-HELLO EVERYONE! Just feeling lucky and excited! Been looking for a site like this, then here and now, IT'S HERE! FOR FREE! AND FOR & ALL THROUGHOUT MY LIFETIME SITE! oH MY! I like first to thank God for this event, if you will. Lord thank you so much! If this is the fulfillment of my prayerful request to you, with your infinite guidance and regulations, I will make this blogsite, with all my effort and talent, informative, beneficial, entertaining, educational, and whatever for anyone who logs on here, FOR FREE!
I am Ed E. Goodwater, of legal age, married, resident of the Philippines, of course, a Filipino. But why the GOODWATER thing! Like some of the good writers, which I'm just trying to emulate, though I do not categorically belong to their group because I am not really a writer, I, too, would like to use a pen name, an alias, an A.K.A., sort of thing to hide and protect my identity in cases where it will become the object of humiliation or other detrimental situation in ones own name when an inadvertent error of omission or commission had been done without any direct and outright intention to do so. This is the simple reason for that GOODWATER thing.
Meantime, that's all I have to say. When I come back, rest assured you will be reading some litlle, initially, materials of general interest to everyone. Thank you so much. Ed e. goodwater
I’ve blogged about a certain kind of discomfort I’ve been experiencing for quite some time now since I started blogging. This is about a humming sound as if from a motor engine of some kind of machinery revving from a distant. I’d thought it was from a car’s engine, but I’m sure now it’s not. During its early incurrence the humming seemed minimal to distort my hearing, although I’m quite deaf in my left ear I still could hear clearly spoken words when I phased my right ear. But lately up to now the humming seemed getting louder although I still could hear but this time I could not eliminate the humming from hearing! And what more annoying is, even I covered my ears the humming is still there! So, literally, the humming is inside my head or mind now, whichever! What could this be? Is this the humming of my brain motor? Does a brain really have motor? I’m rather thinking now and imagining maybe am under someone else’s spell! Please, anyone who could make or give explanation to this I highly welcome and thank you with all my heart, if you do.
Just some little feedback about my last blog, (A Wish….) some of my few friends is not happy about it. (LOL) They don’t believe it! Some are even out rightly insinuating or even declaring I’m pretentious and seemingly acting so righteous and honest, when in fact at a quick first glance of me (surely a hurried look or gaze) they say I look more like a devil! But they started cackling, laughing profusely, so I was inclined to believe that I’m sure they rather meant that I truly look like an angel. (LOL)
Well, anyways, I didn’t write it to impress anybody. It’s just one of those things lying at the back of everybody’s heads or cerebellum, only maybe I’m a bit cocky and dreamy, if not crazy, I’ve touched on it like I did. But honestly the facts I laid in that blog were true. I was very young then when that happened. My mind I’m sure was still unadulterated of worldly sins, so every valid wish by even anyone, for that matter, who feels righteous and desirous of achieving something would no doubt get it if you’re decisive, insistent and patient. But surely I have my own purpose of writing it. Yes, if you’re guessing what’s on my mind, it’s intended to no one else but my wife who hasn’t surely read it because she’s now busy attending some little but equally important personal engagement that would be too much to discuss here. But I’m hopeful when that activity of hers was over, she will get to have it (my blog A Wish..) read and maybe she would give me a little peck on my cheek or maybe a hug so tight or light, then eyed me so sensuously, as if suggesting something whatever, enough to buy myself some two or three bottles of beer, then there, maybe you know what comes next! (LOL) We’re both old, but nonetheless, it doesn’t matter. Because LOVE when thriving and living inside anybody’s heart it becomes infinite, no ending, not even death could never ever undo it. And the rest that follows, of course, is purely sporadic or maybe you could rather term it academic, so they say! (LOL)
I will rock you! And roll you over like Beethoven! That’s what we do sometimes when we’re exceedingly happy. And surely this is very true to the younger sets. But for older and matured people with propriety and decorum, a mere holding hands and gazes indicating you both understand each other are very much enough to let you live a happy life. I might as well stop here or I would not know where we’ll be getting. Okay! Maybe now we could revert to what we had previously or recently done. Yes, back to joking time!
1. Two godfathers met on the street one sunny Sunday. They talked about so many things until finally it’s time for them to part ways, so:
Godfather 1: Oh, before I forget, how are your children?
Godfather 2: Yes, thank you! They’re all fine! The eldest daughter is now a nurse. Your godson is now an engineer; the third girl is now a teacher. But the youngest son who didn’t finish schools is now a FULL TIME ROBBER.
Godfather 1: Oh, so sorry to hear that. But did you cast him out?
Godfather 2: NO, I CAN’T. He’s the sole BREADWINNER and the ONLY ONE WHO HAS WORK.
2. I received a text from my friend, Joey, of course, with this:
Very important health advice:
DO NOT EAT roasted meats like Peking duck, and suckling pig. And fresh sea foods such as lobster, prawn and crab… WITHOUT ME!
KUNG HEI FAT CHOI!
And I replied: Stop swearing Joey! Let’s do it for real just say when!
Okay, thank you very much! See you next time!
goodwater724
25-01-12
I have always wanted to write sensibly, meaning touching on some topics or subjects that require deeper analysis and diligent considerations of things that matter. But I know with my dwindling capacity that goes with the aging process, my mind seems incapable of even touching on the simplest simple subject. If only my blogging has happened during my youth I could have probably made or posted incredible, if not much crappier, blogs than I should be, or am doing right now! Before, just to cite you some little fact about me which isn’t necessary and wouldn’t help any bit anymore, I used to have in my words armory some 20,000 pieces of vocabulary literally printed in my mind. Now they’re gone probably went out in smoke in the gutters and chimneys of my mind. I’m lucky if I still have some 5000 or so even less English words left. So I feel unworthy writing sensitive subject because I simply lacked the capacity now to express my ideas thoroughly. If it seems I’m still thriving writing things with impunity and looks as if I’m not going to stop doing it, you’re wrong! I have always wanted to stop blogging, or writing to be straight with you. But somehow I’m just a human being, though old, maybe now less provocative and arrogant, maybe now less stubborn and poignant, but still equally pervasive of attaining some point or something only my ego could understand. Yes, I probably just want to impress my own ego, bluffing it, that I’m still young and could write things anyway I want, but could I? There, I hope you be the judge. And I don’t care no matter how partial or not you could get, just lay the verdict! I would love to hear or read it. So maybe just to put an end to this something I’m doing whatever you may call it!
But meantime as usual while waiting for you to decide my case, I’m still all out here to do a favorite thing, i.e., blogging scrappily to my heart’s content!
“When you wish upon a star, it makes no difference who you are… your dreams come true!” This is a lyric of a song so very popular during the 60s or 70s, I think, and the melody is so soothing and smooth you have no way of forgetting even though you’ve forgotten about who sung and wrote it. Yes, that’s very true most oftentimes especially for old blokes like me forgetting names of people, places and what-nots. But unforgettable melodies stick to the mind like crazy not even death could never ever undo it. This includes all beautiful songs, lyrics and melody; films, stories, novels; faces - especially pretty and agonizingly fugly; work of arts, classic histories, even unworthy jokes and nonsense’s they all clung and stuck in the mind for ages enabling you sometimes to be inspired and write some classic, if not crappy, blog about them, of course. This time I know you’re alerted again or arouse a little because of the above caption heading this blog! You might be thinking this time I’m about to divulge some credible, judicious and juicy facts about the STARS! You’re right! But the revelation is concentrated on HOW to make a wish and WHICH star you are going to direct or address that wish only! When I was young I thought making a wish, any kind of wish for that matter is enough especially upon hearing this song (When You Wish upon a Star) for the first time. So I asked my mother, “Can we really make a wish on a star?” She said, “Yes, why not!” “But be sure you’re serious about it and you’re willing to go or undergo whatever it takes when the wish was granted”, this she adamantly added. “So could we make self-aggrandizing wishes, too?” Getting very interested, I asked again my mother. With eyes wide opened my mother said, “Hey, what do you mean by that?” And she continued, “No, no, no sir! Self-serving wishes that would not benefit anyone except you, the wisher, are no, no things to the stars! These are wishes directed to your own self like: you want to get rich, you want to become somebody you’re not ought to be, and many other wishes that only robust you up but you have no palpable reason of becoming one.” But for wishes that befall human naturally, only they seemed ungranted for some time, these, and you could make a wish to hasten it up or help you attain it.”
We’re at the balcony or maybe just an open porch of our small house one summer night when we’re engaged on this talk. And gazing at the firmament so clear with so many bright stars shining, I asked her again, “But which stars could we direct those wishes?” Here, my mother tried scanning the sky for some moments and pointing, she said, “You see that Big Dipper there, and the Small Dipper there, and Pegasus there, those are cluster of stars serving as guides to sea travelers, and seafarers; they are not wishing stars. When making a wish to a star, look for the farthest single evening star your naked eyes could see and make a wish on it. But remember don’t make a wish too many, only one a time and wait for that star to work on it.”
After saying these, she eyed me so intently as if wondering why so suddenly I touched on this subject. So, she laid her hand gently on my shoulder and almost to a whisper she said, “Young man, do you have any problems?” I didn’t reply purposely and hinted to go bed but she said, “Wait, make a wish now whatever it is and keep watching that star you will make a wish upon. When it faded or gone in the sky, your wish will be granted.”
Thanks, mom, I said and go to bed, the next night while alone at the porch I secretly made that wish upon a star. So every night when the sky is clear and all the stars are shining brightly I keep watching that star I made a wish upon. I was a freshman in college when I made that wish, a wish so gnawing almost making want to die, if I couldn’t have attained it. But I trusted my mother’s words “wait for that star to work on it”. So I waited patiently. Some nights when there are heavy clouds I couldn’t see the star although I know where it was situated somewhere between the proximity of Pegasus and the Small Dipper. Summer was over on this first year I made that wish. And as the wet season approaches the sky gets blurred and no more stars could be seen around. For three more consecutive years I’ve been like a fool starry-eyed keeping a watchful eye over the sky during summer. And the star was ever still there, sometimes getting bigger, sometimes smaller, but its light is constant not growing dim or brighter just the way it was when I first made a wish upon. So life passed thru and things got into places. I continued studying like I should and decided to find some jobs I could fit myself as I feel am now fit to work, this was when I was on my senior year in college. I was able to land a job and happy about it and was more confident my wish would be granted. My mother decided to leave the urban life and went with my other siblings in the province in Bicol. We have a small property there where she stayed until she was taken back by the Lord to His fold. I was now left alone in the city struggling like crazy to maintain a simple life with no one to confide my troubles. I have some few friends and this helped to make the living sometimes easy, at times hard but all in all a normal and usual way of life. But every night I’m still constantly eyeing the sky watchful of that star ever constantly there when the sky is clear. Until that day when I graduated from college one night I looked upon the sky and found the star mysteriously faded from the sky. And not very much later I met a woman, for me a very special woman who must be granted by star I made a wish to be my wife.
Goodwater724
18-01-12
18-01-12
Pondering on my last post, I can’t help myself thinking that probably most of my readers are taking me for a priestly man-servant of God or, worst, a frustrated born-again sectarian guru! But honest, I’m neither both! But if only my parents had afforded it, I truly wanted to be a priest! It’s because simply of my unusual unfortunate fate I suffered in the early stages of my life, which I’ve already discussed in my past blogs. It’s just that life has some strange ways putting things up and no matter how arduous or enthusiastic you are into achieving a certain goal or dream, you’re eventually only pivoted or shifted into some kind of condition or situation you don’t know if it fits you at all! Perhaps for me, this is what God has designated. And surely HE must have some purpose for it, aside from my now very own purposes, of course. But have you ever really wondered why God allowed such misfortunes befalling individuals without their common consent and instead only placing them in utter discontent and desolation? Many a great man could have remained great and even getting greater as time passes if only they have added some touch of humility in their lives.
That must have been the main reason why God allowed such misfortunes to happen to humans! Perhaps these people, even the still would be, have aggravatingly acted on their own accord totally forgetting their solemn relations to God and instead only instigated their own earthly wishes and whims with impunity! The Bible says, “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed”, Prov. 16:3. So anything you do or we do without the sanction of God is literally hopeless! But perhaps this is undoubtedly true to matured and full grown humans who must have full rationality about the things they’re doing. So although some of them maybe thinking they’re doing the right thing, but ultimately the possible outcome or results and effects of such a thing or deed they’re doing would not benefit anyone except themselves, so to their dismay and amazement it flopped down to nothing. And they’re wondering why and unaware it was God who blocked the whole thing. But for the young who haven’t even the slight insinuation of sin or to commit sin, how come some misfortunes also befall them? Here, probably it’s because God knows in the long run, or when these youngsters matured, HE knows these too would do things not designed for them to do, so at the very early stages of their lives they were given due reprimanding or warnings to hinder or stopped them once and for all into achieving or getting those unworthy plans or deeds into fruition. But again how come sometimes some others like those criminals and perennial law breakers already on their prime and fully grown shenanigans, do away with their crimes and even was thriving at some extent? There, simply God has some purpose for it, literally hidden and unknown or even we haven’t a way to understand at the moment. But take a closer look at it, in the end you will know they ended up also to nothing and some of them even died a horrible death as if giving them a real dose of their own medicine. So in a way God is giving us some kind of a lesson to learn and ultimately teach us that any wrong deed or actuation does not pay. So in all our dealings, big or small, it won’t hurt us if we always try to do it the right way. No matter if you look so stupid in trying to make it good! But the ultimate essence about all these is, speak always the truth and do things always with the best intentions. When these things get in the habit it becomes a code rightfully anyone can happily live by.
So for me I haven’t a tint or slight discontentment why God let me suffered the fate I’ve been thru, because it’s probably just His strange ways to thwart and curb the unworthy plans I may have in life and now make me fully understand instead the mathematics of life. “It is not a matter of multiplication of wealth but the division of task; subtraction of greed and addition of humility”, a simple way to lead or live a happy simple life. Kudos to the man/woman whoever he/she is, who concocted this phrase it serves a great deal and means a lot more than words could express.
I don’t really know the man/woman because this phrase was just text to me by a friend lately and it gives too much meaning that inspired me to highlight in my blog. And quite sadly the sender doesn’t know who wrote it, too! I would surely appreciate if you could tell me who he/she is to be given due credence and recognition in this blog. Thanks a lot!
goodwater724
06-11-12
When you’ve gone thru life as simple as my life had yet still ongoing to this presently now highly digital universe, you will feel somehow a bit misplaced or unfit to live or muddle in it! But if you’re inquisitive enough and just that bit quirky of new and sensational things happening around, you’ll be filled with enough motivations to, at least, tap, engage and share, or play along all the effects and side-effects this world is bound to give. So whether you like it or not, you’re in into some kind of actions or reactions, call it delayed or just keeping up, you’ll be figuring up to fit yourself.
This is just my simple way of fitting up with it. I don’t know if blogging is sensible enough or not but my purpose has always been to keep my mind active and prevent it from lying dormant and degenerate. In other words to give a more simple way to put it, please recall that, “I’m merely battling with my own mind to see how far I could go bluffing my matured ego and my aging body.” I love this phrase so much looks like I’ve hit it right on the dot! So don’t wonder I keep coming back! I just surely wish to inform some of my friends that I’m still alive, though not so much kicking every which way, yet still muddling on some things to denote I’m still around. Surely there will come a time when you will not read or hear from me again. And that, of course, is when I’m dead. It’s quite premature to think about what’s going to happen to my blogs when I’m dead. This morbid kind of ideas is not worth mentioning here at this stage but there still nothing wrong touching on to it every now and then because Death & Living are the perennial partners they ever are and surely would not go without each other. Would the internet still carry my blogs and keep it up posted or eventually delete and dump to Recycle Bin? That’s just a question hoisted for lack of nothing better to ask, and deserves no immediate rightful answer. Our mind is like an all encompassing digital computer that at almost instantly could tap and project things beyond our cognitive comprehension and imagination sometimes, so as always we’re only up to surmise things to follow or come our ways. Anyways as we always are, especially at this very beginning and starting point of another exciting journey for 2012, we’re hopeful things, again, would get better than the last! No matter if we only sounded like that broken 45rpm disc cantankerously playing a tread it can’t skip by an equally old model and outdated phonograph gadget.
At times like these when the mind seemed relax and unassuming of any other itinerants and priorities we are bound to procrastinate! We all have the right to it, even exceeding the limits if you see fit. Sometimes, too, we likened ourselves to some kind of a motor engine which needs to be warmed up and operated later on low starting gear so as not to overwork or overheat it. But procrastination’s only true and acceptable to some few good numbers of people. These are the Kings and Queens, the Princes and Princesses and many other Royalties who definitely have all the means and ways to indulge to it. But for simple ordinary people, like me, I guess it’s superfluous to even give it a try! But somehow, we do give it a try, don’t we? And at this point and time, we’re literally taking it all up and easy! Yes, why not! There’s plenty of room ahead us! Imagine another long, seemingly slow moving moments of 2012! In fact, I must have taken it quite literally at its extreme I almost missed to post within the first week! Well, I have a way with myself. I don’t know about you!
But so far, so good! We have again some ample time to ponder on those words of wisdom written by some outspoken, well-grounded, and truly witty geniuses, wizards, and philosophers of current and old times and just about, for me, are the best times to while away or procrastinate. Yes, I find these times the appropriate time to read those quotations, verses and wondrous phrases to give the mind fresh and sprightly vigor and energy to again explore this “New World” of 2012!
Okay! Just to give you some few quotable quotes, which for me, instead of jokes which I’ll surely give you very much later, is worth putting a little time to think about.
Here goes:
1. It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us but the manner in which we do our part.
2. Go to the ant you sluggard, consider its ways and be wise.
3. False humility never has its roots in truth; virtue can be idolatry like anything else.
4. Many people are now obsessed with letter “C”
- Cell phone
- Computer
- Crush
- Credit card
- Car
- Cash
- Condo
- Career
But don’t forget to reflect on the real meaning of “C”
“CHRIST”
Who can give everything we need and desire in life!!
Thanks to Ayessa Kaye V. Asoy, a friend of mine, who posted No. 4 quote at Facebook, a surely timely reminder. The rest of the quotes are from old books, but maybe also posted in “Quotations and Verses” at the internet.
SHALOM!
goodwater724
06-01-12
