House Party - Part 1 [Daytime Activities]

December 27, 2006 - 8:00 A.M.

Farmhouse in daytime...Taken before pool maintenance..Still a bit greenish..

Girls of Peerless '99
L-R: Iyang, Natasha, Nikki, Tia, Katrina and Pym-pym

Tequila shots...pool is now clean..LOL!

Poolside drinking...Too bad..not yet drunk for body shots..ROFLMAO!!

Late afternoon...

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December 28, 2006 - 7:00 A.M. +

Katrina on ATV w/ broken headlight LOL!

Jeng and Tyrone using the black ATV...

After ATV Rides...

At a cold mountain spring 2 kilometers away from our farmhouse..

Starlet daw sabi ni Tia..Hahaha!

Freezing cold...Sarap lalo na pagkatapos ng matinding inuman sa gabi...Hahaha!

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Inisa ko na lang ang events ng may araw sa gabi...Hahaha! WEEEEEEEE!!

House Party - Part 2 [Night Party]

December 27, 2006 - Evening...

Farmhouse at night...Soooo coooool!

Night Swimming

Red Horse sa Poolside

Christina Bilbilicious

The Tequila + Red Horse Effect

Tequila Cuervo, Mudslide, Red Horse and Vodka...

Tuloy ang inuman pagkatapos mag-swimming...

Pym-pym and Iyang

Kat w/ Frosty

Mudslide 1 on 1 w/ Katrina

Kat lasing na...Sumasandal na kay Frosty...

Smile!!

Hala! Bawal ka magyosi diba? Haha!

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House party at our family farmhouse with old school mates...

One word....CRAAAAAAZY!!

and yeah, you don't need to remind my of my plump physique...I gained 10 kilos when I stopped my diet and exercise since Semestral break...LOL!!

The Illusion of Happiness

People always ask what the real meaning of happiness is. Is it having the latest car model? Is it having a seven figured bank account? Is it having a gorgeous partner? Or is it finding the real meaning to life? They say that true happiness could be achieved once a person attains enlightenment, that slams the ignorance is bliss cliché. Well happiness from material things is just illusions; they’ll all going to disappear in time. A car breaks down and become rusty, money would be spent, good-looking spouses age, houses could catch fire, and even a relationship could end.

The social basis of discontent in modern society is not so much lack of income; it is loneliness, boredom, depression, alienation, self-doubt and the ill health that goes with them. Social exclusion is not so much exclusion from the structures of production and consumption; it is exclusion from social relationships and modes of self-understanding that confer acknowledgement, self-worth and meaning. Also happiness is fleeting in many lives because people want it to automatically happen, it takes work, which is the best work we can ever do in our lifetimes. Life happens and what would help many people is if they could wake up to the reasoning that difficult and unhappy times show us how important it is to bring harmony into the world, which begets happiness into our everyday lives. Life is cruel; the unhappiness that others experience even fuels the pursuit of our own bliss.

Happiness that you get from material things is only temporary and just an illusion. Then what is an illusion? In psychiatry and philosophy the term illusion refers to a specific form of sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination, which is a sensory experience in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation so it is perceived in a distorted manner. Well, I always have illusions of happiness. There was one time where I was living in a world that sickness, poverty and crime doesn’t exist. That only beauty exists: music, food, structures and people. No more wars, no more dying, no more discrimination, no more famine and disease. Now, fancy yourself in that world, wouldn’t it be great to live there? But our world is different. We live in a world where all ugliness and defilement exist. Illusionary happiness is hard to keep up with because it is a feeling where we want it all the time and it’s become an obsession. Like an addiction to an illegal substance that we know isn’t really helping your problems but rather intensify it. Illusions are not real and must be viewed as such. Some people live illusionary lives but aren’t really happy and content with what they have. Illusionary happiness is only temporary and ends but real happiness is when you do something that you love the most and be content with it. Happiness gained from following your heart then become contented is what some call enlightenment. As Paulo Coelho said in his book The Alchemist: “The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.” We may have seen all the beauty in the world but to the really happy and contented soul even a flutter of a butterfly could be more interesting than Paris Hilton's sex video.

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Pasensya na. Wala kasi magawa. Ahahaha!

Death Inevitable

Earlier my sister begged me to make her an essay about death and dying. I came up with this composition - removed some of course.

People have always feared death. You start to doubt if there is really an afterlife or it’s just an idea to make people accept death lightly. I believe, in my own analysis that people fearing death are those who have unfulfilled lives, those who lived as an unhappy person or have made many mistakes which they wanted to fix but they know they don’t have time left. Well, I did some searching for some book reference and I happen to come by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' On Death and Dying. She discussed the Five Stages of Grief on how a person acts when faced with Death: Denial and Isolation, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.

On the Denial and Isolation stage, a person denies that he is going to die. This stage is the stage where he usually asks or say: “This can't be real" or "This is not happening to me. There must be a mistake." A person usually denying death wants to isolate himself to think clearly. He then go away to somewhere he could relax and think may it be a vacation abroad, a beach, a province, or even his own room where he could be alone. He isolates himself also to slowly detach from the world which would soon lead to another step in facing death. Detaching or isolating is the first step to acknowledge that death is imminent and real.

Acknowledging death would soon lead to the Anger stage. Anger against the unknown, anger against God, anger against substances like cigarettes, sugar, liquor, cholesterol – which causes cancer, cirrhosis, HBP, diabetes and other illnesses that would be the cause of their pending death, and some people are just angry against the world – some due to poverty, mishaps, their bosses, their family, et cetera. It's wrong for a person dying of lung cancer blame others for their smoking habits, a person dying of cirrhosis can’t hold someone responsible for his alcoholism, but some deaths are inevitably caused by others. These deaths are harder to accept and the person dying with this cause is more furious than those dying of their own preferences. These people have a harder time before acceptance which leads to bargaining.

Bargaining is the stage where people bargains with God mostly. These people want fulfillment before departing the living world. These people usually become ecstatic adrenaline junkies living their life to the fullest and doing things that they haven’t done before – extreme sports, gamble, go to casinos, womanize, et cetera. Those who had their bargains fulfilled shall accept death warmly like sunlight on a cold morning then again those who have their wishes unfulfilled shall move on to another stage - depression.

Depression - is the stage where one feels defeated. After an episode of depression one may accept his pending death or one may return to the denial and isolation stage to repeat the whole process in order to achieve acceptance. The stages on facing death and dying is like a computer program where one stage process it then move to the next, if one statement is not satisfied then the whole program is moved or looped until the inputted statement is acceptable.

If one who is about to die has had enough time, and has been given some help in working through the previously described stages, he will reach a stage during which he is neither depressed nor angry about his “fate.” Accepting one’s end is the most intrepid and smartest thing one could do in the presence of his death. Some people are fearful because of uncertainty of afterlife. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness. Why would you even care if afterlife is true or not, you should be happy that you have been given the chance to live. As Headmaster Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore said "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

Bibingka Craving

Today, while I was on an adventure doing Christmas quests on Ragnarok Online I felt a sudden desire for bibingka. It was about 5:00 AM when I decided to go to the church but not attend the Simbang Gabi - it's shameful to come to church 30 minutes late you know. ROFL! You could see all the people staring at you with utter disgust like you wish you'd come early.

Anyway, I left home at about 5:15 AM went directly to Manang Bibingka [She's my suki every Simbang Gabi and I don't know her name. LOL!] bought 20 pieces for only 40 pesos. I know, I know, it's cheap but the taste is sooooo mouth-watering. After I payed for the food and received my change the church bell went off. Just my luck, I had been able to avoid other costumers that would surely do anything to get served first. I remember one time when an elderly lady elbowed me just to be served first. What a role model to young people. Not to mention that she just went to mass. Tsk tsk. People nowadays, the young ones are more morally aligned than the old ones. I wonder what values did they teach back then. Uneducated fools. Burn! You should BURN! You freaking hypocrites! Going to church, hearing the gospel, pretending to be a saint but when you get outside the House of God you don't practice what was taught. God DAMN you!

Moving on, I got home at exactly 5:45 am then turned on the kettle made coffee and ate 6 pieces of a 2 and a half inch diameter bibingka. Hahaha! Satisfied, I went back here and made this blog entry. Ahahaha!