may justice be served

I despise the fact that I have serious sleeping issues. Once again, it's 4am yet I am still wide awake when I should already be asleep. In the dead of the night, unwanted thoughts crawl up to your mind and gradually consume you. I wish there was an easy way out of this, but we can't always have things we want in an instant. Reality can't work like magic.

In relation to that getting-things-we-want-in-an-instant topic, selfish and uneducated people are just getting more brutal these days -- crimes happen just EVERYDAY. Fact is, there hasn't been a single day in my life that I never heard a crime being reported in the news. That alone, has made me lose my interest in watching the television, and no, I ain't kidding -- I seriously don't watch the TV.

It was last wednesday when I read about the news about the 19-yr old ComSci student of UPLB who was raped, tied, and shot in the head, and I would not have found out about it had it not been that my HS batchmates (who used to study/studies in UPLB) simultaneously changed their profile pictures into this. All reports and investigations show that robbery was the motive of the murder, and I am actually not surprised since this has been happening quite more frequently nowadays. I just don't get why and how people do it, how their consciences deal with it. How does it let them sleep at night? Has murder and robbery been able to fill up for their insufficiency? I could come up with a number of questions to ask, but I don't think anyone could give me a rational answer.

Poverty is never enough for an excuse. My parents always keep me reminded of that, there are always other things you could do, and there's nothing God wouldn't give if he knows you really need it and you worked hard for it. I'm just really upset to hear how easily people turn to the devil out of desperation, out of their dire want for something instant.

My sympathies for Given and her family. I don't know you personally, but I know very well that you don't deserve this. You could've accomplished more, you could've reached so much, but don't worry, people are praying for you, people are doing their best to find the ones responsible for this incident (so that they be punished as they deserve to be), and people are intently seeking for justice so that you may rest well in peace. 

You lived a fruitful life, you served as an inspiration, and your life, even if it ended early, was never wasted.

And as your fellow UPLB student said, "Pahinga ka na Given, kami na magpapatuloy ng laban mo".

I know you're in a better place now with God. May you rest in peace.

I, on my end, will keep on praying that justice be served righteously.

On Binging with the Typhoons.

I've had this sort of "diet" planned out weeks ago, but I haven't started on it yet. Aside from my dire want to cut down on my intake, I haven't been to the gym for a month, seriously. Talk about wasting my monthly gym membership fee.

I thought training for ultimate was enough, but I think it made me gain more pounds. It might probably be because of the muscle mass I'm getting from the conditioning and circuit training, or maybe because of the food fest me and my teammates usually resort to after hours of exhausting training, I really feel like I gained. Nonetheless, I wouldn't want my life be without ultimate, and my teammates as well.

"'Di bale nang mataba, basta masaya"

I meant it when I said that, but who wants to be fat? We can eat everything, yes, but we can also do something about it, right? Like jog, do extra crunches, sit-ups, run an extra mile. I know I'm not the only one frustrated with my figure, I bet one of you guys are, too! So we gotta be fair. If we want to keep eating, we gotta keep moving, too!

Let's do this, everyone! On my way back to 100lbs, I go! HOHO.