Last night, I had the chance to watch the movie Bridge to Terabithia. I have to say the movie is good. Because it is one of those movies that moved me to tears. And I am no movie-crier!!! It seldom happens to me. And if it does, just like when I watched this film, it is automatically nominated to favorites. Why? Because only great films with great stories to tell do that to me.
Now I am here to talk about Terabithia.
Terabithia. A place just for us, as Leslie described her vision to Jess. It's paradise for me. I am in search for my own Terabithia. If I am going to be honest with myself, I have already found my Terabithia. In fact, it is in already my wallpaper. That majestic sun-kissed Sydney Harbor says it all.
For reasons unknown even to me, it is as if Austalia wants me to have it as my Terabithia. I hope it is. It has bothered me this long so I hope it means something. That it really is my Terabithia. Not because it is where somebody awaits, but it because as Leslie again says, a place where I can be free, and create a new whole world.
I hope I get to go to my Terabithia, sooner or later. And create a whole new world of my own in there. Where dreaming is unbounded, and where you can always chase them to reality without being hurt.
I love Maybelle... she is just adorable! I want to make a Terabithia for Maybelles out there. And like Jess, to make bridges for Maybelles to cross their own Terabithias, wherever it may be, near or far.
Terabithia, welcome me home!
em!
I can't believe I ignored Jerry Maguire for the longest time. Ever since high school, my classmates would always recommend Jerry Maguire. When you ask them what is their favorite movie of all time, Jerry Maguire is never absent. I've heard about it. I've even seen the HBO schedule when it will be shown. I ignored it. The next day, it was the featured HBO movie. Still ignored it. That was maybe more than 5 years ago.
And then I hit google. This year. I, beling bored as I was, and seeking for distractions, I typed in: top romantic videos. There he was again... Jerry Maguire.
I finally gave up.
I saw the movie tonight after having postponed it for so long.
And I realized, they were all right for loving Jerry Maguire.
It's one of those movies that I'll always remember even without repeatedly watching it. Because it sticks to you. It's not just another romantic movie anyway.
It is a story.
And for me, that is the most important thing about movies, books and other media things. That it tells a story. Yes, all have stories. But stories that tell of courage, of loyalty, of love, and of stick-to-it-iveness attitude is few... and Jerry Maguire is one of those movies that has that kind of story.
Jerry Maguire is not exactly my favorite character in the movie. I mean he was great. He fought on, even when his very self wanted to reject him.
Nor was it Dorothy. Not that there was anything bad about her. Who would go with somebody heading through hell but Dorothy? I admire her for that. Even more when she uttered my favorite lines: "I love him! I love him for the man he wants to be and the man he almost is..."
But my favorite character is none other than little Ray. Awww... He's just adorable! And the thing is, he's just a child, but he already knows how to listen that even old Jerry appreciated it. Haha! I just love Ray! Besides, he was the first bridge between Jerry and Dorothy. Not the Memo/Mission Statement/Book. But adorable Little Ray.
But whoever your favorite character is, we'll sure to agree on this: 5 Stars for Jerry Maguire!
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The poem that follows is the poem that helped change me to become a better me. From high school until now, it guides me. Sometimes, it guides me without me actually knowing that I'm acting on it. Or some, when I definitely need a reminder, I read through it until it again sinks in. This poem is a definite tool that I can't lose for my survival, for my sanity, for me to be the best I can ever be. It was authored by the way by one of my favorite authors, Anonymous. :)
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk rejection.
To place dreams before a crowd is to risk ridicule.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing has nothing, does nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering or sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow, or love.
Chained by his certitudes he is a slave.
He has forfeited his freedom.
Only a person who takes risks is FREE.
7/30/2008 9:28 AM
Hi.
I know that I may have said that I want to change, or that I am changed, or that I am back more than a dozen times. But whenever I say it, it always feels like it is the first time. Perhaps that is a good thing. Because it may just mean that I never really get tired of being in tune with myself and with change that comes along every so often.
One thing I noticed, though, is my change in style- both in writing and in speaking. Sometimes, I am too wordy, sometimes too “hanging”. Maybe it is time again to open the grammar school.
Changes. You may be asking now what recent changes I have undergone. I won’t say it’s for nothing. Because it definitely affects me in a big way.
First off, I want to be kinder. But not really nicer. Just doing a lot more things with love. But it does not mean that I will tolerate the bad and demeaning things.
Second, I want to set my own identity. An identity, that when you go looking for me, you wouldn’t identify me with someone, or always being with someone. That is sooo frustrating. Really. So I want to be my own person. Just be known as Em. Not as Em the friend of somebody, the daughter of whoever, or the one who is always hanging out with somebody else. So. I want to set my own identity.
But of course, my identity will always be rooted in my true nature of goodness and godliness. An identity in touch with my soul, that precious piece of God in me. So basically, it is Em who obeys her heart and soul more than her mind (that sometimes can be tricky), and someone who reflects more goodness kindness and love.
It all came around last night when I realized that I was not me- too much backstabbing, too much of a critic, too much of noticing every ugly detail possible. It was as if I was turning into somebody without knowing it.
So I needed to turn around and go back to my roots.
To let my own true nature of goodness shine and live.
That is the change I want to see in me.
And as Mahatma Gandhi said it, the change in you may just be the change you wish to see in the world.
Only one thing in this whole planet can I truly change and that is me. And perhaps, that change can also stir the world, even if it may just be felt as a gust of wind. But maybe, that gust of wind, may have given life, breath, and hope to another being. And that is great joy.
Change. I embrace it.
Em J
9/16/2008 9:37 PM
What Happens in Vegas
I never thought that I would enjoy this movie or if it would ever be the type of movie that I like to watch. But as Leo Buscaglia says it, surprises just brings you joy. And this movie came as a surprise!
It’s one of those movies that make you laugh, make your jaw fall to the floor and still manages in the end to touch that chord in you as romantic movies do.
This movie certainly hits 5 for me.
It makes me realize what love can really make. Love makes you be you and nobody else. But at the same time, it gives you the challenge to be a better you.
It’s a deep realization for a light movie, but that’s what I got from Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fuller. J
M
Again, this is on memory lane... just posting this up Hope I won't be confused on reading my blog afterwards. 9/2/2008 8:25 PM
Today was the start of my renovation. I prayed hard last night that God may bless this renovation. I called it as my renovation because I thought it is appropriate, because I am already made, only that changes have to take place to make things more em-my. Just to make it right.
We had our 2nd day of duty in Calabanga. There were few patients but what makes the time so worthwhile was Sir Patoc discussing to us IMCI and inserting a lot of things in the process- be it action potential or cardiac assessment itself. In every duty, I always felt inadequate or unprepared no matter how I read the night before, no matter how I try to perfect my skills in the area. But I guess what really was missing was the things I didn’t know yet. Or those things that I never really bothered to know about. In this duty, it is just filled. Indeed, where could I have learned the sound made when the abdomen, the lungs, or the bones are percussed? Yes, I may have already have a background regarding the physical assessment, but never has it been as thoroughly discussed but as simply put as it is now. Now it is impressed in my memory even more. A plus is that Sir Joseph is no longer that toxic anymore. He still is, but he’s a little loose now, he laughs more and he establishes rapport with us, shares both funny and serious experiences and even welcomes comments and laughter for us. So even if it is too hot inside the center, or that we are seated in kinder chairs, it is so worth it.
I am so different from kharlie. Or we are so different from another. Hay. Sometimes, you just know that there is some kind of friction between us. When I am silly, she is serious. When I am independent and can do anything with anybody, she needs a familiar face to be there by her side ALWAYS. (Sometimes leading to me being left behind… L). Hay. I think Sir Joseph noticed a bit of that earlier this day. Hhhaaaayyy…. Sometimes, it is so draining. What did made us stick together as friends, I don’t know what… but it sure is a strong adhesive. J
Dad, help me be kind… to understand things not with my definite insight, but with your infinite love and wisdom. Help me live for you. Help me let you live in me. Help me let you show through me. Amen.
Em
12:48 PM 10/14/2008
Your greatest challenge is YOU.
I had just finished watching The Politics of Love. It is a talk delivered by Dr. Leo Buscaglia in a live audience of thousands in Chicago. As always, whenver I finish watching or listening to Dr. Leo, I am mystified. I am left in awe. But most of all, I am left with a passion within me to start filling in my role as a lover. To start enriching my capacity to love.
One of his greatest message in this talk is LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT.Our own happiness depends on us. Not on other people or any situation. I realize, that happiness can never be something that you can buy in a pill or in syrup that instantly can make you feel happy. Instead, happiness is within us. But it i something that we have to decide to realize.
Last night, I watched Oprah. They were discussing about the power of thought, of affirmation and on many ways we do not realize that the universe is conspiring with us. I made my vision board. It is, in fact, my laptop's wallpaper as I write. But what the show and Dr. Leo's talk made me realize altogether is that life is what I make out of it. It is in my hands what I do with it. Yes, God has given and will guide our journey. But always, it is our choice to follow His great plans for us, or will we stray out of it because of fear?
Always, we are given the choice to say YES to the beauty of life and to be human- to experience life in its fullest, to reach our fullest capacity.
But when we say YES, it is imperative that we should be ready to be actualized, and know that everything is working for the best, and not for the bad, Trials and obstacles may come along the way, but it is for us to reach our potential, not for our detriment. It is to make us be more like the person God wants us to be.
Dear God,
Help me. I want to say YES. To life and to You. I know that you have already planned out my steps. And I trust you that it will lead me to become the best person I can be, and make me an instrument of your love. Lord, I have my own vision. I know you have your plan for me,too. This plan that I made, it is what my heart wishes. And believing that you are within me, working within me... I hope that we share this dream together.
Help me make it a reality. Help me to become the person you envisioned me to be.
Empower me. Lead me. Teach me to love, learn and live.
This I pray, believing that we together create miracles.
Amen.
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"Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries." — Theodore Roethke
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"Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle." — Wislawa Szymborska
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"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." — Rumi
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"Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding." — Yehuda Amichai
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"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint…and that voice will be silenced." — Vincent Van Gogh |
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a world in us,
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"Friends are
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