SECRET: that cannot be told

"Can you keep my secret?"

"Never play that song in the old piano.."

"I am Lu Xiao Yu. I love you. Do you love me?"

--Music connects the heart when language fails to connect the thoughts

SECRET

A movie released in Taiwan in July 2007. The movie's story begun when Ye Xianglun, a music student majoring in piano, transfers to Tamkang(Danjiang)Secondary School. It is a school famous for musically talented students, especially for those who play piano. On the first day of school, as he wanders through the piano building, he hears a mysterious melody being played that leads him to Lu Xiaoyu, another piano major. When he asks her about the song she was playing, she tells him that it is a secret that cannot be told. The two develop a relationship that is clouded in mystery. When Xianglun tells Xiaoyu of the demolition of the piano building on graduation day, she teaches him the song that he heard on the first day of school.

However, when a mis-passed note leads to Xianglun's accidental kissing of another girl, Xiaoyu disappears for five months, only to return on graduation day and mysteriously disappear again. Xianglun asks around and discovers that Xiaoyu was actually a student from the class of 1979, who graduated 20 years ago. His father tells him the story of Xiaoyu, who claimed she time traveled to the present via a piece called "Secret" that she played on an old piano in the piano building. She had fallen in love with Xianglun, but the only barrier is that, in the present, the first person she sees on each trip is the only person that can see her.

When Xiaoyu was misled that Xianglun liked another girl, she returned to her time, 1979 for five months. During her absence, her story spread and everyone believed that she was crazy. Remembering that the piano room would be destroyed on graduation day of 1999, she tried time traveling to see Xianglun one last time, but was mislead once again that he liked another girl. Xiaoyu retreats back to her own time and fainted half way through due to an asthma attack, while trying to communicate with Xianglun via writing on a desk with white out.

After finally learning of Xiaoyu's story, Xianglun realizes that the piece that she taught him was "Secret", which had the power to take the pianist forward or backward in time depending on the tempo at which it is played. He rushes off to the piano room, which is ready to be torn down. As the demolition begins, Xianglun begins "Secret" from memory, recalling something Xiaoyu told him while teaching him the piece: "I always play it that fast when I go back". Just before the piano room is completely destroyed, Xianglun travels back to 1979. He sees Xiaoyu, and she sees him and smiles, but doesn't seem to know him. The last scene is when the 1979 Tamkang (Danjiang) Secondary School graduation picture is taken, in which Xianglun and Xiaoyu are present. This suggest that due to the demolition of both the piano and its old room, Xianglun stays forever in the past living a normal life with his love Xiaoyu.

SOURCE:

wikipedia-Secret (movie) 

One thing to be criticized about this film is the very draggy introduction. For the first few minutes of the film I really felt bored and impatient. But as the story progresses, I found myself hooked-up with every scene. Xiaoyu's character became the greatest twist and attraction of the film. From the time she met Xianglun, to her frequent absence in the class which appears to bother Xianglun alone, up to to her mysterious attachment to Xianglun. Without the knowledge of how the story will be conclude, Xiaolu's character didn't failed to make me think of what else was behind her shy smile, naive actions, great piano skills, and asthma.

Travelling to the future and falling in love during that time to someone who's 20 years away from your time would seem to be a very ridiculous and explicit thing. But for Xiaolu, it doesn't matter if she had to close her eyes and take 108 blind steps before finally seeing Xianglun, it doesn't matter if she had to risk herself from having an asthma attack while traveling, and it doesn't matter if she'll be called crazy by her schoolmates. What's more important to her is that she's sure that he like Xianglun and she trust her heart.

A love that dared the power of time and space. A love that endured the season's rage. A love that through music was made possible. 

It's really amazing how music manages to touch the soul and connect the heart. Even without words, a simple tune can relay a message through its melody.

"If you could travel back in time, when and why would you return to that certain moment?"

A First in L and P

Tonight's one of those nights when out-of-the-blue, some overly random and shocking thing would happen to me. 

So I did my usual routine of checking my SNS [social networking sites] and that includes Facebook, Blogspot, Tumblr, LiveJournal, Twitter, Wordpress, and Cyworld. And while I was browsing one of those sites, someone just left me a message, saying: "kamusta?" For a while i was just staring at the name that registered there. To be honest, I was actually suppressing a smile! So before I knew it, I was exchanging messages with the person. I can't help but smile and laugh each time because our conversation was just like our usual conversation way back in high school. The feeling was effin weird. I felt so happy because after so many years of no communication of any form, I finally had the opportunity to talk to that person. But at the same time, I felt like crying because I was having flashbacks at that moment. The feeling was totally weird. I was having mixed emotions and flashbacks at the same time so I literally had a lot of things going on my head. And I realized that: "no matter how you try to forget the past, it will always comes back to you no matter what because you experienced that ONCE and its your memory FOREVER." Because I seriously thought that I was over it...but hell., I was wrong...

That person WAS [and maybe IS still] the rainbow that paints my life with a lot of colors. 

He was my friend, my brother, my father, my counselor. I learned a lot of things from him - - mostly about life and love.

He was [and maybe IS still] the sky my eyes loved to stare at. And he aided in some transformation in me. From him, I learned:

• how to love without expecting anything in return
• how to appreciate the importance every little things that we usually ignore
• how to stay composed even if I'm freakin chaotic inside
• how to give without looking for a reason to do so
• how to sacrifice one's interest for the betterment of more people
• how to gracefully accept failure and see it's good points
• how to hold on and let go at the right moment

I don't know, but when we separated for some valid reasons that I chose to accept as the inevitable, I felt my spirit burst into nothingness. It's like inside there's a black hole that needs to be patch up or else it would sip me whole. It took me a year and a half to finally face myself in the mirror and manage to say that: "I'm really fine." Although the Christmas season would always make me feel happy and sad at the same time, thinking of him doesn't make me cry or feel like crying anymore. Instead, reminiscing always make me smile and feel lucky to have met him even for a while.

Although this night gave me quite a shock (I did said his message rattled my stable emotions, right?) I'll thank God for giving me a chance to communicate again with him. At least, now I know that I'm not totally over his shadow and a part of me is still clinging to either the love I felt during that time or the pain I felt after that...

Hm...but God is truly good 'cause he placed me in my current situation just when I'm sure that I'm no longer "17" 'cause if I met "37" again during the time when I'm still trying to pull myself out of the quick sand --which is my hold to my feelings for "17" -- I'll most probably end up in another situation I'm gonna hate. At least, at this point in time, I'm sure of what I truly feel and even if "17" would come back - - which I'm a hundred percent sure, he will not - -I would just graciously turn my back on him with a smile on my face...

Nurses Leading Health Care Initiatives to Go Green

Florence Nighingale, the founder of the Nursing profession, was the first to identify the connection between the human health and the environment. Through her keen observation, she was able to realize that the status of the environment a person is in greatly affects how his/ her health would progress. And this theory was called 'Environmental theory" since it basically focuses on the patient's environment.Thus, through Nightingale's Environmental Theory, the nursing profession became a strong advocate of taking care of the environment.


As an active advocate of Environmentalism, the nursing profession initiates recycling, the conservation of energy and water, and the consumption of organic foods rather than the commercialized products.


Since the nurses treat their patients in a context, nurses not only look in to the client's personal aspect. More than the personal (physical) aspect of the patient, nurses look further to the patient's emotional, spiritual, social, cultural and environmental aspect which can greatly affect the clients health. By looking at things in a different lense, nurses are able to understand the importance of having a hazard-free and clean environment in relation to their patient's health status.


Further more, since hospitals are considered an environment, it is but important to keep the hospitals safe and clean so as to not compromise with the patient's health.


It's really nice because I, too, am an active advocate for the environment. And being a nursing student, I feel proud that the profession I am currently trying to pursue shares the same color as mine: GREEN. In my opinion, it is but important to keep our environment clean and in one piece again because this is our home, and home is where everythings starts and end. And since this is everybody's home, shouldn't the other profession follow too the footsteps of the nursing profession in embracing environmentalism?


 SOURCE:
News: Spotlight on Nursing

-MSG-

                           

-MSG-

I wrote this poem with one person in my mind: "Him"

It's the 28th of the month., it's our chosen day for each other. Even though he have an early volleyball training tomorrow, he insisted on going back to Lipa just to spend the day with me even if it will only allow us a couple of hours to be together. I really felt cherished when he told me that it's fine, cause it's just a small sacrifice compared to the regret he'll feel if he'll let that day pass with him being without me. How sweet of him! ^^ hahah...But you know what? He's always sweet and nice that sometimes I think that all his words were just sugar-coated shallow ones.

While I was writing the poem, i really felt the "writer's block" syndrome in me and I was like: "Oh hell! Come on! I need to write something!" Funny how writing a poem for him made me that giddy :P Oh well, at least I made two poems for him (although I failed to create a graphic design for the second poem U_U ) and I've posted the first poem on his wall in FB ^^

I'll be seeing him in six hours., so excited about it :)

HAPPY 28th ReivEm!!!

work, work, work, and more work

summer classes., just can't get enough it - ironically., everything's pretty piled up and on the rush now a days and that just made me feel TOTALLY lucky that i still CAN breath U_U but at least our workload's been chopped down a bit -just a bit :P - i feel so sleepy but i still can't go to sleep., need to finish my work before i jump to dreamland., and so..i'm multi-tasking again in hope of finishing things earlier., geared up in my powerpoint presentation for tomorrow while fishing my way in photoshop, creating a graphics for my poem., whew! hope things will lighten up SOONER.,

Hello World!

so..after how many months was that? hahah...i'm finally making use of my blog., yay! *dances around* and i'll probably end up staying here for a bit longer now ^^ welcome to myself AGAIN :D