about 3 years old, all I wanted to be then was to be a cook, nothing more and nothing less. But when I was already 7 years old, I started dreaming of becoming a doctor - a pediatrician or a psychiatrist someday... Why did I suddenly shift my course of ambition?... Because at my tender age of 7, I entered the dark night time of my life. My dad got sick then, he was a sort of a dying man but striving to survive in the battle of emotions and mind of his own... He had a nervous breakdown. In the midst of hopelessness but faithfulness of my mom, I still suffered a deep anguish within me asking why is this happening right now when God knows I'm not ready yet to enter the night phase of my life - but then reality bites! Sometimes late at night, I could hear my mother crying in deep pain because of the sort of a half-tragedy story that's happening in our lives, but then I know that I'm helpless, I don't have the matured words to say to comfort her, all I can do was to hear my mom and dad talk about our finances - (because all our savings were lost due to hospital bill) late at night - (they usually talk about our family problems late at night so that we (me and my bros) won't hear them... But then I'm a wise kid, pretending to be past asleep, but then I'm sneaking!). But deep within me was the fury of the bitter taste of reality as if the two worlds of a childhood immaturity and the world of bitter reality are ranging their forces against me at the middle and I don't know where to go. The childhood world was calling me and I deserve to be there, but then the reality world was trying to submerge me about the life we are facing at that time, its painful... But then I chose to be drowned by that reality cause I know God will always be there for me - as my mom always say! At that time, the anguish turned into a dream of becoming a doctor, a psychiatrist, and the goal was to help those people like my dad to recover.

When my dad recovered and was back on track, I was so happy but this time I can't go back to my childhood world, because you can always look back but can't go back, and I don't like to go back either. By that time, my dad always try to convince me of becoming a pediatrician - it was his dream for me!

Years passed by, by God's faithfulness, I'll soon be marching on the aisle... 6 months to go and I'll be graduating... No! I'm not a doctor yet! I'm still quite far from that total realization of the yonder dream I had, but I know I'm halfway there. I'm about to finish my pre-medical course (BS Medical Technology) and soon - by God's faithfulness and by the name of His promise... You'll see me as the person I dreamed and planned to be - a doctor!

The day is coming soon, before it was the night, and between night and day... There lies the dream!...

Destiny Revealed A Little Secret On Me

There's this little girl

She's staring on that guy

Wondering if he can see her too

In her lovely eyes

You can see the missing piece

That is the love so far away

*** The day I can't forget

Destiny revealed a little secret on me

I can't believe I'm talking with an angel

The crowd was loud but we don't seem to hear them

The voice of destiny is calling me the moment you talked to me

I'll cherish that day when destiny

Revealed a little secret on me

It was a fair day on the twentyfifth of march

That guy talked to that little girl

In her lovely eyes you'll find the answer

The missing piece was already found

*** The day I can't forget

Destiny revealed a little secret on me

I can't believe I'm talking with an angel

The crowd was loud but we don't seem to hear them

The voice of destiny is calling me the moment you talked to me

I'll cherish that day when destiny revealed a little secret on me

*I can't believe someone saw me inspite of my invisibility

You touched my heart and love springed

The day a little secret was revealed from my destiny

*** The day I can't forget

Destiny revealed a little secret on me

I can't believe I'm talking with an angel

The crowd was loud but we don't seem to hear them

The voice of destiny is calling me the moment you talked to me

I'll cherish that day when destiny revealed a little secret on me***

Ten Facts About Me

TEN FACTS ABOUT ME

1. I'm innocent but NOT naive

2. I'm sensitive but NOT impulsive

3. I'm faithful but NOT martyr

4. I'm conservative but NOT old-fashioned

5. I'm confident but NOT arrogant

6. I'm NOT religious but I'm spiritual

7. I'm NOT intelligent but I'm wise

8. I'm NOT contented but I'm satisfied

9. I DON'T forget but I forgive

10. I DON'T quit but I do change my mind

PUZZLE UNDONE

He is sitting all alone on their back porch
Thinking about her
Realizing what he had just lost
What if she's there
** I'm such a fool and out of whack
Wishing I can revive
The love that was lost forever
***And he said "I'd never noticed such beauty within -
Not until she smiled at me -
And tell me right now what would I be -
When I know that she's the lost I can't replace -
When I know that she's the lost I can't replace"
Never been with this night so cold and blue
Wishing for her arms
Holding me so tight kissing me through the night.
What if she's here
**I'm such a fool and out of whack
Wishing I can revive
The love that was lost forever
***And he said "I'd never noticed such beauty within -
Not until she smiled at me -
And tell me right now what would I be -
When I know that she's the lost I can't replace -
When I know that she's the lost I can't replace"
The missing piece will be gone forever
You're the beauty that charmed my heart
You're the only thing that means everything
Still you're my puzzle undone
***And he said "I'd never noticed such beauty within -
Not until she smiled at me -
And tell me right now what would I be -
When I know that she's the lost I can't replace -
When I know that she's the lost I can't replace"
Still you're my puzzle undone...

A Talk To Remember

If Mandy Moore had a "Walk To Remember", then I had a "Talk To Remember". Here goes my story...

I still remember during my first semester as a college freshman, there was this cute lad in my Algebra class. I do really, really like him but I was just too shy to talk to him. For that whole semester, nothing happened, we didn't talked to each other, we don't even had the guts to look straight at each other's eyes. Huh! the whole semester passed without anything happened, he never talked to me even just to say "excuse me" and neither did I grab any opportunity even just to borrow a pen from him.

Second semester passed like a drop of a hat and I never saw him for that past 6 months - (the whole second semester). I always wished to see him again that's why during my vacant period, I used to hang around at the Science Secretariat because he used to stay there before, but sad to say, he wasn't there anymore.So I convinced myself that he already went abroad and continued his studies there.

Then Summer Class enrollment came. It was the 25th of March 2002. I was standing at the hallway with my friends waiting for our "permit to enroll" when suddenly I saw a man with a navy blue backpack, walking slowly, and then joined our queue... and then... oh my gosh!... it's him! my blood all went up to my head, my heart beat so fast and all I wanted to do then was to scream on top of my lungs... but then I was in the middle of a faceless crowd, with the whole Medical Technology student body and the idea of screaming would be a total embarassment on me. After a few minutes of my emotional cardiac arrest, we went in to a room (FEU SB206 - to be exact!) to file our database, then suddenly we saw each other but I refused to look at him straight in the eye... I didn't know why I was so damn nervous at that time. But then, when I was already filing my database, we again looked at each other, finally this time he gave me a smile. I can't help it, I was trying so hard not to be too obviously excited about this momentuous time of my life, but then, ok! I smiled back.

That's the time I realized that he knows me. I was so happy to know that I was not invisible at his sight, that he could still remember this little girl in his Algebra class before. I was then mesmerized by that sort of fairy tale happening in my life when I felt there's someone scratching my back. I looked back to see who's trying to get my attention, and then on my surprise... it's him - oh my gosh again!!!

He was asking something and I just couldn't believe that he was there right in front of me, talking to me, and then... I was supposed to talk back, but my mind was a mess. I was talking but I don't have my voice, it was like my mouth was moving but air is the only thing that's coming out from my larynx - oh my gosh again and again!!!

That was such a very memorable day not just because he talked to me but because I started to believe on things I used not to and thought would never dare to.

It was really " A Talk To Remember"...