For someone dear to me

Poems by AMLAMA; Photo by Alex M.

A poem for those who have found their soulmate, but could never have him or her.  I’m with you in hope and prayer that you’ll have another chance on a pure love somehow, someday, somewhere…

Haiku

Haiku
III.

Strings pulled her heart
pain echoed in a distance
Ah! melancholy.

Sun Time: A Picture Story

If I remember it right, one of my college professors taught me and my nursing school classmates that sunlight is a Vit. D precursor, which means our body needs sunlight in order for it to absorb Vit. D. I really don’t know if my mom, my mother-in-law and all my married aunts had any idea about Vit. D precursors but there’s one thing they know – it’s good to expose a baby or a child to the morning sun between 7:00 – 8:00 am. They said the practice helps babies grow strong. Well, then, here’s Arvid and Dade Dave in the sun!

Dade, what's behind us?

So this is a shadow! I wonder how I could catch up with it?

Huhuhu, Dade and Mame, I'm tired na po. Can I just catch dragonflies instead?

Pictures are worth a thousand words, and so they said. As such, it is but a great practice to keep them not only in good condition but also with wonderful and thrilling stories to tell!

Enjoy a sunny day!

NaNoWriMo 2

Guess what else I forgot?

I joined the NaNoWriMo challenge, not in September nor October, but in August! To be exact, the date was August 08, 2008.

Hehehe, must be old age ?!

NaNoWriMo

Sometime in September or October I came across NaNoWriMo or the National Novel Writing Month website. Since I have always wanted to write a novel but have no inkling of how and when I would or could start, I thought that signing up for NaNoWriMo would send me dining, drinking, sleeping and whirling with words and characters. But circumstances seemed to block me from writing even a blog article so I was not surprised when I found this letter on my mail this morning:

Dear National Novel Writing Month Author,

The noveling season is almost upon us. If you have already come back to the NaNoWriMo site and signed up for another year of literary abandon, we say: Hello! We’re so glad to have you back. If you are thinking about possibly sitting this year out, we say: Don’t make us come after you.

Seriously. The world needs your new novel. You may not know what you’ll write about. That’s fine. You may think you’re too busy to write a novel this year. That’s okay too. We understand. You’re busy. It’s a fact.

But you know what? Every year, you spend so much of your time doing things for other people. You show up at work and school close to on time five days a week, and you do a good job there. You’re nice to your friends. You take care of your family.

Is it too much to ask for a single month of creative playtime in return for all your labors? Don’t you deserve a 30-day literary vacation? One where you set sail with 100,000 other adventurers and discover one of your great, unwritten novels?

We think you do.

So we have a proposal: Come to the site and sign in. Check out the sweet word-count header. Listen to the NaNoWriMo Supercollider spin out your fortune on WrimoRadio. Update your profile with the cool new synopsis and bio areas. Think about coming to this year’s Night of Writing Dangerously Write-a-thon. Survey the list of celebrity pep talkers who will be sending you encouraging emails in November. Settle in.

Then, if you decide you don’t have time to write a novel, that’s okay. You can shut off these emails under “Edit User Settings” and go back to real life.

But for now? A ship to adventure is steaming out of port on November 1. We want to see you on board.

Your fan,

Chris Baty

Cruise Director, NaNoWriMo

What did you expect?  Of course I was shocked that I even forgot I signed up for it.  But despite that, the email brought me back to my dream of being a novel writer.  And guess what tickled me back to it?  I had a fan…Chris Baty!  Hehehe, Thanks, Chris!  That’s very nice of you!  Writing down “your fan” didn’t only inspire but also challenged me.

Wish me luck!