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If wishes were fishes

I have an ocean’s worth swimming in my head right now. Some are as fierce as sharks in clamping onto my attention. Others are like little minnows that flit in and out of consciousness. Some are big, Jonah-style fishes that seem to loom over everything else.
Here’s a sample of my fishies:
I wish I can move back to 924. […]

A month’s worth of Truth Thursdays

When I was still chained to a computer 5 days a week, what made cubicle incarceration worthwhile is facing a blank Wordpress blog template and filling it up with my thoughts. Sometimes they come tumbling out by themselves in an outpouring of joy or angst or fear or gratitude. Often, I find myself groping for […]

5 Beautiful things on a stormy Saturday

I’m in Tarlac for the next week or so…voluntary exile from the hustle and buste of city life. Here are the things I appreciated in the real world, post Kawayan Camp:
1. Seeing my grades in my first year in grad school… amazing.
2. Staying at our rooftop and being tossed about in my hammock in Signal#2 […]

Learning New Things for 2008: SPEED Video

I don’t own a camera and I am totally clueless about documentation. I have ample cause to regret it when I look back at my recent spate of out of town trips and activities the past few months. So here’s something that I hope I can learn within 2008:
from http://bongkiko.blogspot.com/
SPEED video
I developed a course on video […]

Three beautiful things

For a slow Thursday are:
1. Witnessing a friend encounter God and realizing that John 3:16 is self-explanatory.
2. Anticipating my first niece (a doll! yehey!).
3. Receiving a farewell letter with from a person who made the past year worth it.
I’ve been to the videoke 3x the past month. I miss singing. I miss the choir. So […]

Summer countdown

“Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living”
- Jim Elliot
This quote comes from one of the numerous LCM (Love, Courtship and Marriage) books I devoured in times ofhormonal imbalance. Since my love life right now remains a perpetual item on my prayer list, I am instead using this line to remind myself […]

10 Simple Joys for February

Yes, boss Tatint. Here ya go… there is more than 10, so i grouped ‘em:
1. impromptu KC reunions and realizing that half a decade later, we are still friends.
2. stargazing at midnight in Baguio, listening to the utter silence and wrapped in a bright yellow comforter with just my glasses and nose peeking out.
3. taking […]

Papampam

in response to Xaris’s meme:
please leave something If you read this journal,even if I don’t speak to you often,post a memory of me.It can be anything you want.It can be good or bad,just so long as it happened.Then post this on your journal.Be surprised and see what people remember about you.

My standards for a partner circa 2005

When  I was 21, young, naive, and delusional, I made a covenant with two equally naive and delusional girls. Here is the result of thesis stress, hormonal imbalance, senti overload and prayers (I think) rolled into a list:

UHC Covenant
June 23, 2004, 7:29pm
Chowking Metropoint MallWe will marry a guy who..

1. Loves God more than he loves […]

The best things in life are free

Enough of the angst. Here is my happy list. Inspired by the commercial and a blog by the Simple Dollar, I listed down the things which make me happy and are free. Or at least, with a negligible price tag.
1. long talks with friends
2. reading borrowed or library books
3. hugs
4. walking along the edges of […]