Tadaima!!

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. -- Albert Einstein

Got back from Retreat  at 3pm. I stayed in the office and did some layouting for the first issue. Well, the Retreat was, for most part, enjoyable. Haha. Esp. the "party people". Woooh! Actually they call themselves "beggars". They are boys from our block who came raving into our room last night in search for food. Why "party people"? Well, their way of entry was like that of hardcore party animals. Haha. You shoulve seen them. They were throwing their hands up in the air, dancing, and marching in a straigh line. Haha. Laugh trip! Too late nga lang. They came after we finished our stock of Piattos and Pringles. Actually, I saved my other Pringles for home consumption. I love eating them while chilling, bumming the night away. Also, I had a fun night of girl talk and camwhoring. Could you imagine? Me? Girl talk? Hello?! I was stucked in a room full of kikays, sharing things about fashion and their lovelives. Haha. I was more of the listener than the talker last night. For one, there's nothing much about me to tell [eek.. too girly!] and second, I was reading my Phantom of the Opera, and finally finished it! Yay for me!!! I overpacked again; Like the other Recollection/Retreats I had, I brought more clothes than I should have. My back still hurts. Haha. Joke. Weeeh! I love that Mushroom soup that we had for lunch. Yum. But, Oh.. What a bummer! The "cold war" issue was never brought up. Hehe. Boring. No actual need for opening up the topic. The atmosphere was plain cold and being the "tropical person", I almost died of hypothermia. Haha. Despite the on-going cold war, they, unexpectedly wrote me a letter. I never wrote anybody a letter [sorry, too sleepy. the place is so cozy, I love it.] and I never expected to recieve any or atleast not from them. In the end, no closure was establish and I guess that's it and I don't really care. Not only because I'm being heartless to those vile creatures but also because it's not really my war. My involvement is only a part of a bigger picture and I have more important things to think about. We all have our dark sides, and I just happen to be in good touch with mine. Goodluck na lang sa kanila.

 Ako ang iyong konsensya!

Etchos about the photo: Ayos sa trip! I forgot what we were talking about but it was something about idols and look-alikes then he got this idea from a Safeguard TV ad. Haha. Laugh trip. (*Pau: "Ako ako iyong konsensya pero mas makapal ang buhok ko." Ken: Ah, ok.*) By the way, before we took this picture, I caught him "digging his brain through his nose* Haha.. Laugh trip na naman. XP

 Eclipse

man·da·la n. Any of various ritualistic geometric designs symbolic of the universe, used in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation.

This is my mandala. Something we did during retreat. Wala lang. We were asked to make a symbol that will represent something about the realizations we had. I just thought of the Eclipse. I'm not sure if I made any sense but I said something about the moon, like us, have a dark side. And the mystery of the dark side of the moon is not yet unveiled but with the eclipse we learn to appreciate that dark side. Well, something like that. Haha.

 How would L eat Pringles? Me and Maric at the bus on the way to the Retreat House.

Something wretched happened while I was writing this post last night. I wrote this Friday night but had to stop and Saturday na ngayon. The keyboard and mouse just, so suddenly, stopped. I nearly lost my temper. And it's not a good thing when I lose my temper. I destroyed quite a number of things in our house, particularly my room, because I lost my temper. The heck!? I started hitting my hand on the wretched keyboard and slamming the wretched mouse but it won't work. I did every little thing I know to make the wretched hardwares to work. Thank heaven, after about 10 minutes of trying to overcome the wretchedness of things, I made the wretched keyboard work and found out what's wrong with that wretched mouse. So I solved the wretched problem. Now when I went to my room to charge my phone, the wretched charger won't work. I was like, what the heck on earth is happening? I started throwing the wretched charger against the wall. But the wretched things just won't work. My phone's battery is almost dead. I tried again this after but it still doesn't work. Man, mood killers! I wish I can rid the world of them. SHIMATTA!!!

He did it again. Who's he? He who? Who he? Haha.. I wrote about him and he read it again. This time I'm clueless. My theory is quite wrong. Ahihi.. Well, I don't really care about theories. I like him a lot and and I think it's good if he finds out. Kapalan na lang siguro ng mukha, hehe.. If he reads this again, well, Hi, Kuya! Thanks for reading! .^___^.

I think I missed an event today. The others told me yesterday that there is an event today and asked if I'm going,  they never told me right away, how should I know? Makes me think.. Hmm.. Wala lang. Hehe..

What now? Wala na 'kong maisip.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness -- Kahlil Gibran