Why is My Blog Called Cathara?

And so I was created and now, I’m coming out from my shell. I am no longer premature, I am in my perfect season to get hatched. It's up to you on how you want to take me and what I say. Sunny side up? Scrambled? Boiled? However you want it my dear readers, that's fine. As long as you keep the yolk, the core of it, coz it's my favorite part.

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I miss my long hair:(

If you’re an avid fan of my blog (lol, just to make myself feel good), you would surely notice my new layout! :) Well, I made it like a month ago but I was a little bit hesitant about posting it. It’s probably one of my shameless desires and I realized I should just post it coz I put a lot of heart and effort when I made it.

My idea was exactly as how Cathara describes my blog. I realized that I’ve been changing my blog layout every few months because of my dissatisfaction. So I decided to make something that would make me stop changing, and that is to put what I desire. I guess I'd leave this new layout for a year :P

For the past 2 years of blogging publicly, I’ve considerably changed. And before I reach my mid 20 on October, I wanted to dare myself of doing something a little brave and daring like this. For some, I might be deliberated a sleeper, but I think if I started early, I would just be too premature to start. As they say, there’s always a right time, and I feel that today is just too perfect to begin.

So obviously my layout shows me (blushing :P) coming out from an eggshell. Well, to make you fully understand, it would be best to share why my blog’s name is Cathara and what its subtitle means. I’ve been blogging for a long time already but I think no one really knew what it precisely means. Now it's time to reveal it.

Cathara- it is a combination of the 1^st syllable of my name and Bathala (God). According to Philippine mythology, Bathalang Maykapal, or Bathala, was the Supreme God of the ancient Tagalog and King of the Diwatas. Derived from the Sanskrit term Bathara Guru (for the same deity), the concept of Bathala, as with many beliefs in pre-Hispanic Philippines, owe a huge debt to the Hinduism of the Srivijayan Javanese. All of these beliefs were soon changed after the Spaniards set foot on the islands. Spanish missionaries used Bathala as a way for them to convert the Tagalogs into Christianity by associating him with the Christian God. (…more meaning at Wikipedia)

And because I love Japanese, Zen, Buddhism, their culture, kimono, everything about Japan actually, I decided to make it Cathara instead of Cathala coz Japanese’s L is mostly R.

I know sometimes I’m of two minds and I’m radically a follower so in this way, it gives me a crtain feeling like I’m the commander in chief, I’m the author of my life, I have my own philosophy, and I rule. This is like a part of my spiritual journey and self exploration.

And to speak of spiritual, coincidentally, do you know that there are really people I have talked with and encountered in this cyberspace that connects Cathara with religion? Well, that I would discuss on my next post.

Ika’y hinugis at pinaahon sa lupa, pinagkalooban ng talino at diwa (actually a verse from ‘Bathala’, a Joey Ayala song) means you were formed and taken out of the earth, given the intellect and soul. And so I was created and now, I’m coming out from my shell. I am no longer premature, I am in my perfect season to get hatched. It's up to you on how you want to take me and what I say. Sunny side up? Scrambled? Boiled? However you want it my dear readers, that's fine. As long as you keep the yolk, the core of it, coz it's my favorite part.