Love and Time
Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love.
Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.
When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said,
“Richness, can you take me with you?”
Richness answered, “No, I can’t. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you.”
Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. “Vanity, please help me!”
“I can’t help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat,” Vanity answered.
Sadness was close by so Love asked, “Sadness, let me go with you.”
“Oh . . . Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!”
Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her.
Suddenly, there was a voice, “Come, Love, I will take you.” It was an elder. So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Realizing how much was owed the elder,
Love asked Knowledge, another elder, “Who Helped me?”
“It was Time,” Knowledge answered.
“Time?” asked Love. “But why did Time help me?”
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, “Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is.”
Sad Love Quotes 2
Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.
True love never dies as we see in our eyes, only when we let go that we can truly say goodbye.
Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself.
How can I forget you when your always on my mind? How can I not want you when your all I want inside?
How can I let you go when I can’t see us apart? How can I not love you when you control my heart?
A lost love is never lost unless what’s lost is the love for your lover.
Without you there is no love. Without you there is no me. Without you there is nothing. So I’m asking, baby,
please don’t leave.
I cry because I know he doesn’t feel the way I do. I cry because I think of how pathetic I am, and I cry because I think I’ll be crying forever.
Some people say the worst way to miss someone is when they are right next to you and you know you can’t have them, but it’s worse when you thought you didn’t want them anymore and then all of a sudden you realize you can’t live without them.
A million words wouldn’t bring you back. I know because I’ve tried. Neither would a million tears. I know because I’ve cried!
It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when you’re heart still does.It is now one of my biggest regrets in this life: not to have seen the extent of your love for me.
Sometimes I wish I had never met you because then I could go to bed at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.
A heart breaking isn’t always as loud as a bomb exploding.. Sometimes it can be as quiet as a feather falling.. And the most painful thing is, no one really hears it, except you..
How can I promise you forever when tomorrow is so far away from me? How can I dry your tears when I have a bleeding heart inside of me? how can I ever forget you when your name is etched so deep within me?
Maybe if I had just looked away that first night you came towards me, everything would be different and my heart wouldn’t be breaking right now.
I wish that you were here or that I were there, or that we were together anywhere!
The saddest love is to love someone, to know that they still want you, but the circumstances don’t let you have them.
Every single person in this world waits for love in their life. Some people say love didn’t come to them
but it was right in front of their eyes. Some people wait a lifetiime for true love, I should know, I’m still waiting for my true love.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thoughts.The worst thing a guy can do is let a girl fall in love when he doesn’t intend to catch her fall.
Love is born with a smile, grows with a kiss, and dies with a tear.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thoughts. The worst thing a guy can do is let a girl fall in love when he doesn’t intend to catch her fall.
Love is born with a smile, grows with a kiss, and dies with a tear.
Sad Love Quotes
Sometimes you love something so much that it hurts to leave it, but you must. Sometimes it hurts too much to hold on to that thing you love. And sometimes you let go of what you love because it hurts, but then just sometimes… you get it back and live happily ever after.
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Why do people have to lose things to find out what they really mean?
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When you are in love and you get hurt, it’s like a cut… it will heal, but there will always be a scar.
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May God put a spell on you… so you won’t forget me.
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Whenever I cried he would always make me feel like he would change the world if he could so it couldn’t hurt me anymore. But now I’m crying and he’s not here
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You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.
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When I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the most.
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When you said forever, you meant a few months. When I said forever, I meant every day until I died. When you said always, you meant until you couldn’t handle it anymore. When I said always, I meant until time ended. When you said you loved me, you meant I was no different from any other girl. When I said I loved you, I meant I had never felt what I felt for you.
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. unknown sad love quotes
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With you my heart will always stay. With you my thoughts will be every day. You remain to be the one that I regret letting get away. Why didn’t I say what I needed to say? You are the one I will always use my wishes on. You are the one I will always wish was never gone. I’ll constantly wonder what went wrong. I’ll forever think of what I could’ve did that was never done.
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I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was
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I miss you a little, I guess you could say, a little too much, a little too often, and a little more each day
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There’s this place in me where your finger prints still rest… your kisses still linger and your whispers softly echo… It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me
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A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone’s face.
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I finally found someone
Oh well, a lot of people said this line. In fact this line is considered ‘overused’. But hey the line in this song, I finally found someone, that knocks me off my feet. I finally found the one, that makes me feel complete. I am with this great guy that makes my whole world complete. I know sounds cheesy but hey that’s the fact. I never thought I would never find someone like him. Someone who will do anything just to be with me.
One thing I have learned from loving this guy is that, never expect anything in return when you love someone. And always tell them how important they are to you. This will boost their morale and also will love you even more.
I am no expert when it comes to love. I failed a lot of times, but with those failures, I became who I am now. He would always tells me that “It gets worst before getting better”. Well true. I have been into a lot of shitty relationships, pasts where I thought I would never make it. But hey after all those heartaches, pains and sorrows, I found him.
God knows what you really need in order to succeed. He will never give you something without you learning something. After tough times I have been through, He gave something worth keeping for a lifetime. A gift more precious than anything else in this world.
I love everything about him. His flaws are included too. I think that is true love huh? When you can still love that person beyond those imperfection. Oh well no one is perfect and he even said, he think he is bad for me but he will try his best to be good. For me not to regret choosing to be with him.
I am just so lucky, lucky enough to be with someone who can love me back the way I love him. Well, I think more than I do. He do everything just to make me feel love and cared for. I feel his support in everything I do and I know he is always proud of my achievements, big or small, he is still proud of me. Oh, how I love this guy.
But I know there would be times that we might hurt each other. But I think that is part of a relationship. But I know we will never hurt one another ‘intentionally’. But it will draw us together closer. In our hearts, mind and soul, we are married to one another. 
And I think that’s what’s important.
Till then!
The Ten Conyo–mandments
(By Gerry Avelino and Arik Abu)
1. Thou shall make gamit “make+pandiwa”
“Let’s make pasok na to our class!”
“Wait lang! I’m making kain pa!”
“Come on na, we can’t make hintay anymore!”
2. Thou shall make kalat “noh”, “di ba” and “eh” in your pangungusap
“I don’t like to make lakad in the baha nga, noh? Eh di ba it’s like, so
ewww, di ba?
“What ba? Stop nga being maarte noh!”
“Eh as if you want naman also, di ba?
3. When making describe a whatever, always say “It’s SO pang–uri!”
“It’s so malaki, you know, and so mainit!”
“I know right? So sarap nga eh!”
“You’re making me inggit naman, I’ll make bili nga my own burger.”
4. When you are lalaki, make parang punctuation “dude”, “tsong” or “pare”
“Dude, ENGANAL is so hirap, pare.”
“I know, tsong, I got bagsak nga in quiz one, eh.”
5. Thou shall know you know? I know right!
“My bag is so bigat today, you know.”
“I know, right! We have to make dala pa kase the jumbo Physics book eh!”
6. Make gawa the plural of pangalans like in English or Spanish
“I have so many tigyawats, oh!”
7. Like, when you can make kaya, always like. Like, I know right?
“Like it’s so init naman!”
“Yeah! The air–con, it’s like sira kase eh!”
8. Make yourself feel so galing by translating the last word of your
sentence, you know, your pangungusap?
“Kakainis naman in the LRT! How plenty tao, you know, people?”
”It’s so tight nga there, eh, you know, masikip?”
9. Make gamit of plenty of abbreviations, you know, daglat?
“Like OMG! It’s like traffic sa EDSA.”
“I know, right? It’s so kaka!”
“Kaka?”
“Kakaasar!”
10. Make gamit the pinakamarte voice and pronunciation you have para full
effect!
“I’m like, making aral at the Arrhneow!”
“Me naman, I’m from Lazzahl!”
Quotes about Choice
- You are the person who has to decide. Whether you’ll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you’ll lead or will linger behind. Whether you’ll try for the goal that’s afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.” ~Edgar A. Guest~
- “You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.” ~Shad Helmstetter~
- “You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don’t think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.” ~Anthony Robbins~
- “You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.” ~David Thomas~
- “When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.” ~Dr. Samuel Johnson~
- “It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.” ~Unknown~
- “Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” ~William Jenning Bryan~
- “The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” ~George Eliot~
- “It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.” ~Jean Nidetch~
- “If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”
- ~Robert Fritz~
- “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” ~Dr. Wayne Dyer~
- “Every choice you make has an end result.” ~Zig Ziglar~
- “Live your dream by making deliberate choices, not just responding to whatever life throws your way.” ~Marcia Wieder~
- “You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” ~Deepak Chopra~
- “Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.” ~Dr. Wayne Dyer~
- “Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.” ~Pat Riley~
Seasons of Life
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge
things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look
at a pear tree that was a great distance away.
The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in
summer, and the youngest son in the fall.
When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe
what they had seen.
The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.
The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise.
The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so
sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.
The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping
with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they
had each seen but only one season in the tree’s life.
He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season,
and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come
from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons &nbs p;are up.
If you give up when it’s winter, you will miss the promise of your spring,
the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.
Moral lessons:
Don’t let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don’t judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later.
Hate that I Love you
[Rihanna:]
As much as I love you
As much as I need you
And I can’t stand you
Must everything you do make me wanna smile
Can I not like you for awhile? (No….)
[Ne-Yo:]
But you won’t let me
You upset me girl
And then you kiss my lips
All of a sudden I forget (that I was upset)
Can’t remember what you did
[Rihanna:]
But I hate it…
You know exactly what to do
So that I can’t stay mad at you
For too long that’s wrong
[Ne-Yo:]
But I hate it…
You know exactly how to touch
So that I don’t want to fuss.. and fight no more
Said I despise that I adore you
[Rihanna:]
And I hate how much I love you boy (yeah…)
I can’t stand how much I need you (I need you…)
And I hate how much I love you boy (oh whoa..)
But I just can’t let you go
And I hate that I love you so (oooh..)
[Ne-Yo:]
You completely know the power that you have
The only one makes me laugh
[Rihanna:]
Said it’s not fair
How you take advantage of the fact
That I… love you beyond the reason why
And it just ain’t right
[Ne-Yo:]
And I hate how much I love you girl
I can’t stand how much I need you (yeah..)
And I hate how much I love you girl
But I just can’t let you go
But I hate that I love you so
[Both:]
One of these days maybe your magic won’t affect me
And your kiss won’t make me weak
But no one in this world knows me the way you know me
So you’ll probably always have a spell on me…
[Ne-Yo:]
Yeaahhh… Oohh…
[Rihanna:]
As much I love you (as much as I need you)
As much as I need you (oooh..)
As much I love you (oh..)
As much as I need you
[Rihanna:]
And I hate that I love you so
And I hate how much I love you boy
I can’t stand how much I need you (can’t stand how much I need you)
And I hate how much I love you boy
But I just can’t let you go (but I just can’t let you go no..)
And I hate that I love you so
And I hate that I love you so.. so…
Yes I hate how much I love you my baby…. I think you will always have a spell on me. No matter how much I fight this feeling, you got me already. The whole of me… You’re half of me, without you, I will no longer be whole…
I love you so much baby!
Special day
My computer clock says 12:05, 5 minutes ago, it is our monthsary. How time flies if you’re in love. The feeling is so strong and it made me forget the rest. It brings back smile to me how we end up together. It all started with a joke.
That day, I really wanted erase him from my contact list (both cellphone and chikka). Why? I know all his dark secrets that I think if another girl would be listening, would be a huge turn off for them. But it happened differently in my case. I fell for this great guy.
He admits being playboy, loves to love girls. As he always says, he has a lot of love to give. But I still wonder until now, why I do love him this much. The foundation of our relationship are friendship and trust.
So when the 24th came, I was already decided to erase him from my contact list if he won’t even feel that I do like him. Yes, I am willing to take the risk to be with him. So when I texted him, he replied to me, asking me how I was and the likes. Till we end up talking about the guy whom he is suppose to set me up. Then I blurted out, “Hay hirap talaga magkahowe.” (*sigh*, it is hard to find a boyfriend), then he replied to me, “Can I be your howe?”. Surprised but smiling, that’s what I felt. And I asked him, “Are you serious?”, then he said “Yes”.
So there we end up being together. Then he admitted, he fell in love with me long time ago. But didn’t bother to pursue it because with all the things he had told me, there would be no reason for me to love him. But he was surprised to find out, I fell in love with him despite those.
One by one, he dropped all his girls and told me, he never felt this kind of love for the longest time. Most of the girls he was with are nothing serious and the other one is just because he feel pity for that girl that is why he can’t leave her. The last time he felt this kind of love was when he was in college, with his first love. I was blushing and smiling. I know he was telling me the truth. During the time when we were friends, he never lied to me. And that’s what we promised to each other, to never lie. Tell the truth even if it hurts.
And now, we reached our monthsary. I can’t help but smile. I am so happy to have a wonderful man with me. Someone who loves me and cares for me. Someone who completes me.
Mean Mom
I had the meanest mother in the whole world. While other kids ate
candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs or toast. When others had cokes and candy for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich. As you can guess, my supper was different than the other kids’ also.
But at least, I wasn’t alone in my sufferings. My sister and two
brothers had the same mean mother as I did.
My mother insisted upon knowing where we were at all times. You’d think we were on a chain gang. She had to know who our friends were and where we were going. She insisted if we said we’d be gone an hour, that we be gone one hour or less–not one hour and one minute. I am nearly ashamed to admit it, but she actually struck us. Not once, but each time we had a mind of our own and did as we pleased. That poor belt was used more on our seats than it was to hold up Daddy’s pants. Can you imagine someone actually hitting a child just because he disobeyed? Now you can begin to see how mean she really was.
We had to wear clean clothes and take a bath. The other kids always wore their clothes for days. We reached the height of insults because she made our clothes herself, just to save money. Why, oh why, did we have to have a mother who made us feel different from our friends?
The worst is yet to come. We had to be in bed by nine each night
and up at eight the next morning. We couldn’t sleep till noon like our friends. So while they slept-my mother actually had the nerve to break the child-labor law. She made us work. We had to wash dishes, make beds, learn to cook and all sorts of cruel things. I believe she laid awake at night thinking up mean things to do to us.
She always insisted upon us telling the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth, even if it killed us- and it nearly did.
By the time we were teen-agers, she was much wiser, and our life became even more unbearable. None of this tooting the horn of a car for us to come running. She embarrassed us to no end by making our dates and friends come to the door to get us. If I spent the night with a girlfriend, can you imagine she checked on me to see if I were really there. I never had the chance to elope to Mexico. That is if I’d had a boyfriend to elope with. I forgot to mention, while my friends were dating at the mature age of 12 and 13, my old fashioned mother refused to let me date until the age of 15 and 16. Fifteen, that is, if you dated only to go to a school function. And that was maybe twice a year.
Through the years, things didn’t improve a bit. We could not lie
in bed, “sick” like our friends did, and miss school. If our friends
had a toe ache, a hang nail or serious ailment, they could stay home from school. Our marks in school had to be up to par. Our friends’ report cards had beautiful colors on them, black for passing, red for failing. My mother being as different as she was, would settle for nothing less than ugly black marks.
As the years rolled by, first one and then the other of us was put
to shame. We were graduated from high school. With our mother behind us, talking, hitting and demanding respect, none of us was allowed the pleasure of being a drop-out.
My mother was a complete failure as a mother. Out of four
children, a couple of us attained some higher education. None of us have ever been arrested, divorced or beaten his mate. Each of my brothers served his time in the service of this country. And whom do we have to blame for the terrible way we turned out? You’re right, our mean mother. Look at the things we missed. We never got to march in a protest parade, nor to take part in a riot, burn draft cards, and a million and one other things that our friends did.
She forced us to grow up into God-fearing, educated, honest adults. Using this as a background, I am trying to raise my three
children. I stand a little taller and I am filled with pride when my
children call me mean.
Because, you see, I thank God,
He gave me the meanest mother in the whole world.
Written by Bobbie Pingaro (1967)
Yesterday and Tomorrow
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry.
Two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is yesterday with its mistakes and cares,
Its faults and blunders, Its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday.
We cannot undo a single act we performed.
We cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone.
The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow.
With its possible adversities, Its burdens,
Its large promise and poor performance.
Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.
Tomorrow’s Sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds,
but it will rise.
Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.
This just leaves only one day . . . Today.
Any person can fight the battles of just one day.
It is only when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternity’s -
yesterday and tomorrow that we break down.
It is not the experience of today that drives people mad.
It is the remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday
and the dread of what tomorrow may bring.
Let us therefore live but one day at a time.
Love you forever
by Robert Munsch
A mother held her new baby and very slowly rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she held him, she sang:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
As long as I’m living
my baby you’ll be.
The baby grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was two years old, and he ran all around the house. He pulled all the books off the shelves. He pulled all the food out of the refrigerator and he took his mother’s watch and flushed it down the toilet. Sometimes his mother would say, “this kid is driving me CRAZY!”
But at night time, when that two-year-old was quiet, she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of his bed; and if he was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him she sang:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
As long as I’m living
my baby you’ll be.
The little boy grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was nine years old. And he never wanted to come in for dinner, he never wanted to take a bath, and when grandma visited he always said bad words. Sometimes his mother wanted to sell him to the zoo!
But at night time, when he was asleep, the mother quietly opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep, she picked up that nine-year-old boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him she sang:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
As long as I’m living
my baby you’ll be.
The boy grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a teenager. He had strange friends and he wore strange clothes and he listened to strange music. Sometimes the mother felt like she was in a zoo!
But at night time, when that teenager was asleep, the mother opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep she picked up that great big boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him she sang:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
As long as I’m living
my baby you’ll be.
That teenager grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a grown-up man. He left home and got a house across town. But sometimes on dark nights the mother got into her car and drove across town. If all the lights in her son’s house were out, she opened his bedroom window, crawled across the floor, and looked up over the side of his bed. If that great big man was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him she sang:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
As long as I’m living
my baby you’ll be.
Well, that mother, she got older. She got older and older and older. One day she called up her son and said, “You’d better come see me because I’m very old and sick.” So her son came to see her. When he came in the door she tried to sing the song. She sang:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always…
But she couldn’t finish because she was too old and sick. The son went to his mother. He picked her up and rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And he sang this song:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
As long as I’m living
my Mommy you’ll be.
When the son came home that night, he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs. Then he went into the room where his very new baby daughter was sleeping. He picked her up in his arms and very slowly rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while he rocked her he sang:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
As long as I’m living
my baby you’ll be.
I am in love
For the longest time, I had the sweetest sleep ever. I was with my love till morning. We just do nothing, just cuddle up, laugh and stare at each other. I never felt so loved except last night. I know by the way he touched me and gently kiss me, he loves me that much.
I had a lot of doubts and fears about our relationship but he made it disappear with just a simple kiss. A kiss that assures me that yes I am his girl.
I like everything about him, every little things he does it made me swept off my feet. When I was a little girl, I’d always tell myself I like someone to sweep me off my feet. I reached my 26 years of my life, and honestly, this is the first time I was totally swept off.
His attitude makes his stand out to the rest of the guy. A lot of guys would promise you moon and stars, heaven and the likes but we all know that it isn’t true. He promised not to hurt me but he also explained along the way, he might hurt me unintentionally. I know that. And I accepted that.
I knew I made the right decision, I made it finally. Made a decision that would make me smile and would make me happy.
I know along the way, we might hurt each other but that doesn’t stop us from loving each other. This will just make us more closer and understand us more.
I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you, the moment I kiss you and the moment you held my hand.
I love you so much baby!
My angel
Oh well what can I say, he came along unexpectedly. Caught my attention unintentionally. Everything was unplanned. Although as he claims he fell in love for me since the first time I posted. Hell yeah, the post was funny though. I intend to just get the guy’s reaction about it but because of that, I caught his attention. He said, how naive I am.
I was smiling everytime we exchange messages. He was there when I was really down, gave me support and care for me. An angel that I never expect I would meet.
He isn’t perfect, he got flaws too. But beyond those flaws, I learned to love him beyond those imperfections. I think this what we call “true love”.
He was stunned when he knew that I fell for him eventhough I know all his dirtiest secret. We started as friends, supported each other as friends. But we ended up being lovers. I think, relationships based from friendship is the best.
We never hide anything from each other. We never wanted to hurt each other but we both know along the way, we might hurt one another ‘unintentionally’.
He brought new meaning in me. He made me realize that it is still worth believing that somebody is really meant for me. And that is him.
He made me believe to myself. And even inspire me to be a better person. I became conscious on how I look, he might be waiting for me as a surprise. And in return, I always want to look good. Before, I just really don’t care what other people might say how I look. Now I believe that I am pretty because I got him.
He definitely changed the way I look at my life now. He made me realize how great I am and how much he loves me.
Ice Cream
Last week I took my children to a restaurant. My six-year-old son asked if he could say grace.
As we bowed our heads he said, “God is good. God is great. Thank you for the food, and I would even thank you more if Mom gets us ice cream for dessert. And Liberty and justice for all! Amen!”
Along with the laughter from the other customers nearby I heard a woman remark, “That’s what’s wrong with this country. Kids today don’t even know how to pray. Asking God for ice-cream! Why, I never!”
Hearing this, my son burst into tears and asked me, “Did I do it wrong? Is God mad at me?”
As I held him and assured him that he had done a terrific job and God was certainly not mad at him, an elderly gentleman approached the table. He winked at my son and said,
“I happen to know that God thought that was a great prayer.”
“Really?” my son asked.
“Cross my heart,” the man replied.
Then in a theatrical whisper he added (indicating the woman whose remark had started this whole thing), “Too bad she never asks God for ice cream. A little ice cream is good for the soul sometimes.”
Naturally, I bought my kids ice cream at the end of the meal. My son stared at his for a moment and then did something I will remember the rest of my life.
He picked up his sundae and without a word, walked over and placed it in front of the woman. With a big smile he told her,
“Here, this is for you.Ice cream is good for the soul sometimes; and my soul is good already.”
Old age
Old age, I decided, is a gift.
I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometime despair over my body – the wrinkles, the baggy eyes and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my mirror, but I don’t agonize over those things for long.
I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I’ve aged, I’ve become more kind to myself and less critical of myself. I’ve become my own friend. I don’t chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn’t need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to overeat, to be messy, to be extravagant. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it if I choose to read until 4:00 am and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 50s & 60s, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love, I will. I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the bikini set. They, too, will get old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten and I eventually remember the important things. Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when a beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turn gray and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. I can say “no” and mean it. I can say “yes” and mean it. As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don’t question myself anymore. I’ve even earned the right to be wrong.
So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day.
Love handles
I got this comment from a friend blogger on how he wanted his love handles to disappear. I think the website that I found really helps me a lot to focus more on how much food intake I eat and what causes me to eat more. This helps me understands that some factors around me affects the way I eat. And now my friend Kenny made this comment from my previous blog about 8 tricky reasons why we eat more. To answer his comment on how to lose his “LOVE HANDLES”, I think this article might help him too…
Question :Please tell me what exercise to do to get rid of those love handles on my hips and sides of my stomach that hang over the sides of my jeans. You ladies know where I’m talking about.
Answer :Sorry, but you can’t magically make those “love handles” disappear. The belief that you can somehow spot reduce (selectively zap fat from an offending area of your body) is a persistent misconception among exercisers. If only you COULD spot reduce! Then doing thousands of sit-ups would melt away your spare tire. But as many have found out the hard way, this approach simply won’t work. Specific exercises will not result in loss of body fat from specific areas. Period.
“Problem areas” are just genetically determined places on an individual’s body where excess fat tends to be stored. The only way to lose fat deposited on any area of the body is to reduce the overall level of fat storage. Sensible eating habits designed to reduce calorie intake and regular exercise designed to burn off excess calories will help reduce overall body-fat stores. Here’s the best, if not the most earth-shattering, approach to getting a handle on those love handles:
Try to maintain a consistent schedule that includes 30-45 minutes of aerobic exercise 3-4 times a week or more. In addition, doing a total-body strength-training routine twice a week will increase your lean body composition, which will help you burn more calories even when you’re at rest. This in turn will further enable you to reduce your overall fat stores, including those love handles, saddlebags, etc. As for diet, eat five or six small, low-fat meals a day to keep your blood sugar steady and your metabolism stoked and to prevent cravings and pig-outs.
You can also improve the overall appearance of your waist by spot TRAINING to tone the muscles underneath the fat deposits. Doing 2-5 abdominal exercises twice a week will adequately train those muscles so they become visible as you lose total body fat. Do 8-15 repetitions per set; move slowly and deliberately so you really feel every rep. Here are a few you might want to try:
- Basic crunch: Works the rectus abdominis, the wide flat muscle that runs from your breastbone to the top of your pelvis.
- Lie on the floor with your feet hip-width apart. Cradle your head in your hands without lacing your fingers together and with your elbows rounded slightly inward. Tilt your chin a small way towards your chest and pull your abdominal muscles in.
- Exhale through your mouth as you curl your head, neck, and shoulders up off the floor. Hold at the top of the movement for a moment, then inhale as you slowly lower down.
- Twist crunch: This exercise works your rectus abdominis as well as your internal and external obliques, two muscle groups that wrap around your waist.
- Same as the basic crunch
- Exhale through your mouth and curl your head, neck, and shoulders up and towards the left. Hold at the top of the movement, then lower to the start. Twist to the right on the next rep, and continue alternating until you complete the set. Note: Don’t just twist your elbows from side to side. Really concentrate on twisting from your middle.
- Anchoring: This exercise uses all of your abdominal muscles, including the deep, underlying transverse abdominis. Your lower back also gets a workout.
- Lie on your back with your left foot on the floor. Lift up your right leg and bend your knee so that your thigh is perpendicular to the floor and directly in line with your hip; flex your heel. Raise your arms up over your chest and clasp your fingers together.
- Slowly lower your heel and your arms towards the floor. As you do so, concentrate on keeping your abs pulled inward, and don’t allow your lower back to pop up off the floor. This becomes harder the closer your heel and hands move towards the floor. When your heel has almost touched the floor, slowly return your arms and leg to the start. Repeat this exercise four times with your right leg, then four times with your left.
But remember: Doing hundreds and hundreds of crunches, sit-ups and so forth will not reduce the fat stored in the abdominal region. You’ll achieve better results by doing the aerobic exercise and a total body, strength-training routine, targeting your middle with strength-training exercises and following the eating tips described above.
8 Sneaky Weight Loss Saboteurs
I read this online and it made me realize that everything there is the reason why I am craving for more food. Like boredom, specially if I am not doing anything here in the office or at home or the likes.
I’ll share it with you and hope this will helps.
By:
Lindsay Dunlap
Why is it that some women feel satisfied on any diet they follow, while you, subscribing to the same plan, remain hungry 24/7? Drinking extra water, eating in small bites and chewing slowly don’t work. You still feel famished all day every day. What gives? It turns out that sneaky hidden sources may be keeping your hunger on overdrive. Follow this checklist to get back on the happy-diet highway.1. Check your taste buds. One in four people have taste buds with a high tolerance to sugar, so it takes more sugar to satisfy them, say Michael Roizen, MD, and Mehmet Oz, MD, authors of You: On a Diet. The opposite of these “undertasters” are “supertasters,” which includes another 25 percent of us. Supertasters have a hard time enjoying fruits and vegetables because the bitterness is overwhelming. Since most diet plans are heavy on veggies, they can leave people who have this condition strongly dissatisfied. To check your taste buds and see if you fall under either of these categories, mix one packet of Sweet’N Low with two-thirds of a cup of water. If the concoction tastes more sweet than bitter, you’re probably an undertaster. If it tastes more bitter than sweet, you’re probably a supertaster. If it tastes just plain gross, congratulations! You’re a “regular taster,” like the rest of us.
2. Check your sex life. Are you getting enough hanky panky? Lack of sex can make you lust for food. Your appetite for both food and sex are coordinated by your hypothalamus and regulated through a hormone called neuropeptide Y. “Oftentimes an eating problem can be curbed by having regular, monogamous, healthy sex,” say Roizen and Oz. “By satisfying one appetite center, you seem to satisfy the other.”
3. Check your daydreams. According to the law of attraction, what you think about grows larger. Whatever we hold in our mind, our body moves in that direction. If you obsess about the food you’re not supposed to eat — cookies, brownies, candy — you’ll soon be lunging for the vending machine before you can say “cheating.” Just thinking about food can make you salivate, as can the smell of something tasty, a food advertisement or other visions of edible delights. Stay on guard… and hold your nose as you pass Cinnabon at the mall.
4. Check your sensitivity. Do you hate crowds? When surrounded by pessimistic people, do you feel drained and defeated? You may be energy sensitive, meaning you take on the energies of others, and subconsciously want to accumulate fat to act as a buffer from negative vibes, says Judith Orloff, MD, author of Positive Energy. Many of Orloff’s sluggish, overweight clients engage in what she calls “energy-defensive eating,” packing on the pounds to protect themselves from overwhelming vibes. “Early 20th century faith healers were renowned for being grossly obese to avoid absorbing their patients’ symptoms,” she says. Overcoming bad energy is as easy as taking a few deep breaths. “Breathe in vitality,” Orloff advises. “Breathe out fear.”
5. Check your mindset. Celebrations can also cause refrigerator raids. When the good times are rolling, such as on your birthday or a perfect-weather day, you’re 86 percent more likely to seek immediate-gratification foods, like pizza and steak, in order to prolong your good mood, says Brian Wansink, PhD, author of Mindless Eating. Other moods can affect your food desires as well: Boredom is the emotional-face-stuffing runner-up, inspiring you to eat 52 percent more, while depressed or lonely moods will influence you to eat 39 percent more. A simple awareness of your current state of emotions could halt your erratic appetite.
6. Check your friends at the door. Friends are great for support and encouragement while you’re on a diet, but not during mealtimes. Eating with friends may cause you to linger at the table longer, which will make an extra drink or dessert that much harder to forego. You may also pay more attention to the conversation than the food and eat faster. Before you know it, you’ll have shoveled down a plateful of food without being able to remember what it tasted like. Or, worse, you’ll eat too much. The average eater consumes 35 percent more food when eating with one other person than when eating alone, according to Wansink. Dining with four people will lead you to eat 75 percent more. Chow down with seven or more people, and you’ll eat a belt-busting 96 percent more.
7. Check your timetable. Are you eating at regular intervals? Your stomach naturally secretes the hormone ghrelin in pulses every 30 minutes, sending subtle chemical impulses to your brain to eat, say Roizen and Oz. When you’re dieting or going more than six hours without eating, those messages come faster — three times an hour — and become more intense. Ghrelin overrides your willpower and gives you little choice but to stuff your face with Twinkies. Make sure you’re eating every three to four hours. If you’re still hungry, gnaw on some carrots and apples to keep your ghrelin gremlin happy.
8. Check your stress levels. “Extreme stress, as in the case of a car accident, or even exercise, turns off your hunger,” say Roizen and Oz. “Chronic stress, like a long list of looming deadlines or family problems, can make you crave feel-good carbohydrates.” Stress also causes your metabolism to slow down and encourages your body to store fat, particularly around your waistline. Stress can come from unexpected sources, such as eating itself. “Many people have made food their enemy; for them, eating is a stressful experience,” says Mark Hyman, MD, author of Ultrametabolism. “They have to eat, but they worry about getting fat.” Having a backup plan is a surefire way to ease diet stress. If you slip up, just add another 15 minutes of cardio to your workout. Go easy on yourself, and focus on being healthy for life rather than being rail thin in a day.
THE LAST LECTURE – Randy Pausch
FULL LAST LECTURE
Randy Pausch is a married father of three, a very popular professor at Carnegie Mellon University—and he is dying. He is suffering from pancreatic cancer, which he says has returned after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Doctors say he has only a few months to live.
In September 2007, Randy gave a final lecture to his students at Carnegie Mellon that has since been downloaded more than a million times on the Internet. “There’s an academic tradition called the ‘Last Lecture.’ Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?” Randy says. “Well, for me, there’s an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn’t hypothetical.”
Watch Randy’s famous “Last Lecture.”
Despite the lecture’s wide popularity, Randy says he really only intended his words for his three small children. “I think it’s great that so many people have benefited from this lecture, but the truth of the matter is that I didn’t really even give it to the 400 people at Carnegie Mellon who came. I only wrote this lecture for three people, and when they’re older, they’ll watch it,” he says.
Price of Children
This is just too good not to pass on to all. Something absolutely positive for a change. I have repeatedly seen the breakdown of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It’s nice, The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn’t even touch college tuition. But $160,140 isn’t so bad if you break it down. It translates into:
· $8,896.66 a year,
· $741.3 month, or * $171.08 a week.
· That’s a mere $24.24 a day!
· Just over a dollar an hour.
Still, you might think the best financial advice is don’t have children if you want to be “rich.” Actually, it is just the opposite.
What do you get for your $160,140?
* Naming rights. First, middle, and last!
* Glimpses of God every day.
* Giggles under the covers every night.
* More love than your heart can hold.
* Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
* Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.
* A hand to hold, usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
* A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites
* Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.
For $160,140, you never have to grow up. You get to:
* finger-paint,
* carve pumpkins,
* play hide-and-seek,
* catch lightning bugs, and
* never stop believing in Santa Claus. You have an excuse to:
* keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,
* watching Saturday morning cartoons,
* going to Disney movies, and
* wishing on stars.
* You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother’s Day, and cards with backward letters for Father’s Day.
For $160,140, there is no greater bang for your buck. You get to be a hero just for:
* retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof,
* taking the training wheels off a bike,
* removing a splinter,
* filling a wading pool,
* coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.
You get a front row seat to history to witness the:
· first step,
· first word,
· first bra,
· first date, and
· first time behind the wheel.
You get to be immortal. You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you’re lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great grandchildren. You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match.
In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits.
So . . one day they will like you, love without counting the cost. That is quite a deal for the price!!!!!!!
Love & enjoy your children & grandchildren!!!!!!!
