Vitz's Outpourings

Rurouni Kenshin

Two weeks ago, I've decided to write a review about Kenshin Himura from the anime Rurouni Kenshin but every time I started to sit in front of my Extensa, I just don’t know how to start it. No matter how I tried, there's always lacuna in it.

My words won’t be enough to describe how I was touched by a character conceived by a Japanese story teller. It’s a story of a Japanese Hitokiri (manslayer) who fearlessly kills during the Bakumatsu period of Japan and disappeared for 10 years. He was known as the Battōsai because of his perfection of the Battōjutsu (a style in drawing a sword) surpassing god like speed. He came back as a wanderer during the Meiji Era and vows not to kill again as his atonement. Taking with him a reverse blade sword (sakabato), he met Kauro while drifting in Tokyo, an assistant master in the Kamiya Dojo. Kauro at that time was searching for a murderer claiming to be the Battōsai using Kamiya Kashin style (Kauro’ s own technique). As part of Kenshin’s vow to protect the people using his reverse blade sword, he defeated the fake Battōsai which revealed his true identity to Kauro. Their own romantic tale started there and together they found new friends - Yahiko, Sanosuke, Megumi, Dr. Gensai, and everyone in the Akabeko. While Kenshin wanted to start a new life, people from his dark past keep haunting him which will truly test his skills and his promise.

There’s a lot more than that. To tell you, the story was so huge and perfectly honed (as to my own standards) which made me stay in my room for the whole weekend. Most people will say anime are just for kids…but this one is different. Ever since, I like reading history pages of Japan. Looking at their own cultures and traditions. It even went to the point that I found myself downloading media for Nihongo tutorials. And because Kenshin was based from a real Hitokiri known in the History of Japan, it made my mind drift wishing I was born in that period to witness how great he was with his sword.

I’ve seen Kenshin as a kid, almost killed and was rescued by Sojiro Heiko who became his master. I’ve seen how he was brainwashed by the Imperial government to kill anyone who opposes them. I’ve witnessed how he loved his first wife (Tomoe) who changed his ideas and his whole personality. As for Kenshin, Tomoe saved him. I watched him cut heads as an assassin and saved lives as a wanderer with his Sakabato. I’ve seen how he struggles to live and protect without murdering. I’ve seen how he acquired the name Kenshin Himura, how he got an X mark on his left cheek…and how he mastered the invincible sword fighting technique Hiten Mitsurugi. I witnessed how he lives and how he died. I just loved the totality of it.

This won’t be enough to describe everything. Sometimes it made me feel unworthy of creating a short review of such a wonderful masterpiece. Like the books I’ve read from Sparks, the story teaches me a lot of lesson. It taught me that the will to live is stronger than anything else and that no matter how dark your past is, it's not too late to repent the wrong doings and live a new life.

This is the only the tip of the iceberg. I would encourage everyone to watch and share the same feeling with me.

 

Dear John

"Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever" – that’s what I've first read from the cover. It took me a while whether to pick up the book or not. Though I've been looking for Nicholas Sparks' books, at that time, "The Choice" is what I want to have. But because of that remark, it changed my mind. Besides, it made me think how a two childlike line can changed it completely? - That I need to figure out.

December 11, 2007. Were heading back to the Philippines and it was the 1st time that I opened the book. I can see common lines and dashes which patented how Sparks weaves fragments. Savannah, is the name of the girl in the book. It is also the name of Nic's daughter. In the book, she has a brunette beauty, kind, and sweet. She has big dreams in her life. She enjoys joining activities in helping less fortunate build their own houses. And John, of course... is a rebel, worse than Landon Carter. Having only his dad in his own entire life makes him recollect what he has been doing at his young age, he can’t seem to imagine his whole life listening to stories about coins. His dad is a coin collector and that’s the best possession he’s proud of.

Plain and flat...That’s the best way I could describe the characters. As the plane drifts and wanders on a wide vast of clouds, so is my mind. Each episode shifts to a different mood until my senses were totally attached and in loved. It’s unpredictable just like I thought. You wouldn’t really know what you’re into when you pick one of his books. Different emotions and different experience but they’ll all teach you a lesson. You wouldn’t believe me if I’ll tell you, that his books, made me a better man. Dear John in particular, pasted a lesson of trust, faith, honesty, and unconditional love. And I agree that Dear John is a true heart breaker.

Thoughts from a common man

First let me tell you, I worked with Synnex and we have offices in Cagayan De Oro, Davao, and Manila. The main office is located in Fremont, CA and technical support along with sales and customer service is in Greenville, SC. I, together with 11 network specialists was sent here to ameliorate our skills not only in networking but also in other domains.

This is supposed to be just a review, but I wanted it to appear as if I, Vitzler Aviola, am telling you a story of a quest for advancement.

October 28, 2007 – Rush hour. After all the exams and interviews we’ve pass through, I was more than happy to be well-chosen as one of the employees that will be sent to US. It’s a dream come true, I told myself. I recollect, 2 years ago, I was once a trainee of Link2support and the first thing that came to my mind after the grooming is to become a Technical Trainer. I love to teach, I always imagine myself standing in front of an amazed crowd, giving all the best I could offer and the best of my didactics. And so be it, after 1 and a half years of working, on January 15, 2007, I’m one of the best Technical Trainer. Money can never outperform the happiness of becoming what you want to be. In spite of scarcity in wealth in my most beloved department, I’m satisfied with what I have. Doing my job, from my own standpoint, made me feel more “Human”. Now, I say to myself, upon leaving CDO, I will be missing a lot of people, places, trend, and culture. Other than that, everything that will happen ahead is a challenge.

Nov 6, 2007 – I’m a foreigner. We arrived in South Carolina at 5 in the afternoon. The air was very cold, cold enough that made my whole body shiver. I wore a shirt and a jacket but it’s totally submerged by the chilliness. If I may gauge, the coldness is triple times of Baguio. People we’re courteous and nice, and that’s one of the refinements in the South. You can see maple trees everywhere with different colors. Other than that, silence is in the air. We stayed in Main Stay Suites Hotel along Dry Pocket Road; the building was surrounded by maple and oak trees and they remind me of a beautiful song my father use to sing. I can stare on the trees for a long time and never gets jaded. It is really a beautiful place. Nicholas Sparks, my favorite story teller, lives in New Bern in the North. Now I fully understand why he prefers noises from birds and crickets at night rather than planes and buses. It made me barracked thinking that we’re now breathing the same air. With honesty, my adoration of him is unfeigned, but that’s another story.

When I get to my room, I pondered, this is a new chapter. All the sacrifices from the past brought me here. I’ll be missing everybody but the longing and the accord gives me strength to prove that I have something to show off. There will be more ups and downs that will happen to me here. But let me tell you, I’m well armed. This is a journey, a pipe dream, and this journey will go on to infinity.

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I don’t know what I am into today. It’s a typical day in Greenville, South Carolina. The weather is cold, the sun is out but its beams are useless, totally submerged. I was fully awake at 7 AM. Though I heard my phone beeps so loudly trying to fire me up an hour ago, half awake I thought I’m not yet over with the night. I’m a person who wants everything planned out, which is why I made up to this point. But today, it seems so different. I get into the bathroom and made a crook into the knob letting the hot water flow and warm my slumbered body wakes into its senses. For some reason, my body can absorb more heat before it starts to feel hot, and that I notice even when I’m cooking, eating, or drinking coffee…heat capacity as what it is called in Thermodynamics. After shower, I powered up my Extensa and found some friends logged in to Yahoo Messenger. Some I haven’t talked to for quite some time, but instead of buzzing, I ignored them. What will I say? I have nothing in mind.

It was around 9AM, I sat at my desk in the office. Im tired if reading HP’s Web based tools that Mike provided us. Instead, I tried to reckon myself and relive what had happen why I’m feeling so foreign…but it made me feel more stupefied...

Bygone

I never felt so much love in my soul And no one loved me more than you. For you I laughed and cried, I was reborn also All I had I gave, in exchange for having you here By suffering, I will pay for my mistake Nothing will be the same again, I have to accept it And find the strength in myself for this goodbye Go away, I can't take it anymore There is no way now to turn back time Forget about me And let me go on alone with my solitude I'm not going to repent for yesterday Loving you I made you woman For that love, to always be faithful to you Today I have to be strong and learn Go away, just say goodbye to me And I will resign myself to go on without your warmth And I will never understand what it is that happened If there's nothing I can do, go away

Spoken Words

I thought of having you would fill the emptiness in me
I tried to be assertive to let you know I’m interested
Yes, it came through, I have you
And I was complete but it didn’t lasted

I lived with you with beautiful lies
Pretension exist between the created and what it possess
Were not really bound to be bond nor destined to share the same world
- Because you’re just a myth.

We both know now the truth
And I have to let you go for holding you so long would burn my hand
I felt like dressed again as the truth unfolds saying that we’re done!
My eyes just closed as I felt your oddments slipped away – and the best part of me, also.

You want me, you want everyone
I was given an unfinished piece and you’re the missing one
We parted, both drenched and feeling radical
We are music, we are immortal.

I Will…My Child

I’ll teach you the things I do not know

Thy love will mold the music to mellow

I’ll raise you and guide you by heart

And grow up so gentle and smart

I’ll tell you stories I used to hate before

Give you things I can’t afford to buy for

Open the crumpled pages filled with love so deep

Bring you in a place found only when asleep

I’ll teach you good values I don’t bear

Drained the blood till it became pure water

Sing the songs I can hardly reach to

Now I hope that things are clear to you

That I will my child

Impel me if you’ll not be with Him

I love you, you’re my blood

I’ll never leave you and put you in vain

I went wrong

The fire in your eyes
When you told me goodbye
The way that you look
As you left me behind.

I felt like you thought
You were finally free
I dont think you love me
But the truth i could not see.

You refused to let me in
Or help me understand
As i pried into your heart
You threw back my hand.

All I wanted was affection
From your beautiful heart
All I got was rejection
And you wished us apart.

I put up no fight
Which is where I went wrong
My head felt light
And that night seem eternally long.

Love...Highly Mathematical

Matched Frequencies
Perfect Assumption
Series of Kisses
Moment's Summation

Equilibrium of Feelings
Equated to Infinity
Identical Meanings
Within a Vicinity

Concurrent to a Node
Connected to the ground
Positive or Negative Cycle
An X should be found.

Unfinished Go Beyond

It took a life time for me to think
A single mistake and the world will end
Foe is the time, Fear in the mind
You are there but then you aren’t.

Awareness of the things you need to be aware of
Know the unfathomable, travel through infinity
Then its your another quest
When you go beyond your journey.

You must understand, you need the answer
A single hole of light in a wide darkness of anger
You know nothing and so you are eager
When you reach inside your pocket, you're now in danger.

Unfinished Go Beyond! When is your due?
The price is lying there until you’re through
Own by an angel, own by an evil
You have to be done and so I have to break the spell.