Stephie Cruz

University of Santo Tomas

OC Girl (Online Content Editor)

Spirit of the Living God Foundation, Pinoypoets Inc

DVD Marathons; I cook, I write, I dance, I blog; I like taking long walks and listening to the sound of the rain; I love brewed coffee or tea and interesting conversations; I space out quite often =)

Chicken Soup for the Soul;Memnoch the Devil; Memoirs of a Geisha;Love at a time of Cholera; Unbearable Lightness of Being;Dance Dance Dance and Haruki Murakami Short Stories; Like Water for Chocolate;11 Minutes, The Alchemist, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept; Pablo Neruda and Sharon Olds poems

Meet Joe Black, Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, Miss Congeniality, Sleepless in Seattle, A Walk in the Clouds, Serendipity, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, Three Coins in the Fountain, An Affair to Remember, Somewhere in Time, Story of US, Million Dollar Baby, KIll Bill, PSYCHO, Hannibal, Constantine

Heartbreak songs, Gregorian Chant, New Age Music, Bossa Nova and Broadway tunes; Recently acquired a taste for classical music.

Heroes, Supernatural, House, Grey's Anatomy, Smallville, CSI Las Vegas, Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, Charmed;Doogie Howser, Mc Gyver; National Geographic and Discovery Channel documentary specials

Libra

When you've gone through the test of fire and emerged in one piece, albeit scarred and bruised, you begin to see things in a totally different perspective.

Life becomes more meaningful, time spent with family and friends more precious, and faith assumes the sacred form of the cross--one that you learn to carry with a grateful heart each and every day.

Yes, I know who I am now and I'm proud of the person I've become: someone who welcomes every friend with open arms and greets a stranger with a smile; who lives each day to the fullest and looks forward to a brand new day; who treasures the memories of the past, but has let go and accepted what cannot be.

And most importantly, someone who is ready to love, get hurt, forgive, and love all over again--should lightning strike...

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.
I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.'

I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.