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Philip Jucaban

Though the road is rocky, sure feels good to me. I can't refuse it; What to be got to be. Highway ri

About Me

Life is like. . .LIFE IS LIFE. Just live it.Me, I am ever-changing, rearranging, learning and evolving, then forgetting it all and re-learning it (cuz that's what it's all about!). . .That's life.And thru it all... I try to be compassionate and assertive in my ways. I attempt to see something worth while in us all. I am about adapting to any given situation and rolling with it. I try to stay humble and live a simple, modest life, but always, always seeking personal growth and rising to ANY challenge.Stagnance makes me stir-crazy. Complacency irks me, but I am learning to roll with THESE notions as there is something to be learned from them, as there is in every experience. WE are all works in progress, and let's keep on. . . ya'll keep growing and pushing boundaries and learning as the process takes us along: LIFE takes us along. it's all LIFE. it's all beautiful. a beautiful struggle

My Interests

~ Muay Thai Kickboxing ~ Education: Learning & Teaching ~ Words...Writing them, Reading them ~ Surfing ~ Defining Self ~ Dicscovering Beauty ~ Eveyday finding something to be excited about ~ Being adventurous: Daring, Bold ~ Being filled with compassion for each other ~ Personal Growth ~ Nurturing Relationships ~ Challenges ~ Imagination! ~ Individuality with in Community ~ Balancing... ~

I'd like to meet:

Some interesting people with stories to tell...

Music:

Right now: Talking Heads, My Morning Jacket, Ray La Montagne, Common, Garden State Soundtrack, Skatalites, Jack Johnson, Roots Reggae, Weezer, Alicia Keys, Rachel Yamagata and some other random sh*t. What I listen to changes day to day, week to week. "It's like that and that's the way it is" --Run DMC

Movies:

Here are some of the movies I've watched in the last few months (in no particular order): The Karate Kid, Filipino "Drama-edies" with my Mom and Dad, 80's John Hughes and Cameron Crowe films, Frida, Stranger Than Fiction, Donnie Darko, Rebel Without a Cause, and "some other random sh*t."

Television:

I don't watch too much TV--I ain't got no time during the week to watch TV, BUT when I do have an hour or two of "couch time" I like to watch: Documentaries on PBS, KCSM, KQUED, KTEH etc, Mythbusters, Travel Channel, How I Met Your Mother, Fight stuff: UFC, IFL, WEC etc., Re-runs of Scrubs and "some other random sh*t."

Books:

Students' Essay, Textbooks for the 2 classes I am TAKING, textbooks and miscellaneous essays for the 4 classes I'm WORKING WITH. . . ehh, I don't have much time for "leisure" reading lately.

Heroes:

~ passionate people ~ dreamers ~ students ~ teachers ~ artists ~ parents ~

My Blog

Finding the Beautiful Nothing

January 21, 2008 Drizzly Grey Monday Morning, 7:19 AM   Finding the Beautiful Nothing     I acquaint myself with the stillness Once again, once again I am reminded of the lucid tranqu...
Posted by Philip Jucaban on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:13:00 PST

falling . . .

I, on the top floor alone in a huge house. I'm singing to myself, no song in particular, just singing and it is then I sing aloud the words: "nobody knows me when I fall. . ."   I...
Posted by Philip Jucaban on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:00:00 PST

some sh*t

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 1:37 PM   Grey Shadows Fade in the Icy Light   Christmas Day I sit alone on an outside step smoking a cigarette   I wonder what's it all about I sit bro...
Posted by Philip Jucaban on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:53:00 PST

Conqueistador de Nada

sOMEONE oNCE sAID: "I came. I saw. I conquered."   i sAY: tHE oNLY tHING tRULY wORTH cONQUERING iS oURSELVES: oUR uNFOUNDED fEARS, oUR SELF-dOUBT, oUR lAZINESS, oUR iGNORANCE, oUR pREJDUCE... ...
Posted by Philip Jucaban on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:27:00 PST

I think that I think too much

I seem to be at an impasse... No..rather a stalemate of sorts. Let me say it simple (ly): I've been pondering for some time on what I am doing with the time, the life I have been given.  And I fe...
Posted by Philip Jucaban on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:27:00 PST

STOKED

yeah...  I feel good.  Appreciating the NON-Flu Life!  So much POSSIBILITY!  So Much to Do  To FEEL   To EXPERIENCE  SO MUCH to LEARN  SO MUCH to...
Posted by Philip Jucaban on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:49:00 PST

I’m Back!

7 days... the flu kicked my ass as i worked 6 days in a row, 6 freakin' days in a row worked THRU the flu worked with the aching breaky body aches the strength draining fatigue walking around camp...
Posted by Philip Jucaban on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:06:00 PST

Working Towards Harmony . . .

Working Towards Harmony . . . Friday, October 05, 2007 9:39 PM When you put THE TRUTH out there . . . the Universe will give you what you need. When you're honest with your feelings, whe...
Posted by Philip Jucaban on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:12:00 PST

a work in progress

Friday, October 05, 2007 7:47 AM   These are jottings a scrawled out free-flow. . . being where I am just being. . . So I'm still working out these thoughts: Sometimes we fool ourselves into b...
Posted by Philip Jucaban on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:08:00 PST

Monday Morning Meandering

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Monday Morning, October 01, 2007 7:59 AM   Something is missing&   I wish it were something I could place on a m...
Posted by Philip Jucaban on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:16:00 PST