Archives – May, 2009
I have been moving out and in lately. I just moved my other blog from blogspot to wordpress. I spent time looking for related themes though. I’d been wanting to move all my blogs to wordpress. But I’d been too lazy to look up for some themes. But the other night, when my friend Ruby and I were chatting, out of the blue, I loved one of my blogs to wordpress and moved it to self-hosting website. It was fun looking for themes… but it was a bit tiring.
Another moving out that we are going to do is moving out of this house. For real. I have started packing, of course but I only packed the ones we’re giving away. I know it’s tiring to be moving houses. But we don’t have any choice. Our 3-year contract is going to end soon.
I know I would be needing a lot of rest. I haven’t been sleeping well lately. I wonder if the sleep number bed could help me sleep better. I wish there’s a way to try. I really need to get a good sleep before starting a heavy job of packing and relocating.
May 31, 2009
You Think Concretely
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Your brain works best when you are able to see or visualize what you’re thinking about.
You have an both an eye for detail and for the big picture. You study things carefully.
You are in tune with all of your senses, and you think better with a clean workspace.
You are open to all sorts of input. You are a free thinker who lives in the now.
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May 18, 2009
I guess I am. This morning, I went to pick my boy up from school. My girl didn’t go to school today.She was sleeping deeply this morning I hated to wake her up. So when I picked my boy up from school, I took her with me. When one of the teachers saw her, she was talking to her and asking her why she wasn’t in school today. I was already holding my boy that time, but I was also talking to the teacher.
Suddenly, there was a screeched I heard. When I turned to my left, it was a Vios car driven by a Chinese lady. She was gesturing something and I thought she was scolding me for something… like not being careful. Without thinking, I made a grimace and told her I saw the car coming. She rolled down the window and was pointing her fingers at me. I got confused. She was saying something, not smiling. So I told her again, in a firm voice: Yes, I saw you coming!!! By then the teachers were already wondering what was happening. I was already in a defensive mode. I knew I wasn’t dressed properly (only in shirt and shorts). In my mind, probably that lady was thinking I was one of those maids who’s not being careful with the kids.
After a minute, she said No, No. Are you from Sonshine playgroup? Then only I recognized her face. She was one of the mothers I used to talk to when I used to go with my kids for a playgroup. So I told the teachers not to worry because I knew the lady. She drove to the side on the other side of the road. I ran to her and we both apologized for the miscommunication.
Yes, I believe I’m being paranoid. When taking care of my kids are being questioned nowadays (as I’ve been getting that a lot), I become very defensive. They all can question my character and personality and I wouldn’t give a thing, but not with the kids. I would definitely speak up. And when I speak up, I really do speak up… which I did, a few times already.
May 14, 2009
I don’t know if there’s such a thing. But yes, I’m having a post-holiday blues. So blue even my long-deceased friend I am missing. I heared our song this morning and it made me even bluer. We started becoming friends when we sat next to each other in Probability and Statistics subject when we were in college. It was a summer engineering class and not medical assistant training school, by the way. We were both in our third year and we got the same score on our first quiz. That’s how we started talking to each other. We became really close.
We graduated 2 years later and went our separate ways. He worked in a different office, at NIA (National Irrigation System) Regional Office. That time, when we just graduated, Caraga Region was newly formed so they were hiring a lot of fresh graduates. My batch my one of the lucky batches to get a job in a government regional offices. I was hired to work in DPWH (Department of Public Works and Highways). We all got different jobs but the same work scope.
Well, in spite of different locations, we still managed to meet from time to time. We would always go for a night swimming. I realized that only Filipinos do night swimming coz when we introduced it to our foreign friends they were surprised we did that.
Anyways, Joseph was the closest guy friend I ever had. We were on the same wave length. But he passed away when I was in Thailand. Sometimes, I take responsibility over his death. Not that I killed him. I think I gave him less hope. No hope from me, if that was the right way to say it. I shared with him the true Hope though. But he wouldn’t listen. Of course, I couldn’t tell you the details of the hope I deprived him of. I respected him so much I promised not to spill out his problems even after his death.
I miss him so much.
Our song was played this morning.
Missed him even more.
Dear Joseph, wherever you are, you are badly missed.
May 14, 2009
In my previous post, I blogged about the effectivity of diet pills because I wasn’t sure if it really work and can actually help people lose weight. While I was online, though, I saw that a lot of people make a review for those diet pills. I sure read the liporexall review. It worked well for a lot of people. But I’m still not sure whether I wanna see it for myself.
It helps a lot when you ask around first before taking that step. It’s good to learn from our own experience. It is a good teacher. But it’s always better to learn from other people’s experience. Saves us a lot of trouble.
May 8, 2009
One thing that I haven’t tried yet is rv holiday. You can only that in the western countries, I think. So far, there’s nothing like that in Asia. It would probably be fun to do that, especially with your family. I don’t mind doing that if it is available in Malaysia, just to have an experience.The kids would probably love it too. They love going around and doing fun stuff. So I am sure they would appreciate it.
So… where to next? I mean for a family holiday? Not so sure. We just took our last “planned” holiday. So if we’re going off somewhere, it’s most likely that we are tagging along with hubby going to work.
May 8, 2009
I have been blogging much about thinking of popping in some diet pills. But I wonder if they are safe to use? Seems like a lot of people are using diet pills to lose weight. I used to take appetite suppressant when I was single. It truly worked. But it has affected my memory. Everytime I took it, I would sure forget a lot. And when it faded in my system, my memory worked well again. That’s the side effect of it. But not sure whether you get that side effect on all diet pills? Some might work without side effects though. Will have to ask around.
May 8, 2009
Technically we don’t have a car. Peter gave his old Ford car for his father to use since we were using friend’s car who is now based in Australia. We basically are taking care of his Volvo car. But that car is in the workshop now. Something happened to the air con that’s why we needed to send it back to the car air con shop. Good thing our neighbour, who is a flight steward, let us use her car just in case we need it. It’s a small Kancil car which is okay to use. Kancil is a local car which makes it very easy to maintain since the spare parts are locally available. Another good thing about it is that you don’t pay much for auto insurance and it saves a lot of petrol. So while waiting for the Volvo car to be fixed, we are saving. Great, huh?
May 8, 2009
I have posted in my other blog that it’s good to go to Hong Kong for holiday because if you’re concern about spending money on food, you end up not eating much… which helps if you’re on a diet. I didn’t say that we didn’t eat much though because traveling really makes one hungry. So we found ourselves eating all the time. And you know what I would always order? Noodles. Yes. Noodles soup, friend noodles, noodles, and noodles that. Not only in Hong Kong I ordered noodles… but in Macau and China also. I just couldn’t resist eating noodles. And I could eat it everyday forever. Hehehe. And yes, I do need some kind of weight loss pills after our holiday. Or maybe not. I probably just need to exercise.
May 8, 2009
One thing I noticed about having Farm Town and playing with others is that people come to you and ask for a favor of doing a harvest. They come to your farm, leave a note saying that if ever one is ready for harvest, they would come and work. Then you hire them because you don’t want to say no to a friend. But they never give you a favor back. Hmmm.. I guess that’s life. We just need to accept that fact.
May 8, 2009
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