We’re Still Lucky

“Masuwerte pa rin tayo” — this was what my brother told me one time that we bought groceries. We actually had the same thing in mind. I don’t know why he said that, but I was about to say the same thing because I saw this girl, about my age, who’s bagging groceries. I thought that if some things didn’t happen the way they did then I might have been the one bagging those groceries. I don’t have anything against her work. It’s a pretty decent job. What I’m saying is I wouldn’t be enjoying most of the things I’m currently enjoying if things happened differently.

I feel lucky and blessed as I look at the things that happened to me and the things I have now. My brother and I both graduated from science high schools and good universities. We both have good jobs. We don’t get things instantly, but we’re able to buy things that we need and we can save up for the things we want. We get to eat at least thrice a day and we can eat the food that we want. We have a decent home and we have all the stuff we need.
And these past few days I feel more thankful because blessings are coming my way even if I don’t ask for them.

We may not be rich but we’re still lucky, and for that I’m very grateful.

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Repost from: December 25 Multiply entry and Blogspot Entry “We’re Still Lucky”

Math Sad Stories

Math tells us three of the saddest stories…TANGENT: lines who had one chance to meet and then parted foreverPARALLEL: lines who were never meant to meet
and
ASYMPTOTES: lines who can get closer and closer but will never be together.

This quote made me feel sad when I tried to relate it to people. It made me think which situation is the saddest.

For parallel lines, you don’t know what you lost since you never ever met. But since you never had the chance to meet, you never had the chance to experience the lovely things you might have experienced.

I think it’s sad for tangents because you know what you lost and you can never have it back. Do you know that no matter how far you extend tangents they would never meet again? Sigh.

But I guess it’s worse for asymptotes because the graphed curve and the line can get really, really close, but that’s just it. You can stretch an asymptote to infinity and the distance between them becomes smaller than any distance that one may specify, but it will never be zero.

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Repost from: December 23, 2008 Multiply entry and Blogspot entry “Math Sad Stories”

Let Me Introduce Myself

I have decided to make a public blog–something that would contain my side of the story that I want the world to know. I have another side of the story to tell, but I have a different space for that at Drama Queen: A Story Of A Girl but only a few has the priviledge to read it. I want another space where I can tell things that I’m willing to share to the world.

Before we continue on talking about this mess called my life, let me introduce myself.

My name is Marie Anne. Marie means “bitter” (Mara in Hebrew), while Anne means “Grace” (Anna in Hebrew). I guess my life really follows this pattern, I need to experience a lot of bitterness first before I receive grace/joy/happiness.

I’m called by many names. 

• Ma-Anne/Maan which is my real nickname, and a lot of people call me.
• Marie which is what my TNC friends call me, from which Amrie and Marue came from.
• Anne which is what my family and people who are really close to me calls me.

I’m a part time corporate slave and a full time writer and drama queen. I earn a living by being a Financial Services Representative. I work for one of the BPOs that proliferates in the Philippines. But I live by writing and I live through a lot of drama.

These are words that I associate to myself:

muntinlupa city* pisay*ateneo*split-personality*creative writing*journalism*children’s book*algebra*trigonometry*feature writing*biology*chemistry*student catholic action*Christian*dancing*writing*reading*orange*pink*purple*videoke*sp aghetti*mocha frapuccino*double dutch*csi*csi miami*csi new york*crime/suspense*disney original movies*blog*johnny depp*theater*jacky chan*cinderella*country music*carrie underwood*the corrs*daughtry*lipgloss*3rd wave feminism*stuff toys*shoes with heels*obsessive-compulsive*sentimental*crybaby*poems*essays*max lucado*elisabeth elliot*josh harris*greg maguire*jodi picoult*amy tan*neil gaiman*fairytales*chocoholic*bagaholic*trebuchet*monotype corsiva*multiply*facebook*blogspot*scrabble*bookworm*ym*gtalk*adobe pagemaker*adobe indesign*adobe photoshop*macromedia freehand*pictures*paper*gnd*dlr*ot addicts*fear of heights*sinigang*reese witherspoon*chick flicks*stickers*scrapbooks*bookstore*unlimited texting*student number 011033*writer*Christian books*hopeless romantic*portfolio

I’m all over the net. You’ll see my profile in different social networking sites and I have a lot of blogs, some abandoned, some serving a specific purpose.

If you want to see how I look, you can simply visit my Multiply: Guide To Athens. It contains hundreds of photo albums because I’m simply a camwhore.

In the future, I’ll be talking about the things I like. I hope you don’t get bored. But if you do, you always have the option not to read my entries anyway.

This has been a long introduction. I’ll be ending this and get started on telling my other stories.