a stellar fact
stars are thousands of light-years away from us. it's possible that before the light reaches us, the star explodes, but we see it and will still continue to see it for next thousand (or respective) years.
light-year:
(noun) the distance that light travels in one year (9.46 trillion kilometers!)
May 28, 2005
May 25, 2005
dead stars
i and a friend of mine once talked about past loves. eventually, i had to ask him if he still had feelings with someone from the past. he told me he was seeing dead stars.
i thought i heard him wrong. i certainly didn't get it. then not long after that, he handed me a book (which was a collection of short stories by some of our favorite authors) and told me to read one particular story entitled "dead stars".
set in a conservative filipino community, the story was of an engaged man who, almost at the eve of his wedding, falls for someone else whom he had met only briefly. will he dare choose a stranger, a woman that could cause violent commotion in his heart, yet had no place in the completed ordering of his life? or should he follow the dictates of society and marry the woman practically everyone he knew expects him to marry? he ended up marrying the woman he was engaged with but not without having to suffer from the excruciating dilemma. many years later, he chanced to visit the stranger whom he had spent only a few brief moments with. he thought he had been longing for her all those years. but he realized that he only had been seeing dead stars.
interestingly, a line said, "he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, but seemingly still in their appointed places in the heavens".
then i remembered that some of the stars we see at night have long been burnt-out. it takes a lot of years before a star's light rays reach us. sometimes we still see those light rays even when the star has long become a dead star. and that's how we look at our feelings sometimes.
sometimes, love dies. some of us will know when it's about to die. some of us don't. but most of us try to hold on. for how can you part with something that gives you so much joy? how can you part with something that makes you feel so human, so alive? no, you desperately cling to it.
sometimes you think you're still in love; however, when you try to rekindle those old feelings and try to spend time with that special someone, you might suddenly realize that you were simply hanging on with the feeling.
only with the feeling.
i thought i heard him wrong. i certainly didn't get it. then not long after that, he handed me a book (which was a collection of short stories by some of our favorite authors) and told me to read one particular story entitled "dead stars".
set in a conservative filipino community, the story was of an engaged man who, almost at the eve of his wedding, falls for someone else whom he had met only briefly. will he dare choose a stranger, a woman that could cause violent commotion in his heart, yet had no place in the completed ordering of his life? or should he follow the dictates of society and marry the woman practically everyone he knew expects him to marry? he ended up marrying the woman he was engaged with but not without having to suffer from the excruciating dilemma. many years later, he chanced to visit the stranger whom he had spent only a few brief moments with. he thought he had been longing for her all those years. but he realized that he only had been seeing dead stars.
interestingly, a line said, "he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, but seemingly still in their appointed places in the heavens".
then i remembered that some of the stars we see at night have long been burnt-out. it takes a lot of years before a star's light rays reach us. sometimes we still see those light rays even when the star has long become a dead star. and that's how we look at our feelings sometimes.
sometimes, love dies. some of us will know when it's about to die. some of us don't. but most of us try to hold on. for how can you part with something that gives you so much joy? how can you part with something that makes you feel so human, so alive? no, you desperately cling to it.
sometimes you think you're still in love; however, when you try to rekindle those old feelings and try to spend time with that special someone, you might suddenly realize that you were simply hanging on with the feeling.
only with the feeling.
May 20, 2005
uncle's wedding
my uncle had his wedding two days ago and we went all the way to the south the night before the big day. it wasn't very easy going around with a big family and we were lucky to have caught up with the last bus trip that night. and so we went all through that familiar journey again with walls and walls of mountains at one side and the sea visible at the other.
i and my other two siblings was part of the bridal entourage and i was an instant lector, too. my family and relatives went swimming in the nearby cold spring before we all went home.
i and my other two siblings was part of the bridal entourage and i was an instant lector, too. my family and relatives went swimming in the nearby cold spring before we all went home.
May 17, 2005
camiguin
well, the last major thing so far was our trip to Camiguin. it was totally fantastic. the first day of the trip was spent in Iligan. Tinago Waterfalls is easily the most beautiful waterfalls i've ever seen. its the type of picturesque background perfect for fairytale movies. we also dropped by the Maria Christina Falls and nearby cold springs. our second day was spent unwinding and relaxing in Cagayan. Lim Ket Kai was great. we also visited parks, with colorful lights that were such a sight, sprawled all over the city. on our third day we woke up early and all scrambled to the terminal to catch the bus for Balingoan. from there, we got onboard the ferry for Camiguin Island. Camiguin at last! it is this closeness to earth that gives this feeling of heaven... our itineraries for the remaining three days included Ardent Hot Springs, Sto. Niño Cold Springs, the Cross Marker and Sunken Cemetery. i especially like White Island. and the pastel buns, hmmm, yum yum. i haven't seen all our pictures yet but i'll be posting them on my website as soon as i get hold of them.
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