The best expression of love is TIME. Because I believe that the more time you give to someone, the more you reveals his importance and value to you. Do you agree with that? Time for me is the most precious gift because we only have set amount of it. When I give time to you, it means that I am giving a portion of myself that will never get back. Yes, relationships are important but we must prove it by investing time in them. WORDS ALONE ARE WORTHLESS. Relationship takes time and effort and for me the best way to spell love is "T-I-M-E". Like I don't need anything from you. Your time is what I need. Whenever I give my time to someone, I am making a sacrifice and I would say that, that sacrifice is the essence of love. Hence, everyday is the best way to express love to someone. Why? Because you don't know how long will you have that opportunity. Circumstances change. People grow, eventually will die. You have no guarantee of tomorrow.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
TRUE HEROISM OF NO PROPORTION
"Benigno Aquino (1933-1983) of the Philippines was a leading opponent of the rule of President Ferdinand Marcos. His opposition ended in August 1983 when, after living in exile in the United States for three years, he returned to Manila and was gunned down at the airport. His death precipitated massive demonstrations against President Marcos."
Benigno S. Aquino, Jr.,was born on November 27, 1932, in Tarlac Province, on the island of Luzon, to a prominet family. Ninoy was destined to become a political leader. He traced his lineage from people who have worked with some of the country's well-known leaders. Gen. Servillano Aquino (Camp Aquino in Tarlac was named after him), his grandfather, became a general of the Philippines' first president, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. Benigno Aquino, Sr., his father, served under President Manuel L. Quezon and became a Speaker of the House during Jose P. Laurel's presidency.
In 1949, Ninoy became a presidential adviser on defense to then President Ramon Magsaysay. Under this capacity, he successfully negotiated the surrender of Hukbalahap (a communist insurgency group) leader Luis Taruc. His ambition and energy stood out early when, at age seventeen, he was sent by the Manila Timesnewspaper to report on the Korean War (1950–53). The war was between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), and was a war in which the United States and China eventually joined.
In 1955, Ninoy became mayor of his hometown (Concepcion, Tarlac) at the age of 22 - setting a record as the youngest mayor. During that same year he also married the late President Corazon Aquino, with whom he eventually raised five children. His mayoralty post paved the way for his later successes in politics: in 1959 he became the youngest vice-governor of the Province of Tarlac, and then in 1961 he became the governor. Yet again in 1967, he set a record by becoming the youngest senator at the age of 34, when he ran under the banner of the Liberal Party.
Ninoy was known as the "Wonder Boy of Philippine Politics." While in the Senate, he exhibited his fiery eloquence and became President Ferdinand Marcos's most vocal critic by exposing the excesses of the administration. Ninoy's accomplishments in the Senate and his most famous exposes, such as the 1968 Jabidah Massacre (the killing of about 60 Filipino-Muslims who were being trained for an operation authorized by Marcos to claim the island of Sabah from Malaysia), the 50-million peso construction of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) - which Ninoy called a "monument to shame" and the "most scandalous misspending of national funds" - and the plan to impose martial law known as "Oplan Sagittarius," quickly put him on the national spotlight.
Martial Law in the Philippines
On September 21, 1972, Marcos declared martial law. Ninoy and other opposition leaders, like human rights lawyer Jose W. Diokno, were be put to jail. Marcos implicated Ninoy as the mastermind of the Plaza Miranda bombing a year before - where a bomb exploded during a campaign rally of the opposition Liberal Party - allegedly to remove his rivals within the party. He also branded him as a communist. To protest martial law and the military commission which tried the false charges (subversion, illegal possession of firearms and murder) against him, Ninoy fasted for forty days and forty nights. But Ninoy was still convicted by the commission and sentenced him to death by firing squad. But the sentence against Ninoy was not carried out.
After seven years and seven months of military confinement, Ninoy suffered a heart attack and was allowed by Marcos to go to the United States to have a heart bypass surgery. After recovering, Ninoy stayed with his family in Boston, Massachussets. He was granted a fellowship at the Harvard University and Massachussets Institute of Technology. Ninoy also continued his advocacy by speaking in various forums against the Marcos dictatorship. His most unforgettable speech, which showed his brilliance and eloquence, was in Los Angeles in 1981.
Ninoy's unforgettable speech
Assassination of Ninoy
Ninoy decided to return to the Philippines after three years of self-exile in the United States. Since Marcos instructed consular offices not to issue him a passport, Ninoy secured a passport under the nom de guerre Marcial Bonifacio. As a precaution Ninoy wore a bullet-proof vest under his white safari shirt, but he acknowledged - and foreboded - that the vest won't be much of a help if his head becomes the target. When asked about the threat of assassination, Ninoy defiantly answered, "If it's my fate to die of an assassin's bullet, so be it."
After the airplane carrying Ninoy touched down in Manila on August 21, 1983, Philippine military personnel boarded the plane and escorted him out. A few seconds later, passengers in the airplane heard several gun shots rang out and saw the body of Ninoy lying on a pool of blood on the airport tarmac as aviation security personnel fired shots on Rolando Galman, who was lying near Ninoy. Ninoy was felled by an assassin's bullet on the back of his head.
Marcos swiftly launched an investigation, but only after he was ousted from power that a court found Ninoy's military escorts as the perpetrators. To this day, however, the mastermind of Ninoy's assassination remains unknown.
People Power Revolt
The death of Ninoy sparked widespread opposition against Marcos and massive protest rallies continuosly poured on the streets. Marcos, who by then was already serving as president for two decades, called a snap presidential election to calm the opposition. The opposition fielded Ninoy's wife, Cory Aquino, as its standard bearer. During the counting of votes, Marcos emerged with a wide lead against Cory until several election personnel walked out of the canvassing proceedings and revealed massive rigging of the election results. People and opposition leaders started massing into the streets in huge numbers demanding the ouster of Marcos. Eventually Marcos and his family fled to safety and lived in exile in Hawaii.
Marcos swiftly launched an investigation, but only after he was ousted from power that a court found Ninoy's military escorts as the perpetrators. To this day, however, the mastermind of Ninoy's assassination remains unknown.
People Power Revolt
The death of Ninoy sparked widespread opposition against Marcos and massive protest rallies continuosly poured on the streets. Marcos, who by then was already serving as president for two decades, called a snap presidential election to calm the opposition. The opposition fielded Ninoy's wife, Cory Aquino, as its standard bearer. During the counting of votes, Marcos emerged with a wide lead against Cory until several election personnel walked out of the canvassing proceedings and revealed massive rigging of the election results. People and opposition leaders started massing into the streets in huge numbers demanding the ouster of Marcos. Eventually Marcos and his family fled to safety and lived in exile in Hawaii.
Cory Aquino became president and restored democracy in the Philippines by removing vestiges of the Marcos dictatorship.
Friday, August 19, 2011
IF ONLY, Love...
Ian Wyndham: I Love you.
Samantha Andrews: Ooh I Love you too.
Ian Wyndham: I wanna tell you why I love you.
Samantha Andrews: It's... It's raining, you know that right.
Ian Wyndham: You don't have to say anything... I just wanted to tell you. (Famous lines in IF ONLY, movie)
Samantha Andrews: Ooh I Love you too.
Ian Wyndham: I wanna tell you why I love you.
Samantha Andrews: It's... It's raining, you know that right.
Ian Wyndham: I have to tell you this and you need to hear it. I loved you since I met you, but I wouldn't allow myself to truly feel it until today. I was always thinking ahead, making decisions soaked with fear... Today, because of you... what I learned from you; every choice I made was different and my life has completely changed... and I've learned that if you do that, then you're living your life fully... it doesn't matter if you have five minutes or fifty years. Samantha if not for today, if not for you I would never have known love at all... So thank you for being the person who taught me to love... and to be love.
Samantha Andrews: I don't know what to say. Ian Wyndham: You don't have to say anything... I just wanted to tell you. (Famous lines in IF ONLY, movie)
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." -St. Augustine
TO LOVE is a beautiful, mysterious event; do not miss it. Be neither too cautious nor too absorbed. Too many of us reason with our hearts and experience with our heads. It cannot be so. The heart knows no logic beyond need and desire; the head has no senses except the common and the pragmatic. Neither, frankly, is useful in love anyway. Rely on your sixth sense, that little voice within. There is no preparation for or protection from the joy and pain of relationships. They are inseparable twins. One follows another. And make no mistake, love is not gay abandon; it is to be courageous, to take risks and be disciplined. :)
You can't filter perfectness, but you can filter wrongs and faults;
no one ever said love was perfect.
Friday, August 12, 2011
MILES AWAY? I don't care.
I have putted all my thoughts trying to answer the question you are asking me my love. Why do I love You? After thinking about it, more and more questions come up into my head, questions such as: why do YOU love me? And then, Why do I love you? Why do You miss me so much? After that, why do I miss you so much? Why do YOU think so fucking much about ME every night before You go to sleep? Moreover, Why do I think so fucking much about You every night before I go to sleep?
The reason why I love you is because you complete my life. MY LOVE, you make me laugh even for the slightest subject we talk about. Even though you live and, I know, you live miles, many millions miles away from me, however, every time I talk to you, It does not matter if it is at night or day, I feel you next to me, I feel you taking care of me, like an angel, I feel you are next to me in everything I do, when I am at school or when I'm reading, when I play the drums, when I am eating, when I am taking a shower.
I have putted so much effort in this relationship and I know that you are doing the same exactly thing as well. If I explain the particular reason why I love you, I should start writing a book right now. =)
I was afraid to tell you that I am a Satanist because I did not know how your reaction would be. The media and some religious people have portrayed Satanist people as person that love the sweet taste of BLOOD, people whom are crazy to kill every human being in this planet. The media have portrayed them as Irrational people. I am not anything of that. I am a Satanist in a different sort of way, through philosophy. I will never hurt ANYONE. I respect people; I love my family, my friends, nature, and animals, I LOVE YOU!! I Will NEVER EVER HURT YOU. The only thing I do is that I do not believe in any superior or metaphysical thing. I believe in love, tolerance, and respect. I hope you accept me the way I am.
Baby, you see that link at the end of this letter? Yes…. That song is for you, I dedicated to you. I want you to read every word the song says because this song is for you with all my love. Well, is in Spanish but it has English subtitles so you will able to understand it. I hope you like my love.
I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART, ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT.
Always Yours:
___________♥
Saturday, April 9, 2011
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