Thank you, my friends.

It was a news report I watched on TV that made me write this. It just came. I don’t know, but I think something is very wrong with the world today. To borrow the term used by a study on the effects of violent games on children, I think we are “de-sensitized” by the things that are happening around us that, though we often shake our heads and we feel bad and shaken at the things we see, we are not affected enough to MOVE and do something.

We know of the ripple effect, but often, we are afraid of, or we don’t care about making just one ripple.

Sad…

It’s a lovely poem brainteaser

henry

Gusto mo kalbukin kita?

Hmm, who wants to be my next Picasso model?

How about a nice pony tail Buddy?

Salve, hawakan mo kamay at paa. Hanap ka na rin ng daster and we’ll see how she’ll walk sa pilapil ng Ilokandia!

Apathy is comatosed compassion?

Slave of the corporate world? Eewww! Need some rescuing? Hehehe

Told you, we have to think of something… something that will free us of the bondage… this bondage of… of doing things that make others rich! Hah!

Know how much you love your work but I know just how stressful it is. I worked in the same industry, and I tell you, I don’t miss it! I loved the job, the friends I had, liked meeting people, but I HATE the stress!

Can I have some stresstabs please. Just thinking about the life I once had gives me headache! Argh!

Ok. When are we gonna go to Marikina? Sounds like a good de-stressing place.

And talking about haircut. My hair needs some trimmin’. And hot oil. And spa. Taralets! Hehehe

Going to your blog now! See yah!

sorry, haven’t been visiting here regularly. you know i’m a slave of the corporate world. haay haay *sigh*

hey, check out my merienda last week at crumbs
took me a week to finally post it! (i’m supposed to get a haircut this weekend but i had to work saturday!)

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There are causes worth being involved in. Even if they will wound and leave us scars in the end.

It’s easy to succumb to apathy. We do fall to it from time to time. But I don’t think we were made to be apathetic. God gave us the gift of compassion.

Compassion is love is life is God.

Sometimes we underestimate the power of the small things we can do. But to the recipient, our small acts spell a lot of difference. I know, because I grew up in poverty. I struggled and did my best, but I know I would not have done much had not been for the compassionate hands that reached out to me; had not been for the gifts of chance I’ve been given. When I thanked them profusely, they thought what they did was only a small thing, but to me, it meant so much; it made a lot of difference for me.

And that’s why it’s easy for me to appreciate small acts of kindness — these things do not only appease people; they change them, transform them, make them better.

Love you, Michelle. You are a compassionate person. More than you think you are.

Watch out for my “My Favorite Poems” in blogs. You are definitely gonna be there.

VF and I are missing you. We should go out soon. How about Marikina first, then Bataan? I haven’t been out of MM in a while.

Hey, have you checked out the photoblog I YM’ed to you?

I’ve been feeling a bit apathetic this week…do you really think it’s all worth it?

I do…mostly…but somedays…

hey, girl! how are you? and you, too, vf!

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Apathy is compassion in coma.

or

Apathy is compassion that died.

Can’t decide which is more poetic.

@DARLA Girlfriend! How are you? Heard you and your fam are having a great time at Tam’s! Enjoy…

Silence is not always a good thing. To remain silent when something badly needs to be said, to choose to stay uninvolved when our action could make a difference is like letting evil into household.

Nice way of saying: “What if, If only…

Can’t remember who said this but it may relate: “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”