Light Bulb Moments

The one downer of having an educational tour is the fact that the time you spend at some point is limited. You don’t get to explore the entire place because again, time is limited. All you have to do is make the most out of the time you have. I love travelling, especially road trips. But there’s always that part when I wish I never left the house, simply because I run into something I don’t like. For instance, travelling by day time is not my cup of tea or unwinding at the beach in broad daylight. I would always prefer to travel at dawn or at night even if it means not being able to see the beautiful scenarios I passed by. And I would favor the rain water ten times over the seawater; I’d rather stay under the rain for hours than to hang out at the beach. Well, maybe because I am not used to being at the seashore. Seaside across Oslob Church, Cebu. But as far as the tour is concerned, the heat of the sunshine and the sticky feeling the wind from the sea gives didn’t stop me from en...

To Whom This May Concern, I may be a complete stranger to but I sincerely wrote this letter with the intention of helping people to hold on to hope and faith and making them happy this Christmas. I am simply a student who also has issues in most aspects of life. But having these issues isn't that hard much compared to those who are fighting for their lives in the hospitals, suffering in prison for the crimes they have not committed, struggling due to the recent state of calamities, and those who are trying so hard to make a living, or even those who are searching for their way home. A mandatory Christmas letter made useful. I may not be aware but I bet that someone out there somewhere also have unresolved issues in life. Whoever you are, I hope that you'd take it well, whatever it may be. I dare say they're just challenges that a person has to experience in order for to learn and gain more courage. Because we will never be able to appreciate how beautiful...

When I was a kid, during Christmas I used to visit my godparents, sing a song to them and then they’d give me presents. That thought is so familiar before and it’s also what makes it strange because I don’t do it anymore nowadays. I used to hang-out with my neighbors way back in our hometown as well. At my age now, I find it strange to even pay a visit to the neighborhood. Nothing strange though. As I grow up, my knowledge also upgrades and my way of thinking slowly matures; with that, I make changes that I even have to let go of the things I used to do before because, I think, it doesn’t fit to me anymore, I think it's strange. #mm

It’s a shame that most of us could hardly learn from our mistakes. We always prefer to prolong the agony instead of patching things up as early as we could. We end up regretting our impulsive actions yet we still do nothing. Indeed, life is complicated but what makes it so is because of the choices we made wrong unintentionally or most of the time because of our pride; we also tend to lie instead of practicing honesty. Years ago, I’ve got hooked up in a situation where I was blinded by hatred and I was too afraid to face the facts that were waiting for me. So, I ran away from it rather than clearing things out to end the conflict. I never wanted to admit by then that I made a mistake as well. Early this summer only that I realized that it was me all along who made the very big mistake. But then, things changed and I couldn’t just approach the person immediately and say sorry. Now, it’s even harder than I thought, so I kept praying; telling God how sorry I am for being so narrow-...

I've always been a devoted writer, I have loved writing since grade school. I used to love to read romance novels and watched love story movies. With those things that surrounded me, perspective about love have been affected. It became my basis most of the time.  But  then I realize there’s no such thing as a happy ending in a fairy tale. In fact, there’s no fairy tale at all. It’s just because we were told that such thing really exists when in fact there’s none. It’s in the mind, it is just a product of our mind created, knowing that there may be times when we feel they really existed. But who really knows about fairy tales linked into the magical word LOVE? Some even say that fairy tales, after all, were derived from creepy stories. And as far as religion is concerned, there are no fairy tales in the Bible, only parables. Our world now, is the real world where love always means the ultimate sacrifice of your life for the one you love. Yes, it was always been that way....

It seemed to be a new life at the time, You caught my attention unconsciously; I was in need, and you helped willingly, A unique bond grew and was pure as lime; You are the lyrics of the string’s rhyme, My dream’s exact epitome, shockingly; A magical sense exist swiftly, I was reluctant ‘cause it’s like a crime; And when He heard me, confusions came too; 'Guess I wasn’t ready at the time yet; All is said and done, what else could I do? Pain crushed me, and it seemed too hard to beat, Blade tears me when thud rose from the piano, Mind of hate, soul of love, heart of regret. - M

A few days ago, my classmates and I made a visit to the main campus of our school. On our way there, a fallen old acacia tree was cut to make way for the jeepneys because it's blocking the way. It so happened that the tree just fell down recently that end a jeepney driver's life. He was the only casualty on the said incident. Finding out that sad news made me fall into deep thoughts lately. Life may be sometimes unfair in the eyes of the people who choose to close their minds to find out the reasons why things need to happen this way, that way, and whatever. As for the ones who try and struggle to understand God's plans for us, we define life the other way around. But life is unpredictable, it may not be the appropriate word to define a four-letter word it is sure enough to be true. We never know what will happen after reading something, we never know what will happen if we cross on a traffic road, we never even know what will happen a few minutes after working. All that we...