stamens ba yun? (can't see it clearly... =p)
(under the Euphorbiaceae Family)
Lantern Parade '08
Here are some of the pictures taken last December during the Lantern Parade (UP Diliman).. =)
(source: kuya jasper)
I had a great night!!! =)
(source: kuya jasper)
I had a great night!!! =)
By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept
These are my favorite excerpts from the book... I hope you'll also like it.. =)
-If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.
-May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.
-"Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old," he said.
-You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest.
-Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
-At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognised, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
-"I can read your eyes. I can read your heart. You are going to fall in love. And suffer."(padre)...."I am?" (Pilar)..."You know what I'm talking about. I saw how he was looking at you. He loves you."(padre)
-"Yes, life teaches us many things," I said, trying to continue the conversation.
"It taught me that we can learn, and it taught me that we can change," he replied, "even when it seems impossible."
-No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. And any woman with the least bit of sensitivity can read the eyes of a man in love.
-"One day—it was autumn, just like it is now, and we must have been ten—I was sitting with you in the plaza where the great oak stood.
"I was going to tell you something, something I had rehearsed for weeks. But as soon as I began, you told me that you had lost your medal at the hermitage of San Saturio, and you asked me to see if I could find it there."
"I did find it. But when I returned to the plaza, I no longer had the courage to say what I had rehearsed. So I promised myself that I would return the medal to you only when I was able to complete the sentence that I'd begun that day almost twenty years ago. For a long time, I've tried to forget it, but it's always there. I can't live with it any longer."
He put down his coffee, lit a cigarette, and looked at the ceiling for a long time. Then he turned to me. "It's a very simple sentence," he said. "I love you."
-There are moments when you have to take a risk, to do crazy things.
-In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire. Anything else is fantasy.
-Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.
-But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
-There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
-"But I'm going to fight for your love," he continued. "There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end." I was speechless.
"You are worth it," he said.
-Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown—even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
-"I've been in love before. It's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours.
"But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love."
-The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
-"About vampires. Those creatures of the night, locked inside themselves, desperately seeking company. Incapable of loving." (TOTALLY NOT! haha..)
-A thousand times I wanted to take his hand, and a thousand times I stopped myself. I was still confused—I wanted to tell him I loved him, but I didn't know how to begin.
-If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
-Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
-Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
-"I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you—until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life."
There you go guys... =)
God bless
-If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.
-May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.
-"Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old," he said.
-You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest.
-Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
-At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognised, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
-"I can read your eyes. I can read your heart. You are going to fall in love. And suffer."(padre)...."I am?" (Pilar)..."You know what I'm talking about. I saw how he was looking at you. He loves you."(padre)
-"Yes, life teaches us many things," I said, trying to continue the conversation.
"It taught me that we can learn, and it taught me that we can change," he replied, "even when it seems impossible."
-No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. And any woman with the least bit of sensitivity can read the eyes of a man in love.
-"One day—it was autumn, just like it is now, and we must have been ten—I was sitting with you in the plaza where the great oak stood.
"I was going to tell you something, something I had rehearsed for weeks. But as soon as I began, you told me that you had lost your medal at the hermitage of San Saturio, and you asked me to see if I could find it there."
"I did find it. But when I returned to the plaza, I no longer had the courage to say what I had rehearsed. So I promised myself that I would return the medal to you only when I was able to complete the sentence that I'd begun that day almost twenty years ago. For a long time, I've tried to forget it, but it's always there. I can't live with it any longer."
He put down his coffee, lit a cigarette, and looked at the ceiling for a long time. Then he turned to me. "It's a very simple sentence," he said. "I love you."
-There are moments when you have to take a risk, to do crazy things.
-In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire. Anything else is fantasy.
-Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.
-But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
-There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
-"But I'm going to fight for your love," he continued. "There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end." I was speechless.
"You are worth it," he said.
-Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown—even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
-"I've been in love before. It's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours.
"But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love."
-The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
-"About vampires. Those creatures of the night, locked inside themselves, desperately seeking company. Incapable of loving." (TOTALLY NOT! haha..)
-A thousand times I wanted to take his hand, and a thousand times I stopped myself. I was still confused—I wanted to tell him I loved him, but I didn't know how to begin.
-If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
-Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
-Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
-"I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you—until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life."
There you go guys... =)
God bless
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