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!

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.