SNIPPETS OF MY LIFE

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen.

Laugh often and it will cleanse your mind.  Laugh often at yourself and it will cleanse your heart.  Though we often seem to forget natural remedies to life, one of the best ways to clean our hearts, and purge our thoughts, is to laugh as often as possible.  A little known fact about a smile is how much harder it is to frown than smile.  When you smile you use less energy and less effort than you do when you frown, and this is symbolic of what happens in everyday life as well. When you go through life, in a celebratory fashion, with passion, motivation, drive, happiness, and a kind attitude, you will find that life is much less stressful than if you chose to go through life in a negative fashion.  Instead of giving your focus to the negative, make a mission to be as positive as possible each day.  Make a pledge to laugh often, so that your mind will be as free as it may possibly be.

...and i just wanted to shout and prolong it,,,,i wanna tell the world that i'm already thirttttyyyy! so proud to say it! haha. I realized just last week that my age right now is my favorite number. It just dawned on me that I am actually already 30. (I know, it took me half a year to realize that but for some reason for the past few months I felt like I was in a cave and have just recently emerged, ergo, the late realization…) For the past years, my favorite number is 2 and 0, and since my age was already added by 10, I just thought, maybe this year things will turn out to be very positive for me at this time of year.. Hmm.. Hopefully it is!  Just for curiosity sake though, I googled the number 30 and found some interesting stuff relating to the number: In the Bible: The number 30 can symbolize dedication to a particular task or calling. Aaronic priests were dedicated to serve at 30, in part because it was the age when a person reached both physical and mental...

Let's all heave a quick sigh of relief: my stress is temporarily abated. For now, it doesn't feel like it's going to choke the life out of me; it's acting like it's happy to hang around in the background, doing a delicate dance of coming up too strong and close, then pulling back when I'm about to lose it. I guess I have a habit of freaking the hell out with the amount of stress I have, and in so doing, it dissipates some. That, and, I get fed up with all the shit causing the stress that I tackle it like a crazy beast, and at the very least, things get scratched off the to-do list and I feel better. So right now, the water is calm, and I'm enjoying it. There are things brewing in the distance, both work-related and personal, that will surely up the stress levels soon enough. They will. I'm in a very busy and important time of year for my work, and the things that have popped into my life without any friggin' warning - like, not even a sign, or ...

I regularly have people ask me what I've gone back to school to study. Since it’s become such a common question, I thought I’d let you all know what keeps me busy and keeps me offline and not blogging much these days. I’m working toward getting my MA in Education focusing Early Childhood Educ. from the Cebu Technological University Graduate School. I’ll be hoping to graduate next year (Hooray!) I want to get a degree and I'm just thinking it positively not to boast myself just to get a higher position or better employment. But rather I want to pursue a degree that would enhance my skills in teaching that's related to my field. I'd rather be always on the go for a thread of life. What I left before was just a lapse, but I had never stopped. I wanna go on and keep on learning.   “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”

  Something you crave for a lot. I am such a weird person when I crave because I could crave for anything... as in, indefinite anything! It could be food that I don't know, it could be music, it could be a scent, it could be ice cream or fruity shakes, it could be shoes or bags or clothes or even a food that I see on tv or overheard from someone. I am very easy to lure and entice! Hahaha! Sometimes I'd be going around the mall and smell a mouth-watering scent and I'd go gaga asking whoever is with me that time (most of the time, The Boyfriend) what that scent is and there are some annoying times that I wouldn't let it go at all until I find it. I must say I'm sort of difficult to deal with at times, but it's all worth it cuz I'm really sweet and nice and everything else heavenly most of the time. There are also times when I'd find myself window shopping, finding a perfect thing to splurge on but couldn't afford so at the moment and then not getti...

yes. another quick post. another apology for days with empty entries... i really am sorry! it's been a crazy hectic week. stressful in fact, but i'd rather not think it is! cuz it's just going to stress me more for sure... might probably depress me, too. anyway, i'm hoping that i wouldn't be too busy at all by next week and i hope that i would be able to getaway... even just for a while. there are plans for an out-of-town SOON! we will see. hmmm... tiresome days really suck, don't they? right now... i wanna wanna, wanna, wanna WANT TO seriously have my own house or at least my own room where i can cry my heart out without worrying that somebody might see my pathetic shedding of tears. i'm just tired of holding back... anything. i want to break free. i want to be able to express whatever i feel at the right moment to the right person without fear... *sighs* i hate tiring days. i hate feeling tired. uh... i wanna zZzleeep.