Monday, September 14, 2009

Friends (I don’t have much but the ones I’ve got are more than treasures)


There are friends that you’ve had for several years and there are those that you’ve had after a brief meeting. There are those who stay in your life for the longest time and there are those who suddenly drift away from you. One thing I’m certain with the friends that I have or have had, my soul ties with them.


Friends… well I’ve got my best friend Karen. She’s been my “bestest friend” since our college days in PWU Fine Arts. We’ve been through a lot together. A lot of ups and downs. We’ve been best of friends for more than a decade now. I’d say our friendship is something not bounded by distance or time. I know that when we grow old and gray, we would still have each other.


Some important friends are those who come from your own family. I’ve had the chance to have my Mom as my friend. I remember her not only as my mother but also my great friend – one of the greatest I’ve had perhaps.


I’ve got my cousin Elmer, my Cebu and Bohol buddy… I hope the next time we go to Cebu, you’ll try the Sky Adventure with me.


My other great friend and cousin Pebbles, I will always cherish our being friends back when we were little girls. We used to write snail mails to each other then. I kinda miss that now that you’re in the US.


I also have Rachelle, my best friend in the Catholic school during my elementary years. We seldom see each other but we know we’ll always be friends and will always be there for each other. She’s married now and got two kids and we only hear from each other through text messages and very brief chats when we see each other. Thanks for little girls’ laugh that we share whenever I see you.


Another friend is Jun, my copywriter / creative director friend. We’ve met at the ad agency in Ortigas where I briefly worked. He is one great big brother. We get to go out for coffee once in a while. He’s been with me when I was heart broken, well… “heart broken” cause that’s the way I chose to see it during those days.


Juddha, whom I acknowledge as my soul brother and guide. Can’t forget some of the most precious thoughts he shared with me. Some of these are: “If there is only eternity then nothing and no one is ever lost.” I also learned from him how to bless others with love and light. Thanks my soul buddy! Continue being an artist of the spoken word! And an Artist of the Spirit as well!


Andre, my Mowelfund buddy who says we got a unique friendship… I’m still figuring out what you are trying to mirror on me. You are one heck of a friend that I can talk to about almost anything and everything under the sun. One thing I’d like you to keep in mind is to learn to live in the moment.


My Pink Fairy friend, I wish you reach your dreams and make your Mom happy, I know that it’s all you ever want in this world. My sorrys if I sometimes get mad at you or preach you when it comes to work. It’s nothing personal, it’s more than personal… cause you are my friend.


My editor friend Jonnel who’s been one of my best buddies in the production. My consultant when it comes to gadgets and techie stuff. Thanks for the coffee tambay!


My Ilonggo filmmaker nephew Oskie, I hope we get to work on a really nice film project. I can work on the script and you on the camera work.


My actor friend who always send me posts for their film grant, thanks for the constant reminder that I should push with my writing and create a nice out of the box film material. Well, I still got to connive my material with “the commercial value” aspect.


My friends from tv commercial production, that includes Chriz, who also cried when he saw me crying when my Mom died. My friend Denden who’s 10 years younger than me who’s life has got a lot to do with love and her daughter. My production manager friend Sir Awel, the silent intellectual guy who’s got a library of books. Thanks for reminding me that we can all still smile while working under extreme pressure. My other production manager friend Sir Joel, whom I’ve known when I was still a production assistant then and who introduced me to RS, my sincerest thanks. To Sir Marty, Tita Pinky, Meanne, Belt, Ramil and the rest of RS people, I really felt I belong to the family.


Mama Tess who gave me a motherly hug just when I badly needed one.


My new found friends Paty and Pol who work as my assistants in my casting. You guys are great! Pol and Paty you’ve got a nice career waiting for you in the production. You guys remind me of my younger days in the production – full of energy and aspirations. Hope to see you when that time comes. In the meantime, welcome the “rackets” or the part time work that I offer you from time to time. I’d like to give credits to Pol for being my fashion stylist whenever we go malling and for reminding me not to forget the joy and the spirit.


I also got to meet Arielle and became instant friends with her. We even see each other as soul sisters. She says it’s not often for her to find friends of the same wavelength.


To the talents, the kids, the adults, the talent agents and parents that I got to meet in my castings and tv commercial shoots, the brief meetings we have are all part of my journey.


To J for teaching me a lot then that has got to do with love and my spirituality now. You’ve taught me a great lesson on forgiveness... Thank you for teaching me “That nothing unreal exists, nothing real can be threatened.” I know we will always have a connection… in Kairos perhaps.


To the authors of the many books that I’ve read and still reading, I salute you for bringing light and love into my life. In these books I got to know Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet), Gary Zukav (The Seat of the Soul; Soul Stories), Don Miguel Ruiz (The Mastery of Love; The Voice of Knowledge; The Four Agreements), Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now), Sarah Breathnach (Simple Abundance), Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Women Who Run with the Wolves), Louise Hay (You Can Heal Your Life), Anne Marie Groth (Awaken to the Healer Within), Deepak Chopra (Fire in the Heart; Life After Death; Peace is the Way), Oriah Mountain Dreamer (The Call; The Invitation), Neale Donald Walsh (Friendship with God -an uncommon dialogue) -- all of them are facets of myself. Your books feed my soul.


To all of you guys, those that I’ve mentioned and those that I have not, thank you for being with me in my journey… for in one way or another touching my life. If I indeed called you to be in my life, my sincerest thanks!


Hey, I’m not going in a faraway land or anything, I just want thank you all for being my treasures! For being such great finds!


I will always honor our connection no matter how the form changes. If you need to leave my life, it shall be respected ‘cause I know that the connection will always be there.


Love and Light!

Some of Life’s Puzzles… aren’t Puzzles at all ( I hope you can dig on it)


Do you know that the people that you see, those you are with or you’ve been with are there because you created them and that you wanted them to be there? I guess you may find these odd or crazy.


You called on them (the people and also the circumstances and incidents) to be in your life… in your journey.


On a spiritual thinking mind, all that you see around you are all part of the dream that you created for yourself. Perhaps to play a big part in your life’s greatest teachings or lessons.


Even your parents, your husband, your wife, your children, your best friend, your workmates and even the work and kind of living that you have are all products of your choosing. I know how this may sound so unreligious.


I’ve always been spiritual in my own ways and thinking (although I’d say I’m non traditional or non-conformist in my spirituality). I do acknowledge “the Bigger Hand” behind and beyond us all. That we are all One. That I am you and you are me…. But this is one puzzle in life that I cannot deny. That we create our own adventure… the characters that we want to be with… the life that we want to live. These are all our choice. To call them or not to call them in our stories, in our lives.


We all go through this at one point in our lives when we ask with a lot of whys and hows and even what ifs. If only we are aware that where and what you are right now is perfect and is in the divine order in your spiritual journey, you wouldn’t ask anymore question nor put yourselves in doubts and uncertainties. You will know that where you are is where you needed to be at the moment.


There may be some people in your life who keeps on popping out from time to time and this may cause you to doubt and ask why he or she keeps on presenting himself/ herself to your life or why he keeps on being in the picture. Just acknowledge his or her presence and dwell on mindfulness and listen. Do not reject his presence and what he has to say for if you do, you are rejecting not just him but also yourself and perhaps one of your life’s greatest lessons. Who knows, he may just be a mirror to the many issues you have in your life, most of them are the ones that you love to deny or forget.


Listen to the sound of the breezes (and I mean truly listen) and you’ll find yourself connected to the Universe or to “The Bigger Hand” and much more to yourself and to your otherselves.


Listen. Try to see everything in Love and Light.