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Selected entries from my blogs, posts and statuses. Some of the blog entries are lines from movies, books, songs, my thoughts... Most of the poetry here are mine. Please be kind enough to acknowledge the source if ever you'll use them. Thanks.

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RAIN DOWN (Xanga Weblog Entry)

Mon, 21 May 2007 05:46:48 GMT

21 may 2007, 14.41

everything's still.

the sky darkens.

the wind blows cold.

one,

then two --

drops hit the ground. slowly, but steadily quickening...

then it comes.

the water pours down. it flows on my face, down my neck and to my feet; running through my skin, sliding through my hair, swirling down my arms, smoothing over my limbs, tracing my contours, outlining my body, cooling down my insides, untying my knots. i cry for more, in torrents it comes. pounding on my head, whipping at my back; i stretch out my arms, and the wildly wet wind carries them upward, pulls them to the ground, sloshing water all over me... i lift my voice in joy, i shout my lungs out and scream, i grin freakingly in discontent, wave sheepishly in childlikeness. the rainstorm drowns me, quiets me, provokes me, drives me, pushes me, pulls me back, taunts me, makes me smile... the water cleanses my lips, runs down my cheek, crosses my chest and drives through me to my foot and floods everything in and around me. i jump up and hit the thick curtains of clear liquid, as i hit the ground on my feet, throwing water all around me, surrounding me, pulling me down the quicksand, yet pushing me out of the ground. i hear everything, and listen to nothing. lightning streaks madly across the sky as the inevitable clap of thunder fills the air with such sweet music. my hands flail with the water, fingers grasping each drop as they play with the current and open up to let the waters go. the rain keeps on, falls heavily, kissing me lightly, punishing me harshly, rewarding me fully, emptying me totally. still i cry out for more, and still it comes. down. pouring more. and still more. i drown myself in the rain, the wind, the pain, the storm, the stirring, the whirring, the whipping, the crowning, the flowing, the hitting, the soothing, the painless chill, 'til i can't find myself, yet i'm standing there, holding on to my sides. i see myself, but i can't make out my tears from the rain, i have become one with it, yet broken into pieces that all drained out of me into the ground.

and as carefree as it came, it stopped.
it left -- without me.
leaving me dripping,
wanting...
waiting..

i flowed with the water, flew with the wind
my feet lifted me up, but my head pinned me down.
i dissolved, and reformed; i was destroyed, but i can't go back.

i'm happy. i think.

the rain has changed me.

i think.

it has chained me.

i looked,

but there

was no

sun.

good.

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Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Wednesday, February 10

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:53:22 +0000

zildjoms: Watchadoin' on a Wednesday night? http://bit.ly/RelateIgnite

Multiply Blog Entry: One True Love

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:28:33 +0000

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13 mar 2009, 18.27

so..
you've had a change of heart?

hm..

we'll see..

prove it with your actions.

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Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Thursday, February 25

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:08:17 +0000

zildjoms: No response to "God, what do You want me to do?" Try "God, what have You told me to do that I haven't done yet?"

Multiply Blog Entry: How To Let Go

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:33:03 +0000

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17 nov 2008, 09.33

more than "how",
the right question is "when".

when to let go?

when it's jesus who already calls the shots and not the self.

you're not really letting go of someone or something --
you're letting go of your self.

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Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Sunday, February 28

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:58:31 +0000

zildjoms: GOOOOLDDD!!! http://bit.ly/GoCANADA

MILENYOW (Xanga Weblog Entry)

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:53:00 GMT

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09 august 2007, 17.34

i can't take it anymore,
so i just run away and hide
but just when i thought it was safe outside,
the tide kept rising to unnatural heights

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UGH (Xanga Weblog Entry)

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:21:55 GMT

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12 september 2007, 20.20

uhm, you think i'm into you?
sorry, i'm not that kind of guy.

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Multiply Blog Entry: Kris Allen!

Fri, 22 May 2009 02:36:35 +0000

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20 may 2009, 20.19

aughsum! cmaughn braugh!

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CAIN IS (Xanga Weblog Entry)

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:49:57 GMT

29 april 2007, 15.41

hmm...
kainis...

ang inis ay talo.
kaya wag maiinis.
para panalo.

ang pikon pangit.
kaya wag pikon.
para gwapo.

ang asar pinapatay.
kaya wag asar.
para buhay.

(hehe... this is my first poem in filipino! aughsum...!)

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Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Wednesday, February 17

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:05:58 +0000

zildjoms: Let us change how the church is known for what it is against by letting the world know what it is for. http://bit.ly/LoveGodLovePeople

Multiply Photo Album: More Tulips, Kids And Still Some More..

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:22:28 +0000

...part 3 of 3 (part 1: the tulips; and part 2: the kids)
More Tulips, Kids And Still Some More..

Multiply Photo Album: My First Attempt at Flower-Arranging

Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:14 +0000

tasked by my "beloved" sis... >.< after 29 years... not bad for a guy, eh? XD
My First Attempt at Flower-Arranging

Multiply Blog Entry: Remember to Forget

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:33:08 +0000

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22 sep 2009, 17.27

from the day the splinters hit the dew
and the rays cut the wind
to the setting of the moon
and the quitting of the stars
i was there.

you were bleeding love songs
from dusk till dawn
losing your voice over
drowned remembering and
puddles of sand
and you made me see all that
'cause i was there.

i never forget
i so remember.
i never remember
i so forget.

yes, it's a choice to forget.
but it's a wiser choice
to remember the right stuff.

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Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Monday, February 8

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:47:38 +0000

zildjoms: 2-scoop Purdy's Premium chocolate ice cream on a fancy nut-lined waffle cone. Yeam!

Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Friday, February 5

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:07:52 +0000

zildjoms: You are not your own. You can't just do anything you want. http://bit.ly/1Cor6_18-20

Multiply Blog Entry: Funny.

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:50:13 +0000

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18 may 2008, 15.26

i was telling this guy,

"funny how you rant about the world and all
when you, yourself,
are causing that exact same pain
to those reaching out to you

"funny how you say they don't see you at all
when you, yourself,
are oblivious
to your own blindness to them

"funny, funny indeed.

"ahaha."

i was telling this guy,
this guy in the mirror...

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Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Friday, January 22

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:42:46 +0000

zildjoms: I am body, soul and spirit. Am I trying to be only 1/3 fit? http://bit.ly/1Tim4_8

Multiply Playlist with Audio: This Woman's Work

Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:25:43 +0000

================= 01 jan 2009, 18.24 pray god you can cope i stand outside this woman's work this woman's world ooh it's hard on the man now his part is over now starts the craft of the father i know you have a little life in you yet i know you have a lot of strength left i should be crying but i just can't let it show i should be hoping but i can't stop thinking of all the things i should've said that i never said all the things we should've done though we never did all the things i should've given but i didn't oh darling make it go make it go away give me these moments back give them back to me give me that little kiss give me your hand i know you have a little life in you yet i know you have a lot of strength left oh darling make it go away just make it go away now ===== copyright © 1989 by kate bush. all rights reserved.

Multiply Blog Entry: Pimple

Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:53:18 +0000

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03 dec 2008, 17.25

it's lethal to want only

the company of people

who'll only say

what you want to hear.

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Multiply Blog Entry: Turn It Off And Turn Me On

Wed, 1 Apr 2009 03:58:38 +0000

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27 mar 2009, 22.22

vote earth.

28 march 2009 · LIGHTS OFF · 8.30-9.30pm

Multiply Photo Album: Long Overdue Baguio Pix

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:39:13 +0000

nov. 21-24, 2008. 'nuff said.
Long Overdue Baguio Pix

BROKEN TOY (Xanga Weblog Entry)

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:28:41 GMT

12 june 2007, 15.25

when someone who has lost all hope comes to you for a talk, what do you tell him?

when he has not just heard it all but truthfully applied them all and yet at the end of his day he still came back full circle, what do you tell him?

when he just goes on doing all the things supposedly real to him for lack of a better thing that works, what do you tell him?

when he has gone beyond discouragement and disappointment to just plain handicapped emptiness, what do you tell him?

when anger and frustration have passed and only a painful cry for truth remains, what do you tell him?

god, what do you tell him?

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Multiply Photo Album: Papa Ohm, Look!

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:54:05 +0000

=============== 28 apr 2009, 23.13 proudly, he called out. a young man of 4 i couldn't understand. where, oh where could he have gotten his o.c. hand? i wonder... >.< like i always say, o.c.d. is not a disorder -- it's a persistence for order. >_< at least he'll ace abstract reasoning... XP ===== copyright © 2009 by romel r. saplaco. all rights reserved. do not use without permission.
Papa Ohm, Look!

Multiply Playlist with Audio: Idle Mode

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:16:15 +0000

walkman easy...

Multiply Blog Entry: Life Support

Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:29:46 +0000

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05 feb 2009, 16.00

what do you live for?
who do i live for?

there's this guy i know,
who, when the one he lived for died,
he, himself got destroyed.

what do you live for?
who do i live for?

is it someone who dies?
is it something you have to keep alive?

what do you live for?
who do i live for?

eternal makes immortal.

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Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Friday, January 15

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:43:30 +0000

zildjoms: Wildfire this Friday will be epic! http://bit.ly/InvestigatingGod

Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Tuesday, January 26

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:17:43 +0000

zildjoms: Destiny does not limit choice, but choice could very well limit the fulfillment of destiny. http://bit.ly/DestinyAndChoice

Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Monday, March 1

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:11:44 +0000

zildjoms: Patience is not passively doing nothing but actively waiting for God to do something. (http://bit.ly/PatientWork)

Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Sunday, February 21

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:38:29 +0000

zildjoms: Life is unfair. Jesus won the victory, I reap its benefits. Unfair, indeed. http://bit.ly/Eph1_18-22

Multiply Blog Entry: Holy Different

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 03:13:37 +0000

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03 mar 2007, 22.44

“...I, God, your God, am holy...” Leviticus 19.2 (MSG)

i can’t sleep.

when i tell god, “you are holy,” do i really know what it means? in an age when holiness is religiously overrated, does this word “holiness” still arrest me? when i hear that holy means “set apart”, “consecrated”, does something even remotely stir in me?

MEANING DIFFERENT

then god hit me with this - “holy” means “different.”

different. as in, god, you are holy - “god, you are different from me.” god, astig ka! iba ka! i'm so out of your league. god, you are perfect! i’m not; god, you are patient! i’m not; god you are powerful! i’m not; god, you are gentle, i’m not; god, you are generous, i’m not; god, you deserve that all humans, stars and planets would bow down to you, i don’t; god, you are you! i’m not you. no one else is, nothing else is, no one or nothing has or ever will be like you.

he’s different from me. the god whose mere voice created sound waves to reverberate molecules into existence within nullness. he’s different from me, the god who thinks and reacts in ways i could never even do on my own. he’s so different from me, the god whose very nature flashes perfection at my own inadequte old nature. he’s different from me.

and this difference is the very foundation on which the whole matter between god and man has always been, and is as it is right now, and will always be – why he was able to create everything, why he was able to give me my freewill, why i was able to hurt him so bad in ways he had always known i’d do to him but he could never do to me, why he needed to bend down and reach into that ever deep pit i’ve fallen into and hew me out of it with all his might, why he was able to squeeze me out of my mess and back into his fort, why he was able to render my old humanity inexistent and replace it with his very own nature, why everyday there is a need for him to transform my mind into thinking the way he does, why his very word is more than powerful enough to bring me to life, nourish, sustain, grow, develop, defend, fight for, recreate, revive, renew, fire up, settle down, encourage, bring to places, compel, secure, humble, stop me wherever i am and just let me bow down before him – all because he’s set apart, consecrated, different. different from me. different from everything.

SHOOTING AT THE DIFFERENCE

now this made me wonder how man has been fighting to invalidate and abolish this difference between him and god. since adam and eve, that first choice to disobey god was about “being like god.” the tower of babel was all about reaching heaven in a way god did not want humans to. human kings, kingdoms and leaders from pharaoh to rehoboam to hitler to lenin have tried to rule humanity by replacing god with a person, an animal or a heavenly being or a piece of metal, a race, a concept – all to destroy his very difference from everything he created, which is the basic reason why he’s supposed to be the one ruling. even all unbiblical beliefs from popular religious dogmas to eastern religions to satanism are aimed at destroying that very difference between god and man by espousing the rule of self, cleverly disguised as paths to eternal freedom and self empowerment. “you will be like god…” and still some – some just totally ignore the concept of a “different” god – one they cannot manipulate – and turn him into a commodity they can encash, claim good things from, twist the arm of, and invoke like a genie anytime good fortunes are needed.

STOOPED DOWN

what made me equally wonder from this “differentness” is a matter so dumbfounding, stupefying, dreadfully horrible, utterly absurd and astonishingly unthinkable – that this very different god from all he created, from man himself – this different god transformed, mutated, recreated, refit himself to become man! that very thing he’s so different from! to buy me back from the choices i’ve sold myself to, to brand me as his own again, he himself built that instant superconnection from him to me so i could reach him the way he has always meant me to touch him. to be able to relate to him again, to be able to stay in a place again with him and just stare at each other and let everything else fade away. and all the while he kept his integrity, his wholeness, his differentness from me. it was all pure him, nothing added, nothing removed, nothing marred, nothing defiled. the differentness between him and me has never been so stark, so pronounced, so remarkably emphasized as when he became what he was so not. now, i have just had a newfound understanding of what he has done – what he really has done! that differentness, that holiness, that just brings me down to my knees in front of him, losing all words, nothing good enough to express my gratitude and respect and honor for such holy, different god.

no wonder the very first thing jesus asked for when he prayed was for god’s name to be respected. “hallowed be your name!” god! may you be respected whenever and wherever that name is mentioned! jesus asked for that “deleted” and/or damaged concept of difference between god and man to be properly and immediately programmed once again to human minds – for it to command the respect and reverence among anyone and anything and everything that his presence pervades.

DIFFERENT MEANING

once this concept of a holy, “different” god sank deep enough into me, everything really took on a totally new meaning – everything! work, play, service, interests, skills, family, hobbies, reasons, frustrations, achievements, failures, faults, offenses, motives, lyrics, pictures, stars, planets, water, fish, colors, everything! changed! forever changed. each and every single bit of my existence, my thoughts, my breath – is now stamped with such great respect, such great gratitude, such great honor, such pure and great homage to the one who truly, truly deserves all. just the mere mention of his name as i start my day already wells up a rushing gale of waters within me in gratitude. god! thank you for even letting me address you this way! such awe and wonder literally pulls out physical heaves and lumps in my chest.

oh god, may your name be respected – in my life, in everyone around me, in everything around me. as they see me, i really hope they can’t help but have such a profound respect and honor for you. everyone has to know about this… everyone has to be captured by you – their hearts arrested by your holiness, seized by you… everyone has to, has to - be ruled by you.. respect and revere you.

now, the songs i sing are just so much more meaningful, directed, fresh and deliberate… every mention of “you…”, “god…”, “jesus…” is just so meaningfully different now… “there is no one else for me…” “all my delight is in you…” “you’re all that i seek…” “cover the earth with your glory…” “everyday, it’s you i live for…” “blessed are those who dwell in your house…” “one day in the house of god is better than a thousand days in the world...” “find rest, my soul, in christ alone…” “there is no one like you, there will never ever be anyone like you…” “i will worship you for who you are…” “humbled i bow down in your presence at your throne…” “in my life, be lifted high, in my world be lifted high, in my love be lifted high…”

now my mind, my being, my perspective has been instantaneously changed. now i know where i stand before such mighty god, now i know my real place in this world, my meaning, my significance – all these “me”-ness really revolve around, take existence, begin and end in “him”. now the branch knows why it has to be connected to a vine, now the stream knows it has to flow from a mountain, now the tree knows why it bears fruit, now the earth knows it has to be held together by a supreme being, now the wandering heart knows that it’s time to come home, the pilgrim has found its destination. the holy, different god, has finally found his rightful place in me. and respect and honor will forever be gushing out of me to him every single moment of my life, everywhere i am.

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Twitter tweet by Zildjoms on Friday, February 12

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:26:26 +0000

zildjoms: Vancouver 2010 Olympics opening tonight! http://bit.ly/Van2010Opening #Vancouver2010