Tuesday, November 18, 2008

LESS ALONE, LESS LONELY (The art of celebrating birthday alone)


For the past days, I’ve been preparing for my big day.

Every year, I always go home to celebrate my birthday. If I may say, it started with my grandma’s devotion to have a nine-day nightly prayer for my good health. My parents have said, I was born very sickly due to ice. My mother used to like ice when I was still in her womb.

As I grew up, I learn to believe the significance of ice and prayers. Prayers made me stay calm, God-fearing and soft-spoken. I just can’t imagine myself getting used to what is fad nowadays. Though I may be surrounded by people bragging, bad-mouthing and too much expressing their selves, I stay the same. Just like ice, I can’t live in places where I don’t belong. I’d rather be alone and keep the real me.

All of my preparations for my birthday changed when I decided to be alone and happy than arguing with my older sister at home. Being single for the past years of my life, I adhere to my rules of forgiving. It’s been a question in my mind on how God forgives the sinner and on what’s the use of hell and purgatory.

In my 31st year, I realized, I slowly get angry, I forgive, I give chances but not learning from several mistakes, I put them in my purgatory. Sorry but bad as it seems, I don’t care anymore.

So, I stayed alone and device my plan for my day.

Three days before my birthday, I watched how Salvador of “El Cuerpo” ended his journey in finding his real self. Salvador remembered Cantalecia. That’s the sweetest I could remember in a tv series.

Two days before, I’m decided not to go home anymore. I watched how love forgets the pain of loving so much in “Maalaala Mo Kaya.”

A day before, I learned from Karylle the stages of moving on from failed relationships. She said it starts with denial, then hurt, then bargaining and finally acceptance. Then I watched KC Concepcion’s “For the first time.” But I got confused, can somebody explain to me why Richard Gutierrez had to get out of the car and why KC tried to hold him back crying as he gets out?

A few minutes before 12am, I lighted my scented candle, prayed and thanked God for the successful year. I may not have the salary increase I expected and the job I applied for, I thank God for the pay I get that supports my family, my convenient stay in my pad and being able to buy the things I want. I may not have the relationship that every couple enjoys but I sincerely enjoy the freedom and each moment of my single life.

I plan to wake up early so I can go to Antipolo church but I overslept. I woke up and just decided to check my horoscope in a newspaper and buy myself a new fish. I have now a blue-colored fish in my vase aside from the gold-colored “Goldie” and the red-colored “Heart” in my aquarium.

I remembered to check my cellphone. It’s no longer charged but after connecting it to the power outlet, several messages came in. Manilyn, the little girl we send to school, wished that I’m happy where I am, my little sister greeted me then asked if I already deposited the money and my very good friend Marly reminded me to embrace and appreciate everything that I have right now. True indeed I keep asking for more. I got so many greetings and I’m truly thankful.

I went to the bank to send money then to an internet cafĂ© to check my Friendster account, which unfortunately is under maintenance until now. It saddens me that I can’t count the birthday greetings there. I decided to buy another newspaper to check again my horoscope. Hehehe. This is weird. Not that I believe in it, I hope to know myself more with it.

I went home to reply to other text messages. And when they knew that I’m here. Invitations poured in that we meet later. I had my schedule from 5, 6 and 7pm. Booking, as I call it.

I watched “No Country for Old Men” as I waited for 5pm. Such is an intelligent movie catching my attention from start to finish. Such is as beautiful as the “American Beauty” and as enticing as “Crash.” Watch those movies guys. You’ll love it.

Five pm, I meet my very best friend who gave me a box of cake. I’ll be eating cake for the rest of the day and tomorrow. And as always, we just keep on laughing about life and how we survive every struggle while keeping friendship for about a decade now. “Bes, ten years na pala tayo magkaibigan! Hehe”

Six pm, I’m about to meet my previous workmates, that includes Marly. But she texted that they still had to practice their dance for December. Another very good friend of mine opts to see me some other time. I still don’t know but I believe it’s going to be another surprise. So, me and my best friend continued the funny stories of our lives and started eating the cake. One very good thing about our friendship is how we turn each sad story into a laughing stuff. I wish everyone could have this kind of friendship we have.

Seven pm, I’m going to see my old friend, way back in college. This is the first time we’re going to meet again after ten years. That’s another decade! What’s in a decade for this birthday of mine? I’ll find out later. Same as we were in college, we had so many stories to tell, endless conversations and same passion in how we’re going to spend each hard-earned-money. So many things to catch up, we plan that we’ll meet our other friend in Hongkong sometime next year. Next year also my ever partner in crime, who never fails to keep in touch and greeted the most number of times, will be staying in Manila. That is truly exciting to look forward to! As we call it a night, I went home too tired that I failed to watch “Kalye”, my favorite late Monday night show.

I overslept again the day after my birthday. I woke up to continue eating the cake. Which made me, aside from being Hari ng Cubao, I’m also now referred to as King of Drama Cakes, my best friend said so. Whatever! Just compare it to this, as there are soaps we patronize each primetime on tv, I have my own drama for cakes. Or better yet, just laugh about it.

I texted my friends to thank them for sharing that day with me. I just realized how grateful I should be for all these friends. I can just count them in my fingers but they are real in the truest sense of the word. They just come along when I least expect them.

I remember one Tagalog movie with this line, when you least expect it, someone will come along and make your life less alone, less lonely. That’s from “Caregiver”, another tearjerker with moral lessons.

As I write this down and post this later in my blog, I go back to the very first idea this story started, we can enjoy in any way we can but I miss my little brother and sister who will soon be taller and brighter than me, my niece and nephew whose future still I don’t know and my parents who made me realize what’s good and bad in what I want to happen, my Kuya and future policewoman, Manilyn, who do everything that I can’t in our family. Our life will soon be better, we will be older but we’ll stay the same. I may be far and alone but with you in my heart and mind, it’s less lonely.

I may not be expecting any greetings from those I have loved before but thanks and it can’t be more.

Happy Birthday to me.

Friday, November 7, 2008

75 things you wish you could say to your boss!!!!

75 things you wish you could say to your boss!!!!

1. Ano!? Yan lang di niyo pa kayang gawin at iuutos niyo pa sa akin?

2. Hellooo! Gawin niyo na iyan no para naman huwag niyong makalimutankung paano mag-isip.

3. Sir, makinig kaya kayo sa akin!? Pwede?

4. Puwede ba, busy ako? Mamaya na po yan.

5. Gumawa kayo ng sarili niyong presentation!

6. If challenges are more important than financial rewards, then whydon't you just trade in your salary for my challenges?

7. Pwede pong paki-decide kung alin sa 10 inutos niyo sakin ngayonang talagang urgent?

8. Absent po ako today. Wala lang, ayaw ko po kayong makita eh...

9. Pwede bang mag-all expense paid na vacation? Sige na naman, pagodna pagod na po ako eh.

10. Sir, bili niyo naman akong yosi. Sige na! Sa inyo na lang po yung sukli.

11. Uwi na po ako ha. Bahala na kayo dito sa opis..

12. Sir, pwede po bang taasan ang sweldo ko? Ang hirap kasi ng trabahoko eh, ang pakisamahan kayo!

13. Mag-reduce naman po kayo! Mukha na kayong balyena eh.

14. Bakit po pag kami walang ginagawa pinapagalitan niyo kami? Perobakit pag kayo ok lang?

15. Akala niyo ba magaling kayo? Wala lang silang mapiling iba kayakayo nilagay diyan sa pwestong yan!

16. Ma'am, ang bait niyo po talaga. Sana kunin na kayo ni Lord.

17. And it is with utmost sincerity that I wish you the best ofluck spending the rest of your afterlife rotting in hell at Satan's sidewhere you belong.

18. Kung totoong nag-client call kayo patingin ng service report niyo!

19. Sagutin niyo naman yung telepono. A little exercise won't hurt.

20. Sige, gagawin ko po ito. Pero pagtimpla niyo ko ng kape.

21. Shut up when I'm talking to you!

22. Kayo itong may pa-kotse tapos ako uutusan niyo pumunta sa meeting? Anokayo, hilo !??

23. Ano?!! Di niyo alam mag-print? Sayang ang laptop niyo ma'am.

24. Sir aminin niyo na po, nagpapa-cute lang kayo sa client. Kunyaripa kayo na binebentahan niyo siya.

25. Ang ganda ng resulta ng pagkaka-plastic surgery niyo, banat nabanat! Lalo tuloy kayo pinagtatawanan eh.

26. If you really think it's that important, di kayo gumawa.

27. Sir, palit tayong sweldo!

28. Ang sarap po siguro ng trabaho niyo no? Biro niyo utos lang kayo ng utos samin. Ang laki pa ng sweldo!

29. Gusto niyo mag-trabaho naman for a change?

30. Do my work over the weekend?!?! At baket!? Sino kayo para utusan ako?

31. Ngayon na due ito? Eh di kayo gumawa!

32. Can't you see I'm goddamn busy?

33. If you need me, bukas na lang. May date po ako ngayon eh.

34. Asus!! Mage-edit lang hindi pa kaya! Kayo na lang ang mag-editpara hindi sayang sa oras.

35. Sir, tinatamad po akong pumasok ngayon e. Sa bahay na lang po ako mag-iinternet at mage-games, ala pang gastos.

36. Huli kayo! Nanonood din pala kayo ng VCD ha!

37. Sir, lahat po ng kelangan niyo nandyan na. Kelangan niyo langpo tingnan mabuti!

38. Tsk tsk tsk, yan na nga ba sinasabi ko e. Ayaw niyo kasi makinigsakin.

39. Pwede bang sakin na lang position niyo?

40. Nagtataka talaga ako kung bakit napunta kayo sa puwestong yan.

41. Hay naku, sa dinami-dami naman ng pwedeng maging boss, bakit kayo pa ang napunta sakin!

42. Basahin niyo muna ang lahat ng email messages niyo bago niyo sabihin na hindi ko pa nagagawa yung pinagawa niyo.

43. Magre-resign na po ako. Hindi ko na po talaga kayo kayang tiisin eh.

44. Hindi po Inday ang pangalan ko, kaya wag po ninyo akong utusan.

45. Hindi po bottomless pit ang MS Outlook Inbox mo. Talagang titirik ang PC niyo kung hindi kayo magde-delete ng email!

46. Kabit nyo po ba yung prinomote mo?

47. Aah, sir, crush niyo ba ko? Yung seryoso? Lagi niyo na lang pokasi akong inuutusan eh.

48. Why do you keep on doing this to me? Do you feel threatened by my genius?

49. Boss, VCD o, bold! (Greenhills Virramall style)

50. Daddy, Monday ngayon. Yung baon ko!?

51. Bukas ko na lang po gagawin yung pinagagawa niyo ha? Maglalaro pa ko ng Counter Strike eh.

52. Pwede ba tigilan niyo ko?

53. Kasama ba sa job description ko to?

54. If I do what you tell me to, will this change the world?

55. I'm not sure if it's your good looks, your family connection or your charming disposition kaya ka andyan sa puwesto mo. But I'm definitely sure it has nothing to do with your intellect.

56. Okay lang umabsent kayo. It does not really matter. Mas maaga pa kaming makakapag-lunch.

57. Ang OA niyo naman. Kino-complicate niyo pa ang mga simpleng problema para lang magmukha kayong may alam.

58. You're just insecure. Palibhasa, deep down you know you don't deserve to be the boss of someone whose brilliance you can only dream of!

59. Sir naman, hindi naman po lahat ng tao kasing bobo niyo.

60. Karapatan ko nang umuwi pagpatak ng 5pm, 8 hours lang ang binabayaran sa akin eh! Karapatan ko ring mag-absent! At karapatan kongring masulit ang 1 hour lunch break ko!

61. Ma'am huwag na po kayong mag-english. Lalo lang pong nagiging obvious ang pagiging tanga niyo.

62. Sir ano ba!? Lagi na lang ba kayong magre-request ng blow job sakin!!?? (In a really loud voice)

63. Sa tono ng pananalita niyo parang naiintindihan ninyo ang pinag-uusapan namin ah.

64. Sana po pwede ko rin kayong i-evaluate no? Sigurado lagi kayong bagsak sakin.

65. Kung ano man po ang kasalanan ko ay kasalanan niyo rin. Boss ko kayo eh.

66. Maglinis naman po kayo ng table niyo.

67. Hoy! Ikaw, halika nga rito at tulungan mo ko!

68. Saang planeta po ba kayo nanggaling at hindi ninyo alam ito?

69. Ano naman ang mapapala ko kung gagawin ko to?

70. Inaantok ako. Tulog po muna ko ha?

71. Bakit ganyan po kayo magsalita? Napo-possess ba kayo ng masamang ispirito?

72. Sir, umabsent naman po kayo paminsan-minsan. Masaya po kasi ang buong office pag wala kayo eh.

73. Huwag nga kayong makialam samin!

74. Kelan kaya kayo mapapalitan bilang boss namin?

75. Aha!!! Sir pabasa-basa lang kayo ng forwarded messages akala mo nagtatrabaho! SUS!!!

top five cancer-causing foods

The top five cancer-causing foods are:

1. Hot dogs

Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitratea.

2. Processed meats and bacon

Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.

3. Doughnuts

Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.

4. French fries

Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams .

5. Chips, crackers, and cookies

All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.


BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS

1. No Breakfast

People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

2. Overeating

It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

3. Smoking

It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

4. High Sugar consumption

Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

5. Air Pollution

The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

6. Sleep Deprivation

Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.

7. Head covered while sleeping

Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

8. Working your brain during illness

Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts

Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

10. Talking Rarely

Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain


The main causes of liver damage are:

1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very fit.
8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver. Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.

We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to 'schedule.'

DO TAKE CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH...... .........

Getting Married Youngblood (Daily Inquirer) By SC

TODAY, I will attend an execution: my own. I will watch it with both eyes open and I will not cry. I will not break down just because the man I have loved since forever will marry someone else. I will watch him promise himself to a woman who will never love him like I have. I will watch them bind themselves to a vow I should have taken.

I have loved Oliver almost all my life. I have known him since I saved his six-year-old hide from a bully named Ricardo who wanted to rid him of his two yellowed front teeth. I was five at the time, but having grown with five older brothers and a hellion of a sister, ''Totoy Cardo'' was a piece of cake.

Oliver was so overcome with embarrassment at having a girl to protect his scrawny neck that from that time on he made it a point to be the rescuer, not the rescued. As time passed, muscles filled out this lanky frame and those two front teeth began to sparkle. He combs his hair, and he takes a bath daily now. In short, he has become a fine specimen of manhood.

The best part is, he lived up to his promise: he became my self-appointed guardian (well, I don't know if that's the best or the worst part). He was just always there, sticking to me like glue. It used to drive me nuts that he never let me out of his sight.

When I was 12, I ran from the infirmary on my way home. I had found out in the most humiliating way that I had become a woman: there was a big red stain on the back portion of my skirt. The jeers and the taunts followed me through the school corridors. Oliver dashed after me and offered to accompany me home. I declined, of course. He seemed to understand my discomfiture and promised to drop later with the things left in school. When I reached home I was told that I needed to jump three times on the stairs (which I did) and to wash my face with my blood (which I didn't do). Oliver dropped by in the afternoon, sporting a black eye and a bruise on his arm. When I asked him what happened, he said he had walked into a closed door. I believed him. But a few days later, minus the dysmennorhea, I found out that Oliver got into fisticuffs because some guy made a disgusting remark about me.

Nobody had ever fought for me before that. And when you're 12 and discussing in class how King Arthur and fairest of them all, Lancelot, fought for Guinevere's love, you tend to get ideas. I loved Oliver then.

When we were in high school and I found out that the school's heartthrob and one of my most ardent suitors, Richard, was involved with a bustier girl, it was to Oliver that I ran. When I didn't graduate as valedictorian and I got so drunk, it was Oliver who took me home. He didn't even mind that I barfed all over his dad's car (which he borrowed without permission).

When I decided to go to UP and he went to Ateneo, we celebrated by partying. When I lost my mom in a car accident, he took care of everything.

When my dad followed my mom less than a year later after a heart attack, he was there again.

By this time he was an appendage of my life. He used to check out the guys I came to know. Nobody dared to get serious with me--not when Oliver had a black belt. I didn't know how to define our relationship. I didn't know what we were. We definitely were more than friends, better even than best friends. It was like we were a couple, but formally not one. We did all the things that couples did like hang out and neck but always stopped when things got too hot. Since we never defined what we meant to each other we never said ''I love you'' or whatever serious couples told each other.

As a result, I remained a chaste princess while my prince caroused and sowed wild oats, but still had the energy to monitor my movements. I didn't mind.

After all, I was so sure we'd end up together. I always thought that in the end, it would be us. I loved him. I managed to convince myself that he loved me (what else could it be?). Little did I know that love doesn't conquer all, it only conquers the weak.

I didn't think he'd be so stupid as to get a girl pregnant on the same night they met at a party. I didn't think he'd be so stupid as to forget to use some form of contraception. After all, he had given me a lecture on safe sex. And I didn't think he'd be so stupid as to marry the girl. But maybe I forgot that after all he was a man, and men have been known to be stupid about these things. Their brain is located in a region other than between the ears.

What could I do? Kicking him in the groin and punching him in the eye seemed like a good idea then. Don't blame me; he was the one who enrolled me in a self-defense course. But I did not feel better. Seeing him bent over in pain only made me angrier. I wasted my life for this lousy excuse of a man? I could not believe it!

I wanted nothing more than to run to him and beg him to wake me up from the stupid dream. I wanted him to take me some place where we didn't know anybody. No pain, no memory, no humiliation. I wanted to just forget it ever happened but since I flunked in the School for Martyrs, I couldn't, for the life of me pretend, it didn't happen. I couldn't pretend he didn't hurt me.

I couldn't pretend everything was fine and dandy and exactly the way it was before. We didn't talk for a month. For both of us who were practically inseparable, that was like an eternity. I ducked into corners whenever I would see him. I wouldn't take his calls. I wouldn't see him. And for some time hate was my reason for getting up in the morning, for breathing, for living. Hate and I became good friends.

''God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them but to cleanse them,'' somebody once wrote. I didn't want to be cleansed. I just wanted to drown in pain and misery and utter desolation. I wanted to wallow in the dark and deep pit of despair. I know a thousand and one cliches that say this can be a blessing and that I should be thankful. But thankful is the last thing I'm feeling right now. I've always thought that there are three kinds of women:those who break, those who mend and those who are broken themselves.

Before this hit me, I assumed that I belonged to the first or second category. Now I know I'm in the third--so hurt and broken up inside. My grandmother used to say that there is nothing you can do about pain when it gives you a silly grin except grin right back. All I could manage was a wry smile, a killer headache and the worst hangover the day before his wedding. Evidence of that is the disgusting sight of mashed potatoes and barbecue, thrown up not three meters away from where I was lying prostrate on the floor and the awful stench of cigarette on my hair. Frankly I don't want to go.

I want to wallow in misery in my messy room, crying, retching and stinking, surrounded with Michael Learns to Rock (whose songs are dedicated to the broken-hearted) CDs. But I have to go and attend the wedding. I have to bathe and prepare and put on that atrocious peach (it's not even my color!) gown.

I'm not doing it for the groom, my one true friend and love, Oliver. Neither am I doing it for the bride, my younger sister, Sandra who needs me. I'm doing it for my unborn niece who has the great fortune of having me as her aunt. Call me stupid, but I've always known my place. If it isn't beside the man I was destined to marry, if it isn't behind my sister, who will take his name, wear his ring and bear him a child, then it must be with my niece, cradled close to my heart so that she will know both of our love.


(SC, 22, teaches at a private school in Cagayan de Oro City while taking up postgraduate studies)

Bob Ong Quotes...

PAG-IBIG

"Kung hindi mo mahal and isang tao, wag ka nang magpakita ng motibo paramahalin ka nya.."

"Lahat naman ng tao sumeseryoso pag tinamaan ng pagmamahal. Yun nga lang,hindi lahat matibay para sa temptasyon."

"Gamitin ang puso para alagaan ang taong malapit sayo. Gamitin ang utak para alagaan ang sarili mo."

"Huwag mong bitawan ang bagay na hindi mo kayang makitang hawak ng iba."

"Huwag mong hawakan kung alam mong bibitawan mo lang."

"Huwag na huwag ka hahawak kapag alam mong may hawak ka na."

"Parang elevator lang yan eh, bakit mo pagsisiksikan ung sarili mo kung walang pwesto para sayo. Eh meron naman hagdan, ayaw mo lang pansinin."

"Kung maghihintay ka nang lalandi sayo, walang mangyayari sa buhay mo..Dapat lumandi ka din."

"Pag may mahal ka at ayaw sayo, hayaan mo. Malay mo sa mga susunod naaraw ayaw mo na din sa kanya, naunahan ka lang."

"Hiwalayan na kung di ka na masaya. Walang gamot sa tanga kundi pagkukusa."

"Pag hindi ka mahal ng mahal mo wag ka magreklamo. Kasi may mga tao rinna di mo mahal pero mahal ka.. Kaya quits lang."

"Bakit ba ayaw matulog ng mga bata sa tanghali? alam ba nilang pagnatuto silang umibig e hindi na sila makakatulog kahit gusto nila?"

"Hindi lungkot o takot ang mahirap sa pag-iisa kundi ang pagtanggap nasabilyon-bilyong tao sa mundo, wala man lang nakipaglaban upang makasama ka."

"Kung nagmahal ka ng taong di dapat at nasaktan ka, wag mong sisihin ang puso mo. Tumitibok lang yan para mag-supply ng dugo sa katawan mo. Ngayon,kung magaling ka sa anatomy at ang sisisihin mo naman ay ang hypothalamus mo na kumokontrol ng emotions mo, mali ka pa rin! Bakit? Utang na loob! Wag mong isisi sa body organs mo ang mga sama ng loob mo sa buhay! Tandaan mo:magiging masaya ka lang kung matututo kang tanggapin na hindi ang puso,utak,atay o bituka mo ang may kasalanan sa lahat ng nangyari sayo, kundi IKAW mismo!"


PAG-AARAL

"Mag-aral maigi. Kung titigil ka sa pag-aaral, manghihinayang kapag tanda mo dahil hindi mo naranasan ang kakaibang ligayang dulot ng mga araw nawalang pasok o suspendido ang klase o absent ang teacher. (Haaay, sarap!)."

"Nalaman kong marami palang libreng lecture sa mundo, ikaw ang gagawa ngsyllabus. Maraming teacher sa labas ng eskuwelahan, desisyon mo kung kanino ka magpapaturo. Lahat tayo enrolled ngayon sa isang university, maraming subject na mahirap, pero dahil libre, ikaw ang talo kung nag-drop ka.Isa-isatayong ga-graduate, iba't-ibang paraan. tanging diploma ay ang mgaalaala ng kung ano mang tulong o pagmamahal ang iniwan natin sa mundong pinangarap nating baguhin minsan..."

"Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa."

"dalawang dekada ka lang mag-aaral. kung 'di mo pagtityagaan, limang dekadang kahirapan ang kapalit. sobrang lugi. kung alam lang 'yan ng mgakabataan, sa pananaw ko ehh walang gugustuhing umiwas sa eskwela."


BUHAY (IN GENERAL)

"nalaman kong hindi final exam ang passing rate ng buhay. hindi ito multiple choice, identification, true or false, enumeration or fill-in-the-blanks nasinasagutan kundi essay na isinusulat araw-araw. Huhusgahan ito hindi base sa kung tama o mali ang sagot, kundi base sa kung may kabuluhan ang mgaisinulato wala. Allowed ang erasures."

"Kumain ka na ng siopao na may palamang pusa o maglakad sa bubog nang nakayapak, pero wag na wag kang susubok mag-drugs. Kung hindi mo kayang umiwas, humingi ka ng tulong sa mga magulang mo dahil alam nila kung saan angmga murang supplier at hindi ka nila iisahan."

"Mangarap ka at abutin mo. Wag mong sisihin ang sira mong pamilya,palpak mong syota, pilay mong tuta, o mga lumilipad na ipis. Kung may pagkukulang sa'yo mga magulang mo, pwde kang manisi at maging rebelde. Tumigil ka sapag-aaral, mag-asawa ka, mag-drugs ka, magpakulay ka ng buhok sakili-kili. Sa bandi ng huli, ikaw din ang biktima. Rebeldeng walang napatunayan at bait sa sarili."

"Tuparin ang mga pangarap. Obligasyon mo yan sa sarili mo. Kung gusto mo mang kumain ng balde-baldeng lupa para malagay ka sa Guinness Book of WorldRecords at maipagmalaki ng bansa natin, sige lang. Nosi balasi. wag mong pansinin ang sasabihin ng mga taong susubok humarang sa'yo. Kung hindi nagsumikap ang mga scientist noon, hindi pa rin tayo dapat nakatira sa jupiter ngayon. Pero hindi pa rin naman talaga tayo nakatira sa jupiter dahil n ga hindi nagsumikap ang mga scientist noon. Kita mo yung moral lesson?"

"Nalaman kong habang lumalaki ka, maraming beses kang madadapa. Bumangon ka man ulit o hindi, magpapatuloy ang buhay, iikot ang mundo, at mauubos ang oras."


HALO-HALO

"Wag magmadali sa pag-aasawa. Tatlo, lima , sampung taon sa hinaharap,mag-iiba pa ang pamantayan mo at maiisip mong di pala tamang pumili ngkapareha dahil lang sa kaboses niya si Debbie Gibson o magaling mag-breakdance. Totoong mas importante ang kalooban ng tao higit anuman. Sa paglipas ng panahon, maging ang mga crush ng bayan sa eskwelahan e nagmumukha ring pandesal. Maniwala ka."

"ayokong nasasanay sa mga bagay na pwede namang wala sa buhay ko."

"hinahanap mo nga ba ako o ang kawalan ko?"

"hindi dahil sa hindi mo naiintindihan ang isang bagay aykasinungalingan naito. at hindi lahat ng kaya mong intindihin ay katotohanan. "

"Sabi nila, sa kahit ano raw problema, isang tao lang ang makakatulong sa'yo- ang sarili mo. Tama sila. Isinuplong ako ng sarili ko. Kaya siguro namigay ng konsyensya ang Diyos, alam niyang hindi sa lahat ng oras e gumagana ang utak ng tao."

"Obligasyon kong maglayag, karapatan kong pumunta sa kung saan ko gusto,responsibilidad ko ang buhay ko."

"Masama akong tao, tulad mo, sa parehong paraan na mabuti kang tao,tulad ko."

"Mas mabuting mabigo sa paggawa ng isang bagay kesa magtagumpay sapaggawa ng wala."

"iba ang walang ginagawa sa gumagawa ng wala."

"iba ang informal gramar sa mali !!!"

" Para san ba ang cellphone na may camera? Kung kailangan sa buhay un,dapatmatagal na kong patay."

"Pare, isa kang totoong tao at walang halong kasinungalingan. InEnglish,FACT you, pare. Totoo ka. In English, FACT you!"