fighting

The night is young. Neon lights highlights the cemented street with asphalt fog. There are no stars. The moon is alone with nobody but angry clouds that suggests rain.

it doesn’t matter which way you go

Not a student but still a student writer.

And student writers have to read. It’s a big MUST.

be my cellmate

I’m not going to enrol this coming semester.

I don’t feel telling why nor how this came to be. But I guess it’s all for a purpose. I’m extending my vacation. Heck, everyone needs to relax.

By relaxation, I don’t really mean to sleep all day and stay up all night. Watching cheap old videos in a crappy DVD player. I want to relax myself from a way of life. To stop thinking of the same things over and over again.

I want to run away from my day to day problems and meet bigger ones.

To take a break from seeing familiar faces and make strangers friends. I want to prepare to leave so someday I can return. Not going to school does not end my learning, it triggers it. I will not depend my craft to the master but I want to become a master myself through myself.

I want to master myself.

rags to riches rumble

One of the few advantages of learning six units of French in my school is to recognize simple french terms. That’s why when I first saw the title Nouveau Riche, I automatically knew that it translates as “new rich” or in other words “new ways of being rich” perhaps. In this article I read through my little expeditions in the net, new opportunities for booming business were featured.

It nearly took me off my seat when the methodology and the experiences of the persons involved were discussed. I realized that with proper education and careful planning matched with a good opportunity you can actually land into a very successful business. I’ll give you a sneak peak.

do i look busy, chum?

is it really?

I don’t know why she calls it mysterious, I don’t really find anything mysterious about her blog really. What’s mysterious is when she suddenly pops out of my comment box asking for a review of her blog! Hah. But heck, why not eh? That’s basically why I’m here in the first place, to see and review things my way. In my eyes with my own opinions.

does age matter?

It might be a cliche question but really, I won’t go all Lolita on you.

The question goes to all different challenges an individual is faced in his life. Lately I’ve been thinking how old I’m getting. Hold up! I’m still eighteen. But as look through my eighteen-year-old eyes to the different changes in the world, I’m starting to think how oddly mature and immature I could be.

Does age matter?

I wouldn’t know. Perhaps. The world is govern by laws and the laws says that there is a distinction between the old and the young. The term “of age” is considered highly important in the society. Birthday celebrations are held and anniversaries are upheld by cultures and communities as a wonderful tradition.

my pokerface

Bluff. It’s this game using a whole deck of playing cards (minus the two jokers). It’s actually more like poker with some differences. I’m not sure if it’s the same with the Bluff you already know but this perhaps is a version of it.

It’s a game where the phrase “the more, the merrier” is very applicable. I really am after the fun of it. I don’t exactly know why gambling and playing cards has its effect to people. Perhaps it’s the idea of getting to win and lose money in just a few seconds in playing the game. You win some, you lose some. Every decision is based on luck and a few tricks.

Maybe gambling and playing cards isn’t that far from real life. Actually, it’s really more like real life. You’ll never know what’s coming. All you have to do is to play the game and accept the consequences. Of course, I’m not saying you have to gamble and risk everything but in life it’s more or less like that.

I’m not really a gambling guy. I’ve been on a casino to see people bet on numbers and colors hanging on to dear old luck. There’s a lot of casinos even in the net. It’s best to read reviews to see how the different casinos are like. Try to be picky and choosy sometimes, you know.

neruda’s turtle

Here’s one of my favorite poems by Don Pablo Neruda. I like it because of the character in the poem which is, of course, a turtle. The metaphor of the turtle tells us a lot about life. Here’s The Turtle by Pablo Neruda translated by Jodey Bateman.

The Turtle

The turtle who
walked so long
and saw so much
with
his
ancient
eyes,
the turtle
who ate
olives
from the deepest
sea,
the turtle who swam
for seven centuries
and knew
seven
thousand
springtimes,
the turtle
hooded
against
the heat
and  cold,
against
sunrays and waves,
the yellow
turtle
plated
with severe
amber
scales
and feet for catching prey,
the turtle
stopped
here
to sleep
and didn’t know it.
So old
that he kept
getting harder,
he quit
loving the waves
and became rigid
like a clothing iron.
He closed
the eyes which
had defied
so much
sea, sky, time and earth,
and went to sleep
among the other
stones.
 

incredible insurance

Everything’s unsure in this life. I’ve never come across an expected accident. No matter how sure and preventive you can be, it’ll never be enough. Why worry? Worrying is like solving a big problem with banging your head against the wall.

Whenever we hear the term life insurance, people automatically associate it with its trivialities in procedure and the unfairness of its protocols and conditions. I personally don’t get it, the fuss.

I guess we sometimes forget the principle behind life insurance. The system of insurance is quite impressive if you come to think of it. It’s a lifetime investment they say. I’m not really that sure. I think it’s more like a failsafe system.

I actually enjoy hearing every other people’s complains about their own cases concerning their insurance. For example, when someone needs medical assistance on Monday, they only give it on Thursdays. Loophole after loophole in the manual. I don’t get it.

I remember Mr. Incredible’s alter ego Bob Parr in Pixar’s The Incredibles. He was this boring insurance person trying to lie low. I enjoyed the part when he tried to help this little old lady in the shortcuts she could take to get her insurance money. His boss was mad at him for that. I wonder if that scene actually happens in insurance companies.

Try checking out life insurance quotes over the net to check things out.