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New Year Message. Brushing those annual oaths.

My message in the so-called 'New Year.' Sometimes you don't have to limit yer capability to just an annual rate. Cheers dearies! =p


In my English:
The calendar caged time, days & the earth's rotation, to provide us a system for organising events & occasions, and for planning things we want to do. Hope & change for a better life will always be there, no matter what figure your calendar, Lunar or Solar, shows. So live your life that every time you wake up, there's hope & good change. A meaningful new year to all. Happy New Year!

In my Filipino:
Ang pagkulong ng kalendaryo sa ikot ng mundo, sa oras at sa mga araw ay ginawa upang magkaruon lamang ng organisasyon ang mga pangyayari at okasyon, at upang mas madaling makapagplano ng mga gawain. Ang pagbabago at pag-asa sa mas magandang buhay ay laging nandiyan anu mang numero ang nakalagay sa kalendaryo mo, Lunar man o Solar. Kaya't mabuhay ka na sa bawat paggising mo ay may pag-asa at pagbabagong maganda. Isang makabuluhang bagong taon sa lahat. Happy New Year!!!

A quickie.

I'm going for this 'quickie' post cos an hour from now i'll be driving all the way to Masbate province for some work. It's a 13 hour drive with 3 hours ship travel.

I haven't been much on my desk neither on my computer for more than a week because the ground floor of our family's house where my room is located got the dear ol' flood, now higher than ever. So i spent the whole week after the typhoon cleaning, salvaging, restoring and relocating the ground floor, the kitchen, my room and all the things in it. I'll get into specifics when i get back in the Metro. Hopefully. =p

While doing all that task i remember the lines from Dean Dimalanta's Unobstructed View:

'it is as if i were seeing
the world beautifully void,
with new eyes, new soul.
all the clutter and din
and stringencies of past lifetimes
wiped out sheet-clean. nothing is there.'

I know the tragedy, through house fire, of the author as well as those in the Marikina & Rizal areas does not compare to mine. There are just some small rate similarities of what i felt and what i am feeling. Especially with the clutter and the somewhat fresh spectacles looking at my life.

'Now I begin to re-establish
links, re touch, re-focus
as I pen the text of new days'

And now, I'm gonna be on my farthest driving trip with my dearest cousin who is currently feeling disillusioned with his life abroad & with a snap caught a plane back here in the country for some thinking & whatever he has in mind. What a situation & company ennit'?

So all the best for us and let's look at tragedies and say in their face...

Up yours! =p

Unpopular

Twitting the other day and i saw a take on Vampires by no other than the Great Lord Neil Gaiman.

Excerpts:
Where are we now, in the grand vampire cycle?
Vampires go in waves, and it kind of feels like now we're finishing a vampire wave; at the point where they're everywhere. It's probably time to go back underground for another 20 or 25 years.

They’ve reached the saturation point.
I think so, and it definitely sort of feels like classical vampires have been around enough that if they could go back in their coffins, the next time they come out [they could] mean something really different. That would be cool.

Yes. I myself have been telling friends that Vampires have had too much sunlight already. After their peak with Eminent Anne Rice, yer usual action & parody with the likes of Blade 1-3 & Dracula Dead & Loving It, it’s really time that they go back to them coffins with a stake to their... you decide where.

Next day, was looking on updates about the King of Darkness himself Stephen King & I saw a bit similar interview. And fortunately, he had something to say about the popular Twilight’s author.

Excerpt:
"The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good,"

Wow. That’s ‘straight from the elbow!’ Guts from the master eh?! Oh and yes, of course, i myself do loathe Twilight and all its manifestations.

Ya, i know, many of you especially my friends, & on my estimate half of the world do not conform with my judgement. But it’s all right, it’s but natural to disagree & have counter sentiments on different matters. We are after all ‘free’ to think and decide, yeah? And i do respect yours too. You fans can shout all you want that you like this & people like me can also shout sh!ts about this plague ruining humanity especially the kids with them Twilight bags & stickers. As one of the great professors puts it “we can disagree without being disagreeable.”

But the thing is, I HAVE THE GIANTS ON MY SIDE (in this matter at least). They give maggots like me a sense of confirmation that however unpopular one’s perspective is, it’s still somewhat reasonable, valid & a source of force. So, don’t be afraid to be unpopular, you never know who’s standing right by you. =p

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