Now things will start rolling
And I am excited to spill
My adventure and misadventure
In this crazy world we are living
The web of thought is now unfolding
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
RENOVATED
A good jump start! My first post for the year and man NOW it is awesome here,a special thanks to my friend Ian for helping me out creating a new look for my newly renovated blog, it is awesome to work on an organized and cool environment and I am really looking forward to finally be active in posting here, I missed sharing my thoughts and my personal perspective about life, love and anything under the sun.
It has been three years since my first thought unravel here and looking back it is all worth it. To all my readers expect more post this year, THOUGHTS OF JUAN will be rolling again and fill the long overdue of not posting anything here. Join me in my journey and let me share “THOUGHTS OF JUAN”
Saturday, December 24, 2011
A Different Christmas
Before everyone begins their countdown, I am expecting a different Christmas this year. Since my little brother left for UK to study last September I know that this Christmas would be a different Christmas from what we used to celebrate and yes, my assessment did not fail me. Sending someone to London to study would be an exorbitant cost and the fact that someone dear to you and close to you would be in another place in the world and celebrate Christmas apart is so much painful.
When this season comes, it is my youngest brother and I always do the decoration every year. I would do the lights, while he was holding on the tools for me. I do the Christmas tree while he was preparing for the decoration to put on it. He would do some decorations while I do criticize his works (haha). On the eve of Christmas I would do the cleaning and he would do the cooking (he is a HRM graduate by the way). It is my lil bro who would help me do my Christmas shopping and doing a great help in expanding my meager budget every Christmas for my inaanak’s, and looking for clothes to wear on simbang gabi on the eve of Christmas. It is always my lil bro who would help me to look for gifts on our family’s monitor/monita. I remember last year, my monito is my Dad, and we looked all over the mall to look for an appropriate shirt for him.
But this year is a different Christmas for us; I do the Christmas tree alone, no flickering lights outside our house because only to find out that the lights aren’t working anymore (hindi marunong makisama, eh). And since we have theme this Christmas “thrift Christmas” we did not bought any new lights. While my lil’ bro is in London and while I am here is a very new set up for me. Because of sending my lil bro to UK would mean a different Christmas this year. No more Christmas shopping, no new clothes to wear on simbang gabi, no lavish meal on noche Buena, no monito/monita this year. But I not complaining, in fact I am so much happy. I am happy because finally our bunso is expanding his horizon and doing a name for himself.
There may be material deprivation this Christmas and the family is again not complete for this season (my Ate and lil bro is both in London while we are here in the Philippines), But I consider this Christmas a very memorable Christmas because I am learning so much from this. When I think of Christmas I always perceive it with gifts, party, material stuffs, awesome foods but Christmas should be perceive beyond this. It should be perceived with love, giving and forgiving. It is not important on what new clothes you wear on Noche Buena, it is not important how big are the gift you receive, but there is so much more than this. It is how you give love selflessly, though it is now easy but that is what makes sense. Loving, giving and forgiving someone without expecting in return is the true meaning of Christmas. And experiencing it first hand is a great tool for learning. I am so thankful for having a supportive Ate, she brought my lil bro with her to study there in London. Bringing my lil bro to London, I think is the best gift she has ever given. It is not a material thing but it is a gift we could never forget of. Also I am thankful to my parents for extending support, without also their help, I think things would be much harder. Yes, it is a family effort and we all do this out of love, a selfless love. Though it may result to pagtititipid among us but it is all worth it. This Christmas is a different Christmas and thank you my Lord for this.
I know we are experiencing few rocks and bumps but we can surpass this, because God is always with us and we trust him. Besides his continuing education is also an investment and I cannot wait for the day to call him Chef Jay (looking forward for that Bro). Education is an investment no one can argue with that. Now I am learning something from this, the true meaning of Christmas. Happy Birthday Jesus.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
From THOUGHTS to LENS
As you can see my blog has been inactive for a while, compare to previous years my post has been deteriorating, talk about writers block and Law School which prevents me from posting anything here. Contemplating on how to solve this problem I suddenly realize, why not incorporate photos here? Yes, it would be a nice idea to post my photo's here, I am now exploring the world of photography and posting it here would be an awesome idea.
Sometimes words and actions, aren't easy to decode, Keeping Up, Sa tingin ni Juan, are my post that used mainly pictures, these pictures are taken using a point-and-shot camera and still it looks awesome, before i dreamt of having a DSLR and now I have one (given my sister) and posting my pictures would create a new innovation on my sleeping blog.
Here are the sample shots I have, hope you like it guys.
This is Pentax MZ-6 also given by my sister, this SLR loaded by the traditional film has helped me to explore more the wonder of SLR cameras, soon i will post my pictures here taken by this pentax camera.
Here are the sample shots I have, hope you like it guys.
This is Pentax MZ-6 also given by my sister, this SLR loaded by the traditional film has helped me to explore more the wonder of SLR cameras, soon i will post my pictures here taken by this pentax camera.
The photos above are my first pictures using my DSLR, and yes, I am happy with the result. I know I have so much to learn and with the minimal resources I have (i need a new camera lens etc.) I need to read and explore more of this new found hobby.
My blogfriends, soon i will unfold the thoughts to lens.
*the first photo is taken by my friend robin loo using a nikon dslr
My blogfriends, soon i will unfold the thoughts to lens.
*the first photo is taken by my friend robin loo using a nikon dslr
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
A writers block
I am currently working on a post for two days now, I don't know I just could not find the exact ingredients to make my entry worth reading. I could not find the exact words to express my inner thoughts. Do you know the feeling of having so many thoughts in your head and when you start to put those thoughts into words suddenly the thought looses?
There is much to talk about the world, about life, about love and about life's lesson but why I am so lost for words? Yes, I am excited again to put so many entries in this blog but how come now I am losing for words? where are they?
I started to search the web about "writers block" when I was still a student journalist i barely experience writers block it may be because I am loving the pressure and I was also surrounded by a bunch of brilliant senior student journalist who always inspire fellow writer.
Here's what I have searched on WIKIPEDIA : Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing as a profession, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work. The condition varies widely in intensity. It can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in dealing with the task at hand. At the other extreme, some "blocked" writers have been unable to work for years on end, and some have even abandoned their careers. It can manifest as the affected writer viewing their work as inferior or unsuitable, when in fact it could be the opposite.
There is much to talk about the world, about life, about love and about life's lesson but why I am so lost for words? Yes, I am excited again to put so many entries in this blog but how come now I am losing for words? where are they?
I started to search the web about "writers block" when I was still a student journalist i barely experience writers block it may be because I am loving the pressure and I was also surrounded by a bunch of brilliant senior student journalist who always inspire fellow writer.
Here's what I have searched on WIKIPEDIA : Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing as a profession, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work. The condition varies widely in intensity. It can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in dealing with the task at hand. At the other extreme, some "blocked" writers have been unable to work for years on end, and some have even abandoned their careers. It can manifest as the affected writer viewing their work as inferior or unsuitable, when in fact it could be the opposite.
Causes of writer's block
Writer's block may have many or several causes. Some are essentially creative problems that originate within an author's work itself. A writer may run out of inspiration. The writer may be greatly distracted and feel he or she may have something that needs to be done beforehand. A project may be fundamentally misconceived, or beyond the author's experience or ability. A fictional example can be found in George Orwell's novel Keep The Aspidistra Flying, in which the protagonist Gordon Comstock struggles in vain to complete an epic poem describing a day in London: "It was too big for him, that was the truth. It had never really progressed, it had simply fallen apart into a series of fragments."
Other blocks, especially the more serious kind, may be produced by adverse circumstances in a writer's life or career: physical illness, depression, the end of a relationship, financial pressures, a sense of failure. The pressure to produce work may in itself contribute to a writer's block, especially if they are compelled to work in ways that are against their natural inclination, i.e. too fast or in some unsuitable style or genre. In some cases, writer's block may also come from feeling intimidated by a previous big success, the creator putting on themselves a paralyzing pressure to find something to equate that same success again. The writer Elizabeth Gilbert, reflecting on her post-bestseller prospects, proposes that such a pressure might be released by interpreting creative writers as "having" genius rather than "being" a genius In George Gissing's New Grub Street, one of the first novels to take writer's block as a main theme, the novelist Edwin Reardon becomes completely unable to write and is shown as suffering from all those problems.
In her 2004 book The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain, the writer and neurologist Alice W. Flaherty has argued that literary creativity is a function of specific areas of the brain, and that block may be the result of brain activity being disrupted in those areas.
Now I am thanking this "writers block" and wikipedia now I have my first entry this August.
Yey!
Source:wikipedia
Saturday, June 11, 2011
GOING BACK
I could not remember the exact reason on why I haven’t post anything for so long here, this post would be a long overdue. There are so many factors before that prohibited me from posting anything, I have been busy in Law School and again my desktop have been crushed for the nth time good thing I have my laptop whom now I would depend on.
Yes, I missed sharing my thoughts and my personal perspective about life, love and anything under the sun. .Many things had happened to me and gradually I will share it the blogworld. Reading my old post, I could not help but asked myself, did I post this? And I just said to myself “oh it was a good one, I must be proud having this entry”. Having this blog is a good medium to express your views about life that could possibly be read by anyone in any place, I am neither a celebrity nor a politician and my small voice could not be heard by many but having a small place in this humungous world of internet is a testimony that still YOU CAN BE HEARD no matter how small you may be. Who knows someday this blog will be recognized and will be featured in ANC or CNN? :)
Finally, the Thoughts of Juan will be rolling “AGAIN” and I will make it sure that I will fill the gaps of being silent for awhile. I may not be a good writer and a blogger but I will make sure that every entry would be worth reading.
THOUGHTS OF JUAN IS AGAIN BACK WITH VENGEANCE!!!!
Yes, I missed sharing my thoughts and my personal perspective about life, love and anything under the sun. .Many things had happened to me and gradually I will share it the blogworld. Reading my old post, I could not help but asked myself, did I post this? And I just said to myself “oh it was a good one, I must be proud having this entry”. Having this blog is a good medium to express your views about life that could possibly be read by anyone in any place, I am neither a celebrity nor a politician and my small voice could not be heard by many but having a small place in this humungous world of internet is a testimony that still YOU CAN BE HEARD no matter how small you may be. Who knows someday this blog will be recognized and will be featured in ANC or CNN? :)
Finally, the Thoughts of Juan will be rolling “AGAIN” and I will make it sure that I will fill the gaps of being silent for awhile. I may not be a good writer and a blogger but I will make sure that every entry would be worth reading.
THOUGHTS OF JUAN IS AGAIN BACK WITH VENGEANCE!!!!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Another Juan
I am planning to have the opening salvo post soon after my final exam because Thoughts of Juan have been quite inactive for awhile but another Juan has just marked another milestone in our history. Super Typhoon Juan has just make its landfall in Isabela at around 11:45am October 18, 2010.
According to a typhoon tracker whom I meet on twitter, Super Typhoon Juan's landfall http://yfrog.com/j5ft7g is a historic one since it is one of the strongest typhoon ever recorded, according to Japan Meteorological Agency 11 am Phil. time update: 230 kph, 885 hPa. Would be world record pressure at landfall.
According to a typhoon tracker whom I meet on twitter, Super Typhoon Juan's landfall http://yfrog.com/j5ft7g is a historic one since it is one of the strongest typhoon ever recorded, according to Japan Meteorological Agency 11 am Phil. time update: 230 kph, 885 hPa. Would be world record pressure at landfall.
Super Typhoon Track
Satellite Image as of Oct.18, 2010 3pm Northern Luzon is currently under the wrath of Super Typhoon Juan, braced yourself. To all my fellow kababayan's there I am with you in prayer. Please be safe. Visit this site for updates:
http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/1013l.html
http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/1013l.html
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Soon stories will begin...
let me enter again into your thoughts....
for soon stories will unfold...
"THOUGHTS OF JUAN"
