Right!!!                         Now, where was I???

Yes...here I am, contented, at peace, happy and feeling sappy enough to write a virtual valentine to the world and...and intertwine it with love so sweet that the thought of lacing it with spypig never even got close to the threshold of my mind.

I pause to roll my eyes...er...with love of course...at all those who would never believe me.    

Okay, that bit off my heart, now where was I?  Oh yes, here is what I wrote with love to encompass all there ever was, all there ever is and all there ever will be...

"Dear Universe of mine

...I'd like to send you a valentine line...

Roses are red and violets are blue

Sugar is sweet but not as sweet as you..."

I pause for a split second and sigh with more bliss...and then it hits me.  What if no one believes me????

"Hey sweet Universe, you don't believe me, do you?  Well, too bad because I think you are integral, so integral, other universes would fry up if you get any more integral...and you know what else, my darling universe...

I LOVE YOU!!!!

Yes, I love you when you make me mad, I love you when you make me laugh and I love you when you stab me in the back even when I am looking.  Heck, I've so much love for you, I think I'd love you even if you pour vinegar down my throat, nail me to a cross and halved, quartered and yikes...I sound like Jesus but what the heck, I still maintain that I love you no matter what and yes, my universe, even if you are stinky, I'd still love u..."

And that's as far as I got because suddenly I felt a presence and look up to find Cupid staring at me with slightly perplexed expression. 

"Have you gone mad?" He asked the question as if he only just found out the universe is made up one part illusory hate and one part solid Cupid. 

"Hello there." I say, thoroughly surprised to see Cupid...yikes...er...in all his glory.    He's such a sweet, little force...er...non-literally speaking.   And wow. No wonder I'm feeling so...um...er...loving. This little Eros must have shot a whole quiver of arrows into me while I wasn't looking... 

"Good to see you!!!"  I say with awe.   "And to answer your question, um...no...I'm feeling quite sane, actually."

Cupid sighs heavily. "Well...it's not possible to love the whole world and even if I shot a whole quiver of arrows into each and every being on this planet, it will still not be possible."

I stare aghast.  I never!!!  I never thought I'd seen the day when Cupid would say such a thing...and on Valentine's day of all days!!!!         Cripes!!!    The 'God of Love' thinks it's not possible to love the whole world!!!      *Gulp*      How come I am sure it's possible????   Is something wrong with me???         Ya know, there are times when I felt as if a goat bit me in sacred places!!! 

Oh well!!! Well!!!  Well!!!  Hell!!!  Too bad, this is not one of those times!!!     And that's it!!!    Cupid's off my Christmas list!!!!      I scowl..er...with love of course!!!     

"Maybe..." I say slowly before rolling my eyes at Cupid.  "And maybe, you're the one making me say those things...you hit me with your best...er...love dart...remember?"

Cupid blinks rapidly. "But I never hit u with any of my arrows.  In fact, I no longer take the risk of shooting arrows into anyone unless they pay beforehand...blame the economy..."

I gape.     Is he trying to tell me that the "love" he's been busily shooting into us for the past era was all about commerce???  That "valentine love" was devised by art rather than by nature???    "Huh?" I stare at him with all the disillusionment I felt.     Unholy love!!!!  What's this world coming to????  Yikes!!!!  If it wasn't for the busted economy, I would have never seen this little Shorty's true colors!!! 

"Don't look at me like that." Cupid pleads.  And then, his feature turns slightly belligerent.  "What??? Ya didn't know my arrows cost money?????

Yikes! I'd no idea...in fact, I always thought...

"So..." Cupid interrupts my thoughts. "How do you do it...how come you are capable of loving the whole world without my love-infected arrow?"

"Why should I tell you?" I demanded...er...with love of course...and then it dawns.  Wow.  Cupid needs love advice from me???  Something must be right with me after all!!!

Cupid smiles shame-facedly.  He shuffles his short cherub feet and adjusts his empty quiver.  "It might earn me some credit in the universe...you know...I need this more than ever since the current economy doesn't allow me to squander arrows..."

Ah. Suddenly, I am filled with even more compassion and understanding.  I spoke slowly.      "To love the whole world even when it tries to make you hate it is the toughest thing of all and yet..."I  pause for the words to filter into Cupid's heart-shaped brain.  "and yet, it's the easiest thing ever..."

The little love god frowns.  "I don't understand."

I make a face.     "It's all about a certain understanding of the universe and why it works the way it does...and once you have this secret knowledge at your fingertips...(to know when to be all accepting or non-accepting)...you're better equipped to survive in style and harmony ..."

Cupid looks slightly mystified.  "Huh?"

I sigh.   "Ah, Cupid...you're an eternal child....but even children might be able to see that to the universal mind, this world is perfect...to the individual mind, it's imperfect. Neither is right, neither is wrong..."

Cupid brows clear. "That makes some sense.  Go on."

I roll my eyes.   "When you view things through the universal mind, the world becomes a laughing matter...it's very funny...(and yet from the other end it's so not funny) ....and it fills you with love and compassion but that doesn't mean you won't ever be bombarded with emotions such as hatred and anger...."

Cupid is deep in thought. "I see."

I scowl.  It's about time he saw!!!     I continue.   "Through the individual mind, the world becomes a crying matter, and you are bound to be straddled by all the unnamed emotions...but that doesn't mean you won't feel love and compassion as well..."

"So." Cupid pursed his lips and blew a curl out of his eyes.  "I don't understand how viewing the world through the collective mind will make hatred for my backstabbers vanish in mid-air." He pouts.  "I don't see the 'funny' at all."

I laugh out loud.  "Omg!  Can't you see how we are constantly trying to cut our nose to spite our face but don't know it?     God, we're so cute!!!!   Some of us are even  more suicidal than that....I mean how can we not see we are part of the whole and yet...it's great we can't see this!!!.   So no wonder we're like the programmed jakal who steals other animals' babies to feed her own.  Sure, Nature designed creatures like her to keep the balance in the animal world but we're gods and humans for crying out loud...what's the point of calling ourseves humans if we can't see beyond the path Nature laid out for us??????"

"Hmm."  The God of Love says.  "So humans can survive without letting their Nature dictate to them????"

"Perhaps."   I'm already out on a shaky limb so why not blabber some more.  And that's another funny thing about this universe, the know-it-all like me are the blabber mouths who don't know anything at all.        "If we can see beyond the programmings, we're better equipped to  adapt consciously instead of blindly....yes,  even when circumstances are beyond our control."  Ha.  Put me in a barren desert and see if I don't eat my own hand to survive.  Put me in the shoes of a mother whose children has been slightly hurt and see if my killer instinct don't rise to the surface like a stomping mad wild, wild west, Yo Samite Sam and his trigger happy pistol.

"Ah." Cupid smiles.  "When we view the whole world through the universal mind, it's easier to accept...."

"Yes."  I say.   "We're able to understand why half of the world will try to push us along while the other half of it will try to hinder us.....that it's all about the forces and the law of compensation which are always on the move to keep the universe in balance..." I let out a wise sigh for effect.

"Duh..." Cupid says.

"The forces that come to pull you back are really the forces that will make you stronger, keep you fitter for survival...so these are the forces who do not know by pulling you back, they are actually pushing you along....they cannot see that in order to hold you back, they are holding themselves back...so really and truly, we need negative forces in our lives as much as we need the positive ones."  I am out of breath but I can't stop talking.  It's all Cupid's fault for being such an easy-peasy listener.  "And whether we surrender or stand firm at the feet of the stronger force--"

"Ah." The sweet little force appears suddenly enlightened.  "I get it! I get it!!!" And before I could even blink, he's literally on the floor laughing his head off.

I smile.  Poor little sucker thinks he's enlightened.  Wait until he finds out this world is an illusion and yet it's not.   "This world is filled with irony." I raised my voice a notch higher hoping it would cut through Cupid's laughter.  "Kill another and you kill yourself. Perhaps not literally, but you will no longer be the same person.  You'll be reborn into a new being....but a painful rebirth it shall be...whether you're filled with regret and remorse or with more anger and hatred."

But alas, the little Eros is too busy laughing with the world...and he should be for he's after all, the God of Love.

Oh well, well, well. Heaven.  Now that "love" has been fully re-established inside the God of Love,  happy Valentine dear world of mine.   If you ever read this, you would know for sure that  Cupid and I, we love you...

Yep, I'm very glad I met her...so thank you earth god for creating virtual worlds for all of us  souls who would like to meet the whole world but is too lazy to move our feet...(whoever would  have thought that fingers would one day outrun feet!! Certainly not me!!!)

Now, back to Liza.  Ah...she's a great friend, one you could tease around the bend...and she would never take offence...and she reminds me so much of the girlfriends I left behind back home. (I treasure my girlfriends and I only have a few here on CA soil so thank God for Gaia...now I have gorlfriends from all over the world....)

 Yep, Liza turned out to be a great friend, the kind of friend that would warn you your bra-strap is exposed or try to help you smooth out the kink in your hair or even come to the bathroom with you to to help you remove wine stains from your evening gown....and so much more girl stuff....

So really now, whoever  said Diamonds are a girl's best friend probably never met Liza.  She's a sister and friend in one.  And seriously, I would gladly trade in all my diamonds for one precious girlfriend...that's how valuable they are......someone to giggle with...someone to share stories with....I mean...can we do those things with cold, hard, sparkly stones???  Ha.  In our dreams, perhaps...

"Leez." I emailed her one fine day. "What say you that we visit Ama and see how huggable she really is?"  And while I could find no one in my world that would help me fulfill this curiosity, Liza was there of course.

The other day, I shouted out to her, "Hey Leez, come to my house to help me host a bridal shower." And of course Liza will be there in her coconut bikini to help me stir up pina colada for my guests.

 While other Goddess touched me with their night

A rare one approached me bursting with light

With a touch of cool breeze, a dash of sunlight 

Her girlish charms lit up dark Gaia plights

Liza, God's promise in Hebrew, God's bounty in Latin

Her grace is soft as silk and smooth as satin

And with a smile that equals that of sunrise 

You could see profound wisdom dancing in her eyes...

At each and everyone's blogging sessions

She radiates charms and joyful impressions

She's kindness and sweet generosity

And also a skyrocketing Miss Popularity

She nurtures all, on her you could depend...

She really is Mother Nature's truest girlfriend

And as if they are poetry she has never before heard

She smiles at flowers, animals, people, birds...

On the blooms of life, she is a rare flower

Keeping gardens alive with flair hour after hour

Liza, a modern gal of the world and as versatile

She is The Philippines and Canada in rocking style...

So if any of you miss our Liza, please feel free to say how you feel.  I promise this blog won't self-destruct for a while :)

PS:  Yikes!  I am getting all sleepy.  Will edit later...