Ruselle Alinea's "It's all worth the wait"

I was intrigued with the "It's all worth the wait" article when i opened my fb account... From the title itself, felt like reading its content... bet then it was kinda long and kinda tiring to read so I thought i could just scan it and not read it fully... something made me stop, this made me stop: "And then there will be that one unexpected moment, that a special someone will come your way. Someone who will walk with you when everyone else walks out." says it all... this pinched my heart and then i have to go back to the very beginning to read it again... this time, the whole article... i've come to realize, its really not tiring at all but rather worth reading... and worth sharing... in the end, you will learn to appreciate your partner the more... enjoy!

As the saying goes, things happen for a reason. Well, it does. We may not realize it at first but eventually we'll understand that there will always be a reason behind everything. We may stumble or fall hard. We may get hurt. We may get bruised. But we will heal. So that we can rise up again and start over. And when you do start over, you'll learn that what had transpired is a part of what you will be in the future and trust me, It will all be worth it.

Just like any human being, we will all have a chance to fall in love. It will be the sweetest thing we'll feel. Our world may revolve around it. You'll think it will never end. But when it did, your world will just crumble, together with the hopes and dreams that come with it. The pain will be unbearable. The feeling of loneliness and self pity will be too much. We'll think it will never end. But it will.

And when it did, the hurt will just stop. The pain will just go away. Then you'll start to pick up the pieces of your broken self. And then you'll move on. And when you do, you'll feel lighter because all the baggages you carry will disappear. And the sun will shine again. Flowers will begin to bloom. The world that was once black and white will now start to have colors. You'll appreciate more the people around you. You'll notice that even the simplest things can give you joy. And most importantly you'll appreciate your self better and love the man above even more. And the realization that all that happened will just be an important part of your life and one big lesson learned.

And then there will be that one unexpected moment, that a special someone will come your way. Someone who will walk with you when everyone else walks out. Someone who will change his route so he can catch up on yours. Someone who sees you on your dirtiest and plainest self and still thinks you're the most beautiful woman. Someone who never gets tired of listening to your non stop rantings. Someone who watches you sleep and then will tell you in the morning that you look so peaceful and pretty even when you look in the mirror, and see your hair all tangled up and your eyes are both bulging out. Someone who cooks for you when your being picky on the food. Someone who will put socks on your feet when you are being lazy to do so. Someone who treats you right and respects you. Someone who adores you and appreciates you. That someone who has accepted you, the whole "YOU", without pretensions. That someone who is brave enough to go to battle to protect a country and fierce enough to stay away from the bullets so he can come home safe to you. That special someone who you know will love you longer than forever. All that and more he can give.

Don't we all wish we find that special someone? Well, I DID... I found that special someone I will be spending the rest of my life with. I tell you, it's all worth the wait. And it's all worth the experience. Because I know he's the right one for me.

Cervantes fills in big shoes for FEU

For providing the points needed for Far Eastern U to earn the second twice-to-beat advantage in the coming UAAP Season 72 Final Four, Reil Cervantes was chosen by the UAAP Press Corps as its Accel-Filoil Player of the Week.Cervantes, known more for his defense than offense, came up with a personal career-high 20 points to make up for the absence of big men Jaymo Equilos and Pipo Noundou and immensely help the Tams to a pivotal 71-69 overtime triumph over La Salle that gave them the second semifinal incentive. "Kulang kami ng mga malalaki kaya kailangan kong magstep-up," said the 21-year-old BS Sports Recreational Management student, who scored 14 of his 20 points in the second half, leading the FEU squad's comeback from an 11-point deficit that gave the Tams their first twice-to-beat incentive since winning the 2005 crown.

Reil Cervantes of FEU, right, makes his move during the Tams' recent game against the Adamson Falcons. Jeff Venancio Cervantes became the third consecutive FEU dribbler to earn the award after RR Garcia and juniors' star Terrence Romeo, who were cited by the association of reporters covering the collegiate league the past two weeks.Cervantes also helped the Tams win the match against De La Salle with a key defensive stop, swiping Joshua Webb's lay-up that could have sent the game into a second overtime. FEU's victory also gave the Tams the chance to earn the top spot, as they are now just a game behind defending champion Ateneo. The Tamaraws could earn the No. 1 spot if they beat the Blue Eagles by more than four points in their elimination-ending match this weekend.The victory was also FEU's seventh against the Green Archers in 12 face-offs.Cervantes was chosen for the weekly honor over teammates Aldrech Ramos and Garcia, University of the East's Paul Lee and Ateneo's Eric Salamat. - Perry Legaspi, GMANews.TV

Tams push Archers to edge

The FEU Tamaraws achieved one of their targets this season and made it sweeter by handing out some payback. Nearly one year after crashing out of the Final Four in UAAP Season 71 at the hands of De La Salle, the Tams pushed their tormentor at the brink of missing the semis for the first ever, winnning 71-69 in overtime.
DLSU started hot leading as much as 11 points in the first half but the Tams finally wrested the lead in the fourth quarter. However, FEU failed to close out DLSU in regulation despite leading by 6 points in the last two minutes. Archer Sam Marata converted a three-point shot with 7.9 remaining to send the game into overtime.
However, Reil Cervantes and RR Garcia made crucial baskets in the extra period but DLSU answered back to keep the Tams withing striking distance. Marata had another chance to send the game to a second overtime but missed a last second attempt and eventually award FEU one of the twice-to-beat slots in the Final Four. Cervantes and Garcia chipped in 20 and 18 points, respectively, while MVP contender Aldrech Ramos posted 10 points and a career-high 19 rebounds.
FEU also missed the services of big men Pipo Noundou and Jaymo Equilos due to injuries.
Coach Glenn Capacio was pleased in gaining the incentive but noted that maturity is still the key in order to go all the way to the championship.
“Sabi ko sa kanila wala nang madaling games dito, kailangan maging sharp kami sa endgame,” said Coach Glenn.

Box:
FEU 71 – Cervantes 20, Garcia 18, Ramos 10, Barroca 7, Cawaling 5, Vinluan 3, Tanuan 3, Sanga 3, Knuttel 2, Manalo 0, Caluag 0.
DLSU 69 – Bagatsing 12, Webb 11, Marata 10, Co 10, Andrada 7, Mendoza 6, Tolentino 4, Barua 4, Mangahas 3, Villanueva 2, Bringas 0, Banal 0.
Quarter scores: 11-15, 27-29, 44-49, 65-65, 71-69.

Final Destination 4

The Final Destination series is a series of horror films created by James Wong, Glen Morgan and Jeffrey Reddick. Distributed by New Line Cinema, the films are centered on the themes of determinism, predestination, and precognition, in relation to death (i.e. how to foresee, avoid or control it). In a more practical sense, each film portrays a series of elaborate, often gory death scenarios that can resemble Rube Goldberg machines in their complexity and convolutedness. The franchise has also spawned a related book series (published by Black Flame) and comic series (published by Zenescope Entertainment Inc).

The premise to both the film and book series about death is essentially the same: A group of people are gathered together at a venue, when suddenly a member of the group has a premonition of a disaster that will kill all of the people present. Horrified and motivated by the vision of impending doom, the person with the premonition then tries to prevent the incident by alerting the others. The other members have doubts of the incredible claims but the visionary is persistent, fracturing the group in hostile skeptics, dubious believers, or those that had no choice but to accompany the visionary. Soon afterward, disaster strikes as foreseen, proving to the survivors that the visionary was right, and their opinions change drastically.
Over the next few days, weeks or months, the same survivors begin to die in a series of horrific and often improbable accidents until the same visionary notices a pattern and concludes that, while surviving the initial disaster, they are still destined to die. The visionary usually teams up with another fellow survivor of the opposite sex, and they are determined to once again cheat death; then the same group devises various plans to survive that usually fail until the protagonist visionary finds a solution to their fate, having salvaged two or three of the others. By the end, however, most or all of the survivors are dead. In the subsequent movie, the previous survivors are revealed to be dead, or die in the film. For example: in Final Destination 2, Clear returns from the first film only to be killed later in the film.
However, each movie would leave a legacy for new generations of survivors, such as each disaster was noted by the news, paranormal fanatics, and survivors who notice the similarities within these incidents. The survivors of each sequel would use whatever they learned from these past disasters, or enlisting the aid of a survivor of a previous film, of delaying their inevitable fates.
In addition, the series touches upon the idea of a ripple effect. Midway through the second film, the protagonists learn that they have not only cheated Death through the premonition of the main character Kimberly; each of them also would have died previously but were diverted from their respective destinies by the alternate death events of the first film.

Cheating Death
A recurring theme in each film is the concept of truly defeating Death. Constant intervention proves to merely restart the list from the beginning. When someone saves the targeted person, death immediately moves on to the next person on the list. Once the list of Death's Design runs through, it returns to the beginning. A key element of the films is that the protagonists always think they have found a way to cheat death; for example in the second film, it is suggested that a child born of a survivor will break the pattern. However, the ending always implies that there is no way to indefinitely cheat death.
The films have yet to explain what is sending the protagonists the premonitions and more importantly why, as it seems it does no good to escape the particular accident only for the entity of death itself attack the survivors.

FEU vs UP- from FEU TAMBayan

RR Garcia is solidying his place in the upper echelon of talent in the UAAP after being virtually unknown at the start of the season. The former RP Youth standout made an encore after his best game of the season, as he led the FEU Tamaraws past the UP Fighting Maroons, 86-74. Garcia chipped in 17 points, while MVP contender Aldrech Ramos had 16 and a season high 15 rebounds.
The Tams raced to a 15-2 advantage at the start and kept UP at bay throughout the game, with halftime ending at 40-31. FEU threatened to blow the game wide open after starting the second half with an 8-0 blast but the Diliman-based team made its own mini-run to spark some flicker of hope. However, back-to-back threes by JR Cawaling extinguished UP’s charge and FEU entered the final quarter leading 63-46.
Coach Glenn’s group cruised in the fourth and the win pushed their record to 10-2. FEU needs to win at least one of their last two games in the elimination round to secure one of the twice to beat slots in the Final Four round.

FEU vs Adamson

Coach Glenn Capacio was not in the mood to celebrate despite the team booking a place in the Final Four and within striking distance of one of the twice-to-beat slots with still three games remaining in the elimination round of UAAP Season 72."Were struggling now, Im not happy how we played. Kailangan naka focus na going into the Final Foul, dapat i-angat namin ang game namin", said Coach Glenn.RR Garcia poured his highest output so far in his young collegiate career, finishing with 25 points, while fellow rookie Jaymo Equilos chipped in 7 points and logged in heavy minutes to make up for the stuggles of big men Pipo Noundou and Aldrech Ramos."Di ako umaasa sa three players lang, sa 12-man rotation ko kahit sino pwede mag step-up," added the former UAAP MVP.Despite suffering a humbling loss against the UE Red Warriors last Sunday the Tamaraws started slow with the Falcons leading as much as nine points early. The Tams got their act together in the middle of the second quarter, charging with a 21-6 run to finish on top going into halftime, 45-39.Adamson managed to tie at 56-all but were never able to regain the lead. Garcia extinguised a late Falcon run with a rare 4-point play with 2:18 left in the final quarter to give the Tams enough space and close out at 84-75.FEU rises to 9-2 and faces the UP Fighting Maroons on Saturday 2pm at the Arena in San Juan. Box:FEU 84 – Garcia 25, Barroca 15, Ramos 10, Cervantes 10, Cawaling 10, Eguilos 7, Sanga 5, Noundou 2, Vinluan 0, Tanuan 0, Knuttel 0, Caluag 0.AdU 75 – Canuday 12, Canada 12, Alvarez 12, Camson 11, Colina 8, Nuyles 6, Basilio 5, Galinato 4, Cabrera 3, Lozada 2, Sandoval 0, Margallo 0, Lapitan 0.

Red Warriors bomb luckless Tams: 2nd Round UAAP 72

Furious starts were enough for the UE Red Warriors to enact some payback against the FEU Tamaraws in their second round meeting, 87-72. UE led from start to finish but the Tams made their best run when they closed the gap to 4 points by the end of the second quarter.
UE made another run at the start of the third quarter with the Tams’ struggling to make shots and defense not in sync. Red Warrior Pari Llagas posted a career high of 24 points while Elmer Espiritu was a defensive and offensive power chipping in 20 points and five blocks. Paul Lee made watchers temporarily forget his disappointing performance so far this season after finishing with 18 points including back-to-back threes to douse a Tamaraw rally
Pipo Noundou was the lone bright spot for FEU, finishing with a team-high 14 points. FEU shot a dissapointing 33.8% from the field. The Tams have a chance to rebound when they face Adamson on Thursday 2pm at the San Juan Arena with them still needing a victory to formalize their place in the Final Four.
Box
UE 87 – Llagas 24, Espiritu 20, Lee 18, Zamar 9, Lingganay 6, Acuna 4, Acibar 4, Reyes 2, Tagarda 0, Sumido 0, Flores 0, Duran 0, Alabanza 0.
FEU 72 – Noundou 14, Cervantes 11, Barroca 10, Ramos 9, Garcia 8, Cawaling 7, Sanga 5, Vinluan 2, Tanuan 2, Eguilos 2, Caluag 2, Manalo 0, Knuttel 0, Exciminiano 0.
Quarters: 22-10, 45-41, 70-55, 87-72