Nostalgia

By: Gabriela Yareliz

It is official- I am having serious cricket withdrawals. I have quit freaking out about assignments and failed group projects. As I look around the library I see people in complete exhaustion sleeping on textbooks in defeat. Sad story. End of the semester- 3 weeks to duke it out.

I am not sad about graduation seeing that after this I have 3 more years to study my heart out. No nostalgia there.

Possible antidotes for cricket nostalgia (?):

1] Be with the people you miss; could backfire and make you more nostalgic-kidding

2] Red Mango’s Spoonable Strawberry Banana Smoothie; it can cure anything

3] Playing cricket; I would probably get my head blown off… Harshul and Dilip can attest for my sad athletic ability

4] Watch the “3 Idiots”

I love you cricket team! And I miss you more than you know-

So to complete the nostalgia… I am sharing these clips (they’ll give you a good laugh). It’s a movie I associate with the guys on the team because they are just as amazing!

(Chatur’s speech, where Rancho switches some words around, and ‘The Silencer’ doesn’t speak Hindi well enough to know so he memorizes the crazy speech and recites it-subtitles when you click cc– I love his facial expressions and passion)

(Free Advice-Rancho’s free advice to Pia)

(Just like he imagined her- I love this scene)

“Rancho was right when he said ‘Pursue excellence, and success (Chateur) will follow, pants down!'”- (wink)

Have an awesome day!

Schopenhauer

By: Gabriela Yareliz

I’ve been an insomniac lately… this reminded me of Robert Benigni in “Life is Beautiful,” “La Vita E Bella,” where he tries Schopenhauer to go to sleep (because everything is possible when you want it to be and you can be what you want to be), and he also uses it on the woman he likes when he wants her to look at him. I love how he moves his little hands 🙂

Ferruccio says, “I wanted to sleep so I told myself, ‘sleep, sleep’…”

Then, Guido wakes him because he is literally saying it in his ear and moving his little hands… The secret is to not move your hands and not say anything out loud, Ferruccio says.

So– dormo, dormo… sleeeeeeep.

Painting by: Arturo Espinosa 

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations. Arthur Schopenhauer
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. Arthur Schopenhauer
 “To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” Schopenhauer

Hope for triumph over evil and evidence

By: Gabriela Yareliz

Hey guys!

So, I was reading this morning and I read this passage that really made an impact on me. Because I wanted to share I typed it out, so you could read it… (I am just cool like that-kidding). I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to send me a message or comment if you wish (I do like dialogue).

From “The Great Hope,” Pacific Press and Review and Herald publishers:

“In His Word God has given enough evidence of its divine character. Yet finite minds are inadequate to comprehend fully the intentions of the Infinite One.  “How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!” (Romans 11:33). We can understand His actions and motives enough to see unlimited love and mercy united to infinite power.  Our Father in heaven will reveal to us as much as it is good for us to know. Beyond that we must trust the Hand that is all-powerful, the Heart that is full of love.

God will never remove all excuse for unbelief. All who look for hooks to hang their doubts will find them. And those who refuse to obey until every objection is gone, will never come to the light. The unrenewed heart is in conflict with God. But faith is inspired by the Holy Spirit and will flourish as we cherish it. No one can become strong in faith without persistent effort. If people allow themselves to raise trivial objections, they will find doubt becoming stronger.

But those who doubt the assurance of His grace dishonor Christ. They are unproductive trees that block sunlight from other plants, causing them to droop and die under their chilling shadow. The lifework of these people will always stand as a witness against them.

For those who honestly want to be freed from doubts, there is only one course to pursue. Instead of questioning the things they do not understand, they should pay attention to the light that already shines on them, and they will receive greater light.

Satan can produce a counterfeit that so closely resembles truth that it deceives those who are willing to be deceived, who want to avoid the sacrifice that the truth demands. But it is impossible for him to hold even one person under his power who honestly desires to know the truth no matter what the cost. Christ is the truth, the “Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.” (John 1:9). “If anyone wills to do his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine,” (John 7:17).

The Lord permits His people to go through fiery ordeal of temptation, not because He enjoys their distress, but because this is essential to their final victory. It would be inconsistent with His own glory to shield them from temptation, because the purpose of the trial is to prepare them to resist all attractions of evil.”  (pg. 24)

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“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel,” (Genesis 3:15).  “This enmity, or hostility is not natural. When Adam and Eve broke the divine law, their natures became evil, in harmony with Satan… When Satan heard that enmity would exist between himself and the woman, and between his seed and her seed, he knew that by some means human beings were going to be enabled to resist his power.” (pg. 12)

“No one is safe for a day of an hour without prayer. Plead with the Lord for wisdom to understand His word. Satan is an expert in quoting scripture, placing his own interpretation on the passages in hopes of causing us to stumble. We should study with humility of heart. While we must constantly guard against Satan’s deceptions, we should pray in faith, continually, “Do not lead us into temptation” (Matthew 6:13).” (pg. 25)

-E.G. White

 

Vent

By: Gabriela Yareliz

Warning: What follows is a complete ventilation of feeling (really, more specifically, frustration)…

So, the creepy guy at the library who always looks around at people, more specifically Felicia and I, like he wants to abduct us, GO AWAY. No one likes the way you cough all over the keyboard and look around like you want to do something criminal. I was nice and gave you the benefit of the doubt for a while, but by the time you showed up next to me in a different library, I knew something was wrong. I have come to the conclusion that you are indeed creepy, and this is not an assumption. I am a journalist, and I work based on facts. Stop sitting next to us, and go see a doctor (this cough is a genuine concern)!

Have you ever sat through a class with a person chewing gum like a cow into your ear the entire time? This is also the class where your poor, overworked, exploited TA is sick as a dog because of the previously mentioned reasons and the fact that he doesn’t sleep probably thinking about how he will pay his next set of groceries. Get well soon, beloved TA. We all love your class. Sleep, and forget about administration and fee hikes. Sympathetically, your class.

Or how about a mediocre professor who sits there with a notepad and stares at the class, and if you have no new update on your reporting (which is often times not your fault because you rely on people you can’t control to get back to you) he will just scold you and say, “See you next time,” (this is followed by a eerie wink). He also gives you no advice, and watches you slave over a piece, and when you edit what he wants you to change, he gives you a grade that matches his teaching style. This is also the professor who doesn’t mention a book the whole semester and then wants to give a final exam on it. He is HILARIOUS. Only 3 kids do something in this class (ME INCLUDED).

THIS- is not my idea of quality education.

One last thing, since when do people talk about the meaning of life in the bathroom? Lately I have heard about boyfriends, life, and how to take naps. People… really… the bathroom?

I am over this. I had to express my disgust with the world today. And I promise I am smiling while I am writing this.

Got to love college life, and the sunshine which makes me smile.

Henry Ward Beecher: Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Let us hope so, (non-creepy wink), let’s hope so…

Belief &Truth

By: Gabriela Yareliz

The words of this song are so meaningful. In times of uncertainty, it pays to think of those who faced big decisions and trials before you and how God delivered them in the past. God does not change, He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

/Many nights we’ve prayed

With no proof anyone could hear

In our hearts a hopeful song, we barely understood;
Now we are not afraid

Although we know there’s much to fear

We were moving mountains long before we knew we could–
There can be miracles, when you believe

Though hope is frail, it’s hard to kill

Who knows what miracles you can achieve, when you believe, somehow you will; you will when you believe.
In this time of fear,when prayers so often prove(s) in vain; Hope seems like the summer birds, too swiftly flown away.
Yet now I’m standing here; My heart’s so full I can’t explain; Seeking faith and speaking words I never thought I’d say…
There can be miracles, when you believe. Though hope is frail, it’s hard to kill. Who knows what miracles you can achieve, when you believe, somehow you will– You will when you believe.
They don’t (always happen) when you ask; And it’s easy to give in to your fears; But when you’re blinded by your pain– Can’t see your way straight throught the rain; A small but still resilient voice Says hope is very near./

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”    ― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”    ― Corrie ten Boom

 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

Faith is believing in what is not seen, and the reward of faith is seeing what we believed in.

Faith is about trust and truth. It is not blind, however. God gives us evidence for belief.

This video, with the ever-so-philosophical Clifford Goldstein, is great.

/Give your heart a break/

By: Gabriela Yareliz

Latina.com was raving about this song, and at this point so am I. Demi Lovato’s vocals are perfect. She modulates her voice super well, and the lyrics are really sweet.

The day I first met you

You told me you’d never fall in love

But now that I get  you

I know fear is what it really was

Now here we are, 

so close, yet so far, haven’t I passed the test?

When  will you realize

Baby, I’m not like the rest

Don’t wanna break your heart

I wanna give your heart a breakI

 know you’re  scared it’s wrong

Like you might make a mistake

There’s just one  life to live

And there’s no time to waste, to waste

So let me give your heart a  break

The world is ours,  if you want it

We can take it, if  you just take my hand

There’s no  turning back now

The Spanish cover is awesome, too 🙂