Passion

What is Passion?

There are many forms of passion; in my world I see it in two different extremes: the passion to hate and the passion to love. But what happens to the middle of the extreme? I know a lot of people that fall under that category. For me I’d like to think that I fall under the ‘passion to love’ category. But how does one define passion?

In the past, we have read many classic literatures with a lot of themes that cover passion.
Let’s take Romeo and Juliet as an example these two lovers were willing to sacrifice their own lives for the sake of love. How about Beethoven? He had so much passion towards music that he was able to write a whole orchestra piece despite of his hearing disorder!

In my observation I see no evidence that kind of extreme passion anymore. All I see is dead passion waiting to be re-ignited. Not a lot of people are ambitious enough to actually have a burning desire to do something about their lives. Why are we so willing to live a mediocre life when we have so many resources at our disposal?

I only know of one person that actually have such passion, he is near and dear to me and he is battling cancer. His passion to live inspired me to write this article because I want people to know that passion is important to live a life with no regrets.

It saddens me to see that there are kids who take school for granted not knowing that in this day and age – education is important. It’s really hard to get a job considering the economic adversaries we are facing today.

I envy a lot of people for their free time, but its time not well wasted. Some people may argue “I only want to have fun during my youth” but what use is that when your future is not looking good either? I made a mistake of not continuing my education in Nursing, but I don’t necessarily regret it. My passion lies elsewhere and I want to start on that road. A lot of people will tell me that it wouldn’t make me a lot of money, but money is not what I’m after. You see if I can do the thing that I love almost everyday and earn money doing it, then I’m happy. But if I continued doing something where I get paid a lot…but ended up hating every single day of it then what’s the point? I’d only go from one end of the extreme to the other.

Passion to hate Passion to love

What is the key to passion? I can’t answer that because the answer lies in each individual. The answer will vary, as for myself I can honestly say that my family and my passion for art is what drives me each and every day to keep looking forward to tomorrow. Even as I watch my dad lying helpless in bed, I tell myself that tomorrow his pain will be taken away, not by drugs or by modern medicine – but a miracle that will soon occur…maybe not today or tomorrow but only in His time. I’m not going to lie, this illness has affected me in every way possible: financially, physically, and mentally. But these obstacles is not going to stop me from wanting what I want, when I get the chance I will go back to school to get my degree and I will succeed and I will be proud that my parents raised me well enough to have ambition as high as Mt. Everest and the passion as deep as the Marianas Trench.

No offense is implied when I say people with no ambition drains the life out of me. It’s just that my passion to do something with my life burns me to the core that I just want to go and jump out of a 100 story building. It’s a bit of an exaggeration but I mean it when I say I really want to go back to school. Only – life got in my way.

So if you have any passion, ignite it don’t just let it sit idly by inside you, make it burn and see where it takes you.

Blogging on iPod

Wow this is so weird. This is my first time blogging on my iPod its kind of cool. I am getting used to it, I’m typing a little bit faster now hehehe…

This is cool actually but ya when I’m running out of things to say already lol. but I hope I can type a longer blog about my asian blogging haha.

Anyway I haven’t blogged for so long. hmmmm neways I’m done with.

Children are not for me….

I’m at my aunt’s house right now and it’s excruciating. There are three kids here and one of them is having a tantrum. Just a little over an hour ago two of them started fighting with each other; body tackling and all. At fist it was really funny at fist but now I’m just really frustrated at the moment. I don’t know how to explain a child’s behaviour . The child has been crying for no apparent reason and it’s bothering me that I can’t figure out what’s bugging him. Anyways I hope this kid starts to behave. My ears hurts.

Code Geass R2 – 08

Its so hard to do screep cap so I won’t do one. I’ll just comment on the episode and that will be that.
All I can say about this episode is…that it makes me want to see episodee 9 so much more. I’m really excited to see as to what actions Suzaku will take next. I really feel his morales has gone astray and that he really doesn’t know who and/or what he is fighting for. Unlike Mr. Zero who knows fully well what he is fighting for and his resolution is absolute. I was soo amazed at the 1 million Zeros, I thought that was the highlight of the season..hahah. Don’t you guys think so? It was amazing how they thought of that idea. Also, the fact that they brought up some philosophical questions like what defines culture, ethnicity and so on and so forth. When you think about it, if you really are true to your country it should not matter where you are and who you live with..I’m not going to elaborate on that since we all have our own opinions. Anyway apparantly the next episode won’t be showing until 2-3 more weeks due to the quake in China..I don’t know what the connection is but it seems like Japanese network are so very cautious with things like that…I don’t know I don’t keep up with the news. So yah, let’s just hope next episode takes us to a different level of high. hehe

Shannon Mckenna – Edge of Midnight

Edge of Midnight

This one I think had the best plot of all the Mcloud series. To be honest, after I read this book I felt really exhilirated. To sum it all up, I felt really intense from start to finish. The bad guys were surely intense and Sean Mcloud was intense despite having seen him more of a happy go lucky person in previous books. I felt really connected to him rather than the other brothers, I think Sean is my favorite and then Davy.

Anyway Edge of Midnight (EoM as I will call it from now on) is really fast paced, its nothing different from her previous work so its a fast read. The sex in intensified of course to go along with the intense story line, but I think the dialogues were funnier in Extreme Danger. There was one thing that left me hanging though, what really really happened to Kevin. I really want to know because in EoM there seemed to be a hint that Kevin is alive? I’m referring to the Kite that Sean noticed while the two of them visited the old janitor. I also felt a connection with Liv, very strong but fragile thing. I, however hated her parents at first although I got to like her dad ONLY in the end but I could never forgive her mother. She so annoyed me, this kind of annoyance is nothing compared to the annoyance I felt for Raine’s mother.

I really enjoyed this book a whole lot. So I give this book an A ^__^

Mary Balogh – Simply Magic

Before I must resume to my duty to wash my laundry I must first write a review of the book I was recently reading. I must say I found myself quite enchanted by what I was reading and got lost in it that I forgot what time of the day it was. I finished the book all in one day, but of course not without interuptions.

I’ve always loved Mary Balogh’s books. Always and forever I think. There is just something about her novels that compels me, not only because they tell tales of Love but because of its entirety. I believe I was born in the wrong time, I think I was intended to be born sometime when all the Dukes and Duchess were still popular. I really ought to have been born at that time, it seemed like a lovely time to have to live in.

Anyway, back to my review. I have just read Simply Magic a story of which took place somewhere in England. A story between a  teacher, Ms. Susanna Osbourne and a Viscount, Peter Edgeworth. Two very different world come to meet and soon they find themselve friends and not long after lovers. For a time they both denied that what the feel for each other is more than a friendship. After a long while of ‘accidental’ meetings, they soond find themselves admitting to each other that they cannot bear to see each other dancing with another.

I felt really really really excited when I first picked up this book. I have been keeping up with the series that started with One Night of Love. I was also very happy to have read familiar names such as the Bedwyns which appeared in almost all the series. Also some name that I had long forgotten, Lauren and Kit. Her books are all consistent; the time, characters, and the place and settings. That is what I admire most about her really: her ability to be consistent. Everything just falls right into place, for example the story with Morgan and Alleyne Bedwyn. If you look back you would have noticed that Alleyne was indeed in Morgan’s story right at the very end. I have only come to the realization of that after I have read Alleyne’s story.

Oh such wonderful stories they were!!!!!

I really have to stop writing like this. hahaha.

Anyway I enjoyed Susanna and Peter’s story so much that I just had to buy another book…it’s not within the Simly… series but its of another one that was previously written by her. I think it was just a reprint. Anyway the story never gets old since its already written to be a historical romance. Even if I read it over and over again I don’t think I’d get wary of it. Anyway I’m off to the other novel from the the Gilded Web series. Wish me luck and I hope to keep myself at bay from the Bookstore..I really should stop spending…or else I’d be broke again tomorrow.

Anime and Manga that are worth watching

It seems that lately I have been engrossed in my manga reading/anime watching past-time. I haven’t been doing anything aside from school and work. haha. Anyways I’ve become really addicted to anime again after a two years abstinence from it. (muahaha) So let’s get to it, I think quite a few people have heard some of these title already but I still want to put my review on them.

I shall start with the manga’s that I am currently reading. Right now I am awaiting and SEARCHING for manga scans for DESIRE CLIMAX. It’s not H…e..n..you get the point. Its ECCHI (kinda sounds like sketchy) which means lots of sexual content (I have just recently learned from reading these kind of shoujo manga that ECCHI means “to make love” ^__^). I am also reading LOVE MONSTER which falls under the same category, however its not as intense as the former title.

DESIRE CLIMAX has a really good plot to it. There’s actually a lot of substance in the story which keeps you going. For some people, it may just be another perverted manga but the story makes up for all the perviness. Honestly I thought at first it was all going to be ‘this and that’ but the story is THICK! I’ll break it down for ya. The main character, Mio is of poor family she has a sick mother who is in the hospital, and a younger brother, who suffers from sister complex. She is forced to work since she has to support her family. One day a Man steals a kiss from her and he tells her that he “bought” her and she is not HIS property.

RIght now the story already sounds good, but wait…the guy who stole the kiss from her is none other than their landlord’s son! So now she has to work as a maid in his household. How sad eh? aha, but get this Prince (the main guy) does unthinkable sexual stuff to Mio…oddly enough whenever she says NO he still keeps going and it happens quiet alot in this series. She learns to love him in the end.

haha. Substance eh? Some people might think not. Anyways if you’re looking for a good SHOJOU manga to read you definitely have to try this. 

Screenshots can be seen if you simply scroll down to the end of the post. (Don’t get a nose bleed now)

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So we move on to the next semi-ecchi manga I was talking about, “Love Monster”. Its a good anime for real, also got substance. THe story is quite intresting and the love story is cute. You’d never believe how young mangakas draw their heroine these days. *shakes head* I wish they’d make them look more feminine like Mio in Desire Climax…honestly.

Anyway the story revolves around Hiyo, a normal girl who is fate to enter a not so normal school. She is rejected from the highschool she applied to..why well cuz she failed the entrance exam. She mopes around and finds out that she is invited to attend school at SM High.  Turns out SM stands for St. Monster so all of the student attending are monsters. Especially the student union president, he’s a Crow the highest rankend monster in the Monster World. He announces to the whole school that Hiyo is to become his wife. After that a whole series of events follows as we travel along the path of Hiyo and Kouro’s romance. (ehhh?!) isn’t that romantic.

I might add as a side note…I’ve become quite the pervert after reading these titles. *shame on me* Irregardles, the story is really quite entertaining.

Now..let’s see Okay so I will leave the ecchi manga aside and go to the Action type now. I’m both supporters of shoujo and shonen type anime. I like having best of both worlds. I’m sure you’ve heard D. Gray Man, there’s nothing new there aside from the fact that the new chapters are getting really really interesting. I find myself getting really anxious as I wait for the next release of the newest chapter…I’m fidgeting with angst right now. It’s really hard to control which is why I started looking for something else to read to occupy my time. See D. Gray Man was a rebound anime for me, since I was having Gakuen Alice withdrawal.

D. Gray Man RoX my boxers…for real.

Okay so after suffering from yey another withdrawal I had to find another anime to satisfy my hunger, so I tried watching Vampire Knight. Sure enough I was hooked..stupid hot looking anime guys WHY WHY?! Aren’t real men enough to give me a Myocardial Infarction? (Reminds me of Choi Siwon all of a sudden) So as the the name states, this anime is about Vampires. Story is really good and the characters have lots of good points to them. I think you guys will like it.

I now turn your attention to Gakuen Alice, a strangely cute anime with a good plot. Before I was soooo over reluctant to try out this anime but ALAS you should not judge a book by its cover. The animation gave me the impression that it would be one of those animes like Sister Princess or Mahoromatic…not at all. This anime was so good I had to read the manga after watching the anime. So now I suffer from it because they come out with new chapters ever 2nd of the month (I think, that’s what I’ve read)……

So there you have it…my long suffering. Anime kills me everytime, I even got excited watching Okane Ga nai…wahhhh o.O (I’ll leave you to search it up I’m too embarassed) and Jonjou Romantica…sigh* shojou is just too much for my heart. I think I will have a heart attack one day. One of these days…

Choi Siwon to model for Bench Clothing

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! and YEEEEEEEEEEES at the same time! When I read this news on Asianfanatics that my husband Siwon is going to be the new model for Bench I just about died. I’m so happy that we’ll get to see more of him modeling, but wahhhhh I wish I was in the Philippines right about now. To top it off, he gets to meet KC Concepcion…that’s my cousins ‘girlfriend’ ahaha. Ironic. My cousin loves KC Concepcion and I am practically (in my fantasy) married to Siwon. T__T Anyways, I’m still recovering from my near death experience after reading this news hahaha. I spaz too much, but what can I do? The man is gorgeous, chocolate abs, great smile and all…

Help me…

Gakuen Alice…HELP!

I’ve recently caught the Gakuen Alice craze and I’m in desperate need for someone to lead me to the whereabouts of ang manga scans that has been translated…It’s really hard to find. I mean the chapters folloing Chapter 56. So if you have any links could you kindly message me? hehe The anime is addicting, at first glance the anime is much more that you bargained for..It’s so much better! So if you’re looking for some lighthearted romance and Comedy this anime should be right for you.

SJM and Fahrenheit!

Its a different height of hotness! SujuM boys and Fahrenheit is love! I can die happy. hahah Now if all 13 members of the original Super Junior were to be in the same pix as well..wow my life is sooo over!