Laws of (e)Motion: Lecture 1

To be able to understand what physics really is, you must know it by heart :D
- Meg. Karen. Shobe

turtles!

perfect minutes. they go by so quickly that you'd hardly have the time to relish them. they stay for a while, and then in a little later, it's gone. you can only have it in your happy thought box, and you're lucky enough if you don't forget to remember. because sometimes, the moment's just too perfect and too quick that you hardly have the time to keep it in your happy thought box. it passes by like a red beetle but all too sudden your attention gets caught by another. sometimes it stays a little longer like the beautiful compositon of the sky, and the clouds, together with the last kiss of the sun. but just like any other fleeting moment, one blow of the wind is all it takes for one cloud to change position, one minute is all it takes before everything you've seen for a moment vanishes into nothingness and be succumbed by the grayness of the sky. it goes with the ticking of the clock, never missing a beat like the beat of my heart when decaffeinated. it goes with the running of the clock, never missing a turn like my world that never missed a turn when you're not around.

these perfect minutes were not meant to last so long… because if they were, then they wouldn't be so perfect anymore. they'd be like the ordnary moments that pass just to fill the gap.

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"I envied turtles their shells, how they could disappear at will."
- Sue Monk Kidd in "The Secret Life of Bees"

little dots.

round about
the circles on my pad
the little dots that made a line
the little points that made a statement.

where are you going?
turn your back and feel the wind.
the arrow points to the west
so I'm dragging my feet to go up north.

sa kabila.

Kulturang sabungan. Bahagi na nga talaga sa kultura natin ang sabungan, kung saan pinaglalaban ang dalawang manok, pinagpupustahan at nagiging dahilan pa ng ilang hidwaan. Ilang manok na ang pilit na pinaglalaban, binubuhay nang paulit-ulit hangga't kaya pang ipaglaban ang mga ito. May ilang umabot na ng ilang dekada at hanggang ngayon ay pilit pa ring pinaglalaban.

Ikinatutuwa natin ang mga labanang ito. Ikinatutuwa natin kapag nananalo ang manok natin, at umuuwing luhaan ang mga nasa kabila. Ang simpleng labanan na nagmumula sa munting katuwaan lang, pinagmumulan na ng matinding away. Matindi ang labanan ng mga manok na ito, matindi pa sa labanan ng oposisyon at gobyerno. Dahil sa mga labanang ito, bibihira kang makakita ng mga balimbing. Dahil sa mga labanang ito, hindi mo madaling mabibili ang paninindigan ng mga lumalaban.

Sa labanang agila vs. indiyan pana, kanino ka kakampi? asul o berde? katipunan o taft? Kahit ang mga taong walang koneksyon sa kahit anong panig, pumapanig na rin at nakikisama sa paghiyaw ng "Win or Lose! it's the school we choose!" o 'di kaya sa sigaw na "animo!"

Kapuso ka ba o kapamilya? Ka-Q o kabarkada?

Mahilig nga talaga tayo sa sabong. kanino ka, Christine Reyes o Carlene? 0_O

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nagkaroon kami ng kaibigan ko ng isang magandang usapan. pumasok ang usaping kapuso. (haha kapuso kasi ako). at ang tatay niya ay isang tunay na kapuso at nagtatrabaho doon. kung kaya't natanong ko:

ako: so 'yung serbisyong totoo, totoo ba talaga?
marti: oo. pati 'yung wish ko lang, wish ko lang 'yun.
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post card 2: Dear you

Hello there! I think I saw you on my way home. You were in another jeepney. How was your ride? I hope you weren't put to much danger as the girl seated in front of me was. You see my friend, on my last jeepney ride, for the nth time, I witnessed another jeepney-style pickpocket scheme. All the signs that showed he wanted to steal from that girl was there.

1 He constantly looked at her bag (probably trying to see how he could open or slash the bag)
2 He moved closer to the girl (even if there was a big space on his other side)
3 He had a bag to cover his arm
4 He positioned his bag in a manner that no one could see any activity going on with the girl's bag and his hand
5 He was restless and would constantly look around
6 His right arm (the one nearest the girl) held on the bar above, while his left arm was behind the bag.
7 His head rested on his raised arm (as if sleeping)
8 He had that pangit suspicious look

And the girl showed all the signs that she was an easy target for pickpockets

1 Her hands were not guarding her bag
2 She wasn't mindful of who she was seated beside with
3 She wasn't mindful of what that ugly guy was doing for his preparation
4 She was not mindful of any activity going on inside the jeepney
5 She was not mindful of my eye-language, telling her about the guy beside her
6 Oh! all because she was asleep.

The whole time I was just praying, asking the Holy Spirit, Our Lady and my favorite saint, St. Josemaria Escriva to stop the guy from doing whatever evil deed he wanted to do. I was praying that she'd wake up and realize she needed to be attentive of her things. The girl would occasionally wake up, but then she'd comfortably get back to her sleep. I was getting frustrated, that I prayed that she dream about what was actually happening around her. But to no avail. The moment I saw the guy's hand behind his bag, I panicked. He knew that I knew, but he did not care and thought I wouldn't care enough to stop him from doing that. But I won't deny that I came to a point when I wanted to ignore what was about to happen, and hoped the girl didn't have anything valuable in her bag. But then the line from the 8 Beatitudes came to my mind: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness..." and it prompted me to wake the girl up with my wet umbrella. Yes, I opened my automatic umbrella in front of them.
1. to shock the guy
2. to sprinkle water on the girl's face so she'd wake up
3. to somehow dry my wet umbrella.

haha kidding. but that would have been a better choice. but no... I just poked her knee using my wet umbrella. She woke up and looked at me in a weird way "do i know you?". I pointed at the man's bag, she looked at her side and saw his hand. Then she was fully conscious and guarded her bag. Yeah I was such a poofer to that guy. Well after a little while, the guy went off the jeepney without even paying his ride.

There's no magic trick in pickpocketing. All you need to know to avoid this from happening to you is to be aware of where your seat mates' hands are. (And that means you're not supposed to sleep while in a jeepney.) Well my friend, you might have been fortunate enough not to have experienced this, but there'd be no harm if you try to be careful about these things. Let's show these ugly pickpockets that we cannot simply be outsmarted.

Till next time my friend!

Love,
me.

depolarize

depolarization in progress.

"I ran and found a Brickel bush.
I hid myself away.
I got brickels in my britches
But I stayed there anyway."
-Dr. Seuss

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simply...

cubed!

i solved the rubik's cube! with the help of some formulas, of course.
oh but I'll do my best to understand that rubik's cube by heart.
*heart heart*

wit.

as in wit lang, ah. weh. okay.

Newscaster: Bumuhos nang bahagya ang ambon.

I'm not sure if what she said was too much of an emphasis or was it too much of a contradiction.

*while looking for friends in Trinoma*

Karen: So sa'n tayo?
Kyle: I don't know, up?
Karen: sure?
Kyle: Yeah, I guess. When in doubt just go up.
Karen: why?
Kyle: I don't know, 'cause it's closer to heaven?

hahaha i love that.

*Balls of Fury!*
haha i love the movie.

Feng: ... The game of Ping Pong, or what the Chinese like to call... Ping Pong.

haha i love the poofer humor of the movie.


*more witty lines*

Karen: sana payagan ka na ni Dad magdrive ng car namin.
Kyle: Hindi pa umaabot sa ganun 'yung level of trust niya sa 'kin.
Karen: oo nga, eh.
Kyle: although kanina, i was able to drive... his wheelchair.

hahaha!

guai le!

doodle no. 5

Real Love Revolution

What the world needs now is love, sweet love.

There's so much love to spread in this world, but the world always seems to be lacking in love. In reality, we never really lacked in love. You look everywhere and you'd see so much people in love, so many people yearning for love, and so many people refusing to admit they're waiting for love ---- hoping for that one fateful day when they'd finally set their eyes on that one true love.

But there's also so much love wasted because of our lack of rationality and selfishness. Love that is unique among human beings, among rational beings, shows that this rationality has got so much to do with the love we are all capable of giving. Without this rationality, then it's simply a seed that moves you to feel in love, when what we need is love deeply rooted that grows in greater love and is ready to share its fruits.

It's not a question of following your heart or your mind, but simply a question of your willingness to take responsibilities, willingness to embrace the consequences, and willingness to share more love. In a nutshell, to love is to know, and simply to will to love.

Join the revolution and celebrate real love!
November 22, 2007 | 3-6pm
@ Le Pavilion Metropolitan Park, Roxas Blvd.
Php100.oo fee.