“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 [...]
I finally submitted my resignation letter last February, effective March 21. After all my work-related angst, what took me so long? Well, it was just now that I finally got that clear signal to go. No fanfare, no big arrows, no voice booming from yonder clouds. Just having that peace and conviction settle in that [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thursday 2:00pm: I am cramming another paper due 5:30pm. I have not written anything really technical the past couple of years, and it shows. Approaching the 24 hour sleepless mark and only a blank Word document to show for it. Plus flourescent green stabilo marks on my hands and a much abused hand-out. Sorely tempted [...]
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When I was in elementary, my English teacher encouraged me to compete in an impromptu speaking competition. Everyday for a month, she would start the class with my training. I would pick a random topic from a bowl, ranging from the Spratly Islands to the Ebola virus. After 5 minutes of dredging my memory and [...]
Tomorrow, I will be busy with what I do best: uprooting myself and my meager bundle of belongings into a new “home” in Quezon City, near UP. SInce I am an NPA (no permanent address), home is where I spend the most time sleeping. That is now a solo room just big enough to fit [...]
I just enjoyed five platefuls of spicy caldereta, chopsuey, rice and chicken lollipops in our team’s victory lunch. Now, I am a nursing a very full stomach and massaging a sore jaw. Which reminds me…
This x-ray of an unknown person’s teeth is from the Internet.
Unfortunately, it bears a good resemblance to my actual lower jaw. [...]