What kept me busy...

Hello! It's been a long time! *winks!*

So, what have I been up to these past days? Well, from the early part of June up until about a week ago, there was only one thing that occupied my mind most parts of my days aside, of course, from my classes and that's the World Cup! I actually can't believe the month-long World Cup had come and gone. It feels like it just started yesterday and, now, it's done! I have always been a football/soccer fan since my early teenage years and, of course, like every soccer fan in the world, the World Cup, which takes place every 4 years, is one event I always look forward to. It is, for me, the most important sports event in the world. Much bigger than the Olympics itself in my opinion. And, I've always had the item, to watch the World Cup in person and be one with every soccer fan in the country where it's held, in my Bucket List.

Though this year's World Cup was devastating for me since all of my teams got eliminated very early in the running, I extremely enjoyed monitoring the games night after night. And, when Spain emerged as champions, I was really happy as I was rooting for them, too. At that point, I was decided on rooting for any team but Germany after they beat Argentina.

I guess that should be enough talking about the World Cup. If I don't stop now, I might not be able to stop. Hehe:) I just wanted to share what I've been up to during my short blog hiatus.

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In other news, I've recently found out that there is actually a published poem with the same title as my blog. It's written by Charley Barretto. And, her book is, in fact, entitled The Ocean of My Being & Other Love Poems. I also found a Friendster blog entitled The Ocean of My Being, but the latest entry is dated December 29th, 2008.

Interesting, eh? But, honestly, at first I felt rather cheated. Not that I have any right to, but all these years, I really thought that my blog doesn't share its title with any other. I mean, when I first started blogging in 2003, I really thought hard about what title to give my blog. I wanted to make sure it'd be unique and all. I chose to use ocean because it's my favorite word. So, when I finally came up with the title, I was pretty happy and proud of it.

A few weeks ago, I was google-ing a book that I needed and when I could not really find anything that satisfied me, I started google-ing all sorts of stuff. Then, I suddenly thought of the Philippine Daily Inquirer internet article that featured my blog, so I entered "the ocean of my being" in the search bar. And, that's how I found out about the poem and that other blog. I was shocked, really. I just didn't expect that there'd be other people who would actually come up with exactly the same title as I did. But then, at the end of the day, I thought, well, there probably are people who think alike. And, besides the words I used in my title are not exactly uncommon. So, I decided to just be happy about the issue. I mean, the three (since I know of only three) of us came up with and used the exact same words, so it must be a good choice of a title. Now, I don't find it (the idea that I share my blog's title with others) as irritating as I first did. I actually find it weirdly funny and, well, fine. If anything, I actually feel a tad more proud of my blog's title than I ever did. :)