Sweet Escape Joys

What's so special about this song is that it remind me of how life is so short and each tick of the clock should be live as if it were your last. It's so sad to hear people saying, "if I only had enough time..." when already so close to end. Also, to those left by, not been able to say or do anything cause of waiting for that 'perfect time'. But when is that 'right time'?  Yup, the song is right, we remember to appreciate people's worth when they're on their death bed or already a goner. So put on your best... while you have chance.



IF I DIE YOUNG
The Band Perry

If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a, bed of roses
Sink me in the river, at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song

Uh oh, uh oh

Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother
She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors, oh well
Life ain't always what you think it ought to be, no
Ain't even grey, but she buries her baby

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had just enough time

If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had just enough time

And I'll be wearing white, when I come into your kingdom
I'm as green as the ring on my little cold finger,
I've never known the lovin' of a man
But it sure felt nice when he was holdin' my hand,
There's a boy here in town, says he'll love me forever,
Who would have thought forever could be severed by

The sharp knife of a short life, well,
I've had just enough time

So put on your best boys and I'll wear my pearls
What I never did is done

A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell 'em for a dollar
They're worth so much more after I'm a goner
And maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'
Funny when you're dead how people start listenin'

If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song

Uh oh (uh, oh)
The ballad of a dove (oh, uh)
Go with peace and love
Gather up your tears, keep 'em in your pocket
Save 'em for a time when you're really gonna need 'em, oh

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had just enough time

So put on your best boys and I'll wear my pearls




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Currently, I'm watching this long-time ago korean drama. Yah, though I maybe too late to see this, I just can't miss this one knowing that the ever gorgeous Lee Min Ho is in it aside from Kim Bum and Kim Hyun Joong. hehehehe

This is how the story goes. ShinHwa School is a school for rich people, where Goo Jun Pyo, the heir of the global corporation ShinHwa Group, Yoon Ji Hoo, Soh Yi Jung, and Song Woo Bin attend school. They form a gang called F4. Goo Jun Pyo, the leader of F4, is the main ruffian.

Geum Jan Di, who is not from a rich family, ends up attending ShinHwa School when she saves a boy from jumping off the rooftop and is given a scholarship to quiet down the publicity the incident caused. The entire school worships the F4 except for Geum Jan Di. However, she likes Yoon Ji Hoo, who appears to be different from the other three. Geum Jan Di finally speaks up against F4 to defend her friend. From then on, she becomes Goo Jun Pyo's main rival. Almost every time Geum Jan Di is bullied, Yoon Ji Hoo helps her in some way. Geum Jan Di and Goo Jun Pyo's rivalry intensifies, but at the same time it is a source of amusement for him as Geum Jan Di has now caught his attention.

The story develops and Goo Jun Pyo slowly starts falling for Geum Jan Di. On the other hand, Geum Jan Di's attention is on Yoon Ji Hoo, her savior, but ultimately, as the story progresses, her heart is with Goo Jun Pyo. The couple faces many obstacles as they continue to struggle for their love.



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 D.N.Angel follows the adventures of Daisuke Niwa, an average teenage boy. At the story's opening, Daisuke declares love for his crush, a girl named Risa Harada, on his fourteenth birthday. She rejects him, and later that day, the heart-broken Daisuke undergoes a strange mutation that changes him into another person. He is told calmly by his mother Emiko that, because of a strange genetic condition, all the males in Daisuke's family gain the countenance of Dark Mousy, a famous phantom thief. The transformation occurs every time Daisuke has romantic feelings for his crush or whenever he thinks too long about her. Dark changes back into Daisuke the same way. Daisuke is forced to keep his family's secret and control his alter ego, Dark (who Risa, Daisuke's crush, has fallen for), while dashing his way out of being caught by the commander of the police. Daisuke learns that in order to return to normality, he must have his unrequited love returned.
The aforementioned commander of the police is a classmate of Daisuke's named Satoshi Hiwatari. Hiwatari suffers from his own version of the phantom-thief curse, and a bond forms between Hiwatari and Daisuke because of their similar afflictions. Hiwatari carries the alter-ego named Krad. However, though Dark and Krad hate one another, Hiwatari and Daisuke maintain a strained but genuine friendship, despite Dark's constant moaning. Dark steals certain artistic objects of value, works made by Satoshi's ancestors, because they contain dangerous magical properties. Some of them, such as "The Second Hand of Time" and "Argentine" also have personalities of their own. Some of the objects that he steals are quite dangerous. Dark's method of stealing is based on garnering attention; before stealing, Emiko will send out a warning of what will be stolen. -- wikipedia.org

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When the Heffley family attends a pool party at the local pool to start off the summer, Greg (Zachary Gordon) is found playing Twisted Wizard 2 on his PSP. The family meets a former trouble-making friend of Rodrick who is now a model student after attending a military school known as Spag Union. Greg's father, Frank (Steve Zahn) wants him to do something outdoors by swimming. Manny (Connor & Owen Fielding) calls Greg over to the baby pool. He laughs and says he is peeing. After Greg watches other toddlers urinating in the pool, to his horror, the show begins with Greg speaking to the audience about summer and that he and Frank have nothing in common. But at least if he stays a step ahead, Greg claims that he has a shot at a great summer. 

On the last day of school, Greg attempts to get his crush Holly Hills to put her phone number in his yearbook in addition to signing it. However, she is forced to leave before she can write the last two numbers. Meanwhile, Rodrick, who is advertising his band at Greg's school, falls in love with Holly's sister, Heather Hills.

Sometime later, Greg's best friend, Rowley Jefferson, takes Greg to the local country club, which Greg takes a liking to instantly due to the seemingly free food, the sparsely populated pool, and the fact that Holly teaches tennis there. While at the club, he arranges a tennis match the next day despite the fact that he and Rowley have never played tennis. When Greg returns home, he finds his father has offered to sign him up for an internship at his job, but Greg makes up a hasty lie about having a job at the country club to get out of it and to go to the country club every day. The next day at the tennis match, it becomes painfully obvious that Greg and Rowley have never played tennis, and Holly teaches Greg personally.

At a party at Warren's, Greg's dad decides to get a dog for the family and to sign Greg up in the Wilderness Explorers, (a parody of the Boy Scouts of America) to teach him responsibility after hearing it worked with Warren's sons. At the same party, Rodrick finds out that Greg does not have a job, and blackmails Greg into sneaking him in to the country club to see Heather, though his attempt to talk to her ends horribly. The next day Susan starts the "Reading is Fun" club for the local boys and later that day Frank gets the dog, which his youngest son Manny names "Sweetie" and who proves to be a handful after walking the dog through the town.

Rowley invites Greg on a family trip to their beach house near the Boardwalk. When they visit the amusement park, Greg convinces Rowley to go on the Cranium Shaker despite Rowley's conservative parents telling them to not go on scary rides. Rowley's parents find out, and Rowley feels guilty when they too him that they are disappointed in him. Greg attempts to email his mother asking her to help him leave, but accidentally emails everyone on Rowley's dad's contact list. Panicking, Greg tries to escape by calling his parents, but accidentally contacts the police, which leads to Rowley's father being violently attacked, and an arrangement for Greg's father to take his son home shortly afterward.

Later, when Greg asks Rowley to take him again into the Country Club, Rowley lies and states he's not going there, but Greg sneaks in, pretending to be a member of the Jefferson family. After falling from the high dive naked, he runs into Holly and her sister and manages to get Lƶded Diper a gig at Heather's 16th birthday party. He meets Rowley, who tells him he had lied to protect Greg's feelings because his parents didn't want to invite Greg. He and Greg make up, however Rowley's father becomes infuriated that Greg has built up a massive smoothie bill and tells Frank, who then finds out Greg does not have a job and is forced to pay himself. Much to Greg's horror, he intercepts a promotional package from Spag Union directed to his father, and Greg fears that he is going to be sent there by bus.

Rodrick says his last chance is the "Wilderness Weekend" where he can attempt to impress his Dad while out on a camping trip. However, their troop proves to be weak compared to Troop 42, led by Warren, who pitch their tents where Greg's troop was about to stay, forcing them to put their tents next to the bathroom. Greg and his friends overhear Stan and his sons mocking Greg's father and plan to set up a trap for revenge involving a nest of ants. However, Warren's expensive tent gets destroyed, and Greg discovers that Troop 42 has not been camping but living off of excessive conveniences. When Greg steps up and takes the blame, Frank is impressed and finds out about Troop 42's conveniences, angrily confronting Warren as a phony. Frank later takes Greg to a hotel and reveals he never liked camping. He tells Greg that he will not send him to Spag Union and that he is proud of him.

At Heather Hills' Sweet 16th birthday party, Lƶded Diper performs a rock version of Justin Bieber's "Baby" during an attempt to win over Heather. However, they end up ruining the party. Greg apologizes to Holly, however she states she is happy as she felt that her sister deserved it. Then, Holly holds Greg's hand, implying that she likes him. The next day, They all go swimming at the county club pool to end the summer, with Greg calling it the "best summer ever." -- wikipedia.org

MY SAY: If your finding one cute story about friendship and the 'kalokohans' of being bata, you should try the Diary of Wimpy Kid series. This one is actually the third and I've already seen the first two-Diary of Wimpy Kid and Rodrick Rules. The series reminds me of some childhood experiences like joining a club because your crush was also a member, going to new school and trying to gain friends and sorts like that. It's funny and the story can be easily digest by children like me. (walang kokontra! hehehe). Plus, Rowley is soooo cute that I wish I have a brother like him! Dog Days is a feel-good movie for the whole family. =)
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Pi Patel is named "Piscine Molitor" by his parents after a swimming pool in France. He changes his name to "Pi" when he begins secondary school, because he is tired of being taunted with the nickname "Pissing Patel." He is raised a Hindu, but at 14 years old, he is introduced to Christianity and Islam, and starts to follow all three religions. Eventually, his family decides to sell their animals and move to Canada due to political concerns in India. Pi's family embark on a Japanese freighter to Canada carrying some of the animals from their zoo. A few days later, the ship meets a heavy storm and Pi believes to hear an explosion; Pi is accidentally the only one who makes it onto a lifeboat—the freighter together with crew and Pi's family sinks. After the storm, Pi finds himself in a small lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, a spotted hyena, an injured zebra, and a mother orangutan who lost her child in the shipwreck.
As Pi strives to survive among the animals, the hyena is the first to succumb to hunger, and begins to eat the injured zebra alive, eventually killing it. To Pi's distress the hyena also kills the orangutan after it had a fight with the Hyena. After killing the orangutan the Bengal tiger, who is named Richard Parker, kills and eats the hyena. Pi is left as the only other survivor. Pi finds food and water supplies on the boat, and builds a raft for himself to stay at a safe distance to the tiger. As the tiger becomes more and more hungry, Pi begins fishing for fish like dorados and flying fish to ensure the tiger has enough to eat. After many days at sea Pi realizes that he can no longer live on the tiny raft and that he must train Richard Parker if he were to live on the lifeboat.
After an indeterminate time at sea, the pair encounters a mysterious island, seemingly constructed of edible algae supporting a forest and a large population of meerkats. Following a period of recuperation, Pi finds a human tooth inside the fruit of a tree and becomes afraid of the island after discovering that the algae is carnivorous, he doesn't allow himself to leave without Richard Parker. The lifeboat eventually reaches the coast of Mexico and Richard Parker escapes into the nearby jungle without looking back at Pi, which hurts his perception of their friendship.
While telling his story to a reporter, the adult Pi (now father and husband in his 50s) mentions that the Japanese freighter company wanted to hear his eyewitness account about the sinking of the freighter. They do not believe his story, so he tells them a different one in great detail—with humans on the lifeboat instead of animals. This story tells him being adrift on a lifeboat with his mother, a sailor with a broken leg, and the ship's cook, who killed the sailor and Pi's mother and cut them up to use as bait and food. Parallels to Pi's first story lead the reporter to believe that the orangutan represents his mother, the zebra represents the sailor, the hyena represents the cook, and Richard Parker is Pi himself. Upon asking the reporter which story he likes better, the reporter tells him that the one with the animals is the better one, which is the story the freighter company took as the truth. -- wikipedia.org
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Each of us has his/her own share of successes and failures and more often, those shortcomings are the ones that we hardly forget. Then comes our constant questioning, "What's the meaning of this life?". To have suffered and feel these pains, to have lost and wandered like no one's around, to be not able to have a grasp of what you ever longed for... What's the meaning of this life?

God created everything for a reason... a purpose. It is not something written in dictionaries, or books of definitions but something for us to find out and realize. It is something innate, waiting to be discovered just need to have patience. A nail is nothing but  piece of steel but how will  a hammer do its purpose without that something to pound on? How much we look at it as worthless on its own, still, it has this one specific purpose and that is to be able to fulfill others purpose - to be the hammer's companion to secure a lot of things. The nail is just like us. We just need to believed that we are born for reason. We are created uniquely not to overpower others but to compliment each others shortcomings. 

Just know thyself . Believe in what you can do. God is good.



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TAHO, or soybean curd pudding for the 'sosyal' ones, is one of the best Filipino treats you can find around the metro. Very affordable and delicious. 

Taho comprises of three main ingredients: fresh soft or silken tofu, arnibal (brown sugar and vanilla syrup) and sago (tapioca pearls). Usually, this comfort food is prepared before dawn. Magtataho (taho peddlers) carries two aluminum buckets (the large one holds the curd and the other, the arnibal and sago) that hang in each end of the wooden yoke and call out "TahoooooĆ“!"  to attract customers.  Though plastic cups comes in handy, people would then carry out their own cups or mugs for Manong Magtataho to fill-in, (hehehe, mas marami kapag may sariling baso at suki ka na!). 

Now, taho comes in different flavors - strawberry, ube, chocolate and buko pandan but I still prefer the ever  tasty classic ones. 

I really enjoyed eating taho every morning before going to work. Love it!


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Well, this is the first fun run I've ever joined with my friends and I guess my run is not that bad as a beginner. We took the 5K race and finished the route for 30-40 minutes (hehehe, including those momentary stops for picture-taking and water breaks). The race started at 6 am, 10 km runners first then followed by 5k and 3k runners respectively. My friends and I were late for the 5k start because of the long line for depositing our baggage, which we aborted in the end to catch up with the race. Though it's  little hard for me since it's my first, I enjoyed the race - it's really fun running in the Philippines, most especially with friends. hehehe




This fun run is a project of Polytechnic University of the Philippines Alumni Association.
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The Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani. I so so love this song. It all started with this song - my cravings for anything that can make everyday a little, if not much, extraordinary and worthwhile. Who doesn't want to have his/her own perfect world? Escape from all that bothers us, recreate a world where we can do whatever we want, enjoy each moment and just be perfectly together with the people we treasured the most. Now, wouldn't that be sweet? hehehe ;)



THE SWEET ESCAPEGwen Stefani


If I could escape I would but, first of all, let me sayI must apologize for acting stank and treating you this way‘Cause I’ve been acting like sour milk all on the floorIt’s your fault you didn’t shut the refrigerator
Maybe that’s the reason I’ve been acting so cold?
If I could escape and recreate a place that’s my own worldAnd I could be your favorite girl forever, perfectly togetherTell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet?(The sweet escape)

If I could be sweet(Sorry boy)I know I’ve been a real bad girl(I’ll try to change)I didn’t mean for you to get hurt whatsoeverWe can make it betterTell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet?(Sweet escape, sweet escape)

I want to get away to our sweet escapeI want to get away, yeah

You held me down, I’m at my lowest boiling pointCome help me out, I need to get me out of this jointCome on let’s bounce, counting on you to turn me aroundInstead of clowning around, let’s look for some common ground

So baby, times get a little crazyI’ve been getting a little lazy waiting on you to come save meI can see that your angry by the way that you treat meHopefully you don’t leave me, wanna take you with me

If I could escape and recreate a place that’s my own worldAnd I could be your favorite girl forever, perfectly togetherAnd tell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet?(The sweet escape)

If I could be sweet(Sorry boy)I know I’ve been a real bad girl(I’ll try to change)I didn’t mean for you to get hurt whatsoeverWe can make it betterAnd tell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet?(Sweet escape, sweet escape)

If I could escape, if I could escape
‘Cause I’ve been acting like sour milk all on the floorIt’s your fault you didn’t shut the refrigeratorMaybe that’s the reason I’ve been acting so cold?
If I could escape and recreate a place that’s my own worldAnd I could be your favorite girl forever, perfectly togetherAnd tell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet?(The sweet escape)

If I could be sweet(Sorry boy)I know I’ve been a real bad girl(I’ll try to change)I didn’t mean for you to get hurt whatsoeverWe can make it betterAnd tell me boy now wouldn’t that be sweet?(Sweet escape, sweet escape)

I want to get away to our sweet escapeI want to get away, yeah



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