life's fleeting moments

There are moments in our lives that we call “life’s fleeting moments”. It is that one moment when you feel like you are on a natural high. Never mind the past and the future. What is important is the “NOW” not the “LATER”. It is that one single rush of emotion when you feel like you are ready to explode because of that tingling within you that is so joyful…and then you savor it like you savor the taste and aroma of a good cup of coffee. You touch it with your lips and taste it with your tongue like you don’t want its sweet-bitter taste to fade.

I grasp to life’s fleeting moments like this. An example of moments like these are when I am all of a sudden hit by a pang of natural high as I let the windows down as I drive outside the city. That one moment when I feel that I am the most blessed person in the world, feeling a wave of emotions washing over me when everything else has gone haywire but I am still able to stand and go on with life. But try as I might to hold on to natural high moments like these, they trickle so fast that no matter how tight my grip is and how desperate I am to stop time, I always end up frustrated, because everything in this life comes to end.

I have always imagined how stellar it would be if memories were stored in bottles. The good ones will be preserved in them so that whenever we feel like it, all we have to do is open the bottle and re-live the moment. Lets face it. No matter how much we try to hold onto memories, they become blurry as days, months, or years pass. Then when we try to look back, we always end up upset because all we can remember are just bits and pieces-remnants, of what used to be a clear vision inside our heads. The puzzle pieces will never ever be complete again. But the greatest thing is that although life’s fleeting moments pass by as fast as they came into our lives, we are able to say that we were happy even for just that single moment. And we continue to look forward to the next time we will feel “infinite” and that, for me, is another reason to look forward to when we say our “goodnights” and sleep to tomorrow.

I'm 78% Filipino

[x] You have sung on karaoke
[x] You have bought clothes from ukay-ukay
[x] You have eaten pancit
[x] You have danced a traditional Pinoy dance in front of people
[x] You have been to a free concert
[x] You have never worn contact lenses
[x] You can speak tagalog fluently
[x] You have bought AutoloadMax/E-Load
[x] You like to eat Sky Flakes
[x] You have put oil in your hair
[x] You have washed your/other people's clothes in a palanggana
11/11

[ ] You know the pinoy ako dance steps
[x] You have been to Divisoria
[x] You have been to Quiapo
[x] You have been to Baclaran
[x] You have ridden on a public Jeepney
[ ] You have been to mass at Baclaran Church
[x] You have drunk taho
[x] You have eaten halo-halo
[x] You have hung-out outside a sari-sari store and enjoyed it
[x] You have Jay-Walked
8/10

[x] You have eaten sorbetes
[x] You have eaten lechon
[ ] You love watching Pinoy Novelas
[ ] You have almost been attacked by a monster
[x] You have gone to the province by bus
[x] You have slept on a banig
[ ] You have faked your age
[x] You have swum in a public pool
[x] You have peed in a pool
[x] You have been to a PARLOR and gotten something done
7/10

[ ] You have been obsessed with a pure pinoy actor/actress
[x] You have been to a public basketball game
[x] You have eaten ISAW/DUGO
[x] You have/had bulate stomach when u were young
[ ] You own a Magic Sing
[x] You have played Patintero
[x] You have played sipa
[ ] You have bought a dog/cat from the divisoria
[x] You have played Bingo
6/9

[x] You have been to Pasay
[x] You have taken a road trip by car
[ ] You have thought of using someone for their money
[ ]You have used someone for their money
[x] You have owned/own a black and white phone before
[x] You have slept at around 5am or so
[ ] You have gone a week without bathing
[x] You have gotten drunk
[x] You respect your elders
[x] You like to gimmick
7/10

Now add the numbers up and multiply by 2. Then
title your post as "I'm _% Filipino!"

Freedom is sweet...

as i took my first sip of coffee after a doctor-imposed coffee-less week, i blurted out...."FREEDOM IS SWEET AND LIFE IS GOOD!"

ahhh, i am on a natural high.