You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV 4.5

Some people are slaves to their fate.  To tadhana in Filipino.  We rely on our luck or swerte.  Sometimes I hear people say, “I want to win the lottery so I can buy a house.”  Yes you can.  But if you rely on this strategy then you have a better chance getting hit by lightning, twice, than be able to buy your dream house.  No kidding… Continue Reading »

I’ve been getting addicted with photoshop.  It started during the weekend when I started retouching pics from a recent photoshoot. 

Yesterday I had Steph take a photo of me at the office.  When I got home I decided to create a new background for my Twitter page - With a Valentine’d Day theme

(The pic after the jump.  Check my twitter page)

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… And just like that, I saw this on my mail today

Never be passive. When you’re simply reactive to situations, you allow others and events to set the agenda for your life. 

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My Astrology reading for the month on AstrologyZone says this

At work, Saturn will be in hard angle to Pluto as the month begins, so you may find that someone you report to or who is a client is being very forceful and difficult. This person is not about to give an inch, as evidenced by Saturn’s glare at Pluto in the first days of February, so you’ll have to negotiate as best you can.

I am not sure you can get your way, but if you feel things are outrageously unfair, you need to speak up. Saturn rules your house of career and the authorities you report to, so it seems a new or existing VIP is more likely the one being difficult. You may have noticed pressure from this person in January, or you may find you will notice this attitude more in February. Saturn and Pluto are slow moving, so you can feel this all month.

Aries is not a sign that takes kindly to this kind of forceful treatment, and you might decide to quietly generate other options so you can just leave. See how you feel. You are still under the influence of the important career eclipses of January 15, which was to help you scale new heights, even if you still don’t believe that is possible just yet - you will in time! Look and you’ll uncover a better, more prestigious position soon. You don’t want to stay if you are unhappy.

The difficult person part there holds true (read: making me work into the wee hours of the morning for 3 weeks is no joke, for an underestimated task at that. Ugh.  Hurl-able, I know…), so, I’m kind of listening to this advice.  Continue Reading »

I finally finished the Balefire Series by Cate Tiernan, after a few years of having all four books in my collection.

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This was on my GodWhispers today  

If you say “No” to unpleasant experiences, you’ll also be saying “No” to the greatest experiences. So don’t say “No” to all unpleasant experiences. Some of them lead you to your dreams.

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Saw this somewhere on the net.  Just thought I’d spread the word :-) 

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

• Throw out non-essential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.
• Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
• Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 
• Enjoy the simple things. 
• Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
• The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. 
• Surround yourself with what you love , whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. 
• Cherish your health.  If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. 
• Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, or to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
• Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. 

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There are times in your life that you feel that people are gaining ground from you, by stepping on you.  There are times that you just can’t help but feel that other people have deprived something from you.  We are all humans, thereby we have that excuse to rant when we feel that we have been wronged.  I guess that’s the way our psyche has been trained by society itself - the rat race.

But I say to everyone, this is not the best way to abundance.  The best way to our own betterment is to acknowledge how much we have in our life rather that how much we don’t have.  In my recent realizations, I found that the best way to acknowledge abundance is to not only think of how much we have, but also to think of how much more we can give to others.  You see, if we just say that we wait for the surplus in our possessions for us to start giving, then that’s what our lives become - the waiting.  If we give now, even with what little we have, then our lives will start to become what we do - to be an overflowing vessel of God’s graces.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. Deep down inside you think you are small and that you have nothing to give. And if you don’t give, you don’t receive. - Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

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Now this looks good enough to buy hehe

Hot off Steve Job’s keynote - The iPad

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So I wore my foodie hat today and brought my nephew Jude to one of my fave restaurants, Red Kimono.

Studying in a Japanese university, I think he really appreciated the experience.

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I making this bold move (for me) and challenging myself to my very own project 365.

(Yes, I collected all of McDonald’s Coke glasses hehe)

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Wow!  This is still giving me goosebumps

I subscribe to Bo Sanchez’s God Whispers.  This evening I opened my home computer and read this

January 26, 2010

Dear Angelo,

Adventure. Is that what your life is about now? That’s my desire for you.
To climb hills. To run in the rain. To serve others. To laugh with friends…

Stretch, Angelo. When you feel too comfortable, check your
dreams. It may be time for another adventure.

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My blog entries are SO getting more gloomy by the day, I tell you.  I seriously need more varied content!!!  Heck I need to travel and go outside more, for starters.  The plan I wrote on the Delta Effect entry has to fly ASAP, hahaaaays…  I’m sure it will sometime soon.  It always does.

Anyway, commercial muna…

Saw this on Yugatech and I think I found just the notebook that I want hehe

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Less words, more action…

That is what I repeatedly say every morning, as soon as I drag my weak body into my meditative stance.  This new mantra I made for myself was a product of Friday’s trials and tribulations, so to speak.  Yes, while still nursing a body that’s fresh out of being sick (or in the midst of being sick), I also had to deal with some BS in the workplace…  After losing my voice, literally, it hit me that I would be better off acting to solve these issues rather than talk about them (in any case, I couldn’t talk anymore).

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we are limited by our own past.  Hardships and traumatic experiences cause a weaker or a jaded version of ourselves in the present that we in turn fail to move on.  We fail to succeed in the present because of the ghosts of our past.

On the other hand, sometimes what hinders our success is the seemingly insurmountable path that is laid before us.  We feel discouraged just looking at the mountain we have to climb.

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