Kawayan Camp 2008 is over. How do I put a month’s worth of memories into words?
Let me count instead the ways I encountered God in the ricefields of Negros.
Each time I gazed at the starry sky or at a blazing sunset and marvel at their beauty.
The only time I did a serious Spritual Retreat and finally was able to […]
Half a month into Kawayan Camp, I am:
sunburned and evading bugs that bite
speaking English a lot… saken naassign yung Korean na camper e
very well-fed and am among the few counselors NOT on a diet and still eating rice everything
learning to understand (and speak?) Hiligaynon and Cebuano
back to wearing a tubao and baggy clothes
falling asleep 0-5 seconds after […]
Since I had no camera and am too lazy to download almost a thousand photos from my companions’ multiply sites, here is the text version of my weekend away with officemates at Baguio, during the Panagbenga 2008. Unlike the horde (flock, multitude, masses, crowds, etc) of humanity that converged in the summer capital last week, […]
It was the week before Valentine’s
And I was very well fed…
February 9 Saturday
The Singles Club plus some not-so-single persons had another aftershift camwhoring session at Eat my English. I survived on Cara’s leftovers, Wendee’s Bicol Express and chicharon with rice. Then had coffee at McDonald’s while telling stories about grisly childhood experiences:
voice over from Dennis: […]
Boring. Right now, I have no social life to speak of; I’d rather sleep or read a book than go out during weekends. Most of my friends are connected to either my work, church, org or with school, so I tend to meet up with them under those circumstances. But after feeling burnt out […]
I don’t know why I keep on making this list when I end up forgetting all the items by the 2nd week of January. Like banging my head against a brick wall… But hey, while there’s life there’s hope.
Faith Walk
1. Feeding. Daily QT, weekly CG or BS and quarterly SR. Back to “milk” for me.
2. […]
The first half of my Christmas break is over. Definitely not enough; good thing there is a 2nd bout of downtime next week. Christmas 2007 was crammed with:
Eating. Waiting for food to be cooked. Eating some more. Especially Tarlac delicacies like bagis (carabao meat), burong hipon (fermented rice with shrimp), kilawin (meat with vinegar), my […]