only the one that hurts you
can make you feel better
only the one that inflicts pain
can take it away

there's always
a new day

somewhere.

if our mom would have a song for us, for me, i think that this would be it.


although we don't talk that much, listening to this helps me feel like
she's telling me everything she ever wanted to tell me.


and vice versa.


happy mother's day mommy.


even if i don't say it,
you are and you will always be
the most beautiful woman in the world to me.

i will lay down my heart,
and i'll feel the power
but you won't,
no you won't.

and i can't make you love me

if you don't.

the big 3-0

so i turned 30 today.


i have long been fearing this day.
but as it turns out, it's not that bad after all.


with just a few more hours left,
i think i'm going to survive this day
contrary to what i thought.


if today is going to be an indication
of how life in my 30's is going to be
then i think i'm going to survive
another 30 years of my life.


so bring it!

if you always do what you've always done,
you'll always get what you always got.


i'm really not into resolutions and all that.
but i guess i could make an exception for 2011.

sort of.

i don't want to promise anything
but i will try my level best to
start doing things a little differently.

and then maybe i'll be
a little stronger,
a little happier,
a little better.

the first three decades of my life
are just about to pass me by.

there can be no better time for change than now.

bangkang papel

awww.

i thought i'd never, EVER see this again.
it's been more than 20 years.

funny, how i still know the lyrics to it. 

i grew up in batibot.

i was hoping my kids would do so too.

sigh.

life was oh, so simple then.

how i miss
playing in the rain
and wading in the mud
with reckless abandon.

i hope someone would upload tinapang bangus too. lol

ah, nostalgia.