December 2011
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9. College Entrance Exams
Probably the one stressing thing about being a senior is realizing you’re a few years closer to graduating from college and not having any more summer breaks for the rest of your life. Yes, no more summer breaks. UPCAT, ACET, USTET, DLSUCET, SATs or whatever it is you took, kind of rattles you from the inside out.
On the days I realize that I may not pass every exam I attempted to take, or that...
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Towards the end of 2011,
I’m going to write 10 highlights of my year and tell you how it has influenced me as a person. Hopefully, they make sense.
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30 Things to Start Doing for Yourself
So here it is, a positive ‘to-do’ list for the upcoming year – 30 things to start doing for yourself:
Start spending time with the right people. – These are the people you enjoy, who love and appreciate you, and who encourage you to improve in healthy and exciting ways. They are the ones who make you feel more alive, and not only embrace who you are now, but also embrace and embody who you...
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An excerpt from a homily.
When we wound one another, we drop our sorries and confess and do our penances. Do we still wonder why scars do stay, why the injury of sin, its trauma and its swelling do not just go away? We have grown to expect lesions to close at our speed and at our bidding, and not at the pace of those we have wounded.
patrickandaya asked: Hello wonderful. :)
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Have you ever accidentally looked at someone in...
and found that you had to look away because you saw all that you could have been and all that you will never get the chance to be? Or all that you are, and all that you wish you weren’t? Or all that you were, and all that you wish you could become for them?
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patrickandaya:
Better Days - Goo Goo Dolls
And...
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Is Empathy In Our Genes?
A large part of how we relate to people emotionally may be hardwired into our DNA. A new study suggests that character traits such as being open, caring, and trusting are so strongly linked to a certain gene variation that a total stranger, simply by watching us listen to another person, may be able to guess whether we have the variation with a high degree of accuracy.
Previous studies have...
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I mean, this is why I'm on tumblr.
mnbornandraised replied to your post: Find someone you can afford to be quiet with.
Seconding muffintot, “This is a very good read”… : ) Keep on being genuine, genuine thoughts are the best to read.
I guess, I feel happy that these are the kinds of followers I have. I’m not one of those blogs with like, thousands of followers, or anything like that, but I have a good number of people...
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When I was 10 years old,
I went to taekwondo four times a week for the entire school year. I was the youngest in my group of friends, and most of them were already in college or working. They really baby-ed me a lot, but always gave me a good work out in sparring. I haven’t been to that training center in five years. There was a couple there, both studying to be lawyers at the time, and despite the vast age...
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There is a kind of beauty that transcends.
One that has nothing to do with how smooth your face is, how long your eye lashes are, or how your skin is. It’s the kind of beauty that seeps through the edges of your memory, the cracks of your hardened heart. This is the kind of beauty that lasts, that nothing can touch, not even time.
And there is no real way to tell by criteria. No specific skin tone, no gender, no height nor weight...
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“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it,...”
– Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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