5/11/11 | By: Carl Ace

A Compliment for Markson E.

Surfing net is getting more boring and boring for me tonight. With only this half full glass of apple juice as my chum while waiting for the very slow download of Taylor Swift's Speak Now to finally succeed, I' am totally bored to death. Oh! I remember one thing...it's Markson birthday! Actually, I have already greeted him very early this morning, but there's something I would still want to do, not just for him but also for me, to ease this boredom that is surely a big sloth pain in the ass. haha..

Just for fun, I would like to write something for our birthday boy. A tribute... just a little slice of compliment.

I really don't know much about this guy, but I just wanna share what I know. I just wanna share the things that makes him different to any Markson surviving in this planet.

Before I set foot to the alleged(haha, weird term) Academic Paradise of the South, CMU, I already heard his name. My friend since highschool whose brother resided at Supremo's(boardinghouse where I stay) always nag about his name. She said that there is a cute nursing stud staying in Supremo's named Markson. In my mind, "Hell I care!", but I didn't said that so she kept on nagging about Markson. But I didn't found Markson there, then I just knew he moved to Boystown.

As to Ellen's description, I picture out Markson as a very handsome, masculine, and hot white cutie of College of Nursing. But he fell low to my expectations, I guess. Before the second sem started, my landlady told me that if I would now be open for a roommate, an exboarder named Markson would be my roommate. In my mind, Ellen would really be happy if she heard about this news! But my parents still decided that I would not have any roommate. Well that's okay for me, I'm more comfortable living alone in my room.

When I first saw Markson, my eyes started assessing: he is a short, moderately pimpled guy. He's quite good-looking but, ahem, quite different from the "Hercules-like" description of my friend. I'm really laughing at my room while I'm texting Ellen bout my assessment!

Days moved and I noticed more bout him. He's quite a big eater( as Ellen says), very neat, and, honest to say, but I really thought he's gay. I never had a talk to him for the first four months of us staying in the same roof. But in the last month, March, by the time-being alone, I just found myself talking to him. My first impression: He's kinda cool...not a bad thing if we would be friends.

Suddenly, my assessment changed. He's a guy who I could say kinda picky of friends, but he never turns one down, I believe. He's very nice to my boardmates, whom I find very annoying, and he makes time to have fun with them. He's very transparent as a friend. Like someone who wont be afraid to ask some favor, someone who wont turn down one, and someone who wont be afraid to be frank in front of you. For me, that's a kind of person whom I can say "REAL", not plastic in slang term, because for me, a true friend stabs you in front. He's someone who's eager to share what he have, though somehow he's bossy in a sense, but that isn't a big deal for me. Something I like bout him most, he always let us share with him his fone just to watch PGT.. As what my boardmates say, "Dili sha dalo"... I believe they're right!

As a brother to his sister, I know he's good! I remember he asked me: Carl, unsa kahay tsada na igift sacong manghod ba? Di man gud ko kauli sa iyang graduation. I'm not sure if it's graduation that he said, I cant remember it clearly, but that's the thought. For me, it shows that he really cares more than it shows. If I were him, saying sorry and congratulations to his younger sis would be enough for me. But to him, it shows that he's making it to the point that he could extend his love though he couldn't be there. That's something commendable.

And lastly, as a son, I find him quite good. I remember he shared me something bout his highschool experience about joining a gang. That's really terrible! But in the end, it shows that he respects his parents, though he said at that time he relied to his savings. haha.. And I know he calls his mom Ermat, that's a sign that he's really open to them. And openness is something not all children at teen-hood could assure their parents.

And earlier this morning, we had a short exchange of text messages. I asked him if he already went home then he said he still couldn't. I asked him, for sure you miss your mom now.. he answered "Sobra pa sa mingaw"...That's the time I felt I'm still lucky enough for I had spent Mother's day with my mom but a boy who really loves his mom like Markson simply couldn't.

In totality, for me, he's a fabulous guy. A great, open friend, a caring brother, and a loving son. For sure a friend like him deserves an article of compliment like this.

Personally, I really find him as more than a good friend. He's a "better friend", if that term exists, LOL.. =) That's why just like any other close friends of mine, I waited for 12 am to strike the clock and made it sure to greet him a happy birthday in 12 am sharp. I even tried to called but he's asleep already, then I just smiled for I just want to tell that Ellen would want to extend her greetings through me. She keeps on reminding me that.. haha!

To my dear friend Markson, our God has chose to give you another year to spread more love and plow greener pastures. This year is another roller coaster of smiles and tears, rejoice and disappointment. But there's one thing I just wanna tell you: in this another revolution trip of yours around the sun, don't forget to soar high but kneel to pray, and just keep on ROCKIN'!

My glass of apple juice is now empty, and finally, the download succeed. And shall I say, GOODNIGHT!
5/7/11 | By: Carl Ace

Where does that love comes from, Mom?

How did you find the energy, Mom
To do all the things you did,

To be teacher, nurse and
counselor
To me, when I was a kid.

It's mother's day again, and the whole world is celebrating, like me. Some of my friends in Facebook changed their profile picture with the picture of their mom while others even made a slideshow just to pay tribute the the woman who brought forth their lives; and not just that, for she's also the woman who chose to suffer and sacrifice all that's needed to just to raise us---the wild, rebellious, ungrateful, and insolent us.

I' am Carl Ace, and I'm honest to say that I really haven't reciprocated enough the love of my mom that she's been unceasingly giving to me each day. When my mom was still in college, she is so beautiful and a CMU College of Engineering certified "it" girl. But God's plan it is, she married my dad early, and yah, had me early. She missed everything fabulous that a college diploma promises, but I never heard her regret---that's why I know she do love me, not just because I' am hers, but she loves me coz I' am me.

I really wonder where in the world did my mom got the reason for loving me this too long. You know, dogs, they just take care with their puppies for few month then after that, the bitch would just even snob their pups before and some even fuck their own product. Oh I know you know that's not my point but my point is my mom, just like any other mom, could have chose to abort me...or raise me til I'm a toddler then just throw me near a trashcan in a busy city street, like the greasy orphans outside Jollibee. With my very stubborn and sour attitude, if I were my mom, I would not hesitate to flush the cute little young Carl Ace in the toilet.

But my mom never did that. She has been patient for all this time and been a mother for me for all these years. I guess that's the fact that separates her from our pet bitches, and to the bitches who were regular costumers of Mrs. Abortionist.


How did you do it all, Mom,
Be a chauffeur, cook and friend,
Yet find time to be a playmate,
I just can’t comprehend.


My mom is an undergad, but I never felt she was. You know, she's a doctor to me when I'm sick. My soldier when my dad spanks me. My teacher when I was still young. and the best of all, my friend, every time I need one.

She wakes up early every morning to cook my breakfast before I get to school. I believe even my mother would also wish to have a long, beautiful sleep like us but she waives her self interest every morning for me. I even heard some of my friends saying that their mom don't do that for them. They have to cook for their selves as well us they have to wash their own clothes, iron, and fold it. My mom didn't even tasked me to do that.

I have read something from Ramayana, saying जननी जन्मभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी, this means: the mother is higher than the motherland... even higher than heaven. Of course my mom couldn't give me the things that God in heaven promises but she continuously defy her limits, do everything to provide me my needs, and exhaust her self to give me comfort. That ain't easy, Amen?


I see now it was love, Mom
That made you come whenever I'd call,

Your inexhaustible love, Mom
And I thank you for it all.


The reason why she keeps on forgiving my flaws, why she spends most of her money not only for my needs but also for my luxury, and why she age faster coz of me is LOVE. The great motherly love.

As what I said, she don't love me for I' am from her and I' am hers. She loves me for I' am Carl Ace; once the baby who almost took her life while she's giving me life; once the child who deprived her her wants just to admit my fragile body to the hospital almost every month; once the kid who she protects every time my dad couldn't be patient to my faults anymore; once the youngster who she assisted as I' am changing from a kid to a teen; and now the teen who force her to slave herself to work every moment of her life in order to grant me the very expensive key to my dreams; and always will be the CARL ACE who made her tears fall as my first cry was heard; and the first reason why she has to hold on to the vow she exchanged with with my dad.

I admit she isn't perfect. She couldnt afford all my wants, and sometimes, she fails to understand what's within my mind that I' am afraid to speak, but there's something that would always forget me my disappointments towards her, and that's the fact that she never fails to express to me not just through words but also through actions that one eternal and ever evolving-consummate-unadulterated-basic-essential-crucial-necessary-affectionate emotion called mother's love.


To my mom, I love you though your text messages to me are all in capital letters and lacks period every time,
though you always ask stupid and nonsense questions to me, though you always cut my dreams every morning, and though you always murmur same lines every time I ask for new jeans and my allowance. Simply because, I'm nowhere to be find without you.. I love you mom!


(poem: Everything Mom by Joanna Fuchs)