Saturday, November 27, 2010

Thorn Heart


"Thorn Heart" is the first book that I am writing. This a story of love, passion and courage of woman coping up with the trials of life. Her ambition was to alleviate her family from quagmire of poverty. For her, life has no boundaries but a great horizon of greater opportunities. Margot was ambitious and strong-willed woman until the day, she fell in love with Todd Stevens which changed her world. Where would her ambition lead her?


To my kids, Dane, Dawn and Dianne for their unconditional love.....

To God, for the talents He gifted me....

To my friends, who are there through thick and thin....


How could you ever love a man you know you can never have? There is a pain in your heart being stabbed by a Damocles sword! Within the depth of your heart you bleed and you are the only one who understands what a profound loneliness is. In the darkest side of your life, he is a candle glowing in the dark. In the essence of your whole being, your bodies are just one, just one soul……

Chapter I
Phantoms of Memories


When the country was under siege of the 1986 People Power Revolution; when mammoth of people: young and old, fat and thin, nuns and priests armored with rosary, when non-government organizations and civic leaders braved EDSA to demonstrate the ouster of Pres. Marcos, a beautiful angelic baby girl was born to a woman, Margot, in a quiet town of San Jose, Antique (pronounced An-ti-ke) at 2:30 dawn time- when the  night time was meeting the  daytime. When the baby cried loudly, the chirping of the crickets and the flocks of birds were cacophonous too.  It seemed like the crickets and the birds were welcoming the baby for they never stopped chanting in their language until the baby ceased crying. A cry of life? A cry of joy?  Or maybe a cry of defiance she existed on the face of the earth? In her little sense of world, she might have foreseen that her life would be consisting of twist and turns.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART I MOVIE TREAT

Harry Potter &  the Deathly  Hallows is the last book written by J.K Rowling. The making of the movie was split into two (2) parts. Part I was released by Warner Brothers and showed in different theaters worldwide simultaneously.  It earned an astronomical amount of $61.2 on it’s first day of showing.

 Staffs and some agents were swarming like colony of ants at Cinema 3 in Gaisano, Ayala. We were waiting restlessly, my legs aching (due to floor walking) outside Cinema 3. We were engrossed eating our snacks while piling up. Very eager to watch the movie. I saw bigwig of Qualfon, like Alfie Torres, Pacito Revil, Natalie Mamites, Noelle Parnada, Elvie Po, Mary Diongon, etc.  It was past 3:00 pm when we were allowed to enter Cinema 3. The movie was supposed to be 3D (I didn't feel it that way). 3D is a three dimensional film or S3D(stereoscopic 3D) film motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception. The archetypical 3-D glasses were not provided to view the movie, nonetheless, I was enjoying with gusto. I realized it was not 3D actually but Cinema 3 D.Meaning to say , we had to sit not  at the lounge area. D means downstairs. That was stupidity in me.  I sat between Mike Gatchalian and Dianh Aguinaldo. As we waited for all sorts  of puffery advertisements and movie trailers to end, pigments of imaginations were circulating in my mind. Where will the adventure of Harry Potter bring me? How will my mind traverse to magical world of sorcery and witchery?  How will the story ends (when I read a book I started reading at the end. Truly Pinoy)? How in the world J.K Rowling has this kind of imaginative and inventive mind? I do believe others were wandering their minds too even bring them to other dimension.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Crazy little thing called LOVE

After sometimes I've finally made up my mind
She is the girl and I really want to make her mine
I'm searching everywhere in find her again
To tell her I love her
And I'm sorry 'bout the things I've done
Have you ever seen a love story movie that vicariously your emotions got carried and you begin to cry? Or reading a love story that you fantasize that you were the seductive, sophisticated and beautiful lass in the story falling in love with a very handsome masculine man on the planet of the earth? The story might be in medieval with old prolific architecture like in  Pride and Prejudice . Or in a modern settings with skyscraper buildings .Whatever was the setting of the story and you were fascinated  those were natural stimulating reactions. The mind titillates our human feelings and we get mesmerized.

Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. When  a woman meets  a man and gets attracted or vice versa  the ending will be  falling  in love  intensely. My favorite definition of LOVE which I can still memorize the line is that: "LOVE spoken or unspoken is the most compelling of all human emotion."

Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Long Road Home

As I arrive home from college for the first time, I realize many things have changed—in my family and in myself.
I find myself packing again.  Well, let's be completely honest, this isn't really packing—it's shoving three weeks' worth of dirty clothes into a suitcase and having my roommate sit on it so I can get it to close.

This time is different; this isn't the same nostalgic trip down memory lane as when I packed before college.  This is the "night before my first trip home frantic pack."  So you get the idea—my plane leaves in two hours, and no, college didn't teach me to procrastinate.  I was experienced in that art long before I stepped onto my college campus.

So now that I'm packed, I have a minute to examine my emotions about my first trip home.  I'm excited.  My best friend, Matt, picks me up, groggy, for our 4:00 a.m. drive.  My expectations are that I am going home to what I left: my parents, home-cooked meals, friends with whom I shared distinctive bonds and my long-distance boyfriend, whom I have been dying to see.  I am happy at college, but a trip home, to my family and friends, sounds like just the thing I need to prepare me for the pre-finals crunch.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

ADONG, THE WALKING SHIFT MANAGER


 The squirrel said to the mountain; "If I cannot carry forest on my back, neither can you crack a nut."

Describing the totality of a person is something difficult to put into words. Adjectives can be pompous or grandiloquence or useless, if you don’t implant to the readers the meaning of the words that you are describing about the person.  Simply it could be hollow and empty. It is like a plot in a novel story that you'll find  stupendous and exciting. Mine is simple description of  this person.

When you see a guy entered and exited the premises of Qualfon with great impetus, then you feel that he has strong personality. Not because he is tall, dark and handsome   (Jeez, girls love this  kind description of a man as though he is the Prince Charming) but because he has a silver tongue. He is witty and glib talker and he never runs out of ideas as long as you have the ears to listen.  This reminds me of "Desiderata". Few may not like him-accusing him as "overacting". By the full force of  his position, he is not over reacting  I say but just doing his functions to the best of his capacity. He is  sort of charismatic leader. If he runs for politics, he can be a good politician. I love to address him as “Wonderful Adong”. Gee, I cannot fathom where I get  this "title". I believe it was through the net messenger. Wonderful means extraordinary good.  He is   the Shift Manager that I can see proactive on the floor. I describe him as the "The Walking Shift Manager".

Saturday, November 6, 2010

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ENDS FOR 2010

Effective November 7 EST daylight saving time ends so the afternoon shift with schedule of  4pm will be reporting 5pm. With the rest, it will be one hour later against their programmed shift. For us Filipinos working in American environment call center, this change of schedule is baffling since we are use to Philippine Time. Our body clock will adopt this kind of schedule until Daylight Saving Time will resume on March 13, 2010. Is Daylight Saving time really beneficial to us Filipinos? It is like we are going around in circus. Moving the clock one hour later, the clock still rotates so our lives go on. The brainchild of Daylight Saving Time was  Ben Franklin.

THUMBS UP FOR RAMIL!


Everyday is a noisy pandemonium of agents taking calls.  Or like clanking of thunderous sound in my ears. Or like  El Shaddai when you see agents raising their hands for assistance. My legs were tremendously tired floor walking yesterday that I would like to slump and dropped dead.  Sometimes I could hear a whisper in my ears telling me "kaya mo yan" so I have to keep going. Sometimes, I would tell myself; "Lazy Bum." Though it was  entirely excruciating day, I was relieved when someone told me that my agent Ramil Rabillas

LOVE QUOTES

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin6. "Love is the beauty of the soul."
--St. Augustine