fourth day!
so i was late! galing pa ako aritao eh! pero carry lang! nakita ko si nikkole! ahem! yummy! yummy! supapapalicious! (vhong navarro doesn't deserve that title! nikkole does!)
(while in the middle of the exam)
class: sir pwde break muna?! review lang kami!
(bwisit! kaasar naman ung request na un? tama ba un?)
allen: okay class after you take the exam! you may then have your review!
(hahaha! so ako din ay nakiayon! sa kalokohan! ahahay!)
Friday, August 28, 2009
so the exam week is over!
*3rd day of exam*
jake: morning ma'am! madali ba exam?
allen: (smile ever! tinawag akong ma'am eh!)
jetter: ang hirap naman ng exam!
allen: (the same complain! ahempf!)
student: oo ngah! Patayin!
(ananay ko! afraid naman ako! any moment!)
*while students were taking the exam*
allen: (nabigla pero nakipagtitigan!)
wow! ang gwapo ni meynard! siyempre tuwang tuwa ako at mega smile ang aking toooot! ahahaha... tama ba naman kasing makikipagtitigan din ang meynard sa akin!
*after the exam*
sinead: sir tara kina chel!
allen: anu na naman ang gagawin dun!?
sinead: tambay!
allen: ayoko kayung kasama! pag kasama ko kayo tumitigal ang mundo ko!
sinead: hindi mo ba alam sir na kapag kasama namin ikaw eh tumitigil din ang mundo namin!
(anu daw! ang keme huh?! so sila ang bad influence. ndi ako sa kanila!)
*lunch*
mega super SARDINAS ang aming pananghalian!
one o'clock exam*
(madami pang wala!)
allen: bakit wala pa si bryan! mona rae saan mo siya itinago!
mona rae: hala! sir si queenie ah! ndi ako! kaya nga may princess na sila!
(anunuy!)
allen: oha bakit wala din si lyndon! ms. Busa?!
ms. busa: wala akong ginagawa sir!
jane: sir si leon napagod kagabi!
allen: ndi kita kinakausap!
jane: ananay ko!
allen: saan mo ba itinago?
jane: sa apartment sir!
ms. busa: eh ikaw sir! saan mo itinago si Nikkole (lalaki po iyang nikkole na iyan!)
allen: (namula ako siyempre! how did they know!)
class: aruy! si sir namumula! (sabay tawa~!)
(bwisit)
jake: morning ma'am! madali ba exam?
allen: (smile ever! tinawag akong ma'am eh!)
jetter: ang hirap naman ng exam!
allen: (the same complain! ahempf!)
student: oo ngah! Patayin!
(ananay ko! afraid naman ako! any moment!)
*while students were taking the exam*
allen: (nabigla pero nakipagtitigan!)
wow! ang gwapo ni meynard! siyempre tuwang tuwa ako at mega smile ang aking toooot! ahahaha... tama ba naman kasing makikipagtitigan din ang meynard sa akin!
*after the exam*
sinead: sir tara kina chel!
allen: anu na naman ang gagawin dun!?
sinead: tambay!
allen: ayoko kayung kasama! pag kasama ko kayo tumitigal ang mundo ko!
sinead: hindi mo ba alam sir na kapag kasama namin ikaw eh tumitigil din ang mundo namin!
(anu daw! ang keme huh?! so sila ang bad influence. ndi ako sa kanila!)
*lunch*
mega super SARDINAS ang aming pananghalian!
one o'clock exam*
(madami pang wala!)
allen: bakit wala pa si bryan! mona rae saan mo siya itinago!
mona rae: hala! sir si queenie ah! ndi ako! kaya nga may princess na sila!
(anunuy!)
allen: oha bakit wala din si lyndon! ms. Busa?!
ms. busa: wala akong ginagawa sir!
jane: sir si leon napagod kagabi!
allen: ndi kita kinakausap!
jane: ananay ko!
allen: saan mo ba itinago?
jane: sa apartment sir!
ms. busa: eh ikaw sir! saan mo itinago si Nikkole (lalaki po iyang nikkole na iyan!)
allen: (namula ako siyempre! how did they know!)
class: aruy! si sir namumula! (sabay tawa~!)
(bwisit)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
keme!
*second day of test*
adonis: anya naman! wala namang awa!
lewis: hala sir oh! narinig mo un?
allen: ano sabi?
lewis: wala ka daw awa magpaexam!
allen: wala nang bago? kinakanta pa nga sa akin eh, "diyosa mangngaasi ka!"
(keme lang! haha)
*from the same class*
peter: ang hirap naman sir!
allen: (smile lang! pakeme!)
peter: ndi naman to exam! parusa naman to!
allen: okay!
(ahahahay)
*sa isang klase (Rizal naman!)*
allen: oh britzz! bakit mo ako tinitignan!?
brittz: awan sir! nagguwapo ka gamin! (gwapo mo kasi)
allen: ananay! go out! umuwi ka na!
(lalake un ha?!)
*ala lang. this day is a sleepy day! am so sloppy!*
adonis: anya naman! wala namang awa!
lewis: hala sir oh! narinig mo un?
allen: ano sabi?
lewis: wala ka daw awa magpaexam!
allen: wala nang bago? kinakanta pa nga sa akin eh, "diyosa mangngaasi ka!"
(keme lang! haha)
*from the same class*
peter: ang hirap naman sir!
allen: (smile lang! pakeme!)
peter: ndi naman to exam! parusa naman to!
allen: okay!
(ahahahay)
*sa isang klase (Rizal naman!)*
allen: oh britzz! bakit mo ako tinitignan!?
brittz: awan sir! nagguwapo ka gamin! (gwapo mo kasi)
allen: ananay! go out! umuwi ka na!
(lalake un ha?!)
*ala lang. this day is a sleepy day! am so sloppy!*
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
so what?
*good writing is good thinking*
nagbigay ng komento ang isang estujante sa akin. sabi, 'i love you sir no joke!' well that guy has good thinking! he wrote it eh!
*hango mula sa teleseryeng katorse ng abs-cbn!*
erich: katorse pa lang ako, buntis na ako!
EJ: disisais pa lang ako, isa na akong ama!
Allen: Leche! bente tres na ako, birhen pa din ako!
*exam day!*
Allen: Cheating is punishable by death!
Students: Weh! di nga sir?
(naniwala ang mokong! hahaha)
*sa opis*
empleyado: pinapanood ko ung ulan! ang ingay kasi!
(baka kasi pumapatak ang ulan sa bubong! TSKTSK)
*sa klase. habang nagtitake ng exam*
estujante: sir ang hirap ng exam! nosebleed! (sabay kulangot!)
(walang manners! bad trip! hahaha)
*isang imbitasyon sa text*
Part I
sinead: sir punta ka dito kina chel! pud trip!
allen: ano pudz?
sinead: palitaw, camote cue.. mga talipapa pudz. pero paubos na!
(lang hiya! nagimbita pa!)
Part II
sinead: punta ka na ah sir!
allen: hmpf! wala naman kaung ipapakain sa akin!
sinead: bahala ka! ipakain namin sa aso sapatos mo!
(go! baka mabusog pa! syet! pati pala sapatos kinakain ng aso! all the while i thought nginingitngit lang! in the first place, wala naman aso kina chel! mga aso pala sila! wharf! wharf! wharf! they are barking at the wrong pair of shoes!)
nagbigay ng komento ang isang estujante sa akin. sabi, 'i love you sir no joke!' well that guy has good thinking! he wrote it eh!
*hango mula sa teleseryeng katorse ng abs-cbn!*
erich: katorse pa lang ako, buntis na ako!
EJ: disisais pa lang ako, isa na akong ama!
Allen: Leche! bente tres na ako, birhen pa din ako!
*exam day!*
Allen: Cheating is punishable by death!
Students: Weh! di nga sir?
(naniwala ang mokong! hahaha)
*sa opis*
empleyado: pinapanood ko ung ulan! ang ingay kasi!
(baka kasi pumapatak ang ulan sa bubong! TSKTSK)
*sa klase. habang nagtitake ng exam*
estujante: sir ang hirap ng exam! nosebleed! (sabay kulangot!)
(walang manners! bad trip! hahaha)
*isang imbitasyon sa text*
Part I
sinead: sir punta ka dito kina chel! pud trip!
allen: ano pudz?
sinead: palitaw, camote cue.. mga talipapa pudz. pero paubos na!
(lang hiya! nagimbita pa!)
Part II
sinead: punta ka na ah sir!
allen: hmpf! wala naman kaung ipapakain sa akin!
sinead: bahala ka! ipakain namin sa aso sapatos mo!
(go! baka mabusog pa! syet! pati pala sapatos kinakain ng aso! all the while i thought nginingitngit lang! in the first place, wala naman aso kina chel! mga aso pala sila! wharf! wharf! wharf! they are barking at the wrong pair of shoes!)
Monday, August 24, 2009
when people saw me, then they don't!
Teaching has never been my plan or handling a performing group. I thought I could be in the field where interaction with different people always abounds with service and communication. All the while, this was the thing that could actually give me more of a self-fulfillment. Modesty aside, I had been called a leader. This was how people view me. That I could probably carry out duties and responsibilities. I could move people, they say. But what’s the difference with moving people who are professionals and believe in you with people who are amateurs and cast a doubt on you? The bottom line is you can’t actually move them. It’s like putting your self on the edge of the cliff. There would really be no assurance that they would come and accompany you not even until the last tear drop falls.
But I wasn’t able to control what lies ahead of me. I came, and then almost everything came. Many other opportunities unfolded right in front of me. Many times chances knocked on my door. Many times had I also turned them down? But what was the reason?
I was invited. I prepared myself, the things I needed, everything. Then I was called sir, instructor, and some mistakenly called me professor. I just smiled, it’s simply because I am teaching in a college department. Then people knew me. They called my attention. They gave me responsibilities. I could not help my self but surmise they just believed in me. I said I won’t turn them down. Huh! Won’t turn them down?
Then I was invited again! I just gave a sort of respect through my appearance. Then I eventually gave respect when I gave time to create my one to eights of physically-exhausting moves. I was then known again. And this was the reason why I was given another responsibility, a responsibility of taking a full-blown authority for a performing group. Half-interested I was. The other half was a heart pounding belief that I may not be able to meet the expectations of those people who believed in me.
I took over. There was a problem already at the door, and these problems are yet to be solved. Then came another, then another, and then another. It all started with ‘I actually do not know’.
I had a problem of handling the group at the start of my take over. I wasn’t really in control. Someone supercedes me in authority when in fact I was the one officially recognized. I kept silent! Until eventually I have to limit my relationship with them and asked everyone not to create so much attachment with them. But I did not say anything on creating a gap and ultimately alienating themselves totally from them. I just said ‘limit’, and many misinterpreted it in a way that I was already too selfish. Then they too became selfish. They paid no heed to what my group, originally their group, was requesting. Was it my fault?
There came a time when I was too emotional already. I said everything I wanted to say, not really thinking I may be hurting other people. My words were truly sharp; I embarrassed one, two and then my group. It all started with the way they showed no respect to me. They didn’t know I was hurt; that I was in pain, and they will show no respect to me? They didn’t know. Perhaps they did not understand, or I didn’t let them know. Was it my fault?
I had performers close to me. This one was with whom I actually had closer involvement. It was with him whom I seek company with when I crave for food. I laugh with him, crack jokes with him, squandered around with him and slept with and beside him. Yes, with him. Until eventually and slowly, he paid no, or less, attention to what the group really wanted. I mean to what I wanted. I obliged everyone to come on time. He came late then. I required everyone to do their work. He seemed not to do those responsibilities attached to his position; because he came late. When I was teaching them the virtue of sacrifice, he still attended to other things. When he talked, it seemed he doubted me already. We got mad with each other already even before these things happened. He knew the things I never wanted. But it seemed he didn’t learn from it. Until I thought, and I was able to say it, he was too comfortable with me already. Was it my fault?
This other was with whom I stayed with when the group had so many activities. I stayed with this other more than the one, eventually. It just so happened since he had been asking for things that he could do. He visited me in my office; helped me finish things and led the group when I was out. As a result, we became closer and the one became jealous, according to a new person whom I turned to when I was looking for a companion. I scolded him one time. He got mad. But does he have the right to get mad when he really committed an error? Like a wink of the eye, the relationship was gone! Was it my fault?
I thought I could lead. I thought I could interact with many faces of people. But with my group, I knew I couldn’t. I thought I was not a quitter. I thought I could not be turned down. But with my group, I knew I’m a loser. I thought teaching was not my field. But with my group, I knew I am better in teaching, than a leader and a choreographer. I lost many opportunities. But with the group they showed implicitly that I am more opportune to teaching. Thanks to them anyway! And now, I want to lose the opportunity that I grabbed! Should I say goodbye? But how could I say it?
But I wasn’t able to control what lies ahead of me. I came, and then almost everything came. Many other opportunities unfolded right in front of me. Many times chances knocked on my door. Many times had I also turned them down? But what was the reason?
I was invited. I prepared myself, the things I needed, everything. Then I was called sir, instructor, and some mistakenly called me professor. I just smiled, it’s simply because I am teaching in a college department. Then people knew me. They called my attention. They gave me responsibilities. I could not help my self but surmise they just believed in me. I said I won’t turn them down. Huh! Won’t turn them down?
Then I was invited again! I just gave a sort of respect through my appearance. Then I eventually gave respect when I gave time to create my one to eights of physically-exhausting moves. I was then known again. And this was the reason why I was given another responsibility, a responsibility of taking a full-blown authority for a performing group. Half-interested I was. The other half was a heart pounding belief that I may not be able to meet the expectations of those people who believed in me.
I took over. There was a problem already at the door, and these problems are yet to be solved. Then came another, then another, and then another. It all started with ‘I actually do not know’.
I had a problem of handling the group at the start of my take over. I wasn’t really in control. Someone supercedes me in authority when in fact I was the one officially recognized. I kept silent! Until eventually I have to limit my relationship with them and asked everyone not to create so much attachment with them. But I did not say anything on creating a gap and ultimately alienating themselves totally from them. I just said ‘limit’, and many misinterpreted it in a way that I was already too selfish. Then they too became selfish. They paid no heed to what my group, originally their group, was requesting. Was it my fault?
There came a time when I was too emotional already. I said everything I wanted to say, not really thinking I may be hurting other people. My words were truly sharp; I embarrassed one, two and then my group. It all started with the way they showed no respect to me. They didn’t know I was hurt; that I was in pain, and they will show no respect to me? They didn’t know. Perhaps they did not understand, or I didn’t let them know. Was it my fault?
I had performers close to me. This one was with whom I actually had closer involvement. It was with him whom I seek company with when I crave for food. I laugh with him, crack jokes with him, squandered around with him and slept with and beside him. Yes, with him. Until eventually and slowly, he paid no, or less, attention to what the group really wanted. I mean to what I wanted. I obliged everyone to come on time. He came late then. I required everyone to do their work. He seemed not to do those responsibilities attached to his position; because he came late. When I was teaching them the virtue of sacrifice, he still attended to other things. When he talked, it seemed he doubted me already. We got mad with each other already even before these things happened. He knew the things I never wanted. But it seemed he didn’t learn from it. Until I thought, and I was able to say it, he was too comfortable with me already. Was it my fault?
This other was with whom I stayed with when the group had so many activities. I stayed with this other more than the one, eventually. It just so happened since he had been asking for things that he could do. He visited me in my office; helped me finish things and led the group when I was out. As a result, we became closer and the one became jealous, according to a new person whom I turned to when I was looking for a companion. I scolded him one time. He got mad. But does he have the right to get mad when he really committed an error? Like a wink of the eye, the relationship was gone! Was it my fault?
I thought I could lead. I thought I could interact with many faces of people. But with my group, I knew I couldn’t. I thought I was not a quitter. I thought I could not be turned down. But with my group, I knew I’m a loser. I thought teaching was not my field. But with my group, I knew I am better in teaching, than a leader and a choreographer. I lost many opportunities. But with the group they showed implicitly that I am more opportune to teaching. Thanks to them anyway! And now, I want to lose the opportunity that I grabbed! Should I say goodbye? But how could I say it?
ways to be allenic!
1. dream of becoming a marine archaeologist!
2. or dream of becoming a forensic anthropologist!
3. be a prisoner of your own room!
4. eat marshmallows and drink Dutchmill
5. skip lunch without any reasons
6. flirt with boys
7. sing as if you’re a singer
8. dance!
9. imagine you’re a researcher of the national geographic or discovery channel
10. dream of becoming an ethnomusicologist!
11. dream of having the biggest concert!
12. swim almost 100 meters in the ocean!
13. sprint 100 meters in just less than half a minute!
14. play badminton, basketball, volleyball
15. wrestle with somebody else in a pit.
16. dive in a fish pond
17. make your teacher cry
18. make somebody cry
19. embarrass people in front of many people
20. open someone else’s bag and use their things
21. dream of acting on screen
22. have alden, who made you fall in love the longest
23. have kevin, who would invite you to sleep over with him
24. have charles, who will fetch you even during late hours
25. have gerald, who never forgets to smile at you.
26. have rixon, who will later show no interest on you.
27. pretend you’re not hurt
28. and pretend like you don’t want someone
29. cry at movies and cinemas
30. laugh with no reasons of laughing
31. smile even to those people you don’t know
32. test someone’s patience
33. make the hastiest decision
34. test the love of your friends for you, if they stayed they are your true friends! Keep them!
35. drink liquor alone!
36. sleep not for more than 24 hours
37. climb a mountain and complain why your skin darkened!
38. crack a joke and you laugh alone
39. attend to your class after 30 minutes! Just to feel how is it to be late!
40. steal a glass at chowking
41. steal spoons and forks at KFC
42. think of sex, but be scared of actual sex
43. have a girl who would court you and say she loves you!
44. start something and don’t finish it
45. you should have professors who would stand up on stage when your name was called on the graduation day!
46. dream of having dates with the sexiest men on earth
47. wear high heels after a sweaty rehearsal
48. wear sando at 8 degrees temperature
49. wear bakya
50. smoke at times you want!
51. be time-conscious, arrive on time!
52. give your time, then they will not recognize you
53. give yourself and people won’t respect you still. have jaylord if you want to
54. always doubt people
55. do not always be nice to people. It won’t make you successful anyway.
56. be a teacher
57. be a choreographer
58. be a social scientist, an anthropologist
59. be a masochist
60. be a victim of yourself
61. read the bible and then question it
62. be sexy!
63. sleep naked
64. texting while having almost an hour of taking a bath.
65. forget people who hurt you, even if they were your friends. once is enough, when they hurt you once they’ll hurt you again
66. do not forgive, just forget!
67. look for people who will teach you to forgive!
68. write what you feel or about anything you want to.
69. one of the days you hate is your birthday!
70. carry a title with you like Allen Dyosa!
71. have pimples, even acnes!
72. be a leader! No, a quitter! Whatever!
73. hate the people who hurt you!
74. believing that saying ‘I love you’ is a Corny much thing!
75. or doubt those people who say ‘I love you’ to you! People just don’t really know what it means!
76. be afraid of boys! Just flirt with them!
77. fell off a Camias tree and say you’re not hurt!
78. be harassed! Almost being raped in a river! Or being kissed sadistically! These were why I hate boys!
79. embarrass students yet they still call you sir! Even though they are no longer your students!
80. hate those who silently destroy you!!
81. hate those people who take important people away from you!
82. when a man gave you a cake!
83. when you were hit by a tricycle!
84. when you were the favorite of your lola!
85. when the burial of your lolo was on your birthday!
86. when your lola’s brother died when you just arrived home from a vacation!
87. when you won an election by a landslide victory! Or
88. when you almost lose an election!
89. when you won as the most popular boy scout! Whew!
90. when you are the reason for people’s insecurities!
91. when at times you hate yourself as well!
92. when you have a diamond-shaped birthmark at the right side your left knee!
93. have friends who really accept you at your worst!
94. when popular people called you, ‘he has the ideal body type of a dancer!’ Douglas said that!
95. have Shasta who’ll comment on you as having the worst whisper EVER!
96. have Sinead who’ll drink liquor only with you one on one!
97. have Nathan whose attachment with you will make you think as if he loves you!
98. suffer from typhoid fever where people doubted it’s actually AH1N1!
99. have a college teacher who’ll play with your grades!
100. have a butt that would make people say it’s unnatural! How stubborn they are!
2. or dream of becoming a forensic anthropologist!
3. be a prisoner of your own room!
4. eat marshmallows and drink Dutchmill
5. skip lunch without any reasons
6. flirt with boys
7. sing as if you’re a singer
8. dance!
9. imagine you’re a researcher of the national geographic or discovery channel
10. dream of becoming an ethnomusicologist!
11. dream of having the biggest concert!
12. swim almost 100 meters in the ocean!
13. sprint 100 meters in just less than half a minute!
14. play badminton, basketball, volleyball
15. wrestle with somebody else in a pit.
16. dive in a fish pond
17. make your teacher cry
18. make somebody cry
19. embarrass people in front of many people
20. open someone else’s bag and use their things
21. dream of acting on screen
22. have alden, who made you fall in love the longest
23. have kevin, who would invite you to sleep over with him
24. have charles, who will fetch you even during late hours
25. have gerald, who never forgets to smile at you.
26. have rixon, who will later show no interest on you.
27. pretend you’re not hurt
28. and pretend like you don’t want someone
29. cry at movies and cinemas
30. laugh with no reasons of laughing
31. smile even to those people you don’t know
32. test someone’s patience
33. make the hastiest decision
34. test the love of your friends for you, if they stayed they are your true friends! Keep them!
35. drink liquor alone!
36. sleep not for more than 24 hours
37. climb a mountain and complain why your skin darkened!
38. crack a joke and you laugh alone
39. attend to your class after 30 minutes! Just to feel how is it to be late!
40. steal a glass at chowking
41. steal spoons and forks at KFC
42. think of sex, but be scared of actual sex
43. have a girl who would court you and say she loves you!
44. start something and don’t finish it
45. you should have professors who would stand up on stage when your name was called on the graduation day!
46. dream of having dates with the sexiest men on earth
47. wear high heels after a sweaty rehearsal
48. wear sando at 8 degrees temperature
49. wear bakya
50. smoke at times you want!
51. be time-conscious, arrive on time!
52. give your time, then they will not recognize you
53. give yourself and people won’t respect you still. have jaylord if you want to
54. always doubt people
55. do not always be nice to people. It won’t make you successful anyway.
56. be a teacher
57. be a choreographer
58. be a social scientist, an anthropologist
59. be a masochist
60. be a victim of yourself
61. read the bible and then question it
62. be sexy!
63. sleep naked
64. texting while having almost an hour of taking a bath.
65. forget people who hurt you, even if they were your friends. once is enough, when they hurt you once they’ll hurt you again
66. do not forgive, just forget!
67. look for people who will teach you to forgive!
68. write what you feel or about anything you want to.
69. one of the days you hate is your birthday!
70. carry a title with you like Allen Dyosa!
71. have pimples, even acnes!
72. be a leader! No, a quitter! Whatever!
73. hate the people who hurt you!
74. believing that saying ‘I love you’ is a Corny much thing!
75. or doubt those people who say ‘I love you’ to you! People just don’t really know what it means!
76. be afraid of boys! Just flirt with them!
77. fell off a Camias tree and say you’re not hurt!
78. be harassed! Almost being raped in a river! Or being kissed sadistically! These were why I hate boys!
79. embarrass students yet they still call you sir! Even though they are no longer your students!
80. hate those who silently destroy you!!
81. hate those people who take important people away from you!
82. when a man gave you a cake!
83. when you were hit by a tricycle!
84. when you were the favorite of your lola!
85. when the burial of your lolo was on your birthday!
86. when your lola’s brother died when you just arrived home from a vacation!
87. when you won an election by a landslide victory! Or
88. when you almost lose an election!
89. when you won as the most popular boy scout! Whew!
90. when you are the reason for people’s insecurities!
91. when at times you hate yourself as well!
92. when you have a diamond-shaped birthmark at the right side your left knee!
93. have friends who really accept you at your worst!
94. when popular people called you, ‘he has the ideal body type of a dancer!’ Douglas said that!
95. have Shasta who’ll comment on you as having the worst whisper EVER!
96. have Sinead who’ll drink liquor only with you one on one!
97. have Nathan whose attachment with you will make you think as if he loves you!
98. suffer from typhoid fever where people doubted it’s actually AH1N1!
99. have a college teacher who’ll play with your grades!
100. have a butt that would make people say it’s unnatural! How stubborn they are!
Friday, August 21, 2009
I am
I am hideous and a masochist
Wondering that ribbon be untied, and be packed no more
Hearing that genuine voice, not the wicked tone
Wanting a ribbon of warmth and prickled not
I am hideous and a masochist
Pretending that ghosts in the iniquitous are gone
Feeling annoyed by a ridiculed self-denial
Touching an ostensibly impeccable, innocent adoration
Worrying I might lose a grip
Crying that I always conceal sentiments
I am hideous and a masochist
Understanding we really can’t be
Saying I’m constantly beneath a mask of bliss
Dreaming cupid has not really invaded me
Trying to keep the wrath of frugality
Hoping that stains of the past be flawless then
I am hideous and a masochist
I sailed from a group;
But it launched a heart staggering
Melancholy over the memoirs
Leading to dubious compassion
Toward an innocent young, fresh prairie
Truly, I am a hideous, masochist selfish pseudo-affection hater.
I am hideous and a masochist
Homosexuality and the Bible
I could not collect my thoughts instantaneously when one of my students freely chucked words on air at the course of my explanation regarding the difference between a folkway and mores. I gave as much examples as I could but I could not peg homosexuality right away to any of the classifications of norms. I knew he needed some more explanations, and so was the class. And I knew what context they had been using in their definition of homosexuality.
I am expecting comments on my following avowal, but these testimonies of mine are based on a rational skepticism and pragmatism.
Defining homosexuality appurtenant to the bible would have caused one a trouble. The Bible has been a good recipe for those whose faith is uptight with anxiety and confusion. But the Bible could not speak much of what is in reality. The Bible is the blueprint to God. However, the Bible could not provide a more realistic explanation to the ways of life. The Bible offers food for spiritual life. Conversely, it minimally provides an outline to better understanding homosexuality.
Christians celebrated the fact that God made Adam and Eve, a correspondence to male and female. This has been a longstanding belief among Christians which inevitably limits themselves to the perspective to only two sexes. This standpoint made Christians believes that God made Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve; thereby Adam is for Eve and not Adam for Steve. The Bible explicitly talks about sex, and not gender.
According to John J. Macionis, “Sex is the biological distinction that develops prior to birth” and “Gender is the meaning that a society attaches to being female or male”. Further, gender is the socially constructed meaning that members of a society associate to being a masculine and feminine. The socially constructed meaning is dependent to the feelings, thoughts and actions of the individual.
Adam is male because he has male genitalia. But Adam can be homosexual, bisexual, transsexual or any other sexual orientations that can be emotionally involved to his masculinity. And Eve can also be homosexual yet she is still a female, biologically.
Confining one’s perspective to the limits of the Bible will never permit him or herself to be tolerant on this matter.
According to Alfred Kinsey, in his Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), “males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexuals and homosexuals. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The whole world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.”
I really found it hard to explain to my students in a Catholic Institution the issue on Homosexuality. I made some of my students clap as I faithfully answer them. Some smiled. Yet some are still doubtful. As I explained, only tolerance can make people religiously accept differences. To shut eyes to reality is to bug down the bridge of understanding.
I am expecting comments on my following avowal, but these testimonies of mine are based on a rational skepticism and pragmatism.
Defining homosexuality appurtenant to the bible would have caused one a trouble. The Bible has been a good recipe for those whose faith is uptight with anxiety and confusion. But the Bible could not speak much of what is in reality. The Bible is the blueprint to God. However, the Bible could not provide a more realistic explanation to the ways of life. The Bible offers food for spiritual life. Conversely, it minimally provides an outline to better understanding homosexuality.
Christians celebrated the fact that God made Adam and Eve, a correspondence to male and female. This has been a longstanding belief among Christians which inevitably limits themselves to the perspective to only two sexes. This standpoint made Christians believes that God made Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve; thereby Adam is for Eve and not Adam for Steve. The Bible explicitly talks about sex, and not gender.
According to John J. Macionis, “Sex is the biological distinction that develops prior to birth” and “Gender is the meaning that a society attaches to being female or male”. Further, gender is the socially constructed meaning that members of a society associate to being a masculine and feminine. The socially constructed meaning is dependent to the feelings, thoughts and actions of the individual.
Adam is male because he has male genitalia. But Adam can be homosexual, bisexual, transsexual or any other sexual orientations that can be emotionally involved to his masculinity. And Eve can also be homosexual yet she is still a female, biologically.
Confining one’s perspective to the limits of the Bible will never permit him or herself to be tolerant on this matter.
According to Alfred Kinsey, in his Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), “males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexuals and homosexuals. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The whole world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.”
I really found it hard to explain to my students in a Catholic Institution the issue on Homosexuality. I made some of my students clap as I faithfully answer them. Some smiled. Yet some are still doubtful. As I explained, only tolerance can make people religiously accept differences. To shut eyes to reality is to bug down the bridge of understanding.
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