mom's know best :)

you will never look at a cup
of coffee the same way again after u reading it .



a young woman went to her mother and told
her about her life and how things were so
hard for her. she did not know how she was going
to make it and wanted to give up. she was TIRED
of fighting and struggling. it seemedd that as one
problem was solved, a new one arose.

her mother took her in the kitchen.
she filled three pots with water and
placed each on a high fire. soon the pots came
to a boil and the first she placed carrots, and the
second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed
a ground coffee beans. she left these sit and boil,
without saying a word. in about twenty minutes
she turned off the burners.

she fished the carrots out and placed them
in a bowl. she pulled the eggs out and placed them
in a bowl. then she ladled the coffee out and placed
it in a bowl turning to her daughter, she asked,
"tell me what do you see?"

"carrots, eggs, and coffee", she replied.
her mother brought her closer and asked
her to peel the carrots. she did and noted
that they were soft.

the mother then asked the daugther to
take an egg and break it. after pulling off the shell,
she observed the hardboiled egg.

finally, the mother asked the daughter to
sip the coffee. the daughter smiled as she tasted
its sweet aroma. the daughter smiled as she teased
its sweet aroma. the daughter then asked, "what ,
does it means mom?"

her mother explained that each of these
objects had faced the same adversity ....
boiling water. each reacted differently. the carrot went
in strong, hard and unrelenting. however, after
being subjected to the boiling water if softened
and became weak.

the egg had been FRAGILE. its thin outer shell
had protected its interior but after sitting through
the boiling water its inside became HARDER ..

the ground coffee beans were unique,
however. after they were in the boiling water,
they had changed the water.

""which are you?" she asked her daughter ..
"when adversity knocks on your door, how do
you respond?are you carrot,eggs or a coffee beans?"


think which iam? am i the CARROT THAT
seems strong, but with PAIN and ADVERSITY DO I
WILT and become soft and lose my STRENGTH? am
i an egg that starts with a malleable heart, but
changes with the heat?did i have a fluid spirit,
but after a BREAK UP,a financial hardship or some
other TRIAL, have i became HARDENED?does my
shell look the same, but on the inside am i BITTER
and tough with a CYNICAL SPIRIT and hardened heart?

or am i like COFFEE BEANS? the beans
actually changes the hot water, the
very circumtance that brings the PAIN.
when the water gets hot, it releases the
FRAGRANCE AND FLAVOR. if you are like
the bean, when things are at their
WORST, you get better and change the
SITUATION AROUNDS ME. when the hour is
the DARKEST AND TRIALS ARE THEIR
GREATEST< DO YOUELEVATE YOURSELF TO
ANOTHER LEVEL?


you will never look at a cup
of coffee the same way again after u reading it .

mizzing :(

i am alive , i still breathe the
poluted air of the freaking world .. but

you know what? i should be dead ,
lifeless and rotting in a solitary grave
without a name. i shouldn't be
living ...why? 'coz there's a big graping

hole in my chest, a space of empty void
and NOTHINGNESS existing to eat away
the broken soul within me ...

i should be numb, not feeling
anger and sorrow, joy or fear, grief or
strife... these feelings do not belong to
'me. to experience them means i am
able to live life the way i want. to feel
them i should be traveling around the
world seeing many places. to realize
them i should be holding somebody's
hand and kissing his lips, looking at him
in the eye, see myself reflected back.

but i don't ... 'coz im ALONE, im sick and
im ordinary for not having a single penny
under mt name ..

yet, in other ways than that i'm
RICH ! why? 'coz i was able to create my
OWN WORLD, a place where i am GODDESS and
i play guitar. i can soar above the sky
like an EAGLE. i can plunge into the
OCEAN and swim with the fishes in the
deepest sea. i can shout and sound as
THUNDER or snap my fingers to make

LIGHTNING. i can CRY all day and make
the rain come down. i can LAUGH & SMILE
all i want while the sun BLAZES under
my command. i can do just about
anything but i couldn't
ask anyone to

created my own world become a GODDESS
while everyone else lived in the same
old woerld and shared their lives with
each other . . .

it is SELFISHNESS that is so plain to
see, i'm ALONE in my OWN WORLD and nobody
lives in it with me. i then realize i cannot
be GODDESS .. for i am HUMAN. i can create
WORLDS & UNIVERSES but i can't create
someone like me. i have been FOOLISH

to think that my world will be everyone
else's world ...perhaps i'd rather be
in a small world, sharing my life with
everyone else ..

now iam alive, i still breathe the
polluted air of the FREAKIN' WORLD ... but
you know what? there's no gaping
hole in my chest, no space of void and
nothingness, i can only hear a sound
now, a BEATING a word that repeats over
and over again throughout my LIFETIME:

L___O___V___E

the art of reasoning

"bakit kmi, at hindi ang mga magnanakaw?"
tanong ng mga nag bebenta ng aliw
"bakit kmi, at hindi ang mga higanteng magnanakaw sa gobyerno?"
tanong ng mga maliliit na magnanakaw
"bakit kami-----mga opisyal kami ng gobyerno?!?
tanong ng mga malinis na politiko.


bakit kami?
sa kaduluhuluhan, walang pumapayag na maging
"SILA". tutal pare-pareho naman tayo...
basta't walang PAKIALAMANAN, walang
kailangang maging "KAMI"

----bakit baligtad magbasa ng LIBRO ang mga pinoy?



why take blame for mistakes you can get away with
UNSCATHED? we are suprisingly been trained to reason out
from mundane to life changing MISTAKES. the same gift of
capability to retionalize had saved thousand of CRIMINALS . . .
TOLERATING ERRORS because WRONG DOERS have the ABILITY TO
JUSTIFY their acts had blown things out of proportion. KARMA,
FENG SHUI, and even ASTROLOGY provided enough REASONS for
the SOCIETY to get away even from a BLOODY MURDER. so
WHEN & WHY ART OF REASONING HAD BEEN BORN?

the world is inhabited with people who believe that
twisting facts to turn things on their side is a STROKE OF GENIUS.
there are people born who has the cunning ability to get
away with almost everything. taking responsibilities for the
consequences of ones doing had proven to be hard, that is
said to be the reason behind the birth of the craft who
continued to envolve together with the HUMANITY.

everyone was ENCOURAGED to use reason. it had been
recommended to have courage and use ones INTELLIGENCE.
however, the result was DEVASTATING. minds began to grow
considerably in size among primates and ideas had developed
into something SELF DESTRUCTING. people are using the gift in
an unprincipled manner. some even have spirit to turn
the tables and state, "if you dont agree with my reason,
you dont have reason", and reason suddenly became as
selective as knowledge was before.

REASONING IS A CRAFT; it requires great skills to make it
appear anything but a FLIMSY EXCUSE. some have met the
qualifications, even exceed standards, that no one SUSPECTS that
they are only VALIDATING their DEEDS. however, it's an
skilled at careful reasoning. what is especially problematic,
though, is the fact when one is UNSKILLEd to give
a careful REASONING, they also necessarily
lack the skills needed to realize that they are unskilled at
careful reasoning. thus, as a resukt, they typically think that they are
quite good at the task - even to the point of
CRITICIZING the skills of those who
actually do know what they are doing . . . . . .

"y doed other human olwies implied that they
were intelligent than others?they behold
thy strength and down other
weakness? saying they were good
enough and knows every but the mere
fact, its only pRIDE , they show
of being above of everything'

a FRIGHTEN thoughts is that the generation today
had crossed the thin line between REASONING & EXCUSES.
the PRACTICE believed to be FOLLOWED by many great
minds had been REDUCED now to an act of
INCOMPETENCE. the age old agrument wheter
REASONING HOLDS GLORY or not,
has yet end , however a bad reasoning, in
NO DOUBT, passes merely as an excuse. certainly
that is the lowest point you don't want
to reach for excuses are like assholes.
everyone has one and they all STINK

realizing success in the material expecting world

we are living in a world where success is
predetermined by social expectations. even before we come
out of our mothers wombs, getting an education and then
having a lucrative job in the future is the standard goal that
human cultures expects for us to attain. while we needs, wants,
and other things are being mixed_up that we fail to recognize
one thing from the other, we are then obliged to go with
the flow and focus on the material aspect of success.

a kid who should have been a talendted painter or a good
public school teacher would most likely prefer to have a
career he/she is not so good at if it would take him overseas.
this implies that in the real world, success is measured by
how much we gain materially in this life,not how much
we gain of ourselves. success would be far from your
reach unless you take the shape of the mold, ang get there
first base, is to have education.

do we really go to college to exercise our mental
capabilities? to learn how to preserve? partly, but in a
world ran by MONEY, the main reason is for us to have a
DEGREE & GET A JOB IN THE FUTURE not only to meet our NEEDS
AND WANTS, but also TO FULFILL THE PURPOSE SET US BY THE SOCIETY.
these overlapping factors,if not serving as challenging
stimuli the youth, could only add up to the PRESSURES at their VULNERABLE AGE.

from the moment the toddler starts to speak, the childs
mind would be fed with ABC'S. anf then, he/she would be
sent to school and study for GOD-KNOWS-HOW-LONG years.
years spent, preparing to make money as soon as and as much
as possible. STUDY & WORK. that two are STAGES OF
A HUMAN LIFE-CYCLE in a material world. it seems like we are
BORN TO BE MONEY-MAKING MACHINES.

in school, the students get to choose what they want
themselves to be, its either of the two, they can nourish
their minds with things that could back them up in the future
or be dropped-out losers who could lay down on their
couches all their lives. such a neat arrangement. but
unfortunately, the supposedly impartial criteria of education
is sometimes handled by unqualified ang unjust people who
meet pressured students who would do anything to get
passing grades BY HOOK OR BY CROOK. many times, the
material concept of success have only summoned greed and
dishonesty in some people. we become so preoccupied to
reach the "TOP" that we tend to leave our characters lying
on the ground. wheres success in being a LICENSED PROFESSIONAL
when you only became one because you have
CHEATED the qualifying BOARD EXAMS?
when you credibility sucks because
you failed to know the other things that
could educate aside from passing algebra and history?

material success and social expectations could pressure us to go with the flow, and through all these, we get confused that we sometimes
follow the trend of doing filthy things for our
own material gain. we lose people who "MADE IT BIG"
having graduated and making a lot of MONEY,
regardless of how they have ATTAINED it.

amidst this dilemma, we should deal with
anything that pressures us with more open
minds. use these thing strengthen our characters
by brushng aside the wordly matters
that they wave under our noses.
learn many things as much as possible and finish anything
out of our own PERSEVERANCE. make a lot
of money, sure. but we must
always , bear in our minds that having
more than what we actually need is
tagged with responsibility to look after
those who are in need. that
would make us grow. that is SUCCESS. other people's
definition of it should not determine who
we are who must define and ACHIEVE our own
SWEET SUCCESS. not FOOL'S GOLD
but THE REAL THING :)