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Schadenfreude (harm-joy) 10.25.14 I have a German friend who spoke this above-captioned word (but do not misinterpret that I may look like Ms. Jennifer Laude, R.I.P.), but I sympathized with ‘her’ family for the unfortunate event and I may not consider the case of epic fail or injustice since the litigation is still boiling within the due-process.   Anyway, what I have wanted to point out is this German word which in English term means harm-joy, which further illustrates that this is a feeling of pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. Informatively, the classic example of this term is the comedy act of an actor or comedian slipping on the floor by stepping in banana peel while the audience is mobbing and hilariously laughing to death from this comical and awkward incident.    This comedy act emanated from Egypt on 2500 B.C. In the Philippines, there’s a relative idiom for this German ancestor word, and we called it Crab Mentality ...

The Three (3) Odes of Heartache of Knight Bee to Lovely Rose From my Novelette “The Adventure of Knight Bee and Lovely Rose” Ode No. 1 Kiss my tears Lovely Rose By Led Zep Lopez 7.04.1997 Geniuses’ eyes stared at me Some on their grief, others on their glee, As the crystal spring began to dry, Innocent thought winced to cry, Hug of a wind enlightened me, I am the best of the Rose’s bees……… Poem of love done for her, For her wooden heart out there, The quest of the thirsty seeker, The howl of a fool dreamer, How this love began to die For it’s utmost, innocent from lie? Genuine love really wasted, Naïve mind was enchanted, Seeking her till Neverland, Till my ties gone to unbind, Fate begged from my God, Is it a sin to fall in love? As my heart gained nothing, Am I real to cut the string? My last leaf started to fall, Just one last hope to scroll, Kiss my tears Lovely Rose, For my dreams died, so the glows….. Ode No. 2 Truth is a Thing so strange By L...

One and one is two I know a man who is too smart, who complicate simple things at its finest.   He would love to spell out Chzecoslovakia instead of Peru and fushcia instead of red (by the way, are my spellings right? Never mind, Who cares? Anyway).  He would love to lead his team to everywhere and resolve everything by his own mighty hand – but it would end to an argument after arguments.  At the end of the day, the answer he thought as a solution to the problem creates another bigger and complex problems. He’s always talking while his mouth is full, he’s always barking at a wrong tree, he travels without a road map, he sails without a compass, he drives without a brake pedal, he’s rolling but not rocking, he makes simple things complicated, huh!  It’s overly overacting. I love people who preferred to be simple and create simple idea, for this will lead to orderliness and cleanliness.  For I always believe that simplicity is beauty. ...

Life is a spinning wheel All of us were born in this world without clothes, without watches, shoes and other things we carried on a minute after we have pulled out from our mother’s womb.  Yet, metaphorically speaking, oldies said that some have been born with ‘golden spoon’ in their mouth, others for me have silver, wooden or plastic spoon, while others have no spoon at all.  For the unfortunate ones who have born without spoon in their mouth, you can’t question that fate, it is our God’s hand and wand.  And we called it as ‘Uncontrollable Fortune’.   From this event, some people think that they are losers, for they have lost from the start of the battle, from the very first round of fighting, from the first five seconds of their life after the bell rung.  But hey, like racing, it’s just only the first lap, you still have more laps to race and more rounds to battle to prove your worthiness in existence, since this world is a big arena, all are ba...

Para sa mga high tech people sa buhay kong makaluma......... Cyber Highway By Led Zep Lopez created 12/22/2007 Trying to reach you from a distance thru wire and cable I travel Along the Cyber Highway In your damn world wide web. May reach you by an instance Encoded in a Dell computer label Inside the costly software Electrified by your shockwave. Amazed with your skilled stunts Decorated by your brain of noble From the INTERnational NETwork affair Your data and file were saved. Garbage in once, Garbage out twice, Friendster, Blogs, Chats, Cries of a rebel, Network is down in a salvaged hardware You are a proud Android in my humble cave........

Two-faced patriots 8.25.2014 A love for the country is second to love for God, for I could not imagine how delightful the last verse of our National Anthem written as this: “Beautiful land of love, O land of light, In thine embrace ‘tis rapture to lie; But is it glory ever, when t hou art wronged, For us, thy sons to suffer and die.” This one was created by Jose Palma, from Spanish Poem ‘Filipinas’, adapted to become lyrics to the musical composition of Julian Felipe as instructed by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo in preparation of the Declaration of Independence in Kawit, Cavite. The writer purely showed the patriotism in his blood, the eagerness to be freed and the ultimate dream to live without tyranny.  The song was inspired by J.P. Rizal, GOMBURZA, Gabriela Silang and all nameless souls buried in the deep of the sea, in the nameless graveyard, in the forest and battlefields.               “But is it glory ever, w...

An ode to Lovely Rose Led Zep Lopez 8.23.2013 You’re the one I really love to see, In this land of misfortune and unfree, You’re like sunlight in an austere day, Where the children smile and play…. When Hope in this soil be impaired, Your love elevated, ‘felt really cared, When my spirit broke by the stormy weather, And all things seem unanswered prayer, You are the thermal light of my sanctuary, That gives infinite heat, life -- extremely…. When the war is raging on and on, And doubtfulness ascends to confusion, You’re the soundness of my choice, The clarity, precision of my voice…… When my essence are full of bitterness, Your sweet smile filled the emptiness, When I lose this chaotic battle, And Hope escalates too little, You’re the cheerful hand who lifted me, To rise and shine and live, fly freely…… When everything in this life is grievance, Your wonderful mind is my alliance, Whilst ignorance is all in this life, And tears could only be shed, unwiped, Yo...