You're bittersweet. I hate you yet i love you more than you think. You're so simple, you make me smile. Youre so insanely complex, you challenge me. I get you, and its an honor that i do. The life in you made mine more than worthwhile. Your ideals, very admirable but are sadly lost to forces that you allow in your life. Then you realize they dont give a damn. Oh but i care, i really do. I miss your optimism. Even if life seems so far from being reached, just your presence makes me proud to be the person i've always known. You shaped me and made me strong, not realizing it until now that they took you away from me. I laugh becuase you taught me to. Besides, youre funny. I cry because of hurt, but all the other aspects of who you are would always wipe every tear and replace it with half-met dreams. Thats what you do. And you're freakin good at it. You force me hope, to admire and to be inspired. Even if nothing will ever become of you, as they all say, i trust that you are exactly who you are. No one will be better than who you've become to me. Srew all facts and statistics. I choose you because youve always made me happy. You're timeless. Your beauty should be the only wonder in the world. Your character, priceless. It takes more than passion to love you without partiality.The rhythm and sound of your voice will forever echo in my ears. The environment you circle in will always feel positively familiar. your colors vivid and bright, never will they fade. The brown skinned people around you, i love dearly. Their warm spirited beings will always be above and beyond anyone's standard of who is good. The work of your hands and ability to always RISE leaves me dumbfounded, always. You're poor, but you're joyful. You're "weak" but always proud. You wow me, you really do. I miss you. I miss the feeling of having you around. It has been one full year, my dear. I will go back to you, i really will. I will see you soon my home, my love, my very own manila.  "Sumasabay sa iyong pulso, bawat kilos alay sa kumpas ng iyong musika. Nayayanig sa'yong tinig tuwing tinatawid and kalsada...Sinasakyan and ritmo ng maynila. Kahit ano man ang mangyari...ikaw parin ang pipiliin."
 | aaaaww.. dags! waaah.. ikain na lng natin yan! (sabi ni dino) haha!
happy anniversary dags and california! but there's definitely no place like home. let's try to make this close to home denise! ;)
is there BS this friday? same time same place?? |
 | nice post! i feel you, dags :) |
 | kala ko ako tinutukoy mo eh...oh menn.. |
 | awwww. ang ganda dags. :' ) hay. pero we shall bloom where we are planted diba? kaya panalo mga promises ni God eh, lalo na talaga yung Jeremiah 29:11 and Romans 8:28. Its been more real to me like never before! :' ) |
| hey!!! punta pala kami LA ni tonts sa July!!! kasama din sila mom, dad and kel. KITAKITS TAYO HA?!!! Burbank kami. :) |
 | Manila misses you, Dags!
And I do too! :* Mwah! |
 | Sa simula kala ko.....sayang! HAHAHHA, JK. ♥
Happy anniv :) Balutin ko sarili ko para sayo (that sounded wrong, lolz.) ! |
 | Omigooosh! Dags! I looooooooovesssssss the post! I like: " I love because you taught me to"..........Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw. How can we NOT laugh, right? With signs like "Petal Attraction" and "Caintaky Fried Chicken- The Fried of Marikina"??? |
 | aaaaw dags we miss you!! =)
the last part parang song ng "SOUND" album2.hehehe |
 | AANGGGGGGGGGGGG LUPETTTT MO WITHHHH THEE WORDS DAGSSSSSSSS!! nice nice ;p
CHAMPION KA TALAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
hahahahaha!!!!!! |
 | dags! grabe!! i know what you feel, you'll realize lang talaga how beautiful things can be pag wala ka dun. grabe, galing! manila misses you too! hehehe! i miss you too dags.. one million timeth! il see you soon (right?) hahaha! :D |
 | ccreyes wrote on Mar 29, '07, edited on Mar 29, '07 DAAAAAAGS!!! :(
thanks for sharing this.
it's beautiful. i LOVE MANILA!!! huhuhuhu....
this reminds me of something i wrote (for the Philippines naman)
when i was a student pa. WHOA! 1998 pa! yikes, almost 10 years ago.... |
| haha....oo nga eh, i really felt old while typing that, kuya Kris! (haha, nag-"kuya" bigla eh!) hahaha anyway...
HERE IT GOES!!!
it's very emo ha.... (hindi pa uso ang emo nun, emo na ako...hahahahaha) |
| The wind blows against your face and you are weathered as you smile.
Constant change and time
build your bleeding heart as you cry for
foreign lips to kiss your tears.
The fish and rice sing your praises
and the sun sets behind the softness of your cheeks.
Oceans in your eyes manifest an historic valley or things devoured,
disposed of.
You go down into the underground earth and my soil turns barren.
So how do i take stock of your riches and treasure your treasures?
Verdant is your clothing as animate are your jewels.
Life is what you offer, while love is what you live.
Sadly, i am ignorant of your pain and i don't know how to save you.
How do i bleed in your stead when i am not aware of your wounds?
Show me how to love you...
Teach me how it is to die for you,
to be strong enough to be the one
to lick the tears off your evanescent facial expression.
I see you suffer in your birth, and all i can do is cry.
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halaaaaaaa!!!! ANO YUN???
hahahaha, bata pa ako nun, sorry, sorry!!! hahahaha
pero yun...that's how i felt about our country eh. huhuhuhuhu.
it's not very impressive prose, i but i wanted to share it na rin. heeeeheeee....
KRIS!
kala mo, ikaw lang ang poet?
you dunno it!!!! hahaha..
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| ay, tsk! mali....hindi lumabas yung mga indent-indent. oh well...
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 | manila...manila...i keep coming back to manila...sing with me now! :) |
 | hehe, astiiiiiiiiiig!!! galing dags!!! miss ko na din pinas!
-sisig
-jollibee chicken joy at jolly hotdog
-manggang hilaw
-tapa!
-murang sine
-CCF retreats
-traffic na malupit
-maingay na busina
-jeep!
-tunog ng tricycle
-SM at Podium
-and the list goes on and on and on and on.....
no place like home indeed mate! haha :D |
 | nosi!!!! nosi balasi!!!! (head banging inside manolo) |
 | wow. hindi ka lang magaling sumayaw, magaling ka pa sumulat!! this is an excellent excellent piece of work, kumare! wow, amazing how you continue to surprise me, mare! you should write more, dags. kitakits sa timawaland! mahal kita dags. ("ang bagoong, kapag binuksan...sumisingaw" - cristy fermin) |
 | iba talaga ang pinas. i love this post, dags.
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 | DAAAAGGGAAA!!! Nice Post! :) No Place like Home Talaga! We miss you! |
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aaaaww.. dags! waaah.. ikain na lng natin yan! (sabi ni dino) haha!