Who is Venus?

Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertility, who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths. The Romans originally worshiped Venus as goddess of fertility. Her fertility powers spread from the garden to humans. The Greek aspects of the love and beauty goddess Aphrodite were added on to Venus' attributes, and so for most practical purposes, Venus is synonymous with Aphrodite.

People nowadays, associate Venus to the person they truly love specifically their girlfriend.

Who is your Venus in your life now?

Expect the unexpected.

Life is an endless path that we can't see what lies ahead for us. It is a clueless reality of of fun, pain, sorrows and excitements. The more we try to hit the spot, the more we loss the hope but the stronger we face its battle, the richer we become.

There are things in life that we can't tell which one will happen and which one will not. If we always think of success and triumph, we might fall into place with extreme trials and storms that unexpectedly come. What then is the purpose of living life as we muster to scroll from it?

The answer is WE NEVER KNOW!

We can't tell even when we want to choose the safest way around. We can't prophesied our destinies and our life's fate. There is no great assurance that the way we are walking into will lead us to a life, full of happiness and fame. For if a person has all these (fame and power), much more for trials and problems to cause pain. We never know that out from our planned dreams and ambitions in life, there comes less avenues and opportunities for success. The more we stumble, the better we fall. The more we are scared, the most we less expect things to happen.

That is why, in this battlefield of wider world that has everything, one must not always think of the possibilities for happiness to play into place. The most and the better way to get things in the right perspective is to always EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED.

Son is the father of the man.

I remembered when I was still in college when our English Literature professor asked us about this question.

"What is the son is the father of the man?"

I found my professor quite strict for throwing such a question on the first day of our class. I was totally blank. One by one, randomly, our professor called us and she solicited answers from the trivial question she asked.

We were all nodding down, all heads looking at the floor for we never know the right answer. Some of my classmates were going to the comfort room, making an excuse just to escape to be called.

Luckily, the bell rang and I was saved. Then our professor told us to have research on the answer of the question. I don't have nothing in mind but to interpret it literally.

By the next day of our class, some of my classmates were absent. From 42 of us, we were around 23. It is quite scary because we didn't have the constant answer and we are not sure if our answer is the correct.

Mine is father-in-law, others are uncle and many answered children's children. All of us got the wrong answer.

Our professor can't hold her breath. She was quite angry because we never get the perfect answer.

"What is the son is the father of the man?" is the question that the Sphinx asked to Oedipus in exchange for an offer.

Oftentimes, we interpret words or phrases literally. Generally, in life there are things that are abstract and we need to dig down deeper to the meaning of each word, phrase or sentence.

The answer is man's stages in life.

When we are still young, we act and play childish things. We grow in ways little by little. We do things and discover them in our own childish world. As we grow, we encounter different approaches in life that may lead us through sorrows and pains, happiness and good tidings. This time we come to battle the most crucial part of our life, forming the possible things that we have learn from the environment. We react to what is necessary and immediate for us. We encounter lots of development in learning as we become in our teen and young adulthood years. Then, comes old adulthood whom we prepare for our retirement. In this stage, we spend time to reflect and be with the Lord, doing all the charitable and indulging in some religious activities. This is in preparation for our unexpected retirement as life just come to pass here on Earth.

Knowing the answer to the trivial question, made me realize that there are things in life that we don't have to blatantly interpret and see things in a simple scope. There are hidden meanings and deep interpretations that will lead us to understand the world of complexity to simplicity.

Finding pleasure of some of the books that I read and have read.

Reading makes me smart and a well-rounded person. I love reading books especially about Literature. Oftentimes, I am bringing all these books with me and I read them especially when I am going lazy in bed or in a waiting room or something.

These books inspire me. It helps me to discover things in the past that gives a big contribution in the present and future times. I gain lots of benefits from reading and I firmly believe that learning is a lifetime process and through reading, I am riding and learning with never-ending knowledge of the world and the people as well.

Here are some of the good things that I get out from reading:

1. Reading helps me understand people, nature, situations and unexplained things like love, hatred, happiness, sorrow and fear.

2. Reading makes me strong. I am more confident in expressing my thoughts and sharing my points-of-view of various issues that would need the people to know.

3. Reading sharpens my stock knowledge. I can tell and share what is on my mind. I have lots of ideas to share. It makes me not run out of words.

4. Reading travels me to the world of fantasy and reality. I am able to explore the wonders of places. I learn their culture, practices, beliefs, traditions as well as their nationalities. I see the world as a product of the past. I see history in every lines that would make me think that I am also a part of History.

5. Reading makes me a person. I act professionally and with great sense. I easily understand things and place myself in the right side when things will or might go wrong. It gives me the freedom to choose what is right from wrong. I come to know myself, my strength and weaknesses.

6. Reading develops my emotions. I put myself in the shoe of someone else's character and I manifest the feeling of empathy, love, patient and understanding.

7. Reading keeps me not to quit. Learning things everyday is fun and rewarding. It helps me to be patient at all times and to not surrender from the different turmoils of life. It makes me see the REAL world out from fantasy and fiction and it enables me to fight and stand after every fall.

8. Reading is my business. I feel bored whenever I can't read something. Even a small lines or piece, I have to read them everyday. I understand instructions through reading.

9. Reading makes me understand about God. I come to realize that this gift I have is nothing without Him, who is the Giver of my life. I am able to decipher what makes man and nature and their limitations. I realize that God is always the FIRST priority and the answer.

10. Reading makes me love someone. It makes me emotionally participative especially on love and being in-love. Though not all the time ends with a happy ending, but there is still another tomorrow for me to leave loneliness through HAPPINESS. I believe that there is someone for anyone and that LOVE revolves and will come to settle in.

That what makes Reading makes me read. I am and on my way with the world of my own, trying to never cease to explore and learn from love to life, from fantasy to reality.

Make Reading your master and you will never cease to live with it!

Sound Devices in Poetry

Devices of sound can increase pleasure and clarity especially in poetry. Following are some of the devices:

1. Alliteration. It is the repetition of initial consonants.
Example: the soft surge of the sea

2. Rhyme. It is the repetition fo a stressed sound, usually the final syllable.
Example: The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

3. Assonance. It is the repetition of vowel sounds in a phrase.
Example: The owl swept out of the woods and circled the house.

4. Rhythm. It is the recurring flow of strong and weak beats in a phrase.
Example: Chicka, chicka boom, boom! Will there be room?

Figurative Meaning - Lighthouse.

In many ports, there stands a lighthouse that guides the sailors and navigators. Its light allow the navigators to see the water and thus helps them steer clear of rocks.

A dim light from the lighthouse could cause the navigators much confusion, anxiety, problems and worse accidents. Even in the disastrous stormy night, the light from a lighthouse is indeed a welcome beacon to the seafaring travelers.

Our principles in life can serve as the light from our lighthouse. They should be clearly defined to you so that no matter how strong the storms in our lives are, they will be our guides as we steer clear of the rocks in our paths.

That is why, it is very essential for us to know and be aware of our principles on life to uphold us as we sail through life.

Opinion and views of the movie Boys Over Flowers.

I come across knowing Boys Over Flowers, the movie series that has been programmed by ABS-CBN Corporation in the Philippines. I admit that even at this age of 27, I also feel the Boys Over Flowers fever that most of the teenagers are crazy of.

During weekdays, from 6:00 to 6:45 in the evening, this fantastic and heart whelming TV series is being viewed. Through encountering and closely watching every part of the scene and the story as well, I have learn lots of good morals and this is about one's STATUS OF LIVING amidst the LOVE thing.

Geum Jan Di, the leading character in the story is a commoner who belongs to the POOR classes in the society. Goo Jun Pyo, the leading man of the first person character, is a member of an ELITE classes in the society. What dissects the two is their great likeness (though they didn't show publicly and admit it) turns out to LOVE. But because of the range of the ECONOMIC STATUS of the two who are in-love to each other, President Kang, Goo Jun Pyo's mother, wanted to cause them to break up and ruin Geum Jan Di's life and the life of the people around her.

I don't know if there is moral that we can get from President Kang's part as a destroyer of the lives of her son in order to selfishly protect the Shinwa Company and the families that abide from them in exchange of FORCED and ARRANGED LOVE of Goo Jun Pyo to Hye Jeung.

Normally, people want security and it boils down to the word called "practicality". But how about lifetime happiness and love? Are we going to just slip it away and turn out the HAPPINESS that will lead us to a lifetime contentment in life?

Frankly, I don't know that nowadays, if there are still some kind of people who would like to manipulate and ruin other people's life just to gratify and satisfy their great need of personal interest and greed.

I will leave you to reflect on this.