music is a necessity

Without music, life is boring. Now here are my top favorite bands and artists that I love listening to.

1 Lifehouse - introduced to me by my best friend/boyfriend
2 Eagles - influenced by my father, love the Hotel California
3 Hillsong United Australia - of course, I can't exclude this from the list, love their songs speaking of God's love and grace, I'm a Christian folks
4 Jitterbox - meet my best friend/boyfriend, a guitar enthusiast, he's really good in playing the guitar, one of the reasons I fell for him (lol)
5 Sarah McLachlan - another artist introduced to me by him, her music is very pleasing to the ear

You may want to try listening to them. I'm sure you'll all have fun.

one click away

It's a great thing nowadays that with just one click, everything we need appears in front of us, obviously through the internet. I admit that before I hate research. You know, the task that our teachers and professors give us that makes my mind go crazy finding good books as my reference. And now, I am very grateful that we already have the internet that with just one click, my research is done. Ever wonder how technology helps us a lot?

Now, my favorite thing about the internet is my access to different stuff. Movies, music, books, business, food, travel, name it and the internet has it. But one great thing about it is communication. The social networking sites that makes us communicate and build relationships with anyone really got its power over the internet.

random thoughts

I am craving for a dark mocha frap of Starbucks. People say that it has a strong taste, but actually, it really satisfies my cravings. Yum!

I am hoping that I and my partner could have the wireless broadband already so that I can update this blog stuff.

I want to go to the mall and window shop. Yeah! Just window shop 'cause I don't have my budget this time. I'm still not ready to splash out for the things that I want.

money matters

The first semester was finally over and now that it's already our semester break, I am thinking of how will I spend my time wisely. During my first days of vacation, I just spend the rest of the time relaxing and watching television and texting and eating. But now, I think I have to move. As I was browsing the internet yesterday, I came to this idea of earning money through blogging. I am fond of writing my thoughts, not in a diary or a journal, but in the internet, of course through different blog sites. I am enjoying it really. And since we're facing financial problems, I thought of this idea of having to earn money through my blog entries.

Hope this one works. Sometimes, I am having a hard time thinking of stuff to write about. I hope the Blogsvertise would give me tasks already. (lol) In fact, I am very determined to continue this thing so that I could have extra income. Good day everyone.

waking life

Waking Life Reaction Paper

“I’m afraid we’re losing the real virtues of living life passionately, the sense of taking responsibility for who you are, the ability to make something out of yourself and feeling good about life. Existentialism is often discussed as if it’s a philosophy of despair. But I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre once interviewed said he never really felt a day of despair in his life. But one thing comes out from reading these guys… is not a sense of anguish about life so much as… a real kind of exuberance of feeling on top of it. It’s like your life is yours to create…And when Sartre talks about responsibility, he’s not talking about something abstract. He’s not talking about the kind of self or soul that theologians would argue about. It’s something very concrete. It’s you and me talking. Making decisions. Doing things and taking the consequences. It might be true that there are six billion people in the world and counting. Nevertheless, what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms. Makes a difference to other people and it sets an example. In short, I think the message here is…that we should never simply write ourselves off…and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It’s always our decision who we are.”

My interpretation of this part of the film is that people nowadays are living their lives without realizing the real value of it. As I’ve noticed, some people live exactly as what the society dictates. Our nature to be individuals or to become different from the others is not realized because what happens now is that, what the society finds suitable or perfect, people follow it. So, the result is, if this is the trend, for example, people’s minds are set to following these and if not, they are most likely not acceptable.

The truth is we as individuals can live our lives different from the lives set by the society. We are individuals. We CAN and we MUST be different from others. For a growing and maturing child, for example, what he sees and thinks of his environment, he believes these and then, he follows the teachings, behavior, actions, etc. There is still a possibility that his mind can be changed and, then he decides to be different from the rest, in terms of his actions, beliefs, behavior, etc.

In this way of living as unique individuals, we have the capability of know and understand ourselves deeper that whatever situation happens, we will be able to make decisions not relying on the dictates of the society.