What you’d love to see here in OMAN

(I’ve written this about some YEARS ago, so don’t mind the grammatical errors! I wasn’t as a perfectionist as I am now!)

I’ve been traveling for so many years, back and fort, to the one place I’ve always been eager to go back to; OMAN. But unfortunately, I haven’t really cited the things you’d love to see here. There are numerous places and lots of hangouts the whole family can enjoy.
There is The Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) and it’s hospital that holds more than 10, 000 students and about more than that are residential owners that work inside the university and hospital. There are a number of concrete halls in each colleges and dormitories housing the ladies who study here. Gentlemen are required to live outside to avoid . . . ehem! There is a park near the library with floor fountains and lush green grass complementing different shades of chrysanthemums and carnations. Apart  from the concrete variations, not to mention, THE MOSQUE that as a child I’ve always admired its beauty and majesty, as all mosques are here.
Speaking of which, the GRAND MOSQUE located at Ghala is probably the biggest mosque here. I won’t say it’s bigger than Taj Mahal or anything but it is majestic in its own way. Of course, non Muslims aren’t allowed to get in!  Shoot!
Azaiba Beach. Yes! A beach located numbers of kms opposite Ghala. I have never swam anywhere else than on this beach. Well, I won’t say it has white sand and crystal waters but at least it’s a beach! It has sea shells that you can gather and eat after cooking, too!
Night Life has always been tradition here in Oman. I have never seen such a busy night life in my life. You would always find people everywhere, Food houses, Groceries, Dept. Stores, streets, everywhere! If you were here, you’d love to walk at Qurum, this has the most commercial buildings that you could jump back and fort to! It has Al Araimi, CCC, Safeer Groceries, Al Khamis, Kimji’s, Pizza Hut, KFC, Hardees, Sabco and plenty more! You could even buy jewelries here! And I love them! Silver or Gold, you name it! It’s a place to be!
Okay, there is a monotony in Groceries here. They all look EXACTLY the same. The goods are piled up on aisles like they are auctioned. It’s like a lego land that is copied and pasted on each store. You would enjoy moving around the store, though, because it’s super spacious and easy to move around. . . There’s The City Center, with Carrefour as it’s grocery store (Or Mall cause it has everything except glutinous rice. . . ) Al Fair (It has so many branches, I forget how many and where) and there are also Coldstores that you can easily get to. Just get on an orange painted Taxicab and tell the driver where you’re going.
I won’t say the airport is a destination you’ll love to see because frankly, you won’t like it. Enough said!
If you want to go to the far south, okay, far away from civilization, you’d see Qantab. I saw a very wonderful beach there when we last saw it! I think Shang Rila is the greatest scene there! I’m not sure we’ll ever go back, though. . . HEIGHT issues
Ruwi church is also a good place to look at. It’s nice! I like it very much, too!
I am out of words to describe the beauty and even the madness of Oman. At least I’ve cited some. . . Good luck and enjoy your stay!

…and then there was Keanu and Sandra

I’ve seen two of their films together, for about a hundredth time in this lifetime. But it always struck me to believe that the dynamic duo that is Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves is probably the best tandem I have ever seen. Sure, there would be Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant, or Cary and Katharine Hepburn, or Kate and Spencer Tracy. And then there would be Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, William Powell and Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, and Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. For modern day viewers, there are Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Ben Affleck and J.Lo, but all of these have one thing in common; They’ve starred together ONLY ONCE!!! I believe that Keanu and Sandra starred twice together, and every second of it counts! Speed is a collection of bone breakin’, stunt driving, bomb-explodin’ catastrophe! The Lakehouse is a collection of sad love songs, momentary pauses in time, love stories connected together and becomes actually real! If you love these love movies, you have got to try The Lakehouse!

It’s just too bad they didn’t end up together. Sandra is currently married to a motorcycle buff while Keanu… well, there’s not much news about his love life. I sure hope someone comes up, and someone pretty! The worst or best thing that could happen is Sandy breaking up with her hubby and ending up with Keanu. Wouldn’t that be the day?

It’s a wrong accusation that people regard the great Neo as gay. He isn’t. He’s… to be honest, he’s a little confused about his real identity. Just like Neo, he’s trapped in a world that has no means and ends. He’s adapting to it harmoniously and would really appreciate it if nobody bothers him with no-nonsense questions! I’m speaking for every Keanu fan in this entire planet! As for Sandy, well, let’s not bother her too! She’s happy and whatever makes her happy MUST and WILL make us happy. After all, it’s not everyday we find a Sandy and Keanu…

(And now, an EXCERPT from my journal)

Did you ever wonder if Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock got together for real? I always did! These tandem has hit every single Keandra Shipper ever since the box office success of their first movie, ‘Speed’ in 1994. Remember that rolling bus number 2525? It was the smash hit of the 90’s and the start of the most outstanding duo in history. (At least, that’s what most Keandra fans believe, and I do believe, no bless oblige)
Keanu Reeves made this fever famous by portraying an LAPD officer named Jack Traven who ruined a man’s deterioration plan to blow up an elevator with 13 passengers trapped. Dennis Hopper’s character, Howard Payne, knew how Keanu couldn’t get away with it by planting a bomb on a bus with Sandra Bullock in it! Basically, that’s how people from all over the world started to love them both. They’re helping each other maneuver the bus all over LA just to avoid it from blowing up, cause if it hits below 50, KABOOM!
But I’m not here to talk about Speed. I’m here to talk about their magnificent tandem that became more popular because of a reunion in 2006. The Lake House features both Sandy and Keanu back together but with a different genre… This is a drama/Love Story and is highly different than the action packed Speed. Keanu plays an architect named Alex Wyler who lives in the year 2004. Sandy, however, plays a medical doctor, Kate Forster, who lives in 2006! They communicate through a mail box, sort of portal, and has the same dog, Jack (In my opinion, they based her name from Jack Traven’s) and fall in love. How can that happen? I don’t know! But nevertheless, they’re still as popular as they were in 1994.
There are tandems in the past that would always be remembered. There’s Bogie – Bacall, Flynn – De Havilland, Grant – Hepburn, Tracy – Hepburn, and so many more that I can’t indicate here (cause there are so many!) And let’s not forget MULDER AND SCULLY. They’ve worked together for how many years! And they’re still working now! I have been a fan of the X-Files since I last saw it… But I chose Keandra to be the subject. Why? Cause Keanu and Sandra, I know, like most tandems and love teams of the century, will be remembered most! Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks would have been the A-List of this entry, but instead I thought Keandra would have been better.
Shippers from all over the world would always know that Keanu and Sandra would make their life better. Speed and The Lake House has brought both tears of joy and excitement to audiences from the premiere of both movies in the box office. It may have never won any Oscar, but all I can say is ‘Oscar is just a golden statue’ and will never replace the beauty and madness the world saw in Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.

Crush lang naman noh?! (It’s just a little crush!)

Crush lang, nothing else…

I’m happy because I think of him, even if he’s not thinking of me…

Have you ever felt so happy because you know you’re thinking of him, smiling at every moment he sends you a message on your cellphone? It’s not as if this happens all the time. But to me, well, I won’t say this is the first! All right! I have had enough of this nonsense. The blog I wrote a couple of days ago says I’d give up. But now it seems harder than I thought to just move on! It’s a crushing thing, all right? And I don’t mind having one right now. It’s perfectly normal. I am in a state wherein the world is a fantasy, and nothing more. I don’t mind feeling this way, and I certainly don’t mind if he doesn’t talk to me! So what? I admire him and not love him. They’re two different things!

The day is finished… with a sigh!

I have just typed every single typed requirement I needed for tomorrow. This is one hectic day, I swear! It is very very hectic as in!

But I am so glad the day is finished. I’m all done, you know! I’m proud to say that I have crammed without hesitation and finished it in a professional manner, too! And I got to watch Bea and John Lloyd again! It’s such a wonderful show. Okay, this is totally official. I now have a huge celebrity crush on John Lloyd! Corny ko no? Hahahahahahahahaha

There’s only one thing left to do…

“Why didn’t I let my feeling show while there was time for you to know? Why didn’t I tell you when I could, that I love you? I always would! I was a fool to believe, that you would stay and never leave. Now there’s no time left but to say, ‘Please Stay'” ~ Please Stay by Roselle Nava

There is only one thing left to do… But what should that thing be?

Okay, I’ve told him this stupid feeling already. He hasn’t even replied. Could it be? Is he mad at me or something? I didn’t even do something wrong! My friends said it’s the next best thing to do, so that I’ll be more relaxed. Yes, I’m relaxed now. It feels as if a thorn was pulled out of myself (and not my heart!) and that it has been there since I was a grade schooler! I feel so inspired to do all the things I need to do. It feels as if I was still on cloud 9, but not that intense as before. I think about him most of the time, and just smile about it. I just… smile about it now. I don’t go crazy about it anymore. I just smile! And what a wonderful smile it has always been.

I love Betty La Fea is probably the best show I’ve ever watched that had Bea Alonzo and John Lloyd Cruz in it! Who would have thought their tandem would be so… so wonderful! I just saw this episode yesterday, where John Lloyd’s character, Sir Armando, told Bea’s character, Betty, that he loves her and MEANT WHAT HE SAID!!! Wouldn’t that be too direct? Or is it just the one thing left for him to do? If Bea won’t accept him, I’ll gladly take him! Hey, John Lloyd is a good looking guy, mind you! He is!

Okay…

“Damdaming para sa ‘yo, nais ko sanang ipakiusap. Pagmamahal na handog ko, sana’y maging ganap. Damdaming para sa ‘yo, hinding hindi magbabago. Bawat sulyap mo sana ay pag-ibig!”

This would have to be the corniest entry I’ve ever written. I apoligize for using English as my medium. I’m not perfect in the Filipino language, you know. And I don’t like code-switching when it comes to writing…

And the crowd goes wild!

Okay, after all the asking and the advice giving and the approaching of everybody else I knew, I have come to the conclusion that would serve as the fatal end to this dilemna I am having.

Let’s be frank. I know I’ve been having this confused feeling these past few weeks. But now, since I’ve talked to most of my friends and their advice seem to be the same and very much effective, and I mean all of them, I would think that what I should do in the next few days would definitely end this fantasy.

Just like in Araby, I know that I’m in this delusion. That for some reason, I’m enjoying my time inside a fantasy world that nobody can ruin. But let’s not forget that it’s not real life. I need to get out of it as soon as possible. It’s killing my senses, making me do things I don’t even want to do, and it’s ruining my body clock!

I don’t want to pretend that it has ended, because seriously it hasn’t. I just want to keep it cool for some time, until I’ve moved on. I want to make sure I’m feeling the right thing, and if I should continue feeling it. It would completely make my day more on the intellectual side, because from now on I’d finally focus on my studies and be inspired (through this crushy feeling) at the same time! After all, I’ve felt this feeling so many times now (have I mentioned I felt it in a lady? Well, she’s an actress and like a friend of mine I know I’m admiring not her kindness and persona, but her beauty. What’s so wrong about that?) I know I’m going to forget about it eventually, until God has given me ample time to think. Maybe then he’d tell me, or show me, who the lucky guy is! If he did tell me in my age now, I just don’t know what I’ll do. This would certainly mean that the time has come, and the crowd goes wild! But I’ll be the only one not going wild, because maybe I won’t be as much pleased as I have to be. That guy would probably ruin everything in the process and hurt me and break my heart, so as long as I’m in college, let’s just concentrate on the basics, and the Honorable Mention diploma and the means to graduate all the same. I would want to pursue an MA in Teaching Literature. I sure wish I’d pass it!

To conclude this sudden intrusion of minds, I would like to emphasize on one thing; that no matter how hard it is to move on to the next, I would certainly never forget how happy I was during the times I had this major crush on him. I still have, but I won’t say it’s major. Did I mention one of my friends told him what I was actually feeling? Would that be normal for a friend to say? I don’t think it is, but I actually dared her to say it, so I guess I was the loser in the end.

At least, somehow, through somebody, he knows. I hope he understands that it’s just a crush and nothing more. I know it’s kind of childish of me to still have a High School Major Crush thing going on, and I plan to stop eventually, but I just can’t stop thinking about him! Let me put it this way. When I think of him through my hardships, like being too stressed of school work, I’d probably smile about it because I know that through reminiscing these memories, I’d grow stronger and not be too stressed anymore. Yes, I am so happy, you could say that. Happy because I smile for him, I laugh because of him, I sing happy songs because of him. And most of all, I am alive because of him…

What’s the use of all this?

There are, big chances, that my family would react to this entry. I should warn you… it’s not as good as it may sound!

Lately, I’ve been crushing on this guy I know and in all due honesty, I want to have him. But the problem is, do I want him? Or is this just a common stage that any girl go through? I mean I’m waiting for something to happen, but I have a strong feeling it would never come. I just asked a girlfriend about it and she said I’d have to let go of it somehow. There’s no harm in letting go, I know, but what if I regret my actions in the end? What if that something comes without me knowing it? Argh! This is frustrating! I’m only 18 and yet I have to experience this stupid fantasy. Yes, I think it’s stupid. I shouldn’t be the one crushing on someone. Someone should be crushing on me! That would be the day!!!

I remember one time, I told him in a very friendly manner that I care for him… That I’d do anything for him to be happy, or to help him, or to make him feel special. Do you know what he said? “Thank you!”. Typical guy replies. So minimal and yet worth a thousand smiles. But I didn’t smile. I laughed! That was such a stupid thing to say to a guy especially when you know he has no eyes for you. You’re just crushing on him! Period!

But why do I feel this way? Why do I have this strong feeling that I shouldn’t stop thinking about him? Why do I need to continue? I don’t know. I think I need help! Professional, I think. But I’d rather not trouble myself revealing something to a professional helper. I’d ask my friends instead.

What if I ask my dad? What would he say? I bet he’d laugh at me and say “Ok lang yan, anak, it’s teenage creed!”

If I’d ask my mom, she’d say I’m too young to be in love. Studies first before guys. I’d be studying all my life. As a future teacher, I also have this fear of never meeting a compatible guy for myself! It’s a teacher’s worst fear, growing old alone.

I sure wish I’d find someone during my 20s! That would be so swell!

Going back, I can’t stand it! I think I have to tell him when I see him. No, I don’t think I’ll ever do that again. When I was in the 5th grade, I remember telling him that. The good thing is… he told me he had a crush on me too! I don’t believe he’ll say the exact same thing now. We’re way older than before and somehow, we know how the world revolves.

What the heck is wrong with me? This is a crushing thing but I’m going crazy saying all that I remember in this blog entry!!! What more if I fall in love? WHAT WOULD THE WORLD BE GETTING INTO???

Great, my best friend just told me to retain the crushing thing. I should stay in this crush state and not move into the next level (Unless absolutely necessary!) who knows? Maybe someday I’d find somebody exactly like him that would make my life complete!

It’s a great, big world

Have you ever experienced your right hand or your left hand being sooo sore? It’s the worst possible thing that could happen, you know. Especially for someone like me who draws a lot. Argh, I just finished ten illustrations today. My hands are numb but I am so glad I can still type.

I have just been made happy by my special secret someone. Hihihih…

I don’t understand my feelings. I kept fantasizing about sorts of things that I know would never happen, I’ve been telling everybody that I am so happy and they could see that! It’s obvious!

I’m eating well, thank God, and I have just enjoyed a plate of rice and sinigang. It’s real swell!

I’ve been saying ‘swell’ for how many times now.

I bought this bag yesterday. It was supposed to be a gift but now I’m thinking of keeping it. It’s a nice bag, see, and I’d love to have it for myself! I’d buy my friend a new bag… maybe when I get the money from this other friend of mine.  And I bought something for another friend. Who would have thought SM would be soooo full of neat stuff? I mean I could stay there and buy all my christmas gifts… Of course, I’m planning to buy something for this someone at Festival. That’s what I can’t wait for! It’s a blessing in disguise isn’t it?

He’s Always a Man to Me…

He could kill with his laugh, he can wound with his eyes

His faith may be ruined from casual lies

He would always believe what you want him to see

He’s brave like a soldier, he’s always a man to me

He may lead her to love, he can take her and love her

He will tell you the truth, but the girl won’t believe

And he’ll give what you’ve taken, making sure that it’s free

Yes, he willingly gives and he’s always a man to me

Oh, He’s dependent at times

He won’t wait if he wants

He’s behind of his time

Oh, and he’ll always give up

And he’ll always give in

He’s not changing his mind

He can’t promise you more than the garden of Eden

And he’ll let you cut him while you’re laughing, he’s bleeding

But his best and his worst has been brought out to be

Blaming him for yourself ’cause he’s always a man to me

Oh, He’s dependent at times

He won’t wait if he wants

He’s behind of his time

Oh, and he’ll always give up

And he’ll always give in

He’s not changing his mind

He’s frequently cruel and he’s suddenly kind

He can do what you want cause he’s somebody’s fool

But he can be convicted without his degree

And the most he will do is see shadows of you

But he’s always a man to me…