i choose to live this way...

(photo taken a couple of years back. on our happy happy trip to Bohol:D)

Today. Yes, this very day.
I decide to start things anew.

Thank you, Lord for NEW beginnings.
My Life is FULL TO THE BRIM:)

So blessed, that i can't even contain it.
it is soooo happening.

optimism is the key.

"can you just cut it?"

When you decide on something, do it. (with eyes shut!)
I've never gone this far. And it's liberating...
think: (me) skipping giddily on the mountaintop :)

I'm loving the new me.
(so totoy-ish ^.^)

Do you love it too? (go ahead. say it!)

Creds: Thanks to Ate Carl for doing me this fabulous bob. :)

washed out

Photos: (top) the port in one of our river communities (bottom) boats are used to hop from house to house, some places have worse scenarios. :/

"Today, i thank You, Lord, for keeping me safe.
Forgive me if I was ranting about dripping ceilings and flooded floors.
When my brothers and sisters out there were homeless.
Their shacks washed out by the swollen rivers.

Lord, make the rain go away.
We've already had so much..."

i'm taking it back :|

when it rains, it pours...
i remember ranting about the ceaseless rains we've had here at faraway land.
(and how it turned out that i ate a meager meal because of it... review feb 15 blog)
it was rude of me to have said that. sheer apathy. how insensitive of me. :(

weekend passed and i began grasping information on damages caused by the week-long rain.
thousands were affected. houses shoved by the riverflow, straight out to sea. countless were homeless. all they have left is their mere lives. ricefields turned into seabed as rivers swelled.
i saw some of with my own eyes, the devastation was spine-tingling.

and there i was ranting about wet feet, soaked in flood. dripping ceiling turning my foam into waterbed, while some are out there in the cold, with nothing to eat, heck, they don't even have homes anymore.

how could i be so shallow. and selfish. my demeanor was saddening.
so i'm taking every awful word i said. i should have known better.

FYI. click on the stories below

This one's as of today:

East Samar now under state of calamity

Authorities in Eastern Samar province have declared a state of calamity after continuous rains that have triggered floods and landslides killed at least five persons and affected more than 10,000 families. Flash floods and landslides still loom over Bicol and Eastern Visayas.

For full story, pls click on: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/81164/E-Samar-under-state-of-calamity-toll-at-5

Got this one yesterday:

Landslides, floods isolate Eastern Samar

Representative Teodulo Coquilla of the lone district of Eastern Samar also reported that farmlands in his hometown of Oras and the municipalities of Dolores, Can-avid, Jipapad and Taft in the northern part of the province were flooded after rivers swelled.

For full story, pls click on: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/
20080218-119660/Landslides-floods-isolate-Eastern-Samar

thank God, we're okay. though trapped...

in the limelight(?)

Work has given me countless novel experiences.
Apart from traveling and meeting new people, which i really loved:)
The dynamic work environment has somehow helped me grow more, and equipped the far-reaches of my personhood (hmmm. anong connect?)

Life is sweet. Why? Our group at faraway land got tapped for a momentous event with our Swede counterpart.

click on if you fancy more info-> Faddergalan 10ar: Plan Sweden's 10th Year Anniversary Gala.
(December 2, 2007)
Yup, it was their tenth-year anniversary gala. And they did a four-hour show to spur more Swede sponsors. It was a simultaneous feature telecast on Uganda and the Philippines.
It was a cinematic take showing nighttime at Uganda and daybreak here in our country, particularly at the eastern most tip... Eastern Samar.

If life could be sweeter...
The producer approached me and asked if they could do me an interview.
Well, my eyes almost popped in disbelief -> o.O

Imagine, sitting there right infront of the camera (there were about three of them). Conversing with their top celebrity, agneta sjodin.
And all those are beamed back home. with roughly 10,000 viewers!!!
Talk about a three-minute shot at fame.

To see is to believe right?
Well, here's the "rough" proof of the whole (sweet) experience...


This one's taken during the rehearsals...

i was nervous head on...

This one here, actually got beamed to Sweden at around 4am i think... (it was 9PM there)

it was raining hard, then it stopped when it was my turn. (malakas ako kay Lord:D)
bloopey: can you count "they were able to..."
(twas pretty obvious i was not in my normal self. kabado)

Oh by the way, we got the original copy from the Swede team.
If i can figure out a way to break my part from the whole thing, then i'd upload it too:)

life is so sweet. sweet indeed...

disclaimer:
yup, i know. it's been two months since the event. so what?
better late than never, right? bwahahahaha. oh yeah, thanks for the vid, fritzie:*

go away :/

mood: downtrodden.

it's been raining nonstop for three days now.

i've always been a lover of the rain. its pitter patter on the tin roof.
the smell of the surroundings. cold wind that send shivers.
the feeling that i'd want to sleep in. sleep through all day.

but i guess there's just this hint on things when you'd call it quits.

nonstop rain turned this (already forsaken) place slumped more in misery.
i know it was rude for me to say that. but i'm just stating a fact here.

would you still love the rain if...
everything around has been soaked. heck, it's an understatement.
the streets seemed like river flowing out to sea.
our room in the office slowly morphing into parts of "waterworld".
landslides made the roads inaccessible.

oh, this poor place. (that's me morphing into the apathetic self i once was...)
"waterworld". felt like doomsday is inching its way in.
nowhere to go.

nothing to fill our tummies. would we die of starvation?
how weird can this get? i'm saying such as i'm clicking away on my laptop... tsk.
i just feel sorry for myself. i've never realized i would come to this state.
i used to complain about food served before me. then i learned to be less picky...
but but this.

rice and some random fish sabaw for lunch? (just because...)
i don't mean to be demeaning. but i just think it's unfair.
why would you serve (almost) stale food to your consumers?
everything served on her "cart" seemed so yesterday.
fried fish fried for the umpteenth time. pork dishes tasted weird to the verge of staling.
i thought i could still thrust it down my throat, but i can't.
hence the italicized "hefty" lunch. and i had no other choice, i was famished.

why would they serve such? is it because it's been raining and it's hard to head to the market to buy fresher goods to cook? is that so old grumpy lady? or you're just simply doing this to earn... and not do service as far as food SERVICE is concerned? i really disdain being in her carinderia. :/

for a nano-second i had a flashback of home.
my mom never fed me rice and some random sabaw for any meal.
and life here at faraway land had caused me this.
how pathetic can this get. i felt so sorry for myself. sigh.

thank God i'm coming home.
kontiing tiis na lang.
my days are numbered...
thankfully.

rain rain go away...

Vday: so the (k) drama...

i've never spent v-day with anyone in particular.
it was always with a bunch of good old friends.
it's been that for as long as i can remember.
and it's not that i'm ranting or anything...

today, we "planned" to spend a grand night.
eating out. to our hearts' content. everyone was so excited.
but heck, the rain ruined our glorious plan.

simply put, we ended up going home early.
eating a bowl of hot noodle soup coupled with hardboiled egg.
take about eating fancy...

and yes, we indulged ourselves with the tube.
i specifically await for this cutesy show in GMA 7 (no, it's not kamandag or marimar. i'm sorry)
(in defense: well, i'm not exactly a "kapuso". but i'm left with no choice. wala kaming cable, so i'm compelled to watch stuff on ch7. wala akong choice okay?)
back to what i was saying. i became enthralled with this K-novela.
well, i've been a sucker for stuff that had a tinge of east asian feel to it. so this one's definitely love right here.

oo, kahit na sabihan niyo pa akong jologs. i don't give a damn.
i love the series. it's so funny, and light. hindi siya tacky.
and i can somehow "relate" with the boyish lead actress (andie). and i like the supporting-semi-ka-love triangle guy there (errol?). he had the "nerdy" feel i like in a guy. haha.

ang saya! excited nakong mapanood yung full episode. hindi ko kasi 'to nasimulan e.
here's the trailer, take a look if you like ^.^


kahit wala akong date.
at hindi natuloy yung plano namin...
masaya pa rin ako today coz i got to watch coffee prince