master ee cummings

There is nobody like ee cummings! I mean it. Among the many poets I truly admire, he is really stands out. His poetry is like none other. Everything in his love poems are new that they are almost music. What first attracted me was his deviation to the proper structure of grammar. He breaks language like he breaks glass and the shattered pieces are beautiful!

You don’t even have to ponder to is with so much effort. The poems reeks with charisma and style that would definitely blow your mind. It blew mine. Try to google him and his poems in the net. If you want to be in love, learn cummings. Trust me, you won’t be disappointed.

Here’s one of my favorite poems made by him (soooo beautiful):

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

in life and debt

You should really really be very careful with your money.

For a person like me, who belongs to a community below poverty line, money is really important. I remembered this a class in CL122 under Prof. De Veyra and we discussed a lot about economics. Kind of weird huh? A Criticism Class talking about economics, but then we realize that for us to understand a certain literary piece, we must learn the state of the economy within the text.

Along with the things I’ve learned under Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I started to widen my view towards money and its importance. I have the impression that businessmen treat money as tokens or casino chips in their deals. It’s not exactly gambling but using your brain effectively towards business.

I learned that debt is not necessarily bad. Rich Dad, Poor Dad suggested to loan for capital in your business deal. What you earn, you don’t pay to your debt. Instead, you use the profit to start another business! The cash continues to flow to your account. Buy a lot of assets first! Pay your debts later. Debts should not be your priority.

Of course if you need help in consolidating debts, just to understand more about it, there’s actually debt consolidation online. This site I know of has been offering free debt consolidation program since 1997.

I’m not really an expert in business and loans and debts but I guess it’s better if we know a lot about these things. It wouldn’t hurt to be ready for our future transactions.

cali-fashion

I really admire those parents who support their children’s dreams. Usually parents choose the courses their children should take up in college. A very popular issue is when a child announces to his/her parents that he/she would like to enroll in a fashion school.

Parents usually raise their eyebrows in this decision doubting any probability of a secure future ahead of their child. But like I said I admire those parents to deviate to this “tradition” for the sake of their child’s passion.

Speaking of fashion schools, there’s this site that features fashion schools in California and other places in the US. The site specializes in finding and reviewing the different fashion schools in the area. The site features fashion schools in Los Angeles, too.

The site also features top designers and a quick guide to the different fashion schools in California. There are fashion articles available for the visitors to learn more about fashion industry. If you have any desire to study fashion particularly in the said areas, then that site is definitely for you.

the night they called me pablo

Here’s Pablo Neruda’s Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines which is the poem that I recited during the second Sinews and Syllables last February 29:

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write for example, ‘The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.’

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to a pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that’s certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another’s. She will be another’s. Like my kisses before.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

That’s probably one of the saddest love poems I have ever experienced. And I had the honor of performing it! However I sure do wish I wouldn’t be feeling the exact feeling of the poem, of being left alone by the one you really love. I would really want to recite it in it’s Spanish version. I really do LOVE romantic languages! I wish I could learn all of them, from Spanish, Portuguese to French! I don’t know if Quenya and Sindarin (from LOTR) are romantic, but I want to learn them, too! Here’s the poem ala Espagnol:

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.

Escribir, por ejemplo: “La noche está estrellada,
y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos”.

El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso.

En las noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos.
La besé tantas veces bajo el cielo infinito.

Ella me quiso, a veces yo también la quería.
Cómo no haber amado sus grandes ojos fijos.

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Pensar que no la tengo. Sentir que la he perdido.

Oir la noche inmensa, más inmensa sin ella.
Y el verso cae al alma como al pasto el rocío.

Qué importa que mi amor no pudiera guardarla.
La noche está estrellada y ella no está conmigo.

Eso es todo. A lo lejos alguien canta. A lo lejos.
Mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.

Como para acercarla mi mirada la busca.
Mi corazón la busca, y ella no está conmigo.

La misma noche que hace blanquear los mismos árboles.
Nosotros, los de entonces, ya no somos los mismos.

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cuánto la quise.
Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oído.

De otro. Será de otro. Como antes de mis besos.
Su voz, su cuerpo claro. Sus ojos infinitos.

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

Porque en noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos,
mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.

Aunque éste sea el último dolor que ella me causa,
y éstos sean los últimos versos que yo le escribo.

money 911

Let’s face it. A lot of us aren’t really good at money.

I should have read Robert Kiyosaki’s other book Rich Kid, Smart Kid. It’s more or less just like the Rich Dad, Poor Dad book but my friend Dario who’ve read the book told me that it focuses more on the right attitude towards money and business. Unfortunately I’ve already returned the books to the owner and I didn’t have the chance to finish Rich Kid, Smart Kid.

I learned in Rich Dad, Poor Dad that we should avoid two common attitude that people normally have. One is fear. Fear in this context is the fear of risk or the fear of losing the things which you already have. Business, contrary to what people say, is not a gamble after all. The ones who fail are those who give up or those who do not start.

The other attitude to be avoided is greed or desire. The desire to spend your income to expenses that do not generally contribute to your assets. We must know how to control these two emotions in order to succeed in business.

Of course, we are human beings and it could not be helped to feel those emotions. The book isn’t telling us not to be humans but to learn how to moderate and sacrifice ourselves.

Money is like water, you can’t hold if for long. Capital is needed to build a business. I’ve learned that we can actually lend online. There are sites that lend money for emergency purposes inclined to payday loan. This site I happen to stumble at focuses to meet monetary emergencies of consumers. They have this policy of no fax cash advance that really helps those who would avail.

I’m not exactly sure if I can avail for my business purposes but the site is indeed useful if ever I end up in a tangle of some sort in my business plans. If you have any insights regarding business or if you can enlighten me regarding Kiyosaki’s other ideas, feel free to comment.

online billiards

There’s nothing like a good game of billiards with your best friends in the summer. I remember the good old days when some of my high school buddies and I would gather after the finals in the local pool bar and spend the whole afternoon celebrating the end of the school year with a hearty game of billiards and junk food. I wasn’t that good. It wasn’t a contest after all.

After high school some decided to study abroad, some in to other cities and only few remained. But thanks to online billiards, we were able to stay in touch and play billiards. In this online billiard site, we were able to interact with other people from around the world!

We can actually play 8 ball, 9 ball and snooker online. It’s actually fun. The online pool has daily tournaments held for all to participate at. You can actually play pool with a mouse rather than a cue. So you definitely got no excuse not to play.