Love is a long journey that involves much TRUST and SACRIFICE. To this, we should learn how to love TRULY, trust DEEPLY, and sacrifice SINCERELY. It’s all in one package. We cannot love if we don’t trust and if we don’t sacrifice.

We have been created in this world to be love and be loved. God should be the center of your relationship. But nowadays, love for some of us is no longer a spiritual thing but a physical thing. We abuse it, use it for bad desires, and get addicted to it and in the end die for it.

Pure LOVE is a sacrifice. It is setting aside our self for someone we are entrusting our future with. Love makes a person to learn how to TRUST, and SACRIFICE. A person can set aside his/her desires, wants, fears and needs for that special person. 

By: Jerih Delgado Asong

OCTOBER again. And it's 31st MASSKARA FESTIVAL here in Bacolod City. The city is celebrating its 72nd Charter Anniversary.

Busy streets and crowds will invade Lacson street again. Electric MassKara has successfully earned its own distinction as another mardi gras of the festival, apart from the Street Dance competition.

With the bright innovation of converting the Lacson St.nto a Tourism Strip as an alternative party venue to the public plaza, the birth of Electric MassKara has added glitter to the evenings of the festival.

 The fever is on! Come and visit. Kari sa Bacolod!

by: Jerih Delgado Asong 

Why is it that others pretend to be the people that they are NOT?

PRETENSIONS. What's behind this word that most people do. 

I knew someone who's always pretending like she's rich but actually and the TRUTH is, she's NOT! She always showed us that she is a SOCIALITE but she act no one. 

I hate it when this girl pretend. I'm not looking down on people but people like her deserves it! Why pretend?

First. Why telling others that you are not eating in carenderia located on streets but you are! What's the point of telling it? To show that you are not one of us who are poor? Or just to be accepted by people you're working around?

Second, why hide the truth that you are eating street foods? There's nothing wrong with it? It's just that your way is too BOASTFUL than those I've known who are really born with a silver spoon in their mouth. And I just hate the fact that you say this whenever we are in group discussion with our rich bosses. Just saying, "Ay! Hindi ako kumakain sa ganyan guys!" WTF!

Oh come on! You're not even THAT rich to begin with and you were NOT rich when you are small because it's pretty obvious that you weren't brought up in that environment. As far as I knew you grew up in the FARM.
Maybe you just got your rich. I just despise the way you ACT and how you boast about what you have. 

I think many people like her want to be perceived one way or another for numerous reasons and one is INSECURITY. Denying the fact that she can't afford the SOCIALITE LIVING and shame for being POOR. 

Why not show your TRUE COLORS? Don't be discouraged. Show it all. Go out in a darkness inside you. Set yourself FREE.

By: Jerih Delgado Asong