I've been thinkin..

Notes: 2937 / 1 week ago from mediumrare (originally from eyeizsunshine)

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she wont be amazing. If she's worth it, you won't give up. If you give up, you're not worthy.

mediumrare:

muhhriaa:

krystalclear:

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Notes: 5 / 1 week ago from mediumrare

mediumrare:

ORDINARY PEEEOOOOPPPLLLEEE
One of my favorite songs!

This time we’ll take it slow! Great cover by a great friend. Respect

Notes: 472 / 1 week ago from i0pk (originally from danichangg)

i0pk:

geelynrocks:

princessamantha:

crystalmae-:

aayyyyee:

cisforchrisvee:

kevinleehee:

frshlysqueezd:

averyy:

coreyahgraphy:

danichangg:

HAHAHHAHAH <3

LMFAOO <3

OMG! HAHAHA

Hanna’s kid.

OMG IM DYING!

<3

OMG HOW FUCKING CUTE IS THIS?!

No fuckin way…

Notes: 595 / 1 week ago from ronbuena (originally from papertissue)

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cheecheye:

fuckyeahads:

Nike ad.

I love nike….SO TRUE. I just had a klondike -_____-

Gotta love the honesty

2 weeks ago

My Thanksgiving Thanks

Chapters close as new entries are jotted down in our growing autobiographies. It raises the question to you the reader: Would anyone waste their time with it?

What gives your life interest and piques the curiosity of an anonymous denizen? In our blended lives, what persuades you to reject conformity and establish your own niche? We all need a mix of something original in our daily recipe. Its a subconscious question we task ourselves with in the pursuit of our own identity.

When that particular opportunity presents itself that will give you the excitement you secretly yearn for, thoughts start to conflict within. Timing, scheduling, commitment, preparedness, whatever the turmoil that holds you back from accepting a new opportunity. There came that moment in my life where I stopped thinking about how hard it would be, and shifted my state of mind to how much I can take from it.

Fraternities have so many stereotypes associated with them, a lot of them negative, and the good majority of people you talk to that share those biases experience the negative externalities associated with the byproduct of celebration. Parties, parties, parties. However, I decided to pledge a very particular Fraternity with a very large focus on the ideals I held within myself. Not your typical Old School frat boy organization.

This fraternity is a Professional Business Fraternity with a unique balance that I thought I alone shared(little did I know my small window of perspectives was very small indeed.) The ability to maintain a diligence and determination towards your goals with a mannerism of respect and professional characteristics, be it career based or otherwise, and the ability to maintain this social “brotherhood” atmosphere, maintaining this separation circumstantially, with a link bringing everyone together. Uplifting each other with the utmost support and mutual respect, I am amazed at the strength of it all.

This past semester has been the most ~~stressful~~ challenging semester thus far. But alongside, it has also been the most rewarding, the most fun. The challenges I was presented with, never in a thousand years would I have imagined I would take on of my own accord. This brotherhood has taught me so much more than menial tasks and accomplishments, its taught me the value of accomplishment, of the potential within each person to excel and pursue the extent of their dreams. I’ve learned so much about myself and the people I’ve come to grow so close to. Minus the cliches and trivial quips, these people will be my friends, my family, for life. I owe you all a lot. And I’ll spend the rest of my life giving back. There’s nothing I’d want more.

Thanks all. Here’s to life. You have my thanks.

Notes: 4 / 4 weeks ago

Pacman! Nom nom nom

1 month ago

Transgression

It’s been a lot of months since I relayed my thoughts down this avenue. What I’ve been doing these recent months could justify it, but I’ll leave that for another session in the future.

What’s been on my mind lately though has been kind of tugging at my inner conscience.

As I grow through my experiences and daily interactions, I’ve developed a deeper understanding of my own contentment and learned to rein it in. I know of my own instinct to increase the boundaries of my obligations and the developed ability to chisel away at unnecessary or unproductive interferences.

Then I came to realize once more what it was that my end goal is: I want to be happy. When I “grow up”, finish this college thing, and finally get into the dreaded redundancy of the American dream, I know a large part of what I’m looking forward to is the relationships I’ve built with my family: my wife, my kids, my friends.

But… this seems to contradict the very aspect that has kept me driven for what seems like the past 10 years of my life (but in actuality, I’ve only been in California for 2.) In my pursuit of success and wealth, sacrifice is the pavement of my mobility. And the relationships I seem to build are relinquished in favor of the translucent horizon.

Almost every time I give my life story, I’m asked how I could possibly up and give way to everything I knew or loved at the drop of a dime. Then with the utmost confidence and a snippet of arrogance, I tell them that I did it for my future opportunities. I still valued the loved ones I had; yet I left. I am better now than what I was, but at a great cost.

I had another great discussion with my other coworker, whom I both love and despise, who put it to me bluntly. In a casual conversation, I talked about my discontent with my current job, which then spiraled into an analysis of my habitual decision-making. He pointed out the way I move from one thing to another, giving way to the people once more. I’ve done it before; what’s to say I wont keep doing it?

I’ll leave my job as manager, on to “better” opportunities and more “experience.” I’ll cross into this fraternity, and eventually I’d move onto another organization. I’ll graduate college, and leave all the friends and contacts I’ve made. I’d move out of state and lose all touch with those here in California. I’d eventually become so consumed by my career that I’d leave my family behind … And it comes to this point, where I’d look back in hindsight and ask myself what was worth it.

What is it that pushes me away from people I “care” for so much? Is it presumably because of the discontent with any eventual current circumstance?

Then, he said: Perhaps this is why you’ve been single for quite some time now. What are you searching for? You’re platonic relationships fail just as if you had no romantic ones.

I take things as they come, that’s the kind of philosophy I’ve been engrained with. Lately, I’ve been handling things with care. I show so much love to the people around me, maybe its to compensate for my lack there of.

Notes: 496 / 2 months ago from kanyegate

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Hahahaha. I done did this.

Notes: 1 / 2 months ago

Contingent

Its an interesting set of circumstance I continue to place myself in; ironic even to an extent.

I’ve ranted countlessly on my aspirations for treading new waters and testing my capabilities beyond a reasonable doubt. So it doesn’t surprise me that with this new chapter in my life, a greater challenge presents itself, undoubtedly brought upon me of my own free will.

I work 40 hours a week as a Manager, take 12 units, wrestle for state, finally joined Akbayan (Filipino club), am part of a FMA (significant financial management club), and decided to top it off by pledging AKPSi (business fraternity). Needless to say, “free time” has gone by the way side.

For the past two years, I’ve pretty much eliminated the thought of overextending my capabilities. Its been a constant trial and error in an attempt to discover the equilibrium of my own beleaguered mind. Although with each passing moment, I believe its a step in the right direction, despite the consequence, there is never regret.

As new opportunities arise, so too do new obstacles surface. Neglect starts to creep in as focus is shifted from task to task. I don’t want to forget what my priorities are, but it is often difficult to make a decision that will potentially benefit the future than to appease the needs of the now. This is my new way of testing my mettle. Can I feasibly contort my mind well enough to successfully complete each goal I set out for myself? We’ll have to see.

And to all the relationships that I have unintentionally neglected or opportunities lost to build new ones, you are the sacrifice that has impacted me the most. I recognize this and now know how pertinent it is. It is the memories we make together that tread beyond the scope of relevance, not the moments missed in absent passing. It was never an intention of disrespect. But ignorance of the law is not a validation for permission.

When they said its higher education, they really meant it.

Notes: 190 / 2 months ago from kanyegate