So true....

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not... excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine

Remembering....

I remember when i first met this guy... no matter how much i control myself and although i have gathered all my determination to avoid being magnetized by his charms.. i simply cant resist being absorb by his presence...only hard hearted hannah could resist him.. he looks so calm..so cool and steady.. and very intellectual.. he knocked me right off my feet the first time...

only to find out later on that im up to a real danger... ..

that his only bluffing with his cool surface..

that what's inside is a red hot volcano ...

that he's just bidding his time for that plan he is cooking on his brain!

Oh i could swear he was so casual and yet oh so playful...(let me stress.. he's oh so playful!")

He has this some kind of a hypnotic persuasion.. something that i thought was supernatural ...believe me, i even felt that he has black magic!!! But then later on i am surprised and amazed to realize that his smile..his eyes..his words..everything about him is logical, pure and real...

Poor me..!! I just woke up one day and realized that i am enmeshed in his "charms' ... Sometimes, i thought i should have escaped as soon as i saw him.. while i have the option to do so.. and look at me now.. im trapped.., it aint easy to break away from him.. and believe me.. you wouldnt want to.. not when he begins to...ehermmm!

Its never easy to just ignore this person.. atleast for me.. i mean no matter how cranky he is in the morning.. to the point that i would like to poison his coffee.. (hahahah..kidding) no matter how he frustrates me sometimes.. when he pulls up his "it wasnt me, im innocent!" face.. and when he flashes his smile at me ..something happens inside me.. and the battle will be lost.. i am back to square one...

Collecting your wits is necessary to get along with him and getting mad is just a shameful waste of adrenalin.. and until now i dont understand why even if he acts like King Henry VIII at times, i just cant manage to stay mad at him.. (or did i ever get mad at him..? nah!) Besides, you will not be able to top his unmatched reasoning powers unless you graduated from Harvard Law school...you might as well just give up!

He's the kind of person you would want to smack and kiss at the same time.. .. he has the most affectionate .. the most funniest wit that will make you die with laughter.. and above all, he has the most sympathetic heart in this whole wide world .... (his good looks is just a bonus!)

He is simply irresistble and truly unforgettable.. and i love him forever!!!

My disastrous desk... and a typical work day.. chaotic!

My name is Nery...

Everyone is most probably fed up with this so called “25 random things about me” but I’m still gonna write them anyway. It took me ages to come up with things that are at least vaguely interesting about me. Some few things that would make me seem like a fairly rounded person rather than completely nuts.

1. My real name is Nerissa although I never got used to being called this way. My friends in Manila call me Nery, Ners, Nersky or sometimes Riza. Only close friends and family know my secret name: Isa. (English translation: one) ~ not a secret anymore I guess ~
2. I joined and won in a declamation contests several times in elementary school.
3. I was fat in high school. Yaikks!
4. I collect paper bags. I have so many of them.
5. I love perfumes. I mean expensive perfumes. I don’t use them everyday but I feel good whenever I see my perfumes lined up in my bathroom.
6. I place so much importance on men’s oral hygiene.
7. I don't understand what people see in the Godfather trilogy. But I like it.. I watched it many times. Haha!
8. I like doing things in the last minute.. Gives me Adrenalin rush.
9. One of my obscure ambitions is to be a ramp model. I want to have incredibly long legs, a hair that never goes wrong and a wardrobe full of Prada,
10. I have a long standing crush on Keanu Reeves.
11. I have always wanted to learn French. Oh! That sexy French accent!
12. I want to be an author and I still have an ambition to write a best-selling novel now. I have some stories in mind; however, I never get around to writing them.
13. I am not sure about my Blood type until now.
14. I love to travel.
15. I used to clean our school cafeteria in elementary school. I still don’t understand why I used to like doing that for FREE.
16. I like Sophie Kinsella’s novels, particulary the Shopaholic series. I want to be Becky Bloomwood and I want to marry Brandon.
17. I’m terrified of Freddie Kruger’s movies. His films literally give me nightmares.
18. I have a morbid fear of snakes or any creature that crawls.
19. I want to learn the piano and I want to perform in front of all the people that are dear to me.
20. I love cats. Strange enough, I bought a dog.
21. I like easy listening and ballads.
22. I have a terrible handwriting. I got it from my mom. ^^
23. I hate messy and disorganized places, it makes me physically ill and yet I am not very good at organizing things. I need help.
24. I want to have a huge farm!
25. I’m a hopeless romantic.

“I have way more than 25 random things and most of them are extremely interesting and juicy. My close friends know some of them and the joy of our growing friendships is discovering what those random things are in each other — -"

Farmtown!!! Farmtown!!! Farmtown!!!

Guess what I have been doing lately? -- FarmTown. Never heard of it? Perhaps you dont' have a facebook account. I have been playing this interactive game for a week now (Thanks to you Justine!) I am so into it.. Its so addictive. I spent all weekend trying to earn points and expand my farm. Gosh! my fingers are now very stiff even while I am typing this.. someone help me?!

Click this link for the mechanics:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4919178_play-facebook-farm-town.html

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The Battle of East and West

MANILA, Philippines – Short and sweet.

Manny Pacquiao’s astounding two-round shortwork of the supposedly bigger, stronger and meaner Ricky Hatton was actually Pacman’s shortest winning match since his one-round stoppage of his challenger for the IBF super bantamweight crown back in 2002.

Guns ablaze, the 30-year-old Pacquiao stunned Hatton with powerful right and left hooks all throughout, sending the Hitman down twice in the first and putting him to sleep in the fateful second.

The shortened “Battle of East and West" megafight lasted a total of five minutes and 59 seconds, Pacquiao’s quickest work since annihilating Thai Fahprakorb Rakkiatgym in only 2:46 to retain the 122-lb strap seven years back.

Throughout his career, the hard-hitter from General Santos City had finished off six of his foes within a round while seven others fell in two, including Hatton for the IBO light welterweight title, Jorge Elicier Julio for the IBF superbantam belt, and Reynante Jamili for the WBC International superbantam strap.

Pacquiao’s shortest demolition of a marquee fighter came against Mexican legend Erik “El Terible" Morales, who went down at the 2:57 mark of the third in their 2006 superfeatherweight gig
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Against Hatton last Saturday in Las Vegas (Sunday in Manila) Pacquiao was probably at his meanest in years.

Even before the protagonists climbed the ring, trainer Freddie Roach said a KO win within three rounds was inevitable for the Filipino superstar.

How come, Freddie?

Hatton, he said, had an onrushing style and a glaring doughnut hole on the defense – a perfect fit for his faster ward.

“Everytime Ricky throws his left hand, he pulls it back, he cocks it and he’s wide open for a short right hook in the inside from a southpaw stance," Roach said in a post-fight interview posted at Skysports.com.

“We worked on that everyday in the gym, the timing of every shot and it just worked beautifully," he added.

And worked beautifully it really did.

With Pacquiao landing his newly-developed right hooks to set up his vicious lefts, the Filipino pound for pound king took the lights out of Hatton with a stunning one-punch TKO in the second round.

The all-Pacquiao show started right at the opening bell when he sent Hatton to the canvas not once but twice, the first with a left-right-left combo and the next with a jarring right just before the first canto ended.

It was essentially over from there, if you ask Roach.

“I knew it’s over because Ricky doesn’t have the ability to adjust. He fights the same way over and over again. I watch him (on video) for 2-1/2 months, I knew him pretty well," he said.

He actually predicted a three-round KO, a round more than how long the actual fight lasted but Roach had no complaints. After all, it was still the same result; his pupil just added extra sugar coating to an already sweet triumph. –GMANews.TV