Monday, October 25, 2010

It All Ended with Ginger and Cinnamon


When I am happy, I cannot write. However, I would, with all my heart, regret if I won't write on this one glorious moment. This direction would be a start of something new for me and for all who is a part and will be a part of it.

In spite of the news of a typhoon that would hit the weekend afternoon four days ago, the never ending quest on when will our schedules will meet, and the scarcity of time to rehearse, finally, we've shared the same tune as we dive into the pursuit of our long lost passions and dreams. Words weren't enough to describe what had happened last weekend. It was just-- a BLAST! I realized that one way or another it maybe the universe and fate telling us, not to worry at all because each one of us is sourced with a gift.



To Francis, Alec, Lea, Nathan and Gel:  

You guys were awesome and prolific!





We went home at around 5AM after a nice hot soup and woke up noon hitting the Shang to watch an Italian movie at the Italian Movie Fest--- for free!!!! :)


(Loved it! Ginger and Cinnamon after a share of humble banoffee pie)



We won't worry our lives away,
Liz/ D.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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

Sunday, May 9, 2010

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

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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