Road Signs

Posted on March 15, 2006 at 7:13 pm | 13 Comments
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“Two roads diverge in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both”

These are the first two lines from the poem “The Road Not Taken” written by the famous American poet, Robert Frost.

Yes, it is hard to decide which road to be taken even there are only two choices. But what if on your way, you met a fork that has three, four, five or more prongs to choose from? For sure, things will be more complicated since there are too many choices to consider; you canÂ’t just take a road without thinking. It might be the road that will change your life forever thatÂ’ll make you regret in the end.

We make decisions anytime, anywhere. Actually, we make decisions everyday. Sometimes we choose the wrong pathÂ… I know, some of us tend to go back and start allover again but sad to say, many of us forget that we can still go back and start again from the beginning to mend the things that we had messed. Even though we meet dead ends here and there we should not lose our hope.

If there are decisions that we cans still change, there are also roads that are difficult to escape from, as if you entered a labyrinth and can’t find the exit no matter what you do or you’re on a one way road that’ll not let you go back. These are the things that you can’t change forever. This occurs especially if you took shortcuts and dark alleys while taking the right path. As what they say, “Laging nasa huli ang pagsisisi.” We will only regret it once we’re running out of gas, once we are already lost.

I hope there are stop signs or slow down signs in the wrong roads so we can think twice and that they are not one way so if we choose to change our decision we can take a u-turn easily.

There are also times that while we are taking the right path we have to take detours and such. These detours are contrast to shortcuts – these will make our lives harder… a longcut if I may say. No matter how rocky or steep the road you took maybe and if you know that you’re on the right track, do not back out! Why choose one of those shortcuts if they will make your future disastrous?

Graduation is very near, I hope each and everyone of us will choose the right path. For now we should part ways, but in the end, I know, we will meet again… in the Finish Line.

PS: I think this one will be published in our official school publication. I still have to pass this article to our moderator. Do you like it… eh? The post below is very sensitive. If you want to know the password, just leave a message on your comments and I will give it to you.And oh, the post title has nothing to do with its contents…

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Mega ultra stampede

Posted on February 4, 2006 at 10:26 pm | 15 Comments
Filed under Daily Dose • News Central • Pinoy Pride • Site Stuff • Tube Talk

[EDIT] Someone was able to hack (sort of) my site. He/she changed the latest entry on my gbook stating that I stole the script that I used for my gbook. No, I did not steal it! It’s from codegrrl.com. I have a link to codegrrl over the links page! For the mean time, I will disable my askme and gbook. [/EDIT]

Today is the first anniversary of ABS-CBN’s noon time show Wowowee. Frankly speaking, I hate this noon time show. Well, because there are so few hosts and guests. But you have to know that this show is not for those people who are looking for entertainment (sort of); this show is for our poor countrymen who are trying to catch their lucks. A show that tells the people who are living in the slums that there is still hope. But there is still this fact that some are joining the games of Wowowee because of their personal necessities. Until now, I can’t believe that this noon time show have a very high ratings (am I right?).

The first anniversary of the said noon time show was to held at Ultra. But an unexpected accident happened.

The world turned up-side down in just a second.

A big twist of fate.

Instead of 20 tricycles, some taxi cabs and two million pesos (about $40,000) of prizes are at stake. Lives of many people were in danger. A stampede occurred this morning. If my resources are up-to-date and are correct, there are already 80 plus people who died, mostly are elderly women.

I only knew this news around 11:00am because I was surfing the internet. At first I was thinking, “Stampede at Ultra? Hu? Is there an event there at the moment? Is there a concert? Was there a bomb found that’s why there was a stampede?”

The reason: somebody tripped on a ramp. Very impossible eh? I can’t believe it that only because someone tripped, a stampede occurred.

The consequences: aside from those 80 plus people who died, there were hundreds of people who were injured, many children were lost in the midst of that tragedy and Wowowee’s first anniversary was not pushed through.

While I was watching the news, I got irritated again. Well, I was flipping the channels from ABS-CBN to GMA over and over again (the news was not yet at CNN nor BBC). And grr… there was this women that was interviewed by a reporter from GMA. She’s telling the reporter that she’s mad because she was not able to enter the auditorium. Wow! Does not she have any single piece of feeling? There was a mayhem that happened and then there are still stupid people who does not have any common sense! This is going to support my statement above (that those people who are joining Wowowee are greedy).

It’s so nice to hear that there are still many people who are helping these poor people. I even heard in the news that there are some who are giving flip flops to the victims. And I’m so glad that the management of ABS-CBN will shoulder all the expenses of the victims even though they have no faults whatsoever.

This day was supposed to be a good one for all of the people who went to Ultra, and now, it seems like that a dementor sucked all of our happiness.

This is the irony of life…

This is my way to express my sympathy to the families of the victims…

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