ang lamig today. temperature was around 4 degrees celsius pero it feels like -2 degrees celsius kapag humangin. thats below freezing point kaya para kang nasa loob ng freezer kapag nasa labas ka and after 10 minutes of walking, numb na ang mga pisngi at ilong mo dahil sa lamig. that is if walang takip ang face mo. gaya ko.
may snow drizzles pati kanina. flurry ata ang tawag duon... nakakapuwing :) aliw. pers taym, e.
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someone sent me this poem today... its one of the saddest poems i have read. and i have read a lot of such kind. i really pray this would be the last time this person has to come across a poem as sad as this one and had to send it to someone... sana this heartache would be his last...
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to a pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.
hand-painted sky
pasensya na muna. wala akong kwento. just photos to share. all of the photos below were taken last sunday afternoon. i went to the navy pier hoping i could take one of the 1-hr boat tours to lake michigan. pero there were no boat rides available pala... so we ended up taking pictures na lang and looking for things to buy as pasalubong. wala rin kami nabili. hehe.
i think mas picturesque pa rin ang sky sa manila :)
i think mas picturesque pa rin ang sky sa manila :)
music for money, money for food
click here and witness an engaging performance by the bucket boys of chicago, who were performing in front of the famous water tower along magnificent mile. they're a bunch of young black men na nagtatambol using empty buckets of...i don't know what :) they were really quite entertaining and the crowd was really impressed. including me. i just had to stop and take some photos and videos and drop a coin in their bucket! they truly are talented and well coordinated!
anyway, do watch the video. sorry, very limited lang, the video is just 30 seconds long. hope you still enjoy it though :)
note that you need quicktime to be able to play the video. if you don't have quicktime yet, kindly visit www.quicktime.com to download and install the free installer.
have a good day!
Love Song for a Saviour
Please don't let this one pass by. It's very beautiful.
I came across this song this early Sunday morning...its a song of praise that I'd like to share with you all. I was really blessed by it. The title of the song is "With Every Breath" and it was sung/performed by Sixpence None the Richer w/ Jars of Clay. Here is the complete lyrics of the song:
Hallelujah from the heavens
Hallelujah in the heights above the earth
Hallelujah all His angels
Hallelujah for the last will be first
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Hallelujah in the morning
Hallelujah for the beauty of His scars
Hallelujah in the twilight
Hallelujah sun and moon and shining stars
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
When the night seems so long (throw your hands to the sky)
You can sing a new song (wipe the tears from your eyes)
When you're weak, He is strong
He can heal your wounded soul
And calm the storm inside
For all your times of laughter
In every hopeful prayer
When the world weighs on your shoulders
Through sorrow and your despair
With everything, with every breath, praise the Lord
Let everything, let every breath praise the Lord
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Let everything, let every breath praise the Lord
When the night seems so long (throw your hands to the sky)
You can sing a new song (wipe the tears from your eyes)
When you're weak, He is strong
He can heal your wounded soul
And calm the storm inside
To download the MP3, go here. Just click the "Download" link beside the song title and choose to save the file in your computer.
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The song is beautiful because God Himself is beautiful...His love endures and is constant throughout our coming and going, our sleep as well as our waking, our laughter, most especially in our tears... He truly deserves praise, much more than what we could give, because He deserves praise with each and every breath.
I came across this song this early Sunday morning...its a song of praise that I'd like to share with you all. I was really blessed by it. The title of the song is "With Every Breath" and it was sung/performed by Sixpence None the Richer w/ Jars of Clay. Here is the complete lyrics of the song:
Hallelujah from the heavens
Hallelujah in the heights above the earth
Hallelujah all His angels
Hallelujah for the last will be first
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Hallelujah in the morning
Hallelujah for the beauty of His scars
Hallelujah in the twilight
Hallelujah sun and moon and shining stars
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
When the night seems so long (throw your hands to the sky)
You can sing a new song (wipe the tears from your eyes)
When you're weak, He is strong
He can heal your wounded soul
And calm the storm inside
For all your times of laughter
In every hopeful prayer
When the world weighs on your shoulders
Through sorrow and your despair
With everything, with every breath, praise the Lord
Let everything, let every breath praise the Lord
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord
Let everything, let every breath praise the Lord
When the night seems so long (throw your hands to the sky)
You can sing a new song (wipe the tears from your eyes)
When you're weak, He is strong
He can heal your wounded soul
And calm the storm inside
To download the MP3, go here. Just click the "Download" link beside the song title and choose to save the file in your computer.
-ooo-
The song is beautiful because God Himself is beautiful...His love endures and is constant throughout our coming and going, our sleep as well as our waking, our laughter, most especially in our tears... He truly deserves praise, much more than what we could give, because He deserves praise with each and every breath.
Postcard from the Windy City
To see more photos of Chicago, click on the image above. Hope you enjoy them. Have a good day!
icame, isaw, (ibought) ipod
sobrang tagal na that i have been imagining how this moment would feel like. months na. ngayon, its here, its real, its mine, its ipod. shuffle, at least :)
ako at ang aking ipod
i took a few minutes off from work today and walked along the Magnificent Mile to visit the Apple store. the store wasn't that huge pero it was spacious and techie-looking enough to be a bit intimidating...there were displays of their latest and greatest on top of large white tables and counters. it felt like a laboratory somehow or an operating room to me. pero on top of the operating tables would be these handsome looking gadgets bearing an apple icon on them. there would be laptops everywhere, imacs, nanos, minis, ipods with speakers, ipods with headphones, ipods connected to laptops (displaying various apple software, the only thing i could recognize would be itunes), ipod accessories like socks, arm bands....everything ipod. pero i ignored them all. i knew what i was looking for and my heart was set on buying the simplest, the humblest, and the cheapest, hehe -- ipod shuffle, 512 MB for a dollar less than 100. i just know, this is for me.
sige na nga, i did look at the nano...but i didn't see any reason why i would trade the shuffle for the nano's lcd, photo library, calendar and the oh-so slim casing. i didn't need those. i just wanted to listen to my favorite music. its that simple :) whenever. wherever.
so, i did what i came to do in that store and walked back to my place kaagad. as soon as i got back, i connected the ipod to my laptop and installed itunes. after that, pumili na ako ng mga songs to fill my ipod with. im glad lee placed his mp3 files in our support laptop! for sentimental purposes, im sharing my first ipod playlist to you all. here's a list of the 83 songs i have in my shuffle, which would play for around 5.6 hours:
*unwell by matchbox twenty was the first song the shuffle played. it was a song i had listened to a lot a few months back :)
nice no? if you'd like to listen to a song from this list, just email me and ill send the files to you. id really be glad to do that for you :)
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kwento ko lang. in the Apple store, different kinds of people were coming in. from the balding suit-wearing executives, the moms wearing mom pants buying colorful ipod socks, the geeky ones checking out the imacs or the latest ipod-compatible speakers, the shiny happy young ones who already have ipods in their hands or pockets checking out the latest itunes...it was pretty cool. the only place where i would usually observe a similarly diverse crowd would be in food courts. galing. i really think music could be the universal language :)
ako at ang aking ipod
i took a few minutes off from work today and walked along the Magnificent Mile to visit the Apple store. the store wasn't that huge pero it was spacious and techie-looking enough to be a bit intimidating...there were displays of their latest and greatest on top of large white tables and counters. it felt like a laboratory somehow or an operating room to me. pero on top of the operating tables would be these handsome looking gadgets bearing an apple icon on them. there would be laptops everywhere, imacs, nanos, minis, ipods with speakers, ipods with headphones, ipods connected to laptops (displaying various apple software, the only thing i could recognize would be itunes), ipod accessories like socks, arm bands....everything ipod. pero i ignored them all. i knew what i was looking for and my heart was set on buying the simplest, the humblest, and the cheapest, hehe -- ipod shuffle, 512 MB for a dollar less than 100. i just know, this is for me.
sige na nga, i did look at the nano...but i didn't see any reason why i would trade the shuffle for the nano's lcd, photo library, calendar and the oh-so slim casing. i didn't need those. i just wanted to listen to my favorite music. its that simple :) whenever. wherever.
so, i did what i came to do in that store and walked back to my place kaagad. as soon as i got back, i connected the ipod to my laptop and installed itunes. after that, pumili na ako ng mga songs to fill my ipod with. im glad lee placed his mp3 files in our support laptop! for sentimental purposes, im sharing my first ipod playlist to you all. here's a list of the 83 songs i have in my shuffle, which would play for around 5.6 hours:
*unwell by matchbox twenty was the first song the shuffle played. it was a song i had listened to a lot a few months back :)
nice no? if you'd like to listen to a song from this list, just email me and ill send the files to you. id really be glad to do that for you :)
-ooo-
kwento ko lang. in the Apple store, different kinds of people were coming in. from the balding suit-wearing executives, the moms wearing mom pants buying colorful ipod socks, the geeky ones checking out the imacs or the latest ipod-compatible speakers, the shiny happy young ones who already have ipods in their hands or pockets checking out the latest itunes...it was pretty cool. the only place where i would usually observe a similarly diverse crowd would be in food courts. galing. i really think music could be the universal language :)
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