monday blah blah...

sweet cravings!one of the reasons why i gained EXTRA UNAWNTED FATS!!

Last night, I kind of made a promise to wake up early in the morning. But I woke up around 8 and I hate myself why I can’t seem to be awake by 6:30 or 7. I’ll try again tomorrow. :)




To shed EXTRA UNWANTED FATS I helped clean the house. It took me quite a long time to sweat so I text my brother to get my trusty wooden hoola-hoop in the city. I can do hoola-hoop for more than half an hour and it does really makes me perspire real fast. But sure it does feel good to help around the house. ;)


After cleaning and all, I rummaged the bookshelves and thought of what im going to read during the week. I actually have a lot of choices, be it tragic love story, sappy ones, kiddie stuff, Christian faith and beliefs, suspense, self help books, law and crime among others. But it went down to four choices; The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks, The Beach house by James Patterson, The Broker by John Grisham and Amistad by Alex Pate. And I chose Amistad because it’s a true story based on the 1839 mutiny that led 53 men and women to seek justice and freedom. :)


Tomorrow I’m going to do the mirror exercise. The idea of doing it really scared the hell out of me but I have to try it. The best place to do it is in a darkened room, lit only by a candle then it is also highly recommended to burn incense, like Frankincense and Myrrh. Then choose a mantra, like “I accept myself” or maybe the ancient mantras like “om” or “ Yod-He-Vau-He”. Goodluck to me. :)


I invited Hope to watch Sex and the City(the movie) with me this Friday then she also invited me to come along with her in one of the bars in the city this Saturday night. I’m not really a big fan of going out especially bars but she’s been inviting me ever since OCGS days. So, I might as well go and enjoy the night at Pulse or somethin’ like that. (wherever in green earth it is located) hahaha!!! I’d rather be in a quaint little café chit chattin', talking about the days of our lives. That cozy place where I can just sit and relax, that kind of place which nudges me to stay and try another piece of muffin or chocolate chippie.Hmm….But I reckon it won’t hurt if I hit the bars sometimes. ;)

BFF

photos: (dyosa n dyosa) (me, dyosa,choco)

my day's ok. school's fine.. my bestfriend gave me a bouquet of flowers. I'm glad we're classmates in one of the subjects. We're classmates in Devcom before and had the same majors, then when i worked at Gsinc she told me she will enroll in Nursing. But it did not happen. After my 3 or 4 months stay at Gsinc, decided to take supplementary units in Professional Education so that I can proceed to Special Education.I laid out my plans and told her about it and she also wanted to enroll. So off we wentto X.U and took Prof-ed. Then, i transferred to another school for my Sped while she stayed. But even before when we're still in college, we would dream of being pre-school teachers since we both love being with kids. hahaha!! We even act like one when we're together, laughing like hyeenas, throwing fits, do some kiddy stuff and the likes.

After taking the LET board exam, we both applied to different schools. I worked in Oro Christian Grace School then K-P International School in Bangkok while she works in Rosevale School up to now.

And in the unfolding of events and in my spur-of -the moment decisions, I decided to take up Masters in Early Childhood Education since dealing with kids and interacting with them is my forte. Should have been Special Education but i don't think I can handle special kids especially that I had surgical operation years back. Being a Sped teacher means you have to streeeeettttccctchhhhhhh your patience till the rivers run dry.

Anyhoo, I came back home to study and my bestfriend and I are crossing paths again. We're both taking Masters and both very happy that we get to see each other every Saturday. :)

Just this morning, i told her maybe we are destined to be friends forever, destined to be in the same path forever, maybe my son or your daughter (or whatever) are also destined to be sweethearts or if ever we both have lil girls, maybe they're destined to be best friends forever. Or maybe my future hubby (only God knows where his soul is right now, haven't met him yet) has a bestfriend too and then maybe during my wedding you and the bestfriend both click together. Then,we will both have purrfeecttt life. :)

.. then i asked her if i could see her palms and compare it with mine. Amazingly perfect, we both have the exact palm lines, (whatever it is called) both left and right.)

then i guess we're destined to be the very best pals in the whole wide universe. :)

hodge -podge

photos: Zach and Kim :)

I’m back in the city again. Tomorrow’s gonna be a long day for me. My class will start at 8 and ends by 5 but I’m fine with it. In fact I wish I have classes during week days because I’m totally bored staying in the house practically doing the same things everyday.

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But I had a great time this week. I felt no pressure whatsoever and I got to really take my time in sleeping as long as I please. In Bkk, I had to wake up really early for work and had to take Bus 95 which will stop by the Soi, then another 2-3 minute ride towards the end of the Soi. And I arrived really early, like 6:15 and I was like, “alrightie, guess i can take forty winks, if the souls in this building won’t mind”. Hahahaha!! The same thing goes while I was still working in Oro Christian Grace School. When I was still assigned at the Admin office, I arrived really early that I have to buzz and the night shift guard will open the gate for me. Anyhoo, I saw Mr. Chee today (Ocgs’s Director) at the airport while I was waiting for my brother. I used to freak out before whenever he went to my desk and ask me to fax this, call Mr. so and so, ask me “ivy bah, bat’ ganito, bat’ ganyan”, “ivy, update me sa mga enrollees”, or sometimes he would flare up at the office speaking in Mandarin or Fukien. Oh, gone were those days but still he’s a good boss. He even extended his concern to me when he knew about my once-upon-a-time failing health.

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Papa was super nice to me this week. I needed the green table to be moved up to my room so that I can just dump my books in there. He volunteered to tidy up the dark spots in it. First he went to the garage and got some chemicals and when it didn’t work, he asked me to hand him a Zonrox, then after that Muriatic acid. Viola! It worked! And after I had my afternoon nap, I found the green table inside my room already. :)

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Hmm, something’s really bothering me right now. I had a chat with Zach the past few days. He was my co-teacher back in BKK. He is an (ESL)English as Second Language instructor and he shared to me how pissed off he is with his life, with the things going on with his work, his life (as a single parent), with his Dad who recently passed away and with everything. He shared to me his heartaches and vice versa. He wondered why there’s so much crap dumped on good people and why so many good things are given to those who deserve nothing more than crap. I wish all his pain will simply go away.

He has an adorable son, Kim (half American-half Thai), who was with me in the Nursery class for 6-7 months. Whenever Zach would drop Kim in class my heart wrings when they say their goodbyes.

Bitches

I was up and about one fine Sunday morning, stretched my arms up, went to the backyard and found myself totally alone. Papa took Ma Fin and the rest of the gang to church, 5 or so minutes away from where we lived. Then, I saw our dogs inside their makeshift kennels, lying down (they didn’t even acknowledge the presence of their secondary master, haha! My two brothers are the first) by wagging their tails or making sounds. But when I went around them saying my “good mawnin, doggies”, sang the Monday-Sunday nursery song and woof, woof, woof they went barking like crazy, mad dogs especially those two crazy sharpies on the other side of the kennel who barked the loudest and craziest. I want to kick them out because they ruined my one, fine, sun-shiny day. I loathe them. Probably because I was out of their sight for a year and a half and seeing me again is like seeing an intruder. hah!

But the words written on the chart really made me laugh a bit. On it were the words written by my brother, “Expected delivery dates of the bitches”. Oh well, I know that a bitch is a she dog but I couldn’t help but thought of the slang def. of it which is a malicious, unpleasant, lewd woman. Anyhoo, four of our bitches will be giving birth soon and kuya has to keep track of their daily food intake and vitamin supplements.

Bitches’ names and the blah blah’s

Sugar: 20-30 (July) 14- 17 12x by Macy Cdo

Misty: 20-23 (July) 2-28 4x Chuckie Cdo

Hanni: Aug 01-11 6-9 11 x by Hippo, 1 x by Pumpkin

Tara: Aug. 03-13 12 x shadow


Those were probably the dates they were knocked up and the number of times they were being knocked up and Macy, Chuckie, Hippo, Pumpkin and Shadow were the knock uppers. Hahaha!! So bitchy, right?

skadoooshhhh!!

photos: 1.Po panda 2. Nursery kids

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Last night, my brother and his girlfriend invited us to catch a movie. Kung Fu Panda is the first movie I saw since I got here and it was a nice, funny movie. Jack Black as Poo Panda's voice, Angelina Jolie as Tigress, Jackie Chan as Monkey's, Dustin Huffman as Shifu's, Lucy Liu as Viper's is so perfect. :)

Oh, how i love the sweet,fat and clumsy Panda. I wish I could watch the movie together with the nursery kids back in Bangkok. I could just picture their glowing faces while watching Po do the tricky moves. (sigh!!) Every wednesday is a movie day for them. And every wednesday, I got to watch cartoon movies too. Awesome!!!

I miss the kids..

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."

"There are no accidents."

just another day

My day today was quite good though a little bit productive. :)

I’ve been sharing a room with my cousin and my sister in the city and I guess the moment I will make a mess in their small rented room, they’re going to kick my ass out. Since they are usually out around 7-7:30 am, I have the luxury of time to simply lounge around, surf the net and check out the latest Hollywood gossips among others. Of course, I will never miss out facebooking and friendstering. (hahaha)

Browsing the net, I updated myself on the news re: an Austrian dad who held her daughter prisoner(in a windowless cell) for nearly 24 years and fathered 7 children by her. It was the worst case I ever heard and that dad really is a MONSTER. He deserves to be punished in a worst, humiliating way there could ever be.

Were the graduates of Harvard University this year lucky enough to have J.K. Rowling as the guest speaker during their commencement exercise? Well, some graduating seniors were grousing that Rowling wasn’t worthy to be the featured speaker and that they are entitled to get anyone. I reckon “anyone” for some of them would be the great leaders in the world. Rowling follows a long line of bigwigs like George Marshall, Bill Gates, Kofi Annan and the likes.

Anyway, I took time to read Rowling’s speech and I’d say it’s very inspirational. She stressed out on the power of imagination and how it can bring people to other people’s places. I believe that it does not really matter who the keynote speaker is, whether he/she is the king of the world or just an imaginative writer like J.k. Rowling, what matters most is how he/she inspires the young people of today to do better, dream more and act on it.

"We do not need magic to transform the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have power to imagine better."

50 years and counting!

My family and I attended a Golden Wedding anniversary of Gramps Hugo and Granny Isabel Tolentino yesterday. It is so amazing how two couple could last half a century of being together. And I thought of many formulas on how to keep a long and lasting love and I came up with this one. It’s not I love you BECAUSE but I love you IN SPITE OF…

During the ceremony, Granny Isabel’s golden barkadas from Lourdes sang an oldie song “No Other Love” and then I saw Mama mouthed to me the words, "that’s the song I had with my… .(she meant the boyfriend she had before my papa) and I don’t know if I should be sad or what. I saw her sang the song with that sad look on her eyes. I believe during that brief moment she must have one of those misty-eyed view of the past. There’s still that soft glow and wonders painted on her almost wrinkled face. And oh God, that guy must have been the love of her life.

And I felt really down in the pits that moment knowing that 50 or so years from now, I’m gonna be the same woman who will mouth to her 24-year-old daughter the same lines, “that’s the song I had with… the guy I used to love).

And oh, dear God, he probably must be the love of my life. (sigh!)

“No Other Love” and “MoonRiver” were the songs that filled the air during Gramp Hugo and Granny Isabel’s 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary.

No Other Love
No Other Love can warm my heart
Now that I've known the comfort of your arms

No other love.
Oh the sweet contentment that I find with you Every Time
No other lips could want you more
For I was born to glory in your kiss.
Forever yoursI was blessed with love to love you
Til the stars burn out above you
Til the moon is but a silver shell
No other love, Let no other love

Know the wonder of your spell.

Moonriver
Moon River, wider than a mile, I'm crossing you in style some day. Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker, wherever you're going I'm going your way. Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. We're after the same rainbow's end-- waiting 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend, Moon River and me

(my favorite oldie song...)

24 and blogging!

im back to circulation!