Marik Rivera - Life's Purpose and Inspirations

Baler Fiesta '09

2009-08-25T06:02:00.000-07:00

As my momentum starts to slow down, the town spirit of the new era has begun. It was on August 12, 2009 that the feast of the town started. New activities has started, the original Zarzuela theater play has been adapted by the Baler youth and some outsiders such as the great UST litorgikon choir and the UP singing ambassadors including their dean.

the Zarzuela> on play of Baler Youth

The overwelming crowd welcomes the start of the feast. The Zarzuela played 4 days before the true fiesta started. Next activities were Bb. Baler, SMB nyt, Variety Show, Street Dancing, Tuklas Talino and more. Hope this post will be updated sooner or later for facts.

BTW, I had been a staff on our newspaper previously on ASCOT on the Voice of the Sierra Publication and I will be covering 2 of the sports in our Intrams, Basketball and Taekwondo. hehehehe....(what's the connection on the topic? duh? > intermision =) )

my Book> "Lust"

2009-06-08T05:58:00.000-07:00

LUST; Chapter 2: The Promise

2009-06-08T05:51:00.000-07:00

Chapter II

THE PROMISE

Why – a word that is usually used to ask questions. Questions that needed answers.

‘Why? Well, I found this in his closet.’

‘What’s this?’

‘It’s a letter. You better read it. It was for you, though it is dated March 4, it must still be sent to you. Sorry, but I already read it. I must. It is my profession.’

‘Why? What on earth happened?’

‘You better read it. And your questions will be answered.’

March 4, 1993

Dear Shirley,

Sorry for the things I had done. It is because of my self – centeredness. I didn’t know that I would hurt you that much. For I loved you and I don’t want you gone in my life. You we’re my strength and my heart.

In the middle of the reading she was already crying. She couldn’t resist getting the feelings back that she offered so much for her past. She wanted Romy back. She wanted him badly. Even though they had times that she couldn’t take the words and events that were happening in their relationship, even though she was taken as a battered girlfriend, she still loved him from the very start.

Shirley thought, ‘But why do the inspector intend me to do after I read this letter?’. So she focused on the event happening right then. Controlling her emotions and trying to stop crying. She continued reading.

I don’t want you to go. I need you. I badly need you. Please come back to me. May God forgive me on what I will do today. For your life sucked because of the things I had done to you. Your suffering is not worth my life. If God will permit and will give me a second chance I promise that I will show you how changed I am. Good bye. I love you.

Romy G.

‘Why? What happened to him? Is this all? Nothing more? What do I have to do with this piece of letter from him?’, asked Shirley.

‘Didn’t you understand? He faced himself into impossible tasks with impossible consequences. He did what was bad. He faced himself into the fires of hell.’, the inspector returned a question.

‘What?!?!’

‘Besides the casualties of the shootout. Your ex – boyfriend was the first one to be found dead on his room. He was covered with blood. And his room stinks. As if he was already dead for weeks.’

‘Oh my God, I can’t believe this. Oh….my God….’

‘Sorry, I have to tell you this. He committed suicide and your name is the only one found in that letter which is the only evidence found on the scene. Do you know anything that can cause his madness to commit such acts?’

‘We broke up a day before he made this letter. It was dated March 4 and we broke up 3^rd of March. That’s the only thing I can remember and it is associated with this letter. When we are on, he battered me to death and I ended our relationship on that day. And you said what happened to him on this place, Davion’s Inn the same place we’re we broke up.’

‘I’m sorry. This case was dismissed. I think there is no foul play in here. Describing the fact that you broke up with him on how many years you are with him?’

‘4 or 5. Ah yes, mostly 4 and a half yesterday, if he had been alive and if I didn’t broke up with him.’

‘I’m sorry for the loss. This case was solved. Thank you for your cooperation, Ms. Shirley. I think I better leave you for some peace of mind.’

But God didn’t give Romy a second chance and his commitment and life was ended. He cannot so his promise anymore. He no longer had another chance.

Shirley decided to fix herself up. But still she can’t move on. She kept the letter. And hoping someday someone will do Romy’s promise for her.

LUST; Chapter 1: The Tavern

2009-06-06T05:33:00.000-07:00

Chapter I

THE TAVERN

Year 1993, 30^th of March.

She was staring by the window in front of her. The phone rang. Then came a loud harsh voice as if it was a sound of an ogre coming out from his cave. He was a man. A man named John Albert de Lousteroine. He was a policeman. He said that he was an inspector on a sudden mission.

Shrieks were heard.

Exchange of bullets.

Cries, as if tears flooded the whole place.

Then the unknown sirens of vehicles were heard. She doesn’t know if it was from the policeman’s car or an ambulance that rushes down to the scene.

Suddenly, the voice of the inspector was gone. The phone was cut and the signal was off. Shirley was so startled and confused of the things she heard in the phone. Still, she didn’t entertain the call. As if it was just a prank call from a child that’s making fun of her. Anxiety arouses on her feelings so she decided to drink water from the quite opened faucet as if the droplets of water were luring her to come near and drink. But the phone rang again.

The phone rang the second time.

And it rang again.

While she was staring the phone ringing she was thinking twice if she would answer the phone anymore because of what happened previously. Shirley does not want to entertain prank calls anymore in her life. But her hands felt cold and decided to answer the call and for the second time around, it is the inspector. He said that it was an emergency and he badly needed the cooperation of Shirley.

‘What was it all about?’, Shirley asked.

‘There was a shootout in my mission here in Choiseuol Ville.’, the inspector answered.

Shirley breathed. She was informed of the ‘Ville’. The place where she came from. The policeman said that he needed to see her immediately. So she was shock because of the sudden rush of events. She doesn’t know what to do and she doesn’t know what she had done. Why does the inspector need her? Why?

Same year, 31^st of March.

She has a long black hair as black as ebony, a beautiful face and a beautiful heart. Shirley was in her mid twenties. Shirley was having a nice job on doing her daily chores. Cleaning the house and washing the dishes. She’s the only one living in her little house.

As she was waiting for the call of the inspector, she was thinking if she had done anything that can bring her into trouble. She has nothing to do with her relatives ‘cause she had none. Her parents died the same day she was born. It was a car accident that cost her parents lives. When her mother was in labor in her, their car was struck by a bus, her parents died and she’s the only one who survived the accident.

She was thinking if she had some problems with other people. But she had none. So why does the inspector need her presence? What was it all about? The whole day she was thinking about it.

April the First.

She received a call from the inspector. Saying that she is needed immediately to go on Davion’s Inn. Suddenly her heart stop beating. The memories of the past were coming back to her. Shirley didn’t notice that the door of her house was widely open. What was on that inn that made her feel the way she did?

It was her ex – boyfriend.

On March 3, that same year her boyfriend told her to go to Davion’s Inn for an exclusive one – on – one date. It was a gloomy afternoon. Many things had happened before that day. As if that gloomy day expresses a silent but deadly event would happen but for her boyfriend it was just all the same. The same dates they have done for the relationships they we’re going through.

But it wasn’t the same. Shirley was feeling a little bit sorry for accepting Romy Guttierez as her boyfriend. She became a slave and a victim when she accepted Romy as his boyfriend.

Yes, she was. For the 5 years they’ve been in that wicked relationship Shirley became restless for all the tortures that his boyfriend is doing on her. For Romy, handling a girlfriend as if she was a maid is a great honor for him and his friends. For him his words were laws.

On that same inn.

Shirley realized that she had to deal with her boyfriend. She had to stop the nonsense. The relationship that has been battered by cruel words and wicked thoughts that her boyfriend has put into her. She broke up with him.

She tossed her ring. The sign of their ‘relationship’. And on that day their relationship was ended. Because she couldn’t stand it anymore.

While thinking of her past, she was afraid to go again to that inn. It was a very difficult decision to her, to go to an inn where an unforgettable freedom experience happened. Yes, it was really an unforgettable experience. Though it gave her freedom, it also gave her heartache.

But she decided to go to the inn. For if a policeman on a mission invited you on urgent meeting, it is very hard to cancel that invitation. For you can be convicted on a crime that you didn’t do or even worse you can be a wanted person with a price tag on your head.

She met the inspector in the Davion’s inn. The place was still the same as the day she got her ‘freedom’. There were wooden chairs and tables with checkered covers. It was a dim lighted inn. No customers but one. For it was a luxury inn previously and it still is.

She saw this man. About 6 feet tall. Brown jacket and brown cap. He was drinking a coffee. It was the inspector and he expects that Shirley was the one staring at him. Being on that it inn was really hard for Shirley. So she expect the discussion to be clear and brief.

‘Hi. I’m Shirley Jones. I think your Inspector Lousteroine?’, Shirley asks.

‘Yes, I am. I want to tell you something for it happened previously on my mission which I told you on phone.’, the man said.

Shirley remembered the call. For she thought it is only a prank one. The one that had a line disturbance. But she also remembered the strange sounds that she heard on the phone.

‘Yes, I remember. But what are those strange sounds that I hardly heard while you we’re talking to me and why did you suddenly shut the phone off?’, Shirley eagerly asked the inspector.

‘It was all because of the shootout. It was on Choiseoul Ville. I came there inspect the different factories located there. It was for my report. I didn’t even expected that it was a lair of moron drug addicts.’, answered Inspector John.

‘But what about the cries? Is there anyone hurt?’, Shirley continued asking.

‘Yes, there were 5 casualties. 4 killed and 1 badly wounded. Sorry, but I don’t have to discuss these things to you. You had nothing to do with the shootout.’

‘But what am I here for?’

‘Do you know a man by the name of Romeo Guttierez?’

Suddenly, Shirley felt cold. For she never heard that name for 2 weeks. She had moved on, on their break up. Even though she don’t want to answer the question the inspector asked, it’s hard to lie on this situations facing a policeman.

‘Yes, I know him. Why?’

Even though she had moved on, she still and still is concerned with him.

‘Is there anything happened to him? I believe that she was living on her aunt right now.’

‘Sadly, no.’

‘So what do I have to do him? We’re done.’

‘I believe that you were his past girlfriend right?’

‘Yes, I am. But why…’

"Lust" : A New book by me

2009-06-03T03:17:00.000-07:00

I started writing my own book....you better watch out...While it's not published yet, I will post the preceding chapters on my blog. Starting the first chapter entitled "The Tavern". You can read the epilogue of the story here on the blog. Please continue reading the contents of my blog everyday. Thanks. God Bless!

Computers: A Passion?

2009-05-15T18:57:00.000-07:00

My life really started when I started studying I don't really clearly remember a thing about my nursery, Daycare or preparatory days. Even my 1st Grade to 3rd Grade years that I spend on my elementary school days, I can't remember a thing except the names of my teachers and where I studied at. I also knew few things about my childhood. Only few things about me when I was a baby, only the things that my mother, father and other relatives told me. My mother said that I was born here in the Philippines in a certain province called Aurora on the 30th day of March year 1993 which was also written on my baptismal and birth certificates. Although I wanted to share more about my youth, as I said a while ago I only knew few things about my past. Since I only started this blog right now when I am already 16 years old and I only remember few of my previous years in life.

Starting 6th Grade, the real deal on my passion for computer starts. It all started when my classmates started teaching me how to use a "certain maching with a television on it" (as I call it previously). I started playing LAN games (Internet is not yet thoroughly used that time) and started watching other games and PC users play other games. Sometime I'm being friendly with the other technicians in different computer shops and they teach me some of the techniques they know about a computer. For these reasons I became a computer literate .

When I was in the 1st year High School, Internet is mostly used from then on and different computer shops started to grow everywhere. This is the year that I started playing different online games especially MU. MU is the first only game I ever played and mastered when I was in my first year secondary education even though I don't know if MU is an acronym and if it has a meaning. In fact, I became one of the Event Masters of the said game on one of its public servers called MU Legend. From then on I called myself [EM] Pharaoh as my computer name which stands for [Event Master] Pharaoh.

It was on 2nd Year HS when I left MU Legend and focused on my studies. Fortunately, we have a subject called computer education which focuses on object oriented programming. I really learned a lot from it and I started helping my teachers with their works accompanied with computers, typing etc.

My "faculty works" mostly ended when I was in 3rd year. But this is my favorite year which I started to learn about HTML, web designing and domains. I didn't focus mostly on HTMLs what I'm in "it" in this year was DOTA (Defence of the Ancients) and Warcraft. I really love this game because I am playing it with my friends and fortunately because of the fact that I'm doing what I love the most, it even increased my grades!

The real grade thingy started on my graduating year, 4th Year. I continued playing DOTA and explored other social sites such as Friendster and Facebook. Being a computer literate really helped me throughout my journey on my last year on high school because our subject Research II offers a certain Investigatory Project so that we can graduate our secondary education especially that it is a requirement on an exclusive Science High School. With my knowledge on HTML and web designing i thought my colleagues about these. I decided to create a converter which is badly needed on our school. These converter converts various units of measurements . With the help of my groupmates we passed our (MIP) Mathematical Investigatory Project and so we graduated in High School.

I decided to take the course BSIT or Info. Tech. but my sister and other realtives suggested that I better take up Civil Engineering (BSCE) because I will have a great future as an engineer and since I had a background on calculus when I was in HS. And I hope my computer literacy will help me on my CE course. But you see my life doesn't only circulate on computers. Please read my next post to know the journey of my life.... =)

Life has a Purpose

2009-05-15T18:38:00.000-07:00

Hi. I'm Marik Martin Sindac - Rivera and I really love watching TV. The building of this blog was really a great experience. It all started when I was watching a certain TV show called on Net - 25. Thanks to the Convergence Team I was inspired by their last topic on the show. It was all about blog building and a certain man named Carlo Ocab who was a successful blogger and he started earning money online (correct me if I'm wrong) when he was 13 or 14 years old, so I was "enlightened" by the story and started building my own blog (this blog) the day after. Since I was in Grade 6, I really love using the internet even though I don't have a PC and renting one in a cafe' is my game. Exploring the whole blog and topics presented would really help you to know the rest of my story please continue reading the whole blog and I hope you'll learn something about my life's experiences. Enjoy reading!