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  • Thursday, January 31, 2008

    Maturity

    A person decides to himself what he wants to do with his life. Can we consider him mature? When can we say that a person is mature enough? I was once labelled immature, I don't know why... I was seen as having an extended childhood, that is, I treat things lightly.... But then I haven't change much from that point of view but I am labelled mature now. Is it my age?

    Maturity for me comes in different levels depending on the situation. In the events where you have vast experience, you are mature enough. Because you have acquired different solutions to the problem at hand. On the other hand, in issues wherein you don't have much knowledge, you are immature. Some people generalize others based on the nature of which they see this person.

    Maturity comes with age, of course, but there are no specifics on what particular age range. Each person comes with different degrees of maturity. A fully mature person is the one who distance himself from the situation and assess it from an angle where he can see all the aspects. Then slowly, enters back into the situation, in each step eliminating unreasonable and absurd scenarios. In the near end, he will be able to formulate a solution that may not be right at all times but is for the greater good. And then, stuck with it. And he can stuck with it because he had already seen all around it.

    Have you seen enough mature people around you? Do they act like a mature person? Do they talk maturely? Well, maybe, maybe not. But then, how do you know? Are you mature enough to spot these traits of a mature person? Writing here, do I know what I have just written? My assessment is that I may be mature enough in some aspects but not with other situationis.

    Then, maybe it's time to look at ourselves and determine to what degree our maturity is. We set the standards to ourselves and try to reach it... We can lower it or make it higher. It doesn't matter how other people see us. It is their perception, it is their convection to interpret what they see, it is their analysis to untangle what they hear. In the end, it is always us who takes the future of our life into maturity.

    Wednesday, January 30, 2008

    Tuna-Macaroni Salad

    Ingredients:

    1 kg salad macaroni
    3 cans tuna flakes in oil or brine
    4 packs mayo magic
    2 cans condensed milk
    1 box cheese
    1 carrot
    1 small bottle pickle relish
    1 tsp salt

    Instructions:

    Pasta
    1. Cook the salad macaroni per instruction (usually 13 minutes) until firm and tender.
    2. Strain and wash the macaroni with tap water until warm to touch.

    Carrot
    1. Slice carrot into fine cubes, about 1/4 in.
    2. Put in a casserole and boil for 1 minute, please do not overcook.

    Cheese
    1. Slice cheese into fine cubes, again about 1/4 in. Tuna 1. Drain tuna from oil or brine.
    2. Press with a fork until fine, not really very fine.

    The Mix
    1. Add macaroni and mayo magic first and mix thoroughly.
    2. Add the condensed milk and mix.
    3. Add the carrot and mix.
    4. Add the cheese and mix.
    5. Add the pickle relish and mix.
    6. Add the tuna and mix.
    7. Splash the salt and taste.
    8. The taste should be not so sweet and not so sour with a flavor of tuna.
    9. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.
    10. Enjoy!!!

    Monday, January 28, 2008

    Success

    Different people have different views. Different individuals have different opinions. An experience may lead to another. There is what we call SUCCESS.

    What is success? It is an achievement of a goal and the opposite of failure. So, if we say SUCCESS, it means there problems and goals being overcame. When we say, we are successful, what goals did we achieve? At the start of our lives, we already have goals or purpose, yet we don't know them. At a certain age, we seem to see our goal, our objective. And usually, this is superficial. We dream of a few things to make us comfortable and happy. Then after achieving this, we see another goal, another milestone to reach. Everytime, we envision to accomplish big things, we do it bit by bit. By solving small things, we learn and somehow, along the way, we get to solve big things.

    But what really is our goal? When I ponder in front of a mirror each morning when I wake up, I usually ask myself, 'What will I do today?'. And almost every single time I answer myself back, I would say 'Get things done.'. But somewhere deep inside tells me this is not enough. Being able to wake up each day and do the things I need to do, makes me wonder, 'What do I achieve each day?' And then, I begin to realize, I should have a goal way back when I was conceived. I just did not know it. And somewhere along my teenage life, I could have seen it but just ignore it, pretending to see what I want to see and believe.

    Struggling to know my real worth and purpose, I came to ask my inner self, the good-natured nucleus of my life. I ponder on things I read, on words I hear and on the experience I felt and the beauty that I see. Around me are beautiful things and not so beautiful things. Beside me are soft voices and not so soft melodies. At night, it is hard to hear the defeaning silence when you are in an urban area. Yet you don't understand what you hear. You just listen to the humdrum of life as it goes. And again I wonder, am I successful? Yes, literally, I have goals and objectives being achieved. But hese objectives are far from the real motive of my life on earth. Failure on the other hand, I may not admit it, also proliferate throughout my life. But to treat it as an obstacle, I learned to view it as a success. For every failure that comes, it is an oppurtunity to succeed. I am successful in divining the action as failure. Acceptance of failure is in itself willpower. But then again, with this in mind, 'am I successful?' I don't know. I have yet to see, feel and embrace my real goal. I know in the near future, I can fathom this and will be able to guide my actions and reactions towards the fulfillment of this ultimate goal, little by little.

    As of now, I am contented in finding this, until I will be successful. Who knows, this maybe is my goal - finding the real motive. But then, I can always snapback to where I am now... making a post on a blog called 'The World of Reality'. We have different views and then there is reality and perception.

    Sunday, January 27, 2008

    Update




    It has been almost a year since I last blogged. So much had happened to the world. The peso appreciated and currently, there's an impending US recession.


    Anyways, I've got to post pictures of my Cyndi Lois...