newest bff

on boring class hours, i have the leaves of my notebook as a trash bin. a familiar territory where i dump emotional overloads. i form hearts, draw circles and decide which name fits perfectly to both shapes. i quote thoughts i know will be useful and when words are scarce, i simply dot. but overtime, i have ceased viewing notebooks as mere things. they have evolved to be the ultimate companion.
the friend. my bestfriend. i can rant, profess feelings, bitch and bitch more and even doodle--they wouldn't do a thing. and it is never their lapse of emotion nor the lack of heart that causes them to be silent. they are the way they are because they were made to listen. their black lines were made horizontally straight so that anyone who writes on them has straightened up issues with himself. that is why people are brutally honest when they choose to battle with words. when they choose to write, they bare their souls out. at times they attempt, like water to drown facts too nicely, the truth still stays afloat. they try too hard. we try too hard... so much that we forget it was the very reason why jose died.
he was too honest.

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im still writing on notebooks.
=*

you know who you are

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i dont know how to hold you anymore.
it's so frustrating for me to see you so sad and knowing that there's nothing i can do
but watch and wait for you to be okay.
i luv u kim. hope you'll be ok soon, i miss you.
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sent: 22 may 2008
12:43 pm

watching and waiting for me to be fine wouldn't be that hard.
you i know id recover. as i always do.

though our 13 min catching up never actually catched up, i know i'll be seeing youtomorrow.
we'll do the real thing, then.
and you know, we do it like no other.
luv u too.
:)

june ohhh eight.

*some girls are just born with glitter in their veins*
(l-r: anby. tina. em. kim)
(dated: june oh eight)

...

i used to think of you that way, you know. like the sun.. my personal sun. you balanced the clouds nicely for me. the clouds i can handle. but i cant fight with an eclipse.

-bella.jacob
twilight.

intermittent

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guy: i miss you.
and i have always been missing you.
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inspiration: come home
artist: one republic

Hello, world, hope you're listening
Forgive me if I`m young or speaking out of turn
But there`s someone that I`ve been missin'
And I think that they could be the better half of me
They`re in the wrong place, tryin' to make it right
And I`m tired of justifying, so I say to you...


"Come home, come home
'Cause I`ve been waiting for ya, for so long, for so long
And right now there's a war between the vanities
But all I see is you and me
The fight for you is all I`ve ever known
So come home"


I get lost in the beauty
Of everything I see, the world ain`t half as bad as they paint it to be
If all the sons, all the daughters, stop to take it in
Hopefully, the hate subsides, and the love can begin
It might start now, or maybe I`m just dreamin' out loud, but until then


Everything I can`t be, is everything you should be
And that`s why I need you here
Everything i can`t be, is everything you should be
And that`s why I need you here
So hear this now

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if she had always been a-okay with your departures then it was because she knew you'd knock again.
because she had hoped in the hope that jesus does resurrect the whatever.
but after certain thought, she is a little too uncertain about everything now.
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shoutout to: gossip girl s1
T_T

i was going over my archives,

when i saw this.
and i am remembered of how i persistently stalkED you-- hopping over accounts for bits and pieces of who you were. ogling over those who seemed like you. i have bared my disguise, made things too obvious but nonetheless, i didn't care. i didn't care as long as i get what i wanted. and for a twist of luck (a.k.a divine intervention for my diligence), gaps were overturned, bridges were built and walls molded from being permeable to non-existent. i wasn't your stalker anymore. i never had to steal your pictures, while you secretly had to shot every corner of my smile. and i wasn't asking people where you were or what you were doing because i was one of those who knew first. and i never had to ask if you were fine because i knew it when you weren't.

it was transparent. we were.
but we also knew how to be discreet. in that way your clamor with other women would continue. and i would just continue life with one person, with you, much of an addition to it.
it was easier that way. an excitement our egos loved too much to forego. and for whatever is in the present, whether things are back to square 1 or not at all, i can manage.
everyone gets what they want. if only they knew the ways to get it.

worthy enough

tragedy is when your blog, the only place where you put your heart out and shout and scream like no one cares, doesnt feel like home. anymore.
and i am feeling tragic right now. i am out of words not because the events that happened in between the last post and this have been too awesome or magical (mind me, they havent) but because i am not able to squeeze whatever there is left to squeeze. that the only thing that has been with you all this time has left you, you feel betrayed. and empty.
hence, the abscence of posts. even with this, life still feels a little too much of a tragedy.
i do deserve my happily ever after, too. don't i?

they say so.

Men are just happier people -- what do you expect from such simple creatures?

Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can be President. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. You can wear NO shirt to a water park. Car Mechanics tell you the truth. The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky. You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. Same work, more pay. Wrinkles add character. Wedding dress, $5000. Tux rental, $100. People never stare at your chest when you are talking to them. The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected. New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet. One mood all the time. Phone conservations are over in 30 seconds flat. You know stuff about tanks. A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. You can open all of your own jars. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend. Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack. Three pairs of shoes are more than enough. You almost never have strap problems in public. You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes. Everything on your face stays its original color. The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe even decades. You only have to shave your face and neck. You can play with toys all your life. Your belly usually hides you big hips. One wallet and one pair of shoes one color for all seasons. You can wear shorts no matter what how your legs look. You can "do" your nails with a pocket knife. You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache. You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.

No wonder men are happier.

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but are they really happy?

out of words

i look up and remember that
we settled for another kind of lunacy.
another form of madness.

once again.

backward going fast forward

It has always been a question of how well we fast track our lives to run in pace with it; and never vice versa. Technology will not stop for us. It will continue running its course no matter how many lives it leaves behind.

Students who have been born and believed to survive without a computer find this piece of technology rather bothersome. Everything now comes in an instant. One touch, one click and viola… you get what you want. However, this principle doesn’t work for those who were born to believe that easy come is easy go. That hard work is the only tactic one could flawlessly pull through life.

Companies and corporations have been linking themselves online with high hopes of employment. But this has a benefit heavily concentrated to the urban people depriving those in the rural areas of a job they badly need. That is why the poverty threshold, the minimum amount of income per family, in rural areas have been going uphill. Simple, they do not get a job. They do not have the right information that there is. They do not have enough computer equipments to know that there exists information.

And while urban yuppies are busying themselves for online applications of passports and visas, those in the rural areas are desperately dropping every inch of effort just for a fare to the city. Everything for an overheard job fair.

But the rural population is not composed of subhuman beings. Their needs and aspirations are similar to those living in urban areas—bound to meet reality and not be trashed after each and every technological breakthrough. Technology development should take place keeping what they have in total view.

Most of the technology development that takes place for rural areas is carried out with an aim to keep it simple so that the devices can be made rural themselves. And for some time, the emphasis of technology developers for rural areas has been on catering for needs (with small improvement) rather than creating a demand. But are they supposed to shift their gears? In the name of advancement, yes.

The need for rural technology development should be recognized; for a problem isn’t problem at all with denial present. Rural areas having higher market potentials must be taken note of. Then a project could be collaborated by the industrial sector, NGOs, LGUs, researchers and workers.

Technology developers should not shy away from complex and sophisticated technologies for rural areas. They only need to have a good plan. They only need to base their plan with what is present, something deficient from the theories formulated on them.

But the question of as to whom the technology is created for should not be set aside. Rural areas are different from that of the urban. Their conditions call for another set of solutions. The economic situation of these people precludes any or little participation in this process. However, if presented properly and given the right aims… their seemed inability to earn big and earn well do not have anything to do with their ability to push themselves to development.