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Jan 27, 2012, 8:35 pm
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We Filipinos tend to ‘make tiis’ of bad situations. There is not enough food on the table? Magtiis. The bed is hard? Magtiis. The job is low paying? Magtiis. The rented room is too small and doesn’t have a comfort room? Magtiis. Better that, than nothing at all.
In bad times, being ab... Comment - Like
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Sep 27, 2011, 11:34 pm
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In caring for pets, I have allowed a new kind of fear into my system: “What happens when it’s time for the kittens to go? Can I take the pain? Can I even make the decision to euthanize them when the time comes?”
These are the same thoughts that sometimes keep me awake at night, when I am m... Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2011, 8:58 am
... become a better person.
’Project Me’ is a series of long-term (hopefully lifetime) and short-term personal development endeavors that I will go through in the hope of improving myself and creating a better me. ... .
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Background
During the past five years, I have been doing some per... Comment - Like
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Aug 13, 2011, 9:01 pm
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She shrieks at me again
This silence with a hoarse voice.
I close my ears to her ramblings
But she pries open my soul
Her tongue sharp
She cuts me to pieces
Wounding me like she has wounded me
Many times before.
I try to kill her — my tormentor.
But she just laughs, mocking me
Kil... Comment - Like
Sherma B. posted an article on
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Jul 23, 2011, 12:45 pm
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Potential and opportunity are two of my favorite power words. They both lead to coming into being, to advancement and improvement. They both require action. To be truly meaningful, opportunity must be seized; and potential, honed and realized. Like dreams and ideas, their best is not their present... Comment - Like
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Feb 12, 2011, 8:37 pm
What better way to remember the past year, than to review the words that dripped out of my pen? Friends, let me share with you some of my FB shout outs in 2010. Just like in last year’s edition, please let this be my humble way of thanking you for sharing with me your time and friendship. ... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2011, 10:42 am
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There are times we need to call for a timeout. But while life may be a game, its rules are different from those of the ordinary games we know.
We cannot call a timeout and expect life to stop. It goes on, even if we are severely injured, or too exhausted to play.
We pause at our own ris... Comment - Like
Sherma B. posted an article on
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Jan 23, 2011, 10:38 am
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We know things end in order for some other things to begin.
Perhaps things end because some things realize their significance only at their conclusion. Or because there are things whose beauty we can appreciate only when we have viewed them in their entirety; that is, from their beginni... Comment - Like
Sherma B. posted an article on
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Dec 22, 2010, 8:45 am
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Read Part I here.
Another new thing in my looking-back series for 2010 is a collection of my favorite Facebook Statuses for the year. In a way, this isn’t really new because I did this last year as well. I posted about 20 of my fave statuses in one single post.
This time however, I h... Comment - Like
Sherma B. posted an article on
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Dec 20, 2010, 7:10 pm
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It’s that time of the year again when I look back at the past 12 months to take stock of my life. To thank God for the blessings, remember the losses and cherish the gains, and hopefully, to learn from the lessons the last 12 months wish for me to learn. And also, for me to say goodbye to 2010 ... Comment - Like
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Dec 17, 2010, 8:09 pm
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I saw this comment in my ”trash” files. I no longer remember exactly why I drafted this, but I think it was supposed to be my reaction to a post which talked about socio-political poems versus emotional poems. I think, the blog post was saying that poems that focus on the emotion are less go... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2010, 4:52 am
I was cleaning my treasure box (treasure meaning docs, old notebooks, pieces of paper, etc) when I came across an unsent letter to Dad and Mom. It was written thirteen years ago, on November 17, 1997 (the day after Mom’s birthday). I was a college student in Metro Manila. One of my brothers wa... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2010, 11:55 pm
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I’m for using a Philippine language (Tag, Ilocano, Bisaya, Hiligaynon, etc) as a tourism brand. It will be exotic, hence, it will catch the interest of foreign travelers. More importantly, it readily has the Tatak Pinoy. All that needs to be done, in my opinion, is study well which language, an... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2010, 8:14 pm
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When I saw her scavenging for food near a pile of garbage looking helpless and vulnerable on that drizzly night of October 31, I instantly knew I would bring her home.
But still, I hesitated. RESPONSIBILITY was written all over her in bold letters, and though I consider myself a responsible... Comment - Like
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Jul 24, 2010, 7:06 pm
“Ba-ay kubo ka-it munti, ang alaman duun ay sari-sari~”
My two-year-old nephew, Manman, sang to me his version of the Bahay Kubo song (a popular Filipino children’s song) over the phone yesterday!
T’was like being serenaded by an angel! It so balmed my heart, especially when h... Comment - Like
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Jul 23, 2010, 7:41 pm
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Hi friends. For the second time, please allow me to post in this site a piece that was not written by me. It’s inspiring, and I thought you’d love to read it. It’s from Spiritual Short Stories.
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Here we go.
Carrots, Eggs, or Coffee
Spiritual Story by Unknown
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A young woman wen... Comment - Like
Sherma B. posted an article on
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Jun 17, 2010, 2:48 am
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There are times when Time and Change team up to trick us. Instead of its usual slow pace, Change would come to us so drastically and without warning. This it does while Time sneaks up on us. Before we know it, Change has descended all too suddenly and has imposed itself upon us, upsetting the o... Comment - Like
Sherma B. posted an article on
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May 10, 2010, 8:07 pm
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Motherhood naturally develops in a woman a nurturing instinct that continues even after her baby has been born and the umbilical cord that binds mother and child together has been cut. This nurturing instinct is perhaps what enables her to love her child unconditionally.
In real-life as... Comment - Like
Sherma B. posted an article on
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Apr 25, 2010, 10:27 pm
Lodged in the darkened room
I turn to the lone window
And patiently wait for its hinges
To open its shutters
Wide —
Like arms welcoming back
A returning loved one.
Oh! The things I would do
When I’m finally out of this cage —
I would bask in the burst of light
And feel the sun... Comment - Like
Sherma B. posted an article on
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Jan 3, 2010, 11:16 am
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As my way of bidding goodbye to 2009 and welcoming 2010 and its infinite possibilities — with the kind of hope that can never be extinguished by painful circumstances — allow me to post some of my selected Status shoutouts in FaceBook since I became active in April. Let it be my humble way ... Comment - Like
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Dec 19, 2009, 11:19 am
A line in the novel “Whirlwind” by James Clavell reads: “You’re not dead until you’re dead.”
In my life, there have been moments when I had thought things were lost that I was already bracing myself for an imminent failure and planning on how to get back up. And then someone wou... Comment - Like
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Dec 18, 2009, 11:45 am
On September 26, 2009, Metro Manila witnessed something that never happened before: a big portion of the metropolis was submerged in floodwaters, highways have turned into rivers, hundreds of thousands got stranded, and hundreds died. We (my Dad and my nephew who were on vacation) were among those w... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2009, 5:35 am
Suggesting is not the same as criticizing. To suggest is not necessarily to say that one’s way is wrong (or right); it’s to say that there are other ways by which something can be done or dealt with. It’s not the same as saying you walked through the wrong door; it’s saying there are other d... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 12:26 pm
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Many fear failure. But failure is a necessary part of life. Without the risk of failing, we will never learn to be prudent and there will never be a need for careful planning, for foresight. And without failure, we will never know how it is to succeed, because success is only meaningful when plac... Comment - Like
Sherma B. posted an article on
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Oct 31, 2009, 2:12 pm
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Your feet are forever on a race against each other
Trying to outdo the other, thus bringing you farther and farther.
But… where?
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The enormous desert spreads itself before you
Offering you her company, filling you wit... Comment - Like
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