When I die, then I die loving you

Last Wednesday, I was tasked to go to a place unknown to me, or at least a place I've never been to. I went to Tuburan without any knowledge about the place--how to get there, how it is there, how the people live there, how the road is paved, etc. Point is, 'twas the first time that I've heard of such place and I took it a challenge to go there, not to get lost but to somewhat listen, explore and witness stories, and create adventure.

It was never an upset. Waking up early was the first challenge I had. (HAHA) You see, I had my alarm set at 6:30 so I could have my trip earlier, ergo earlier task done. I woke an hour (and seven minutes) after, though. The next challenge was to figure out how to get to the place without getting lost, or getting a safe transport to and fro. I went to the North Bus Terminal, and was startled by the sizes of the buses that routes to Tuburan. They were small, crunk-y and non-reliable-according-to-its-face-value buses (di masaligan), so I went on asking some konduktor to tell me the safest way possible to get to the place.

Hurriedly, I jumped into a Ceres Liner Jagnaya route, then dropped at Eskina Nogo where I have to take another bus going to Tuburan. I had to take another bus (which was huot and very small btw) to Tuburan, and had to finish some interviews with Municipal Officials and Personnel. Tasked done, and presto, I'm ready to take my way home.

While waiting for my V-Hire to go, I sat in terminal just beside a couple around their seventies or eighties. They were sitting there, as if waiting for someone to come, with their hands holding each other's. They were talking to each other, laughing at times, arguing at times, but you could see that were all smiles all the time. They sat there for almost an hour, and I just stared at them happily as they share stories that I even barely hear.

In the looks of their faces, I could say that they are not well-endowed. The woman wore a normal saya up to her feet and a polo shirt, while the man wore a pair of striped jeans and a long-sleeved top tucked in, perfected with a muddy high-cut leather shoes. They were living poorly, but by the look in their eyes, you could say that they were contented with each other's company.

Almost an hour passed, and they went their way. The man had trouble going 2 steps down (the terminal is elevated two steps up) so the woman came to rescue, telling her husband to hurry, as if angry, but never minded to help him anyway. They walked their ways, and I told myself that rarely will I see that scene again, or that will be the last time that I'll be seeing that and such a couple again. I smiled at the sight of them, and it reminded me a song from Yellowcard entitled Dear Bobbie (the video is below.) Click here for lyrics.

Forty-five minutes later, we departed from Tuburan via Trans-Central Highway Route. Just thirty minutes immediately after we went, I saw the same old couple walking all their way to the fields of Tuburan. I thought they were having the jeepney from transport. I was wrong. They were walking from the terminal up to that point where I saw them. They looked weary and tired from walking.

They were poor. They had no money to take the jeep or bus. They were weary.They were tired. But nevertheless, they had each other. :)

A Mother's Love: Timeless

Three nights ago, I found myself staring at a mother with her high school daughter. I really found it weird (and absurd) that a grownup still has to be fetched from school by her mum who seemed to be tired of doing daily household chores for the family (imagine a typical Filipino labandera). The mum seemed to be enjoying the routine as she fondled through the hair of her daughter in the whole duration of the ride. I thought, maybe, this mum is just overprotective and non-trusting of her daughter, which comes pretty the reason why she still needed to fetch her daughter.

Not too soon, the daughter shouted, "Lugar lang." She bid goodbyes to her classmates and friends who were with them in the jeep. Of course, I was still there, staring and waiting for them to depart from the jeep. Her mum went down first, but her daughter seemed no to follow her. She just sat there, as if waiting for something to happen. I wondered why. Suddenly, the mother reached out her hand, her daughter got it, and as she stood I noticed that the student is limping as if she had fallen and had her bones broken. She had difficulty going down, but her mother was there, all the way, to help her do the act. The mother even carried her under her arms as if she was a young child until she got her feet in the ground. The student still limped, not being able to walk properly, with her arms around the arms of her mother.

Later did I realize that the student has been experiencing Polio, a non-curable disorder characterized by paralysis and immobility of some of nervous reflexes. I asked another student beside me (who was a friend of that polio child) about the mother and daughter, and she said that the mum have been around her daughter since childhood, not failing to fetch her every day just to be sure that her daughter gets an education.

I was startled. I was judging through the cover of the book. I asked myself, "If I become a parent, will I have the same patience as this mother have?" The thought seemed to upset me, but the very sight of the mother and daughter that day really made me smile, not to mention a little bit teary-eyed.

As the jeep accelerated, I looked back. I saw them crossing the road, with the daughter's arms around her mother's, and the two smiling as if they are really lucky to have each other.

Seven Messages to Seven Special Persons

Person 1

You're Like the TIDE. You go up, you go down. Like the water, you're hot and you're cold. You made me confused. You are confusing me.

Person 2
I simply miss you. I simply miss us.

Person 3
I apologize for not being to express my feelings when it was still there. Regretful, I am. I nearly had you. Nevertheless, we're really happy now. Lezz be friends. Good friends.

Person 4
We could have had it all, but you screwed it. You're the best thing I never had, so far.

Person 5
Hi. Yeah. I'm sorry. I wasn't able to pull that off. I know that the feeling really is there. I mean, I have the guts to tell the whole world that I had the chance on you. I feel that you liked me, yet you told me that you're closing some doors for now. I understood that, I was willing to wait. I apologize, though, I wasn't able to live up to that promise to myself. Again, I apologize. Big time. I'm giving up on us.

Person 6
I have loved you, and I still do, but with the rate that things are going, I really have to let the feeling subside.

Person 7
Hi. I'm starting to like you. I want to know you more. Please welcome me in your life.

I Tweet Facts

The list that I am posting now is a collection of random tweets that I have that actually are facts. They come primarily from different online reading materials, or some random facts that I knew. :D Indulge!

In the UK, The Exorcist wasn’t available until 1990, when it passed the British Board of Film Censorship (BBFC) with an 18 rating.

Upon release in 1992, Mikey was banned in many countries and is still banned today in the UK.

Paris Hilton Voted the Least Trustworthy Celebrity

Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera's Moves Like Jagger in number one in Digital Sales and number three in the Billboard chart top 100

so there is this brain-eating amoeba who thrives in waters? scary

almost, but never, got there.

According to the USDA, the fruits and vegetables we eat today may contain significantly fewer nutrients than those our grandparents ate.

Nutritious food costs 10 times more than junk food.

Sharks don't like the taste of Human, and shark bites are very rare, with only 36 recorded in the US last year.

Megamouth Sharks are considered to be the most elusive of all shark species. They were only seen 49 times in India, the Pacific and Atlan

The London Gazette is the oldest surviving English newspaper, and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United Kingdom

When trying to decide on a name for his new service, Sabeer Bhatia eventually settled on Hotmail because it contained the letters HTML.

there's wuss this one time when i told you that somehow, somewhere, i met you. i wasn't mistaken. i met you in my dreams.

When a woman dresses up to go out, she puts on a blouse first. Pants come second. Men work it vice versa.

When a woman yawns she covers her mouth with the palm of her hand, not with a fist.

Women never shudder when a male character gets kicked in the groin in a movie.

the not-so-famous sorcerer Sauron of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings tops TIME's Most Evil Sorcerer.

Talking Heads, 'Once in a Lifetime' (1980) is TIME's best music video.

Voldemort is the 5th Most Evil Sorcerer according to TIME.

Micheline Bernardini modeled the first ever bikini.

Dark Knight (2008) on #2 in Time's Best Superhero Movies. The Incredibles (2004), a satiric cartoon-comedy got the top spot.

Williams College, a small, western-Massachusetts liberal arts school, has been named as the best undergraduate institution in America.

Lake Nyos of Cameroon is the world's deadliest volcano lake. In 1986, it killed 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock because of CO2 emissions.

Although the sari-sari store remained a favorite, shoppers were also increasingly patronizing hypermarkets and supermarkets.

Filipinos were also increasingly health-conscious, with 93 percent, up from 83 percent in 2005, buying healthy foods in 2010.

Filipinos were also increasingly health-conscious, with 93 percent, up from 83 percent in 2005, buying healthy foods in 2010.

Filipino consumers who compared prices before making purchases slightly increased from 77 percent in 2005 to 79 percent in 2010.

Wicca is typically a duotheistic religion, worshipping a goddess and a god, who are viewed as the Triple Goddess and Horned God.

Aquino budget allots P438.9 billion for inclusive economic growth

The last witch to be jailed in England for the crime of witchcraft was Jane Rebecca Yorke in 1944.

The Witchcraft Act of the United Kingdom was not repealed until 1951.

Over 75% of witch trials resulted in acquittal.

The most common form of execution for the crime of witchcraft, in Europe and the United States, was hanging, and not burning at stake.

A misconception relating to Adam and Eve is that the fruit they ate was an apple. In fact the Bible doesn’t state what fruit they ate.

APPLE has more cash than Uncle Sam.

The Sumerians believed they were created by the Annunaki, which was a group of E.T’s.

Try to chew food 20 times before you swallow. Slowing the pace of your eating makes it easier to recognize that 80 percent full feeling.

Norway's toughest sentence is 21 years in jail.

still i know that this extra beat is because of you.

That's basically it. got lots pa unta, but I'm kapoy na man oooi. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

it's hard. you should know

not that i don't like you, i just don't like this feeling. don't wonder if i veer away, or i no longer make pansin you. this is just me trying not to think of possibilities and not trying to entertain the feeling. :X nevertheless, you will see me around. i will try to tell the whole world who you really are; whose name i've been writing beside mine; whose name is always in my journal; whose simple thought of is an extra beat to my heart; whose profile i've been constantly viewing; whose smiles and stares i can't resist; all these, altogether, when i am ready, when i know that these no longer matter because you were just part of a past and of a future that definitely will not happen.

(short rant turned blog-ish.)

ENVY

I envy you.

I envy how many people want to be with you.

I envy how they react when you're around.

I envy how many fingers have tried to search you over facebook

just for them to at least know some facts about you.

I envy how your smile can melt the hearts of men and women alike,

how they treasure the moments you gave them your precious stare.

You are lucky you have someone, at least one, envying you.

I envy you, but there are too many out there who are envying me because I am close to you,

because I know of you more than what everyone know of you combined.

They envy me because I can talk with you any time, be with you any time.

They envy me because we share laughter, not just smiles, and tears, not just stares.

These, all these, make me think how good I am at making people envious of me.

I shall keep things this way.

Just be around. XD

This I Listened for 3 Long Hours

YOU and ME - Parachute. You familiar with this song? How about the artist? Still doesn't ring a bell? That's exactly the same reaction I had when a close friend of mine introduced to me the song. (and BTW, he's so mainstream, and gay. XD) I didn't appreciate it the first time, yes, but having it heard for the second and for the third and for the nth time created an impact on my long list of not-so-famous-favorite songs. TADA!!! If I had my iTunes functional. this song will brim its way up to top 5 or top 3 most played.

Song's about the concept of the Madonna-Lady-Gaga-Britney-Spears-Lidsay-Lohan' "me against the world," only that this time there's a YOU, making it YOU and ME agaisnt the world. (that was a very intelligent statement I got there huh. haha) There was this guy having a dream and along with him is his girl (or his guy) doing the act of stealing, and yes, the world goes against them. That would be the very literal meaning of the song, though. I leave your interpretation to you.

(i thought embedding YouTube Vids is no longer allowed. Well, anyway, here's the video of the song. hope you appreciate it.)

"Oh I keep waking up in an empty bed,
and it's reminding me of all the things I should have said,
and all we could have had."