One Tree Hill - Voiceovers Done By: Nathan
"There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days."
"Stepping up. It's a simple concept. It basically means to rise above yourself; to do a little more, to show you something special. Something like this. Lucas is gone, but that doesn't mean the season is over. As a matter of fact, I say it's just beginning. You might want to stay out of my way for a while. Life's funny sometimes; can push pretty hard like when you fall in love with someone but they forget to love you back, like when your best friend and your boyfriend leave you alone, like when you pull the trigger or light the flame and you can't take it back. Like I said, in sports they call this 'stepping up'. In life, I call it 'pushing back".'
"You know it's been said that we just don't recognize the significant moments of our lives while they're happening. We grow complacent with ideas, or things or people and we take them for granted and it's usually not until that thing is about to be taken away from you that you've realized how wrong you've been that you realized how much you need it, how much you love it. God, I love this game."
"You ever heard the expression 'The best things in living are free.' Well that expression is true.' Every once in a while, people step up they rise above themselves sometimes they surprise you and sometimes they fall short. Life is funny sometimes. It can push pretty hard but if you look close enough, you can find hope in the words of children, in the bars of the song and in the eyes of someone you love. And if you're lucky, if you're the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love decides to love you back."
Episode #320 - Everyday is A Sunday Evening
... that doubt is the greatest gift.
Any change on its way from one place of stability to the next one, passes ...through a period of doubt. Your old perspective has to disintegrate, and doubt comes in for a visit - even if only for a moment, before the new perspective takes root. Doubt is your greatest gift, because from doubt you can go anywhere.
(From Facebook's 'Read Your Message From God')
Parola sa Bagacay Point (Bagacay Point Lighthouse) –
One of the few remaining architectural examples of American colonial architecture, this lighthouse stands at a towering height of 72 feet in an uphill area overlooking the Mactan Channel. This lighthouse was built in 1904 by an executive order by Governor-General William Howard Taft.
The lighthouse has become a favorite playground of photo enthusiasts, subject of Cebuano painters and like the history of this guiding light, this structure has been a favorite backdrop of lovers who are about to tie the knot.
NOW LOOK FOR THE LIGHTHOUSE...
Photo taken by Vicky Montilla-Nepomuceno
T’WAS DEADLY BEAUTIFUL PATTAYA
T’was in November of 2008 when three of my bestfriends Kay, Shelene and Brian went to Thailand to celebrate Kay’s birthday, to think years ago we are just fine celebrating birthdays with just a cake and few candles…
T’was after braving the famous yet confusing Chatuchak and Suan Lum markets in Bangkok, a bumpy ride with a Thai Dumbo at Samphran and a night with a belly full of Tiger beer at Route 66 that made us think our vacation needs an R&R. Yup! You’re reading it right a vacation consumed by consumerism needs rest and relaxation.
T’was not the excitement that we’re going to a not-so remote Coral Island that almost killed me but the nerve-wracking speedboat ‘whirligig.’ During that thirty-minute plus trip I was already recording a scene of me going back to the Philly inside a cadaver bag. All I can remember that time is that my eyeballs we’re literally rolling not only because of fear, but because I’m already frantically searching for an orange jacket… a life-saving vest!
T’was seconds after setting my feet on the sugary sands of the island which made me realize that a trip to a paradise of bliss can never be smooth sailing. Like, the most pleasurable experiences in life are best felt after trials and tribulations. True indeed that, “it is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea…” Lucretius said that!
T’was this experience which made me think (minutes ago) that – I may be wallowing on the kind of stress that I’m journeying right now. But, at the end of this septic tunnel is a white island plucked out from Maldives! Yes! We are always on the anvil; life at any time can become difficult… by trials God is shaping us for higher things... beautiful things...
Life is indeed deadly beautiful.
HOUSEISMS/ HOUSISMS – Dr Gregory House’s Satirical Jabs
Season 1 | Episode 1 (Pilot)
Rebecca Adler: I just want to die with a little dignity.
Dr. House: There's no such thing! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it. I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass. It's always ugly -- Always! We can live with dignity; we can't die with it.
Season 1 | Episode 2 (Paternity)
Dr. Foreman: He probably just moved. Nobody stays perfectly still for their MRI.
Dr. House: Yeah, he probably got restless and shifted one hemisphere of his brain to a more comfortable position.
Season 1 | Episode 5 (Damned if You Do)
Dr. House: I've found that when you want to know the truth about someone, that someone is probably the last person you should ask.
Season 1 | Episode 6 (The Socratic Method)
Luke: Is this a good hospital?
Dr. House: Depends on what you mean by "good". I like the chairs.
Season 1 | Episode 7 (Fidelity)
House: As long as you're trying to be good, you can do whatever you want.
Dr. Wilson: And as long as you're not trying, you can say whatever you want.
Dr. House: So between us, we can do whatever we want. We can rule the world!
Dr. House: Clinical depression. Incredibly contagious. Every time I get around one of them, I get blue.
Season 1 | Episode 8 (Poison)
Dr. Foreman: The kid was just taking his AP calculus exam when all of a sudden he got nauseous and disoriented.
Dr. House: That's the way calculus presents.
Dr. House: I'm sorry - the fact that the sexual pleasure center of your cerebral cortex has been overstimulated by spirochetes is a poor basis for a relationship. I learned that one the hard way.
Season 1 | Episode 11 (Detox)
Dr. House: I take risks - sometimes patients die. But not taking risks causes more patients to die. So I guess my biggest problem is I've been cursed with the ability to do the math.
I am JadedKnight...
It's been eons since I wanted to start my own space inside the I-way. There's Debbie and Sher who would constantly ask me when I'll start my piece in the web; Jona and Dhon who would push me to give blogging a shot (to release stress); and Markee our homegrown blogspot guru who would just give me that "don't-be-a-dummy-Clarence-stare" every time I barge at his station and do my FAQ'ish exploits. Markee's resignation would always be just click here, then here and there!
With Posh and Becks on my boobie, a crawling Internet connection, a very hungry belly... and pulsating heartbeat (blame it to the boozzie earlier)... I was able to gather enough force and fervor from literary land to draft my first entry... KAZOOOM to moi.'
So that my spot wouldn't be as dubious as the ones used by extremists and leftists, because of the word 'jadedknight.' I need to answer the question you have for me. Why JadedKnight?
As a pupil of experience, people sometimes see me as jaded because of my cynical views on love, and love only. Outlook brought on by the idea that this path that I took would never give me a Grimm'esque tale on love. But really, behind the jaded armor that I fashionably wear, I'm a knight. A knight who craves for the so called "moments," that sword slashing nirvana where everything seems to move faster than carriage pulled by a batallion of white Thoroughbreds. Like a knight who is a staunch defender of his king, I am a protector of my life's king... my heart. Earnestly, at this very instant, and I would utter it only here, I'm a knight ready to hand down my lance of haughtiness, my sword of fretfulness and my shiny shield of vainglory for that requited ardent feeling to be emotionally attached.
I am a JadedKnight because behind that strapping cynicism on my definition of love I am deeply fascinated by simple yet beautiful love stories (and cry also). By now you would be thinking that I'm such a crackhead because I can't seem to get a purer definition on loving and romanticism. Maybe, this is for seeing the bigger picture of being attached and... thinking the kind of pain that you have to endure after falling out of love. For my endless search (or am I really searching?) for THE ONE and the chivalry on the side, I am already weary, disillusioned, ergo jaded! But like a knight, and my friends would always say - I should need to pursue the search gallantly to conquer my castle with all the charms of good life in it.
So can anyone place their chalice of thoughts on my roundtable? Would love to hear from people who valiantly pursue the king of kings... LOVE.
