The Birthday Speech :D

Here is this boring, lengthy and thoughtless speech that I delivered on our Graduation Day, which is surprisingly coincidentally, also my birthday. :D The sound system is rumbly, and my speech is long; the perfect ingredients for a public speaking disaster. HAHAHA. Anyways, this is it! :D

One bitter fact: High school ends today.

To the school administrators and officials, the Vice President of Academic Affairs, Prof. Leo Vicente Tago, our high school principal, Mr. Carlito S. Antonio, to the parents, relatives and teachers behind today’s success stories and specially, to the celebrities, my fellow graduates, good evening.

I remember myself, with little care on how I look and standing one foot shorter of my height today, walking in a corridor I have never walked before, entering a campus that is a complete stranger to me. I was a fresh elementary graduate, and it was my first day at Systems Plus. I was oblivious of many things back then, and every day after it was like discovering a new and exciting world. Looking back, I thought to myself on how far I have gone and on how much my stay has changed me. Time really flies fast, and look now, 16 grading periods, 12 field trips, 120 flag ceremonies, and 800 school days after, we are at our graduation day. There are so many memories to treasure, so many mishaps to forget, so many challenges that we have overcome, and yes, our book of life has been filled with colorful chapters.

There is always that one point in our lives when we are at the peak of enjoyment, when we are at the part that we are most contented, and then all of a sudden, all of those comforts will be taken away. Just when you seem to go with the flow of the current and to show your big smile every day, that’s when the tables turn against you. In a blink of an eye, the light that once brightened our days has run out of its glimmer. Well, fellow students, this is graduation – the event when we have to leave the home we have dwelt on for four years and the people we considered our families.

To tell you, this is the truth. The friends that we have opened up so much for a long time, all of a sudden, will have to go on separate ways. The campus you enter for four years, the santol trees, the personalities inside the faculty room, the canteens and the air conditioned classrooms, aren’t you going to miss them all? Have you ever thought that this will be the last day that you’ll ever sit at the Multi-Purpose Hall, the last day that you’ll be climbing up the school corridors, and the last day that you’ll be called as high school students? Moments ago, we all received our diplomas, the sole paper that proves that we are out of our high school lives. I can recall my classmates say, “I wish that high school is five years.”

To our parents, wow, congratulations. It is another feather to your trophy that you have pushed us here today to finish high school. It is a big deal for you to see us wearing togas, transferring our tassels from left to right and receiving our diplomas with that big smile on our faces. Your efforts have proven to be fruitful and here in front of you are the products. Thank you our dear parents.

To the faculty members, you have watched us grow and develop. You saw us first as young boys and girls, and now, you are seated here, witnessing our exit in this institution as ladies and gentlemen. We never thought that alphabets can be inserted in mathematics, making it more difficult, that science involves the world’s magic and moreover, that life is a wonderful journey that we have to travel on with values. To our teachers, a big thanks.

High school is a chapter in our lives we will never ever forget. This is the period when we experienced to show our bitterest tears and our happiest smiles. High school is when we had our first love, our first quarrel, our first true best friends, and for some, our first kiss. It is when we develop our inner selves, when we mature and develop a sense of identity. High school, I shall say, is one thing that we never wanted to end.

True, I might be leaving with flying colors, with the best birthday gifts ever, but I am also leaving behind things that have made me complete and the people that are worth more than all the awards and certificates there is.

To my fellow graduates, we are leaving high school. But let us not forget to remember the lessons that we have learned in the four years that had passed. Let us always remember the persons that had been with us in everything, the teachers that caused us little suffering, but moreover, greater learning, the classmates who have shared the joy and the pain of school life, the parents who have sacrificed a lot and the institution that you entered as nobody and you are leaving as somebody. Let us not fail our alma mater, let us live up to its mission and vision. May we be the competitive, innovative and values-oriented graduates that this institution wishes to produce. Step up, be the change, and show that SPCnians are the catalysts of progress and the positive movers of today’s society.

Let us also not forget the main reason behind our triumph – God. He guided us to our victory and He has been with us all this time. He blessed us with intelligence to finish high school and he has given us strength to hurdle every challenge. He showed to us that all things are possible through Him. We bring back all the glory and praises to you our Lord.

The light of high school that we have been so used to may lose its glimmer, but hey, we are just about to ignite another spark. Who knows, the light of college might be greater, and it may lead us to exciting new paths.

To my batchmates, good luck on our road ahead and congratulations! True, there is this one point in our lives when we are at the peak of enjoyment and it will suddenly end. To tell you, nothing will end today, everything shall be remembered, and shall live on our hearts and minds forever. No chapter of our lives will end, it will go on and on we are just going to add another chapter on our ever-thickening book of our lives.

Well, fellow students, this is graduation, the event when we have to bravely enter a new world, and not to leave, but to bring the old world of high school with us.

The bitter fact again, high school ends today? No. Nothing will end; everything will continue as long as we treasure it.

To everyone, thank you very much and have a lovely evening.

The Heartfelt Rhythm :)

LOL people.
(to the by-passers, this post was a part of an April Fool's Day prank that I made on Facebook :D )

For Antigone V

and this is the continuation of the For Antigone series. This is the fifth installment of the story and this was last updated December 20. whew. haha. that was more than three months ago. Anyways, here I go again, telling the story of Haemon and Creon, at Alvin's house :) woot!

Minutes after, Chica arrived, and at last, we are able to copy the files from Julia’s memory card. Chica was laughing out loud upon seeing the bloopers, and I am noticing Alvin’s big brother staring at us like he wants us to go out from the house. His brother began to speak Kapampangan, by which I do not understand. The tone was deep, and it seems like his brother was annoyed by something. I started to show my silence.

Then, he said that why don’t we use the laptop. I have nothing to answer, for it is Alvin who he is talking to. Alvin stood, and borrowed the laptop from his sister. Her sister said that by 30 minutes, she’ll be finished using the laptop.

Finally the laptop was there, and in front of me now were odd set of gadgets, never have I seen two keyboards and two monitors all in one computer desk. When Alvin asked me to do something on the computer, I was really confused as to which mouse and keyboard to use. Alvin is really a computer addict, for he got easily used in handling two computers.

When his big brother left for a minute, Alvin said, “Do not worry…” and he began to type in Notepad the words, “gusto lang niya maglaro. (He just wants to play)” and put the mouse arrow in the icon of Chaos Online.

Alvin began transferring the giant file of the setup of Adobe Premiere CS4 to a removable storage device for transfer to the laptop. It took sixteen minutes for it to finish transferring, and during that time, we are just chatting and laughing at the stolen shots and bloopers.

His brother complained, “Now that you have the laptop, why don’t you go downstairs?”

“We need the internet connection,” he said.

“Then, I’ll just open the router,” his brother suggested.

Things then seemed to be settled. I do not know what the hell are they talking about but their conversation in the language of computers make me feel dizzy. Then, his brother began to plug and unplug cords, outlets jacks and sockets, which I have no idea on what it is for. Alvin began to carry the laptop downstairs, and of course, unfamiliar to what is happening, I just followed my father, Alvin, on where he is going. He asked us to just sit down, while things in their computer world are being settled.

I listened as Kervy chatted with Alvin, and I discovered that routers are used to spread the Internet connection to a wide area. So, even if the laptop has no internet connection, the router will spread the connection wirelessly so even the laptop can have the connection without the use of any wires and cords and without installing anything. All Alvin needs to do is to do a few clicks and he is already connected.

“Ok! Let us start the shoot!” I said.

We just waited for the rain to stop and Kervy began fitting on his royal costume. Oyea, it is really royal. Chica also started fitting his, and it is more royal than Kervy’s. I am laughing at Chica because of his Holy Week costume. Hahaha! :D

On Alvin’s mini-landscaped garden, they started to shoot. The scene was when Haemon, straight from the city of Athens, went to his father, Creon, to try to persuade his father to not carry on the punishment to Antigone, which is Haemon’s fiancé. The title of the act is “Futile Persuasion”, and it is one of the acts that we wish to include in the film for it is one of the most important.

We started out with the sun firmly on its place. No fluorescent bulbs were open back then, and the road outside of Alvin’s house was still alive with vehicles passing by. Our movie was done completely without the aid of any manila paper. There are no scripts to read, and we all relied on memorization. That was the problem of our play, memorizing lines took so much time and caused so many mistakes, and soon, time was running out for us.

Chica was hesitant to start the shoot at first, for he really does not want to wear his Nazareno outfit. Kervy was dead lazy as well. Alvin and I have no care, for we are not the actors on this part of the play. I am just happy holding Julia’s black camera and laughing at the crazy bloopers back at Grand Palazzo Real.

Finally, they have really started it. Alvin sprayed off their dog’s crap out of the garden, and Chica had carried his bronze throne in place. His bronze throne was just one of Alvin’s patio chair. The chair is beautiful, but far from being a chair of a king. Haha. It looks just plain.

1, 2, 3, Take!

Ang Ikot

Ang Ikot :)

Yun. Introduction muna. Iba na ang ikot ng mundo ngayon. Pati isip ko iba na rin yata ang ikot. Para hindi na paikutin pa, eto na ang tula. Haha. (kaganda na ng intro, haha)

Pag-ibig nga naman, minsanang mahulog,
Siya ang naiisip hanggang sa pagtulog;
Minsan nga ay lito, ano ba ang ikot
Ng pusong ito na hindi makalimot?

Unang pag-ibig nga ‘y hindi malilimutan,
Ang tali’y mahigpit, walang kapigtalan;
Ngingiti na lamang at magugunita,
Kahit pa may luha sa’king mga mata.

Ang aking pag-ibig, matagal nang lihim
Sa pusong tahimik, ako’y nagkikimkim;
Dati’y kuntento sa “Mula sa Malayo”
Ngayo’y nanghihingi ng konting pagsuyo.

Mainit ang hapon, ako ay pinilit;
Babae sa tula, sa kanya’y mabanggit.
Nang aking masabi, laking gulat niya,
Nang aking banggitin ang pangalan niya.

Ako’y sinungaling, ‘yan ang bansag sa akin,
Di naniniwala sa aking pag-amin;
Mabigat na sampal ang aking tinanggap,
Matapos aminin sa kaniyang harap.

Ang ikot ng mundo tila ba tumigil;
Ang buong mundo ba ako’y sinisingil?
Huli nang sabihin, patapos ang klase,
Kaya ba’t pag-ibig, ganito ang ganti?

Mapa-dimonyo man, ‘di maniniwala,
Isang panloloko, katapata’y wala,
Iyan ang sabi niya sa pusong sugatan,
Ako ay puno ng kasinungalingan.

Anong pakiramdam, ano ba ang sakit
‘Pag ang salitang puso ang sumambit
Ay hindi tanggapin, ‘di paniwalaan,
Ang sayo’y malaki, kanyang kalimutan.

Sa’yo ay seryoso, sa kanya ay biro;
Sa’yo ay pag-ibig, sa kanya ay laro;
Aniya sa akin, ako na’y sumuko,
Pag-ibig na ito, ipaglalaban ko. XD

Anuman ang ikot ng utak mo ngayon,
Sinuman ang laman ng puso mo ngayon (aw)
Ika’y aking mahal, ‘yun lamang ang alam,
Pag-ibig ko sayo’y hindi mapaparam.

Iba man ang ikot ng puso mo sa’kin,
Maniwala ka lang na ako’y ‘yong angkin.
Walong buwan na ako’y ‘yong pinangiti,
Maniwala ka lang, iyon lang ang mithi.

For You

Haha. To tell everyone, this was the VERY FIRST POEM that I made with a REAL inspiration. This was made around July, when my “love” was still at the beginning then. Never thought it would reach this far. Haha.

This is the only poem that I did not post of all my creations. Asking why? SECRET XD. The title is simple, but it has something to do with the whole poem. Read my eight-stanza first time confession. LOL.

As I focus on you, not minding everyone,
Fantasy thoughts of us is flashing one by one.
I see you from afar, as if you were so near;
And I smell your strong scent, as if you’re sitting here.

Every morning, I smile for it is another day,
Oh! I’ll see you again! “Be with me!” I will pray.
As I enter the room, I’m sad if you’re not there,
But I’m willing to wait, anytime, anywhere.

I don’t know how it is to fall for someone else,
Rushing blood to my head! Oh, an enchanted spell!
Day and night, home or not, you’re running in my mind,
Lonely times turn to joy; is love really this blind?

From the moment I lay my head on my soft bed,
An image of your face pops always on my head.
I imagine that we’re hugging each other tight,
Conversing happily in the midst of the night!

You made my loveless heart beat love for the first time,
Leaving me bedazzled each moment you pass by.
Your great walk and your talk, your personality,
You and I together, can these dreams be for real?

And I admire you still, but all I’ll do is stare,
I’ll wait in hopeless hope, that sometimes you’ll show care.
All the times we have spent is the closest I got,
That you have loved me true no matter who or what.

To here I’ll end this poem, my love still in secret,
Never can I say it, but still I can’t forget.
You are all that I see, all that I hear and think,
Mission impossible: your tender heart to win!

:P