I'll Be Your Love

This song is originally done by Dahlia, a Japanese Pop Star and composed by Yoshiko Hayashi. Nicole Scherzinger worked with Yoshiki Hayashi on in his Violet UK project. She sang the English version of "I'll Be Your Love" live with the Tokyo Symphonic Orchestra. The track also appeared on the 2003 Various Artists album Exposition of Global Harmony.

I'll Be Your Love

Japanese Version:

I'll be your love
Anata e no ai o chigau
Afureteku omoi o
Ashita mo utau

Fuanya mayoi ni kokoro ga yureru
Akirame kaketa toki ni
Soredemo mae ni mukatte susumu

Sono tsuyosa omotte
Tadori tsukeruyo, shinjireba kitto
Yume to ai ga tomo ni ikiru
Sono sekai e

I'll be your love
Kono ai ga
Asu o terashiteru
Aruite iku kono michi ni
Hikari ga sasu
Let me see your smile

Namida de kokoro o nurashite kiita ne
Sonna omoi o kako ni sutete
Shinatte ita kimochi o sagasu

I'll be with you
Soba de furikaerazu ni irareruyou ni
Aino imi o omoida shite ikuyou ni mou ichido

I'll be your love
Kokoro ga
Anata e no ai o chigau
Afureteku omoi o
Ashita mo utau

Shinjireba
Kono sekai ni
Afureru ai ni
Kokoro no tsuyosa o
You'll find a way

I'll be your love
Kono ai ga
Asu o terashiteru
Aruite iku kono michi ni
Hikari ga sasu
I'll be your love
Kokoro ga
Anata e no ai o chigau

Time passes by
And life will never be the same
But don't let your dream fall to the ground
Don't let your pain take over the sky
Because there is a tomorrow
And I'll be there to love you

English Version:

I'll be your love
I'll never make you feel, feel alone
If yesterday blindfolds your eyes
I'll bring you tomorrow

There's a time
You feel like you're lost
Feel the night will never end
Through the daybreak
It's hard to hold on
But there is tomorrow
Brings you to your senses
As the sun will make it's way

You'll make it there
To the place where reality and dreams
And love will be together
I'll keep the light from fading
If the clouds blind your way
And the wind sways your faith

I'll be your love, I'll be your light
I'll never make you feel, feel alone
If yesterday blindfolds your eyes
I'll bring you tomorrow
Let me see you smile

Don't you cry
Over the past
Some days might be gray

And dreary
Not easy to leave
To leave it behind
'Til the rain stops in silence
I'll be there to hold your heart

I'll be with you
'Til you find the reason for love
We take it for granted
We'll keep the time from fading
''cause the world is here to stay
Your hope is deeper than pain

I'll be your love, I'll be your light
I'll never make you feel, feel alone
If yesterday blindfolds your eyes
I'll bring you tomorrow

If you would believe
Believe in the world
A vision of love
And the strength inside your heart
You'll find a way

I'll be your love, I'll be your light
I'll never make you feel, feel alone
If yesterday blindfolds your eyes
I'll bring you tomorrow
I'll be your love, I'll be your light
I'll never make you feel, feel alone

Favorite Passage 1

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Nelson Mandela's 1994 Inaugural Address

Just Think About It

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

from 'Touched By An Angel' by Maya Angelou

"COGITO, ERGO SUM"

It's a Latin phrase which means "I think, therefore I am". It is a philosophical statement used by René Descartes, which became a foundational element of Western philosophy. "Cogito ergo sum" is a translation of Descartes' original French statement: "Je pense, donc je suis", which occurs in his Discourse on Method (1637).

The phrase "Cogito ergo sum" is not used in Descartes' most important work, the Meditations on First Philosophy, but the term "the cognito" is (often confusingly) used to refer to an argument from it. Descartes felt that this phrase, which he had used in his earlier Discourse, had been misleading in its implication that he was appealing to an inference, so he changed it to "I am, I exist" (also often called "the first certainty") in order to avoid the term "cogito".

At the beginning of the second meditation, having reached what he considers to be the ultimate level of doubt – his argument from the existence of a deceiving god – Descartes examines his beliefs to see if any has survived the doubt. In his belief in his own existence he finds it: it is impossible to doubt that he exists. Even if there were a deceiving god (or an evil demon, the tool he uses to stop himself sliding back into ungrounded beliefs), his belief in his own existence would be secure, for how could he be deceived unless he existed in order to be deceived?

"But I have convinced myself that there is absolutely nothing in the world, no sky, no earth, no minds, no bodies. Does it now follow that I too do not exist? No: if I convinced myself of something [or thought anything at all] then I certainly existed. But there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me. In that case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So, after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that the proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind." (AT VII 25; CSM II 16–17) - from Wikipedia.com

10 Things I Now Know

For the past two months of staying here in Manila, these are the 10 things out-of-my-world observations I have:

1. "OK-OK" is the KING of the road not jeepneys..(if you don't know the word, ask somebody)

2. Here in Makati, follow loading and unloading rules or else you will have to go back to the jeepney if you "unintentionally" unload in an loading area...(dili pwede mag-buot-buot)

3. It is disrespectful to knock the hand railing of a jeepney if you want to make "baba", shout "para" and if you forgot "lugar lang..."

4. Only in the Philippines, aircon jeepneys that also re-design like an aircon bus.

5. Jolli-jeep is the five star fastfood here in Makati. 3Ms (Masarap, Mura, Marumi)

6. Railway transit (LRT and MRT) is painfully not good for your weak legs. In short, they should remove the seats and give each passenger a pole to hold on to. Lesson learned, if you want to sit while riding MRT or LRT, sumakay sa pinakadulong station.

7. Have you seen a shopping city? I'm not talking about Mall of Asia. In my opinion, Glorietta, Greenbelt, SM, Park Square, Landmark and more should be declared shopping city. You need a map just to go from one point to another coz it's like a maze of doors with security guards.

8. Weather forecast: 15 minutes of thunderstorm (blame it on cloud seeding). It feels like, the sun is shining while it's raining like hell. (First time "bagyo" experience)

9. Wanna "feel" like you're in another country? Go to ROCKWELL.

10. Lastly, Pasig River still stinks.