Category Archives: HOPE

NOT my day

Have you ever been in a situation that everything seems to be way out of your planned schedule? Waking up one morning thinking that the day would be just fine when all of a sudden it turned upside down? I have.

Waiting patiently for 4 hours in the airport.

It was a Saturday dawn when I arrived home from work and immediately packed my luggage for a weekend meeting in Laguna (Luzon). It was already 2 a.m. and my flight was at 6 a.m. so I decided not to sleep instead I entertained myself by watching a television series. I tried not to sleep fearing that I might go on with the feeling and forget about my flight (yet it didn’t work cause I still unconsciously had a nap). I got freshen up, ate my baby back ribs (Casa Verde) with rice breakfast and a sip of warm milk. I bid good bye to my sister (who joined me in my short vigil) and went off to see a taxi. Continue reading →

reunions

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget–anonymous

October of 2009: The Winx (meaning withhold) parted ways as the semester ends. Because we are all irregular students, either transferee or shiftee, most of us finished school on the first semester of AY 2009-2010. One member went to Manila for good, one to her hometown in Negros Oriental, two applied to a media company, and one still working on her thesis (who later applied for media work).

December 2009: Three of us got work as media practitioners while the two were still enjoying their freedom as newly graduates.

January 2010: Plans for a possible reunion were organized but was not pushed until February.

Unfortunately, due to availability and other reasons, only three of the Winx came. The whole two hours of chitchat and photo sessions was definitely once in a lifetime because a day after the meeting the other one left for Manila.

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DANCING with the Inmates

Real love isn’t our love for God, but his love for us. God sent his Son to be the sacrifice by which our sins are forgiven.–1 John 4:10

CRIMINALS. That’s how we see them. But more than the nine-word legal term for people who have committed a violation of what we the constitution is right, these people are also human beings who laughs, cries, and prays.

Having the opportunity to see them firsthand, I should say it was scary because of the personal prejudice and prejudgment we put on ourselves for what the society is telling us. Yet seeing them dancing with enthusiasm and happiness changed my whole perception of them as fully dangerous people.

I got the chance to dance with the YouTube and world sensation Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center inmates with the song “Nobody” by the Korean group, Wonder Girls.

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A journey to 2010

Who could have thought that time machine does exist? I didn’t but it did happen to me.

The year 2009 may be a fruitful year for me and my family, yet for most of my fellow countrymen, it was a year of sorrow and loss. As the new year is gradually unfolding to the eyes of the people, it would be rather good to leave all the nightmares in the time machine.

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