Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way (Lyrics)

Current LSS. Sorry na ulit... ✌😅🤣

(I DO NOT OWN THE MUSIC VIDEO)

I hope it won't be too late. 🙏💗

"Swing"

It looked like a “reddish” or ”brownish” corner lot townhouse (or maybe a duplex?), because you had a lawn around your home: front, side and back. Your unit was attached to another by a firewall, but the extent of adjacent unit/s was blurred to my vision, so I don’t know how far it went on. The window of your room which faced the frontage had large blinds. There was a swing just outside the room (still within the fence) where I sat playfully. You were dressing up; your mother was at the door and the rest of the family was playing a board game in your living room. For some reason, I was wearing formal clothes— typical long sleeves, slacks & leather shoes.

“Wait for me?”, you asked with an intonation. “Yes”, I responded looking at the window while still sitting on the swing. “Hey, no peeping!”, your mother exclaimed at me as I answered your question. The three of us laughed. 😅😂🤣

I stared blankly at the grass… but I knew I was happy. I felt it.

You peeked through your own blinds and called me by name: “Jase… wait for me?” Same inquiry but with higher inflection and this time in a louder tone. This is the first time in a long time that someone called my name in a dream. I replied with, “Yes, I miss you… so much.”

There were other things that happened but I can no longer remember them. And that was it.

___

I am quite amused that your mom always appears with you now in my sleep. She’s “added protection and support”, because however strong I perceive you to be, you are still somewhat fragile. 🤗

I don’t know why I have this hope… I feel I shouldn’t give up on you just yet. Although I might still be wrong. I’m aware that you may very well be committed already, but it seems that the hints of our Minister appear stronger for me. ✌😅 NO OFFENSE… I’m sorry, but this is what I actually feel. No disrespect, though. I just don’t want 'him' to use you. Again, I hope you are not “blinded”. This was also another hint of our Minister: “Ikaw naman… niligawan ka lang, sinagot mo naman kaagad!” I remember these things like they were yesterday; I also have photographic memory. BUT for all I know, plantsado niyo na ang lahat. November will later approach. I’ll cross the bridge when I get there. God will either lead us on or pull us back as He pleases; He knows what’s best for us.

Whatever the case is, I am always here. Take care of yourself. 💗

Ingatan nawa. May God bless us all the remaining days of our life. 🙏

CODE RED - WHAT GOOD IS A HEART (LYRICS)

LSS lang... please don't judge me. 😅😂🤣

This Sunday morning amused me...

Despite the looming ECQ, this Sunday morning amused me.

I dreamt that a family “adopted” me as one of their own. They lived at the edge of the village where we used to live, nostalgic roads I always dream about. They had a family business, a humble “Jolli-jeep”. It’s a Filipino (maybe NCR) contraption: a retired passenger jeepney that has been turned into a travelling sari-sari store; parking at conspicuous spaces near office buildings around lunchreak and afternoon snacktime, selling food: anything from rice & viand to banana-que, lumpia & turon. (I can relate to it since my mother befriended an old lady, Aling Napi, who happened to be in the same business when I was very young. We were regular customers in her Jolli-jeep in the late 80s, whenever I was at my mother’s work during summertime– a government bank in that intersection of Makati Avenue and Buendia.)

I started out to be this family’s regular customer and became close to the mother and her eldest, because she was always generous with her portions. I LOVE THAT. 😅 HAHAHA!!! 😋 I can’t exactly recall what happened in between, but I found myself helping them pack up and “go home” to their house everyday. The old lady was very endearing, as any of us would want a loving parent to be. The family members themselves were humble and decent, but I couldn’t remember their faces. It was odd that I noticed I always looked on the floor, as if my head was constantly bowed down. They are a very desirable family. Maybe they made me humble, too. It seemed like an ordinary dream until I realized the family’s composition:

A sweet old couple adopted me, they had three daughters and a son,

These siblings rarely talked to me except for one

She always took good care of me in every way,

Maybe that’s why I eventually intended to stay. 💗

Once again, memories and imagination blended in my sleep. Add wishful thinking to that. Still strange, but heartwarming and lovely. 🙃🙂

Maranatha - MCGI MMC CHOIR Version

2nd Church LSS for the week...

When I first heard this live twenty years ago, it instantly became a favorite. So beautiful! 💗🙏💗

Love the round song towards the end... Thanks be to God!

Pagasa - MCGI (Tanging Awit)

Isa sa pinakamagandang awit na nalikha...

Band Of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You (Live on KEXP)

Just watched Zombieland again over the weekend twice, for the Nth time. It's such an enjoyable film... so funny and entertaining! I never noticed this song in the soundtrack before. It was played as background music at the scene where Columbus let in his apartment a pretty lady who needed help. They almost got comfortable with each other when, well, it's a zombie movie after all. Anyway, this is a very nice song. 💗

As I've said before on another song with a "strong" title-- only God, very decent parents and madly-in-love couples in extremely rare circumstances, can say this.

"NO ONE'S GONNA LOVE YOU" by Band Of Horses

It's looking like a limb torn off

Or altogether just taken apart

We're reeling through an endless fog

We are the ever-living ghost of what once was

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do

No one's gonna love you more than I do

And anything to make you smile

It is a better side of you to admire

But they should never take so long

Just to be over then back to another one

And no one is ever gonna love you more than I do

No one's gonna love you more than I do

But someone,

They could have warned you

When things start splitting at the seams and now

The whole thing's tumbling down

Things start splitting at the seams and now

If things start splitting at the seams and now

It's tumbling down

Hard

And anything to make you smile

You are the ever-living ghost of what once was

I never want to hear you say

That you'd be better off

Or you'd like it that way

And no one is ever gonna love you more than I do

No one's gonna love you more than I do

But someone

They should have warned you

When things start splitting at the seams and now

The whole thing's tumbling down

Things start splitting at the seams and now

If things start splitting at the seams and now

It's tumbling down

Hard