...football fan. Since his early age of 3, he asks his parents to watch channel 33 for him to see the great stars of Philippine football like, Falconey Opon, Edward Capars the striker, ball-bouncing body of goal keeper Karlo, and their team captain, Dave Deslate. This four persons are the icons of Philippine football. Thus, they have seeded the flag of the Philippines in the fields of Brazil, North America, Germany, Italy, Spain and many more. This boy watching the TV with widen eyes and hands clutch has dreamt of stepping on the ground of an official finals of FIFA championship. He actually asks his parents to buy him a pair of shoes, but it wasn’t their priorities. But then on his Birthday, his father woke him up and gave him a pair of shoes. He was full of clear happiness, it was a smile from ear to ear and he recalls “ it was not the best shoes of the world but it was more than the best for me.” It didn’t end there, most that surprised him was an admission ticket for a football clinic. His lethargy broke as if he was ignited by some electrical current running on his nerves. On afternoon after school, he hastily ran to the field and tied up his new rubber shoes. He rose and inhaled seeing the whole field. It was still four and their clinic starts at five. Dedicated is he? For several months, his passion was still consistent and growing and burning; fueled by the dream he has hold on. After his clinic, He was about to cross the 7th street when he saw a classmate few meters from him...
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...He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not I don’t know that there is a way to define what true romantic love is. Every person’s love is different because every person is different. Loving someone means accepting everything about that person without trying to change them. I think that romantic love is rare. It is human nature to care for someone and often times that gets confused with love. To me, love is when your 80 years old, sitting on your porch with your husband or wife, looking back on your life together with no regrets, and threw all the hard times, you still want to wake up to that person in the morning. In “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” One of the main characters, Terri, argues that despite Ed’s violent behavior he still loved her in his own way. I disagree with Terri when she says that there was any love in hers and Ed’s relationship. If you love someone you do not abuse him or her. During Terri and Ed’s marriage, Terri described a certain incident when Ed was particularly violent towards her. Terri says “He beat me up one night. He dragged me around the living room by my ankles. He kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, you bitch.’ He went on dragging me around the living room. My head kept knocking on things… What do you do with love like that?”(350) I don’t think that you can love someone so much that you want to hurt them; it should be the exact opposite. When Terri looks back on Ed and her relationship she happens to only bring up the bad and the violent...
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...their lives. The person who I idolized growing up was my father. Being around him everyday led me to try and imitate his every move. He also taught me a great variety of different things such as playing sports, being respectful and having manners. With his guidance growing up, I knew I was going to turn out to be a very intelligent and wise young man. Little did I know that he was only going to be a part of my life for what I feel was the best 12 years of my life. The day he passed away played a significant part in my life and I didn't feel I could make it without him. So as the days went on my attitude towards this tradgey then changed, I used this as motivation to continue on the right path because I know that's exactly what my father would've wanted me to do. Him passing away really forced me to mature much earlier in my life which changed my whole aspect on life. I had to figure out on my own how I could get motivation and wisdom on certain situations such as sports or school activities. Even though it was many days when I would miss him and wish I could just here his advice on different problems that occurred in my everyday life, I still never give up because I know that's not what he wanted me to do. Never in a million years did I think as I was growing up my father would pass away. But now that I'm getting older, I can truly say I'm blessed because in that 12 years of him teaching me right from wrong and other life lessons, I still feel like I'm going to turn out to be a very...
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... •I love his smile. •I love the way he laughs. •I love moments when we can finish each other’s sentences. •I love it when he holds my hand. •I love it when we look into each other’s eyes and the rest of the world disappears. •I love it when he looks at me, talks about me and touches me as if every part of me is precious. •I love the fact that we dream of a grand adventure together. •I love the fact that he values my opinion. •I love it when he kisses me on my forehead; it is the deepest feeling of love and peace. •I love the fact that though we have tough times together, he still chooses to be with me. •I love that he loves taking stolen pictures of me. •I still look beautiful in his eyes no matter how bad I think I look. •I love when he said he’d still love me even I get SO FAT! •I love that he gets jealous with other guys. •I love that I am his reason why he wake up so early. •I am myself when I am with him. •I don’t need to clean the house before he comes over. •I can tell him every little thing about me. •I can ask him a dumb question without feeling dumb. •I love the fact that when I’m around him, I can be myself and not worry about what he may think of me because I know he loves me for who I am. •He is very patient even when I’m yelling. •He is overflowing with confidence. •He can handle adversity and come out stronger. •He is Intelligent. •I feel so secured and loved when he hugs me tight. •He still calls me beautiful even if I have pimples and...
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...the word love it gives me chills because this is a powerful word. Today I am going to talk about the three people in this world that I know and have knowledge that they love me. They are my husband and my two sons. I have had a lot of people to ask me how you know for a fact that your husband loves you. That answer is very clear and simple to me, because its not just one thing he does to show me its many things. When I look at my husband I see a forever with him. We have been married almost nine years now and were just as in love today as we were nine years ago. We still tell each other how much we love each other on a daily basis. We write each other love poems to each other. We love to do everything together. We have our moments when we just look at each other and gaze into each other’s eyes and just smile. Even though we have been so long we still talk about our future together and how we can make it better. He loves to plan things in advance and he loves to reassure me that there is a future for us together. Every year since we have been married he has wanted to renew our vows, because he say that he would remarry me every day if he could. He always gives me compliments on a daily even if I know I look a hot mess he tells me how beautiful I am. He loves to talk and he is very kind and gentle with me. I have never met anyone that opened up to me like him. He is not afraid to tell me anything, he bares it all to me no matter if I want to...
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...almighty, life-ruining clutches. Even if you’re like me and you’ve been there before, you can’t pull away. No matter how hard you try. I noticed him first, when I was at work. He was such a dude. He always came in from the gym, hot and sweaty and beautiful, with a bag of food in his hands. He would slap his guy friends on the back and they’d make plans for later. Usually, he’d say hi, maybe stop for a minute to chat and then he was on his way. But sometimes, he would sit and eat while I worked. He’d talk about everything and nothing, all at the same time. But he made me smile. God, he made me smile. I didn’t realize that I loved him then. Then he started dating my friend. She would sit at my shift and tell me how wonderful he was. She’d say how he was so thoughtful, what he had texted her that day, and how good of a kisser he was. I’d smile and shake my head at her romantic antics. I’d tell myself I was happy for her, and I was. Nothing else seemed to change. Day by day, it was always, “hey, how are you? I’m good. How’re classes going?” But sometimes it was more. Sometimes, he would tell me stories about his friends, where he was from, how much he hated Josh Hutcherson. But he made me laugh. God, he made me laugh. I didn’t realize I loved him then. Then this year happened. My grandmother died. I didn’t see him before he left for the summer. I graduated with my Bachelor’s in Accounting. My dad was put in a nursing home, where he withered away before my eyes. I came...
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...embodied in critical articles and reviews are permitted. This is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Cover photo © Konstantynov at http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-116797p1.html Acknowledgments To my fiancé, thank you for putting up with the many nights I totally ignored you while I wrote this and for all your support, you're my rock, I love you! For my daughter who is also a bookworm and loves rockers, thanks for supporting me, babe. I love you! To my three little men who have had to share me with this book, I love you all very much. To my sister who has called me everyday and pushed me into finishing this and to my parents for having faith in me, I'm lucky to have you guys and I love you all so much. Chapter One September 2005...
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...would make me smile one day, some would trigger tears but definitely it would get me by, He will always be a memory that can be stored and smiled at. Days will be over soon and I will cease from counting. The day after ten, I will stop wondering. I've done what I need to do to make him find his way back to me someday..If he comes back, he is mine, if he will, not he is my memory. He was the happiest person I got close and associated with, his thoughtfulness can melt even the hardest resolved that I have, the mere fact that he is around keeps me aware, his scent could linger in my nostrils, I want his memory to stay as it was before. The sweet and thoughtful guy, MR. ALL-I-WANT-I-GET, MR. CONFIDENT, but he is the sweetest among the proudest, the cutest among the stupidest person on earth. And I like him just like that. THE ONE WHO KNOCKS I will missed the regular routine of having him around for few months, the regular knock on my wall every night, checking if I am awake or dozing off, the breakfast with him, the morning joke and laugh we shared whenever he is up early and I came home early, the coffee I threw at him one time when he got me so mad, the regular talk every day offs, the several Saturdays and Sundays we shared with the company of each other, the basketball game we have watched with all those ha and hos, I will missed the person who showed me that I am not so invincible, the one that brought out the child in me and the woman that is sleeping inside me, I will...
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...New York: Random House Value Publishing: 1997. www.thewriterscoffeeshop.com/publishinghouse About the Author E L James is a TV executive, wife, and mother of two, based in West London. Since early childhood, she dreamt of writing stories that readers would fall in love with, but put those dreams on hold to focus on her family and her career. She finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper with her first novel, Fifty Shades of Grey. E L James is currently working on a new romantic thriller with a supernatural twist. E L JAMES Prologue Mommy! Mommy! Mommy is asleep on the floor. She has been asleep for a long time. I brush her hair because she likes that. She doesn’t wake up. I shake her. Mommy! My tummy hurts. It is hungry. He isn’t here. I am thirsty. In the kitchen I pull a chair to the sink and I have a drink. The water splashes over my blue sweater. Mommy is still asleep. Mommy wake up! She lies...
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...together. His name was Nathan Stanley. He was great to hang out and talking to him. When he graduated, we have been dating for a year. We were so strong when we were together. He was working to try to make my life better. When I graduated, we hang out more. We wanted to love forever. In the one year and a half, he started smoking. I was trying to make him stop smoking. One girl told me, “He can do anything he wanted.” I told him if you do not stop smoking I will leave you. After two years, he cheated on me with a girl that goes around. He told me that he left me before he dating the girl. After I broke it off, my friend had a fire. I brought my ex-boyfriend hat and...
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...this assignment my instructor had assigned to me. I could not help but to see his beautiful smile from way across the classroom. His appearance was very noticeable as well. My boyfriend came over to where I was sitting and introduce his self and told me his name and I told him mines. Then he started a conversation about this prelaw class we was in. He was asking me why I took this prelaw class and I told him I was very interested in law and I wanted to make it a career in the future. Then he told me I must be a brave woman to get into such dangerous career. After talking to him about my career he started telling me a little about his career and it was similar to mines. The bell rung and class was over for the day he shook my hand and left. First, the next day he came in class smiling normally he would sit across the classroom from me but this particular day he came and sat in the seat right next to me. Then he asked me how my morning was going so I replied ‘great’. He then went on to ask me about the assignment my teacher was explaining and he said he knew how to complete the assignment. The teacher ask all the students in class for their undivided attention while she go over the assignment that was due by end of the class. Shortly, after that I started on the assignment and my boyfriend was sitting their just staring at me. I looked up at him to listen at what he was saying to me and I could not help but notice his appearance. He had on this light green button up polo shirt...
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...laughing and slapping the number one, most wanted guy in shcool. Andrew. But now they stared at me, shock evident on their faces. Jade and Harper looked shocked as well, jaws slightly aslack. The one man that held my attention was Kyle, his grey eyes glared into mine filled with something sinfully dark I found myself gulping, his lips curled into a cruel smile and he scoffed before looking away. "Gimme ten minutes sweetheart. I'll be out soon just buy some food. Its on me!" Yes. I was starving. "You are darling Chuck! I'd marry you if I could!" I yelled back already hopping towards the phone on the counter. I called my favourite Kebab House and ordered a donner kebab. "You want anything Chuck?" I was well aware of the boys staring at me, there eyes trailing over my low cut, off shoulder crop jumper to my camel skort and then to my lace stockings down to my heeled sandals. My tattoes peaked out of the hem of my skirt, and I pulled off my gloves revealing the trbial marks tattoed on my hands. "Get me whatever your getting!" he yelled, I could hear to low hum from the tattoo stick and my body shivered in anticipation. I couldn't wait for my tattoes to be complete. "Hello. Welcome to Kebab house, what can I get you today?" "Hi, could I have two large donner kebabs" I twirled my strand of my hair around my finger, my legs shaking as I leant over the counter aware of Kyle staring at me. My muscles tense, lip stuck between my teeth. "Sure. No problem. Would that be all?"...
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...didn’t do anything to me. It was that guy who intruded our house and beat my father up,” Anna told the police officer. “What are you talking about Anna? What are you thinking? I came to save you and that’s what you repay me,” Robin said while struggling with the officer. Robin is an only son of the big company. His parents sent him to America after the accident. He is a role model in one of the American’s college. He is good at sport such as America Football. He has a warmhearted personality. He loves to help other people. However, Robin lost his memories when he was 8. At 9 pm, one of Robin’s friends called him for help. Her name is Anna. Robin rushed to her house. He spent less than 5 minutes to go to Anna’s house. Her dad was beating her. Robin tried to stop the old man. The old man took his baseball bat and hit Robin’s head. He repeated his hitting skill on Robin. Robin was almost unconscious. Suddenly there was a gunshot. Police arrived and stopped the old man. They ask Anna who attacked her. Instead, Anna told lie that Robin intruded and her father saved her. Police led Robin to the police station while he was protesting the entire way. After police released Robin, he went home and met his secretary. “Young master? Are you in your right mind?” “I haven’t told your grandmother yet”, he added. “Leave me alone! I’m not going back to work in the company. So, you don’t have to come anymore,” Robin shouted. Robin was in pain because of the injury. He looked at the mirror...
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...much was a cheater. He cheated many innocent girls like me. “Dude, do not believe him. I think you’re in love with the wrong person. He has many other girlfriends besides you”, said my best friend Lara. But, I did not really bother about her advice because I was so madly in love with him at the age of seventeen. I heard people say love is blind. But, my love was blind, deaf and brainless too. It is popular belief that it is great to be young. My parents keep reminding me that school days are the best time of my life. They urged me to enjoy what they describe as my ‘carefree’ days. I could think of several reasons why people think this is the best time of our lives. To start with, I had a lot of friends in school. It was hard to be lonely when we were surrounded by so many people. Not only that, at the same time I was having a boyfriend who was three years elder than me. Actually, I was not really interested in love before this. But, I do not know when I stepped into form five I felt I should have a boyfriend because all my friends had their own one. Besides that, having a boyfriend was a trend for teenagers like me. I am a girl from a middle class family. My father is a lorry driver. While my mother is a homemaker. I was the hope for my family since I was the eldest girl in my family. I just was a moderate student in my school. I did pretty well in my studies. The school compound was the place I met my boyfriend. But, he was not in the same school with me. I saw him outside of...
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...voice and to verbal abuse me is to teach me a lesson because he thinks that it is the right way to teach a lesson to someone. He told me that he is rough with me because that was the way he learned how to be strong. He constantly will used the fallowing phrases such as “get over it” “put your shit together “. He used another types of degrading words such as bitch and slut and cunt. He also likes to assume things that he doesn’t know or sometimes he would think on my behalf. He likes to argue twice a week or once every weekend, everything begins on Thursday ending on Sunday or Saturday when he realizes that he had enough alcohol. ***Incidents: -Since the beginning of the relationship he was an alcoholic and aggressive....
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