A Salute to Tita Cory

Thank you Tita Cory for your endless dedication for the Filipino people. You showed us the value of nonviolent movements and the greatness of democracy. By becoming the first Female President of the Philippines you showed the whole world that power is not something to be abused. You never abused your power during your term and I salute you for that.

Thank you for being the nation's most wonderful mother. You nurtured us, you cared for us more than you carted for your own family. You equally shared the advocacy that your deceased husband started. You became our icon for revolution and you have shown us that nothing is impossible if we are all united. We love you Tita Cory and your passion will be greatly remembered by generations to come.

You showed the whole world the power of the Filipinos. We are a nation of fighters but you showed them our other side. The side of non-violent movements. Thank you for letting the world know our strength.

You made us proud that you--a simple housewife--received extraordinary accomplishments and most importantly you created a whole new image of a woman. a Filipino and a human.

You made my faith stronger. You prove to me the power of prayer and as a Catholic you are my idol...

Thank you Tita Cory and I will never forget you!!!

Tayo'y Magkaisa (Let's all be United) for Tita Cory

Tita Cory (Corazon Aquino) has been the Philippine's greatest leader. For me, she's a living hero. A living proof that democracy can be won and that GOD never ceases to love us. Shes more than an ex-president...She's the very foundation of the democracy the Philippines is enjoying today. She's been a mother to all of us and now that her condition is taking away the strength that she is well known for, we must resort to the very weapon she used for the country she loved dearly---PRAYER.

Let us all take a moment of silence and meditate. Feel the prescence of our COMMON GOD and pray.

Dear God,

We come to your presence to sincerely ask for the rapid healing of our beloved Tita Cory. For the past years, she has been a loyal servant of your words and through her the Philppines and its people is renewed. She united the country torn apart by Dictatorship and she had showed the very values of true Christian. Sinful children that we are, we ask this not for ourselves but for Tita Cory. We ask you to send your Holy Spirt to heal our beloved Tita Cory, enlighten her and remind her that she is among the chosen ones whom you called blessed. Stand beside her Lord and make her feel that she is not alone. Encourage your children to continue to pray and never forget the love that Tita Cory has showed for us and our counrty. We also pray for our nation, may we be united tofight against the very enemies that Tita Cory had fought during her time. We pray that Love and Unity be present always and that Democracy will reign forever. This we pray through Jesus Christ, our lord.Amen.

Please remeber that Tita Cory will always love the country and the people

Me as a Junior

There were a lot of changes this junior year. One for instance is instead of having only one adviser the school gave us two. One is a newbie teacher and one is a pretty teacher which happens to be one of the owners of the school. The social groups are broken but there are still immature people who still act like inconnu.

Some of our classmates changed residencies and others simply just changed schools. There were issues that happened in the first years of my high school which in one way or another affected the school’s name.

There was this one time when two of my classmates are exercising P.D.S.O. or Public Display of Sexual Organs. There were sitting behind me and the boy started the activity. He started touching the girl’s boobs which eventually led to unhooking her bra and then the girl started stroking the boy’s cock. Even though no orgasm was shown but take note they are doing it in a classroom with students and a teacher while class is in session.

Imagine that!!!

Anyways, back to my topic. This year became one of my unforgettable years in my life. One of the highlights is the Sports Fest. After the Award’s night all the seniors broke into tears. We, as juniors, were touched. The party lasted for 4 hours and some of them continued drinking. I did not join them.

I love being in High school and really it’s the best 4 years of your life…trust me.

Me as aJunior

There were a lot of changes this junior year. One for instance is instead of having only one adviser the school gave us two. One is a newbie teacher and one is a pretty teacher which happens to be one of the owners of the school. The social groups are broken but there are still immature people who still act like inconnu.

Some of our classmates changed residencies and others simply just changed schools. There were issues that happened in the first years of my high school which in one way or another affected the school’s name.

There was this one time when two of my classmates are exercising P.D.S.O. or Public Display of Sexual Organs. There were sitting behind me and the boy started the activity. He started touching the girl’s boobs which eventually led to unhooking her bra and then the girl started stroking the boy’s cock. Even though no orgasm was shown but take note they are doing it in a classroom with students and a teacher while class is in session.

Imagine that!!!

Anyways, back to my topic. This year became one of my unforgettable years in my life. One of the highlights is the Sports Fest. After the Award’s night all the seniors broke into tears. We, as juniors, were touched. The party lasted for 4 hours and some of them continued drinking. I did not join them.

I love being in High school and really it’s the best 4 years of your life…trust me.

Revelations ...

All of a sudden she stopped answering my calls, stopped replying to my SMS’s and basically she isolated herself and this wasn’t her at all. Our last conversation was very usual and almost like all our other conversations. We updated ourselves to what happened in each of lives, said good nights and said our 143’s and that’s it the next my inbox was empty.

I was used to her getting angry when I replied her late and ignoring her calls while I am at class but this came out from nowhere and for 2 weeks I lost contact.

I missed her a lot. There were times that I even paid for her pre-paid account just to have contact. My inbox and outbox were almost to their limits when we talk and now it’s empty. All of a sudden she’s ignoring my calls, I was not born yesterday and it’s clear to me what she’s up to.

On our 2nd monthsary I received a SMS from an unknown number saying:

bBy, s0ry I wAs bC, BtW !ts my nEw n0S.

I took some time to understand what her message was but translated to formal language this reads as:

Baby, sorry I was busy, by the way this is my new number.

First of all I don’t want to be addressed as baby—so fling-ish and she’s perfect in grammar and never used the SMS language and contractions and especially an exclamation mark in place of an “I”. I can feel that something is really wrong.

For 2 days I acted like there is nothing wrong while there is. When I can’t stand it anymore I grilled her questions I never asked her before and found out that from all this time that I thought T***** was her real name I was wrong. Her real name is B*******.

Her answers were revelations I never expected. I thought it would end in the name issue but it did not stop in there. There were a lot more issues and answers which are enough to crush my young heart.

I know I may sound sissy and all but she crushed me and this is the only medium I know where my feelings can be fully shown.

Burgeoning Affair

Before I met B*******, I had this friend whom I met via SMS. We never got the chance to meet eye-to eye but I can really feel that there is a strong connection b/w the two of us. I felt that mutualness I never felt with B*******.

We are strictly friends, no strings attached. She lives only a jeepney ride away so I was scared that she will track me. I hid my real identity to her which eventually I regretted of doing so. I realized we are so close to each other and keeping this as a secret is a stab to our strong friendship.

I can tell her almost everything. She’s the Dr. Phil I never had and the companion I longed to had. I wanted to court her long time before I had my first fling but she is very conservative (typical Filipina) and her parent would never allow her to do so. She said she came from a middle wealth family and her mom works for the RP government and she refused to reveal her father’s occupation. This made me wonder, what if she’s a daughter of a soldier. I know how strict a soldier to his children because my dad is a soldier himself and trust me they tend to be very protective, which is good because you can feel that you are safe.

We sometimes fight like cats and dogs which made our friendship colorful. How we met is through a common friend and my classmate. She claimed she never met our common friend before but she had an idea of how she looks (corpulent).

I like her. I really, really do. We may fight, argue and debate a lot but without those my day would bland. She’s the cumin of my everyday, the confection of my sweet tooth…how I hope she was mine to hold. I may be committed but I can trade that commitment just to hold her so.

Her image maybe a mystery, but her heart and soul was familiar. They say to see is to believe but the eye is to be fooled moreover, to feel us to believe.

HIGH SCHOOL STEROTYPES

Studying in a private high school made me think up this popular stereotypes ranked from the highest popularity rating down to the very lowest.

1. JOCKS- "the heartthrobs" I don't know why but girls dig guys who hold balls for a hobby. They are those who gain most respect. They rely on others for their academic work and because of their strength they control pretty much everything an everyone. They are exempted to the school's law and orders.
2. PERFORMERS - you can easily spot them because they are always moving on groups. You can see them singing in chorales, singing acappellas, dancing a ridiculous beat, exhibiting what their contour bodies can do and pretty much holding a guitar and just disturbing classes with their non-mainstream music.
   
3. COOL SMARTS - these are the intellectually adept persons but not that geeky. You can spot them promoting themselves and asking for council votes. They are really popular because of what they achieved and the only thing that separates them from nerds is--they don't read COMIC BOOKS!!!
4. SASSIES - the socially conscious. They always move in groups with their co-sassies. They are either women who are naturally beautiful and using that as their asset or those who think their beautiful and just want the glamour. They are also either riiculously rich, or dumb broke.
5. ACTIVIST - students who just can't stand democracy. Always present in rallies, movements, etc.
6. EMO' - a.k.a. slashers, cutters and suicidals. But here in the Phil. another subspecie was created. The EMO-kuno. Those ho claims to be emo but doesn't qualify to be one.
   
7. NERDS- the socially deprived but intellectually gifted. They have th mind, they don't have the looks.\
8. UNKNOWNS- self explanatory

Now you know the stereotypes, which one are you?

These are just the basic stereotype many are still unmentioned.

Xander's Summer Fling

continuation to Xander's first fling

A few weeks before summer vacation my enthusiasm was still high. She was bragging to me her academic achievement for weeks now. She told me she is a constant gold medal awardee and she even skipped a year because of her excellence and at that point I was very proud of whatever she achieved.

She promised that she was going to spend her vacation at her cousin's house--the one who gave me her gift--since twas a walking distance from my school we promised each other that we will enjoy summer, together.

But I was, yet again, very,very disappointed. I thought twas gonna be the best summer with her but she said she will be spending her summer vacation in Manila. I ignored her for a while and after some time I realized it would be inhumane to treat her like that and our love did prevails.

We carried on with our young lives but we kept in touch with each other. There were several girls who flirted with me that time and I have several other textmates but I did not mind them at all. I have a gf whom I faithfully committed with and I can not let go of that.

Even though I forced my parents to enroll me to a summer workshop I did not enjoy a speck. From the start I focused myself on seeing her during summer vacation but now that it is impossible to realize I have no reasons to attend.

A summer filled with plans and hopes was turned into a summer of complete semi-singleness because of a broken vow. I was very lonely that summer and even though I had all the chances to cheat I just couldn't do it. I want to be faithful to her.

Is it right to be obsessed to girl you can't even touch?

Xander's First Fling

All my life I've been exposed to "flings". Who can blame me?
At the very first time I had a girlfriend, twas a long distance relationship. I thought she was serious about me and hence I was very faithful to our serious relationship.
For our monthsary, I gave her a beautiful bracelet costing a ridiculous amount of money especially for our young age. In return she--well actually her cousin gave it to me because she was busy-- me a pen with a penlight and a laser pointer.

Eventually she asked if I liked her humble gift. I said I loved it and because of this she wanted me to use it every time I write drafts on my blog. I was very disappointed. I know I have to consider her thoughts and efforts but hello I sacrificed to buy that bracelet. It costs a lot. I skipped meals to save a sufficient money to buy her something special and I got a pen in return.

I know you would react that I am selfish and materialistic or so, well consider my side of the story. I don't really care about tags. I care about the thought, the effort, and most especially the sentimentality of the gift. I gave her a bracelet because I want her to see how beautiful she was to me. I want her to be confident and beautiful and even though we are cities apart, I will be able to always be with her in the medium of a bracelet. I even gave her the most beautiful poem a HS can give to his girl.

Well love erases the fear of debt they say and I never told her what her gift made me feel. I don't want her to feel that I am materialistic even though she is richer than me. I made her agree that the next time we exchange gifts it would be because we survived a year together. We also agreed that during summer vacation we would see each other. I will be taking talent enhancement lessons and she said she will be staying at her cousin's house which is a door away from my school.

I'm so excited that I will be spending my summer with my girl. I said to myself, maybe it may turn out to be one of my best summer vacation.

(To be continued...)