The past few weeks have been really something for me. I've been doing PA work for my friend, and have done yoga for the first time in my life; which has led to meeting new friends and making lifetime connections. It's been one amazing roller coaster ride after another. I've been able to start finding myself and putting up the pieces as to who Yue really is and what Yue is capable of (talking in the 3rd person is hilarious! LOL). And so far Yue is becoming more and more complex and complete, despite the "chaos" I've put myself through; good chaos.
The one thing that has shocked me the most is that I have been living up to my name, my Chinese name at least. Again Yue means Moon in Chinese (Mandarin Chinese), and everyone knows that the moon's energy is every mysterious and ethereal and all that. So as I go about finding myself and making new friends and making stronger connections with the friends i already do have, one thing has well stayed the same. People, new and relatively old, have all agreed and said that I am my name, I am the moon. I was walking with a good friend of mine and as we crossed the street, she started turning and looking for me, wondering where I went. And all I could do at this point is say: "Arianne, I'm right here." With that she turns and says that I am so ethereal. That for that moment I simply vanished and like the moon became some mysterious being. Then I met her friends, who are my friends now, they both agreed with her. One of the said that when she saw me, it's as if I didn't have footprints, she knew I was there, but like I wasn't there. The other said, after a group meditation thing and with the biggest warmest smile, "Are you even here.?"
Another happy experience happened when I decided to take yoga for the first time in my life, and yes I was damn scared to look like the hugest fool in class because of the fact that I would be the "new kid" on the block. But going back to the story. I was so afraid that I would stick out like a sore thumb and not make any friends in class, but I ended up making not one, not two, not three, but A LOT of friends. And ended up surprising myself that I could more or less do the poses and not look so stupid trying to do them.
It's nice to go about life looking for yourself and in the end going beyond your own expectations and proving yourself to yourself that you are more than the person you thought you could be. There are times where you think it is so hard to keep going on, when this time comes, dust yourself and stand up and do that ever impossible head stand pose in yoga and smile, because that moment is the moment where you finally see where your life is going and you'll see it is the right direction. :)
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Some of My Graphic Art
The logo for my organic product line.
All of the stuff are mine. I mostly do graphic art in my spare time (aside from reading, yoga, meditating, eating and sleeping). My mind is a boilong pot of random things. :)
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Water Dragon
2012 ushers in the Chinese Year of the Water Dragon. It starts on the 23rd of January 2012 and ends on the 9th of February 2013.
Water Dragons occur every 60 years (Yang Water Dragon). The energetic high point of the year is the dragon moon, which is from May 20 to June 18 (new moon is May 20, full moon is June 4 and dragon moon is over June 18. June 19 begins the snake moon, which will set up the energy for the following year, 2013, year of the Yin Water Snake).
The dragon has been revered in China for thousands of years. It was a symbol of great power, prosperity and energy. The dragon was a benevolent creature to the Chinese (the opposite of the western dragons). The dragon was the chosen symbol to represent the emperor and the whole of China.
In Sung Dynasty (a Chinese imperial dynasty lasting from AD 960 - 1279) texts, the dragon is described as having the head of an ox, muzzle of a donkey, eyes of a shrimp, horns of a deer, body of a serpent covered with fish scales, and feet of a phoenix. The dragon usually clutches a pearl symbolic of its super-natural powers. Invariably accompanied by thunder and rain, dragons move like lightning and whirlwinds.
This 2012, is a time of great awakening and cleansing. The purging of the old and the acceptance of new ideas and views. It will also be when certain things are put into priority and we start doing things for the grander scheme of things, since water is the element that governs Career and Life path.
There will be a lack of Metal element this year. Metal is related to Banking and Finances. Invest carefully and don't let opportunities go to waste.
Kong Hei Fat Choi/Gong Xi Fat Chai! :)
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Parties and Floods
Due to the recent events in the Philippines, people have again been flooding to help out the disaster stricken Cagayan de Oro. It's a good thing to help people who have been affected by the flood, yes, but do we always need a disaster for us to take action and be motivated to do something.?
We have had Ondoys, Pedrings and now Sendong, but we still haven't learned anything valuable from these disasters. It is always act after the disaster. It is never do something to make sure no disaster will happen. Our leaders attend parties instead of doing something, instead of attending to their country's needs. They say that the party is important to build connections and so and so. But at the expense of so many lives.What happened to the action that our leaders promised us they will do to help the country? Has it all gone to funds for their clothes and trips abroad?
The Philippines is a country full of natural wonder I marvel at, but it is slowly disappearing, thanks to illegal mining, hunting and depletion of various fauna and flora that can be found no where else in the world. Are all these becoming the trade-off to a "better future" that government is aiming for.? If so will this so called future be nothing more but gray and metal?
Nothing is being done to stop the crimes that nature is going through. The only action that our leaders and government have taken are to save themselves and make sure their seats are only filled by their power hungry and money driven butts. The Ampatuan Massacre which has seen so many court trials, has not yet been solved. The fight to save Palawan's natural beauty and to preserve it against illegal mining is still on going, heck the battle against illegal mining has been going for years and nothing has been done. The RH Bill has been discussed over and over, and still hasn't been approved. Must we wait until every nook and cranny of our country is occupied for it to get passed.?
We want to save so much of our country's resources and natural wonders, but have we even done enough to secure a small percentage of it is safe from disappearing completely.? Until the time the floods we will experience are floods of expensive wine, we all have to brace ourselves for another disaster, because our country's leaders will have a good time drinking to their heart's content.
We have had Ondoys, Pedrings and now Sendong, but we still haven't learned anything valuable from these disasters. It is always act after the disaster. It is never do something to make sure no disaster will happen. Our leaders attend parties instead of doing something, instead of attending to their country's needs. They say that the party is important to build connections and so and so. But at the expense of so many lives.What happened to the action that our leaders promised us they will do to help the country? Has it all gone to funds for their clothes and trips abroad?
The Philippines is a country full of natural wonder I marvel at, but it is slowly disappearing, thanks to illegal mining, hunting and depletion of various fauna and flora that can be found no where else in the world. Are all these becoming the trade-off to a "better future" that government is aiming for.? If so will this so called future be nothing more but gray and metal?
Nothing is being done to stop the crimes that nature is going through. The only action that our leaders and government have taken are to save themselves and make sure their seats are only filled by their power hungry and money driven butts. The Ampatuan Massacre which has seen so many court trials, has not yet been solved. The fight to save Palawan's natural beauty and to preserve it against illegal mining is still on going, heck the battle against illegal mining has been going for years and nothing has been done. The RH Bill has been discussed over and over, and still hasn't been approved. Must we wait until every nook and cranny of our country is occupied for it to get passed.?
We want to save so much of our country's resources and natural wonders, but have we even done enough to secure a small percentage of it is safe from disappearing completely.? Until the time the floods we will experience are floods of expensive wine, we all have to brace ourselves for another disaster, because our country's leaders will have a good time drinking to their heart's content.
Monday, December 12, 2011
CBCP wants anti-discrimination bill cleansed of provisions on gay rights (Repost)
"MANILA, Philippines—The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is now training its guns on the anti-discrimination bill, saying the possible enactment of the bill into law would open the door for the legalization of same sex marriages.
Speaking at a weekly forum in Greenhills, San Juan City, on Wednesday, lawyers of the CBCP and a Catholic bishop hit the Senate for amending the previous version of the anti-discrimination bill or the Senate Bill 2814.
The Senate has recently passed on third reading the bill which is after penalizing all forms of discrimination.
The SB 2814, known as Anti-Ethnic, Racial or Religious Discrimination and Profiling Act of 2011, will be discussed by a bicameral conference committee tasked to harmonize the Senate bill with similar bills passed by the House.
Ronald Reyes, a lawyer of the CBCP, said they had no qualms about the bill before but became concerned when the bill was amended and “sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity” were included.
“It’s opening the door for same sex marriages, which our country doesn’t allow,” Reyes told reporters.
He said the Catholic church, which would not officiate same sex marriages, might be punished if the bill became law.
“This is alarming and it might change our society,” Reyes said.
Another CBCP lawyer Jo Imbong said the LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender) should not be considered the same as the elderly, the handicapped, and the poor.
“These people are disadvantaged not by their own choice. But the third sex, they choose this. How can you give protection to a choice like that?” Imbong said.
Imbong said the bill violated religious freedom and the “no prior restraint” accorded by the law to freedom of speech.
“The government may not penalize a religious organization for … excluding a person from Church responsibilities, for example, based upon that person’s moral behavior which could include the practice or promotion of homosexuality,” she said.
The bill would hinder the Church from teaching what it believed to be right or wrong, Imbong said.
The lawyer noted that under the bill, the priest who refused to officiate same sex marriages may be fined with P500,000 and jailed for 25 years.
Antipolo Bishop Gabriel Reyes said the Episcopal Commission on Family and Life of the CBCP has been appealing to the Senate and the House of Representatives to exclude the LGBT from the bill."
Speaking at a weekly forum in Greenhills, San Juan City, on Wednesday, lawyers of the CBCP and a Catholic bishop hit the Senate for amending the previous version of the anti-discrimination bill or the Senate Bill 2814.
The Senate has recently passed on third reading the bill which is after penalizing all forms of discrimination.
The SB 2814, known as Anti-Ethnic, Racial or Religious Discrimination and Profiling Act of 2011, will be discussed by a bicameral conference committee tasked to harmonize the Senate bill with similar bills passed by the House.
Ronald Reyes, a lawyer of the CBCP, said they had no qualms about the bill before but became concerned when the bill was amended and “sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity” were included.
“It’s opening the door for same sex marriages, which our country doesn’t allow,” Reyes told reporters.
He said the Catholic church, which would not officiate same sex marriages, might be punished if the bill became law.
“This is alarming and it might change our society,” Reyes said.
Another CBCP lawyer Jo Imbong said the LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender) should not be considered the same as the elderly, the handicapped, and the poor.
“These people are disadvantaged not by their own choice. But the third sex, they choose this. How can you give protection to a choice like that?” Imbong said.
Imbong said the bill violated religious freedom and the “no prior restraint” accorded by the law to freedom of speech.
“The government may not penalize a religious organization for … excluding a person from Church responsibilities, for example, based upon that person’s moral behavior which could include the practice or promotion of homosexuality,” she said.
The bill would hinder the Church from teaching what it believed to be right or wrong, Imbong said.
The lawyer noted that under the bill, the priest who refused to officiate same sex marriages may be fined with P500,000 and jailed for 25 years.
Antipolo Bishop Gabriel Reyes said the Episcopal Commission on Family and Life of the CBCP has been appealing to the Senate and the House of Representatives to exclude the LGBT from the bill."
Freedomland
Last Saturday was the Blood Moon (Lunar Eclipse), and since I am a very lunar person (a Cancer, a Water Dragon and my name being Chinese for Moon) I felt the effects of it. It's quite hard to explain, it runs in the Chinese side of my family who hail from Xian in China. But the Blood Moon usually symbolizes an end to something old and a beginning of something new.
Since Saturday, I just keep getting the urge to keep doing something and be more productive. I naturally hate being stagnant and idle especially if I know I have the things to do something (e.g. jewelry, organic beauty products, tutoring, etc.)
So since the Blood Moon, I have had so many ideas and designs running through my head and having the urge to make them to reality, instead of some floating abstract thing in my mind. I'll be posting them soon here. :)
So anyway, I guess the point of the this post is just to say that no matter how awful and ugly something or some event maybe, there is always something good (no matter how small) that can come out of it. It may seem like an almost impossible thing to happen, but it happens. Trust me. I recently moved out of my parent's house, because of issues that only a few may understand. It hasn't been a week, but it feels like it's been at least a month of being free to be who I am and explore each facet of who I am. Life may always seem like it always gives you lemons, but it's your choice to make lemonade or suck on the sour fruit.
What you think you can't do, you can. What you think you can't have, you can have. All the limitations we put on ourselves are all illusions. Yes life if hard, but it's nothing impossible to get by. It will seem like the hardest thing to do, but in truth, that is how all great men and women in the past made it. All of them had to suffer and go through hell and back, but what made them great is that they didn't take anything for granted and kept fighting, even if the odds were against them.
So from Freedomland, this is Yue, updating his blog. Till next time. :)
Since Saturday, I just keep getting the urge to keep doing something and be more productive. I naturally hate being stagnant and idle especially if I know I have the things to do something (e.g. jewelry, organic beauty products, tutoring, etc.)
So since the Blood Moon, I have had so many ideas and designs running through my head and having the urge to make them to reality, instead of some floating abstract thing in my mind. I'll be posting them soon here. :)
So anyway, I guess the point of the this post is just to say that no matter how awful and ugly something or some event maybe, there is always something good (no matter how small) that can come out of it. It may seem like an almost impossible thing to happen, but it happens. Trust me. I recently moved out of my parent's house, because of issues that only a few may understand. It hasn't been a week, but it feels like it's been at least a month of being free to be who I am and explore each facet of who I am. Life may always seem like it always gives you lemons, but it's your choice to make lemonade or suck on the sour fruit.
What you think you can't do, you can. What you think you can't have, you can have. All the limitations we put on ourselves are all illusions. Yes life if hard, but it's nothing impossible to get by. It will seem like the hardest thing to do, but in truth, that is how all great men and women in the past made it. All of them had to suffer and go through hell and back, but what made them great is that they didn't take anything for granted and kept fighting, even if the odds were against them.
So from Freedomland, this is Yue, updating his blog. Till next time. :)
Monday, November 21, 2011
My Power Animal/s
Sitting in a psychism class, which by the way I shouldn't have been there, I decided to join in their exercise to find their power animals.
Previously I have had met chinese dragons and indian nagas (which are not ordinary animals in the esoteric sense). They are more like enlightened beings who are vastly intelligent, since they have lived for many human lifetimes. So they would be more like spirit guides than power animals.
Getting back to the story. So we are going about the exercise and entering the lower shamanic world (through a tree for me. hehe). I end up in an East Indian forest. I could feel the grass beneath my feet and the dry humid air around me, and yes all the sounds of the indian forest.
The first thing I see is a sambar deer coming at me, hoping it wasn't him, I asked: "are you my power animal?" Thankfully he politely said no and siad that my power animal is somewhere in the forest. The next animal to appear is a proud peacock. At this point I was scared to even ask and end up coming back to the human world with a peacock as my power animal. With all his tail feathers spread out and being, to me, vain and proud. Hehe. He snobbishly ignored me, so I was relieved that is was not the peacock as i walked away. The next creature was a blacked faced langur (an type of indian monkey) up on a tree, so I asked him if it was him, and he pointed to a direction saying that my power animal is over there.
So at this point I was just hoping my power animal was nearby. I just really wanted to know who and what my power animal is. The next thing I know I am face to face with a white bengal tiger. She was sitting on a rock. I was just mesmerized by her white coat and her light blue eyes. I was really excited at this point, so I cut to the chance and ask her: "are you my power animal?" and with the most gentle gesture (for a really big cat) she answered: "I've been waiting for a long time, but I am glad you came."
So we ventured back to the human realm. She on by my side. It was kinda strange. But a good strange, to have a white tiger and a really big one beside me. on our way out, a black cobra appeared and said that he wanted to come along. And with that he slithered up my ankle and coiled up there and was this beautiful black anklet.
Previously I have had met chinese dragons and indian nagas (which are not ordinary animals in the esoteric sense). They are more like enlightened beings who are vastly intelligent, since they have lived for many human lifetimes. So they would be more like spirit guides than power animals.
Getting back to the story. So we are going about the exercise and entering the lower shamanic world (through a tree for me. hehe). I end up in an East Indian forest. I could feel the grass beneath my feet and the dry humid air around me, and yes all the sounds of the indian forest.
The first thing I see is a sambar deer coming at me, hoping it wasn't him, I asked: "are you my power animal?" Thankfully he politely said no and siad that my power animal is somewhere in the forest. The next animal to appear is a proud peacock. At this point I was scared to even ask and end up coming back to the human world with a peacock as my power animal. With all his tail feathers spread out and being, to me, vain and proud. Hehe. He snobbishly ignored me, so I was relieved that is was not the peacock as i walked away. The next creature was a blacked faced langur (an type of indian monkey) up on a tree, so I asked him if it was him, and he pointed to a direction saying that my power animal is over there.
So at this point I was just hoping my power animal was nearby. I just really wanted to know who and what my power animal is. The next thing I know I am face to face with a white bengal tiger. She was sitting on a rock. I was just mesmerized by her white coat and her light blue eyes. I was really excited at this point, so I cut to the chance and ask her: "are you my power animal?" and with the most gentle gesture (for a really big cat) she answered: "I've been waiting for a long time, but I am glad you came."
So we ventured back to the human realm. She on by my side. It was kinda strange. But a good strange, to have a white tiger and a really big one beside me. on our way out, a black cobra appeared and said that he wanted to come along. And with that he slithered up my ankle and coiled up there and was this beautiful black anklet.
I'm happy that my power animals, both major and minor, are animals I adore. Yes i kinda don't like the animals people would associate me with (like a peacock, swan, deer, gazelle and the rest). :) Just thought of paying homage to them with this post. I feel like a kid in a candy store. :)
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