Eight lies of a mother

This was sent by a colleague of mine and I like to share them to you guys… this may or may not touch your heart (mine did), but I promise you that it will be worth your while!

This story begins when I was a child: I was born poor. Often we hadn't enough to eat. Whenever we had some food, Mother often gave me her portion of rice. While she was transferring her rice into my bowl, she would say "Eat this rice, son! I'm not hungry."
This was Mother's First Lie.

As I grew, Mother gave up her spare time to fish in a river near our house; she hoped that from the fish she caught, she could give me a little bit more nutritious food for my growth. Once she had caught just two fish, she would make fish soup. While I was eating the soup, mother would sit beside me and eat the what was still left on the bone of the fish I had eaten, My heart was touched when I saw it. Once I gave the other fish to her on my chopstick but she immediately refused it and said, "Eat this fish, son! I don't really like fish."
This was Mother's Second Lie.

Then, in order to fund my education, Mother went to a Match Factory to bring home some used matchboxes which she filled with fresh matchsticks. This helped her get some money to cover our needs. One wintry night I awoke to find Mother filling the matchboxes by candlelight. So I said, "Mother, go to sleep; it's late: you can continue working tomorrow morning." Mother smiled and said "Go to sleep, son! I'm not tired."
This was Mother's Third Lie

When I had to sit my Final Examination, Mother accompanied me. After dawn, Mother waited for me for hours in the heat of the sun. When the bell rang, I ran to meet her.. Mother embraced me and poured me a glass of tea that she had prepared in a thermos. The tea was not as strong as my Mother's love, Seeing Mother covered with perspiration; I at once gave her my glass and asked her to drink too. Mother said "Drink, son! I'm not thirsty!"
This was Mother's Fourth Lie.

After Father's death, Mother had to play the role of a single parent. She held on to her former job; she had to fund our needs alone. Our family's life was more complicated. We suffered from starvation. Seeing our family's condition worsening, my kind Uncle who lived near my house came to help us solve our problems big and small.

Our other neighbors saw that we were poverty stricken so they often advised my mother to marry again. But Mother refused to remarry saying "I don't need love."
This was Mother's Fifth Lie.

After I had finished my studies and gotten a job, it was time for my old Mother to retire but she carried on going to the market every morning just to sell a few vegetables. I kept sending her money but she was steadfast and even sent the money back to me. She said, "I have enough money."
That was Mother's Sixth Lie.

I continued my part-time studies for my Master's Degree. Funded by the American Corporation for which I worked, I succeeded in my studies. With a big jump in my salary, I decided to bring Mother to enjoy life in America but Mother didn't want to bother her son; she said to me "I'm not used to high living."
That was Mother's Seventh Lie

In her dotage, Mother was attacked by cancer and had to be hospitalized. Now living far across the ocean, I went home to visit Mother who was bedridden after an operation. Mother tried to smile but I was heartbroken because she was so thin and feeble but Mother said, "Don't cry, son! I'm not in pain."
That was Mother's Eighth Lie.

Telling me this, her eighth lie, she died.
YES, MOTHER WAS AN ANGEL!

M - O - T - H - E - R

"M" is for the Million things she gave me,
"O" means Only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the Tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her Heart of gold,
"E" is for her Eyes with love-light shining in them,
"R" means Right, and right she'll always be,

Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER" a word that means the world to me.

For those of you who are lucky to be still blessed with your Mom's presence on Earth, this story is beautiful. For those who aren't so blessed, this is even more beautiful.

Life after Ozinefest

Wwhhheeewww!!! The smoke has cleared, the dust has settled and the lights all went out as I saw the conclusion of the 2-day Ozinefest convention held at SM Megamall. There were massive amount of cosplayers, photographers and spectators at the literally overflowing venue! I don’t wanna go into too much detail of the con, bottomline: everybody had fun, they were all upbeat, generous for some picture-taking, great performances and all in all, it was a good con. I’d like to commend the organizers for a good job especially in the entry/exit booths where the problem usually occurs. Staffs at the said booth were awesome and there was literally no line queues! Kudos to you guys!

For complete set of photos, jump into http://tomikovan.multiply.com/photos

Enjoy the pics!

P.S. I saw riadox07 and as expected, she was awesome in her costume and she was generous enough for some picture-taking… too bad I ain’t got the pleasure of talking to her…. /sob

Ozinefest – just around the corner!!!

Finally!! After months of countless sleepless nights and anticipation, the ozinefest is finally upon us!! This year’s ozinefest will be a 2-day event wherein the group cosplay will be on the first day and the individual cosplay on the second. There will be a lot in-store for us (both spectators and cosplayers) as the event boast numerous side-events, raffles, bands and of-course the ever-popular and must-see cosplay skits and catwalks! I really can’t express how I feel as I am bursting with emotions on the upcoming event. I am so psyched to see and meet new friends/cosplayers but I guess all these anxiety will boil down to the cscntrl booth. Basically, the cscntrl booth will sell some anime goodies and I am so looking forward on buying a yakumo (school rumble) and/or code geass action figs! As I see on the cosph forums, there are a lot of cosph members that will attend this year’s ozinefest and hopefully I can see riadox07 and the drop-dead gorgeous and legendary cosplayer known as alodia!! They are the 2 cosplayers that am hoping to have the pleasure of meeting and chatting the most ^_^… incidentally, there will also be another convention on the 6th of April (ozinnefest 2nd day). This convention is the Mangaholix event which I haven’t attended ever since am not much of a fan of manga. There have been a lot of pleads from numerous boards and cosplayers to move the date of the Mangaholix con as the cosplayers themselves are torn between the 2 con. As many have bought the 2-day pre-sold tickets of ozine, I am expecting a ton of attendees in the ozinefest as compared to that of mangaholix.

Ozinefest will be my official 3rd con to attend (as spectator/fan) and am hoping for more to come. Ozinefest will mark my new identity in every con: a photographer ^_^… though I haven’t got that SLR that professionals use, I’ll still do my best to capture that special moment and post them here at this blog!

See you all at the ozinefest!

post to get paid

As I said in my previous entry, I have a god-given gift when it comes to writing and composing. This fact had been evident throughout my high school and college careers where I’ll get a couple of praises with the research that I’ve done (not to mention how I “customized” the composition to give it an edge that screams my name ^_^). I have composed more than 20 sonnets and most (if not all) of it are fueled by my then inspiration – the jennesis. One sonnet I composed entitled “A Day In The Life” had been commended by one of my high school buddies. The piece “a troo stori” (which had been posted here) also garnered a couple of claps and thumbs up, not to mention a lot of controversy. They then wondered why did I took the course IT instead of something that is related to writing like journalism or something and frankly, I don’t even know. I guess am just doing this writing thing for fun and personal satisfaction. But when a friend told me about payperpost, everything had changed… for the better.

I love writing stuff on the net and what better way to capitalize on this fact than being paid by doing the thing/s that I love! As the name implied, all I have to do is to create some quality write-ups on this blog here and I will get paid!! Easy!! What I like about this is that you have the chance to pick the topic that you want to blog about, maintaining the genre that you defined in your site (e.g. personal, tech and the likes). Pay-out will be defined by the advertisers and if you play your cards write, you can make a lot of money within a single month without needing to leave the comforts of your home! But you have to follow their code of blog ethics which is an SOP… Hhhhmm, I wonder what I will do with all that loot!? *daydreams*

Though this fact remains, I am and always will be writing/composing/blogging for personal fulfillment and enjoyment. The money is just an added incentive ^_^…

will you marry me!?

I finished a new composition wooohooo!! I’ve been listening to ellegarden’s music nowadays and was just taken by their song marry me thus the inspiration for the title of my new sonnet… it’s really a funny thing how this sonnet came to life – on my way to office, while I was waiting for the shuttle to pick me up, the first few lines just popped out of my head. Upon arriving here at the office, those few lines are still ringin in my head and before I knew it, my 31st sonnet came to life… Enjoy…

MARRY ME

if I am a tree
will you be my rain?
I want you to be the one
who will wash all of my pain

I want you to be my Misa
if I am to be Light Yagami
we will create a perfect world
fit for both you and me

if I am an ipod player
will you be my mp3?
fill my playlist with your raw emotions
all 160 gigabytes of me

I want you to be my legs
when the time comes that am crippled
for I want to return to the place
where our love unfold

I’d gladly exchange my life
for your untimely demise
I won’t let you off the hook easily
without me asking “will you marry me”

what do you guys think?