The 4th of July…
aside from being the American Independence Day, July 4, 2008 is also the day that the big yellow disk up in the sky we call the sun is farthest from the us.
according to Wikipedia,
The Earth is closest to the Sun in early January and farthest in early July
must be why i’m feewin’ a wittow bit colder today..
here’s to a warm bed and a thick blanket…
post courtesy of NF.
’tis another cold night (thanks to full-blast airconditioning as per Xerxes’ orders) and we again have… (drumroll please) NF!!!! woohooo!!!
i’d like to share something that has, for a long time now, been inspiring me to continue to tread this path i am on.
William Ernest Henley’s Invictus.
I first encountered the term “Invictus”, w/c is Latin for “unconquered”, as a sticker on a jeep owned by a very close priest family friend from Bohol. said jeep was a mighty little thing. one we used to navigate the busy city streets of Tagbilaran as well as up the rugged path of a hill in Loay known to the locals as Himuntagon (i think they call it Morning Hills now). hope to be back there soon… ’nuff said.
Invictus
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.
no matter how they bind us in chains, impose inhuman rules on us or block our favorite websites 
, we were, we are, we shall always be… Invictus. may you be inspired like i am. someday, we too, shall break free of this so-called *toot* (fill in any word, four-lettered ones preferred) -hole
para ni anay sa mga bords ko… aahhooo!!! aahhooo!!! aahhooo!!!
poem courtesy of Wikipedia
I’ve been putting this off for so long…
STARTING is THE hardest part (for now).
