hot chocolate

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate. When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said: "Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups."

Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us. God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups.

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Actually, gusto ko ng umuwi... as in...

i envy those people who live by the shore, seeing the sea and the sunset each and everyday of their lives; those who can live with few things in their pockets and still manage to be happy, those who could not care less if they only have the plants in the backyard to eat... as long as they have everyone in the family together - i envy all of them.

i do not know how it became this complex, but at 23 years old, i am already miles away from my family and other people i love.. away from the simplest pleasures back home which i will not exchange for anything. at 23, i apparently have stopped from truly enjoying my hot chocolate; rather, i have gone in search of the best cup to contain it - and believe me, it does not feel good.

konti na lang talaga... konti na lang...

weekend in HK

*very delayed post*

3 weekends ago, the company treated us to an overnight stay in HK disney hollywood hotel, plus of course a day in the *wink**wink* theme park.

it was a very rainy saturday... that's all i can say.

making the most out of the day, i roamed around disney and took photos of things i found interesting.

just imagine me running here and there just to get a 'decent' shot of these bubbles..nyahaha. in fact, when the bubble machine stopped blowing, the crew even asked me "do you need more bubbles?... is it ok?".. hahaha

i also took shots of the rather gloomy HK skies...

i ended the day with migraine, and so i did something therapeutic in the evening...

have you splurged on clothes lately? hehehe...