Chorros de la poesia (spurts of poetry)

Saturday.

When I went to my former alma mater's (high school) annual fair, some inescapable force compelled me to come in terms with my former organization by attending its acoustic, open mic poetry event. To my surprise, the current members are still actively participating in the arts scene within the campus. One even had produced an album now circulating in the local music market.

Then, as far as their brand of poetry is concerned, they still ROCK (whatever that means...).

Anyway, as an alumni, I was also compelled to read some poemas. Since I wasn't prepared, I had to make two poem-lings for 15 minutes before the presentation. Below are the said poem-lings:

The Reunion

I've longed to stare at the long
terrace of thoughts,
of memories, of illusions,

I've sought to tread the transparent path,
full of reversed hopes.

Only it will rest,
in the source of my rays,
from the beacon of combined matches,
held by the ironies of days.

Stare

I want to dispose of millions,
and millions of eyes,

not parallel with their visions,

just looking at directions,
diversions,

only will they come back
to my afflictions,

my desperation.

Seriously Kidding

Are jokes half-meant?

As many people would say, jokes are still statements made by one to address a trait or a circumstance passed to another. Statements, per se, requires thought value in the part of the speaker before being uttered. As a matter of fact, thinking is synonymous to relating one thought pattern to another using the means of connotation or denotation when another person is seen in the release of statements. You might say that such statements can be impulsive, yet, as rational beings, we can think in a matter of millions every single second. So, there is no such thing as a joke not well thought of.

The fact that a statement has undergone a rigorous filtering in the part of the person before being finally said means, in a way, that person meant to say the “joke” thought to another.

Why would one relate that “fact” in the “joke” if one does not actually “mean” it?

In conclusion, the joke has a degree of truth value with the intentions being expressed through a statement to another person.

A joke is not entirely a joke.

Seriously...

...just kidding

Better Be Happy to Be Better

Here are some tips that  I got from a friend,  simple words, simple phrases, thoughts that ripple without end, through eons, through ages. Tips for a Better Life 1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.\ 2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. 3. Sleep for 7 hours. 4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy. 5. Play more games. 6. Read more books than you did the previous year. 7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel       for our busy lives. 8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6. 9. Dream more while you are awake. 10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured           in plants. 11. Drink plenty of water. 12. Try to make at least three people smile each day. 13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip. 14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the         past. That will ruin your present happiness. 15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your                   energy in the positive present moment. 16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the        curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn                will last a lifetime. 17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar. 18. Smile and laugh more. 19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others. 20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present. 23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.         Don't compare your partner with others. 24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you. 25. Forgive everyone for everything. 26. What other people think of you is none of your business. 27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. 28. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch. 29. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful. 30. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. 31. The best is yet to come. 32. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up. 33. Do the right thing! 34. Call your family often. 35. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy. 36. Each day give something good to others. 37. Don't over do. Keep your limits.

38. Show this message to someone else. 

Now, it's time to be fruitful and to (always visit) multiply.  

The Back Story

I'm back..

Now, here is something different, something personal (out of the profound stuff):

New Year

It's nice to be back in the front side of the new year. With the rain hitting the airwaves of supposedly sent text messages, no wonder people get less new year messages this time including my black as emo phone. Instead of watching Picasso-painted fireworks, I had already found contentment in watching TV specials with the digital countdown running onscreen and famous people do their fabulous vaudeville acts onstage. In addition to that, while looking at the occasional news breaks, I saw a lot of national structures being covered with smoke and a palette of colors because they are subjected to excessive usage in fireworks display (for global publicity perhaps).

Kid 1: Weee, the London Eye is exploding with stars.

Kid 2: Yes, the Taipei 101 too, with other buildings.

Kid 3: Wait, until you see, the Taj Mahal...oh...no, it's really burning.

Truly, it has been an explosive, water-drenched new year.

First Weeks

It has been a trailblazing...no...trial blazing three weeks of January. Here are the reasons:

- my uncle's untimely death due to a liver disease (+ RIP +)
- the recently concluded UP CAPES Job Fair
- the research work for a competition (management study/scientific research)
- the upcoming SCI-PHI convention
- IE 22 project
- Obama's inauguration
- spell R-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N
- mediocre American Idol auditionees (oh, man!)
- etcetera

So, buckle up for the future, my friend, because 2009 will be a year to be cherished yet again.

God bless :)

DVD: Divisoria Daydream

Walking across endless seas with people as ripples, the sight finds shores of stores as an isolated solitude with a perception impulse. T-shirts dangling colored from green to blue to red, lands a feast in a spectators kaleidoscope vision. Bargains that continue to melt in a singular denomination that either deprive or survive the holocaust of lending and spending. Human puppetry is at its peak whenever merchants of different forms, seen or unseen, careen the internal longing to the product catalyst burning under the sweltering heat of the noon sun. Catalyst, for every stall facade starts the epidemic of deep hunger, of consummation and sheer material thought.

When one leaves, one escapes the ruin of self.

The war's sunset appears. Peace now sets in.

Sa Pananaw ng mga Inglisero: Isang Balagtula

"Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang sariling wika ay mas masahol pa sa isang malansang isda"  - Gat. Jose Rizal

Tugon ng isang Inglisero: 

Sa patuloy na pag-ikot ng mundo, ang Ingles ang namumutawi’t nasasaulo. Halos lahat ng posibleng aspeto, ang wikang batayan, sa Ingles nakasalo. Karamihan ng mga nasasaklaw na diskurso, hindi tuwirang matatanto kung ang wika’y sa Filipino. Ang wikang ipinamumulat ay sa mundong nagpasisiwalat. Limitado ang mapaghuhugutan, kung ang sipat ay sa pambansang wika lamang. Kung gustong makita ang kabuuan, ang turo’y sa Ingles nararapat ang basehan. Nararapat na ang salimbibig ay sa pagtinging sambayanan, tungo sa kamunduan, maghuhubog sa madla, lalo na sa kabataan. Ang matinding kadahilanan, sadya nga talaga na ang kabataan ay ang pag-asa ng bayan. Kung mamarapating sabihin, marahan lang na ating angkinin, wika munang hindi atin. Sa tawag ng panahon, marapat itong itaghoy ng bayang naghihikahos para sa minimithing kaliwanagan, kalayaan, kapayapaan.

Ang pagkamit sa mga ito’y nasasarhan ng mga klaseng ang wika’y nilalampastangan. Kung sariling wika ang gagamitin, marami ang yuyurak sa kanyang kariktan dahil sa balarilang napupuno ng kalayaan. Sa wikang Ingles, kahit karamiha’y wakang interes, nabibigyan ng displina ang mga labing napupurol sa tuwi-tuwina. Hinuhulma ng mga gramatikong pamantayan ang mga isipang sa simula’y kinakalawang. Mas tuwiran ang pagpapalawig ng kaalaman, sagad sa laman at buto ang mga nagiging batid na katuwiran. Naisasatama ang mga kamalian sa mga sipat na hindi pa naisasalin ng mga sumusulat, mga manunulat. Ayon nga sa mga dalubhasa, natatamo ang pag-asa ng isang bansa na masawata ang kumpetensiya sa lahat ng sekta sa Ingles na pananalita. 

Ang kaunlaran ay pasisinayaan ng mga kabataang makikipagtulungan gamit ang Ingles bilang makinaryang pakikipagtalastasan. Makaaahon ang republikang sa pamumuno’y patapon sa mas edukadong lipunan. Sa pamantayang ipinahihiwatig ng mundong kinagisnan, mainam na may kakayanan ang sambayanan na makipaglaban ng harapan kahit sa pakikipalitan ng salita o talakayan. Kahit na sadyang may kaliitan ang ating bansa, dambuhala naman ang ating katalentaduhan sa pagpapaksa, pakikipagpalitan ng mga kaisipan sa paggawa ng kulturang pangkamunduan. 

Batid ng edukasyon sa ganitong pamamaraan, ang kinabukasan ang makapagbabangon sa isipang purol na nagpalalawig sa kahirapan, karukhaan. Maliban sa kasasabi lamang, magsisilbing behikulo ng pagbubuklod ng mga distrito ng bawat kanto sa siyudad ng tao ang pagsasakumbensyunal nito. Kahit ang pagpapasimuno ng panibagong digmaan sa kasalukuyan, ating maiiwasan, malalabanan ng mga katagang makapanlilikha ng bantayog na makapanlalaya sa dilang tanikala.                                      

Awake

As we had gazed heavenward seeing the coincidental alignment of planets and stars to form a man-resembling figure, the sky was looking at us intently taking responsibility to what pessimists might call a hoax or to the optimists, a miracle. In our nearing pursuit of deep slumber and of meaning to cap a long day, the smiling offering had provided us with an outlet to hope and to dream for such positive occurences to come across our agitated and metropolitan-drowned minds every once in a while. Indeed, this signifies that nature is constantly trying to awaken our rock-solid sensibilities due to the loves and pains inflicted by the rush of the world, so to speak. We are being made aware of the presence of a larger life around us by which the entity called Nature exists.

So, as we open our eyes, we will be made aware of the multiplicity of the presence of life and of its many forms. We are part of the sphere.

We are now awake.