wake-up call ...

(playing is Miles Davis – Smoke Gets in your Eyes) …

i was recently involved in this discussion about life and how people perceive it on one of the yahoo groups (PTP – Pen Temple Pilots) .. i'm not gonna go into the details of the discussion right now really, but there was something posted in the midst of the heated debate that got me to writing this blog .. actually that would be the mildest effect it had on me, initiating a blog i mean .. it was like a wake-up call .. no, it was literally a wake-up call .. i was drifting away .. and it snatched me out of the swamp i was sinking into, and back to reality … (i would like to add the word 'beautiful' right there before 'reality') …

what was the post about? .. ok , it was about those people who get their minds so fixed on one dream and congregate all their energy and power to try an make it come true .. but while doing so, they lose track of the beautiful things in their lives … they just stop enjoying .. thinking they r probably saving their energy for the task at hand; making the dream come true .. yeah, it's true .. people sometimes do that … well, myself included .. i've been doing that recently .. i was hung-up on a dream .. a dream that had a whole life of its own .. i was so blindly living my dream and shunning reality .. sometimes thinking i need to focus on the dream for it to come true .. sometimes just enjoying living it in my mind … but once i read that post .. i realized i was wrong … not wrong cuz i had such a gorgeous dream … but wrong to let it prevent me from enjoying my life … specially that i've realized, my reality is so beautiful .. maybe not complete but so beautiful ..

i once read a saying that goes, "love is when u don't want to go to sleep, because reality is better than a dream" … well, i ain't there yet .. but for the mean time .. my dream, however great it is (and it is GREAT), will not prevent me from enjoying my beautiful reality again …

PS.
this line is for my baby ...

maybe i was drifting lately .. but i want u to know ..
i can't get that far away ... i need u ..

what a wonderful world ...

i see trees of green ..
and red roses too ...
i see them bloom ...
for me and u ...
and i think to myself ..
what a wonderful world ..

good morning everybody ..
u know when sometimes u wake up in the morning and the minute u open ur eyes u realize this is a new day and i can't wait for it to start .. u feel like everything can't be but ok .. u get into that mood where it's all bananas ;) ... and u start singing louis armstrong's 'what a wonderful world' .. and when u reach there .. when u reach that place .. u won't really bother urself with 'why' .. 'why am i feeling this way?' ... u start thinking about the happy stuff in ur life .. ur friends, ur career, ur loved ones, and urself .. and u might reflect back to certain memories that u cherish for days like these .. and with every recollection u would go like, 'that's why i'm feeling so good, oh no that is why i'm feeling so good, maybe that is why i'm feeling so good' ... but u never really know .. u can never pin-point a certain or single something .. it doesn't spoil ur mood at all though .. but let me tell u this ... if u actually know .. if u can really pin-point the reason .. and if that reason is so pretty, talented, sensitive, creative, wild, fun, and a bit crazy ... u won't just feel good ... u'd feeeel a million good .. a billion good .. a zillion good ... u'd feel like i feel right now ..

i luv my life :)

gift shopping ..

so that's something i'm not used to .. i mean even among my friends, i don't really go down and shop for gifts .. on previous mother days, my sis was the one handling the whole thing .. she tells me "give me 50 pounds" and that's it .. she gets ideas and she goes down and she buys the gift and she wraps it and finally we present it (yeah i have a very sweet sis) :) ..

but now she's not here .. she's all the way in london .. and i guess it's up to me to pay her back for all those mother days and all those birthdays where she saved my ass! ... this year, i'll be the one doing all the gift related tasks .. and although she's not here with me, it will still be us presenting mum with the gift ...

it's the least i could do for my little sis :)
luv ya lolo