HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

GUYS!!! 2008 became a pretty problematic year for everyone... but least of it not to be glad we are entering a new year again!!! Let us celebrate!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! WELCOME 2009!!!

Eustace and Jill at Silver Chair...

And I finished reading CS Lewis' Silver Chair last night...

Hehehe and to tell the truth... it was just like some other adventure stories on rocky mountains and slopes with giants and more creatures... What seemed exciting for me was on the part the adventure reached the underworld and their escape from it... and funny how I imagined it, was the part Eustace, Rilian, and Puddleglum were fighting with the great serpent a.k.a the Lady of the Green Kerttle...

Well... the first three books (as per production), are really magical... the other books that follows them looses its enchantment... but I think that was just a strategy and a preparation for the last book which is the Last Battle, for which everything in Narnia will be concluded and the return of the Pevensies... well... hoping for that... I have two more books to read before I start reading the last of the Narnia books...

Last night, actually early morning again, around 3:10 AM, as I finished reading The Silver Chair, I ventured on beginning the first eight chapters of The Boy and His Horse of Shasta and Bree... ahmm... the same feeling of reading The Silver Chair still linger on me while reading and lying on my bed, well, that's really a problem with me, I long for something for quite long that I always have a hard time dealing with it... I'm now on the part when the plans of the Calormen tyrants, Rabadash, Tisroc, and Ahoshta, were revealed and eavesdropped/overheard by Aravis and her BFF... hahaha... I felt sleepy and tired so I cut my reading and sleep...

As a result of getting bored from my hobby of reading last night, as I always wished of not getting those dreams forever in my life... hmmm... the events or as I say it glimpse of my past haunted again... well, of course with the same cast of antagonists and monsters... Now... I am missing of the dreams I had with the Cullens and Bella and Twilight saga influencing it... how I wish that my sleep to 2009 will fascinate me that I will long it to sleep forever as I wanted... hehehe... okay... I think that's for now... I have some readings to make later... and by the way... I am serving Bolognese Spaghetti, Fruit Salad, Fresh Fruits, Leche Flan, Crispy Fried Pork Pata for the New Year's celebration due midnight... hehehe I hope everyone to celebrate and welcome 2009 with all happiness and safety!!! Happy New Year!!! By the way... I forgot, it was very timely that while I am reading the Silver Chair, as far as I remember and if that's right, in the world of Narnia, they are also preparing for the New Year...

Poor Reepicheep!!! I'm so sad!!!

I forgot to add this to my earlier post...

On the Voyage of the Dawn Treader... on its ending, Reepicheep willingly took the adventure of going farther to the east alone... maybe or surely, when the film will be released soon, on the part when this will happen, I might cry or be very sad... for me, living a very big world alone is a hundred and one percent worser than of embarking a journey to an unknown world alone.

Reepicheep and I has some attitudes to share... brave... valiant... loyal... respectful... not to mention being a natural thrill-seeker... And I could feel him to be a good representation of myself... And after reading the Voyage of the Dawn Treader... one of the reason why there had tears running down my cheeks was because of him...

For me I could see my life on him and him on me... having a very minute appearance covering a humongous personality... and to journey a very big world... The moment the crew of the Dawn Treader were debating if they should go farther to the east and seek what lies ahead and if they will see Aslan's country, Reepicheep stood out and bravely volunteered himself, and for that, I am very touched. It seemed that it's not a big deal for him to journey along to somewhere no one and not once been discovered by whom which is better suited rahter than him... And it's really funny that he doesn't care at all... And for me, it takes more than a brave heart of doing so... that point in the story... I really became so much a fan of Reepicheep...

Yet... C.S Lewis, assured before the ending of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, that Reepicheep was able to cross the "very end of the world of Narnia" and was safely confided to Aslan's country... the saddest part... he was never seen in Narnia... the good thing is... everyone rememebred him as a very brave "mouse"... and written in their history as the very first Narnian to seek Aslan's country...

"This is Home"
by SwitchFoot

I've got my memories
They're always
Inside of me
But I can't go back
Back to how it was
I believe now
I've seen too much
But I can't go back
Back to how it was
Created for a place
I've never known

This is home
Now I'm finally
Where I belong
Where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching
For a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah, this is home

Belief over misery
I've seen the enemy
And I won't go back
Back to how it was
And I got my heart
Set on
What happens next
I got my eyes wide
It's not over yet
We are miracles
And we're not alone


This is home
Now I'm finally
Where I belong
Where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching
For a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah, this is home

Long Lost Love...

Hi guys... well... I just finished eating dinner and taking a bath... yes.. yes... I overslept again and I just woke up from a fantasy dream... last night or rather the whole yesterday... I was lying in my bed and reading Prince Caspian and then The Voyage of the Dawn Treader... well... I had my reaction for Prince Caspian earlier... so this would be for the latter...

Ahm... to admit it... for me it's just a little exciting... I don't know... maybe because the older Pevensies aren't in Narnia and specifically in that series of the story... But really, I was still able to travel with the fantasy world of Narnia while reading the book itself... And there are so many revelations for me in this book... and as being an agnostic, hahaha I've been thinking if Aslan would be really Jesus on Earth and not in Narnia... whatever...

Yet... for me, every ending of each series has its "sad" but not really sad ending for the story... in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the story ended when almost their lives were on its golden years already... the cliche was, they came back on the real world at the time they got used to the world of Narnia and being Narnians for more than 20 years I guess...and the worst part, as children and on the time they don't really like... well... In Prince Caspian, the saddest part was knowing Peter and Susan will not be able to come back to Narnia again... for me it is so much a misery of being condemned to a world you feel it is your real home and a place that makes you happy...and for them to leave a Narnia, a world where they found love, friends, and happiness... And in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader... ahm... as far as I could remember, Aslan said to the younger Pevensies, who aren't getting as young as before, that they might not be able to come back to Narnia anymore because they are getting older. I had tears running down my cheeks when it was the moment they were leaving Narnia already. For me it really hurts a lot when you are leaving a place knowing there are no more possibilities of going back forever...

Knowing that the next series of Narnia will be another story without the Pevensies anymore, I will still finish reading until to the last book which is The Last Battle... and I've heard that in this book, the Pevensies were called and summoned back by Aslan for their biggest and hardest adventure of all... well, I also heard that Susan wasn't there for some reason, and that reason became a very intriguing issue of all... hehehe I hope to remember it when I was on the exact lines of that intriguing part of the Last Battle....

Well... this post will due until here... I have more readings to make out of Narnia... I am now reading The Silver Chair with Jill and Eustace... I had a glimpse of the beginning chapters before I took a bath... I am now on the part when Jill starts her voyage down to Narnia after taking the task to Aslan.. well... Happy reading!!! Long Live NARNIA!!!

Too Fast...

And the year will going to end in a few days... together with it, the memories of this year 2008 will be left behind as a "past tense" forever. And for me, this time of my life passed too fast...
How can I forget a year full of so many things... things which are new to me... experiences I've never had before... feelings I never felt before... and all the foolish ideas I had and also the wonderful things I managed to have. Well, so to speak, even this year wasn't that beautiful as I expected, as the day for its ending comes, little by little I sort out every film of my life to decide which to remake next year and which are those I should keep forever.
Once in a while, there are always a point in my life that, really, I hated so much. These includes all the wrong perception of life, the bad plans and wrong decisions, some unpleasant memories with some other people, unavoidable embarrassments... and to whatever extent I wished to go back in time to make these events the way I wanted it, disappointments are always waiting for me.
I think I overdone it. I pushed myself too much that I never noticed of giving pain to myself and then reflecting it to other people. I do hope to ask for forgiveness and I know everything is forgiven. All swell that ends well...
As I set my foot forward to next year's tomorrow, many lists are written and still growing... expectations and hopes are getting much stronger... and for whatever reason, I want to make 2009 the best that I could ever have. Right now, as I write this post, there's an oddly feeling that I feel next year would be the last of my years... I don't know, it just suddenly came out from somewhere. But anyways, I do hope I will give myself whatever I wanted and live the life I ever wished for. I... maybe for next year, shall still have the same manners and attitude, same goals set in different ways, the same faith on the manner I know... and so many "same" things to preserve for I feel these makes me a better person.
And for 2009, yes... for 2009!!! There are so much to wait... literally... Ahm... films... books... travels... a new lifestyle... jobs... life... and love (I guess). But i am getting worried for my expectation of having all these plans in my hand and in my life. Maybe I got too scared, too hurt, and too hopeless this 2008 that I gave up on being very optimistic about my own life. And maybe there are so many disappointments that made me decide I should not dream anymore.
But everything in life changes... not every year... not next month... and not by seconds that pass... life changes too fast as fast you are making your decisions for your life.
So let us all wait for what is up ahead... let us be thrilled with every bit of excitement and celebrate every reason for living... for life you have right now is only once in a lifetime... maybe there will be dejavus but believe me... there's nothing in this world that happens twice...

BRANGIEN 2009 Calendar

WOW!!! I was very much amused when I saw this calendar making tool at MySpace earlier... hehehe... I was so interested I made out one for myself... Here it is.. I am so happy...

A VERY GOOD DREAM!!! BUT DAMN IT!!!

I have a headache right now... actually I just took a bath and ate my lunch... it is now 4:10 PM... hehehe I over-slept again!!! And breaking my record of longest sleep... Reason??? What do you think??? Of course, I'd dream of something I wanted... something I craved... but not the pork chops my friend Joan served last night but a dream about my perfect love affair... hehehe "influenced" and "themed" by Twilight Saga!!! Crazy right??? Very!!!

I had this dream that I was somewhat the male version of Bella Swan and there is a Vampire Girl who I've met on a party... then flashes of dreams... then... the dream I had when I was fourteen reemerged from the scene... that was... a very huge dome where white feathers are flying and raining... a pianist and a violin player renders a very lovely lullaby... then there was me on a spot-lighted space wearing tuxedo... and a very big white dove with blue strands on its wings flew from outside the dome and landed on a meadow with fragrant flowers ranging from hues of peach and marmalade... hmmm... and then, there in the background was "Let me Sign" by Robert Pattinson playing... and the dove chirp valiantly... and a lady step down from the dove's back and smiled at me... I know she is someone I don't know yet and someone who is different..from her appearance and all, she is "different".
She walked down an aisle while feathers are still flying all around the dome... the song keeps on playing over and over... and then... damn it... white flashed the entire scene and I found myself alone from a vast white space... hmmm... then new scenes show up... a university scene I guess... and there was the lady again... BUT the worst... the person I knew as my enemy was also present in my visions... I saw him talking with the lady I supposed to know the name... and they were laughing... and still having that happy conversation. They stopped for a while and stared to me, I blushed and I swayed my back on them.
After I looked back, they are gone... a new scene came up. I was sitting on a very old looking, antique dinning table... sitting in front of me was "him", my enemy, and in between was the lady... let me name her "Vamp Girl". We were eating... but I then had an omniscient view of the scene... the girl held my hand and touched my face, I saw her crying... and I saw "him" laughing... and the dream ended there...
Gosh!!! Why is this happening??? Why am I dreaming this good dream??? Yet! Why do "he" still shows up... after so many years of hate and grudges. And above all... who was the girl??? Who is she??? I am very curious about her... and how the hell she got a chance to know "him"??? Unluckyly, why does this man keeps on bugging me on my dreams? When will "he" vanish from my life...

After Midnight Sun???

OMG!!! Midnight Sun... as Edward Cullen's perspective of the beginning of the story... wow... it is so exciting to read... every amount of feeling in his words are precisely carved to each letter... hmmm... I then knew how much he loved Bella Swan... well... nice kind of love... hehehe... and maybe... Edward and I have similarities when it comes to that aspect... I really like his authoritative attitude without compromising his care and being thoughtful toward/for Bella... hehehe hs every acts always shows his love for the person... and absolutely, in wahtever perspective I view their story, oh my, it is really wonderful and very interesting. hahaha... hmmm... I hope that Midnight Sun will be published in the future in its completeness... thank you Stephanie Meyer for a wonderful novel!!! It's been a part of my life now...

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It Might Be You

IT MIGHT BE YOU

Time, I've been passing time watching trains go by
All of my life
Lying on the sand watching seabirds fly
Wishing there could be someone
Waiting home for me

Something's telling me it might be you
It's telling me it might be you
All of my life

Looking back as lovers go walking past
All of my life
Wondering how they met and what makes it last
If I found the place would I recognize the face

Something's telling me it might be you
It's telling me it might be you
So many quiet walks to take
So many dreams to wake and there's so much love to make

I think were gonna need some time
Maybe all we need is time
And it's telling me it might be you
All of my life

I've been saving love songs and lullabies
And there's so much more
No one's ever heard before
Something's telling me it might be you
Yeah, it's telling me it must be you and
I'm feeling it'll just be you
All of my life
It's you, it's you I've been waiting for all of my life
Maybe it's you Maybe it's you I've been waiting for all of my life.

Once in a while, I always caught myself humming and singing this beautiful song over and over... I felt attached to this song the first time and on the first day I've heard of it... hmmm... just for a good listening... I love this song...

Twilight is too Addicting!!!

Really... I can't believe it myself... it has been weeks already since I've first watched the movie, "Twilight", but ever since then it got into my nerves and never left.

Now... it's just more than my personal brand of heroine. The lullaby not just only makes me fall asleep on my very sleepless nights but also brings me to that same place where the story took place. Not only that... as what I said, each word of every line of each paragraph on each individual book still lingers and come to speak themselves alive. I don't know... for me Stephanie Meyer did a very great story that changed a lot of my perspectives in life... and really... really... it is addicting... Last week I finished reading all four books and OMG!, the story is really exciting and interesting for me... Too much addicting I decided to read it all over again, but now, together with the unfinished "Midnight Sun". This time, it is more exciting than the first time I planned reading the saga. And about the movie... hahaha... every time I got a chance to watch it again and again, hmmm... there's no dull moment for me in the film... and by the way, I keep on playing Bella's Lullaby over and over yet it doesn't sounds odd, the feeling is just like always my first time to hear it... No wonder... it is really addicting!!!

Well, I hope there will be a continuation for the endless story of Edward and Bella... And I'm sure that as long as the story keeps that form and magic, no one is going to dislike it forever... Someone said that the Twilight Saga was the Book of the decade... for me... it is more than that now... As for the film... hehehe I wish New Moon will be release as soon as possible....

REACTION PAPER FOR TWILIGHT SAGA!!!

Before i start this "reaction paper" thing, I would like firstly to share the excitement i had reading the last book "Breaking Dawn". It was great... i really can't wait for the future to come... well, i hope that my addiction will last that long and my memory will help that i will endure all the longing i will have for the coming years just for waiting the sequels of the saga.. I am now expecting for an "ACTION-PACKED, THRILLED-WOVEN finale for the twilight saga...hmm... i just hope that the one's responsible for the movie "TWILIGHT" will plan to shoot the remaining sequels as soon as possible and as fast as they could... not to let the fans and the viewers be excited for too long... hmm... but i guess that waiting won't be taken for granted...

I really loved the story from the very first beginning of "twilight" to the happily ever after ending in the "breaking dawn". OMG!!! Really!!! I LOVED IT!!! well-written.. what can i disapproved... i can't believe it was that really good... for me, impossibly "perfect".

Well.. every essentials were surely present in every book.. the vital part which is "love", the only thing that gives me the curiosity to continue reading and of course the only factor that makes me giggle, laugh, and cry whenever scenes changes.. hahaha and let alone the interplay of humor and seriousness of the characters... really the story is great...

I am now dreaming to write my own piece just like this... but i wish that before it happen... well, maybe it's good to have pointers from Stephanie Meyer herself right??? hehehe but to conclude everything about the Twilight Saga... i really loved it... it changed so many perspectives i have in my life right now... not because I', too much addicted to the novel...

Come to think of it, it is more than just addiction now... just believe this... nothing has ever made me change whatever is in my mind not until someone shared e-books of the "Twilight Saga" with me... thanks to that friend...

And by the way... I've heard about this "Midnight Sun" scandal from Stephanie Meyer's website... I copied the file to see it... I will read it tomorrow for I found out that it was the unfinished (the draft) of Edward Cullen's side of Twilight... I just hope that there will be a continuation, a sequel for Breaking Dawn... I will miss all of the Cullens specially Edward, Bella, and Reenesme...

WHAT WORD CAN EXACTLY DESCRIBE THE FEELING I HAD BEFORE AND AFTER I READ TWILIGHT SAGA??? Hmmm.... so many words... i can't write it down.... hehehe....

I'm so happy I experienced the life inside the story of Twilight Saga.. now... I'm wondering if what if the story was true... maybe I could bid them to make me one of them... Grrrr!!!

The Old World

Old World
By Brangien

Bring me somewhere… anywhere…
To a place without lines… and no points…
A geometrical illusion I never had known,
Maybe a place I thought I cannot draw.
Fly me freely… really…
Do me a favor… please let’s go…
In a point of nowhere… somewhere…
A place of no return… I don’t care…
Sing their Hymn… the old world’s song…
But do you know how… please don’t pretend…
And if you do… it do make us fools…
Let us start walking… to find that place…
No need to run… we we’ll surely get there anyways.
No need for worrying… I know we are ahead.
No need to panic… we are almost there.
One glance to the east…
And take another from the west…
Shook our heads to the south…
Don’t blink a sight from north…
Are you excited to see who’s waiting?
Don’t frown if the one’s isn’t there…
I’ll call everyone… but only those who cares…
One more minute to pass…
And every heartbeat you keep can go.
The story we set aside could flow.
No holding back… now let’s go…
We had arrive… to a place we wondered too long…
No need to be sad…
We are now at home…
To a place we know…
To the Old World we belong.

Wonderland

Wonderland

By Brangien

One night of fog and mystery,

A night of dreams and equities,

Someone called I stared out the sky,

And touched the mist on my mind.

I was hoping of escaping,

And planned not to comeback.

A world I lived from too much despair,

I wonder why it turned unfair.

Out of my sight I saw a place,

Somewhere that I don’t know,

A place that looks nice and safe,

Somewhere called “wonderland”.

Here I found a place,

Where a happiness has its own well,

A fountain of joy that showers over and over,

A marquee of friends that never disappears,

And stores where I can buy some love.

I kept on dreaming and hoping,

Until suddenly I got struck,

A stone from nowhere,

The stone of reality shot my head.

And tears came running down,

Disappointed and heart-broken,

I found myself slacking down the floor,

I found myself trapped from the truth.

Now I wonder,

When will wonderland call me again,

When will I be able to see such place,

And how to get passes for all my life?

It is plain and simple,

But it seems so hard for me.

I keep on dreaming and hoping,

I kept on fooling myself.

I just wanted to live a life,

A life with no regrets,

Life overjoyed,

Life endlessly.

In wonderland I felt,

The feeling of having everything,

Such acts that made me secured,

Somewhere I smiled freely.

In wonderland I found,

A place that cares for me,

No corners of sadness,

No spots for loneliness.

In wonderland I’ve gathered,

Friends who aren’t foes,

Foes who sided my name,

Group of people that never fades.

In wonderland I’ve learned,

Dreaming until the limit,

Wondering until I can,

Hoping until it last.

In wonderland, yes, in wonderland, I felt I am home,

In wonderland, no doubt, I felt I belong,

In wonderland, I know, a place that will never make me cry,

In wonderland, surely I feel, the place that I am looking for.

Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment Result


You're personality type is Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, Judging(ISTJ)
Summary

Serious, quiet, earn success by concentration and thoroughness. Practical, orderly, matter-of-fact, logical, realistic, and dependable. See to it that everything is well-organized. Take responsibility. Make up their own minds as to what should be accomplished and work toward it steadily, regardless of protests or distractions.


Detailed Result

ISTJs direct their energy towards the inner world of ideas and information. They try to clarify concepts and information, seeking to have as clear a knowledge as possible. They often place a lot of trust in experience, but also envisage future goals providing there is a clear pathway to that goal.

What makes an ISTJ tick?
The Dominant function is the perceptive one of Sensing. Characteristics associated with this function include:

* looking at information in terms of facts and details
* Focuses more on the here and now rather than possibilities for the future
* Feels comfortable in areas of proven experience
* Takes a realistic approach


The perceptive Sensing function is introverted. That is, Sensing is used primarily to govern the inner world of thoughts and emotions. The ISTJ will therefore:

* Seek to develop a realistic understanding of the world as it is, in the light of what he/she observes
* Be pragmatic in nature, constantly learning to adapt to the world as it is now
* Observe in a subjective way, selecting and relating facts that others would not, and seeing those facts more in terms of impressions and significance than pure fact .


The Sensing function is primarily supported by extraverted Thinking judgment, That is, Thinking judgment is used primarily to manage the outer world of actions and spoken words. This will modify the way that the Sensing is directed, by:

* focusing the (inner world) Sensing on impersonal facts and logical options
* tending to spot flaws and injustices
* making decisions on the basis of logical analysis that support the ISTJ's understanding of the world.


The classic temperament of an ISTJ is Epimethean, or Melancholic, for whom a basic driving force is duty, service and the need to belong.

Contributions to the team of an ISTJ
In a team environment, the ISTJ can contribute by:

* working hard and efficiently to complete tasks by the deadlines set
* sorting ideas and identifying those that are most practical
* applying a common sense approach to problem solving
* maintaining team focus on the objective
* contributing practical organisational skills
* applying procedures and methodologies
* applying relevant and realistic logical arguments


The potential ways in which an ISTJ can irritate others include:

* focusing too much on the current task at the expense of longer term or interpersonal issues
* not articulating his/her understanding of the situation
* not seeing the wood for the trees
* being too serious
* seeming to be inflexible
* not encouraging others to experiment or innovate
* not promoting his/her own ideas or achievements


Personal Growth
As with all types, the ISTJ can achieve personal growth by developing all functions that are not fully developed, through actions such as:

* articulating more of the ISTJ's own views
* developing a long term vision, that avoids focusing on details
* developing a greater understanding of how people feel
* changing things on an experimental basis to see if they can be improved
* learning to promote the ISTJ's ideas and achievements to others, recognising that others may well find them valuable
* making decisions on the basis of how others will feel, rather than objective considerations


Recognising Stress
As stress increases, 'learned behaviour' tends to give way to the natural style, so the ISTJ will behave more according to type when under greater stress. For example, in a crisis, the ISTJ might:

* find a place of solitude in which to think and work
* use tried and trusted means of solving problems
* direct or criticise others' efforts
* use pragmatic solutions at the expense of the long term


ISTJ Careers
The jobs/occupations that have a closer fit to those with ISTJ preferences:

Doctor/health care, Librarian, Entrepreneur/self-employed, Forces, Administrator

Story Writing...

I am hooked now on practicing my creative writing skills. I am doing a fictional story for almost 3 days now. I wanted you guys to read it as soon as I furnish the whole story.

By the way, the story is actually a fable about a parrot and a dog. I had the same kind of story before when I am taking up the creative writing lessons back in senior high. But this one I made sure to be different and really dramatic. Well... this actually mirrors my current situation on love.

I am trying my best to finish it as soon as possible. But collecting ideas and gathering up all my thoughts and feelings are even harder than I thought. So please be patient. I will let you know as soon I am finished... okay???

Reasons Unknown...

About my Burj Al Arab offer:

Hi guys... this is to update you about what is happening about my Burj al Arab application.

Right now I am still waiting for my Dubai Visa... it so happened that the processing took longer because of Ramadan. Eventually, i hope it will be fastened since the celebration is over. I hope to receive a good news one of these days. But for now, I am also clueless about the future in Dubai.

For those who keep on asking... please stop bugging me to answer you because even I don't know what to tell you okay... wait for my next update about this event.

Nevertheless, whatever the result will be... be happy for me whatever happens. Now, just to have a fall-back if ever the visa will be denied... I am looking for a good job so don't worry about me. I already applied to some establishments and I am just waiting from their response.

To let you know why I resigned from my last job. Well, I resigned because I felt that I badly needed some break. There are a lot of things which came up while I'm working at Gaudi. I also felt that I need to be with my family for a time since I've spent all year (2007 -2008) working hard for myself. I don't regret loosing a job for the sake of my family, my life, and my love. I might loose even more but I am ready to take it back once I am sure I am complete.

I am a person who just focuses on one thing. I want to be passionate into something that I am doing. Hope you guys understand. Thanks for all the concern and in the future... I will need more of your support.

Kamsahamnida!!!

Happiness...

As the years passes by... once I came on thinking that why do my life seems to be connected to so many people? Why can't I live as I wanted? Why can't I make myself happy for the fact that I do make people around me happy?
And answers came tolling...
"What is my purpose in life?" That was the answer i received.
But I guess I am too hard to myself for fulfilling such a purpose. I am still a person... and I need to love myself. Yet, when I am ready to give up on this, there will be an instance that will change my mind. Then I will go back to fulfill again my duties. So when will I have time to make myself happy? Or do I have to???
One day while I'm walking my way to work, I came across a bookshop... and I paid a visit. While looking around I found a book... "Things That Makes You Happy". And I see myself reading on a page. "What is your purpose in life?" as I read... laugh came after. Don't tell me that all my thoughts are in this book. If this book will just only suggest to know my purpose... well it is nonsense to continue reading. So I skipped so many pages. "If you think that your purpose is to make people happy, then you cannot make your own self happy." And I asked myself why?
Just like the sun who gives us heat and light. The sun is so powerful but it cannot benefit from itself and thus, as time flies, it dies because of its purpose. It seems that it is too hot and too bright when getting closer to the sun, so why does it not get hot nor blinded by itself. It does but the sun persist because it knows that so many depends on it.
Those people who are the source of ones happiness will not be able to drive some happiness back to themselves. There might be nothing you can do to make yourself happy... and I mean it. You don't have to make yourself happy.
Thus... as I read more the book I am holding. It tells me... "if you can't make yourself happy... then find someone whose purpose is to make you happy."

A New Day

"Every ending has a new beginning... for me... Everyday is a new day..."
What was life before everything happened in my life??? Where am I before I found a really crazy love??? What am I doing before things got tangled up???
Hahaha... it is really funny looking back to my footsteps... I always see how foolishly I am becoming every time I stepped on love. How I wished I was careful enough... and how I wish I never trusted too much. But unfortunately, I loved to my limits so eventually I got hurt... That's fine, I'll just note this happening as a one good experience how I got so crazy on the thing we call "love".
Life before... maybe five to six months ago... well, I could say that my life was in a very good state. I am working on the job that I like and even paid a lot for it. Having a very good time with friends and colleagues. Pampering myself with all life's goodness. Having the things that I like and doing things that I love. Dealing with my problems really really well and reaching a helping hand to someone's business. I felt really happy and successful for the life I had before.
But right now... I feel so empty. And I think I became to someone who is not qualified to be called as "myself". And to tell the truth... I really hate it.
So what can I do from now on??? Well, the first thing I should do is to eliminate the main factor that demotes me as a better person. Second is to focus everything on a goal while having a good plan on the side and some back-ups just to be safe. Then, third... ahm... bringing the pieces back together like what it was before. Fourth would be... enjoying the life that is waiting for me while doing steps one, two, and three. And lastly, keep on reminding myself not to make the same mistake again. Hehehe it is not bad at all to make some precautions for my fragile heart right... but damn these things!!! It is so hard to do... But I don't have any choice.
I hope I will be in good shape in no time. And I will be glad to tell everyone that I just come back eager and better.
Right now... I am officially "single".... and tomorrow will be a new day waiting for me...

When You're All Alone

If you feel alone, what are the things that you usually do to take away the loneliness that you feel? Hmmm... do you cry on a corner and ask why you were left all behind? Or you are the person who goes out and enjoy a happy moment himself.
What is usually the reason of your loneliness? Is it that you feel no one cares for you or just simply everyone were all busy to hang up with you?
Then how do you manage being lonely? Do you keep it to yourself or are you the type who goes out and just enjoy a happy moment even by yourself?
Once or twice in our life... actually there are a lot of times we will feel being lonely. Loneliness brought of being left behind, being left-out, and having yourself too occupied by the things that makes you so lonely. It is normal for someone who is affectionate for someone who wants to be in a crowd, someone who feels that he need to be surrounded, or to someone who used to be with a companion.
It really feels so nice joining your friends do so much activity... share of thoughts, playing, laughing, and all the things your group constantly do. Nice, it is always a good thing being with your friends right? The feeling on a social crowd... when was the last time you feel it?
It is a matter of fact... all of us needs to have social life, but there are also chances that being alone makes it feel better than joining a lot of peers. We are oblivious of the things that we could do while we are alone... just like knowing and discovering more secrets about yourself, looking for some adventure, or somewhere that will give you a new meaning of yourself.
So when you are all alone or you just feel lonely, do not worry... it is not only you who feel that on the moment! Just cheer up and look around you! There might be things that could make yourself busy. Don't get impatient for your friends being so much attached to their own worlds right now... they also need to have their own time for themselves... a time without you and your friends. Being alone for a moment is not that bad... what should make you worry is being alone for the rest of your life...

A Good Life

Have you ever wished that what if you could choose the life that you like? A life that will always favor on you? A life you always wanted?
In my twenty years of living, I came across to many ups and downs of my life. And there are so many times I became regretful about my own life. But there are also times that I feel so much fortunate having a good life compared to some other people. What will I do if ever I could draw the life I wish I have...
If I will be born again... I still want to live a normal life. "Normal" means a life balanced with fortune, goodness, misery, etc. But I want to replace my power of making people happy to try a new skill... the power of love. Most of the time, I make people happy. Making them happy in all the means that I know. Showing them the goodness that I have. Sharing the gifts that I could share. I feel happy for them every time I am successful with my goals for them. But inside I am thinking of something... why do I still feel empty when I am able to make someone happy??? Maybe it is the fact that happiness from making someone else happy is far more different from the happiness as a product of love.
Through my journey, I had my own share of story about love. There are memories that I won't forget, there are times that I really want to erase, and there are events I wish to happen again. With all that, still I am trapped on the place where I am not familiar with. A place where sadness meets me. When I will have the opportunity to write a new story of myself, I want to put all the happy scripts... no dull moments... everything is all about love and being happy.
Life depends in our decision. God gave us the chance to write our own stories but He gave us the theme, that would be our destiny. Everyone has their own dilemmas on their "play", everybody needs to be in the "revalida". But, what will set your novel apart from anything else, is when you write it with all your heart. The readers will see for sure... how amazing a story you have wrote.

Friends Forever...

Hmmm... what will you feel if you think after all the miseries that happened (after a storm), it seems that everything in your life turns so good and so right. Yes, it really feels so good having a brighter day everyday.
I have forgotten all the unfortunate things of the past... and I have reconciled with a person... and that would be the one who turned to be my best friend. Knowing what happened before makes me bitter on the earlier years but I feel so burdened loosing a friend. So why should I keep the pride than a friend right?
It really took time for us to conceive. Well, if you know the whole story you will understand. But we are so young when that happened, we are still on the a wrong comprehension of life and love before. Now that we get more mature enough, had our own lives and own experiences about love, gladly, we grew better. It is really funny that before we almost killed each other but right now, we are making everything to be sworn brothers. It is so nice to have a best friend that could help you in everything and in any ways.
To my best friend... dude... thanks for always helping me... and being there for me. I am so happy having you as my best friend.

Unexpected...

I think it is normal for a couple to fight... which is not right is when you don't ever fight... That is when the "trust" for each other comes.
When I watched a movie, I fetched a saying "In a relationship, romance should only be second to friendship." Having your partner more of a best friend than a lover makes sense. When the romance is gone, that is when things all go wrong... but if you stay best of friends, you still have the trust to each other. Love always change, you don't know if the feelings you feel right now will be the same after a minute or an hour. So it is important that the two of you remain friends forever. Then after that, you could start loving each other again.
Thus, having a peace of mind than being paranoid is always a help to anyone. On my situation, I got blinded too much of "everything" that made me closed to any reasons. As I said, trust is needed to make a relationship work. Well, I am not perfect and I am not a professional when it comes to love, that is why most of the time... I am on the roller coaster ride of my life... We need to be open and understanding to everything our partners have to say. Reasons are not there just to ignore it, it should be fully accepted.
Love has so many unexpected courses. It is our decision if we are going to have any plans or not. We cannot tell where are we going holding it and until when can we hold on it. It is really unexpected so why care for what will be happening next. Give a big TRUST to your partner and gamble everything that is left to you. But many says that you should leave something for yourself. Really, I don't know. L.O.V.E is really a C.R.A.Z.Y thing. Hehehe, but don't be a liar... everyone likes to feel "in-love"... it is like craving for chocolate for a week and then indulging yourself with chocolates in just few minutes. Why regret if you feel good about something?

When Love Starts To Fade...

Life... well... I admit it... I got so careless again. Ouch! That really hurts! But I am just an ordinary person, just like anyone here on Earth, I am not perfect. Thus, I am always asking for the reason why I always slip on love.
Love made me feel so wonderful... a really nice feeling to feel. I think that feeling blinded me from seeing the true form of it... then I got hurt. I hoped this was it, unluckily, another strike for me. Yes, right now I feel very very sad.
And the funny part was, last night, I am so carried by the movie "Definitely Maybe" a friend recommended me to watch. I got a new view about love, destiny, so on and so... But now, I can't think of the reason why I feel so sad... and I can't write a good one here because i feel so uninspired. All my thoughts and all my feelings are shattered inside me. This is me... I am so careless when it comes to love. But I am thankful to God that He showed the true face of love to me before I get too much hurt like before. I want to move on really really quick... for I feel really ashamed to myself why I let this to happen.
I showed a true love but I received a fake stone. I keep myself exclusively for the person I love but I am being played by love. Oh my God!!! I want to shout out all what I feel: love, anger, shame... But I am still hoping that what my instinct tells me is wrong, I really love her already... and if this won't really work, I won't torture myself like before, I will be manly enough to face it. I am so mad... I am in pain... But still I am in-love and hoping I am dreaming... When love starts to fade, how will I make it return?
This is life...

When You're In-Love, Everything Will Change...

It is so nice being in-love. Everything I see becomes so wonderful. All the sounds around me plays as a sweet music. I smile most of the time... also laughs. I am lively and inspired. It is really an amazing feeling... LOVE.
Yes it is true, when you are in-love, everything changes. From your prospective of life, the way you live your life and the concern about other people, your schedule, plans and dreams... almost everything... right? But I am thinking... what if the love ends? What will happen next? And what will happen to the changes undertaken??? Well, that's a problem most of us don't know how to face but the only thing to do is to start all over again. Yet, we do whatever possible and also the impossible things just to keep and protect the LOVE we have so it won't end and the dilemma of "restarting" will not appear...
In my case, I am the type of person who wants everything and anything to be planned and to run smoothly. I really hate unexpected events and even surprises... so of course, fate really plays well with me... my love started to change everything to me... I have these "extra" tasks which are really not in my planner but still written on the top of the list. I never regret with those things for that makes me extremely happy. I know it is LOVE... well, it is really love guys... There are also times I get doubtful about some things, if it is proper to do or simply is it fine... Well, as everyone tells me, when we are in love, we tend to do crazy things. But after that is a priceless moment with your partner for making him/her happy by doing crazy things for the person you love. Hmmm... it is so good to be in-love...
I want to share my happiness to everyone... So friends of my blog, find love and get in-love!

My Girl... My Luv... My Inspiration

Do you believe in fate? Well, I also don't believe on it before, not until I personally experienced it. Ahm... I guess this is one of the rare chance that a person will have on his entire life and the next would be on his or her new life. But for me... I think I found someone whose fate is tied with me... And she is the one who gives me now the inspiration and the love I really need the most...
I just met her over a well-known social network. I think that was three to four months ago when I first saw her viewed my profile. So, as a return, I visited her own profile and I got curious about her... and I bravely send her a message asking for her mobile number... then there's the start of the connection. At first, I am so hesitant to pursue what I am feeling to her because this might only be an admiration. But as the time goes by, little by little I fell in love with this person. Our first interaction is more likely on a very friendly start... say "hi" and "hello" to each other... exchange daily thoughts and sentiment about the everyday life.. and so and so. Then I haven't noticed that I am starting to like the person over the text I am receiving.
And there's a time that I became doubtful about her-because we all knew that we could have our "perfect you and i" over the virtual world. That stops me to further deepen my feelings about her. As anyone experiences that regret comes last, I have wasted my time ignoring her for several weeks because I've dealt with my own problems. And like a love story we have all watched, the time left for us to be together is not proportional to the amount of love we want to show to each other. I was able to have a job offer abroad. At first I really did not expect that to come, but still I am so lucky to have it now... then I am just waiting for the "processing" of my papers to legally work abroad. And then Cupid stroked the two of us at the very wrong time... I don't want to think that it is too late for us to start so undoubtedly I asked her love to be mine...
It was so hard to convince her because of all the factors a virtual love affair could give. Add to this the pressure given by the peers of both party. But I clanged to my fate to invest my trust and love to a person I haven't met before while thinking "she might be the one."Now, after dealing with each other and having the same feeling constantly for days... we have decided to better nurture the love and yield more trust to each other for these are the only reason we could depend to. Plus having a very loyal heart and putting God on the center, how perfect our relationship could be. Then at last... we planned to meet and have our first date... I don't know what will happen then but I won't regret to whatever it is because I've gambled so much to this casino of love affair.
Nevertheless, I am so happy for she makes me happy. Every morning she gives me the strength for a very busy day waiting for me. I started to care to someone not familiar to me... but not anymore for she became a part of me and my everyday life. She is so generous of giving me the smiles because of her jokes and childish things. I became more vibrant because of the inspiration I am getting to this person. And most of all, I started to feel the love that I was afraid of for a very long time. Thanks to this girl I conquered the fear and convert it to happiness and inspiration. I am praying to God to bless this relationship we have and to guide us to the right path. I am asking both of us to be faithful as much as possible and to refrain of doing something unfair to both of us. Well, I cross my fingers that this will work and I hope that it will last.
For the girl I have in my heart right now... I love you.

I've Finished Reading "COOK"

Hehehe last Monday, July 28,2008, I finally read the last part of Jamie Oliver's "Cook". Well, I actually plan to read it all over again. Jamie had no dull "moments" on every page of his book. He's generous on giving tips and some other ideas. I am a chef but I am still surprised whenever I get insights about some other things that I don't know about food.
My favorite part of the book is the PASTA section. Aside from being a pasta lover... I think most of his recipes are really really good. I want to try the "black angel tagliarini with scallops". And of course, the MEAT section won't be forgotten. I really like the way he mostly prepares and cooks the dishes of meat, poultry, and game... slow... precise... delicious. Even though I'm not that seafood lover... after reading the Seafood and Crustacean section of the book, I was like a pregnant woman craving for shrimp, lobster, and crab... And thanks to Jamie, now I know how to prepare lobster and crab the right way!
Hehehe... this just made me thrilled of working under Jamie Oliver... Hehehe I think I'll gonna learn so many things from him. Well, let us see... maybe one day I'll work with him!!!

Waiting Won't Make Any Progress

Yah... I know that... waiting won't make me any good. All of my colleagues advice me to stop waiting for it to come. Well, I am really looking forward to that thing to come as soon as possible.
It really makes me stressful every time I ask myself why aren't I receiving any calls from "them". It will be almost a month since I have passed the tests and had an offer. But why is it taking so long. I am really pressured since this is my way of helping my family out of misery and yet in the same time fulfilling my needs and dream of becoming a good Chef.
I'm really excited about working abroad. But a funny thing happened earlier. On my friendster account, there's a message from someone working in Dubai warning me not to go there anymore. It is for my own good. The person said that I am not aware of what could happen to a young man like me in Dubai. And most especially, the people working there, according to that person, is somewhat different. I think that is because of the "competition" and the "survival" of having a good job. Well, I am ready to fight with anyone just to reach my dream. I am willing to wound myself, bruise my skin, and etc if that takes on working abroad. Hmmm... if I am not ready yet for those things, why the hell did I look for a job abroad right? Hehehe but knowing those kind of people, there are a lot worser everywhere in the world... and also here in my country.
In fact, every time I go to work, I come across to several churches... and you know what... I always pray for the "thing" to come. And I always say to myself that God might loose patience on me already so He is punishing me. Hehehe what a weirdo right... But I always ask God to give it to me.
I am still hoping and praying for that to come. I just don't want to put in my mind some other bad things might happen on the way. And I wish that I'm not waiting in vain.

COOK With Jamie Oliver

Hehehe... Finally, after three days of craving for this book, at last I was able to buy a copy. In fact, the copy I bought this morning was the last one according to the sales clerk. Thanks to my lucky charms, it went down to my hands.
I finished scanning the whole book, and just by that, I am so excited to read every page! Jamie Oliver is my Chef-Idol, he really serves as a guide for me. I look up to him as one of my inspiration and instigator for my culinary career. Actually I want to be just like him, so famous, a very good chef, "good looking", funny yet superior, and above all, he is helping those who would like to be a good chef. I just wish I could be one of his students and be an apprentice on one of his restaurants abroad. Hehehe... How I wish I could work with him?
Well, I finished reading just the introductory part... I am now at the "pasta" part/page and really, I am getting so much from Jamie. I really love Jamie Oliver!!! I'll share to you guys whatever I'll learn while reading this book. But for now, this is it... I'll start reading the book and dream with Jamie.

My Dog Is An Actor???

Hehehe... just to let you know guys... this specie is one of the reasons why I missed my home a lot and why I decided to go back. Well, one time-but I think all of the time I come to our house for a visit during my day-offs, hmmm... I don't know if this is real but my lovable and ever-be-loved pet is crying... Huhuhu... it is a scratch in my heart every time I'll leave our house and my dog will howl a very sad tune. It really makes me sad knowing that my dog is missing me as much as I do. I don't really know why I have this tie with him. Maybe because I was the one who helped his mother lay him, I was there while he is growing, and I was there when the sun is too hot and the rain makes him so wet. That could be he reasons why my pet dog really became a treasure to me.
Hmmm... my dog is indeed a great actor! For he made me decide to go back. But actually I really missed him, in fact, I always see my pet dog in my dreams every night. I am really close with him and every time I go to work and come across to other dogs, I always see a reflection of my pet. Hehehe and there is a time, one night, that I miss my dog so much that I thought he visited me in front of my room... hehehe but wrongly believing, it was my neighbor's dog... same color of same breed... hehehe. And now, I really treasure the days left with my dog. I always see to it that before and after work, I really need to hug him, and do whatever I could to make him happy. Well... my dog is always by my side whatever happens and whenever in time. In my saddest and happiest moment, he was there... he's never been absent.

Finally I am Home Again...

Finally... I am home again! I'm so happy staying again in my room... in our house. Hmmmm... it has been a month and almost fifteen days more since I've rented small room near my workplace. Well, nothing can't be compared to the comforts our home can offer right?! Being independent for a while let me see and appreciate the things that I have back home and I proved that I am lucky enough to have a place to stay at. But there are also things outside, like what I've experienced while renting, which I'll be missing like no curfews, no limits, no rules, do what you like and live what you want... and etc. But again, here I am now, back in my room. I just finished cleaning and putting my things back in my closet and fixing my room to what I am used at. I am so tired since we have a good service this dinner back at work. Well, I need to have a rest now... on my own bed... hehehe I missed my bed so much!!!

July 4... and about my birthday...

Saeng-il chukka haeyo!!! Happy birthday to me!!!
Hehehe I'm really happy last Friday (July 4) when I celebrated my 20th birthday with my new family, my Gaudi Greenbelt family. Of course, I've invited my past-colleagues back in Gaster Deli so it doubled my joy of seeing my friends all in one venue. Hmmm... but celebrating this occasion away from my family is really a sad thing for me but the show must go on... I'm so thankful to what everyone has given. The greetings and the gifts is more of a "plus" for me. In fact, I'm contented enough for partaking the food with these people. As what I've said to them, if there is an exact word to translate "thank you" in a thousand fold manner, I will say it to them for making me so much happy on my special day. Add it to that, God gave me a very special gift... but He says that I might receive it later on... so I'm so excited about that gift from God...
I just hope that my high school friends are also present that day but I know the they are all busy on their studies. Well, I have to make another celebration just for them... maybe a "bon voyage" party for me soon...

BURJ AL ARAB! Here I come!!!

God is really good and gracious! I'm so happy to inform you guys that I have passed the interviews and trade test for this establishment, the 7 star Hotel in Dubai- The Burj Al Arab. I got a Commis II position, right enough as my entry point to Burj which is so hard to penetrate. Of course the bottomline here is the salary... even it's not that high compared to what I earn here in the Philippines, as like they say, the "service charge" will bring me to cloud nine. Hehehe but believe me or not, im not really after the pay... I am going to work in Burj because of the "7 star" experience and the training that they could offer me. Well, it is really good as a benefit for me! Hmmm... I'm so excited for this thing... and knowing that this is my first work overseas, my first escape from the Philippines, my first air travel, and I'm going to be a real independent soon... I'm so thankful that God sent me this as my birthday gift. So Burj al Arab... Dubai... I am coming soon!!!

Level Up! My Culinary Affair!

Each and every time I see food presented nicely, the fiery feeling of becoming a better Chef bursts out of my heart. In the near future, I want to be one of the best French Chef in the world... or if not, I just want to see myself skillfully and creatively doing my own dishes. Hmmm... I may say that I have an eye for art. I am easily moved by wonderful and beautiful things. Well, I guess that is why I'm so fascinated about the cooking world. Just by watching some shows makes me out of the couch to try those food and the way they do their plating. As of now, while working as a Chef in a Spanish restaurant-that is Gaudi Greenbelt, I'm taking most of the opportunity to enhance my creative side of cooking. But there is more waiting outside and beyond... Actually my plan is not only to be a good French Chef... I want to be a more rounded, a more versatile Chef focusing on the European Cuisines but still considering my native cuisine, the Filipino dishes. Maybe after that, I want to experiment more about the fusion of cuisines, specifically French and Korean. Well, that's a dream I also want to pursue one day.
Anyways, why do I go loco these days on this way of cooking. Ahhh... maybe I'm so challenged by what I'm hearing on the News that more and more Filipino chefs are taking a higher notch to their respective positions. I myself also want to do the same thing. Unluckily there are fewer resources and time shared with me. But I am doing my best using most of what I have... and soon after I'll be happy to surprise everyone that I will be there too, soon!
It is really a long long way to go for my career as a chef. The competition is high, the chances given are too rare for everyone to have. Nevertheless, I'm still on my grip and believing someday I will get there.

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On Top of the Clock Tower

Jeffrey Nepomuceno’s Autobiography

“I am who I am.”

In a solemn night of the fourth of July, when the year of the dragon was celebrated, the stillness of the night was ravaged by a newborn’s cry. Said to be, that child will make the world a better place to live. And the child was I, Jeffrey Nepomuceno.
He was blessed by two loving parents, Enrico and Josefina, to whom God entrusted me. He lived his adolescence years with his parents, other brothers, and his sister happily. And soon after he found out that “tomorrow will not be fair to him.”
As he wake up on his seventeenth year in life, he already knew how hard life is. The journey of a man, once a child who broke the silence of the night, is now beginning, and realizing all the “realities” and the “uncertainties” in his “rounded world” called LIFE.

“Life for me is everything I do not know but something I could discover.”

Life is everything to me: in every single minute to the years I have conquered; in each strand of my hair to the nails in my fingers; from the air I breathe to the water I drink and for the earth that gave life to me. This is my life… and I owe it to everything.
Life is a matter of choice. In my seventeen years stay in the cozy earth we are in, I always do consider the right things, specifically the “must things” in life. In every action or word I do or say, I always take time to consider things that are “must” choices in life.
I only have few cherished friends in my very own anthology but they are truly dramatic and interesting novels inside my treasured book. I am very thankful of having them in my life. “Life without them is a life chained in misery.”
I love LOVE and I love life. Everybody who knows me always tell people that I am a hopeless romantic. I feel incomplete amidst all the triumphs and success I have attained. Why should I feel this? Somebody dared to ask me between love and life, what would I choose? And then I whispered, “I must choose love.” Why? Love is the main ingredient that spices up life. Life without love is just like a hard-boiled egg… plain and dull.
I live my life in simplicity yet extravagantly blessed by God. Life, for me, is as simple as a native hut, built in simplicity, furnished with diamonds, and roofed by gold.

“I wish one day I could be one.”

Being an internationally renowned chef is the ultimate dream I have in mind, that’സ why ten years from now, I guess I will be leaving the Philippines to have my experience sharpened and to test my skills for my future career. And some more years will pass, I am seeing myself working as an apprentice in a restaurant in Venice, Italy. Of course, I will take advantage of that opportunity to live and work there for another twenty to twenty-five years, and eventually be a citizen of that country. After I earn the amount of $19, 000, 000, 000, I would probably try to make another life comfortable. First of all, I want to spend that money to give my family their own house and lot and a “living” they never expected they would have. I will first build my mothers house one in Tagaytay and another one in Antipolo. I will buy a ranch in Laguna for my father’s passion of breeding fighting roosters. I will give my sister her own travel agency and try to buy her own resort in Boracay or in Davao, a small plane and her own car. For my brethren, I want them to have grandeur and a very big mansion for them to share.

I think by that time I already have my own family—a very loving and caring wife with our two children, Maria Concepcion and John Tidus Gregor. I don’t want to live without them so I will go back in the Philippines and try to have my own restaurant, “Aussi Grammaire Fantaisie.”

I am a mama’s boy, so I think I will be having my rest house also in Tagaytay but our residence will reside somewhere in Makati or in EDSA. I want to have all I want in life… so many in my list I cannot name even one. But one thing is for sure; I will try all my best to have all of those. And if I feel I am already satisfied and happy, then I can say… “I am now SUCCESSFUL!”

Everybody has his or her own exceptional dreams. Aside from being internationally renowned chef, I am always daydreaming about taking a catwalk on the ramp or pausing for a billboard for a famous clothing line… in short, I want to be a model. But I think my “façade” will not satisfy the CEO of BENCH and the rest of the Sung Yin Corporation. I have passion yet not enough, and how I wish I could do something to improve it. I really want to be one of those who are gazed by many, one of those who are followed by few, and one of those who is “suffering” all the blessings of the fashion and modeling industry. I wish one day I could be one.

“The best things in life are free… in fact, you could find them at your backyard.”

I am a loner yet satisfied in every second I am with myself as my companion. Aside from the mere fact that I am a loner, I do really appreciate simple things and the silence of things around me.
I always love to hear how the trees tell stories with the rhythm from the wind and how the stream travels the world, or how splendor the rainfall and the dawn of the sun are? Why should the ants fall in line as they work everyday, or why should my pulse beat ninety times a minute?
I am easily pleased but it’s not obvious. Many say that I am “Mr. Masungit” and “G. Suplado,” but did they even wondered how I appreciate the things or the words such as hellos and take cares. But truly, I am a serious person, “life is already a game” and we shouldn’t make play anymore.

“Do not do unto others, you do not want others to do unto you.”

According to Confucius, “Without humanity a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity. The humane rest in humanity; the wise find it beneficial and only the humane man can love men and can hate men.” Yes, I admit it… I am a rulebook. But being one of those who sticks to their philosophy are those who were able to acquire discipline to themselves, and I as one of them is proud to say that because of these philosophies I am using as my guidelines, I learned how to be humane, to respect other as I respect myself, and to have a sense of well-being. I always go back to the things that taught special lessons to me and I have realized that life is really simple if you’ll treat it as what it is but life could be that unusual if you are going to foresee things that are really never there.

“Being unique isn’t being different… it’s a matter of being above from all.”

What makes me unique from all other peers of my age? Well, I think it’s all because of what I believe… my philosophy in life. I think that I am the line that divides goodness and foolishness. Setting the world as perfect as I could is a hard thing to do, and to do that requires too many skills or experiences to be gained, but there is something that I could do… I can start changing the world to a better place by sharing those things I have; yet I cannot give all the world needs because I cannot share what I do not have. When time comes and my vision of a better world isn’t finish, I guess I failed to complete my mission. But one thing is for sure; at least I’ve tried to do something for the betterment of the human race.

“Now, as I go on to my journey, I stop for a while to rest and to view my footsteps from the scene I was yesterday and the obstacles I have conquered from the top of the clock tower.”