Sundays @ the Park - LOVERS

I am a practicing Catholic. My family attend mass every sunday. Sunday is always a family day. Since our chapel does not have regular mass, we usually attend mass at Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage Parish downtown


OLPGVP for us in Gensan is located in front of the Public Park. Now that it has been newly renovated more people go and visit the park. Loners and groups. Young and old. Happy and Sad go there. It is so nice to do people watching there as they somehow unveil their life story.


I will be having a special mini-series of Sundays @ the Park posts with features pictures of the week.

This time I'll be making a special on Lovers at the Park.

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They say, as people mature, they also grow tired of expressing their emotions especially when it comes to love. Noticing the captured lovers, they all are - young lovers. You will rarely see older people going out and expressing their love publicly and obviously you will rarely see them sitting sweetly  in one of these park benches or walking holding hands. Such a sad thought. Is love for the young alone? Or the elders have better things to do than making nonsense public display of affection?


Here's another famous love quote from a famous Beatles Member  for my take:

Love is a promise;

love is a souvenir, 

once given never forgotten, 

never let it disappear.

~ John Lennon

Spread the love everyone!

GRRRRRRRR... an ANNIVERSARY special

This 3 year and 5 months affair is kind of monotonous...

AWAY-BATI

BATI-AWAY

when will we be tired of this kind of set-up? NEVER... 

we will complain about the same old things over and over again...

i will always cry, walk-out, nag, etc... but at the end of the day, LOVE and FORGIVENESS will always rule..  forgiveness is better than revenge after all.

TRUST is a very important factor for all relationships. When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation.

Let me share a story that i read somewhere...

A female telephone operator received a phone call one day.

She answered, "Public Utilities Board."

There was silence. She repeated, "PUB."

There was still no answer.

When she was going to cut off the line, she heard a lady's voice, "Oh, so this is PUB.Sorry, I got the number from my husband's pocket but I do not know whose number it is."

Without mutual trust, just imagine what will happen to the couple if the telephone operator answered with just "hello" instead of "PUB"..

Another essential thing for a lasting relationship is the RIGHT SPEECH..

There is a Chinese saying which carries the meaning that

"A speech will either prosper or ruin a nation."

Many relationships break off because of wrong speech.. When a couple is too close with each other,we always forget mutual respect and courtesy. We may say anything without considering if it would hurt the other party.

A lady and her millionaire husband visited their construction site.

A worker who wore a helmet saw her and shouted,"Hi, Emily! Remember me? We used to date in the secondary school."

On the way home, her millionaire husband teased her, "Luckily you married me.Otherwise you will be the wife of a construction worker."

She answered ,"You should appreciate that you married me. Otherwise, he will be the millionaire and not you."

Frequently exchanging these remarks plants the seed for a bad relationship.

It's like a broken egg - cannot be reversed..

Marte & Me. Very first PHOTO together.

Ours may not be PERFECT..

but i just realized that, i am one lucky girl...

For at this early stage of our relationship,

i am beginning to see (GOOD & BAD) the real man i am planning to KEEP fOrEvEr!..

happy anniversary marte!