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I’m now moving my blog to:

http://chinoyray.blogspot.com
http://minkeyouranos.blogspot.com

There’s this "formal" questions we need to answer in a private forum on where I work. We needed to fill up some questions (which are really needed) then, suddenly at the end of those "formal" questions, our boss asked:

Answer to the eternal question, what is love?

I messaged her (the boss) in YM and told her "Is that question really necessary? It’s a laugh trip!" Of course, she said no but for the fun of it, all 4 of us who answered the questionnaire answered that question too. LOL. To tell you guys honestly, that event happened January 2006. So why am I writing about this now? It’s because I realized, I have so many articles, paperworks, tempapers that talked about love and until now, IT HAS NOT BEEN POSTED IN MY BLOGS!

We all have this kind of LOVE in our minds; love is for couples, feeling romantic, looking for someone who’ll give us that "spark" OR that we call "magical feeling" OR looking for relationships. Well, that’s for the majority. The church may define love as something which is given by God to all mankind. Our parents may see love for their children as–to care, to nurture, give their children what they want, what they need, be with their children, play with them and many more. The thing is, with the SO-many-definitions of love, what is the real meaning of love for us?

We’ve debated this once in one of my Philosophy class and I think with love so vague and so meaningful, there will be no one definition or ultimate fact about it. I came to think that it’s not really for describing or defining since it’s meaning will depend on the individual. Depends on how the individual sees life and his experiences in life. Ever wonder why people won’t have the same definition of love? Why some people hated love? Why some people don’t believe in love?

In search for the answer to my questions in the previous paragraph, Google.com gave me this definitions of love:

• a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love" 
• any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting"; 
• have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him" 
• beloved: a beloved person; used as terms of endearment 
• a
  deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them
  indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love"
• get pleasure from; "I love cooking" 
• a score of zero in tennis or squash; "it was 40 love" 
• be enamored or in love with; "She loves her husband deeply" 
• roll
  in the hay: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
  everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with
  this man?"
• sexual love: sexual activities (often including
  sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her";
  "he hadn’t had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love
  life"
• Love has many meanings in English, from something that
  gives a little pleasure ("I loved that movie") to something one would
  die for (patriotism, pairbonding). It can describe an intense feeling
  of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it
  usually refers to interpersonal love. Probably due to its large
  psychological relevance, love is one of the most common themes in art.
  The majority of modern movies have a love story and most pop music is
  about love.
  

Did you find a similar definition of love from your point of view to there? If you’ll analyze those given meanings of love, they don’t have a connection from one over the other. Well, except for those that implies almost the same thing. But do you find your own definition of love something similar to those given above?

So many questions, so many answers and until now love is a mystery we can’t solve. If you’ll ask me, I’ll define love as a mystery that revolves in these values–honesty, trust and faith.
We give our trust to the people who love us and who we love (in consideration of all the definition of love and kinds of love given above). We became faithful in our own simple way of showing it to those we share love. e.g: parents, friends, special someone. Last but not the least, honesty. We may say that we’re not really sometimes honest to some people we do love (like parents or friends.. lolz) but if you’ll re-think of it, love developed from sharing our experiences, conversations of heart and just by being honest to ourselves to these people we love.

I’ll ask the question again:
Do you find your own definition of love something similar to those given above? Maybe yes? Maybe No? But still, love has it’s own definition amongst us. I have my own definition of it (which is the paragraph before this). and so as you… right?

As I end my long talk and your long read, I want to share you guys my answer to that eternal question back then:

What is the answer to the eternal question: What is love?

Love is something that you give it away… give it away… give it
away… love is something that you give it away.. and it comes right
back at you…

hahahahahahaha

Ok.. I know.. I was silly back then…

Good day!

Omen - A miraculous sign, a natural disaster, or a disturbance
in nature that reveals the will of the gods in the arena of politics or
social behavior or predicts a coming change in human history. Greek
culture held that if the gods were upset, they might visit the lands
with monsters, ghosts, floods, storms, and grotesque miracles to reveal
their displeasure. Comets might appear in the heavens–or phantom
armies might fight in the clouds. …

That’s the definition of the "Omen" given to my be Google.com but what about the movie "The Omen"?

The movie "The Omen" is similarly related to that definition but it’s embodied by a child, born at the  6th day of the 6th month of 1996? LOL. Signs as said in the bible was pointed by the movie which may at first sound freaky(since, they compared it to real life "disasters" that happened in the past). The so-called Armageddon in which the devil will send it’s own to let the humans destroy themselves until no one survive.

Ok, I think I have to end talking about what an Omen is.. since I first wanted this to be "my comment"/review on the movie and not a discussion about the "omen".

The very first thing that almost everybody at the theater that time (with me) noticed is that the events in the movie IS SO PREDICTABLE! Most of the events will give you a hint/hunch/feeling of what will happen next. Some maybe predictable but still THEY ARE SCARY (I don’t need to tell which part is that since I’m not a spoiler.. =P). Those scenes will give you a hint that the certain scene will be scary and might also be considered as a "staged" warning BUT still… the following WILL STILL SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU! even you expected something will happen there. It’s such a teaser… knowing something will happen, the movie let its viewers anticipate it and knowing that, those style of filming really amplifies the scary-factor of the movie.

Regarding the casts, you’ll get bored of Julia Styles and might want to ask her if she’s really acting or what. (no tears on that room cry?! tsk tsk…) Liev Schreiber did a good job. Portraying as a "real" diplomat who uses his intellect first before on deciding on something. The role really fits him and he did a great job!(I think I said that already… lolz) Also, as John Moore said in an interview, Liev performed well that he really got the essence of how all of us(people) today would act in superstitions.
Mia Farrow (the nanny) is also freaky. Though she’s one of the original "The Omen" cast back in the 1970+ something movie, it’s quite nice to let her do that role and her portrayal of it was superb. If I would remember it right, she’s the "diplomat’s wife" in the original movie. Last but not the least, Seamus’ (Damian in the movie) eyes were very scary. Those eyes really gave me that feeling of evil within him.

All in all, though I felt good in watching the movie, I can’t hide the fact that it was so predictable. (AND I HAVEN’T WATCH THE ORIGINAL! HECK! I WAS BORN 1986.. lolz)
Predictable as it is, John Moore, make use of that predictability to tease the watchers and amplify the feeling of getting scared!

TWO THUMBS UP to the movie! It’s a must-see!

There’s this question that almost everybody of us doesn’t know the "right" answer and rather just believe or NOT to believe on it. The question is…

Do you believe in Destiny?

Definitions:

Destiny or Fate concerns the fixed natural order of the
universe. It is the invincible necessity to which even the gods must
accede, as the Sibyl of Delphi confessed. Destiny is fate, personified
in Greek culture by the three Moirae (called the Parcae by the Romans),
with a Nordic counterpart in the three Norns. The "doom of the powers"
in Norse mythology is Ragnarok the battle which even Odin must
inevitably face, at the end of the world.

• an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future 
• the
  ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often
  personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny"
• fortune:
  your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything
  that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better
  fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of
  circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

Anyway, we all know that destiny is something that will happen in the future in which we are not sure of, how it will go or what will be the outcome of something that will happen. Do you know the story of Oedipus the king?  Oedipus’ destiny has been foretold his parents knew what will happen. As much as his parents wants to counter Oedipus’ destiny, it still did happen. (I’m sorry but I won’t tell the whole story of him here… just try to read the story here.)

However, I myself happened NOT to believe in destiny even I know that story and ever since. My counter-argument about it has been always "it is US who creates our own destiny." It is our own choices that will make our own future, our own fate or our own destiny. As Jean-Paul Sartre would say, "man is condemned to be free." Our life will not be dictated by someone, something or anything. It’s our choices that we encounter in life that will be the structure of something that will happen in the future in which we don’t have any idea.

BUT is it really like that? Are we sure that no one else (not even GOD) and only ourselves is directing our own lives?

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time now and some things do make sense and some things don’t. Events that happened in my life was truly unexpected. But when I think of it and reminisce in the past, EVERYTHING has been connected. I feel like I’ve been pre-determined and that destiny might be real. Almost every events that happened between my life (middle of childhood and adulthood) seems to me as obstacles to really pursue and "challenge" me in my destiny.

Things that I did expect to happen didn’t happen in the past, but now, after remembering my wants and whom I want to be back then when I was still such a crybaby, things that happen now has been really what I want back then.

example:
Kiddy days: fascinated by arts, loved arts etc….
Puberty–to–teenage days: sway of dreams from those of the childhood days to something else like "nursing", "being an OFW", "to be a priest", "to be a programmer", and etc…
Present: almost everything you wanted back then is happening now.

There really is no logical connection on those events but it seem to me that almost everything that happened in the middle has no use for today.
BTW, most people only started believing in destiny when they fall in love (as observed by psychologists and even me). Lovers try to connect things why did they meet and almost everything in the past up to the present.

Now that this things are starting to make sense for me, MY MOTHER (yep.. she saw me writing this) even agreed to what I’m saying regarding what’s happening to my life today compared to the past! LOL.

What’s worse is, her definition of destiny is about GOD dictating our own lives.

Why continue living if there’s someone up there creating a future for us? Does it mean that if you’re really destined to be poor then you’ll be poor when you die? Does it mean that if someone is destined to die at "this" age, he/she will die at that given age?

I guess, that this word–destiny will have it’s own truth only in believing or not believing in it.

Now, I would like to return to my very first question in this article…

Do you believe in Destiny?

My answer? I still don’t know.