VIRUS

Some silly poem I made titled VIRUS:

Must be a virus
Kind of infectious
Also outlandish
It’s nothing serious

But like a virus
You are so dangerous
And you could kill me
You are outrageous

Your motivation
Exaggerations
You're my addiction
My skewed ambitions

You're hostile to my reality
You keep me in the realm of uncertainty
Overloaded with your creativity
Convoluted lack of physicality

You're an abstraction
A wanted fraction
Of this mundane life
You help me strive

You penetrate
You push and pull
I push you over
Still makes me drool

Propel me up
Just to yank me down
You make me laugh
Just to make me frown

You are so real
Yet so untrue
You are surreal
Don’t have a clue

Stunned with the level of your acidity
You’re nothing but just pure toxicity
Fill all the spaces of my vicinity
So sick of your senseless continuity

I know you’re viral
I just know so
Downward, I spiral
Until I’ll know

Know when to stop
Or moderate
What’s real, what’s not
I’ll separate

Can live without you
But won’t get by
Can tell the truth
Want to tell lies

You are a virus
You are, I know
But you’re so luscious
In my veins, you flow

Wait, I’m confused
Sure you’re a virus
With you, an A+
With none, F-

INSPIRING LINKS! Someday by Rob Thomas

SOMEDAY
- Rob Thomas


Click here to see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et20pwN367Q&feature=PlayList&p=40136C08F17C2F57&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=19

You can go
You can start all over again
You can try to find a way to
make another day go by
You can hide
Hold all your feelings inside
You can try to carry on when all
you want to do is cry

[Chorus]
And maybe someday
We'll figure all this out
Try to put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to make
things better now and
Maybe someday we'll live
our lives out loud
We'll be better off somehow Someday

Now wait
And try to find another mistake
If you throw it all away
then maybe you can change
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your mind
You can run, oh
And when everything is over and done
You can shine a little light on
everything around you
Man it's good to be so warm

[Chorus]

And I don't want to wait
I just want to know
I just want to hear you tell me so
Give it to me straight
Tell it to me slow

Cause maybe someday
We'll figure all this out
We'll put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to just
feel better now and
Maybe someday we'll live
our lives out loud
We'll be better off somehow Someday

[x2]
Cause sometimes we don't really notice
Just how good it can get
So maybe we should start all over
Start all over again

Snippets of Hong Kong :-)

These are certain facts, observations, and insights about Hong Kong after my five-day tour in the said country:

1. Chinese people in Hong Kong are very good English speakers.
2. They are very considerate and generous in so many levels. (We were in GIORDANO, a leading HK clothing brand and bought 'pasalubongs' for our loved ones and then we asked more GIORDANO bags than the actual items and guess what? They agreed. This has not only happened ones but every time we asked for extra bags (even those expensive looking bags like LEVIS))
3. They move very fast. HK fastfood redefine FAST FOOD service.
4. Hong Kong is very clean--not one dry leaf lying on the ground and no dust and smoke emissions from buses or cars.
5. Prostitution is legalized in Hong Kong (OMG). Explains the very few hookers and pimps on the streets. (Bwahahaha!)
6. Chinese noodles are less salty there compared to the Philippines.
7. Many middle-aged people work in fast-food joints (unlike here in Pinas).
8. People EVERYWHERE are uber fashionable. (Pinoys are catching up, I went to Ayala the other day and man, I though it was a fashion show)
9. There are so many kinds of Museums: ART, SPACE, SCIENCE...
10. People in HK are very dependent on there Octopus card (the card they use for absolutely anything they purchase but is especially used as fare for transportation)
11. HK is my dream city (so far). It is because it is a precise mesh of things eastern and western--very urban, yet traditional and relatable. And skyscrapers galore!!!
12. Everywhere in Hong Kong is a tourist spot!
13. The weather in Hong Kong is very unpredictable. One moment your happy because the sun has shone and then two seconds later, it begins to rain. (WTF?)
14. You can haggle the prices (even with branded apparels) in market places.
15. Hong Kong captures you and makes you want to go back again and again and again.

MJ

" Have you seen my Childhood? Before you judge me, Try hard to love me. Have you seen my Childhood?" - from the song "Childhood" from the album "Invincible"

- Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

* I've just seen some of MJ's music videos and it dawned upon me that although I have never really been a hardcore fan of MJ, I appreciate his music now more than ever. I guess it's never too late. He did good things and he was a good man. Whatever he did, I know he had asked forgiveness and was forgiven. His legacy has not ended...it has just begun.

Death, as they say, is not the end. It is only a transition. Peace out Michael!

INSPIRING LINKS: Nick Vujicic

This is a link courtesy of my dear brother KC Gimpayan! Thanks for this inspirational link Ven!

Here are the links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtweZxNGk1Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYWPLxVJca0&feature=related

RUN

These days, I am in an absolute dilemma, caught in a web of confusion and non-sense. I just really don't know what to do with my life. So gone are the days that I know exactly what I want, now, it's just some random hullabaloo. Well, my dear mentor Madonna has always (or has she?) sung (well, at least these days) about taking the moment and living life to it's fullest in its best time...NOW.

She sings:

Time goes by so slowly for those who wait
No time to hesitate
Those who run seem to have all the fun
I'm caught up
I don't know what to do

Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you

Ring ring ring goes the telephone
The lights are on but there's no-one home
Tick tick tock it's a quarter to two
And I'm done
I'm hanging up on you

I can't keep on waiting for you
I know that you're still hesitating
Don't cry for me
'cause I'll find my way
you'll wake up one day
but it'll be too late

- from 'Hung Up'

And:

If you want it
You already got it
If you thought it
It better be what you want
If you feel it
It must be real just
Say the word and imma give you what you want

Time is waiting
We only got 4 minutes to save the world
No hesitating
Grab a boy
Grab a girl
Time is waiting
We only got 4 minutes to save the world
No hesitating
We only got 4 minutes, 4 minutes

- from '4 Minutes'

Also:

What are you waiting for?
Nobody's gonna show you how
Why work for someone else
To do what you can do right now?

Got no boundaries and no limits
If there's excitement, put me in it
If it's against the law, arrest me
If you can handle it, undress me

Give it to me, yeah
No one's gonna show me how
Give it to me, yeah
No one's gonna stop me now

They say that a good thing never lasts
And then it has to fall
Those are the the people that did not
Amount to much at all

Give me the baseline and I'll shake it
Give me a record and I'll break it
There's no beginning and no ending
Give me a chance to go and I'll take it

You're only here to win
Get what they say
You're only here to win
Get what they do
They'd do it too
If they were you
You done it all before
It ain't nothing new

- from 'Give It To Me'

Finally:

You don't have the luxury of time
You have got to say what's on your mind
Your head lost in the stars you never go far
It's time for you to read the signs

On and on, on the beat goes on and on, on the beat goes
On and on, on the beat goes on and on, on the beat goes
On and on, on the beat goes on and on, on the beat goes
On and on, on the beat goes on and on, on the beat goes

My hand, take it, you can,
The time, is now, i'll show, you how

Say what you like, do what you feel, you're not exactly who you are
The time is right now, you got to decide, stand in the back or be the star

- from 'The Beat Goes On'

I guess Madonna has taken notes from Saint Benedict as her songs reflect Benedict's message of the NOW. Taking you back to the first Madonna sample I gave a while ago, a single titled 'Hung Up:'

Time goes by so slowly for those who wait
No time to hesitate
Those who run seem to have all the fun
I'm caught up
I don't know what to do

is quite similar with Saint Benedict's famous line:

...we must run and do now what will profit us forever.

So I have decided to RUN, metaphorically, that is. I encourage everyone to do so, too. We've got only 4 minutes to save the world, you know.

Light years!

It's been ten thousand light years since I posted an entry in this blog! I was so fixated with Facebook that sometimes I just post my blog thoughts there. Anyways, I was inspired by my dear friend Philip to bring the fire back in this blog! Thanks Phil! My blog pales in comparison with yours! You are a great writer and artist!