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Romance in the Filipino Language

Filipino is such a rich and romantic language, it's a pity that it is rarely used by contemporary poets and musical composers nowadays, being taken over by our 2nd language of U.S. English.

Filipino holds so many lyrical words which when translated to English, loses its magic, its intensity.

Let me illustrate it with one of my favorite Original Pilipino Music (OPM) songs which also happens to be the title soundtrack of one of my favorite Filipino movie: Sinasamba Kita.

Below is the partial lyrics of the song, originally written by Mr. Rey Valera and sung by Sharon Cuneta.

Kung kasalanan man sa Diyos ang sambahin kita

Marahil ay mauunawaan Niya ang tulad ko

na labis na nagmahal sa 'yo

Masisisi Niya ba ako sinta?

Sinasamba kita...

 And here's the English translation:

If it's a sin to God to worship you

Maybe He'll understand someone like me

Who has loved you so dearly

Could He blame me?

I worship you 

Dunno about you but I find the Filipino version much more passionate. Just juxtapose "sinasamba" with "worship". The first exquisitely expresses the context by which it was used in the movie: the all-consuming obsession between four people where they end up either destroyed or liberated. The second...well, it sounds too religious for me which is a world away from romance.

As a huge fan of Filipino classic movies (both from the 50's and the 80s), I really hope that the new generation would get to know and love the beauty of our mother tongue and preserve our rich Filipino heritage. 

Singing through Handwriting

"It's time to say goodbye

        To turning tables..."

Adele, my muse finishes the song with such intensity, I feel the usual tug in my chest reminding me of my lifelong unrequited love for singing.


Suddenly, I hear a soft yet soulful message which, in my heart, could only come from Him:

Handwritten Quotes: Harry Winston

"People will stare. Make it worth their while."
- Harry Winston

Handwritten Quotes: To Be Kissed

I Just Want To Be Kissed Into Oblivion...

Pin of the Day: Psalm 61:2

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Handwritten Quotes: Paulo Coelho

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” 
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Handwritten Quotes: Max Lucado

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” 

― Max Lucado

In the quest for love all these years, I've turned back to Him, surrendering the arduous task to Him to find my husband and tell him that I’m just here waiting. Waiting and tired. Not tired from waiting but tired from all the battles I went through and would have to go through to find my true self, the real me that God has always planned me to be right from my mother’s womb. The me that he would finally recognize as the love he had wished, yearned and prayed for.

The battles maybe grueling but everyone of them worth the fight because in the end, and I know this as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, that the war is already won. Won by God’s promise of him. 

How’s Your Handwriting?

How’s your handwriting?

Nowadays you rarely get asked with that question, what with the advance of the digital age where everything’s done electronically. But even though such a question is rarely, if not never, asked in let’s say a job interview, your handwriting identifies you like a fingerprint and oftentimes helps a lot in your job. Well, at least for me.

Holding the position of Executive Secretary for the last seven years

Handwritten Quote: Richard Bach

Noticed that my previous post with Pablo Neruda's quote was pinned a lot at Pinterest so I'm making the handwritten quotes as a frequent post here.

Today's quote is from Richard Bach and I'm dedicating this to my besties who live far away but are always in my heart!

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New York Times Article on Penmanship

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Surfing through the net about penmanship, I found this interesting article in the New York Times on handwriting tips entitled Op-Art: The Write Stuff.

"American handwriting is in a woeful state. Schools’ insistence on teaching looped cursive handwriting has left a generation of Americans with script they dislike or is often illegible. The Palmer method and subsequent 20th-century methods were based on an ornate style that was difficult to learn and broke down under pressure. 

The loops and curlicues of Palmer and other similar methods obscure legibility. For good reason, one rarely finds looped cursive in print media or computer fonts. We have become a “Please Print” nation. Even worse, we have failed to find a replacement.

But there is hope. We can stop mumbling on the page and become legible writers by turning to a style that existed long before Palmer rendered our world illegible. We can embrace letterforms born in the Italian Renaissance. We can go italic.

The article mentions the woeful state of American handwriting and

The Lake House: Love in Letters

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While starting this blog about handwriting, it was only but serendipitous that The Lake House came on TV. 

If you’ve never seen it (my God why not?!), the film stars Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves who fall in love through a series of letters they exchanged through a common mailbox. The twist is that they are from different times: Sandra was in 2006 and Keanu was from two years before but by some cosmic design they are able to correspond and love develops without touching, not even seeing each other but merely though handwritten words.

Such a fascinating and heartwarming story. Aside from the lovely 

Handwritten Letters: Nostalgic and Romantic

Have you received a letter recently? No, not e-mail; I mean a handwritten message on stationery or even just plain paper sent to you through post or personally handed to you or probably left on your desk? I bet you haven’t seen one in the last five years or probably a decade! Writing letters used to be so personal.

20 years ago in high school, I would get no less than three written notes a day from friends and classmates as it was a cherished age of innocence when the craze was getting away with passing notes during classes or