Monday, June 8, 2009

In a Taylor Swift's Song

My sisters were always mocking me that there's this Taylor Swift song that's describing me... well, they really are promoting it primarily because of the line - "his sisters beautiful". I told them that especially because of that, then it musn't describe me.

I'd Lie
Taylor Swift


"I don't think that passenger seat
Has ever looked this good to me
He tells me about his night
And I count the colors in his eyes"

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Nothing much to describe me here.
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"He'll never fall in love
He swears, as he runs his fingers through his hair
I'm laughing 'cause I hope he's wrong
And I don't think it ever crossed his mind
He tells a joke, I fake a smile
But I know all his favorite songs"

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Nothing too, maybe Taylor Swift know me more than I do.
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"And I could tell you
His favorite color's green
He loves to argue
Born on the seventeenth
His sister's beautiful
He has his father's eyes
And if you ask me if I love him
I'd lie"

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My favorite color is blue, not green, but I did study in schools which colors are green (NDGM and DLSU). Yes, I have this habit of arguing, always saying.. "sure?". I'm also born on October 17th. My sisters are beautiful? oh please! (haha) I have my father's eyes? Yes. Once they took out young pictures of my dad and we look much alike because of the eyes.
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"He looks around the room
Innocently overlooks the truth
Shouldn't a light go on
Doesn't he know that I've had him memorized for so long
And he sees everything black and white
Never let nobody see him cry
I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine"

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I do love it dark in my room, with just a small lamp turned on. It makes me feel stressful when the lights are turned on. I see everything in black and white? Maybe, I am color blind.
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"He stands there, then walks away
My God, if I could only say
I'm holding every breath for you"

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Nothing much that describes me.
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"He'd never tell you
But he can play guitar
I think he can see through everything but my heart
First thought when I wake up is
My God, he's beautiful
So I put on my make-up
And pray for a miracle"

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I can play guitar a little.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Personality Tests

"Savvy?"
- Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Carribean

Forgive my vanity in this blog. :)

It has been popular recently in facebook those quizzes you take where in you are asked to answer some questions (e.g. What is your element? What villain are you? .. those kinds of stuffs) and based on your answers there's a corresponding answer. Most of which I think are just plainly stupid... but still I find it fun to do and I think I can forgive some quizzes which questions were not that easy to guess because some questions are too obvious where you'll already know the particular answer. Nads posted a link to personality tests as a shoutout in facebook and I think the answers were somehow accurate, in some way for me that is..

Here's the link: http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx

Get to know yourself better


Your view on yourself:
Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener. They'll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

The seriousness of your love:
You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Your views on education
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:
You have plenty of dream jobs but have little chance of doing any of them if you don't focus on something in particular. You need to choose something and go for it to be happy and achieve success.

How do you view success:
You are confident that you will be successful in your chosen career and nothing will stop you from trying.

What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

Hidden Talent


The Artist
You love freedom and want to follow your heart's desires. You might not be at your best when dealing with other people. Once you are given the opportunity to work your chosen way, your gift will shine. A tip for you is not to concentrate too much on your own work, but widen your focus and consider the opinions of other people.


Your Working Style


You have a great deal of warmth, but may not show it until you know a person well. You keep your warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat. You are very faithful to duties and obligations related to ideas or people you care about. You take a very personal approach to life, judging everything by your inner ideals and personal values.

You stick to your ideals with passionate conviction. Although your inner loyalties and ideals govern your lives, you find these hard to talk about. Your deepest feelings are seldom expressed; your inner tenderness is masked by a quiet reserve.

In everyday matters you are tolerant, open-minded, understanding, flexible, and adaptable. But if your inner loyalties are threatened, you will not give an inch. Except for your work's sake, you have little wish to impress or dominate. The people you prize the most are those who take the time to understand your values and the goals you are working toward.

Your main interest lies in seeing the possibilities beyond what is present, obvious, or known. You are twice as good when working at a job that you believe in, since your feeling adds energy to your efforts. You see the needs of the moment and try to meet them. You want your work to contribute to something that matters to you--human understanding, happiness, or health. You want to have a purpose beyond your paycheck, no matter how big the check. You are perfectionists whenever you care deeply about something.

You are curious about new ideas and tend to have insight and long-range vision. You are interested in books and language and are likely to have a gift of expression; with talent you may be excellent writers. You can be ingenious and persuasive on the subject of your enthusiasms, which are quiet but deep-rooted. You are often attracted to counseling, teaching, literature, art, science, or psychology.

The problem for you is that you may feel such a contrast between your inner ideals and your actual accomplishments that you may burden yourself with a sense of inadequacy. This can happen even when, objectively, you are being as effecive as others. It is important for you to find practical ways to express your ideals; otherwise you will keep dreaming of the impossible and accomplish very little. If you find no actions to express your ideal, you can become overly sensitive and vulnerable, with dwindling confidence in life and in yourself.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Five things I hate about me

There are a lot of things to like about me, but maybe there's more to hate about me than to actually like about me. Well, here's five things I hate about me:

1. Unexpressive - You can call me the epitome of a mysterious guy that you may come to a point that you'd be wondering if you've already said or done something wrong to me, or if you've crossed the line. I had this interview in a software company last three months ago, and I was able to answer all of the questions easily except of one. They asked me, "How do you show your anger?". I was stunned because I was guilty of being unexpressive when it comes to showing my anger or disagreement to something. More often than not I'm the "go with the flow" guy. I just told them honestly that I'm not really not that expressive, and a little remark saying, "but I'm working on it" then I just smiled. Somebody actually said to me that I have to be a little more expressive, and I won't defend myself because that's one thing I hate about me.

2. Dweller - There are many instances in the past that I've dwelled in a failure for too long. When people share to me their not so good experiences, I always tell them that there's nothing they can really do about it anymore anyway and that they should just learn from it and move on. But it's one advice I hardly follow myself most of the time.

3. Pleaser - it's a good thing, but not when overdone. It's a good thing to try to stay away from fights and arguments, but not really good as at times, it's only a way of taking the easy way out.

4. Approval seeker - Hey, do you think this is the right thing to do? Hey, do you think this is a good buy? Hey, laugh at my joke. Err.. just do it man, trust one's instincts. Now, I'm talking to myself.

5. Undisciplined - and last but not the least, there are really just times that I find it hard to control myself. Sometimes I'm too tolerant of something. I try to discipline myself, but I'm just not... that... too disciplined. :)

So that's about it.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Per aspera ad astra

it's never about what's sent,
after all, it's about what is received anyway.

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Listening to: The Kooks - Love it all.

~ "She said, Love it all, love it all, love it all, love it all.."
I first heard of the song in the episode of Chuck, Chuck vs. the Seduction.

No chuck or heroes to download this week, it's a "skip-week" or whatever they call it there.

Yeah... love it all.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Phoenix

Never doubt me,
I have a heart,
kill it,
i dare you to try,
I have a heart that never dies.

Gift, 2

Below is a poem I've chosen to recite for our LITERA-1 midterms just this morning. I tried to understand the poem along the weekend, but it really didn't make sense to me. But still, I like the lines, that's why I chose it.


Gift, 2
by J. Neil C. Garcia

Lost in the sea’s
unforgiving blue,
I seek you.
Before me
the day unscrolls
its naked scripture:
sun, vision’s burning field,
islands, faint presences
crumbling in the distance,
water, the fickle immensities
life is made
constant by.
And it strikes me
I love the sea
because it borders
this suffering world
and the next:
the soul, it is said,
travels in a boat
from a winding inland river,
homing clear-eyed
toward the ocean—
which is the bottomless
beyond.
And I know:
here, upon this beach,
wash the crushed remains
of what was once mortal:
bone and kelp,
driftwood and tentacle,
porous red coral—
keepsakes
life leaves behind
before
dissolving
back to brine.
I am home here, then,
whom the world
never loved,
and from its torn edges
I can almost see
it all end:
an onrushing tide,
a radiant sea swell
sweeping away all appearance,
gentle eddies
whittling the self
till it is no longer
even sand.
I think of you
landlocked and lost
in another element—
your body.
The sea teaches me
love is a wish
not for safety
but for destruction.
I am not ashamed
to admit it:
I love you
the way water loves.
Which is to say
I wish the world
were through with you,
so you could return to me
ravaged, upon this shore:
a shell
held tight
inside my palm.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Band Wagon

I don't really need to please everybody,
All I need is someone who believes in the same ideals that I do.

It's just irritating that those who doesn't understand,
are those which everybody else follow.