People get ready

here's a nice, "soulful" song from Curtis Mayfield. i guess you can also categorize this as a gospel/inspirational song. i personally like George Lynch's version of this song from the Jeff Beck tribute album. anyone wanna sing along with me...??

People get ready, there's a train comin'
You don't need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin'
You don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord

People get ready, there's a train to Jordan
Picking up passengers coast to coast
Faith is the key, open the doors and board them
There's hope for all among those loved the most

There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
For there is no hiding place against the kingdom's throne

People get ready there's a train comin'
You don't need no baggage, just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin'
You don't need no ticket, just thank the Lord.

Taken from CSI(Vegas) Season 5 Episode 2
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SARAH: I heard you finally lost your virginity - first autopsy. How was it?

GREG: It was fine. How was your first time? How did you react?

SARAH: I puked.

GREG: I didn't puke.

SARAH: Way to go tough guy.

GREG: It was weird seeing a body laying on a table like that. Doc Robbins just pulling out his insides until it was all empty.

SARAH: Were you expecting a ball of light?

GREG: Doc Robbins said, "That's all we really are."

SARAH: It's what we do that counts.
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think about it...once you remove the intestines, bladder, heart and whatever you may find inside, you'll see that we're nothing more than a soft shell... mere skin protecting flesh...nothing extraordinary inside... but what is it that makes us so special? they say it's not much of what we are but what we do that makes us unique... is it?

Holy Week

Maundy Thursday and I'm still in the office. right now i'm still thinking about what the lenten season means to me. so much thoughts... don't have much time to write (sagabal talaga itong trabaho sa blog =P).

this just reminds me.. i was at carriedo a few weeks back trying to get an NBI clearance. actually i tried to get it at Park Square in Makati but the staff there told me to go to the main office because the machine there can't read the barcode on my old clearance. so much for the "High-Tech" machine...galing talaga ng pinoy (sarcastic laugh)..

so there i was, in carriedo waiting for my clearance to be released. i arrived at 1pm and they told me i would have it by 4pm. ok.. 3 hours to spare.. now what? aga ko pa naman dito tapos maghihintay ako ng tatlong oras? after almost 2 hours of walking around quiapo, the p-dvd areas, raon, etc... i decided to take a rest.

well, Quiapo church was the only place where i can sit down for free...ok.. i was there not to pray but just have a welcome rest to ease my feet which are hurtin' real bad by now... di lang paa... pati yata mga daliri ko sa paa eh naninigas na...

during my "rest" there, marami akong nakita... merong nakaupo.. nagdadasal, merong lumalakad ng paluhod, merong mga batang naglalaro, nagtitinda ng sampaguita, mga estudyanteng sasaglit para magdasal (exams nila siguro).. pansin ko lang iba iba sila ng style ng pagdadasal... merong nakapikit, merong parang tulala at nakatingin sa wala, merong gumagalaw ang labi na wala namang sinasabi at kung ano ano pa. yung mga tao dun.. they are all praying to a God they have never seen but have faith in...

ayun, sa pagkakaupo ko dun, napa isip ako... is there really a God? i'm not an aetheist nor an antichrist. i spent the last 5 years of my student-life in Don Bosco.. there was a time na araw araw eh nakaka attend ako ng mass...you would say that it would've opened my eyes to christiandom and make me christ-like in nature..oo, siguro religious ako nung bata pa ako.... but it was during college where i saw the hypocrisy of the catholic church.. that the church really isn't infallible

don't get me wrong... gaya nga ng sabi ko, i am not an anti christ.. it's just that my experiences has molded me into what i am now.. changed my whole self and my belief... i am not blocking out the whole concept of a Divine Saviour coming to save us...i may find it hard to believe.. my faith may have been washed away but there's something left in me.. and that is hope...

siguro naman may mga tao ring katulad ko.. siguro yung mga tao sa simbahan, lahat sila umaasa...hoping for salvation, for a better life...

ngayon kung ako ang tatanungin mo ng "Do you believe in God?", ito lang ang masasabi ko. i will not say no.. neither will i answer yes...all i can say is ..."sana"

sana nga meron, sana nga totoong may Diyos...

ikaw? Do you believe in God? holy week na...time for us to think about our lives, our faith and continue hoping...

monday blues.. again

aarrgghh.... my body's sore all over... we had a sports activity yesterday (Sunday) and it's one of the rare times when I get to engage in sports events... my thigh and legs hurt.. arms stiff....the pain.... nooo.. the pain.....

another weekend

2 weeks.. not much has happened.. looking forward to a long weekend.. weeeeeeeeeeee

pix from our road trip

here's one taken in Vigan's Crisologo street


here's my wifey

o di ba pang model ang dating? =)