ROBIN HOOD: HONEST, BRAVE & NAIVE

Its not about the national elections or the leadership in the pharmaceutical industry but I'm talking where all aspects apply. I was watching Robin Hood with my baby brother this afternoon and aside from the fact that it amazes me how Russel Crowe fits the role it affirms the virtues I always value in my life.
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HONEST(Y)

My very own definition of this is when people offers the truth even to their vulnerability when needed. I have this friend who is unafraid to tell her story that she needs to work hard because she got brothers that need to go to school, she just fininshed college and this is the very reason why she went abroad. Other people never share stories like this and here is somebody who opens the common reality for us to realize (BTW, this made her look more beautiful)

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BRAVE(RY)

To me this is someone who never waits to be rescued but instead stands up for himself/herself and for other people. I always hated the concept of damsel in distress, it gives the youth a wrong idea of what life is because one need not rely on other people to survive or even to be complete, we were whole when God made us.

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NAIVE

By now, I know that you know how I like to give my own meaning to things, this is because I believe that there is NOTHING wrong with being cranky even if one is extremely eccentric to being naive. In the end we only need to answer to ourselves and it would be rewarding to do what we believe right amidst what other people say.

HAUNTED BY RAY PARKER, JR.... NO MORE?

I was thinking of writing about early today on how this Ray Parker, Jr. song has been haunting me like in the early morning I hear it and in the afternoon I hear this same song but I'm not gonna tell you though which song (its cheesy) so I played it on you tube and OMG its got a very funny home-made video LOL so I even fell inlove with it the more. The thing is, it speaks to me in a weird way and I SERIOUSLY pray to God that this is not limerence, stupidity or worst, I might be transforming into the Darkside from Anakin Hekhekehek..
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But I need to attend a rehearsal at Repertory Philippines where I am currently grilled for not doing my part well (hehehe) so I forgot about Ray and of course, its better to forget Ray! Thanks to the pressure from Ms. Ana (the Director) and to my ever supportive friends who has been helping me out to act and sing my part well that Ray is history. Sana tuloy na tuloy na itong paglimot Lord kung sakaling dapat limutin kasi pagod na talaga ako, para naman sumaya naman ako minsan na walang gumugulo sa isip. Sana side-effect na lang 'to ng gamot at least 'yun walang deeper reason.

IT HEALS

Early this month when I went home to Salay, Misamis Oriental (mah place n home sweet home, yeah!) my Mom told me how my brother was saved from death back when he was a high school freshman. Of course I knew he was sick but I didn't have the details since I was only in the 3rd grade back then, I must say that to hear it at this maturity reduced me to tears. You see, I come from a very sickly family. My cousin and best friend died when we were in the junior high of Acute Pulmonary Hypertension (secondary), of course my older brother as I've mentioned and well, me. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis since I was 12 years old and my heart has been floppy and weak since college.

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Going back to my bro, he got sick in a disease that only affects 1 person out of the entire Philippine population at that time, my parents brought him to Cebu City for treatment but the specialist told my Mom that he is dying and there is NOTHING they can do about it, my Mom being a Physician understands. My Aunts and Cousins are mostly nurses so they suggested to just take my brother home to Cagayan de Oro City to wait for him to rest in a hospital there where it is practical. Obviously, my Mom tried everything and she had nothing left to do so at that night she talked to God and said that she will just leave my brother at his mercy that whatever God plans will be done, no more resistance. Well, guess what? 3AM the following day my brother began to speak and his vital signs stabilized something the experts and my Mom can't explain.

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I don't know why my Mom told me this but it made me realize how beautiful it is to trust God. I will never forget the lessons she taught me: "Always ask for the Lord to have the Serenity to accept the things that cannot be changed, to have the Courage to change things that can be changed and for the Wisdom to know the difference". It heals more than medicine, literally...

EVERYTHING IN ITS TIME

For a change, wala muna pharmaceutical post this time, something honest muna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtOh-8zEUqA):
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Sometimes I wonder what lies ahead
How long till my hunger is fed
They say it's hard to make it in this part of town
So many people on this merry-go-round
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Some folks try astrology
Some turn to crystal balls
To find an answer,
To get through it all
I just fall on my knees and I try to pray
In the silence I can hear Him say
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The river runs and the river hides
Out to the ocean and under the sky
I promise you, the answer will come
Hold on to patience and watch for the sign
Everything in its time
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I often feel like I'm two steps behind
Somebody must have moved that finish line
There are a thousand reasons
Why I should give up
But I'm stubborn in the things I believe
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The river runs and the river hides
Out to the ocean and under the sky
I promise you, the answer will come
Hold on to patience and watch for the sign
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'cause maybe there's another plan
One I still can't see
A little surprise, like your love in my life
Funny how time changes how we see
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The river runs and the river hides
Out to the ocean and under the sky
I promise you, the answer will come
Hold on to patience and watch for the sign
Everything in its time
Everything in its time