Know Me More

1. Would you marry for money?
--> No. I have lots of money. I need love. And love is something money can’t buy.

2.Have you had braces?
--> Nope. I have great teeth. Hehehe.

3.Could you live without a computer?
--> hell yes. It’s not a necessity.

4.If you could live in any past time period where would it be?
--> dark ages. sooo romantic. and so dead.

5. Do you drink enough water?
--> yep. The body is made up of 70% of water and I make sure I sustain my body with it.

6.Do you wear shoes in the house or take them off?
--> barefoot. aaaah the cold marble floor.

7.What are your favorite fruits?
--> apples and strawberries

8.What is your favorite place to visit?
--> The Church

9. Are you photogenic?
--> yes. Sometimes I wish I could be a photo for a day so I could frame myself up in the museum. hahaha

10. Do you dream in color or black and white?
--> damn confusing vivid colors.

11.Why do you take surveys?
--> well, I want people to know me. kahit bits of info lang.

12.Do you drink alcohol?
--> Everybody does.

13. What is the most beautiful language?
--> Language of the heart.

14. Do you like being kissed when you are asleep?
--> NO. I prefer to fight back.

15. Do you like sunrises or sunsets the most?
--> sunset. sobra. the colors. The beauty. haaaayyyy

16. Do you want to live to be 100?
--> NO DAMN WAY! i wanna die looking good and not all prune-like and wrinkly. LOL!

17. Is a flat stomach important to you?
--> I am so striving for that. =)

18. Are you tolerant of other people's beliefs?
--> yep. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. Just don’t push it too much dude!

19.When you watch movies at home, do you like the lights on or off?
--> ay sus. who ever heard of watching movies with the lights on?!

20. Do you believe in magic?
--> No. not everything "magical" is real. most of them are illusions to make us believe they are.

21.Do you think you can draw well?
--> No. Stick figures lang. Hehehe. I’m such a “righty.”

22.Do you like to watch cartoons?
--> hell yeah!

23.At what age did you find out that Santa Claus wasn't real?
--> I never believed in Santa Claus but I believe in the magic of Christmas.

24. Do you write poetry?
--> yes. Scroll down and you’ll see.

25.Do you snore?
--> i dont unless after sex or sobrang pagod... studies show na mas nagsosnore ang natutulog ng nakatihaya... around 80% ata. or something. Then 60% pag nakatagilid. pero almost 10% lang ng nakadapa. eh nakadapa ako matulog. LOL!

26. you sleep more on your back, front, or sides?
--> nakadapa... so ON my front! LOL!

27.Would you rather have a poodle or a rottweiler?
--> a silly looking jack russell.

28. Are you basically a happy person?
--> yep. in a very dark sort of way. LOL!

29.Are you tired?
--> not one bit.

30. Did you drink anything with caffeine in it today?
--> nope. walang grande wet warm quad ristretto vanilla cappuccino sa bahay.

31. Have you ever met the one off the internet?
--> LOL. mai pen rai.

32. How many phones do you have in your house?
--> phones? 3. ang line? isa! LOL!

33.Do you get along with your parents?
--> sorta! sila ang di maka get along sa akin!

34. Do u smoke?
--> a lot!

35. If you're gonna talk to someone today, who would it be?
--> myself. I’d tell him to move on, be happy and enjoy. LOL.

Forever Friends

Sometimes in life, you find a special friend. Someone who changes your life just by being a part of it.

Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop. Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world.

Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it.
This is forever friendship.

When you're down and the world seems dark and empty, your forever friend lifts you up in spirit and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full.

Your forever friend gets you through the hard times, the sad times and the confused times.

If you turn and walk away, your forever friend follows.

If you lose your way, your forever friend guides you and cheers you on.

Your forever friend holds your hand and tells you that everything is going to be okay.

And if you find such a friend, you feel happy and complete because you need not worry.

You have a forever friend, and forever has no end.

Jonathan Fragata

Jonathan Fragata

I hate Jon! Don’t you just love to hate people who seem to have it all? Perfect teeth... Perfect hair... Perfect abs… I hate Jon! hahaha.

Jon is the baddest good guy I know. The perfect balance of someone who is reliable, responsible, and totally real, yet knows that a little immorality can be good for the soul. Someone who does what has to be done, yet still has a suitcase of bad-boy stories to brag about to his grandchildren one day. Naturally on the wavelength of the abstract, he seems to be on a deeper level of understanding than most people I know. You can talk to him about anything and he guards secrets with his life.Jon never fails to amuse me. Heck, nobody surprises me, (and scares me to death) with what he can do, what he can blurt out, and who he can brawl with (hehe, my apologies for the term), just like Jon does. But the good thing about that is that he can do all these for his friends. That makes me very lucky indeed (for I can't afford to have him otherwise... hehe).

Jonathan Fragata is one heck of a daring, bold, courageous young guy.

While Sigmund Freud believed in psychoanalysis, Jon believed in getting off one’s bottom and living life…

While Sigmund Freud said it’s about the past, Jon says it’s about today, it’s about the future: where we’re going not where we’ve come from.

Jon, I really am thankful for the friendship we share. I have learned a lot from this lad who possesses so much courage to do whatever he thinks is necessary, even if it may be unconventional to some most of the time. But come to think of it, to a certain extent, don’t we all wish to have such audacity too?

Today Jon, I want to thank you. Not for anything special, but just because you have a great personality that makes you pleasant to be around. Not just because you are so much fun, but because you know when and how to be serious. Not just because I feel like I can talk to you about pretty much anything but because you make friendship seem like no work at all, and even though that's the way it should be . . . Not every friendship is easy.

Although there are so many wonderful things about you . . . I want to thank you most of all for just being you. Because when you are just being you, it's so naturally comfortable being me.

Dude, I may not have been that expressive, but I truly am grateful for the friendship. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

And when it seems you have no where to run, when it can’t get any worse… when you need a shoulder, when there is no one left to turn to… I will be here… as I always have.

Marvin

On Reading

I collected those long, melancholy lists of the great books that high school English teachers passed out to college-bound students, and I relied on having consumed those serious litanies of books as a way to ease my way into the literary life.

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly and for all time. Great writing sticks to your soul the way beggar's lice adheres to your pants cuffs after a walk through untended fields.

I find myself happiest in the middle of a book in which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

Here is what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone.

Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed me with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.

All through my life I have told myself -- no, ordered myself -- to read more deeply, read everything of consequence, let the words of some new writer settle like the dust of silica into the ledges and sills of my consciousness.