The Universe
During my brief time in a long-distance relationship I mused to a girl on the other side of the world how every song I hear talks about separation and waiting. She said that's always the case and there is no meaning in that.
Sometime ago an elder shared how we just attach meanings to things, in a sense we create and select what we choose to believe.
Then if that's the case, then call me an idiot for believing that we can find meaning in the Universe, that it seems like we our embedded in a story where every object in it holds a meaning and all you have to do is interpret it, That there is a theme that guides our lives.
Because now with what I have failed to put into words I am hearing songs not anymore of separation and waiting, but songs that seem to exactly explain how I feel. I hear a remake/revival of one particular song by 2 artists at the same, a song by Mariah Carrie, a couple of other artists and songs even SpongeCola has helped to express what I feel but couldn't say.
Where I'm now reading a blogpost by a friend that seems to give comfort and wisdom by sharing quotes and company to those who are brokenhearted.
and where my Philosophy lessons are giving insights and helping me think about the situation in ways I couldn't have normally thought about.
And the cold breeze ties it all together.
Everything around me is helping me to to figure out what I need. Such is the Universe, a mirror that reflects ourselves.
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Listing the songs for future reference
#1. If You're Not The One by Daniel Bedingfield, revived by Nikki Gil and someone
If you’re not the one then why does my soul feel glad today?
If you’re not the one then why does my hand fit yours this way?
If you are not mine then why does your heart return my call
If you are not mine would I have the strength to stand at all
I never know what the future brings
But I know you are here with me now
We’ll make it through
And I hope you are the one I share my life with
Chorus:
I don’t want to run away but I can’t take it, I don’t understand
If I’m not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am?
Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?
If I don’t need you then why am I crying on my bed?
If I don’t need you then why does your name resound in my head?
If you’re not for me then why does this distance maim my life?
If you’re not for me then why do I dream of you as my wife?
I don’t know why you’re so far away
But I know that this much is true
We’ll make it through
And I hope you are the one I share my life with
And I wish that you could be the one I die with
And I pray in you’re the one I build my home with
I hope I love you all my life
*Repeat Chorus
‘Cause I miss you, body and soul so strong that it takes my breath away
And I breathe you into my heart and pray for the strength to stand today
‘Cause I love you, whether it’s wrong or right
And though I can’t be with you tonight
And know my heart is by your side
*Repeat Chorus
#2 Break even by Script
I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing
Just prayed to a god that I don't believe in
Cause I got time while she got freedom
Cause when a heart breaks no it don't break even
Her best days will be some of my worst
She finally met a man that's gonna put her 1st
While I'm wide awake she's no trouble sleeping
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even
Chorus:
What am I suppose to do when the best part of me was always you
What am I suppose to say when I'm all choked up and your ok
I'm falling to pieces
I'm falling to pieces
They say bad things happen for a reason
But not wise words gonna stop the bleeding
Cos she's moved on while I'm still grieving
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven
*Repeat Chorus
(One still in love while the other ones leaving
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even)
You got his heart and my heart and none of the pain
You took your suitcase, I took the blame.
Now I'm trying make sense of what little remains
Cos you left me with no love, no love to my name.
I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing
Just prayed to a god that I don't believe in
Cos I got time while she got freedom
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even
*Repeat Chorus
(One still in love while the other ones leaving
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even)
#3 'Di na Mababawi by Spongecola
Ngayo'y aking inuunawang pilit
Mga pagkukulang kong iyong ginigiit
Sana'y malaman mo na tanging ikaw lamang
Ang aking iniintindi
Nakatanim pa sa'king ala-ala
Pangako mong mananatili ka
Kaya't paglisan mo'y naiwan ang pusong ito
Na ngayo'y bitin na bitin
Chorus:
'Di mo na mababawi iniwang sakit
Sa mga salitang binitiwan mo
Hindi ba't ikaw na rin ang nagpasya, nagtakda
At siyang unang umiwas
Bakit nga ba ako 'yong pinaasa?
Nasa aking guniguni malamig mong tinig
Kasabay ng hanging na dumarampi
Na para bang ika'y nariyan sa aking paligid
Tahimik na nagmamasid
*Repeat Chorus
Nahulog na'ng mga ulap, buwan at araw, mga bituwin
Ang ginugol na panaho'y na saan? (panaho'y na saan)
'Di ba't sayang naman? (Di ba't sayang naman)
Giliw yeah yeah yeah yeah
Ngunit di mo na mababawi iniwang sakit
Sa mga salitang binitiwan mo
Hindi ba't ikaw na rin ang nagpasya, nagtakda
At siyang unang umiwas
Bakit nga ba ako 'yong pinaasa? 2x
#4 I Stay in Love by Mariah Carey
Oh, baby
Baby
I stay in love with you
Dying inside cause
I can't stand it
Make up a break up
Can't take this madness
We don't even
Really know why
All I know is baby
I try and try so hard
To keep our love alive
If you dont' know me
At this point
Then I highly
Doubt you ever will
I really need you
To give me
That unconditional love
I used to feel
It's no mistaking
We're just erasing
From our hearts
And minds
[Chorus:
And I know we said let go
But I kept on hanging on
Inside I know it's over
You're really gone
It's killing me
Cause there ain't nothing
That I can do
Baby
I stay in love with you
And I keep on
Telling myself
That you'll come
Back around
And I try to front
Like "oh well"
Each time you let me down
See I can't get over you now
No matter what I do
But baby, baby
I stay in love with you]
Na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na
Baby
I stay in love with you
It cuts so deep
It hurts down to my soul
My friends tell me
I ain't the same no more
We still need each other
When we stumble and fall
How we gon' act
Like what we had
Ain't nothin' at all now
Hey
What I wanna do is
wish i got next to you
With the top down
Like we used to
Hit the block
Proud in the SUV
We both know
Our heart is breaking
Can we learn
From our mistakes
I can't last
One moment alone
Now go I know
*Repeat Chorus 2x
I stay in love
Love
Oh, I stay in love
Monday, January 12, 2009
Thursday, January 08, 2009
The Top 9 Places on My Travel List
Only 9 because I can’t think of a tenth. I have this thing of “not going with the crowd”. I don’t like ‘popular’ and ‘famous’ things that generate hype and masses of fans around them, like the way I don’t like Twilight and Harry Potter, and like have no excitement at going to a place like Boracay. One because there are a lot of people there, and because I want to see the hidden splendours of the world, the ones only a few people know about, especially the natural ones. So the places on my list are not exactly the popular tourist destinations.
Though there are many places I want to go and visit, these 9 places are the only ones that I have this weird unexplainable feeling of being compelled to go to.
1. Hall of Mirrors. Château de Versailles. France
I was enchanted when I first saw and heard about the Hall of Mirrors, and actually now I can’t remember why. It was some years ago, and when I look at pictures of it now I can’t remember the reason why I wanted to see it so badly. Maybe because it’s in France, the one country I’ve loved to go to, and its setting in history during the old times of royalty and nobility. It keeps the top spot in my list for the reason that it was the first place I actually put on my list.
Not exactly on my list, but since we are in France, might as well visit the Millau Bridge. World’s Tallest Vehicular Bride, slightly taller than the Eiffel Tower. Must have incredible views; I’d love the chance to walk through it. Sorry, no Eiffel Tower for me.
2. Iguazu Falls. Border of Brazil and Argentina.
Breathtaking Falls. Everyone Talks of Niagara Falls. Iguazu makes the Niagara look like an overflowing bathtub. Even Eleanor Roosevelt was even reportedly to have exclaimed "Poor Niagara!" at the sight of it.
And since we are comparing a US landmark to a Brazilian one, might as well throw in there the Itaipu Dam, another place I’d like to see since I’d be in the neigborhood anyway. Hoover dam? Please. If you wanna say dam, go and check out Itaipu
3. The Graduate Institute. Geneva. Switzerland
Hehe. New addition. When I attended the talk regarding the further studies opportunity presented by the Graduate Institute, I was twitching in excitement. It combined all the things I wanted and loved to do; go to Europe, learn French, and study Development Studies. Not to mention the campus has the awesome view of Lake Geneva, and Switzerland is home to the Alps and gives a springboard to travel to other parts of Europe, taking a Masters in the Graduate Institute definitely became an opportunity I’m looking forward to.
(View of Lake Geneva)
4. Rome. Italy.
Probably the only ‘truly’ tourist destination in my list. What can I say, Rome is just that awesome. I’d like to go there because the Romans had that mentality I think highly of where they capture splendor in sculptures, statues and monuments that defy time. The Colosseum, Circus Maximus, the Trevi fountain. They had the right idea of capturing magnificence. I love to see cities adorned by monuments and grand iconic structures. It gives you that feeling of grandeur. Think Lord of the Rings.. See, we don’t have that in the Philippines, or most of the World nowadays for that matter.
(Trevi Fountain)
Only other place that I would like to visit that has that 'grand feeling' would be Rio de Janeiro with the statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooking the city. Awesome statue with equally awesome location. I'd like to see it, but not in this list because I don't have that feeling of being compelled to
5. Kremlin. Moscow. Russia.
Everybody wants to go the USA. I ask why? I wanna go to Russia - mostly just because everybody wants to go to the US. I want to go and stand on Red Square and see the Kremlin. You hear people say Washington or the White House as a synonym for the US government in high politics. That’s supposed to be intimidating, a house that practically stands as a symbol for racism? (Well not now since Obama is there) Now take the Kremlin; seat of the government of Russia, the power that challenged the United States, a fortress, with a name that’s intimidating by itself. See, beside the Kremlin stands St. Basil’s Cathedral, a church, distinct in the skyline through its onion shaped domes. Now what’s distinct in the skyline of the US capital? A giant phallic symbol. I’d also like to see a Russian Military parade.
(Red Square, with Kremlin to the right)
(St. Basil's Cathedral)
6. The Aurora.
Not a particular place by itself, because the Auroras manifest in the skies above the polar latitudes. I want to just find a place where I can just lay there and watch it. Stargazing made even better. It’s hard to believe these images are real.
7. Plitvice Lakes. Croatia
I bet you haven’t heard of this place. The Plitvice Lakes are a series of lakes interconnected by spectacular waterfalls. The lakes are renowned for their distinctive colours, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colours change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight. Breath taking I would imagine.
8. Catatumbo river at Lake Maracaibo. Venezuela
Also another place I bet you haven’t heard. The Catatumbo River is home to Venezuela’s Everlasting Storm, an almost permanent lightning storm, 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an hour. It’s even called the Maracaibo Beacon as light has been used for navigation by ships for ages. Because it can be seen up to 400 km away. I wanna find a spot and just watch it all night. I wonder if there is any thunder.
9. New Zealand
Because that is where Lord of the Rings and Narnia was filmed! And if you don’t know, the landscape is just breathtaking. And of course, there aren’t many people in New Zealand.
(Set from the Lord of The Rings)
Only 9 because I can’t think of a tenth. I have this thing of “not going with the crowd”. I don’t like ‘popular’ and ‘famous’ things that generate hype and masses of fans around them, like the way I don’t like Twilight and Harry Potter, and like have no excitement at going to a place like Boracay. One because there are a lot of people there, and because I want to see the hidden splendours of the world, the ones only a few people know about, especially the natural ones. So the places on my list are not exactly the popular tourist destinations.
Though there are many places I want to go and visit, these 9 places are the only ones that I have this weird unexplainable feeling of being compelled to go to.
1. Hall of Mirrors. Château de Versailles. France
I was enchanted when I first saw and heard about the Hall of Mirrors, and actually now I can’t remember why. It was some years ago, and when I look at pictures of it now I can’t remember the reason why I wanted to see it so badly. Maybe because it’s in France, the one country I’ve loved to go to, and its setting in history during the old times of royalty and nobility. It keeps the top spot in my list for the reason that it was the first place I actually put on my list.
Not exactly on my list, but since we are in France, might as well visit the Millau Bridge. World’s Tallest Vehicular Bride, slightly taller than the Eiffel Tower. Must have incredible views; I’d love the chance to walk through it. Sorry, no Eiffel Tower for me.
2. Iguazu Falls. Border of Brazil and Argentina.
Breathtaking Falls. Everyone Talks of Niagara Falls. Iguazu makes the Niagara look like an overflowing bathtub. Even Eleanor Roosevelt was even reportedly to have exclaimed "Poor Niagara!" at the sight of it.
And since we are comparing a US landmark to a Brazilian one, might as well throw in there the Itaipu Dam, another place I’d like to see since I’d be in the neigborhood anyway. Hoover dam? Please. If you wanna say dam, go and check out Itaipu
3. The Graduate Institute. Geneva. Switzerland
Hehe. New addition. When I attended the talk regarding the further studies opportunity presented by the Graduate Institute, I was twitching in excitement. It combined all the things I wanted and loved to do; go to Europe, learn French, and study Development Studies. Not to mention the campus has the awesome view of Lake Geneva, and Switzerland is home to the Alps and gives a springboard to travel to other parts of Europe, taking a Masters in the Graduate Institute definitely became an opportunity I’m looking forward to.
(View of Lake Geneva)
4. Rome. Italy.
Probably the only ‘truly’ tourist destination in my list. What can I say, Rome is just that awesome. I’d like to go there because the Romans had that mentality I think highly of where they capture splendor in sculptures, statues and monuments that defy time. The Colosseum, Circus Maximus, the Trevi fountain. They had the right idea of capturing magnificence. I love to see cities adorned by monuments and grand iconic structures. It gives you that feeling of grandeur. Think Lord of the Rings.. See, we don’t have that in the Philippines, or most of the World nowadays for that matter.
(Trevi Fountain)
Only other place that I would like to visit that has that 'grand feeling' would be Rio de Janeiro with the statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooking the city. Awesome statue with equally awesome location. I'd like to see it, but not in this list because I don't have that feeling of being compelled to
5. Kremlin. Moscow. Russia.
Everybody wants to go the USA. I ask why? I wanna go to Russia - mostly just because everybody wants to go to the US. I want to go and stand on Red Square and see the Kremlin. You hear people say Washington or the White House as a synonym for the US government in high politics. That’s supposed to be intimidating, a house that practically stands as a symbol for racism? (Well not now since Obama is there) Now take the Kremlin; seat of the government of Russia, the power that challenged the United States, a fortress, with a name that’s intimidating by itself. See, beside the Kremlin stands St. Basil’s Cathedral, a church, distinct in the skyline through its onion shaped domes. Now what’s distinct in the skyline of the US capital? A giant phallic symbol. I’d also like to see a Russian Military parade.
(Red Square, with Kremlin to the right)
(St. Basil's Cathedral)
6. The Aurora.
Not a particular place by itself, because the Auroras manifest in the skies above the polar latitudes. I want to just find a place where I can just lay there and watch it. Stargazing made even better. It’s hard to believe these images are real.
7. Plitvice Lakes. Croatia
I bet you haven’t heard of this place. The Plitvice Lakes are a series of lakes interconnected by spectacular waterfalls. The lakes are renowned for their distinctive colours, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colours change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight. Breath taking I would imagine.
8. Catatumbo river at Lake Maracaibo. Venezuela
Also another place I bet you haven’t heard. The Catatumbo River is home to Venezuela’s Everlasting Storm, an almost permanent lightning storm, 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an hour. It’s even called the Maracaibo Beacon as light has been used for navigation by ships for ages. Because it can be seen up to 400 km away. I wanna find a spot and just watch it all night. I wonder if there is any thunder.
9. New Zealand
Because that is where Lord of the Rings and Narnia was filmed! And if you don’t know, the landscape is just breathtaking. And of course, there aren’t many people in New Zealand.
(Set from the Lord of The Rings)
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