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It’s Ma Fin’s birthday today and here I am with my cousin waiting for my brother and his girlfriend to pick us up. Tagal kaya! I just wanna be home in time for dinner! I was actually happy we were dismissed early this afternoon but a bit disappointed that I have to sit here and type this post while waiting for kuya.

……hmmmmm….

I just received kuya’s text that they’re coming to pick us up na. Yehey!!! Buhbye! But too bad that I have to get up really early for my Research Grad make–up class tomorrow at some function hall in some hotel in the city. I have to figure out how to get there. ack! at least free snacks and lunch so I don’t have to worry what to feed my tummy.

Besos,
iVy

:)

"If you have your passion as your profession, then you wouldn't have to work a day in your life." :)

after......

After a day of locking myself in this windowless cell of mine, after staring at the monitor while trying to figure things out, after almost finishing all the stick-0’s and butter cookies in the jar, after the A.C. almost gave up on me, I, Ivy Rose Adame finally made....a part of Chapter 1 draft of my research which will be passed on Saturday. Adios amigos y amigas!


Besos y abrazos,
Ivy

from papa dearest :)

Papa Z bought this materials for me couple of days ago. He is supportive of my teaching career. haha!He said I could use it for K1 and K2 kids and I could also use it for my tutees. I love my father so much!!! Next time, I want storybooks especially Dr. Seuss' Classic book collection.

besos y abrazos,
ivyleauger

For F.M :)

I am praying for you, really! I know it's painful and hard but these are some feelings/emotions we have to deal with our life. Part of living! I once underwent that painful biopsy thingie and from that moment on, I promised to take extra care of my health.
I like you F.M. because you're a good family man and you have deep faith in God. God Bless, brother! That in all things God may be Glorified! :) my prayers for you!







nb: F.M. is one of the few people I look up in the music industry. Truth to be told, that I do really like him ever since the day I saw him on screen. :) And how it breaks my heart to see him suffer like that. In a way, I wish I could take that disease away from his system, but I am not a God. Yet I am a good servant and my prayer now is the only weapon I've got.

F.M.'site: http://francismagalona.multiply.com/journal


besos y abrazos,
ivyleaguer

me likey audrey hepburn! :)

If I were to choose a decade that I can go back, I will choose the decade when Audrey was the biggest and brightest star on her time. Then maybe we could be best friends! hahaha... then i will also be wearing that little black dress and wide brimmed hat! :)

my thoughts :)

I will not let that little crazy and stupid incident in my life define who IAM today!


besos y abrazos,
ivyleaguer :)

overly eggcited(hehe).... and thankful for the gift of friends! ;)

Someone I know in Bangkok sent me an email months ago and said she’s opening a new international school and invited me in for an interview with the principal but I gratefully replied to her that I am back in my home country and that I would love to be a part in her school if only…. Chuva chuva and a list of reasons why I have to stay back home.

I am doing perfectly well in my thesis topic and recently I had a good rapport with someone who writes books about men teaching in ECE. :)

And yes, I am eggcited!!! to work this June. I had my demo last Monday and I got the job and I will be teaching kids again. Oh, I love being a pre-school teacher! I like my every day interactions with kids and how curious they can get. Sometimes I asked myself why I am in a teaching field and then I suddenly realized that I am a nurturing person. And kids need a lot of nurturing and only passionate teachers can give that. So, maybe it is passion that pushed me through to become a pre-school teacher. And really, I thank God for that.

I am happy for the gift of friends. I have friends back in Bangkok who still manage to keep in touch. Thanks to Facebook! My friend and partner Gerah keeps me updated with her life and last December she finally got the chance to be with her family for Christmas. Adam still sends messages and I am happy for him and his Thai girlfriend—they might be tying the knot soon! Wow! And of course my Pinoy and Thai friends are always there to brighten up my day in FACEBOOK! Hehehe!

But today, I want to single out Adam because he was one of those few people who helped me get through life especially when I was so down and low in spirits.

Adam is one of the good friends I had in the school I worked for a year and a half. Whenever I need to share up my pent up emotions, he was there to listen, to give some few tips on how to stay positive in life and we also shared the same passion for books. He would lend me some books and then always had that cheerful smile whenever we bump into each other during lunches at cafeteria and meetings in the library. He was there to comfort me whenever I ranted and raved about my failed relationship. I guess, he was one of my closest guy friends in Bangkok before and I am thankful that I have a friend like Adam.

some of our messages with each other... :)



Adam Gilbert
January 4 at 10:47pm
I agree with June, what a pretty photo of you. How have you been, what are you doing these last several months? Will you come back to Thailand anytime soon? Are you in school? Have you read any good books lately?
I definitely need to travel and see the Philippines and when I do would hope to see you and my other friends who live there.
Take care and keep in touch.
Adam


Ivy Rose Adame
January 5 at 2:46pm
Hello Adam! Happy New Year :) I am ok. Im currently taking up Masters in Early Childhood Education and I guess Im enjoying it. Next week, I'll be having a demo in a school I applied and I hope i'l get accepted. Need to have a job. hehe...
oh, i have lots of books here. From Grisham to Coelho, self improvement books and some biographies. I have Aaron Spelling,Dan Qauyle.. etc..
How are you? enjoying life? We should be. Life's too short so lets make the best out of it. Yeah, it would be nice if u could come visit Philippines . I hope to visit Thailand. I miss that place.
Take care and Gobless,

ivy


Adam Gilbert
January 18 at 11:37pm
Sawadee Be Mai to you too. It's great hearing from you. I am happy you are continuing with your education. Actually. I may know a few good guys who would love to meet a wonderful girl like you.
Have you read any Deepok Chopra? I just recently read his "Seven Spiritual Habits of Success". I highly recommend it. I also just read my first book by Truman Capote. He writes very well and very interesting. Let me know when you visit Thailand. I am now in karachi and will be in Thailand from April - July. Then I will be teaching in Phnom Phenh Cambodia at a very good International school stating in August.
Keep in touch and out of trouble.

Adam

Adam Gilbert
Congratulations on getting a job. I assume it is in the Philippines but where in the Philippines? What subject/grade level will you be teaching?

Yes Deepak Chopra is Indian.

Hopefully we will be married before I go to work in Cambodia. Both myself and Nui are wanting to get married but it's up to her Mom when, (I say when because her Mom has become very positive but hasn't said yes yet). I don't know how it is in the Philippines but Thai people are very conservative. Anyway, Nui and I talk every night between Bangkok and Karachi. We also get along perfectly well and are ready for family life- I've been single way too long.

So how bout you, any prospects, (that doesn't include cute gay guys...sorry)?

Take it easy,

Adam



There goes! Thank you God for the gift of friends! :)

Besos y abrazos,

Ivy

in touch...

I got an email from Apple, one of the Nursery parents in KPISS before and it is just so nice hearing from her and to know about how the kids are doing. Dreamy transferred to International School of Bangkok (ISB) which I believe is the best International school in Bangkok while Mawin (my nursery kiddo) transferred to Magic Years International Kindergarten School where Gerah also works as a pre-school teacher.

I like Apple so much--- I mean, as a mom to her two kids, she is very supportive and sometimes I wish I could be like her. :)While waiting for Dreamy’s class to end, we would exchanged notes about handling kids (not that I’m a mom—but being a pre-school teacher is more like so being a mom, hahaha) and she also shared about how she met her hubby, about living in Vietnam, U.S. and Russia and about Thai culture. Sometimes, we gossiped about the latest Hollywood stars like Jen Aniston and discussed also the affairs of the wives in Desperate Housewives and some other trivial things in life. She once worked as a flight attendant in Thai Airways or that local Thai budget-air. Her hubby works in an oil company in Russia so during holidays she and her kids would fly to Russia to visit.

Here’s a picture she attached on her mail :)

Happy New Year!

Hello world! I miss this semi-personal and some kind of more public space (haha) of mine. I haven’t written anything for the past few weeks. I was in Bukidnon during the holidays and I did not feel like posting anything. I pretty much savored the holidays lounging around. It rained almost every day and even during Chrismukkah and New Year’s so it was all wet..wet..wet.. ho ho ho holidays! And there’s fog almost every day and the air was chilly and I loved it. I thrive in wet, cold places and I still have to figure it out if I was a human specie from North Pole that was just born and bred in the hot, tropical place that is Asia—truly Asia.

What else is new with me? Oh well, not much but I have a strong inkling that 2009 is my year. I just hope that everything will fall into place and that I will finally be cutting clean with all these emotional baggage that has been there in the deep corners of my heart for the past 2-3 years. The thing is that, I am actually thankful for that experience. I learned a lot of things in loving a person and I am still thankful to him for sharing with me brief yet beautiful moments together. That is enough for me --- to know and believe in love again. I don’t want to live in bitterness. So, I am happy for him and for his new-found love. Cheers to all of us!

I just realized that my dreams before have been dumped somewhere else because I was busy paying too much of a whistle. Right now, I am simply moving forward with a young and joyful heart. I have to thank my GOD for giving me second chances. There are moments though that I cried for what life had brought me years ago(when i chose to love a guy forever) but now that my heart has finally on its way to total healing, I am assured that there will be an ever better tomorrows. God isn’t finished with me yet. :)

So, I try to live each day with a genuine purpose. And I am happy that I’m almost halfway through my Masters Degree. I hope to formally start my thesis writing this year. And yeah, I will get a job that would sustain life’s basic needs. Believe you me, the trying times has helped me a lot in looking things in a new perspective. I learn to value every single cent that I have right now and I finally learn to appreciate little things in life. I am thankful that I stay close with Papa and Mama and that I get to see them every day of my life.

Happy New Year Everyone! Happy 2009!

Oh, love...

I've given you the best years of my life
You know it's true
If I failed you
Then God how I tried......


Oh love don't let me be the last to know
If it is true then tell me so
I wanna hear it straight from you, oh yes I do
Oh love don't let me be the last to find
That you are gone no longer mine
Don't let me be the last to know


You promised me
If ever things went wrong
That you would be
The first one I'd hear it from
But when they tell me you've got somebody new
I have to smile and say it isn't like you
Oh but deep inside you know I wonder
Oh say it can't be true