Hallmarks of Felinity

Well, hmm.. I agree to that. This is one of my favorite comic strip. Simple, witty, thought provoking and most of the times funny. And ain't you love Solange? He's/she's adorable. :)

Lyre Bird - David Attenborough

Can you believe this animal? It's voted as the best of the best. Try and see it for yourself, how clever this animal is.

..to the ends of the earth.

It's hard to have no internet connection, can't update regularly. Anyway, I just want to share that this day was just very tiring but very rewarding too! I just have had one of the best days I ever had.

In the morning I participated to the project of GK(Gawad Kalinga), of building houses for the needy. We had human chain passing the hollow blocks, gravels, sands and everything needed for building houses. I had worked with these kinds of things way back when I was small, helping our house to be built, but it's different to build someone's houses with friends. The experience was very enriching and fun, though it's sure very tiring, but when you see the smiles in the faces of the children and people you are helping building their houses with, your tiredness will be reciprocated with joy! It's hard to explain, all I can say is that it's rewarding serving others, especially the needy. I planned to join the building event in the morning only because I have to attend the World Conference of Christians (the EN07) in Araneta by 2:00 in the afternoon. But my friends requested me to stay a little bit longer for the building event will close by 3:00pm, and a program will follow. So I stayed, (because, anyway, the EN07 has two scheds 2-4, and 6-9, i decided to go for the 6-9 sched, but I can I attend both if I choose) and continued working with them. By 5pm I left the GK to go to Araneta (actually thinking about the freebie of the event, that is a pillow, they said that it's a gift for the Green Section, that was the group of people sitting in the uppermost bleachers of the coliseum, and I belong with them for I registered late, haha!!) a good thing that I still got a pillow! haha! I'm blessed, this is my remembrance! Woohoo!!

Anyway, inside the coliseum were the gathering of my brothers and sisters for Christ, from 44 countries, from different provinces in the Philippines. This was the 2nd day of the EN07 event, it's a 3 day event starting from 20 to 23 of July, and tomorrow will be the last day of the event. I have never saw that kind of crowd before, it's almost crazy, outrageous. The presentation were superb, the preachings were great! But what I love the most is the worship part, especially when all of us shouted for several minutes!! It supposed to be just 60 secs, but it happened to be several minutes long, it will not stop if the speaker did not spoke and started the worship songs. It was so wonderful!! I felt that I have endless source of energy in me (even though i came from a tiring work). Jodi and Karlo were in the Grey section, in the very bottom of the coliseum, too bad that we haven't met yet through the 2 days of the event, I'm looking forward to see them tomorrow! (But we are texting each other time to time) The good thing with that was I met new friends! and that was great!

I'm looking forward for tomorrow, can't wait! But I feel tired now. Haha, I want to sleep now.

grow

This is what I wrote, when one day I woke up, and it just came out of me. I planned to make it a children's book, but not worth it. I feel like lecturing. Haha, kids wont like that. But I'll post it anyway.


The eagle was once an egg,
then he hatched, fed and grew.
Taught to fly, maybe got some
broken wings along the way, but
still he flew.
No one can't stop him,
not even the wind or the deadly heights.
And because of that, wind became his best
companion and height
a close friend.
And he soar.

The mighty oak was once an acorn,
survived the many squirrels passed by.
Inside that little bud that only wanted
is to see the sun.
Then it peeked.
As a little sprout, he enjoyed the sun,
but the harsh wind and
the strong storms always coming by.
Some feet might have nearly trampled him.
But still it never stopped him reaching the sun,
then he grew. But as the still little, humble oak grew,
some animals had eaten its leaves, some little creatures
live within him, yet he is happy.
He stand still, stand firm.
Now he is the mighty old oak we know.

The apple was once a seed,
now she has lot of love to share to the
world with her red fruit.
The once cannot stand kid is now a horse,
one of the fastest creature in earth.
Before the Lion became the king,
he was once the little prince without
knowing what he would become.
Who would have thought ugly duckling
will grow as a creature of beauty and grace
-- the swan?
And a very long, long list goes.

And you and I as little children now,
will grow. You will grow as you,
and me as me.
Yet you are good and wonderful and beautiful
in your own way.
Like the eagle and the oak in their own ways.
And you and me will never stop to grow.

sand

This is supposed to be a song I wrote long time ago. But I forgot how it was sung. I hope I could remember.

The day is old and weary
And I am going home
The sun is red and bloody
Saying his last goodbye

On the endless fields of gold
Where the wind whispers to the wheat
And there, rush to shore
Put a smile on my face

Now I walk in the sands of white
Leaving my footsteps behind
To the waves of eternal sea
keeps erasing my memory

I'm but a sand
In time, will turn to sea

The road that I have made
Is now a forest
A long forgotten road
Hidden into the trees

And the stars of endless light
Kindly guides my way home
Though the way is dark
Looking up, I'm never lost

I'm but just a sand
In time, will turn to sea
Ebbing the life we know
To give us a new one forever

I'm but just a sand
In time, will turn to sea

my heart is drenched in wine
but you'll be on my mind
forever


i don't know why, norah jones

a time for everything

Last day, I was asking God life's questions. I seem to be lost. Why does He leading me to the place I do not know. And God is good enough to comfort me with His wisdom. I stumbled to the pages of ecclesiastes, I think this is just the answer that I needed.

To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born,
And a time to die;
A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;
A time to kill,
And a time to heal;
A time to break down,
And a time to build up;
A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones,
And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;
A time to tear,
And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;
A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war;
And a time of peace.
-ecc. 3:1-8

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

seven years

Outside, the rain is falling in the tin roof. Inside, i can feel the slowness of this season, that gives content to my heart. Now, I go back of those days that I used to go outside and play in the rain with my childhood friends, making dikes in the mud, or mud fighting as if it is snow; the stronger the rain the more we love it, we will never stop until it's really cold as ice, or mom is calling for hot porridge or when it's already "mask rider black" (of course we have to watch that, we never missed a single episode :D).

Until seven years ago I can do those things. I wonder why I cannot do it right now. And it gave me an odd feeling of nostalgia while listening to the music of Norah Jones.







Seven Years

Spinning, laughing, dancing to
her favorite song
A little girl with nothing wrong
Is all alone

Eyes wide open
Always hoping for the sun
And she'll sing her song to anyone
that comes along

Fragile as a leaf in autumn
Just fallin' to the ground
Without a sound

Crooked little smile on her face
Tells a tale of grace
That's all her own

Spinning, laughing, dancing to her favorite song
A little girl with nothing wrong
And she's all alone

do it poorly

I didn't know that this seemingly negative phrase is really helpful, especially if you really want something to get done. Quite a long time ago, someone asked me to do a blog, i said,"no, not until i made a good design for it"(because I love her blog). And so I did not made anything until now. (This is for her.)

I realized that what's taking the life out of me, (also in writing and illustrating) is this paralyzing thing called: perfectionism.

"Dare to be dreadful", i like that phrase because it is a good tool to fight that great enemy that always creeps on you when you are bound to do something -- the deadly perfectionism.

And here's what some clever people had to say about it:

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."
-William Faulkner (1897-1962)

"Anything worth doing is worth doing badly."
- G.K. Chesterton(1874-1936)

"No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers." -Author Unknown

"Sometimes... when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing." -From the television show Ally McBeal

"You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out." -Martha Graham(1894 – 1991)

Congratulations! You're not perfect! It's ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody's ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you're not perfect! Wonderful! Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they're really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs 'em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week. -Stephen Manes,(1949) Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry(1900-1944)

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano(1922-2007)

Does 'anal-retentive' have a hyphen? -Alison Bechdel, 1990 Dykes to Watch Out For calendar (Thank you, Chelsea.)

"The enemy of creation is perfectionism."-R.D.R. Cedro (1987-present)

"No work is perfect to a perfectionist."-R.D.R. Cedro (1987-present)

Well, some words from the wise. (teehee) I think I have nothing to argue about that. Forget perfect let us just have fun!!