Sounds like Adele...
Well, I wanted to return on how I really write my brouhahas. Short-pieced anecdotes about what and how I feel as of the moment. And I'm ready...
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Last Friday, I watched "A Second Chance," a film by Cathy Garcia-Molina with John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo. It was the sequel of "One More Chance" shown way back 2007. For the first film, they were only boyfriend-girlfriend relationship which had a turbulent situation of breaking up, moving on, and hoping for another rekindling love. Well, they did and that's how their second film happened. This time, they were already husband-and-wife tandem, which had shown again its ups and downs. Including their dreams which were not achieved: dream house, family, famous engineering and architecture firm and a happy marriage. Then suddenly, an idea popped out on my mind; just like Popoy's mindset, "what if?"
What if I got married, I have my partner with me, sleeping beside me but looking at the other side of the coin, why am I sleeping with this person right next to me? What if our compiled dreams that we both planned did not pursue, or worst did not happen? What if that person is not really who is suited for you? What if we don't need to get married? Then a one-liner said by the character of Janus del Prado awakened me, "duwag ka kasi!"
Indeed, marriage is not simply wearing a traje de boda and celebrating with fabulous wedding concepts and of course, love. Marriage is a sacrament and it needs to be amplified every day as possible! There may be different ways, possibly a million or even billions of ways, of making marriage as strong as possible but no couple wouldn't define it. It's because each couple has a different way of making their marriage successful. Before stepping in and before saying "I do!" you have to be a million percent of preparedness because a new chapter will soon begin and it will end for you have no idea when.
Soon enough, if it's allowable and at the same time all people think about love as same as how we look at it.
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Before, I wanted to vote Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago to become our country's next president since Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte didn't want to run (for his own good but vague reasons). In all presidentiables that we have, only Senator Miriam has the edge. But when Mayor Digong announced that he was (finally) about to run, apologies are on table but my vote will definitely for him.
Since his pronouncement, lots of criticisms were thrown to him including the famous cursing to the Pope in which according to some, media had hyped the issue but not the entire speech he made during his proclamation soiree at a hotel in Manila. Another was when he announced to the whole world that he was a "womanizer." Indeed, that's not cool but as a modern Filipino with a matured mind (sort of), why should I delve that issue to his beautifully-recorded leadership in the city of Davao. Another famous issue about Mayor Digong was the merciless justice of killing criminals. I highly doubt that he will put justice to his hand without even deciding about it. Unless otherwise to those criminals who don't need some trials.
Then a colleague asked me about my announcement (wow!) that I'll vote for Duterte: "Why are you going to vote for him?" She was really skeptical about Duterte and with the issues encircling him was I guess her proof to me not to vote. I just answered simply, "It's because of his leadership."
I haven't been to Davao City. I can only attest through observations about the people, the city itself and the stories of Davaoenos. Indeed, they are very proud of their city. We're not sure if Mayor Digong can make the Philippines like Davao City but let's see.
And most probably, we should learn as Filipinos not to fully depend our lives to the government. It's their responsibility to govern us, but we also have our own responsibility with each other and within ourselves.
#Duterte2016
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I cherish every moment when some of my students and former students ask help for their projects, thesis and papers. I also love how they ask me to recommend them for their on-the-job training, or for their very first work. With that, I pray for them that soon they will be at their very successful careers in whatever endeavor they wanted to.
Others, they blame you why they flunked with their studies. Obviously, these are some students in which they put the blame to their professors and these are some students which they are very careless with their studies. There is one good example: my former student who keeps on harassing and threatening me why I failed him in our subject. This is his premise: I told him that his grade was okay. As a student, I shouldn't just make it cool that my grade will be okay. Of course, I need to work harder for my next set of studies. As a disclaimer to this situation, I said "okay" to him because his midterm grade is "passed." Now, I don't know how he took it.
He was now asking me why I failed him. And there are obvious reason that I showed him. Now, if he still doesn't understand it, it's not my problem anymore.
And those are the kinds of students which I have no idea about their future. Especially those students who just come to school to do nothing and not doing their responsibility which is to study and be somebody. Going back to my students who are asking for recommendation letters and help for their thesis, I would love to see them growing, acting and succeeding. And with those success, I would brag myself that a part of theirs is me.
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There is another anecdote that I wanted to write but instead, I'll put it in some series of haiku.
Someone has returned
And it is not really cool
Afraid to see it
Two hands intertwined
One heart's calmly demolished
The eyes will just close
I wanted to cry
But my heart doesn't allow
So it means I'm fine
Did you even see
That I'm truly existing
Or just normal thing
It's another scene
This shall pass, yes I should know
But what if, what if
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Thank you for spending a little amount of time reading!
Toodles!
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