The Fringe Benefits of Failure

TED really makes me thinking... 

I have been watching this clip over and over again and find it amusingly inspiring. I jotted some ideas of Ms. Rowling about the benefits of failure and this is what I got...

1.Once you take the wheel, the responsibility is with you.

2. Poverty entails fear,and stress and sometimes depression it means a thousand petty humiliation but    climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something to which you pride yourself and poverty itself      is romanticized by fools.

3. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success.

4.  Failure is meant to scripting away of the inessential.

5.  Some failure in life is inevitable it is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might not have lived after all in which case you failed by default.

6.  Personal happiness is knowing that life is not a checklist.

7.  Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control and the humility to know that will enable you to survive this vicissitudes.

8. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not and therefore the fountain of all invention and innovation. in its arguably most trans-formative and revelatory capacity, it is power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we never shared.

There were a lot of good points that I would have not jotted down.... Hear for yourself and be inspired!

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.


D.

Gotta go Back to Work....

This kind of hit me right in the face...



"You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world." — Ray Bradbury




(Oh... and yes, I am writing again....)



D.

FYG - A Campaign To Change The Course of History

Letting go of melodramatic/dramatic ranting and posting in the meantime....

I'd like to share his video on change - now that the Philippines is in the brink of taking another chapter in the course of history.... 

ENJOY and most IMPORTANTLY, BE A PART OF IT!!!

FOUR YEARS. GO.

I am what I am and I will be the change my country would like me to be. 

dani

In a Very Unusual Way, You've Made Me Whole

I remembered this song back from the days that my ears won't shut till I hear something so soothing... sometimes putting me into a sort of trance then fall asleep. I'm actually in the hunt for a DVD of this movie now. Nicole Kidman is just so ethereal. The song and the scene--- surreal. (Pardon me for the conversation parts..it may or may not be accurate)

UNUSUAL WAY

In a very unusual way

One time I needed you

In a very unusual way

You were my friend

Maybe it lasted a day

Maybe it lasted an hour

But somehow it will never end

Claudia: These women who come up that pedestals for a kiss... they're just fantasies.
Guido: No you misunderstood.

In a very unusual way

I think I'm in love with you

In a very unusual way

I want to cry

Something inside me goes weak

Something inside me surrenders

And you're the reason why,

you're the reason why

You don't know what you do to me

You don't have a clue

You can't tell what it's like to be me looking at you

It scares me so that I can hardly speak

Guido: She's an inspiration...
Claudia: I can't keep playing that part.
Guido: But I fall in love with you everytime...
Claudia: When there's a camera between us?
Guido: No...
Claudia: He's not a real person, Guido, this man you describe, he doesn't know how to love.  

In a very unusual way

I owe what I am to you

Guido: There was a time once when on location, on some terrible hotel, you were in the room directly above me. I could hear you're walking above and all through the night, I wanted to rush up the stairs and hammer on your door till you open...
Claudia: Why didn't you?
Guido: I don't know... i don't know.

(lines that Nicole didn't sing but is included in the song: Thought at times it appears I won't stay I never go)

Special to me in my life

Since the first day that I met you

How could I ever forget you

Once you had touched my soul?

In a very unusual way......You've made me whole.

Another version that I really love was sung by my all-time favorite Joan Cano of the UST Singers.



Stupenda... Bellisima... Kaunis...

still in a trance,
dani

To a Friend Who Inpires me to Write and Make my Music Take Flight....

If you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just...passes you by.

--MBFW Michael O'Neill

I'd like to share this letter which was originally written two years ago and modified last August 17th 2009. Now that I am out of options and out of aces and even frustration eats me alive and exhaustion envelopes my world,  I won't give a damn because without a single doubt, I know in my heart, I am totally free.

Now my goals are straightened out. I can clearly see where I am heading. Time has shown me the best and the worst---- of people, of situations, and of incidents.  There may be more of it, but what the heck, I can face them all. I have you in my heart and for me that's more than enough. You inspired me to gather myself together letting me realize that there's more to life than living within the realm of my past. I’m taking one step at a time to build trust again, to build our friendship where I had put smudges on. You once put distance to the friendship and to something that has been a work in progress and in turn, I don’t have a choice but to understand. I’ve blown as many chances most likely as one could ever imagine.

You admitted in an instance that you cared more than what a usual friend would do. And that coming straight from you, I am someone who's dear and special. How could I forget the moment you said those words as my heart leaped yet how could my heart accept too when you tried to push me away? I was puzzled and got mental glitches since I don’t know what steps to make and what approaches to take which is unusual since I had been so flexible with people and situations. I’m no blabber mouth but still I felt I said too much. You might have gotten sick of me or of love, that, I don’t have any thoughts on, no idea whatsoever. Till, I felt that everything was slowly slipping away. No options but to let it be. I don’t own you and I can’t even say that there is us nor was us. Then, there was silence.

Well, we had our own reasons of doing so. You are you and I am I. I was weak and I lost track of my values. I was so numb to understand your way of showing how much you care and I mistook your silence for indifference. I became dumb as I accept the blow by blow accounts of my selfishness to love and to life. These confessions maybe hard for you to accept, and it’s okay, I know in time, you'll understand.  

You are, for the longest time now, have been the best realization of what can I do and what I am capable of. You’ve always believed in me. I had the so-called paradigm shift because of the thought of you.  I have lingered too much on heartaches too and made everything hard for myself. I may not be a part of your plans and of your everyday journey for now, you may have dropped everything that we've started or even say that there is certainly nothing to start with, yet the hell I care, I am, and will always stay, as promised, without any second thoughts.

Setting expectations now and not meeting it in the long run will just result into shitty what ifs and what might have beens. Yes, I’m trembling now and you may not know how I’ve missed you. I don't know what lies ahead and what's in store for me, but in my best, I will make sure that everything I do will be a journey towards you. No rush, no buts, no tries, only sure steps with wiser values and infinite feelings of passion and perseverance.

I want to rediscover us. Until we meet again...

I really don't know if I blew the chance, the truth, that is right exactly in front of me-- destiny that is. It was too close, too close that I can't even hold it. A precious gift that I can't even afford.

 Now, I'm down to absolutely

But still I am LUCKY,

dani

Happy Earth Day!

Thank you for not giving up yet, Motha! I am still lucky to belong to the generation where there are still people who is part of the "making up" and who still can appreciate beauty and your majestic views. For those who's still a part of the continuous destruction, shame on you!

I will follow through everyday, in any way i can. I will be a part of the MAKING UP.

l

Loved google today... nice :)

Running for the Earth,
dani

How did I get so busy?

And now we're in!

In my commitment into spreading random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty, I found myself inviting people into engaging themselves into sports-- the one part of my being that I left for a while due to the nonchalance that I give to my health and life.

I've been working on getting in the race and unfortunately I missed the registration for the Earth Run. It was a blessing that another race is still open-- the National Geographic run. Well, both will happen on the same date. It's like hitting two birds with one stone, I mean, being with my friends and at the same time, giving myself back to Mother Earth, now not alone... together with my love beings! :)



This is just so little. It is just one small step that I can do for now. I am taking it one day at a time and what makes me tremendously happy is that I know in one way or another I’ve influenced and will influence a lot of people into giving themselves more-- whether for the Earth or for their family, for my family and for the others. Anyway, going out of my shell, constant conversation and meeting new people now never fails to amaze me after all.

There is really more outside than watching my favorite Koreanovela... :P

These activities kept me busy the past two weeks:

1. WORK. (This i can never disregard.)



2. Being in awe all the time. (Kept beautiful grand views of the Metro)

may it be night...






or just as the day breaks in...



3. Celebrated Birthdays and being with Yayie :)





Happy Birthday Yayie! (April 8th)

4. Watched a cortege of centurions and Jesus wanna bees (during the Holy week)







5. Celebrated Easter and Thanksgiving with my High school chums and new friends.







I'm definitely looking forward on my run for the Earth and my badminton weekends with Teton and so as weekdays with Raymond.

I will continue to give myself more in keeping and building relationships. I will commit myself into loving even if people won't or will agree into that commitment.

At the end of the day, i will rest.... Grateful and Happy.



Thanks for my battery-operated fan in times that I need a good sleep during the rotational power outages.


dani