Coffee Universe
In life’s many universes, the Coffee Universe is my retreat, where there are all the shadows and lights of the real world and I let it tumble around in my mind. It is my great escape, where I can view what’s happening in my life and choose if I want to zoom in on a detail I want to study or zoom out to get a greater perspective on things. When I retreat to this place, I get ideas for blog posts, mull over the things I’ve done in the recent or distant past, or plan for what I’d be doing in the future. It’s my “me” time, my quality time with myself and my thoughts.
It doesn’t have to be in a coffee shop. It could be any place where nobody would be constantly disturbing me with the superficialities of life. You know, it can really be tiring and irritating when everybody just keeps on looking for you asking or making you do things. Even the voice of people where you live can become cumbersome to listen to. So, as long as I have my coffee and a relatively quiet time, I’d get in my personal bubble and I’ll be fine.
A Bad Joke
I only have few passions in life, one of which is basketball. It’s the 29th William Jones Cup, though the tournament is not as prestigious as World Championship, Asian Basketball or Olympics, seeing the best players of our professional league slug it out with other national teams in itself is interesting. So I look forward to watching the live feed of the game between SMB-Pilipinas against Chinese-Taipei, 5 PM at the ESPN cable channel. This match is interesting since we are up against a tall, quick and strong team, who consistently beat the shit out of the Philippine team since 1999. The Hsin-Chuang Stadium is capacity full dominated by Chinese with substantial Filipinos in attendance.The Philippine team is up by 18 points and Chinese-Taipei is on the run shooting 3 consecutive tripples with less than 3 minutes to go on the final quarter. All of the sudden the live feed was abruptly cut and a new program was aired. What the *&%#! As of this writing, I have no idea who won. The Philippine team won, 82-64.
Deciding On a Blog Topic
This post is a part of PinoyBlogero’s “Starting Out A New Blog” Series. These posts serve as a guide for me in creating my own new blog but can also be of help to others as well.
Many bloggers tend to carelessly build blogs without giving much thought on what blog topic they should tackle on their blogs. A blog topic is the subject matter that the blog will be focusing on all throughout its life span.
Personal blogs have no problem on looking for a blog topic because they can tackle anything that they want. Niche blogs on the other hand needs to be planned carefully because it is one of the most critical stages in the development of a blog.
The number of topics that a blogger can tackle is virtually limitless. However, this wide selection only makes it difficult for a blogger to choose a topic for his blog. Picking by random would be foolish. What we need to do is to pick a blog topic carefully and methodically.
When I try to think of a new topic for a blog, I consider the following factors:
- Own interest on the topic – This is an important factor. The more that you have interest on a particular topic, the more it will be easier for you to come up with content. Also, this will also be the basis if you truly know what you are talking about. Don’t try to force yourself on a topic that you don’t know, you’ll only end with half-baked articles.
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When is it love?
As what i promised danica, I posted this entry as endearment to her previous entry on love. Love is a very powerful human emotion that is hard to define. It can make a person undergo various emotions – happy, sad, elated, depressed, lonely, lively, frustrated, etc. depending on the situation and circumstance around a person.
Find out and assess yourself if you have experienced how it is to love and to be loved.
SIGNS OF LOVE
Abiding sense of comradeship – there is a spirit of mutual thoughtfulness, an eagerness to understand each other. Sweethearts and pals. They enjoy being together. When they are absent from each other, each is in the background of the other’s thoughts.
Feeling that life has been lifted to a higher level – they inspire each other to new hopes, new virtues, honor and loyalty, all of these providing them stability.
Putting sexual feelings in perspective – ordinarily, there is a stirring of sexual desires. This is not uncleanness. The reactions will be curbed, to control, to manage this desire. Love curbs the crude and selfish.
Confidence and trust – two person in love learn they can count on each one at all times.
We are never a BAD-NEWS country
May 17, 3:30 PM (Nepali time), 5:30 here in the Philippines, the Filipino people was unified as Leo Oracion, Erwin Emata and Romy Garduce reached the highest pinnacle of the world plus few other Filipino climbers, men and women. August 12, 2006, Filipino singers fortified the Philippine’s status in the international entertainment scene winning 86 medals , industry awards and a grand vocal champion award for the Cercado Sisters in the World Championship of Performing Arts held at Los Angeles, California. Tourist arrivals in the country continue to move from strength to strength. DOT records a total of 1, 420, 040 arrivals from January to June this year, a 10.4 percent increase from the same period last year.
These inspired us being pure Filipinos. Of the myriad positive featured stories published and unpublished in the Philippine television and the mainstream press, the Mt. Everest Expedition, WCOPA and the increase in tourism industry are just a few, indeed. We still have our country on ASEAN centerstage as chairman and the sampaguita emblazoned on new ASEAN logo.
Human Security Act
The controversial Human Security Act (read: anti-terrorism law) will take effect this month. Should we have any valid reason to fear the implementation of this new law? Is it really a draconian measure or martial law in disguise as described by the Opposition? Well, if it is harmless as insisted by its proponents, why was it not immediately implemented last February after it was signed into law?
Read more at Mongster’s Nest
Does this mean something?
As a routine, I check my accounts, update and bloghop.
But tonight, I felt nostalgic and searched for blogs/sites related to my highschool. I found a couple of blogs (still not as much as I thought I wound find) usually by bloggers who just graduated from highschool (and thankfully proud of their alma mater).
Anyway one of the blogs I visited was that of a mother of a young student from my former school. I found some links to her other posts which led me to another blog . The site was a group blog of our alumni, graduated the same year of my birth. From that blog I found out, she (the mother) was an alumna as well. Â
Just checking out more links, I passed by an entry about a demise of another alumna which I didn’t mind because I don’t know her (I don’t remember from what blog). That was until I checked my multiply and saw an update ( from other network contacts) with the same topic. Finding a coincidence, I checked the post and confirmed we went to same schools (It turned out we went to the same college as well).
[And I checked my multiply account only because one of the links led me to some blogs -- including that person's blog at multiply]
Creepy.Â
It felt like I’m hunting for something I don’t even know. Â
p.s. More coincidences. The batch she graduated from highschool was the year I was born. Her name is the same with mine, which I don’t usually use. Just a while ago, this name was the one the barista remembered as my nick — and the last time I went to that cafe was more than a month ago. And the piano. Someone’s getting paranoid here.
This is what the pink panther got me into.
Does this mean something?
Alaala ng Baguio
* I just want to share this entry I found while cleaning out (deleting) my other blog accounts. [Repost from i.ph May 2006 - account probably deleted by this time]
Nag-ayos kami ng kabinet noong isang araw it isang album ang biglang nagpabilis ng tibok ng puso ko. Isang album na puno ng aming mga litrato ng pagpunta namin sa Baguio noong bata pa kami.
Naalala ko itong lugar na yon sa Camp John Hay. Iyon na ang pinakamalaking palaruan na nakita ko. Kapag pupunta kami ng Baguio noon yung malaking playground lang ang hinahanap ko. Tumatayo pa rin ang balahibo ko kapag naiisip ko kung gaano ko na enjoy maglaro. Buong araw, kahit sobrang init, wala akong tigil. Sabik kung baga. Pakiramdam ko dito lang ako naging malayang maglaro ng maglaro. Kaunti lang ang naglalaro dito, parang aming-amin lang ang lugar (mahiyain ako noon at di mahilig makipaglaro sa ibang bata, kasama na ang hindi ako marunong makipag-agawan ng puwesto – loser ata ang tawag sa mga ganito). Isa pa, may mga laruan sila na di pa makikita sa Manila noon – wala pa kasing McDonald’s playhouse (ang naalala ko lang yung sa Tropical Hut at Shakey’s… nyak). Tama na ang kuwento. Read more
