8 Mind-Boggling Optical Illusions

Test your perception with these wild designs

If you’ve ever felt like you go a little cross-eyed after taking a peek at an optical illusion, then you know they can be a pretty intense phenomenon. What your eyes perceive when looking at one of these images is actually a visual illusion; you see the image as something different than what it is because the different cells and receptors in your eyes distinguish images and colors at dissimilar speeds. The eye can only receive a limited amount of visual stimuli, but as your brain constantly processes the visual information, it gives you the illusion of continuous sight. Whether it’s an optical, physiological or cognitive illusion, the design plays a trick on your eyes (and mind). Check out some of the interesting illusions below—but beware, you may not be able to absorb them all in one sitting.

Flowing Leaves

The brown leaf shapes against a green background make this look as if the entire group is flowing—making waves if you focus on the picture as a whole. Photo from Flickr

Pulsing Vortex

If you stare at this one long enough you’ll notice a fast and pulsing multicolored vortex. Photo from Flickr

Waves

The blue almond-shaped objects look as if they’re all passing over three separate columns. Photo from Flickr

Hypnosis

Although this image is comprised of simple purple and green squares outlined in black, it looks like it is bulging out in the center. Photo from Flickr

Kaleidoscopes

A collection of black, blue, green and white shapes appears to be five different kaleidoscope-type figures—each swirling toward their centers. Photo from Flickr

Wormhole

The black and white circular lines make this illusion seem as if there are various depths in the image, creating different entryways and tunnels. Photo courtesy of Paco Calvino

Bull’s-Eye

If you stare at the center of the image, it looks as if the outer rings are rotating in alternating directions—an effect meant to mesmerize the viewer. Photo courtesy of Todd A. Carpenter

Starbursts

These bright purple and green star-like shapes appear to be moving, which can be a little nauseating if you stare at it for too long. Photo courtesy of Angie Armstrong

WRITER

Being a writer wasn’t easy..

All you have to do is to supply all necessary information the reader want and need to know.

You should be ready with the criticism you will take amongst the reader. Always remember that you are not writing not only for your satisfaction but as well it is intended to the readers whom you caught their attentions just to read each lines. readers are fault finder. They are really are... see the mistake i make???

yes, there is.. it's your way to find out which part of my line it....

IT'S EASIER THAN DONE

Tell me often that you love me through your talk,your actions and your gestures. Don’t assume that I know it. I may show signs of embarrassment and even deny that I need it-But don’t believe it, do it anyway.

Compliment me often for jobs well done and don’t downgrade but reassure me when I fail. Don’t take the many things I do for you for granted. Positive reinforcement and appreciation works toward making sure I repeat them.

Let me know when you feel low or lonely or misunderstood. It will make me stronger to know I have the power to comfort you. Feelings,verbalized, can be destructive. Remember, though I love you, I still can’t always read your mind.

Express joyous thoughts and feelings. They bring vitality to our relationship. It’s wonderful to celebrate non birthdays, personal valentine’s days. Give gifts of love without reason and hear you verbalize your happiness.

When you respond to me so I feel special, it will make up for all those who, during the day, have passed me up without seeing me.

Don’t invalidate my being by telling me that what I see or feel is insignificant or not real. If I see and feel it-for me- it’s my experience and therefore important and real!

Listen to me without judgment or preconception. Being heard, like being seen, is vital. If you truly see me and hear me as I am at the moment it is continued affirmation of my being as we help each other to change.

Touch me. Hold me. Hug me. Kiss me. My physical self is revitalized by loving nonverbal communication.

Respect my silences. Alternatives for my problems, creativity, and my spiritual needs are most often realized in moments of SILENCE.

Let others know you value me.

...then you’re gonna make me continue fall in love with you everyday...

This is for the broken hearted.

I know how you feel. Empty, betrayed, and no happiness whatsoever. You don’t want to laugh, because you know it’s not going to help, but you don’t want to cry, because it will just make you feel worse. You feel like your heart is falling apart, but not only that, but you know soon your life is going to feel like it’s falling apart too. You don’t think it will ever end, and no matter what this person has done to you, it feels impossible to stop loving them. And everyone wonders why if they have hurt you so much, then why do you still love them.

That’s the confusing part, you don’t know why, you just do, and the people who hurt you the most, and normally the ones you love the most. And then, after a few weeks, you finally feel a sense of relief, like you’re getting happy again, but you know inside that you’re just going into denial. And after a few more weeks, you’re back to where you were an empty soul and teary eyes. You thought you got over them, but really, you just stopped showing it. And you can’t help but to show it again. It leaves deep scars on your heart that are there forever. And no one understands how you feel, and how deep you are hurt, no matter who they are, because it hasn’t happened to them And even if it has, every broken heart is different.



They don’t know the true pain you feel and carry each and everyday now, so you learn that basically you are alone with all this. And the feeling starts to overwhelm you, and suddenly you just break down, right there, because you know you’ve had enough, the tears just instantly start flowing, and you’re to the point where you don’t care who see’s. Because you’ve spent so many nights lying awake in bed, and so many days being haunted by the scars and fear of rejection. And in the midst of all these tears, you know that its not helping any, and it’s not going to bring them back, if you ever even had them in the first place. After about a million tears have been cried, you finally pull yourself back together and keep going.

Your throat starts to clench and your eyes burn with the tears you are trying to hold back. Everyone says, “It will be okay…” But you know it won’t. And that’s the truth, it won’t. And you look back on all of the hurt you had from this, and you realize that people are horrible. You’re still hurt, but you’ve learned to hide it so that everyone thinks you are okay.

So now every time you see this person, you know you still love them, and you feel a slight tingle in your heart yearning for them to love you, screaming out, but for some reason they don’t hear it. And then you sit back and wonder how one person could have caused all of this…

HIDDEN MEANINGS OF KISS

Learn the wonderful language of kiss. Like subtle body language, kisses, and their placement also carry different meaning. Get educated on the subject of kiss by knowing its subtle message that it carries.

Kiss on the hand - I adore you.

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Kiss on the cheek - I just want to be friends.

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Kiss on the neck - I want you.

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Kiss on the lips - I love you.

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Kiss on the ears - Let's have some fun.

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Kiss on the nose - Let's get silly.

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Kiss anywhere else - You're the best.

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Internet Source: http://www.deepesrfeelings.com/kiss/kisses_meanings.shtml

I WANT TO LET YOU GO

i keep telling myself i'm letting you go....but i can't....

what i want is for me to let go.... to let you go....thinking of it now makes me wanna cry and i can feel the pain in my heart....i guess i'm just prolonging it to keep me from the heartaches...but i'm such a fool that i can evade it....

and i guess telling it over and over will eventually make me let you go....


....fade out....

BEHIND THE MASK

Everyone I know seem to have their happily ever after and I am happy for them, I truly am; but I can't hide the fact that when I go home and face the four walls of my room, sadness fills me in. I envy their happiness, their faces radiate the joy of loving and being loved back.....I see them and how I wish I would someday be like them. Everybody seem to get everything they needed except for me....everybody moves on, and I am still here wallowing in pain. I do my best to stay positive but when you see that everyone around you are happily inlove, you can't help but pity yourself. And the most depressing thing is that everbody wants to go home, I am trying to look like I am excited about it but who am I kidding? I may fool them but I know deep inside that I am lying because the truth is....I am so scared to go home.....scared to see that the people who hurt me are so happy and I am not......that even if they did what everbody regarded as morally wrong, at the end they are really happy which made them actually right. As I imagine myself going back home, I could vividly see and feel how scared I am, and I don't trust myself that I would do the right thing if I were to face reality. I just hope that someday, I could let everything go and that I would be brave enough to face my fears so that someday I could also have my happily ever after.

HE WHO HAS TOUCHED MY LIFE

Here's to you, my friend. The friend who has completely touched my life.Both in a bad way.. and kinda good way. The friend who has been there, and then wasn't there. Ever since I wanted you to like me too. But then you dropped out of nowhere.. but into my life again.

I really like you and, it hurts to know that you don't feel the same way about me. I've been there for you. Even when you decided to walk out of my life one day. I tell you that I like you.. and you completely freak out.

Who do I like? You or your younger self. That's a hard question. And I may not really know the answer.

But, I think that I love you. All of you. That boy that I called my friend. Who walked out of my life.. didn't bother to tell me where he was going. The boy that I cried over for many months. Wondering what could've happened to you.. and then finding out that you might be dead. But then I also like the boy who I have come to know. The one I couldn't wait for a text message from. Staying up to 12,. just to hear your voice. You tell me that you miss me, and that you've thought about me all the time.. but then we fight and you say pretty mean things.

I'm not going to be the girl who waits around forever.. It sucks to think this and, even type this out. But one day, you'll wake and realize what you had. By then I will have moved on.

I will get over you.. one day. I want so much just to forget you. To look at you as a stranger that has never seen your face before. Until then, all I can do is hold on to this heart ache til it slips away.

So here's to you my friend. No need to pray for forgiveness. I'm gone.

VICARIOUS LEARNING OF EXPERIENCE

Vicarious Learning of Experience

Daryl G. Glori

Lot of opportunities arises when I start looking for a company for my on-the-job training. Many opportunities are laid down; the problem is in which organization am I fitted and where am I to have an essential experience about the nature of the work in the future that will contribute to my knowledge and skills.

Once I stepped in the gate of the company, I said to myself “Sige, dito na ako! Andito na eh! Wala ng atrasan ‘to…” Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines. A part of me was saying “No!” and there is still another option to pick, at least with a settlement. With my choice, no arrangements at all, but certainly, it wasn’t a really bad selection. It is a big corporation. Isn’t it?

First day, I said it was boring. I didn’t like the job and had a thought that I can’t survive in this kind of career. Filing… papers… filing… 201 cabinets… another filing… I’m sick and tired of it. Then the only persons I am talking to are my co-OJT in the department and my immediate supervisor; the rest, they were busy chit-chatting and eating in every shatter of their work.

They say that filing of documents is the usual the OJTs were doing at their first week. It is precisely true. As days passed by, greater tasks were assigned especially to me. They gave me an opportunity to be familiarized with such terminologies, background profile of the company and other necessary informations about the nature and descriptions of their work as an HR staffs when I assist the On-Boarding Session for a newly batch of Tigers (termed to the newly hired employees) of Account Developers. I was also given the chance to join them in their Plant Tour together with the Quality Assurance Manager, who assumes that I am a new HR Assistant in the plant.

During the Plant Tour, I had a talk with one of the ADs. All day long, they really thought that I am one of the HR employees around. Part of me was pleased especially every time they attend me as “Ma’am” and greet me with enthusiasm smile. I am so much awaiting of what will happen next as days, months will pass…

There comes a time that my co-OJT in the department decided to seize the opportunity in the other firm. I can’t blame him for such act. Of course, better chance; for every hour of his work will be paid off; who can resist to that? Besides, I can feel his boredom as when I’m with him. I can’t stop him. It was reasonable to say “I won’t be happy if I don’t like the job!”

I was gloomy by that time. I wanted to be destined in the Material Department where two of my friends are assigned. But I decided not to and took the challenge of being alone with the job I don’t know if I can do it by myself. Being left alone with my so-called “mean girls” of the HR Department.

I have to take big adjustments like needing to cope with the culture and the way I should interact with the employees. But I am proud to say that I am good at it. It goes easy for me. Furthermore, I am stating to like all the employees and start to hate my immediate supervisor because of his attitude and unprofessional habits, because of it; he was suspended for several weeks.

The sudden suspension of the said person opens more door for me to love his work. I am doing his job which is very challenging for me most especially everytime employees were asking where their “Sir” is. Thanks to my before so-called “mean girls” now my “angels” who taught me a lot of things and supported me all along my work. I performed well in every interaction I made. A very nice feeling arises when they say I am better than the suspended one in all ways, predominantly on the things to put aside and the files to attach with. I even heard them saying I might replace him in his position. It was a great honor for me to hear with the intention of their wordings.

When the suspended one came back and begins to do his job, I feel intimidated as well as felt pity for him. He is always been the talk of the people and the meeting. He had to adjust on my work and always been compared to me. There comes a time he asked me to do his resignation letter and submit it to the HR Manager. I don’t know what happened next. Anyways, I should also thank him for a time he had given me opportunities and special treatment though I am kinda nasty to him.

On the job proper, sometimes, I was always tasked to go per department and announce some informations. Most of the employees were asking me that was beyond me knowledge. Thanks I can handle the situation because before the task, I keep on asking a lot of questions or better yet to tell that my ears are open to ideas.

I also handled the test administration, assessment and initial interview. At first I am kind of nervous and somewhat excited. I do the calling the applicants and set appointments for their test, plus to say that I knew that they are all degree holder, not only that but they are all registered and licensed in the profession they take. The test proper was boring. I was only instructing them what to do and what was the test all about; the rest, I am going to wait them finish their examination with a minimum of 3hours without any distractions to be made. I can’t survive in this kind of nature of administration- I thought.

By self-realization, I grow morally and maturely. I handled situation easily. I can interact with people whom I don’t know without any effort of practicing what to say, which I absolutely can’t do before.

From the entire things I learned from my on-the-job-training, I never neglected that I choose Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines as my firm above any opt. The learning came inevitably or not, expected or not, I received it pleasurably and not counting it but by living it in within my future. I meet my career aim which is to have an essential experience about the nature of the work in the future that will contribute to my knowledge and skills.

IS THIS AMAZING??

“ one of the amazing thing in this world is having someone fall in love with you whom you thought you never had a chance with…”

UNTIL I GET OVER HIM...

It was 11:31pm, I’m not yet done doing my report. And I am not yet on my mood to do such business... I am all alone here in the den listening to Japanese songs...

A blank moment... Feeling empty and dull not until I saw the chocolate given to me this morning by someone so as to remind me that happy moments went throughout this day.

Niece visit in Cuenca... Joyride in Batangas City... Pizzahut galore in SM Batangas... Makro and Wilcon Depot appliance shopping... Back in Cuenca and then Starbucks refreshments in Lipa...a clammy day and a very tiring day, isn’t it? It can’t be paid of because I’m with my whole family.

I should be very happy but what is this instead!

Cuenca...

Damn!

It can’t be... I try to escape from the reality that I am into him. I am over him, we’re finished. BUT it was just a thought.

“I can still feel the pain every time I saw you or every time I hear your name. Sometimes, I was thinking why am I hurt this way? I am not either upright to this means because from the very start, I dropped you down and we never be.”

Words I want to utter headed for him...

It was three months exactly from this day, Febuary 22, 2010 when I assumed that I like him, not long enough to say I already LOVE him...

I need someone who ails the same way I feel until I get over him...

How can I do to get rid him off my life when he is giving me more reasons to like him... what more can I say if what I am thinking is all against to what my heart is up beating??

I am feeling lost and don't know what to do....

Just give me ONE reason to HATE YOU!!

Only one reason is enough...

DORMANT TO VIGOROUS

After a long break of not writing and making an entry to my blogsite, here I am again Blogmates...

Another heart breaking and more corny entries will be read from your monitor screen...



And yes! I want your comments...

MAD? WHY NOT USE TO CRY?

All along, I was sitting by the corridor, waiting for someone who would comfort me. I walked out from a circle of friends, suffocating. I am trying to revive my breath. Something’s gripping my heart; holding it tightly. My heart is making its effort to pump the blood to all of my system but it can’t. my heart would collapse if this is always the case. All has limitations; all has endings and I reached the maximum of it. I am done. My patience was gone…




Smile can ease the pain; it helped but was not enough. I always used to smile to anyone that looks familiar to me. I am friendly but none of them can listen what really my heart is up beating. No one knows what I really feel and what runs in my mind.

I am mad. For a reason by this time I know. I am carrying the world behind my back yet there’s no one to give me a hand and raise me up from my downfall. Sometimes, words aren’t enough to justify what a person really feels but actions cannot conceal what a person needs or has to convey.


Because of my anger, I busted already. I want to run away from everyone I knew. I want to escape from reality that I am only human who has right to express all the negativities I have. I don’t want to feel the anger but I can’t stop and find myself from doing so.



I saw a kid trying to win back her candy from another kid who forcedly got hers. Unfortunately, she didn’t get I back. Poor girl, because of a single candy, she screamed and cried. But then I wished I was a child again, that if I was injured and hurt, I can burst a cry without worrying about the people who can see me. At least the pain was relieved even a little bit.





By this time, I can’t take it anymore. Tears are rushing down through my cheeks. I am now crying. After a very long time of hiding the cyst of madness, I want to spell it out but words can’t cast out. Tears speaks for me….

LIKE TO HATRED

One night, before I started writing this entry, I asked some of my friends how can they distinguish LIKE and LOVE. Most of them answered LIKE as setting of standards and LOVE as acceptance of his whole personality and yet disregarding all the negativities he have. When you like someone, you can answer why you like this certain person and definitely you can directly answer the reason of wanting him. Merely, there is a particular basis of liking him. In contrary with this is the term love. It is wherein you can’t answer why you like the person. You can’t identify the real definition of the system you are feeling that certainly arise.



Anyway, I just asked them because I am confused with the two terms. If you will just base it on a definition, the two are synonymous with each other but if you look beyond this, there is a great difference. Loving is liking but liking will never be loving.

Waking up early in the morning, eating breakfast, taking a bath, go to school, attending subjects, lunchtime, another batch of subjects, dismissal, a time for peers, dinner, time to go to sleep and another morning… These are usual things that I experience as a student. Isn’t this boring? Daily routines that always pass but with no real color and with no direction because what I knew is that I am taking a continuous circulation, which I can’t determine where it really started. I can’t find reasons to justify the means but I am tired of seeking for the answers.

One morning, I self- actualized. I think. I asked myself with what’s new with me and what am I as of now. Am I happy or am I sad? Or just mixed emotion I really don’t know why is this happening to me. I never imagined myself that I will come up to this point, a point I really feel empty and dull; thinking of anything except to the questions what should I do and what will happen next.



Lately, a guy who was once very close to me bothered me, and then suddenly a gap between the two of us emerged. I used to like him but this likeness become bitterness when I didn’t get what he really mean. He is doing such things at an instant, which is obviously unjustifiable especially for me because the ways he interacts with me is much different to the way he deals with the least of the group.

Admit or not, I was hurt. The unexplained gap was the root of all the pain I am inflicting but I don’t know who would be blamed for this. Is it me who first decided to put distance but never did because of the fear loosing a friend? Is it he to be blamed for acting such crazy things? Or is it the people around who keep on pairing the two of us and always saying that we might be a good couple and there’s something that binds us- FRIENDSHIP and LOVE.




Hell is the word love when you already endure the taste of being broken up. Hate is the word every time I see him. The likeness that should be bloom to love had turned into bitterness, into hatred that only me know the reason behind this feeling.

It may be hard to move on. They say that the easiest way to do is to forget the memories that you’ve been through with him, though in good and in bad times, but for me, it will not. Being with that person can help me surpass the feeling-HEARTACHES and GRIEVANCE. I am used to be with him, though hard, I will not think much of the distance that apart us rather than to take the gap which is more likely taking him out of my life, which is more difficult for me. Acceptance could also be an answer. It is only a matter of time and the time when you accept the reality, that’s the only you can say “I HAD FINALLY MOVED ON…”



“A day is a continuous circulation until dawn and midnight then another day”- I thought. I was wrong. It is not continuous because there is a break for everything. Time is continuously running but its up to you how to consume it properly and how will you divide your time from different perspective. If you’re tired, then stop. Rather stop than to push you wants then will end up to a very disliking chapter of you life- HATING YOURSELF FOR DOING SUCH THINGS…

UNKNOWN DIRECTION

Where am I? Where part of the world am I? I am in a path with no direction, a place which is unknown… I am encountering unfamiliar faces in an uncommon situation and uncertainties…


A man was hurriedly approaching towards my direction. He seems so sad and upset. He was saying something but I can’t understand what was is all about. A few seconds after he shared the reason of his despair, he hugged me tightly and I felt the drops of his tears upon my shoulder. The best thing I know I can do by that moment is to tap him at his back to relieve him from his grief.


And we became close at that scene. I helped him and finally he moved on from his last, who damned him and pick a new guy for his replacement. He takesnew life with new friend at his side, thick and thin. We became best friends and I thought it will be forever not until one day he moved against me. He’s acting like a cold flame whenever I am there, so I am.

It seems so easy for him to intrude my life and be a part of it then all of a sudden he will take me out of his life without giving me an explanation. I just hate him for being like that. He should know the feeling of being hanged up and the hurt of expecting that everything will turn out good or else will end up into a fantasy with happy finale. But I am still thinking that he might have a good reason of turning me away. I am trying to understand his situation and only a matter of time can answer what I want to know.


Yes. You can’t took away from me to look forward that one day he will come back again to me and confide everything he wants. I’m not expecting anymore that he will clarify the things that happened and why did he do it to me. Hence I will be happy with whatever we will have and what we will be. I just don’t want to loose a friend because it’s my fear- fear of losing the person I used to deal with ever since. I don’t want to be left alone in a dim with no one at my side like at this moment. I am in no where, I am in a direction I know but with no one. I am taking the flow of the aisle though I don’t know where it will go.




I wish someday I will meet SOMEONE who would be with me until the end point of the aisle or yet there’s someone waiting for me, a man who’s also dreaming that happy endings still exist not just a fantasy.

THE LOST HEIR

A very long time ago, in a little village somewhere in the western part of NIGERIA was a ruler named King Paul who had three wives namely: Queen Annette, Queen Princess and Queen Daryl.

SCENE 1 (at the hall… three wives are massaging King Paul)

King Paul: Eh-hem… Eh-hem… excuse me ladies, you know I’m not getting any younger. I need a son who will succeed my throne.
Q’ Princess: Babes, I know I will bear your son someday and he will be a good leader as you are… (In the left side, medyo mapapalakas ang masahe sa ka-excitan)
Q’ Annette: In your dreams Q’ Princess! I will have his child. I have a lot of plans for him, for this kingdom! We will make this land vast. (mapapalakas din ang masahe, si Paul medjo masasaktan na)
Q’ Daryl: Hey, the two of you! Why don’t you just shut up? Take it easy guys… My Honey can’t relax with what you are doing. You are frustrating him to give us a child… (massaging him at the back and will tapped his shoulder)
King Paul: It’s okay Hon’… I know the problem is within me… I did my best but my best wasn’t good enough… (singing)
Q’ Annette: At least you know… (binaba ng padabog ang kamay)
Q’ Princess: Yeah!… (ibababa din ang kamay)… It’s not our fault. It’s not our problem if you’re STERILE! Hahah…Sterile….
Q’ Annette: What a pathetic loser… hahaha…
(king Paul mapapahiya…Q’ Daryl mapapailing habang nilalait ng dalawa si Paul)
Q’ Daryl: Stop it! (to the two wives)… Don’t mind them honey… (to the king)
(the two ladies frown at Q’ Daryl)

While massaging, the adviser of the King was standing at the corner then was asked by King Paul…

King Paul: What do you think am I going to do my adviser? I am already old still I don’t have a child to succeed my throne.
Adviser: Your highness, an ifa priest named TATA live in the city. He is known for his magical works. He might be a help with your problem…
King Paul: Are you sure with that? (thinking)
Adviser: Yes, your majesty………
King Paul: Hmmmm, I see… Well then, there’s nothing wrong if we will try him. I’m desperate to have an heir…(sigh)… Okay, invite him to come over the palace!
Adviser: As you wish, your highness…


SCENE 2 (House of the ifa priest)

(adviser knocks on the door…)

Ifa priest: Yes, anything?
Adviser: Good afternoon Sir! The King ordered me…. (interupted)
Ifa priest: Whaaatt?? The King? You mean the King Paul? Oh my! Why? I never did a crime… I never… I never… (tensed)
Adviser: (babatukan si Tata) Relax… Calm down… Chill… OA ka eh… I am here to tell you that the King is inviting you to come over the palace!
Ifa priest: Ah… I see… Then what about?
Adviser: Everyone knows that the King doesn’t have a child to be his successor. Now, he is seeking your help… Can he count on you?
Ifa priest: Oh… Okay… Of course! It’s my honor to help in King’s name. Tomorrow, I will go to the palace together with the solution to the Kings’ problem…
Adviser: Good. Then we’ll expect you to be there…


SCENE 3 (at the hall)

King Paul: Good morning ifa priest! Maybe you already know the reason why I invited you, isn’t it?
Ifa priest: Yes, your highness… In fact I had answers to your dilemmas…
King Paul: Wow! That’s great! (jumped due to his excitement)
(three wives will enter the hall…)
Q’ Princess: Wait, wait, wait… What is the commotion all about? And Babes seems so happy and excited… Is there a soon to be social drinking in the palace? (lasing)
Q’ Daryl: Here we go again… the ALCOHOLIC QUEEN I ever seen…
Q’ Annette: Wait Sweetie… Who’s that guy? (refraining to the ifa priest) Is he one of the beggars asking for alms? Hahaha…
Q’ Daryl: Q’ Annette! Stop it! How unethical you are … Still he’s a visitor here in the palace…
Q’ Annette: Again and again… the crowned Ms. Perfect and Ms. Congeniality is speaking… so Q’ Princess, better for us to shut up… Right? (to K-anne)
Q’ Princess: Uh-huh… You’re right Q’ Annette! (then to Daryl) Are you trying to impress King Paul by you kindness? Actually you don’t have to. You got possessions…you got money, you got everything… We are already King Paul’s wives; still you are trying to win his heart…
Q’ Annette: Yeah! Don’t tell us you love King Paul more than we do…
Q’ Daryl: Yes I do… I love him… No doubt! I’m not trying to win him; I’m just simply being me… And please, don’t take this as a contest because King Paul is not a prize to be competed off… you know…
Q’ Annette: Whatever makes you looser!
Q’ Princess: Hahaha…
(almost forgot that they are in front of the King and the ifa priest…)
King Paul: Eh-hem… Excuse me ladies… Stop that argument… you three are like kids whose quarrelling for a single candy. Anyway, I want you to meet Tata, an ifa priest not a beggar and anything. (looking to the place of Q’ Annette) He has an answer to my bearings.
Q’ Annette: Ooops… Sorry… I’m just kidding… Its typical with me… Hope I didn’t offend you Sir! (to ifa priest)
Ifa priest: oh! Its okay… don’t mention it…
Q’ Princess: So, you’re the one! Hmmm.. What’s the gimmick? I mean, how could you help us?
Ifa priest: (showing the oracle to the king)… The oracle was saying that the king would have one son. The three of you (to the queens) would get pregnant after eating the food I prepared with potion. But neither of you would know who will bear the son until the delivery…

SCENE 4 (at the dinning)(on the other side of the room, the ifa priest is cooking and a potion and a blood of the king will be added up)

Q’ Daryl: Do you think it’s possible for us to become preggy by means of wizzardry??
Q’ Princess: Well, it’s up to you if you would believe it or not. As long as I will have the opportunity to bear the King’s child, I will be happy…
Q’ Annette: Me too… I wish I would bear the son…
Q’ Daryl: Hmmm, I’m excited and tensed… May I excuse for a while, I need to go to the powder room before the food was served…
(aalis si Daryl, maiiwan ung dalawa…the food will be served…)
Q’ Annette: Hey! Q’ Princess, since it is obviously seen that we both hate Q’ Daryl, why don’t we ate her food? She might loose the chance to bear Paul’s son…
Q’ Princess: Nice idea lady… (hurrying up to finish her dish) Let’s eat faster before Q’ Daryl shows up…
(after a couple of minutes, Daryl came…)
Q’ Annette & Q’ Princess: Burp!!!
Q’ Princess: Oops…. Sorry Q’ Daryl… We ate your supposed part… Its not our fault if ifa priest’s dish was savory and tasty…. Isn’t it?
Q’ Annette: Yeah! We’re sorry…. ( in a cruel manner)… Uhhm, Its okay if you missed the chance, you’re still young compare to us, darling…..
(Daryl sobbing due to dismay…)
Q’ Princess: Excuse me, its my turn to go to the powder’s room. Would you like to accompany me Q’ Annette??
Q’ Annette: Sure! Wait!
Q’ Princess: (while walking away)… Bye Q’ Daryl! Don’t mind it seriously, though you won’t bear the son, we know Paul still loves you…
(Q’ Daryl will be left alone with the leftovers)
Q’ Daryl: (crying)… Huhuhu… I know the king loves me but I lost the opportunity to bear a chld. (looking at the bowl…she get it and scraped it…)
Q’ Daryl: (while eating the leftovers, still crying) How mean the two queens are… But I don’t care to them, what I care is that I’m desperate of bearing a child…

Unknowingly, the ifa priest had seen the happenings. And in a snap of his fingers, the potion became effective…

SCENE 5 (at the lanai…)

Q’ Annette: This is the feeling of being pregnant! I can’t wait to see my baby boy…
Q’ Princess: How sure you are if that’s a boy? Huh? I’m pretty sure that I’m carrying the king’s heir….haha
Q’ Daryl: Eh-hem Ladies….
(Q’ Annette & Q’ Princess were suprised)
Q’ Princess: What happened Q’ Daryl? You’re bulging! I told you to go on diet… Look at you now… You like pregnant more than we do….
Q’ Daryl: (smiling) Yes, I am…
Q’ Annette: What do you mean you are?
Q’ Daryl: I’m Preggy!
Q’ Annette: What??? How could that be? We ate you’re part. You must lose the chance of being pregnant.
Q’ Princess: Tell us… It’s not King Paul’s right? You had another man…. (holding the arm of Daryl and forcing her to admit the white lies the made)
Q’ Annette: I will call the king… we will inform him about this matter…
Q’ Daryl: Excuse me, I’m pure! This is Paul’s child! Yeah, you ate my food but you didn’t finish it. I scraped the dishes to the fullest due to desperation. God is good and gave me a wonderful child.
Q’ Princess: Hmmm, Okay! Then we’ll wait who will deliver a baby boy!


SCENE 6 (at the delivery room)

Q’ Annette and Q’ Princess gave birth on the same day… King Paul is tensed and Q’ Daryl at his side, trying the king to calm down…

King Paul: (singing while dancing) I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it… (habang naire ung dalawa…)

Q’ Annette and Q’ Princess (umiire… tipong naguunahan sa paglabas ng baby…)
Q’ Princess: Waahh!!!...huh huh huh…
Q’ Annette: Ahh… Huh huh huh… Hey Q’ Princess! Let’s bet, I will deliver the baby boy!
Q’ Princess: Sure! If I gave birth to his baby boy, you will be my slave for a week! Haha… Ouch… (nasaktan then to the mid-wife)
Mid-wife: What kind of people are you? You are in the deliverance of the child but both of you still able to bet!
Q’ Annette and Q’ Princess: Waahhh…
Mid-wife: Push… Push… Almost there… Com’ on… push!!
(then a cry of baby was heard)
Mid-wife: Q’ Annette made it first. It’s a baby… (interrupted)
Q’ Princess: Ooops… Oooops… Don’t mention it yet… Let me deliver first… (mid-wife, nilapag basta basta ang baby…)
Mid-wife: Yes, your majesty…as you wish! Then push… push….
Q’ Annette: Faster Q’ Princess! I’m bored here… Uhmmm… (will get her mp3 player then play it… cool isn’t it?)
Q’ Princess: Waahh!! Huh huh huh… Ahhhhhhh…..

Then the room ws filled with the cries of the babies…

SCENE 7 (at the room of Q’ Daryl)

King Paul: I can’t wait Hon’ for the baby… I’m excited!
Q’ Daryl: Me too! (delighted)
King Paul: I’m sure it’s a boy.. the two queens delivered our little princesses…
Q’ Daryl: I’ll name him JOSUEL… the soon to be king of this palace…
King Paul: Nice name huh… JOSUEL GLORI-SUMAYA..
Q’ Daryl: HoneEey… (sinasapo ang tiyan)
King Paul: Yes??
Q’ Daryl: Hon’, I think… Ahh…. I think he will come out!
King Paul: Whaaat?? (tensed) Wait, wait… Ah!... I don’t know what am I going to do…
Q’ Daryl: Ahhhhhh… Paul!!
(King Paul rushing everywhere, calling Annette’s and Princess’ name)
Q’ Princess: Whaat?? We’re asleep already..
King Paul: Hurry up! Daryl’s due date has come… I don’t know what to do… Please attend to her… Make sure that the child was safe!
Q’ Annette: Sure… Put it into our hands… (cruelly smiled)
(King Paul aalis)
Q’ Princess: I know that kind of smile! You had plans, isn’t it?
Q’ Annette: Absolutely
(then they went too Daryl’s room)!
Q’ Daryl: Waah… Huh huh huh…
Q’ Princess: Q’ Daryl… Push… push… Push your luck…
Q’ Daryl: Ahhhhhhhhh….. (then baby’s cry hushed after a little seconds)(Q’ Annette immediately shaded it to a piece of cloth and put stone for the replacement of the baby)(Daryl hihimatayin)(Mag-aapear sina Annette and Princess to show mission accomplish)
(King entered the room)
Q’ Annette: Oh, Paul! Don’t be shocked! Daryl had just delivered not a baby but a STONE!
Q’ Princess: What will we do now? No baby boy… No child at all…
King Paul: Noooo! (pasigaw then hihimatayin din then sasaluhin ng mga servants)
Q’ Princess: Babes!!
Q’ Annette: Sweetie! (sabay sisigaw at pupunta sa direction ni paul)
SCENE 8 (at the hall)

(pinagigitnaan ng two queens si paul)

King Paul: I cant believe with what have happened! I’am expecting that she will be the one to deliver my only son.
Q’Annette: Well sorry Sweetie… (hahawakan sa mukha ang queen) what is shocking to there is the stone.
Q’ Princess: Uh-huh.. I almost fainted when I saw the mystery. This the very first time I encountered like this. (holding hand)
Q’ Annette: What should you do to Q’ Daryl??
King Paul: I don’t know.. I really don’t know! (napapailing still cant believe with wat had happened)
Q’ Princess: She must be executed out of this place, Babes!
Q’ Annette: Sounds interesting Q’ Princess! Hahaha (cruelly laughed)
King Paul: (took a deep breath)Hmmm.. Adviser! Call Q’Daryl..
Adviser: Yes, your highness..
(papasok with the adviser)
Q’Daryl: The adviser told me that you called me.
King Paul: Yes, Q’daryl.. I made a tough decision… It wasn’t easy for me to say this… But…
Q’Daryl: Is this regarding with my son? How many times do I have to tell you that I gave birth to a child and not to a damn stone! Q’Annette,Q’Princess (babaling ang tingin) please tell the King what the truth is… (Then to the King again) I’m not lying… I even heard thy child before I fainted! Believe me…
Q’Annette: She’s lying! (mamamaywang at iismid)
King Paul: Sorry Daryl… My decision is final… (tutungo then point out of the palace) took her out of the palace…
Q’Daryl: Please don’t do this to me! Paul! Annette! Princess! N0! Let me go! (nagwawala)



SCENE 9 (In the Forest)

The baby was crying when a medicine man came while searching some herbs…

Baby: Waah.. waaah… wah…
Teggy as medicine man: (buggled with the cry) (he searched every where until he find the baby inside a piece of cloth)
Teggy: Poor child… Shh… don’t cry.. I’m here.. Who left you here? I’ll keep you as my child… I will raise you as my own… I’ll give you my name… Aldous! Aldous Kim Guevarra… Shh… Don’t cry…

Then 20 years had passed




SCENE 10 (in the palace)

King Paul: I’m dying! Uh-Uh… Uh… I Love You Goodbye… Uh… ( naghihingalo… then died…)
Q’Annnete & Q’Princess: Pauuul…(griefing)

The King passed away without an heir. The delegates were gathered at the hall as well as the Ifa Priest.

Adviser: Before the King died, he told me that he knows that he had a child. He asked me, when he died, I should call the Ifa Priest to know the truth… the whole truth but nothing but the truth…
Q’Princess: No! stop that foolishness… the truth is Q’Daryl gave birth to a stone…
Ifa Priest: No, your highness… (tatayo from his seat) he had a child. A son to be particular. My oracle revealed it. He was dispatched by that two wicked queens! (pointing to Annette and Princess)
Q’Annette: No…(iiling)
Ifa Priest: Yes! They threw him to the forest… the good thing there, the soon-to-be-king was found by a powerful medicine man who lived in the forest. He was raised into a fine gentleman.
Adviser: Well then…. In the name of the king, I am ordering to find the house of this man and thank him and invite to come here in the palace.

SCENE 11 (in the house of the medicine man)

(Knock on the door)

Delegate: Good Morning!
Aldous: Good Morning too Sir! Come in and have a seat… (papasukin)
Delegate: Thanks!
Aldous: Yes, anything! Ah.. you want to see my father? Kindly wait… I’ll just call him…(iiwan) (then tatawagin si Teggy)
Aldous: Father! Father! Someone’s looking for you… I think he is from the palace.
Teggy: What? (nagtataka) What do they want? I thought the King already died?
Aldous: Yeah! I was saddened and troubled by it… I don’t know why…(nalulungkot) He’s just a very good man…
(papasok sa room to see the visitor)
(tatayo ang Delegate)
Delegate: Good Morning!
Teggy: Oh… Good Morning… Have a seat (uupo) What can I do for you?
Delegate: Okay, I’ll go straight to the point. I am her for the prince…
Aldous: The prince??
Delegate: Yes! You heard it right…
Teggy: If you’re searching for the prince, you came at the wrong place!
Aldous: Besides, how come would the soon-to-be-king be in this kind of place? He must be in the palace taking all the pleasures in life he wants…
Delegate: Supposedly! (to Aldous) but because of the wickedness of Q’ Annette and Q’ Princess, the prince took the hardships on this kind of living… (then turn head to Teggy) The abandoned baby you found under the tree, wrapped in cotton cloth, is the prince I am referring… (to Aldous again)-> You are the missing PRINCE JOSUEL…
Teggy: I named him as ALDOUS KIM…
Delegate: Whatever the name is, still he is the soon-to-be-king of the village…
Aldous: I am the lost prince… (can’t believe)
Teggy: This only mean I will never live with my son anymore, I mean with the prince..
Aldous: No! I won’t allow it father… (tatayo to show disagreement) I thank you for raising me up into a fine guy ant if they won’t let me be with you in the palace, I won’t accept the throne…
Delegate: Eh-hem, excuse me your highness! That’s one of the reason why they asked me to go here… they want you and the medicine man to move there and live in the palace gallantly!
Teggy: Uhhh… (little bit cry) I thought the will get you away from me… huhu… (magaakap si Aldous and Teggy)

SCENE 12 (at the palace)

(before the coronation)
Aldous: Adviser…
Adviser: Your highness…
Aldous: Can you tell me about my mother? How come that she is not around?
Adviser: Oh… the Q’ Daryl… Q’ Daryl is the name of your mother… She is the youngest among the three wives of King Paul and because of it, Q’ Annette and Q’ Princess are envious of of her. When they got pregnant and gave birth to a girl, they envied more to your mother… King Paul pays more attention to her before the delivery. On her due date, the two queens attended her. The wicked queens took you away and replaced a stone and alarmed it. Due to it, the king decided to banish her from the village.
Aldous: Ah… I see… (napapailing habang hawak ang baba) I want you to look for my mother. I want her to be present in my coronation.
Adviser: The ifa priest could help us to locate where your mother… Do you want me to call him?
Aldous: Please… Right away…
(Adviser will bow head before leaving)
(Adviser together with the ifa priest)
Aldous: Do you know where my mother is?
Ifa priest: Your majesty, the oracle advised that every woman should cook a soup and from the taste, you can identify who your mother is… (Aldous ay tatayo)
Aldous: Adviser! Announce it to the whole village… I want the response immediately…
Adviser: Yes, your highness…

The announcement of the soon-to-be-king had reached the ears of the villagers. Grand preparation began in every home. Every woman cooked the best soup she had cooked in her whole life. A thousand and one of ingredients and all manner of spices went into their pot except for one pot, the one belonging to the village outcast- DARYL. She lived in a little shack at the edge of the village and she had no money to buy ingredients for a pot of soup. She herself lived on fruits and vegetables that picked from her daily forages into the forest. When it was time for every woman to assemble in the market square, she placed what vegestables she could get into a pot with some water.

(The women are setting the dishes) (Daryl-rugged look)

The aroma around the market square was overwhelmed. There were miles of sizzling, delicious pots of soup. When the king-to-be arrived…

(tatahimik ang lahat) (Aldous will taste each and every soup and he refused it until he reached the last person…)

Aldous: Hmmm… She is… She is my mother! (he burst and proclaiming it to all)

Daryl: Yes, I am your mother… I am Q’ Daryl Sumaya… And I am longing for you son… I want nobody, nobody but you…

(All will sing and dance Nobody of Wonder Girls)
(Then Q’ Annette and Q’ Princess will be chased by people…)

Q’ Annette and Q’ Princess: Waaahhh!!!!


THE END