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Ten Things To Do Before You Die
June 28, 2006
Ten Things To Do Before You Die
By Tristan Jourdan C. dela Cruz
"Thank you and goodnight, Melissa."
As Melissa gave Carlo a friendly kiss on the cheek, she found her lips locked with Carlo's.
"No, thank you Carlo."
Carlo watched as Melissa walked away. Soon, it will be all over. He brought out his list from his pocket. For the last time, he looked at the peace of paper in his hand.
There was only one thing left to do.
"Melissa," Carlo shouted.
Melissa turned around and looked back at Carlo.
"I will never forget you!"
In the dark, quiet evening, everything became bright for Carlo and everything became loud for Melissa.
Carlo saw a bright light.
And Melissa heard a sound of a gunshot.
* * * * *
At around ten in the morning, Carlo woke up from the noise of his alarm clock. After another drinking session with his friends last night, he finds himself in the solitude of his desolated room. Soiled clothes were lying as well as books and magazines were displaced everywhere. His room was pretty messed-up.
Just like his life: pretty messed-up.
This has been his life since Melissa told him the news. When they broke-up a year ago, Carlo didn't felt a thing, not even the slightest remorse. Not until Melissa told him the news.
She was getting married to her fiancee.
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..10%??!!…90?!!!..
Hope we all get this… 
Cheating happens when you start looking for what you dont have.
Somewhere along the way, you will meet someone who will be more charming or sensitive than the one youre already with. more sexy. more thoughtful. wealthier. better in bed. and you will meet someone who will need you and pursue you and go loco over you more than your boyfriend/girlfriend ever did. because no boyfriend/girlfriend is perfect. because your boyfriend/girlfriend will only have 90 percent of what youre looking for. So, cheating happens when you look for the missing 10 percent.
Lets say your girlfriend is melancholic by nature. You may find yourself drawn to the pretty girl next-door who has a cheerleader laugh no matter what she says: I broke my arm yesterday, ha ha ha… Or because your girlfriend is a couch potato who is always in pajamas and smelling of garlic and cooking oil, you may fall for the CK-One-smelling colleague who comes to work in a sharp pinstripe blazer, high heels, and a red pencil-cut skirt. Or because your boyfriend is the type who never shuts up even when youve tried using duct tape, your heart may skip a beat when you sit next to a brooding, mysterious Latino on the bus.
but wait! Thats only 10 percent of what you dont have. Dont throw away the 90 percent that you already do! add to the 90 percent the 100 percent that represents all the years that you have been with each other. The storms you have weathered together. The many adjustments you have made to better understand each others little quirks and idiosyncracies. The wealth of memories that you have accumulated as lovers. The old sparks that can always be rekindled by the walk on the beach, barefoot and underneath the stars…
Cheating happens when you start looking for what you dont have. but faithfulness happens when you start thanking God for what you already do.
a touchy story…
by JM Whitaker
Perfect Person
For as long as I can remember, I have been searching for the perfect girl. Since I was old enough to begin longing for female companionship, I have been on the hunt. I guess it started out as just a simple dream or fantasy, not unlike most of us. The strange thing about it was that it never stayed just a dream or a fantasy. The more people I dated, the more times I was let down, the more I hungered for that perfect person, the one that would fill all of my needs and desires, the one that would never let me down.
I dated girl after girl. Some of them were great while others got me into some trouble. Some of them made me laugh, but a lot of them made me cry. Through my journey, I found a lot of joy and a lot of sorrow, a lot of happiness and a lot of pain, but never the perfect girl. I had dreamed about her. Dark hair, darker eyes, a slim figure tinted golden brown from the sun. She had an accent and could play the cello. She would love to talk, but wouldn't expect me to talk too much. She would always ask me how my day was and would always have a smile on her face; absolute perfection. I began to devise methods in how I would meet the girls I would date.
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HARDEST THING IN LOVE
HARDEST THING IN LOVE
1. Having the right love at the wrong time. 2. Bringing back the feeling you’ve learned to
forget. 3. Showing that u care. 4. Finding a way to mend a broken heart. 5. Learning that you’ve been used by someone u
truly love.6. Saying “I love you” when you mean it and when you don’t. 7. Letting go of a person you’ve just learned to
love.8. Realizing that u love somebody you’ve just taken for granted.9. Realizing that u love the person you’ve just broken up with.
10. Waiting for promises you know she or he’ll never keep.11. Saving your love for someone who loves somebody else.
12. Reminiscing the good times u shared together.13. Shielding your heart from loving somebody.14. Trying to hide what u really feel. 15. Having a commitment w/ someone that u know would not last. 16. Trying to hide the tears that involuntarily fall from your eyes.
17. Sharing the one you love w/ someone else.18. Loving a person too much. 19. Giving up someone u never thought of giving up.
20. Falling in love for the first time 21. Loving someone you haven’t seen.22. Flashing your smile to someone u don’t want to see.
23. Exerting effort to make the relationship last or work. 24. Not being appreciated when u know you’ve given your best.
25. Taking the risk to fall in love again. 26. Hiding your relationship from someone else.
27. Controlling your feelings to avoid hurting a friend. 28. Choosing between 2 persons whom u really love.
29. Finding out that u can never have the person u just let go of back.30. Seeing the person u love with someone else.
31. Learning that the person who claimed to have loved you so much never really cared.
32. Seeing the one you love fall for someone else.33. Falling for your best friend and knowing that things can never be the same again.
34. Learning to trust after you have been burned. 35. Accepting that it was not meant to be.36. Smiling when all you want to do is cry.
37. Falling and knowing that it can never be.38. Not being able to love the person who truly cares for you.
39. Saying that you can never love a person the way he/she loves you.40. Hearing that he/she can never love you the way that you love him/her.
41. Saying that you are over someone you still love.42. Being friends again and learning to let go of each other coz you both know it is better that way.
43. Convincing oneself that you are not in love when you know that you are.
44. Having to let go because you know that he/she deserves someone else.45. Trying not to remember how perfect everything used to be.
sa UP poh!
May 11, 2005> Biyaheng Peyups :Yan ba ang natutunan mo sa UP?
>
> Lagi na lang, pag napapagalitan ako ng mga magulang ko
> sumagot-sagot pa ako,
> babarahin na lang ako basta ng “Yan ba ang natutunan
> mo sa UP?” Opo. Sa UP po
> ako natutong magtanggol sa sarili, kelangan e.
> Kinakain po kasi ng buhay sa UP
> ang hindi marunong dumiskarte. Sa tagal naman siguro
> ng inilagi ko sa UP, tama
> lang na matuto ako ng tamang pagrarason pag wala na sa
> tama ang sinusumbat sa
> akin.
> Dapat daw, sa Catholic school ako nag-aral. Dun daw,
> tinuturuan ng magandang
> asal ang mga estudyante, may religion subjects pa.
> Pinagsisihan ata ng mga
> magulang kong sa UP ako pumasok. Paano kasi, katorse
> anyos pa lang ako, tumigil
> na akong magsimba. Dapat daw, hindi ako nag-UP High at
> dun sa seminaryo ako nag-
> high school at sa Ateneo naman nag-college. Bilib na
> bilib kasi ang parents ko
> dun sa kaibigan kong nag-Ateneo. Napaka-gentleman daw
> at napaka-refined ng
> kilos. Supot naman.Pagdating sa corporate world,parang
> sintu-sinto na sunod na
> lang ng sunod sa bawat utos ng management, kahit
> inaabuso na at tinatanggalan
> ng karapatan.Hindi marunong kumwestiyon. “Pasensya na
> po, kung tunay po
> talagang maitim ang budhi ko, di po magiging puti yan
> pag sa seminaryo ako
> pinag-aral. Hindi naman kasi puti ang budhi ng mga tao
> dun, pink po.” Nakakaawa
> na lang minsan pakinggan ang
> pagsisisi ng mga magulang ko sa UP,pakiramdam kasi
> nila, sa UP ako natuto ng
> mga kalokohan. Mula daw nang mag-UP ako, di na ako
> tumanggap ng honors.
> Nakontento na raw akong pumasa lang. “Ang korni naman
> po kasi ng honor
> students, parang lahat na lang ng
> extra-curricular activities pinapasukan para
> magka-honor. Alangan naman pong
> ipag-pilitan ko ang sarili kong sumali sa choir at sa
> school paper, na puro
> pambobola at istiran lang ang laman, para lang
> makapasok sa honor roll”
> Alaws problem naman sa akin pag wala akong honors.
> Hindi lang naman yon ang
> sukatan ng galing ng isang tao. Yan daw ang isang
> kalokohang natutuhan ko sa
> UP, ang atupagin ang mga walang kwentang bagay sa
> halip na mag-aral at mag-
> participate sa campus activities, tapos, dadahilang
> “Don’t let academics
> interfere with your education.”
> “Hindi biro ang humabol ng cum laude sa UP, at kahit
> saang school naman siguro
> ako napunta, ganun pa rin, matutuwa na akong pumasa.
> Para sa isang average
> student lang na kagaya ko, masaya na akong maging
> small fish in a big pond kesa
> naman maging big fish ako in a small pond.”
> Isa pang kalokohan yang isda-isda na pinagsasabi ko.
> Pero okay lang, at least,
> maganda naman ang analogy. Hindi man ako umani ng
> honors sa UP, natuto naman
> akong dumiskarte kapag inaalanganin. Kung lumaki
> siguro akong nag-aaral sa
> Catholic school, nagka-ulcer na ako sa kakalulon ng
> konsensiya.
> Pero disclaimer po muna bago pa man kayo umangal.
> Hindi po pandaraya o
> pagnanakaw ang ibig kong sabihin ng diskarte. Hindi po
> ako tinuruang magnakaw
> sa UP. Sa UP ako natuto ng mga diskarteng not
> tantamount to pagnanakaw (pati
> itong conyo phrase, sa AS Lobby ko napulot). Iba kasi
> pag medyo iba ang
> orientation ng kausap mo. Mahirap kayong
> magkaintindihan. Radikal daw kasi ang
> mga taga-UP, pati pagnanakaw, pwedeng paniwalaang
> hindi masama. Kaya nga daw
> maraming kurakot na opisyales ng gobyerno na taga-UP,
> kasi, pati daw kasi
> konsepto ng moralidad, kinuwestiyon na rin. Kaya
> minsan, pag nanunood kami ng
> balita at may umeksena na namang taga-UP,
> nagbibingi-bingihan na lang ako pag
> may humirit na “Ano na namang kalokohan
> ng mga taga-UP ito?”
> Para kasi sa ibang taong ang pinagkukunan ng balita ay
> ang mga tabloids at AM
> radio, walang kasing sama ang mga kagaya nina Misuari
> at Joma Sison. E, kung
> ipapaliwanag ko naman, sa abot ng aking makakaya, ang
> hinaing ng mga “sikat” na
> taga-UP, sasagutin lang ako ng “Yan ba ang tinuro sa
> inyo sa UP?” Huwag na
> lang. Baka mapalo pa ng bote ng cuatro cantos ang ulo
> ko dahil sa mga lintek na
> mga peace negotiations na yan.
> Kaya minsan, pag may napabalitang nangungurakot na
> government official na UP
> alumnus, tahimik na lang ako, baka di pa ako iboto ng
> mga kababayan ko pag
> tumakbo akong mayor sa amin. Huwag naman sanang
> masamain, magnanakaw kasi ang
> pagkakakilala ng nakararami kay Marcos, at di lingid
> sa lahat na taga-UP siya.
> Sinundan pa kasi ng mga kabaliwan ni Miriam (at
> nangangalandakan pa niyang taga-
> UP sya) at mga diskarteng bulok nina Fortun at
> Mendoza.
> Feeling tuloy ng mga tao, tinuturuan ang mga taga-UP
> kung paano gamitin ang
> abilidad sa kalokohan.
> Marami daw kasing kalokohan sa UP. Andun na ang
> tumatakbong nakahubad, ang mga
> nagpapaluan ng tubo, mga taong hindi naniniwala sa
> diyos, mga estudyanteng wala
> nang nakitang maganda sa pamahalaan, mga taong
> namundok, may mga buntis na ayaw
> magpakasal, may mga anak-mayaman na tumalikod sa
> karangyaan, mga nag-aaral ng
> mga kursong hindi mapagkikitaan, mga taong
> nagdyu-dyugdyugan sa damuhan, mga
> taong mukhang di naliligo, etc. Sa UP ba natin
> natutunan yan?
> “Hindi po. Binuksan lang ng UP ang mga isip namin,
> kaya malaya po kaming
> tumanggap ng iba’t-ibang ideya at paniniwala. Nasa tao
> na po ‘yon kung anong
> paniniwala ang gusto nilang yakapin.” Pero mahirap pa
> rin ipaliwanag, may mga
> nanghihinayang pa dahil sinayang daw kasi ang
> talentong handog ng langit. Yan
> daw ang natututunan sa UP - ang paniwalaang tama ang
> mali, ang suwayin ang mga
> magulang, ang hindi makontento sa buhay, ang gumawa ng
> kalokohan. Palibhasa, wala raw kasing religion sa UP,
> kaya maraming naliligaw
> ng landas.
> “Di bale po, balang araw, pag sikat na ang mga
> taga-STI, malalaman niyo rin po
> kung sa UP nga namin natutunan ang mga kalokohan.”
> Mamimilosopo na lang ako,
> total, pinipilosopo na rin naman ako ng pabaluktot e.
> Fuera saksak. Kaya lagi
> kong isinasaisip na magpalit ng anyo pag ibang tao ang
> kausap ko.
> Baka kasi abnormal ang tingin nila sa akin at
> sisisihin na naman ang UP.
> Masasaktan lang ako (at baka masaksak pa), mahal ko
> kasi ang UP.
> –
> The Secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of
> the world, and never to
> forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
>
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