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invictus' respite <a target="blank" href="http://loveilc.multiply.com"><img src="http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o35/eggay/tatakkristo.gif" class="band" border="none"></a> http://louesc.multiply.com/  "...kung ano mang kabutihan na maari kong ipadama, itulot ninyong magawa ko ngayon ang mga bagay na ito... nawa'y 'wag ko 'tong ipagpaliban o ipagwalang bahala... sapagkat 'di n'ako muling daraan sa ganitong mga landas... <a href="http://www.maploco.com/view.php?id=2066111"><img src="http://www.maploco.com/vmap/2066111.png" alt="Visitor Map" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.maploco.com/">Create your own visitor map!</a> Invictus by William Ernest Henley; 1849-1903 Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. Wed, 6 Aug 2008 18:15:32 -0000 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:05:00 -0000 invictus' respite <a target="blank" href="http://loveilc.multiply.com"><img src="http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o35/eggay/tatakkristo.gif" class="band" border="none"></a> http://images.louesc.multiply.com/logo http://louesc.multiply.com 100 100 Imagine A World Without Filipinos *Originally published in Arab News on June 16, 2008, it's in today's (July 6, '08) issue of Philippine Daily Inquirer. Read on... Imagine a world without Filipinos Abdullah Al-Maghlooth Al-Watan, almaghlooth@alwatan.com.sa Monday 16 June 2008 (11 Jumada al-Thani 1429) Muhammad Al-Maghrabi became handicapped and shut down his flower and gifts shop business in Jeddah after his Filipino workers insisted on leaving and returning home. He says: "When they left, I felt as if I had lost my arms. I was so sad that I lost my appetite." Al-Maghrabi then flew to Manila to look for two other Filipino workers to replace the ones who had left. Previously, he had tried workers of different nationalities but they did not impress him. "There is no comparison between Filipinos and others," he says. Whenever I see Filipinos working in the Kingdom, I wonder what our life would be without them. Saudi Arabia has the largest number of Filipino workers — 1,019,577 — outside the Philippines. In 2006 alone, the Kingd... http://louesc.multiply.com/journal/item/20/Imagine_A_World_Without_Filipinos Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:05:00 -0000 Kum ba yah! Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah! Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah! Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah! O Lord, kum ba yah! Someone's laughing, Lord, kum ba yah! Someone's laughing, Lord, kum ba yah! Someone's laughing, Lord, kum ba yah! O Lord, kum ba yah! Someone's crying, Lord, kum ba yah! Someone's crying, Lord, kum ba yah! Someone's crying, Lord, kum ba yah! O Lord, kum ba yah! Someone's singing, Lord, kum ba yah! Someone's singing, Lord, kum ba yah! Someone's singing, Lord, kum ba yah! O Lord, kum ba yah! Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah! Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah! Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah! O Lord, kum ba yah! *circling around bonfire as the night wind crept though our bodies, we sung this song during Boy Scout days.... Wheew! Memories! http://louesc.multiply.com/journal/item/19/Kum_ba_yah Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:22:00 -0000 For you, a thousand times over! <a href="http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SGMglAoKCrAAAGZOPAs1"><img class="alignright" src="http://images.louesc.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGMglAoKCrAAAGZOPAs1/Kite_runner.jpg?et=ZDHp%2BbPfgxKrKTi4Q0nFrA&nmid=0" border="0"></a> The above is the resounding line of this international bestseller of Khaled Hosseini. If there would be anything good typhoon Frank had caused, it was that it made me stay home that rainy, floody Sunday and have me the grand time finishing ‘The Kite Runner’. Kite Runner is a riveting, moving account of an Afghan life from its pre-Soviet splendor, to Russian domination, until the present Taliban rule. It puts face of the lives affected, I mean ravaged, by the always ill-causing war. It was like getting into the world and the lives of the war-torn Afghanis I only sigh whenever they take a slot of CNN or BBC news. While the novel is fictitious, it can never be far from being real. Amir and Hassan can just be anyone among the best of friends who tire themselves of playing, who love climbing trees, and enjoy kite tournaments. It would be easy for me to believe it’s a memoir of Amir, or any Afghan for that matter, who might be somewhere out there, exuding the prize of atonement after year... http://louesc.multiply.com/journal/item/17/For_you_a_thousand_times_over Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:27:00 -0000 Pagyukbo sa Lumanoy I do not know what the term means but for us, it means the cold water gushing out of the earth and stones and trees in that midst of the forest. Lumanoy, as we call the place, hide its own mystery. Behind its cold water, beautiful surrounding, big balite trees (that you cannot distinguish the roots from the trunk lies stories relayed from mouth to mouth about beings more than us and of how they manifest themselves to us locals. Whenever we have the chance, we always go there... this time there were many of us. Cousins from the first to the nth degree and lifelong friends.... 'twas a great time http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/41/Pagyukbo_sa_Lumanoy Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:17:38 -0000 Sa Aking Pag-uwi Pinalad na nakauwi ng dalawang linggo sa amin... Pista sa amin.... Kasal ng kapatid ko... Reunion ng Clan namin... Ligo sa Lumanoy... meeting of friends and relatives... at gabi-gabing pagsasama at kunting tagay.. wheee http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/39/Sa_Aking_Pag-uwi Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:07:38 -0000 ScopeworksAsia Batch III Reunion A well-planned reunion... turn out to be what it is...well-attended.... wheee I was a scopist before I was a callboy, and it was my first job... so i have ample memory stored to that.... they said your first job will carve the rest of your employment career... wheee..i don't wonder why I still doze myself to sleep in my work desk up until now.... heaven forgive!!! To Kat: Tnx for the pictures (to give justice for bringing your, shall i call it 'backpack'?); Teng and Ayan, it's my turn to post... sana makita ng mga nde pumunta... http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/38/ScopeworksAsia_Batch_III_Reunion Tue, 20 May 2008 14:10:00 -0000 Sa Quezon Province May 1 ng gabi anggang May 2... Pagkatapos ng kainan kina TL, lumipad ang ibang Silverhawks papuntang Quezon province.... Yun, pinagpalipas ang gabi kanila Nene Agnez sa Sariaya; naligo sa Paraiso Beach Resort sa Sariaya (where relaxation is an art, wheee); kumain sa Kamayan sa Palaisdaan sa Tayabas (the ultimate eating experience); at umakyat sa matarik na Kamay ni Hesus Grotto (said to be 3rd largest Christ Statue in the world) sa Lucban.... http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/37/Sa_Quezon_Province Sun, 11 May 2008 23:28:02 -0000 Invictus sa Baler Gawin ko nang photo storage itong mulitiply ko... nung end of Disyembre pa'to.. na delay lang kasi nka'y Mike yung USB... So yun, Pinuntahan sa Baler Aurora and nearby http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/36/Invictus_sa_Baler Sat, 3 May 2008 12:55:58 -0000 Existential Cravings <img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/LTESCA%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/4/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt=""><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/LTESCA%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/4/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="">"Is life a mere routine, in the greater scheme of things?" That is from the song Pilgrim's Theme and it has been on top of my head eversince I attended that graduation in Maryhurst. I was reminded the time when I plunged myself into the 'real world' that my simple wish was to be ordinary and to live a life like that of an ordinary (it's not that I am 'extra-ordinary', I am not just the usual, wheee). In the years past before then, I belabored myself in trying to be different and of feeding my thoughts of higher thoughts, of dreaming higher dreams, of aiming more than an ordinary man can get. But then, there find an end in trying to be exceptional, of trying to be different. It feels freer and happier to dive into the pool of ordinariness where I can blend... without losing my colors. During that time, I watched the film American Beauty where says a character, "Nothing can be any worse in life than to be ordinary." My answer then was: "Let's see." <a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_r-WVk4eNLxk/SBQhAgqlwuI/AAAAAAAAACw/4rFly8fBi9U/s1600-h/1_291248878l.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 264px;" src="http://images.louesc.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/SBQiOQoKCrAAAAXcenc4/1.jpeg?et=SSYW4OiW%2Cx1XJywRty%2CnBg&nmid=" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193812562917311202" border="0"></a>Now, I see. I am right, in as much as t... http://louesc.multiply.com/journal/item/15/Existential_Cravings Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:44:00 -0000 Vote for the New Seven Wonders of Nature Cast your votes for the New Seven Wonders of Nature. Please visit the link for your votes. As of writing, our very own Tubbataha Reef is on the 8th rank and Palawan's underground river is on the 63rd. Occassionaly, Bohol's Chocolate Hills and Albay's Mayon Volcano appear on the Top 77. Please show your support and be a part of this history. Wheee... http://louesc.multiply.com/links/item/6/Vote_for_the_New_Seven_Wonders_of_Nature Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:07:34 -0000 Kasal ni Baliling Straight from the graduation in Maryhurst, daan sa Nueva Ecija for this event.. http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/34/Kasal_ni_Baliling Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:20:22 -0000 Floras of Maryhurst 'I see trees are green, red roses too... i see them bloom, for me and you... and I think to myself, what a Wonderful World!' I attended my younger brothers' graduation in Maryhurst Baguio and has this opportune time to walk along the 'hurst' (forest) of Maryhurst and took this pictures... a walked as it was during my stay there... wheew!!! nostalgic!!! http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/33/Floras_of_Maryhurst Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:49:14 -0000 Of Love Unrequited <IMG class=alignmiddleb src="http://images.louesc.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/R-d84AoKCrAAAGYIupw1/heart.jpg?et=%2BVqsoMsgLXzk2jZ64MJmNA&nmid=" border=0>Never in the recesses of my hypothalamus have it occured that I would be writing something in this subject. You see, I have always thought of myself as an "invictus" - the unconquered - and that pains of this kind are too far-fetched. But then, after a third stick of Winston Lights, and still craving for more, just to while away my loneliness and longings for any signs of the topic of my mind, tells me otherwise. Add to that the sentimental cravings of whatever that will keep my sanity in stitch and listening to songs celebrating the sacredness of 'aloneness', I am left but to admit that something in my system is wrong. And as the question long before asked goes: how can it be wrong when it feels so right? I always have that great admiration to the power of will and reason but I see myself defying reasons just to give in. I see myself breaking my very rules and shattering the  principles I verily erected. Then I say, this should be the last only to find myself ... http://louesc.multiply.com/journal/item/13/Of_Love_Unrequited Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:23:26 -0000 Soldiers Caught in the Act (Such A Shame) <A href="http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/R7WeZAoKCrAAAGELB141"><IMG class=alignleft src="http://images.louesc.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/R7WeZAoKCrAAAGELB141/02072008_hotspot.jpg?et=Im2XHd%2B%2C%2BRu75kro77D%2CSw&nmid=" border=0></A>HOT SPOT. These soldiers had a grand time browsing pornographic websites during the first day of the Local Peace and Security Assembly (LPSA) in Tagum City’s Bulwagan ng Lalawigan on Thursday, while National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales was delivering a speech. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo attended the event the next day. The soldiers managed to go online because the venue had been turned into a wifi hotspot for the event.   ****wheew!!!! shame on you@!!! o ano, ha? Anong site yan?bwahaha.... ;-)     http://louesc.multiply.com/journal/item/12/Soldiers_Caught_in_the_Act_Such_A_Shame Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:16:02 -0000 Phil Hansen's Art I simply love his artworks... and the way he does it... see the process.. see the http://louesc.multiply.com/links/item/5/Phil_Hansens_Art Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:46:51 -0000 Sa Kambas ng Lipunan (On the Canvas of Society) Matagal ko nang nakikita ang obrang 'to ni Joey Velasco. Naaalala ko dati may billboard na ganito sa bandang Guadalupe. Ngunit napagtuunan ko lang 'to ng pansin nung Disyembre, nang minsang nakibahagi kami sa kaarawan ng aking kapatid sa loob at napag-usapan ito... Ewanko lang kung nde kayo http://louesc.multiply.com/video/item/7/Sa_Kambas_ng_Lipunan_On_the_Canvas_of_Society Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:50:48 -0000 invictus' respite http://louesc.multiply.com/links/item/4/invictus_respite Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:31:53 -0000 Friendster - LouEsc http://louesc.multiply.com/links/item/3/Friendster_-_LouEsc Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:30:49 -0000 For Even Giants Cry I rummaged through my "red-tin-can-of-memories" this afternoon and came across this letter sent to me by "Beastie". As anyone hungry for sentiments, I read through the letter and relive the same feeling I was having when I first received it. Beastie is one of the few who knows and understand me well enough to be a best friend (thus, 'Beastie'), though we do not meet with each other that much. By now, she's on the realization of her dreams, "magturo ng mga bata sa kanayunan". Our communication now are limited to letters that bears no date for it not to be limited and enclosed by time (actually, letters are hand-carried and received weeks or even months after sending). Though her letter was hand-written on pages taken from a writing notebook, it looks computerized with an Arial, sized 8 font. I used to teased her with that. She included this poem she said she thought whenever she finds herself in wondrous places (to the point of being magical) in the portion of space occu... http://louesc.multiply.com/journal/item/11/For_Even_Giants_Cry Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:57:12 -0000 TAKDER Moments Nung Pasko http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/32/TAKDER_Moments_Nung_Pasko Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:41:56 -0000 IBM-Daksh Blue Frost Christmas Party Bawal ang http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/31/IBM-Daksh_Blue_Frost_Christmas_Party Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:56:01 -0000 SilverHawks Christmas Party '07 dito naman, bawal http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/30/SilverHawks_Christmas_Party_07 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:53:56 -0000 More Than Just Waiting On the World to Change Waiting On the World to Change Me and all my friends We're all misunderstood They say we stand for nothing and There's no way we ever could Now we see everything that's going wrong With the world and those who lead it We just feel like we don't have the means To rise above and beat it So we keep waiting (waiting) Waiting on the world to change We keep on waiting (waiting) Waiting on the world to change It's hard to beat the system When we're standing at a distance So we keep waiting (waiting) Waiting on the world to change Now if we had the power To bring our neighbors home from war They would have never missed a Christmas No more ribbons on their door And when you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want [ Waiting On The World To Change lyrics found on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.completealbumlyrics.com">http://www.completealbumlyrics.com</a> ] That's why we're waiting (waiting) Waiting on the world to change We keep on waiting (waiting) Waiting on the world... http://louesc.multiply.com/journal/item/9/More_Than_Just_Waiting_On_the_World_to_Change Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:42:14 -0000 Gunita sa Baguio Mga 'frozen moments sa Baguio' nilapatan ng magandang musika, at un... isang obra ng kami'y http://louesc.multiply.com/video/item/6/Gunita_sa_Baguio Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:22:47 -0000 Ang Preparasyon The making of my bday October 16.......hehe... earky hours... Ziggy Marley was invited and gave a speech salamat sa mga nag-attend http://louesc.multiply.com/video/item/5/Ang_Preparasyon Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:17:13 -0000 Baguio Escapades 2007 Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 2007, isang planong munti nang maantala dahil sa walanghiyang curfew na ipinatupad bunsod ng rebellion kuno nina Trillanes at mga kasama sa Manila Pen. Ayun at pumila kami nang pagkahaba-haba sa terminal. Present: Ta Phoebe, Nene, Dondon, Joyjoy (aya nilang ulitin mga pangalan nila), Leeboi, Daive, Julyn, Alma, at Ako.... --Baguio addenda... Xerxes (aka Lancelot), Maan Kulit Not in the pictures kasi lashing.... Romeo (minus his Juliet), Bernice Gothika at ang tatlo niyang http://louesc.multiply.com/photos/album/28/Baguio_Escapades_2007 Sun, 2 Dec 2007 05:59:54 -0000