Creativity and originality are among the traits parents must have when naming their kids. Especially so if you live here in the Philippines. [I gathered that these two traits are not required in other countries, so that explains why they have common, “boring” names! (Peace, peace! Just jesting. This is not supposed to be a [...]
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Name Game: Filipino Style
Posted in Family & Relationships, Life, MuZings, anecdote, point of view, tagged anecdote, creativity, family, fun, funny, Humor, humorous, idea, ideas, kids names, Life, Love, Name, originality, parenting, ramblings, reflection, thoughts on April 30, 2008 | 38 Comments »
The original sin
Posted in Life, MuZings, Spiritual, point of view, tagged forbidden fruit, idea, Life, original sin, point of view, rambling, reflection, religious, scripture, sin, Spiritual, thought, verse on April 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Sometimes when I look at the story of the original sin backwards, it strikes me that it is very much like the myths that we know today. There are times that I go thinking that maybe the story was created in an attempt to explain some of man’s predicaments: why there are temptations, why man [...]
A Hymn for the Soul
Posted in Life, Love, MuZings, Poetry and Verses, Spiritual, tagged bliss, breeze, calm, dreams, eagle, existential, existentialism, happiness, heart-warming, hope, horizon, inspirational, introspection, Life, Love, melody, motivational, Music, nightingale, ocean, ode, peace, peoms, photo, photos, picture, pictures, poem, Poetry, profound, reflection, rhyme, rhymes, sadness, sentiment, sentimental, soul, spirit, spring, storm, summer, thought, thoughts, verse, Verses, wailing on April 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
She floats like an eagle
And whispers like the breeze.
She soars high like hope;
She’s calm like peace.
She’s a storm when she rages;
A nightingale when she sings.
She is sadness when she wails
And bliss when she beams.
She is a small step that leaps;
The blood that travels in the veins.
She is a cool wind that revives;
A fire that warms [...]
A Poem for Yza
Posted in Family & Relationships, Life, Love, MuZings, Poetry and Verses, Spiritual, tagged death, image, Life, orchid, orchids, photo, photos, picture, pictures, poem, poems, Poetry, rambling, ramblings, reflection, sad poetry, sentiment, sentimental, sentiments, sleep, thoughts, verse, Verses, wings on April 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Angel, you came and filled our hearts with gladness
Your smiles, so sweet; they turned away the sadness
Your stay so brief, our hearts would burst with grief
But for the hope of seeing you again, with your wings so swift.
Peaceful is your sleep now, our dear little angel
The harsh world, you can no longer feel.
In your sleep, [...]
An Answer to a Prayer
Posted in Family & Relationships, Life, MuZings, Spiritual, tagged book, existential, existentialism, experience, ideas, inspirational, introepective, introspection, Life, money, motivation, motivational, opinion, personal, point of view, prayer, prayers, pulo coelho, rambling, ramblings, random, reflection, Reflections, religious, retrospect, retrospective, scrawls, scribbles, sentimental, sentimentalist, Spiritual, thought, value, worth on April 6, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Have you ever experienced things that you would dismiss as simply coincidence had you not been praying for them, and had your heart had not been so sure they were signs from up above?
I have had experienced this sort of thing several times before. And I experienced it again today.
When I purchased Paulo Coelho’s book, [...]
Reversible Suicide
Posted in Family & Relationships, Life, MuZings, anecdote, point of view, tagged career, career change, decisions, determination, drive, existential, existentialism, glide, image, inspirational, instrospection, introspective, job, jump, Life, living, motivational, musing, musings, personal, philosophical, philosophy, photo, photos, picture, rambling, ramblings, random, reflection, Reflections, risk, rolling stone, scrawls, scribbles, sentiment, stone, suicide, taking risks, thought, thoughts, writing on April 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Why would I jump when I can glide smoothly? Why should I take a plunge when I can dip one foot at a time?”
“Rolling stone” is what my father calls me. Since I graduated from the university six years ago, I’ve changed employment several times that he had to keep reminding me: “rolling stones [...]
Autumn in Summer
Posted in Family & Relationships, Life, Love, MuZings, Poetry and Verses, Spiritual, tagged autumn, Corregidor, creek, existential, existentialism, friend, friends, friendship, heartache, inspirational, leaf, Love, motivational, Philippines, photo, Pinay, pinoy, poem, poems, Poetry, reflection, river, sad poem, sentiment, sentimental, summer, thought, thoughts, tree, verse, Verses on April 3, 2008 | 10 Comments »
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It’s summer; the sun’s smiling brightly
But autumn reigns inside me.
I feel like a tree who just lost a leaf
Because you left; now inside my heart
Is a terrible heartache.
Help me feel I am no tree
And you are not a leaf;
Instead, you are a river, and I am a creek.
Though we are from different worlds,
We came [...]
Only When
Posted in Life, Love, MuZings, Poetry and Verses, Spiritual, point of view, tagged courage, doubt, dreams, existential, existentialism, fears, idea, inspiration, inspirational, introspection, introspective, journey, Life, motivational, musings, point of view, ramblings, reflection, road, sentiment, sleep, Spiritual, thought, thoughts, travel, trust on April 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Let’s not walk through this road, forgetting
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That only when we let trust stay afloat
Will we be able to drown our cloak of doubt.
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For dreams don’t soar in our sleep
Because only when we are wide awake
Are we able to give them wings.
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And only when our courage learns to fly
Are we able to crash our fears.
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Let’s walk [...]
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Sick and Twisted: A Reaction to the Canister Scandal
Posted in Life, MuZings, point of view, tagged canister scandal, commandment, doctors, fun, gay, gay rights, global warming, hospital, Life, malpractice, medical ethics, medical profession, medical system, medical tourism, musings, opinion, Philippines, pinoy, point of view, reaction, reflection, Reflections, respect, sexual dysfunction, social commentary, social ethics, thought, thoughts, video, youtube on April 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
There’s something that’s gravely ailing the world today. And it’s not global warming. It’s our hearts turning cold and unfeeling.
The culprits probably thought it was a good joke, so they took video footage of it and uploaded it in the internet. After all, it’s not often that one would “be lucky” enough to witness an [...]
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