So here comes full circle

Stars and dusts
Please help me with time management.

Feeling so dragged down by all my responsibilities.
Need to chill.

Circle. Circle. Ha! Ancient Asian History tomorrow, have to read! Read! Read!

But will read Haruki Murakami first, IQ84, wehehehe ^^

Eureka

The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the sketch are Archimedes (John Cleese), Socrates (Eric Idle), Hegel (Graham Chapman), Nietzsche (Michael Palin), Marx (Terry Jones) and Kant (Terry Gilliam).

Confucius is the referee and keeps times with an hourglass. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine (sporting haloes) serve as linesmen.^[1] The German manager is Martin Luther. As play begins, the philosophers ponder their theories while walking on the pitch in circles.^[1] Franz Beckenbauer, the sole genuine footballer on the pitch and a "surprise inclusion" in the German team, is left more than a little confused.

The sketch was performed in the Grünwalder Stadion^{[citation needed]}. It originally featured in the second Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus episode and was later included in Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982).^[2]

Outcome

Nietzsche receives a yellow card after claiming that Confucius has no free will. Confucius replies, "Name go in book". In the second half, Karl Marx replaces Ludwig Wittgenstein, but does nothing to advance the game. With just over a minute of the match remaining Archimedes cries out "Eureka!", takes the first kick of the ball and rushes towards the German goal. Socrates scores the only goal of the match in a diving header off a cross from Archimedes. As the sketch closes, the Germans dispute the call; "Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside." The slow-motion replay proves that according to the offside rule that was valid until 1990, Socrates was indeed offside.

Line Up

The names of the Greek philosophers in the line-up are displayed in German in the sketch.

Germany	Greece
Gottfried Leibniz (goalkeeper)	Plato (goalkeeper)
Immanuel Kant	Epictetus
Georg "Nobby" Hegel (capt)	Aristotle
Arthur Schopenhauer	"Chopper" Sophocles
Friedrich Schelling	Empedocles of Acragas
Franz Beckenbauer	Plotinus
Karl Jaspers	Epicurus
Karl Schlegel	Heraklitus
Ludwig Wittgenstein	Democritus
Friedrich Nietzsche	Socrates (capt)
Martin Heidegger	Archimedes
Karl Marx - substituting Wittgenstein in the 2nd half

(Wittgenstein was, of course, Austrian.)

Taken from Wikipedia

Finally out of the woods ^^

Ayon kay Lourd: 

Ang sarap mawala, ang sarap magwala
Ang sarap maligaw sa mundong tulala

Yun lang :D

Tita Oset's wedding (25th anniversary renewal of vows)

At Crowne Regency Hotel 

Me and my cousin

Tita Oset and I

Me, Tita Oset and Tita Anabelle (Matron of Honor)

The wedding!

The bride and groom

A post about longing: Will I ever find you?!

Ah such sweet voice, Sir Paul <3

When will I ever find the one?
Where are you BTW? Detour? Flight delay? Traffic?

:'(

Digging Leonard Cohen

Probably one of the best music videos I've seen.

In my secret life / Leonard Cohen

That's how it goes

Everybody Knows | Leonard Cohen

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded 
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed 
Everybody knows that the war is over 
Everybody knows the good guys lost 
Everybody knows the fight was fixed 
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich 
That's how it goes 
Everybody knows 

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking 
Everybody knows that the captain lied 
Everybody got this broken feeling 
Like their father or their dog just died 

Everybody talking to their pockets 
Everybody wants a box of chocolates 
And a long stem rose 
Everybody knows 

Everybody knows that you love me baby 
Everybody knows that you really do 
Everybody knows that you've been faithful 
Ah give or take a night or two 
Everybody knows you've been discreet 
But there were so many people you just had to meet 
Without your clothes 
And everybody knows 

Everybody knows, everybody knows 
That's how it goes 
Everybody knows 

Everybody knows, everybody knows 
That's how it goes 
Everybody knows 
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/leonard+cohen/everybody+knows_20082809.html ] 
And everybody knows that it's now or never 
Everybody knows that it's me or you 
And everybody knows that you live forever 
Ah when you've done a line or two 
Everybody knows the deal is rotten 
Old black joe's still pickin' cotton 
For your ribbons and bows 
And everybody knows 

And everybody knows that the plague is coming 
Everybody knows that it's moving fast 
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman 
Are just a shining artifact of the past 
Everybody knows the scene is dead 
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed 
That will disclose 
What everybody knows 

And everybody knows that you're in trouble 
Everybody knows what you've been through 
From the bloody cross on top of calvary 
To the beach of malibu 
Everybody knows it's coming apart 
Take one last look at this sacred heart 
Before it blows 
And everybody knows 

Everybody knows, everybody knows 
That's how it goes 
Everybody knows 

Oh everybody knows, everybody knows 
That's how it goes 
Everybody knows 

Everybody knows

Meet Kian, the new family dog!

Mom loves Kian

Resting from the hype of national holiday Nov 1 and Nov 2, as we catholic countries go back to trace our root connections by visiting our ancients who passed away.

My family's go-to place was Heritage Park in Makati City. So aside from participating in the age-old national tradition, we also had mini-reunion. Here are some pictures from that full day of walk, picnic style sit-downs and plenty of fresh winds to keep us cool under the sunny sky.

BTW, yes, we have a family dog, the name's Kian, you will see this adorable dog on the pictures below^^

Pagoda-like structure at the heart of Heritage Park

Dad entering ala-Chinese Pagoda structure in the middle of
Heritage Park. Cool ^^

Inside Pagoda

And folks, here is the adorable dog Kian ^^

Kian getting pet by dad

And another picture ^^

Kian <3

Good reads

Here are some interesting quotes to make us think and feel about our journey in our lives so far: 

You’re a gorgeous mystery with a wild heart and a lofty purpose. But like all of us, you also have a dark side — a part of your psyche that snarls and bites, that’s unconscious and irrational, that is motivated by ill will or twisted passions or instinctual fears.

It’s your own personal portion of the world’s sickness: a mess of repressed longings, enervating wounds, ignorant delusions, and unripe powers. You’d prefer to ignore it because it’s unflattering or uncomfortable or very different from what you imagine yourself to be.
– Rob Brezsny

A line from the movie, "A Dangerous Beauty"

Veronica Franco: I confess that as a young girl I loved a man who would not marry me for want of a dowry. I confess I had a mother who taught me a different way of life, one I resisted at first but learned to embrace. I confess I became a courtesan, traded yearning for power, welcomed many rather than be owned by one. I confess I embraced a whore's freedom over a wife's obedience. I confess I find more ecstasy in passion than in prayer. Such passion is prayer. I confess I pray still to feel the touch of my lover's lips. His hands upon me, his arms enfolding me... Such surrender has been mine. I confess I pray still to be filled and enflamed. To melt into the dream of us, beyond this troubled place, to where we are not even ourselves. To know that always, this is mine. If this had not been mine-if I had lived any other way-a child to her husband's will, my soul hardened from lack of touch and lack of love... I confess such endless days and nights would be a punishment far greater than you could ever mete out. You, all of you, you who hunger so for what I give yet cannot bear to see that kind of power in a woman. You call God's greatest gift- ourselves, our yearning, our need to love - you call it filth and sin and heresy... I repent there was no other way open to me. I do not repent my life.