On Love

A rainy day makes one write poems without rhymes.

Love is the strength that can climb thousands of mountains
and raises banners of victory
Hate cripples and sits one on a rusty wheelchair
Love is the ship that sails through seven seas
rides on top of collosal waves
and find treasures in the depths of the ocean
Hate drowns
Love is a garden in summer bloom
the rush of wind that brings fresh flower scents
the taste of crushed peaches
Hate is famine on a desert land
Love is the wink of a star
the orchestra of crickets
and a cup of warmth in the night
Hate is blanketless cold

I guess i can go on and on with love and hate metaphors but one thing is common to both of them. To love or to hate is a choice.

Ole Man Paul told the Ephesians

"In light of all this, here's what I want you to do. While I'm locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don't want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don't want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences." (Ephesians 4:1-3, The Message)

I've been off the exciting momentum of running towards the path to greatness for some time now. Good thing ole man Paul knows how to encourage and rerimand (with love) at the same time. And now we're back on the game.

~^.^

The Painter

Artist's block hit me today. I couldn't visualize anything hence i couldn't draw anything decent, plus i had this annoying headache from last night's oversleeping and last Sunday's molar extraction. I tried to draw but it was futile. A giant evil bird kept appearing in my drawings. Maiki said it was kind of disturbing. I hope it won't give nightmares to kids.


I didn't know what to do. I think the artists block is a spreading virus, three of my friends are currently experiencing it right now.I thought of doing something else but i wanted to draw but i couldn't so raaaaaaa. I didn't know what to do.  ~Frustrations~

And then, at dusk when Maiki and I left our room, the windows were glowing orange. It was very inviting. Like there was an orange party outside. I forgot to take a picture because we were running late for volunteer's call time.

Stepping outside, at the balcony, we then saw this.

Rokugatsu to Nanagatsu Projects Recap

We're still into shirt design these months and also, posters! Yay! Although it takes more time and creative-juice-squirting, i like to do posters.

Here are some of them which were produced in the past few months.

PubMats for inside the university , a total of seven (7) posters (seven shirt designs) with the same layout. I tried using different fonts since i don't have too many elements for the poster. This one was an experiment for me given that i haven't tried the technique yet even though i've seen this done so many times. It went pretty well, I guess. Whew. ^_^

Rokugatsu Recap

June was quite fast and all sorts of fun things happened! I wish I can tell them in detail, my june highlights are days that I wouldn’t want to forget even as forgetful as I am.

First off Rokugatsu highlight #1 Biodiversity Wall of Nature*. Next, Rokugatsu highlight #2 ToyCon 2012. Then Rokugatsu highlight #3 Japanese Lesson. And finally, Rokugatsuhighlight #4 Gurl friend Date.

Thank you Lord for the adventures!

*actually happened during the last week of May

Prayer of a wandering dreamer

Dear Lord,

You know how scatter-brained I am; how I want to do so much but with no particular strategy; how relaxed and free I am with two extremes of focus: very unfocused and very very focused. I believe that it is you who gave me so many dreams; and it will be your grace that will enable me to make them come true. It’s you who fuels the adventure in me, who overflows my mind with creativity so I bet that there will be no one else who will keep me moving towards that place but you.

Rokugatsu Highlight #4: Gurl Friend Date

I didn’t know that I was a patient person. Now I know how a guy feels when he’s waiting on a girl on their date. This girl friend of mine made me wait for an hour! But the funny thing is that it didn’t felt like an hour –and I was standing that full 60 minutes! Maybe I was really excited to see Khu again.

Since I don’t have much office attire for the upcoming seminar and being the tee and jeans girl that I am, I had to do an emergency one piece shop with my trusty ol' pal. Here are things I learned at the date:

Rokugatsu highlight #3 The best things in the world are free: Japanese Lesson

This post is to thank my sensei. I prepared a haiku for him.

My sensei is kakkoi and kind but disliked the heights.

If his kindness was a building and he was on top of that, he might have a fright.

The effect would be so much better if the haiku was written in Japanese, though. I hope he likes it. Thank you Kevin-sensei!

~^.^*

Battle with the big boss: Ooki Mushi and the Knight in the Darkness

After the magical Toycon lights had gone, I was transported to the cold and stormy campus of Black Out. Except for the jeepney lights, all one can see were the evil yellow eyes in the dark. I mustered my courage to trudge on the 89 steps towards our dormitory room, amidst the harsh cold wind, the rain, the thunder and lighting and the semi-pitch black darkness.

There I was resting on my bed chambers when suddenly, it attacked: the Mushi Emperor. Weighing as heavy as a half-full Yakult, brown, and having 6 inches total body length (with antennae), the Mushi emperor flew back and forth the room; attacking every wall and locker that it can with mighty tantrums and and panic. I did not know what disturbed it. It stayed well-behaved like a high born lady inside our room for almost a week. I was the one who caught the Mushi King and now it is attacking it’s captor.

Why?

~when i say, "because I'm a dreamer,"
i don't mean that i'm hopeful and positive or
that i have a lot of dreams. I'm talking about the hope
he gave, the dreams he makes me see, the inspiration and
reason from which all passion came from, for the one who made me a dreamer is he.

it's a wonderful rainy july

Whew! Right now the rain's pouring like there's no tomorrow on our dormitory roofs. I kind of just woke up after last night's project cramming. I slept at 2AM and woke up after oversleeping a bit. Should be 7.5 hours not 8. Hmmmm.

I noticed that it's almost a month since I posted. June was one crazy roller coaster ride! And July is wonderfully rainy. Hope to post even just a summary of joyous June. I feel like last month was a turning point, the beginning of something historical, so it's tantamount that i record it. I thank the Lord for so much inspiration. In my first minutes of waking hours today i thought about the things that passed and his kindness ---his mind-blowing kindness! And I realized that the reason for all --the excitement, and momentum and the high dreams is no other than his love. Love does make the world go round, i guess.

And so the adventure continues.

~^.^*