Tera's Haven

I Love Romulo Cafe. Aside from their simple yet elegant interiors the crew are helpful and very attentive. The food never disappoint me.                                                                                                                                                                         

Some people don't know that when they hurt you, they take away a piece of you that you can't get back. Not all people around you will understand it unless they have felt the same pain or they have given the same things you gave. Even that, the pain wont still be the same. So when your hurt, its okay to be mad, to say things to let some pain get out of your chest. Do not apologize for it, for people surely doesn't know  all the pain you've been through.  Be mad and be okay with it. 

"I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.

If there is any way to ‘know’ love – any sort of way to describe or define it – this is highly subjective. Love, at least to me, is selfless yet completely selfish. . This selfless love is something quite gradual that grows as I get to know you better and catch glimpses of your innate, immutable qualities – your kindness, your integrity, your character. While human beings are continuously mutating creatures, I do believe that there are things in us that are tested by life and time, yet do not change. This is the foundation of a human being, maybe it’s the soul, I don’t know – but these are the very things that I see in you every day.  Selfless love leads to selfish love. I also love you for my own sake – for how you improve my life by driving me to be kinder and more understanding; changing the way I see myself and the world; making me question and even strengthen my beliefs and values. Yet it’s also just as simple as the fact that you make me feel wonderful and help me enjoy life ...

“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.”  ―  Jodi Picoult ,  Handle With Care

"…  I’m not completely sure of what i want with my life actually, and I still feel that emptiness sometimes but what I know  now is that ,  this life right now is what i want,  this is what I decided to be, this life that I’m living right now, the person that I am, the place where I live, the people I am with, the job I have and everything that I achieved and total of all that is happening in my life right now…this is it! this I what I want with my life. I want to accept it as it is. there maybe something more that I desire or need but i will deal with it everyday, and work for it.  i was blinded to look too much about  what i want with my life, without realizing that I have so much more to be thankful for, that my life is the life that I want to be. And right now whatever comes my way I am okay with it:)"

I know I'm difficult to love but who isn't? We are raised differently. We differs in a whole lot of way and that where compatibility comes in. We don't have to really be alike. We don't need to like the same type of music. We don't need to walk in sync. We don't need to have the same views in life, We just need to respect each other. We don't need to delegate task to one another. We don't need to wake up at the same time, We just need to show love to one another.. and sometimes we need to agree to disagree.  I don't need you to cook for me, we can always eat out or we can always call delivery. I just want you to show me you love me and when I push or try to walk away from you. I just want you to prove me your love is true.

“I cannot move forward if I continue to hold on to what’s behind me. It’s time to let go so that I will have both hands open to grab a hold on the future “ “ To let go is to be thankful for the experiences that made you laugh, made you cry, and made you grow. It’s about all that you have. All that you had, and all that you will soon gain again. Letting go is having the courage to accept change, and the strength to keep moving. Letting go is growing up. To let go is to open a door, and to clear a path and set yourself free.”

from: http://adoripoetry.wordpress.com/ Writing, to me, is like stripping naked on the highway and hoping someone will whistle at your round thighs (well dimply brown ones in my case) and youthful body. You bare your soul on a piece of paper that really didn’t know what you had coming until ink filled with emotions came dripping onto it. . .Just like the tears shed in truth and lies. Truth is a funny thing you know. Often we think we want everyone to be honest with us, tell us the truth ALL THE TIME, bare their souls every waking moment of their lives. And God forbid they leave out a detail or two, ALL HELL shall break lose and the warm feeling love gives you will turn into a burning feeling of bubbling magma rising from your toes up straight to your heart. Lies. . . oh, the beginning of the end. Ever felt so angry you could feel your own heart pumping within its nest? You know. . like you could hear it beat; angrily pumping pure vile into your veins, your voice even trembled as ...

The tough thing about following you heart is that people forget to mention that sometimes the heart takes you to places you shouldn't be. Places that are scary as they are exciting and as dangerous as they are alluring. Sometimes your heart cannot take you to places that lead to happy ending. That's not even the difficult part; the difficult part is when you follow your heart, you leave normal; you go into the unknown and once you do you can never go back.

Relationships are complicated and difficult. Both people have to be on the same page. Both people have to be at the same point in their lives, wanting the same things. Or if not one should be willingly give way for the other wants and likes. One should be willing to sacrifice. Both can't have any doubts or reservations. Do something too early, and you can taint it. Jump in too quick, you can screw things up whichever way it would be difficult. There are so many other factors besides who the person is..you have to consider who they are now, who they will be in the future. Would you still want or love that same person after all the changes? if you have the potential as a couple ..are you on the same page and will you continue to be?

We took Partas bus in going to Vigan from Laoag. It was a  2-hour travel.  From Partas bus station in Vigan, we rode a tricycle that transported us to Calle Crisollogo. Since we have no hotel booking we strolled around the area and looked for a good hotel with a not-so-expensive rate.  A lot of hotels and inns are within the area. Your choice would only be dependent on your budget. I personally like Grandpa’s Inn. The interiors and the ambiance of the inn makes you feel like you are transported back in time. It was creepy but exciting.  The only available room when we checked are the rooms with common bathroom it is cheap but we don’t want to share a bathroom with the other tourists. We checked in Cordillera Inn. It was an old hotel with an old bed frame. It was a little bit scary but it was manageable. Calle Crisologo The street brings you back to an era of old Spanish house, where women wears baro’t saya and filipiniana. I love walking on this street....

Before we travel I carefully set an itinerary for all the things we are going to do. I even search for well known restaurants and food to try. I list down places to visit and make a budget for each. For our Ilocos trip, I had 6 revisions of the plan before it became definitive. The original arrangement was to include Pagudpud in our trip but since we have limited time we decided to skip Pagudpud and just visit Laoag and Vigan. We rode Partas bus in going to Laoag. The bus departed Cubao at around 12:00am. The bus ride was comfortable, though it felt very cold at dawn. I thought we will reach Laoag around 9: 00am for I was expecting a 9-hour bus ride. We arrived in Partas Bus Station La Elliana hotel We got a very cheap air-conditioned hotel room. Considering the very affordable price of the hotel one would not expect it to be presentable. To my surprise the room was huge. It has a clean bathroom with hot and cold water a T.V. and even telephone. The linens were also c...