The Giver, Book 1 of the Giver Quartet Series

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Lois Lowry has written three companion novels to The Giver, including Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.

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Aki's Version of the Truth Hurts

I've been on-leave from work due to my recent gall bladder removal operation. For a couple of days, I have been spending quality time with my kids. Husband took a 2-week emergency leave as well  to help me on my recovery . Those precious days we've been together as a complete family were like heaven. And today, that piece of heaven ended. Next week, I will be going back to work and my husband left for UAE today. It is a very sad moment for me and my kids. Tearfully heart-breaking...

As I was cramming to finish my reports (on a weekend), my second child, Inyaki(Aki) came up to me and asked a very interesting and painful question. He looked over the window, then asked, 

Aki: Mom, why do parents go to work? 

Me : So that they will have money to pay for all the dues Aki. Like the electricity, school, groceries and buy you the things you need. For Kuya and Majika... 

Then, he looked at me and frowned as if he was not satisfied with my answer. In his little young heart and mind he reasoned dramatically: 

Aki: No Mom, I think parents go to work so that they can be away from their kids. They don't want to take care of their kids. 

I was really controlling the tears from falling,  then I asked him something that he always agree with. 

Me: Aki, do you want me to stop working?

Aki:(all smiles and gleefully grinning) Pleaaaase Mom!!!! So that I can ask you questions anytime, and hug you and play with you all day long.

I hugged him so tight then I cried so hard.  Right before me is a blessing bigger than any career in the world. I have never felt so guilty in my life.

I have always directed my kids to be independent, exposed them to the cause and effect of their actions and to teaching them to be responsible with their own feelings.In his own capacity, a 5-year old boy so in touch with his feelings- I saw the fruits of my labor. It matters not how painful it was. But I needed it to shed light into my priorities. 

 As I try to teach my kids everything about life, my kids has taught me what life is all about. 

 

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Of relationship and +Cognitive Bias

Realizations are sometimes painful but I hate to refer to them as such. I would rather say, they are eye-openers, epiphanies, and enlightenment, but not close enough to Nirvana. I am writing now because, as often as I want to document them, i just can't get myself back to sleep. And it's exactly 5:38 AM PST

As always, I will not go into detail,but tonight I realized that the number of years you have in a relationship with your partner is
not directly proportional into how they perceived things in your perspective. If you think that the latter phrase sounds hazy enough, let us not forget why this Blog is named in such a way. (I always have the tendency to talk or even write gibberishly so please excuse me for that and if you can't stand it, don't read any further(disclaimer) because it is only going to get worse. )

Let's say, for example, that you have a good intention. There is always that significant tendency that your good intention is not channelled properly to your partner even if you have exhausted every possible means to convey it properly like you always do from past instances. It is as if it is back to zero all the time even if you have been spending time together for a decade. Now that is what I call frustration at its peak!! As in Mt Everest steepest peek! Why do this happen? It is a phenomenon called cognitive bias.

If you are able to read this post then you have Google at your fingertips as well, so spare me for defining it for you coz I am getting kinda sleepy already. *yawns* (bet you are yawning too huh?)

My point is, we should prepare ourselves and expect for getting these kind of frustrations all the time. It is a pessimistic view but it will essentially strengthen our defense mechanisms and leaves very little room for pain without so much drama and so much crying and so much facebook shoutout sad emoticons available flooding in our walls the whole day.

So there it goes, this is how I rant in style. I know it doesn't matter what I have to say. But I am just going to say it anyway. Harharhar... Its snoozing time for me... *big yawn* (picture me yawning and u will yawn too, gotcha!)

Songs I Listen to when I want to go into EMO mode

Of course, we all have our moments. There are times  I listen to sad songs but I'm not necessarily sad. I just want to fathom the sadness and replicate the type of emotion the artist underwent when he wrote the song. I always wanted to write my perfect sad song, but I guess I am not descriptive enough of my emotions because I think a lot. So here it goes, my playlist of Sad Songs. If you have some, please share it with me. Look me up in grooveshark. heheheh

1. Damien Rice - Cannonball
2. Guster - Demons
3. Yiruma - River Flows in You
4. R.E.M - Everybody Hurts
5. Hale - The Day You Said Goodnight
6. Hale - Kung Wala Ka
7. Hale- Broken Sonnet
8. Gabrielle - Out of Reach
9. Vonda Shepard - Baby Don't you break my Heart Slow
10. Coldplay - The Scientist
11. Javier Colon - Stitch by Stich
12. Madonna - Take a Bow
13. Taylor Swift - Cold As you
14. Taylor Swift - Back to December 
15. Evanescence - My Immortal
16. Flyleaf - Sorrow
17. Pearl Jam - Black
18. Disturbed - Remember
19. Anna Nalick - Breathe: 2 AM
20. Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
21 Nirvana - Something in the Way
22. Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World
23. Nirvana - Heart-shaped Box
24. Alice in Chains - Cat in the Cradle


I believe I missed a lot , I will just keep updating this one when I remember them. As of the moment, here's my top 24 in no particular order.  

TRANSCRIPT: CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper Responds about Korina Sanchez Comment in Typhoon in Haiyan, Pilipinas

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE 
IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.



Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHjOrpUz4fQ

If you have been watching our coverage over the past week , you'd know that we have been in Tacloban and elsewhere trying to be as accurate as possible. Accuracy is what we care most about here at CNN and giving information that might help people on the ground and help the relief effort in some way become more efficient. In our reporting, it seems out here in the Philippines, it has become something like t a  political issue here at times. A broadcaster, a radio broadcaster named Korina Sanchez has greatly taken an issue about some of my reporting. She also is not just a radio broadcaster, she also happens to be the wife of the Interior Minister who is overseeing the relief effort on the ground. But Sanchez seems to be in the mistaken impression that I said I saw no presence of Philippine government on the ground in Tacloban, I never said that. Obviously I've been on the ground in Tacloban for days.  I've in fact interviewed a very heroic Philippine Navy captain Santiago who has been going out and helping people. I've seen the work that is being done and the work that isn't being done even as importantly. Ms. Sanchez is welcomed to go there and I would urge her to go there. I don't know if she has but her husband is the Interior Minister, I am sure she could arrange a flight. Here's the broadcast of what she thinks I said something that I didn't say in: 

As for who exactly is in-charge of the Philippines side of this operation, that is not really clear. I am just surprised that I haven't , I haven't... I expected that in this day 5, I thought that I have gotten here very late that things will be well in hand. It doesn't seem like that. People are desperate. People do not have any place for shelter. It is very difficult for people to get food.Neighbors are helping out neighbors. Water is in short supply. It is a very very bad situation here. 

Let's  remember, I showed  you a clinic several days ago. It was at the airport. The doctors there said they didn't have enough food, they didn't have enough water for the hundreds of people they are seeing everyday and they didn't have enough medical supplies. That's a clinic at the airport. If any clinic in the entire disaster zone should receive aid quickly and easily, it should be the clinic at the airport and they were not getting it. I don't know what's the situation there today. I certainly pray to God that it is in a better situation than it was even 2 days ago. 

The President of the Philippines has also counseled foreign journalist that they should be accurate in their reports. We certainly appreciate that counsel. Accuracy is what we strive for. I read in the paper today, its the first time that I have been able to read the news- The President also said in his speech that 'the media should use a role to uplift the spirits of the Filipino people to find stories of resilience of hope and faith and show the world how strong the Filipino people are.'

I would actually say,  that all week-long, in every report we have done - We have shown how strong the Filipino people are. The people of Tacloban, and Samar, and Cebu and all of these places, where so many have died. They are strong not to have survived this storm but they are strong to have survived the aftermath of this storm. They have survived for a week now often with very little food, with very little water, with very little medical attention. Can you imagine the strength it takes to be living in a shack, to be living and sleeping in the streets next to the body of your dead children? Can you imagine that strength? I can't. And I've seen that strength day-in and day-out here in the Philippines. And we honor them with every broadcast that we do.