Street Fighter (2026)

I love this movie! I watched it with my mom, she never played the game but she enjoyed watching. She loved Ken, coz he's lively and fun to watch. I love the fight scenes and all the characters and all the dialogues. I also love the background songs they play all throughout the movie.

From BTS Jimin's IG

 Landscapes

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Shelter

I wrote this a few weeks after getting out of the shelter. I edited it now.

Explanation of why I wasn't online from January 2023 to July 2023.

        After months of not being able to access the internet, I'm just really happy I'm no longer at the shelter. I don't feel like logging in to my social media accounts. I check my fb everyday, but i feel like twitter is too noisy and i don't like ig. I love watching youtube videos so I'm on yt most of the time.

       I should start this diary at the time I wasn't online. I remember the date coz it was the day after our payday lolz. January 17, 2023. That was when I had another nervous breakdown. I didn't have any for years, but I didn't drink my meds, so it happened again. They brought me to a facility called Shelter of Goodwill Health Services. My mom signed a contract that I would have to stay there for 6 months. So I had no access to any gadgets nor internet. At least we have local television, they don't have cable, the only stations with clear signal were gma 7 and tv5. I watched the news sometimes to keep up on what's going on outside, but sometimes I get sleepy at around 6pm, that's after drinking our meds and the doors are locked for all dorms.

        The shelter is located at magalang, pampanga. My mom visited me every week. It was a psychiatric and rehab center so there were drug rehab patients as well as those with mental illness. At the time I was there, there were over a hundred guys who were mostly drug cases and about 20 plus women with mental illness, only a few women were on drugs. I was one of the psychiatric patients. The doctor said I have schizophrenia, but I'm not the worst case coz there were some who were injected with drugs instead of just given tablets. I take oral medicine. 

        I don't know how to describe my experience there, but I will try on this blog. I feel like I just wasted half of the year, but it gave me time to think about lots of things and time to read the bible actually. I finished the new testament and I chose some of my favorite bible verses which I'm going to share on this blog. I tried reading the old testament but most of them I don't understand, so I stopped trying.

        I felt like a prisoner there, it's different when you're at your own house of course. I'm just really glad it's over. We all felt like prisoners, you know no freedom to do whatever you want and of course you can't go anywhere. You see nothing but the people and things around that shelter. Every single day is the same thing. There are exact times for meals and time when they will close the doors of the dorms  so no patient can go out at that time coz it's time to sleep. If not for the usb with bts videos that I requested from my cousin, Ate Tan, I might not have been able to survive that shelter. I also asked her to print lyrics of bts songs, so that helped as well. I'm really grateful that she was able to give the usb and print outs.

        There were different psychiatric cases there. It was the first time, I really felt like I was in a mental hospital. The previous ones I went to wasn't like what I saw there. There were more than 10 dorms, and each has more than 10 people. In our dorm we are 12, I stayed for 6 months, I got out of the shelter July 18, 2023. There were some patients who came and go, but near the end of my stay, we were 12 in my dorm. There was someone who have been there for 2 years. Not sure if her family doesn't want her out or they couldn't pay the bills. I can't forget her coz she always talked to herself and she's noisy. Even when it's time to sleep, she'll keep on talking. At least there were some people I can talk to with sense. 

    I thought I won't be afraid of mental hospitals, but when I think about the time spent there which would've been better spent blogging/vlogging/working, I really don't want to go back to that shelter or any facility like that.

    There were some good things that happened like the gifts I received from student nurses who interviewed me and all the prizes I received for winning games (individual or team).

    We always get up at the same time every morning. I can't remember now if it was 6am or 7am. We do the exercise first for a few minutes. Then breakfast. Then we do our assigned chores. Mine was to sweep and mop the floor of the office. Once that's done. I watch tv or talk with my friend Joy there or read the Bible. After lunch, most of the time some of us were called to be interviewed by student nurses. There were different ones every few weeks. Once the student nurses are going to do their last interview, they give their interviewees a little gift like face towels or toiletries. And sometimes they also give foods and prizes after some games. I won the grand prize in bingo, well the prize were just cup noodles, but I was excited to win. They wanted to give another prize and the one who won was the student nurse assigned to me, so she gave me the cup noodles she won. I was happy coz I had additional food to eat for a few days lolz. 

    I had an allowance of 1000 pesos every week for grocery. I bought lots of biscuits and other snacks and also sanitary napkins. The free foods that were included in our monthly fee sometimes were not really delicious, so if I don't want to eat those foods, I'd give it to my friend and I would just eat snacks and biscuits. I think I lost about 40 lbs. there. 

    When there were games and we were allowed to choose who to team with, I would always choose to be with Joy and we won almost all the games, we're both good at it lolz. One time there was a game that included the boys. One team was all the girls and the other 2 teams were all boys. It was like a quiz show where they would ask a question and one member would write down the answer of the team. It was general knowledge and I know some of the answers, so I would tell the writer. I got excited that we answered correctly, but I reminded myself that I should focus on answering each question, one at a time. At the end, they tallied our scores and our team won! I really love that part. 😍

    When I received the usb with bts songs and videos, I would watch it with Joy and we'd have a good time. I also had another friend there named Jas, she's not staying in our dorm, she's in the vip area, but she's allowed to visit our dorm. She would join us in watching the shows of bts, not the music videos or concerts, but the reality show. One time she had a usb with movies in it and we watched movies with her. There were times that there would be volleyball games. We're not players so we would be at the sideline and watched and just talked to each other. After the games sometimes we would sit outside of our dorms near mango trees and the gate. Some days there would be a fishball vendor outside the gate and those with money held by the nurses will buy. Jas has money with them and she would asked a nurse to buy fishballs and hotdogs and she would share those with Joy and me. Sometimes she would asked for mt. dew softdrink and they would give it to her and we would drink too. So when I received food from my mother when she visited, I gave some to them as well. 

    We don't have refrigerator and we don't have lockers. We had one storage box under our bed. Good thing, no one stole from anyone's box, until near the end of my stay there. 2 new women came to the shelter and then some of our things went missing. I counted the fabric softener that I had and someone took one from it. Another time, I was away from my bed coz I was watching tv and then one of the women there told me to look at my box coz one of the thieves took something from it. I looked and counted the foods I had there and 2 were missing from my beef noodles. I knew who took it and I intentionally said out loud and let her hear, I said that the one who took my food will lose something more someday, it was in tagalog, but that's roughly the translation. Then a few minutes later she pretended that someone put the beef noodles on her box like someone played a prank on her and she gave the beef noodles to me. I took it and didn't say anything anymore.

    Another time, I saw her wearing my pants and I just didn't want to deal with her anymore so I just told her, it's yours, she wanted to give it back to me, I don't want to wear pants that were worn by someone else. That's another reason I was so glad I was out of there. I didn't have to deal with people who had no respect for another's property. 

    Joy had colored pencils, she received it from one of the patients there who got out already. I asked for one pencil so i can write and she gave me one, she's really kind. I had receipts from when my mom visited and would give me things she bought, so I used that receipt paper and write things I want her to buy the next time she visits. Over time I had lots of receipts and I used those to write a diary and my plans on what I want to do after I get out of there. I was also able to write the facebook accounts of my friends and I added them when I was able to logged in again to my fb. The sad thing was, I couldn't find my close friend there, Joy, I couldn't find her account. I don't know if the email she gave me was wrong or what. The account that Jas gave I found so I left her a message. She still hasn't responded which meant she's not out of the shelter. I also found the accounts of other acquaintances and they're now on my fb friends' list. I plan on going there again to visit and give gifts to Joy and Jas if they are still there. I don't know when I can do that. I'm still building my online income stream, once I'm earning a big income then maybe I can go visit them. 

Leon (Ka) by EZ Mil

My favorite motivational song at the moment.

The melody and the message makes me want to keep on working on my dreams. One of those dreams is to have this blog have 100 unique visitors per day.

I love every line, my favorite of course is the chorus, especially the last one:

Dama ng mundo ang bangis mo! Bangis ng Leon! (Leon!)
Ilabas mo ang tirada ng Pinoy
Na walang mintis! Lahat pinapanis!
Nadama ng mundo ang bangis mo! Bangis ng Leon! (Leon!)
Ikaw ang hari ng kwento mo. Napaka bangis mo!

English translation:
The world feels your ferocity! Ferocity of the Lion! (Lion!)
Let out the Pinoy’s strike
That never misses! Makes everyone look weak!
The world feels your ferocity! Ferocity of the Lion! (Lion!)
You’re the king of your story. You’re so fierce!

official audio (also available in spotify)

full lyrics

english translation

background song from run bts episode 11

I saw this run bts clip in instagram and i heard again the background song when suga appeared as the new transfer student, I really wanted to know the title of that song. I scanned the comment section if anyone mentioned the song, nothing. I googled and good thing there was a reddit post about it, even though it was already deleted it showed in the search results and I finally found out the title and my mind is at peace now. 

Run BTS is like a variety show for BTS and they have their own producer and staffs and writers. In this episode they were going to shoot a school drama. They each had different roles and the one who was to be a girl transfer student was Suga. This is the part where he shows up with the background song i like.

The song is Starlight is Falling by Bye Bye Sea. This is them performing live. There is english lyrics in the live, but if you want to read the english lyrics and hear the studio version of the song, click here.

I don't know why it's titled different in their album Boy's Universe, in spotify, it's called Star Shower.

Mortal Kombat II (2026)

I just came back from watching the movie with my mom and it was ok, the story and the dialogues were ok, but the fight scenes were wanting, i mean maybe they could have gotten a better fighting director, i was expecting amazing fight scenes but there were none. the only good fight scene was when liu kang was fighting with kung lao. even the last fight scene with kitana and shao khan didn't have the wow factor. I like the actor who plays johnny cage, but the people who wrote the movie and the ones who choreograph the fight scenes did a bad job. I don't have any intention of watching it again.

Arirang Tracklist

I'm so excited for BTS' new album Arirang!!!!! 

and now they revealed the list of songs on that album

This article describes all the songs, what they are all about.

I like this song

 

Apocalypse movie

 

Jordan - Sidemen manager

I love watching catholics explain things to other people. I didn't watch the whole video but I skipped to the part where they talked about religion.

I found out about him from lifesitenews.

Matthew 5:3

 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

Tomorrow by BTS

I'm excited for the new album of BTS and their world tour! My cousins and I are already planning what we are going to do during the ticket presale. We are hoping to get vip tickets for their concert here in asia. I already lost hope that we are ever going to get any tickets for the Manila one coz there are lots of hocus pocus happening when it comes to ticket concerts especially with a group this popular. I cannot forget the time a few years ago, when BTS had a live concert shown in sm cinemas. Their site had a lot of problems and then we just found out there are no live tickets available, so what we got was for the replay only. Then we found out that there were free live tickets being given to a lot of people by someone in the government. How did he get that many?! Some people here in our country do not care about unfair practices when it comes to money, so I expect that the only people who are going to get tickets (even the general admission ones) are those with connections. My cousins would still want to try their luck by going to SM Clark when the tickets are on sale, but I won't be going with them, I lost trust in their system, but if my cousins ever got their tickets, I would be happy for them.

Anyways, I just want to share here one of my favorite lines from one of the songs of BTS. This one is entitled Tomorrow.

I took that picture from the book of BTS. The translation of the lyrics websites are different from that one. I love that translation than the ones I read on the lyrics sites, but I have to accept their translation of the other parts of the song since there's no official translation available. To read the entire lyrics of the song, click here. Below is a performance of that song:

Surf's Up

 

One of my all time favorite animated movies. It's so funny and inspiring. I don't know how many times I've watched it. Video above shows some of my favorite scenes. I love the part and the background music when he was chasing the whale. I also love the part when he said this line:

"I understand my mom's judgemental. I think it's 'cause she cares partially, and I think it's also partially because everyone else is looking at her like, 'hey, cody's just a bum. cody's this. cody's that. cody's this.'

Cody's me, bro. Let me be me."

Luke 16:10

 "He who is faithful in very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in very little is dishonest also in much." 

Spotify Wrapped 2025

Just want to share my listening activities for this year :)

Here is my top song, you can press the play button to listen to it for a few seconds.

My top 5

Romans 12:21

 

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My Favorite Playlist at this time

 

Would you marry me Season 1 Episode 4

I don't really get the logic of the girl main character, that she would not tell her mom about the called off wedding, even if it hurt her at least she wouldn't have looked stupid in front of the family of her ex.

I would never do that to my mom. I mean maybe the circumstance is different coz I'm really close to my mom and I tell her almost everything. So if my engagement ever gets canceled, I would tell her right away, I will never let her embarrass herself in front of my ex's family.

I like the series but I don't really like some of the dialogues, especially me-ri (the main female character) when she's talking to her ex at the resto coz I don't like her still talking to a guy who obviously doesn't love her, it's so annoying to watch so I skipped that part. Then she said in one of the scenes of this episode that she paid for the tuition of the guy and paid for their honeymoon and other expenses, how can you be so stupid as to think that the guy loves you if he's just a leech. I hate her character but the actors have a good on-screen chemistry so I will still watch the rest of the episodes.

Revelation 22:15

"Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood"

I remembered this bible verse yesterday because there was a guy who tried to scam us. He pretended to be a delivery driver and said that we have a package. The name and address was correct (it was under my mom's name) but we didn't accept it coz we didn't order anything for cash on delivery. All the products we ordered since a few months ago were all paid online. Actually, this was the reason we did that. A few months ago, there were several packages that my mom didn't order but she paid for coz she thought they were the packages that she was waiting for. The last straw was when we paid for 1000 pesos 2 packages but when we opened it, it was full of wet tissues that's probably only worth 200 pesos. That's when I decided to not let my mom order anything online again. From then on I told my mom that I will be the one who will order what she wants at lazada and we will pay for it already online so that when it arrives the courier will just have to give it to us. We've been doing that for months now, and it is only yesterday that someone tried to scam us again. They got my mother's name and address right, which means they have a connection with someone who's working at a courier service and got names and addresses there. I searched online about this months ago and found out that there were lots of people in various places who had the same experience as we had, where they got wet tissues. It is a modus of maybe a syndicate organization.

They are not going to get anything from us anymore, since we don't do cash on delivery. I made sure that we paid for our packages online and lazada and shopee has good tracking services so I know when I will receive my orders.

Anyway, I remembered that line in the bible because that person yesterday is practicing falsehood. He knows what he is doing and he is not sorry for it. That's why when I prayed the rosary yesterday, I included him and anyone like him in my prayers, because if they continued doing that thing until they die, they most probably will not go to heaven.

I love what Emma Tiglao said in Miss Grand International: 
"One day, I hope that we will live in a peaceful world where no one should deceive just to survive."

That's what I hope too. I pray that those kinds of people will realize that Jesus is real, their actions have consequences and repent of what they are doing. There are lots of people who are not rich in terms of money but never chose to deceive people to get some, they chose to have a job, even if it's lowly and work for money honestly.

John 16:33

"I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

This bible verse is one of my favorite things that Jesus said. Whenever I read it, I’m reminded that Jesus already won, He overcame the world, so anything in the world that gives me trouble is nothing compared to Him. As long as I remain in Him, I can overcome whatever is troubling me.

Sometimes I am also troubled with what I see happening in other places, especially in politics, when it seems like those who have bad intentions are winning, I remember that Jesus is always on top of things, He knows what’s up and what’s best. If I feel anxious, I just go to the Blessed Sacrament in Youtube and just be in His Presence and that makes me feel peaceful.

According to Saint Thomas Aquinas, Jesus overcame the world through 3 ways:

1. he conquered the allurement of the world by his poverty
2. he overcame the world by casting out the ruler of the world
3. by converting the people of this world to himself

I learned that from Matt Fradd’s bible study video. This is my favorite part:

…which understood literally means that after the Passion of Christ, the little boys and young handmaids of Christ will make the devil their plaything. So this thing prowling about like a roaring lion, we should not take him lightly, of course, he wishes to lead us to hell, but when we are in Christ, he is about as harmful to us as a mouse is to a cat…

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Another thing that I want to mention is the Rosary. After I pray it, I always feel peaceful. As in my mind is not attacked by various worrying thoughts and I don’t feel anxious. Remembering the life of Jesus by praying this prayer helps me be centered to Him. Aside from the promises of the rosary, I am motivated to praying it because I imagine myself as saint bernadette, not that I’m that holy, but like when Mama Mary was there one time when she prayed the rosary, I felt like I’m spending time with Mama Mary and Jesus, going back and looking at His life. 

And since the rosary is also a spiritual weapon, I feel like praying the rosary is my participation in the whole spiritual battle in my life and in the world. I feel like each rosary prayed by various people all around the world is helping in the conversion of many people, who are joining the only religion that has the whole truth and receiving Jesus (literally, not metaphorically) every Mass.

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I will end with this screenshot from catholic.com site

I have peace in my heart knowing that in the end Jesus will come again and will finalize the defeat of the devil. For now, I want to carry my cross and follow Him knowing that He is with me all the time.