A Princess' Diary


T H E


Y A H N

In all your ways, acknowledge Him; and He shall direct your paths.
~Proverbs 3:6

Yahn

She is fondly called Princess Yahn . She loves reading books and writing, thus the existence of this blog. She also likes designing web layout, and displaying her works in this blog.

She is a Christian , a Lambdan , a hero , and an eLBizen .

She is currently waiting for that one person that God has reserved just for her, but more importantly as she waits patiently, she prepares for his coming.

She listens to hard rock, Linkin Park , RnB, Alicia Keys , and the like. She plays the piano and the guitar--and is working hard to learn new songs. She also happens to like hanging out with her friends: barhopping, party, nature-tripping, traveling, and the like.

Her favorites TV shows are the Crime Scene Investigation trilogy and Rurouni Kenshin .

You could click here to know more about her.

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Yahn@06.05.08

A Princess' Diary. This is by far the simplest layout I have ever made. This one is my first imageless layout. It is a challenge, you know, to come up with a good-looking layout without having to use Photoshop or Fireworks. I've always wanted a very minimalistic layout like this, but never came up with the right colors, until now. Anyway, I was supposed to name this Simple Enough, but thought that the layout is simple enough, why make the title that blunt, too? So I decided to name it A Princess' Diary--reflecting whose blog this is.

Uploaded in the world wide web on July 5, 2008, the layout has been tested in a 1280 x 768 resolution Mozilla Firefox program, and debugged using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.

October 5, 2008

The First List

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  1. Sometimes, it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. -Proverbs 20.30
  2. Latest guilty pleasure: reading love notes. So fun, I'm telling you. Even letters of long ago. Simply takes the problem off my mind and ease my pain. Never fails.
  3. Wag mo nang itanong sa akin
    Di ko rin naman sasabihin
    Wag mo nang itanong sa akin
    At di ko na iisipin
  4. I've learned my lesson the hard way. And I'm sorry sa mga nadamay ko. Truly, I am.
  5. I'll be working on my autobiography for now.
  6. Well, before I go, I'll leave this poem exercise with you. No offense meant or whatsoever.
The Second Groundfall Pear

The timing is right, the taste is exact
Bitter sweet it is—-the perfect mix.
His taste buds can’t get enough of it—-
His tongue licked over the bare part.

listen Eraserheads' Magasin
read My Autobiography

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September 23, 2008

Whatever Ends, Begins *

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Death begins with D and ends with an H.

It starts with D--denial of the inevitable truth
You deny someone else's grief and loss
You deny even your own mortality.

But then it ends up in H--hope amidst the irony
Just as we are clueless of what will happen after we sleep
So do we hope that there's more even after we lose our bodies.

[* taken from today's writing exercise on the subject of death and grief]


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September 6, 2008

Dilly-Dally Week

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Qoute of the Month:

Be careful not to confuse what you say with what you do.

CRASH

Some people
Just don't know when to stop
And when they do
They realize that it's too late.

Some actions
speak louder than words
But still the question leaves us hanging:
Why?

Some words
Are better left unsaid
Then again we wonder
What are words for, after all?

And sometimes
We crash into each others' lives
Just so we could feel
That we are alive.

TRAIL OF THOUGHTS

On my usual walks along the dark, broad road leading up to home, my mind began to wander to the questions that I intentionally buried in the recesses of my memory--hoping that not a day like this would come, when I'd have to pause and meditate on answering these questions.

I step forward and look ahead, asking myself, "What lies ahead of me? What has the future in store for a girl like me?" A bright and happy future for me, yes indeed. Dreams fulfilled, missions accomplished, goals reached. Then again, what am I hoping for, anyway? What am I looking forward to? Will it be me... or them?

Another step forward, but instead I looked behind, "What has happened to me along the way? What if..." and so it begins, and you'll never know where it stops or where it will go. My memory rewinds back to the days of crucial decision making: what if I chose another path... what if I wasn't here after all? In the first place, did I not want any of these... all along?

I step again, only this time, I concentrate on my surroundings: where am I now? Am I by any chance lost? Have I found my own? Or have I finally accepted the reality?

Up on the narrow gate of home, I snap back to reality: what was I thinking?

And the world continues to revolve on its own.


mood lethargic
listen Jordin Sparks feat Chris Brown, No Air

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August 31, 2008

Becoming

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Things have been changing lately for me. A lot of things actually have changed. I find it too selfish for me to say that the whole world has changed for me. Of course this isn't really the case. Matter of fact is me completely changing. Now I don't know what exactly is happening now.

Eventually, you'll see that it's all worth it.

Batang-bata ka pa at marami ka pang kailangang malaman at intindihin sa mundo
Nais ko sanang malaman ang mali sa katotohanan
Batang-bata ka lang at akala mo na na alam mo na ang lahat na kailangan mong malaman
Sariling pagraranas ang aking pamamagitan
Nagkakamali ka kung akala mo na ang buhay ay isang mumunting paraiso lamang...

Whatever tommorow brings I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes

Non-sense post, I know.


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August 17, 2008

Current Play[Life]list

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I tell Him: 

Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
It's how I feel whenever you ain't there
It's no air, no air
Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gonna be without me
If you ain't here, I just can't breathe
It's no air, no air

And He answers: 

Huwag kang matakot na matulog mag-isa
Kasama mo naman ako
Huwag kang matakot na umibig at lumuha
Kasama mo naman ako
Huwag kang matakot na magmukhang tanga
Kasama mo naman ako
Huwag kang matakot sa hindi mo pa makita
Kasama mo naman ako
Huwag kang matakot

So I suggested:

So I'll say why don't you and I get together an' take on the world, be together forever
Heads we will and tails we'll try again
So I say why don't you and I hold each other, fly to the moon
and straight on to heaven
Cause without you they're never gonna let me in

Still, He has the same answer:

You’ll always be a part of me
I’m part of you indefinitely
Don’t you know you can’t escape me
Darlin' cause you’ll always be my baby

Indeed, I'll always belong to God no matter what my circumstance is--long as I accept that gracious fact.


mood happy
listen Retro songs

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August 9, 2008

Clarify

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You'd think she's a liar
You wonder why she doesn't tell it like it is
You begin to distrust her with her own words
But still you find ways that she is reliable

No, she's not hiding skeletons in her closet
She isn't keeping dreadful things about her from you
She's just like that: quiet and reserved
Avoiding questions needless to be brought up

Some lies are told not to mislead
But to avoid needless explaining
Some stories distorted not to deceive
But to simply cut the story short

At the end of the day, she muses
"If they only knew what's really going on,
They'd only disappoint themselves
From worrying to death over nothing."

I'm just sorry I can't explain things myself.

A self-seeking question: what are your strengths and weaknesses?

Some self-assuring, professional-level answers:

My strengths include being patient, open-minded, determined and disciplined. I am patient in a way that I could maximize my waiting time. For example, in commuting to places two- to five-hours far from my destination, I sleep during the trip to recover the 8-hour sleeping time I might have missed during the week. Another example is preparing an AVP for an activity: I don't just sit and wait for the program to load or execute a command or save a big file. While it does its task, I set up and check all the equipments I'll be needing for that activity: sounds, projector, lights, etc.

I am open-minded in terms of my willingness to learn. If there are skills required of me to accomplish a certain task, I work on them not just to do what needs to be done, but to produce excellent results, and use the same skills in other dealings. For example, I am willing to be a good persuader just so I could talk my way into good sales and productive leadership.

For me, determination and discipline work hand in hand. I am disciplined enough to answer the needs of a task given to me, but more than that I am determined to excel in accomplishing that task. An example would be in academics: I am disciplined enough to study my lessons ahead of time, and determined to not just pass, but pass with flying colors.

I'd say that my weakness only shows in team works; I'm not much of a good team player. It's not that I am bogus that I want to lead rather than follow, but that I am more comfortable working on my own--not asking help from others, and getting the work done myself. The worst part here is that even though I personally have completed the task entirely on my own, I claim no credit over my own work. Weird, but true of me.

It's been a year since I was asked these questions. And today, not much of my answers here have really changed; still the same weakness as ever, with the strengths redefined for clarity. I'm not working out the perfect and most pleasing answers. I just want to tell things like it is--to make things clear even to my own self. I find them useful in future work-related [slash-job interview] situations.

Busy days are here once again. Surprise, surprise.


mood refreshed

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July 25, 2008

Just A Recent Activity Pic

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Maalembong's Debut
Friends forever, eh?

In a while, I'm gonna leave this town and simply fly off to Manila and absent myself in one of those major subjects just to prove once again my loyalty to my gool ol' friends.

And I'm not even talking about the people in the picture.

Anyway, I guess that reason for attending a long-time friend's 19th birthday celebration will never suffice [can never be enough reason for excuse] for having myself miss a class in Physics. But what can I do? I guess I'd rather have fun and reunite with my high school pals rather than sit in class and fall half-asleep even before the class starts.

Toodles for now. More detailed updates sometime later on. 


mood stressed
listen David Cook's Always Be My Baby
read Introductory Circuit Analysis

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