what’s in a name?

Discover the hidden meaning in your name: http://www.bostonuk.com/name_meanings.php

Here's mine (name withheld. hehe.):

Creative, versatile and imaginative you appreciate beauty in all forms. You have great inner strength and courage and have the ability to accept large responsibilities or challenging situations with patience and humility. Others admire these qualities and follow your lead. You are honest, discerning and self-disciplined and need to have a peaceful environment. Putting others before self your talents are used to make life better for everyone.
God is with us "Hebrew"

Versatile, intelligent and artistically talented. You love to enjoy yourself and tend to experience a happy domestic life and material success. You have a methodical and thorough mind and are able to organise large projects easily. Charming and likeable and with more than your share of sex appeal you tend to find yourself in the spotlight and much admired by others. Life is more fun with you around.

Your calm manner and maturity belie a fierce determination to be at the top where you can exercise authority and get things done. Although somewhat of a rebel you attract much support through treating others with kindness and friendship. You have a broad scope and are naturally drawn to travel or projects which can expand your knowledge and understanding. Your talents and generosity bring you emotional and material contentment.

Having confidence in yourself and integrity you have your emotions under control and are rarely ruffled. You have a quiet and reflective manner and are responsive to the needs of others giving you the ability to be a mediator. You are extremely successful in the material world being organised, financially astute and pursuing realistic goals. Your caring attitude and compassion certainly makes you a loved individual.

forgive and forget

GA s04e04 - The Heart of the Matter
(start) In life only one thing is certain, apart from death and taxes: No matter how hard you try, no matter how good your intentions, you are going to make mistakes. You are going to hurt people. You are going to get hurt. And if you ever want to recover, there's really only one thing you can say…

(end) Forgive and forget. That's what they say. It's good advice, but it's not very practical. When someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back. When someone wrongs us, we want to be right. Without forgiveness old scores never settle. Old wounds never heal, and the most we can hope for is that someday we'll be lucky enough to forget.

FYI - That opening voice-over is open-ended, so for the sake of those that don't watch the show, the "only one thing you can say" that the voice over is talking about is "I forgive you."

It's funny how the theme of this show progresses: The theme for the first episode was "changes", then for the second one it was "love and addiction", for the third one it was "the truth", and for this one it's "forgive and forget".

"Forgive and forget" is pretty complicated… lots of variables are involved: Are you the one doing the forgiving or are you the one asking for forgiveness? It matters who the other person is… what the gravity of the mistake was… what kind of relationship I have with the person… It's a case-to-case basis, really.

Over the past several months, there are three cases of "forgive and forget" that come to mind, and each of these cases have played out very different from each other.

-Jekyll

the truth will set you…

From GA again:

GA s04e03 - Let the Truth Sting
(start) Doctors give patients a number of things. We give them medicine, we give them advice and, most of the time, we give them our undivided attention. But, by far, the hardest thing you can give a patient is the truth. The truth is hard. The truth is awkward and very often the truth hurts. I mean, people think they want the truth. But do they really?

(end) The truth is painful. Deep down nobody wants to hear it, especially when it hits close to home. Sometimes we tell the truth because the truth is all we have to give. Sometimes we tell the truth because we need to say it out loud to hear it for ourselves. And sometimes we tell the truth because we just can't help ourselves. Sometimes, we tell them because we owe them at least that much.

I really don't want to comment to much on this. All I will say though is that I was once a firm believer that "the truth will set you free". Sometimes though, it doesn't. Sometimes, the truth doesn't set you free… instead, it just sets your life on fire and burns you down.

- Hyde 

abautism

time flies so fast, sana time rin ako

LOL! nakaka-miss ka bigla, abaut.

eto, bonus. The "Broken Heart Calculator" LOL!

Short relationships (3 MONTHS OR LESS)

1. count the number of weeks that you knew the person before the relationship turned romantic, and then divide this number by 2
2. count the number of weeks that you were romantically involved
3. add-up A and B
4. count the average number of days per week you saw him/her during the romance, and divide this number by 2
5. multiply C and D - that's how many weeks it will take to begin feeling normal

Example:  Lou met Barb.  After 4 weeks they started dating.  They dated for 8 weeks, seeing each other an average of 4 nights per week.  Then Barb left.   It will take Lou's heart about 20 weeks (or just under 5 months)  to recover.

Long relationships (1 YEAR OR MORE)

1. estimate how happy you were (day to day) on a scale of 1 to 3
2. estimate how physically attractive you found your mate on a scale of 1 to 3
3. add up A and B - and then divide this number by 2– this will give you a number in years
4. subtract one year from the total

Example:  John was happily married to Mary (he ranked his happiness a 2 out of 3.  He found Mary very attractive, a 3 out of 3.  Mary leaves.  John's heart will take 1 ½ years to recover.

 -Jekyll

blast

At approximately 1;30pm today, a huge blast rocked Glorietta mall in Makati. It has not been confirmed yet if it is indeed because of an LPG leak or from a bomb. All we know is that there have been a handful of casualties and close to a hundred injured.

Once again - especially to those who were barely outside harm's way - we're all reminded of how the worst things can happen all in an instant, and how fragile human life is.

But still, in moments like these when we feel that danger is lurking in every corner, as difficult as it is, we try in the best way we can to hold on to everything that is good in this world… and we soldier on. We SHOULD soldier on.

God bless us all.

-Jekyll