The Happiness Word-Play

FACT:

hap-py
adj. -pier, -piest

• delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person;
• characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy: a happy mood; a happy frame of mind;
• favored by fortune; fortunate or lucky: a happy, fruitful land;
• apt or felicitous, as actions, utterances, or ideas.

THE GAME:

Find 20 Words that are associated with Happiness. It can either be:

•Human acts that can make one happy
•Nouns that can make one happy

Bend your brain. Good Luck!

THE GAME MASTER'S FAVOR: Smile while you are answering. :)

In Disguise

Chai has tagged me in her album People who Mean the World to Me in Facebook. I miss Chaiii. :)

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas Edison

I just realized: I must TRULY, MADLY and DEEPLY be thankful. I have got what I wanted.

septemBER

Yesterday afternoon, I was browsing my planner and was checking the things that I needed to accomplish for the day, when I felt the wind blow calmly and coldly. It has not only provided a good ventilation in my room, but also squired a familiar air that must have been blended with the relatively low temperature of the wind. The cold wind: what-has-happeneds and what-would-happen in the upcoming weeks and months. Last Day of the 5-Sunday-and-5-week-August that transited us to the first day of September.

I am excited for ultimate bonding experiences, workshops and teambuildings. Plus Christmas-related events of TOMCAT, most especially Christmas Concert! :)

Browsed through multiplies and have found snapshots of last year's happenings.

ABDP U.B.E. (with Mayor Lim)

TOMCAT Sembreak Workshop 2008

Paskuhan 2008

September to December would be sweet and fun :)

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iHola septiembre!

I was awakened by a loud music play of a Christmas Carol by one of my Titos. I remembered, "It's the first day of September." '-Ber' at the tail end of the syllable of each of the last four months of the year marks the beginning of Christmas anticipation. September 1: Merry Christmas!

This season is my most favorite part of the year. The anticipation for December that we feel in our hearts rekindles the child within us - awaiting for the last month of the year when we get to be together with our families, mend broken hearts, fix relationships and believe that peace reigns in the world even just for a day or so - because it's Christmas. And this year 2009, it has officially started today.

Bull's Eye

The gate's clutch swung back and forth like a pendulum as I detached it from its lock. I pushed the gate sidewards with a force that was comparable from opening a door that would never open. One, two, three. My index finger stuck into the small opening at the middle portion of 2 metals. I felt blood squeezed out from a scar that has become a bruise again.

I pulled my finger; blood dripped onto the floor. For the fourth time, I attempted to open the heavy gate. But still it did not.

Until someone went out and opened it for me. Then I was able to enter home.

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Delayed Film Exam done at last.
Last two accounts for IMC has just been passed.
TOMCAT's 1st GA for the has just commenced.

This day has marked endings, but also beginnings.

Presently, there are things that I already want to end - but not yet. My mind says GO, but my heart says NO. Dillema, it is. Good thing that a fast running time has an answer for this. Swiftly and surely.

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There were things I have heard which I wish I did not. Simply yet straightforwardly. Bull's eye. Cherry successfully targeted. The feeling of unworthiness. Thank You.

I would just cry this out.

A Glance at Jamelle's Planner

July 21: Cinemalaya Film Congress

Latecomer for the Congress makes her assignment at the Lobby instead.

Ambush interview by a Network

August 8: Francis Kong @ Cornestone (invitation by Mam Faye)

Front to back: Mam Faye, Margo, Gissele, Jam, Judy

August 11: Recording of U-TURN Jingle and Paper-making at ABS-CBN (with the guidance of Sir Ferrer)

Supposedly PRSP Representatives :(

Busy with the concept and the creatives

August 20 to 21: TOMCAT Planning @ Baang Cafe, Tomas Morato

Judy, Wado, Jam alive at 3 in the morning

Sinong susunod na heads?

August 25: Recognition of University-Wide Student Organizations @ the UST Seminary Gym

Receiving the certificate with Wado

TOMCAT recognized for the 3rd year :)

August-September-October-Second Sem-March. More to Life!

To God be the Glory for everyday victories - and defeats - in Life.

Photos from Multiply accounts of:

• Mam Faye
• Angie
• Wado

Mali ang BILANG

Sakay na lang tayo ng Taxi:
tayong APAT.

Mali ang bilang ko,
LIMA pala kami.

Pero APAT pa rin kaming
sumakay ng taxi.

May umalis na lang
- yung panLIMA.

Mastering Discipline

“You can be very skilled with the instrument you have chosen to earn a living, but it’s all useless if you can’t manage to master the mind that uses the instrument.”

- Paolo Coelho, Two Stories about Mountains (Warrior of the Light)

Waiting at the End

Now, I think I know
who I am looking for,
and who I am waiting for.

Waiting at the end of the tunnel
to hold my hand,
clutch my arms
and see my soul
is someone
who will walk me in faith,
will walk with me in faith.

I feel the heat of the light
at the end of this dark subway.
When I get there,
another ending that will be
a new beginning.

"Accomplishments, strengths... when not surrendered at the feet of the Lord, that very accomplishment and strength... will destroy you."

- Francis Kong

We don't Know Where

Have you experienced going out of home knowing where you are headed to, but do not exactly know where it is?

I just did. I went out of home knowing where to go but did not exactly know where it was.

Mam Faye asked us to make our Saturday vacant for a "Leadership Seminar". Up until last night, we did not know what time we would be meeting, and where we would be having the said seminar.

Until I checked my phone in the morning with Cathy and Judy's messages, telling that we would be meeting at 4 in the afternoon at Mcdonald's, Quezon Ave. Remembering that our affair would be held in Bulacan, I wondered what kind of seminar it was (or whether it would really be a seminar) which would start later at 4 pm.

So it happened. With me last to arrive at the meeting place, we headed to fetch Mam Faye at her 2nd binyagan venue; afterwhich, dropping by SM Fairview for Gissele. Then we headed to San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan.

While in the TV5 Van, Mam Faye told us that we would be hearing a talk by no less than Francis Kong. With a big spark of excitement, I waited until we arrive the venue. At past 7 in the evening, we arrived at Mam Faye's church, the Cornerstone.

We had a few worship songs and prayers while waiting for Francis Kong to arrive. At around 8, Kong started his speech. "We fix ourselves first! It all starts with perspective. What we need to do is to reconfigure our philosophy," he said. As great as he has always been, he shared his five success perspectives:

1. Wherever you are, be there.
2. What you are looking for, you will find it.
3. If you think you can, you can. If you think you cannot, you're right.
4. Whatever you work on, you become.
5. Whatever you admire, you copy.

Concluding the talk, he uttered, "Life is a mixture of pain and pleasure."

This was my second time to hear a talk from Francis Kong. I was in my 4th year high school when I first heard him speak, with which I have made a promise to myself that I would fulfill in college. Amazingly, now that I am in my last year in college, I met him again. In one of my crossroads in my 4th year life, I was bound to remember what I have promised myself years back. Above all, to renew the value of faith in me that has been dormant in the months that passed.

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Have you experienced going out of home knowing where you are headed to, but do not exactly know where it is? I guess we always do.

Maybe we know where we are headed to, but do not exactly know where it will be. We may approximate how we are going to get there; but the process itself, we do not fully control and hold of. We set time tables for things, but God has His own timing for all these.

We always get out of home knowing where we are headed to, but do not exactly know where it is.

God only knows.