For A Dear Someone...

Glad to hear your spirit's up once again...Life's like that, we go through a cycle and they're normal. So does the season; it changes from winter into spring and summer to fall. I see it as a blessing of renewal, to be able to experience every possible emotions --- or phases in life to fully understand, appreciate and treasure each golden moments.

It's like this...how can we acertain if something is really sweet if we haven't tasted something bitter? ...Or how can we distinguish nor say we're amazingly happy if we hadn't cried nor ever gone through sadness?

Such contradictions right? But they're all an integral part of the whole picture, it won't be complete without the other.

Keep smiling to keep the sun shining at your end... Because when you do, it brings extra warmth in our hearts to know that you're perfectly fine. Take care always dearest 'te Glad...


Most Sincerely,
Isabel

Simple fragments of...

 During my childhood years, we would always share/ eat big breakfast every morning. Inang Maria would always make simple garlic fried rice, fried eggs or omelette, fried sweet pork sausages with Asian spices and fried sweet plantains... She would also prepare my mom's special "TAPA" it's a homemade dried salted beef. I could almost hear the undeterred pounding sound made against the back of the big iron knife and wooden chopping board made from cuttings from a fallen Mango or Santol or Acasia tree. The remaining natural oil from the wood mixed with the aroma of just perfectly fried TAPA could instigate a hungry growl from my tummy... Glad I had those years and moments.
For I considered those simple fragments of my childhood days  priceless...or shall I say delicious!

A Writer's Prerogative...

Being a writer gives us the freedom to create any story that we think is worth telling. We create our own world, we view things in a different light and different angle. We write and word words based on what's in our mind and whatever our hearts had dictated at that moment.

Emotion plays an integral part of being creative, it adds certain shades of color in what we write, even the process of creating music or capturing an object on a canvas with oil paints or other medium. For without emotion, a piece of music is worthless. It's like listening to a monotonous melody; no rhythm, no character nor dynamics whatsoever. Writing translate our emotions, thinking and dreams through all our five senses; sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

I would like to elaborate further, but more often a shorter version's enough to make a mark on someone else's consciousness.

Night and Day

What do you call when night is about to end and a new day is about to be born? I mostly hear them say "dawning of a new day" or " the day is done and nightfall comes." 

Wanted to write some more but really pressed with time. It's the hazard of residing away from your own native home, have to keep up with the present and current way of living.
I have so many things to share but hard to translate it at once, much more to a foreign language. If it's only possible that all nations speak only of one language then everything including human quests and past history might have been written in a different light. Perhaps things would have been better, easier and ultimately peace will prevail.



Wanted to write and add more but it's time to turn in and rest...until then, goodnight.

Inner Silence...

A Mind At Rest...

What do you do when your mind just want to sit still? Even uttering words an effort, just wanted to stare at the four corners of this room and listen yet not really listening to favorite piano pieces. It just passes through the inner part of my auditory canal and made no impact, nor impression at all. Why do I ask and question this? I should just let it go and let time pass by into space, after all it's a nice respite from all the chaos from the external world.

I am not dead tired, but only pausing after a hectic work schedule and listening to all the woes and complaints of my subordinates. Perhaps a little frustrated that I have no instant solution to their problems, these were caused by hard times and global economic crisis. The sad and ultimate decision came from the highest hierachy. It's final, no way or room for reversal.

So here I am, in a muted state. I have no impressive thoughts to share for there's nothing much I can say or do at this moment. Just trying to be in tune with my inner self  and with the ways and laws of nature, going through a normal cycle of what we call human life. Life is precious and abounds with many possibilities and so I shall sit here and let the sun disappear behind those massive mounds of earth. Let darkness enwrap me as if in a deep and dreamless slumber... Let the night prevail and turn into a new day again. Then as it turns, I shall open my eyes and greet it with renewed and sublimed hope.

Your friendship...

I was once a candle alighted encased within a glass lantern, bringing off such bright light or so I thought...

Did not know for ages that a much brighter glow can be created when one becomes two. Not until I've found you and your friendhip...

My hand into yours...

Here, in this little nook that's not bounded by time, space nor status...
You are always welcome to visit anytime, for in here you can pour and open up your mind and heart...
No constraints or whatsoever...

Take my hand into yours dearest friend, let our mortal breath and soul be free and mingle with the wind...

Love is...

A friend once asked "Where is love?"

I paused and answered..."Love can sometimes be found in the eyes of someone who gave you the kindest of gaze or smile. During the most trying times of your life, when you thought all has gone awry..."

Like destiny...

To find a gem of a friend is like destiny...It comes unexpectedly, just like an emerging sun amongst the darkened clouds in the sky... a true blessing indeed.

Promises to keep...



Sleep deprived since Friday, but could not rest until I've fulfilled all the tasks that needed to be done. A promise is a promise and no matter how hard it is with my busy life and work schedule, I am compelled to complete it. I should stop here now and will continue on later, this is my first posting in haste.Until then...