Leap Year

Apparently, my February is not like any other. It only happens once in a quarter of a score; or once every four years, which makes 2008 the last year when we had this phenomenon. It's called Leap Year, and apparently, it has become a holiday for some.

The main reason for this is very scientific. The actual days in a year is 365.25. So, every fourth year, the days will be 366 to make up that 1/4 for every year. That's why it has been leap year. Now the reason why February is kind of mysterious and I don't know why.

Leap Year is very exciting for me because I get to know how people who celebrate their birthdays today actually celebrate their birthdays. Out of curiosity, I asked this question on Facebook and there was actually a comment saying, "they either celebrate their birthday on February 28 or March 1." Cool! So I've heard this on the news before but I'm not quite sure so I said this again online. So February 28 or March 1, ei. I thought they would celebrate every four years. Haha. That means their four times younger than everyone of us in numbers. How I would wish that my birthday's on a 29th February. No blowouts. More money. And more special and worth remembering because my real birth date would only come every after four years. I've not yet known any friend who celebrated their birthday today. There was no one on Facebook. There was one on Twitter but he was a complete stranger.

Well, February 29 went right so far.Until the next Leap Year. (That would be about 2016 already.)

Home of the Blues

February's ending. I thought, this love month is ending and not a single love post was ever posted here. I could have written anything about love, but I was waiting for the write time to talk about them. I was about to convince myself yesterday to write something about this month's celebration, suddenly, a tweet came, which changed my whole night forever.

The tune was very catchy, I guarantee you will repeat the whole song over and over again. The lyrics were so overwhelming, it goes through your inner core.The singer is very good, in fact, I'm one of his biggest fans. What's not to love about the song?

With euphoria in me yesterday, I wrote this on my blog not knowing that it sounds immature and childish, "I listened to this song once but I was instantly hooked up that I need to listen to this song everyday!" I do not know what I was thinking about yesterday but my head my so high it's like I took drugs. But yeah, what I said there was true. I was quickly enticed by this song which made me listen to it over and over again. It went to the point of downloading it and yes, it became my lullaby for the night. When I woke up, my iPod was still playing the song -- it's on repeat.

 Adam Young posted in his blog this song entitled, "Home of the Blues." 

To my surprise, I've discovered that it was only a cover of a Johnny Cash original. (yeah. It took me minutes to finally realize  what that Cash is written on his blog, and it's Johnny Cash.). According to Wikipedia, this song was written by Cash  about his unhappy childhood. Maybe, just maybe, Adam Young did connect to this song so much that he made his third cover of any song (the first was Enchanted by Taylor Swift and the second was the First Noel).

I wait for another great song of Adam Young. The last released one was Eternity which he collaborated with Paul van Dyk. I also discovered that there is an upcoming album of Owl City this year, I can't wait for it.

Right now, let this song sing me to sleep again, big time!

On Denials and Hypocrisies

I try to be the very best that I am, but most of the time, I fail, and I can't really do what I expect myself to be doing, or what I say that must be done.

On Denials and Hypocrisies...

I always try to be one hell of a perfect guy. I try as much as I could to please everyone, even to the point of losing myself. I always check on others' mistake, thinking that they're wrong and I'm right. I always ridicule others' weakness. I wanted to be the best but it's making me worse. I don't know where to place.

For instance, as a pretentious good guy, I always criticize people who are very much conceited, and full of themselves, never realizing that I am also a proud guy who always think that I am the greatest among others. But wait, I am not conceited, nor very full of myself, nor selfish. I know my limits, but, there are still some things I do not know about myself. This made me think that I'm proud sometimes. I often insult others, too, and think they're crazy as I am criticizing others for doing the same.

Yet, most of the time, I always deny that I do those saying to myself, "Hey! She must already be used to my insult. She must not get mad at me already." Only to think that my insults are getting worse.

Another instance would be when I would try to be selfish with the facts I know. Though I find it unfair to share the knowledge I know but get uncredited, I often do critisize people who are not sharing what they know to others, especially to me. Hypocrite? Yes. I believe so.

But there are some instance when my criticisms are right. For example, one person I know always have this favorite student. This teacher always checks on this student, on whatever he is doing. As an Education student, this is not a sign of good teaching. A teacher, no matter how he favors a student, must not show it to the class because there are other students listening. I'm not insecure. It's a teacher's basic rule.

I blame myself for being too attached to the external environment that I almost forget to look at myself in the mirror. The moment that my classmate told me that I've changed, I looked inside myself and found out many wrong things that I've been doing for the past weeks which I overlooked because I was too busy being a hypocrite. I was too busy denying the fact that I probably changed already.

Though that was not the reason why my classmate said that to me (it was a reason so confidential it needs not to be said online, but it's utterly seen in my last blog post.), it readily made me examine myself. I do not know if I would soon change, but if I can, I hope I will.

Lily Aldrin said this on the 21st episode of the first season of the show, "How I Met Your Mother," entitled Milk,

"There are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake but you don't really know it's a mistake because the only way to really know it's a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say, 'Yehp, that was a mistake.' So really, the bigger mistake would be not to make the mistake because then you go your life not really knowing if something is a mistake or not."

(Yeah, I really repeated this scene several times just to get this line perfectly.)

I never knew I did this mistake but now I know it's a mistake, it's high time for me make up for that mistake. Thanks for the advice Lily, and thanks to the person who said that to me.

Hindi na Kailangan ng Karagdagan pang Paliwanag

Hindi ko alam magalit sa isang tao. Hindi kasi ako palaaway. Ayaw ko ng away ehh. Kung magagalit man ako sa isang tao, huhupa at huhupa din ito agad at mawawala ang galit ko sa kanya. Ngunit meron iyong mga pagkakataong punung-puno na talaga ako sa iisang tao na kahit ano pang gawin niya ay hinding hindi ko na siya mapatatawad.

Madami na siyang nagawang kababalaghan magmula pa noon, ilang taon na ang nakalilipas. Kapag dadaan siya, iyong mararamdaman ang lakas ng hangin na tatangayin ka.

Hindi ako perpekto, ngunit alam ko ang lumugar. Hindi ako nagbago dahil sa galit ko sa kanya. Hindi ako napapatulad sa iba dahil sa galit ko sa kanya. May tamang pag-iisip naman ako upang mabatid ko ang tama mula sa mali. Ilang taon ko na siya kilala. At ilang taon ko na iniwasan ang kanyang kayabangan sa paniniwalang magagaya rin ako sa kanya. Kanino ba ako napapasunod para masabi ninyong nagagaya na ako sa ibang may galit na rin sa kanya? Hindi ko alam. Hindi ko mawari.

Kahit ano man ang gawin niyo. Kahit man sermonan ninyo ako ng sandamakmak, hinding hindi na magbabago ang paningin niya sa akin.

Ngayong nasa itaas siya, sana hindi na muli lalaki ang kanyang ulo dahil ito ay kasing-laki na ng buwan. Ayoko na.

Hindi na kailangan ng karagdagan pang paliwanag para maintindihan ang aking saloobin.

Walk On

I colored the letters carefully, not wanting to make any mistake to our placards. I wanted it to be seen by everybody else. It was for a good cause anyways. After my group mates and I finished our placard, one of my groupmates held it high, and we went for the procession for life.

as former fetuses, we oppose abortion!

Instead of thinking that yesterday was the Valentine's Day, I thought of it as a day for Life, that everyone should  be given the right to live, no matter what happens. I joined the procession not because of a school requirement, not even because all my friends are going. It's because I wanted to. I support the cause. I support that all babies need to be born and cared for until they grow up. It should not be a choice of the parents whether or not they should live or not. They do not have the right to just kill a fetus with a beating heart. Just so you know, I am against Abortion. 

I am also against the controversial RH Bill, but not the whole bill itself. I may have to agree that some of the contents of the bill need to be passed, but some must not be passed. This RH Bill is actually Pro-Life, if I may say, because it provides care to the baby and to the mother. But what I do not agree with is the sexual education of 5th grade pupils. I don't know if this is still a provision of the bill or not anymore, but the last time I read the bill, it is still contained there. Maybe it could be taught to high school students, wherein they are in their mature minds. Another provision is the use of contraceptives. I do not agree to artificial method of family planning because there is this natural method of family planning.

Anyways, yesterday, the crowd was overwhelming. Many had their placards containing words of support pro-life. We had our walk with our placards up as we prayed the rosary together. We also sang some Marian Songs and prayed Hail Mary in the dialect. When the long walk was over, a mass was done, but I was not there anymore. Eek. Sorry for that one.

Concluding, in search for true light, we need to have this rally to life. They also need to experience life as we did. As one of the placards yesterday said, "If you were aborted before, you think you're still alive?" In search for an answer, we need to cooperate with each other, cooperate with God, and walk on.

D-Day

"I'm ready," I thought to myself a while ago,

"This will be a challenge I'm not just gonna blow."

Though I never even tried this in my whole being 

I mustered every courage for this gross thing.

I heard their last moans as I wore my lab gown.

my conscience was troubled, but I never backed down

"It's for my grade," I said, though I am feeling gloomy

I love cats, I mean it, they're all cute and cuddly.

The poor feline was then brought to our table

It was hard to take a glance but I was able

to recover from it, I know I am strong man.

The strange feeling I had was then gone.

I do not want to describe what we did,

because it might disturb those who will read

nor will I tell what we did to them later

rest assured, they're in a place so proper.

I swear that I'll never do it again

I don't want to cause more pain

to myself, my conscience, and to the felines

which as they say, has lives of nine.

It came to past. On it's sixth year

"The future is scary, but you can't just run to the past because it's familiar. yes it's tempting... but it's a mistake."

That is the most striking quotation I got from the sixth season of How I Met Your Mother. Yesterday, I finished watching the 6th season of the series.


2010-2011. The season when Angry Birds and Facebook and even the Jonas Brothers were so popular it got featured on this series.

Twas a very good year for all of them.