Friday, December 16, 2011

GO at least once a year to a place you have never been before.





This year, I did exactly the same, thrice. :) ♥ 


Hopefully this 2012, I can start traveling outside Palawan. I wanna tour the whole South Luzon, experience the food and the people as well. I want to widen my horizon and I want to get away from my comfort zone so this year, I really, really hope to travel more.


Please, Lord. Thank You in advance. ♥



Tuesday, December 13, 2011

sabang experience!


last friday, i was really lonely, as in i was really down. after i posted my last blog entry, i don't know what get into my system but i just stayed silent the whole day of friday. it wasn't my typical behaviour and yes, maybe it was because i'm tired of my routine? so that night of friday, i asked God to take away the burden i am feeling that time. He never did that night. so i just went to sleep, still lonely. 


the next morning, i'm ready to face another day and i decided to move on from yesterday's feeling lonely. and so i received an invitation to go to sabang... you know how much i love to travel, right? of course i grabbed the opportunity! it was a free vacation, how cool is that?! God really is the best. He knew i needed this vacation to just think and commune with nature so He gave me this. how awesome really is my God! ♥


although the weather is cold and rainy, i enjoyed my stay there nonetheless. i had plenty of time to just unwind and not think of work and responsibilities.


it was a nice feeling. :)








so i went home happy, at peace with myself, kinder, gentler, and eager to work again. the kind of feeling i had two years ago when i'm still so excited about living my life and looking forward to so many great things that will unfold right before my eyes. saya. :)





Friday, December 9, 2011

Saved in Order to Do Good

1 Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, 2 to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.

3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. 8 This is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.


My silent moment/devotion with the Lord last night have these passages in the Bible. I was moved by the intensity of what God wants us to do as Christians. It made me realize that we have big responsibilities for our actions and the way we handle ourselves with other people around us. Then I realized I'm not so gentle and considerate anymore, that I get really impatient towards everyone who are so slow to talk and think. I realized, too, that my kind of work had left me jaded and unkind. I'm not the same anymore. I am jaded already? At this early age? I've still got a long way to go and it feels like I'm getting tired already. So these realizations made me really think of taking charge of what I really want to happen in my life. Next year will be now or never so I will really make all my dreams happen. Jesus never saved me to be unhappy with my life. He wants me to have eternal hope and to do good to others so before I get really burned with the things that make me sad, I'm breaking free. I'm now sure of this. I can do this. We can do this. Just thinking about this big decision I am going to make makes me happy now. It only shows that what I'm planning is the right thing. So dear Lord, I know You'll always support me. So thank You in advance. =)



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Anyways, while I'm reading my Bible last night, I heard Stacie Orrico's Everything and it made me think, "uy sakto sa akin to ah. :P" The song is full of hope and faith towards the plan of God in her life when it comes to the person she is going to marry. It's like she really trusted God in that area of her life and I want the same for me just like everybody else. Nakaka-inspire. :)


Nagpapaka-soft na naman. Yihee. =)







Stacie Orrico - Everything. ♥

I said a prayer
That someday I would find a boy
And together we’d find joy
Maybe someday
And he would care
About the color of the sky
About the things that make me cry
Maybe someday

And if it happens this is what I’d say:

And I will give you my life
Together we’ll make it right
And I will say to you
What is for sure
That I’ll give you my world
And baby I’ll be your girl
And I will say to you
Everything I have is yours

I wonder if
If God has shown him
He is the one whose gonna marry me
Maybe someday
So, I’m gonna wait
‘Cause I’m worth waiting for
And what I’m worth is so much more
For that someday

And if it happens this is what I’d say…
Movies I am so looking forward to watch this 2012. ♥































I hope to watch them all in the cinema already. I'm so excited. =)





Thursday, December 8, 2011

50 reasons not to date a graphic designer.






(in bold my most representatives)



1. They are very weird people.

2. There are billions of them in the world, like colors on the screen of your computer.

3. They will analyse conversations in layers.

4. You will spend the day assembling furniture from IKEA.

5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.

6. They hate each other.

7. You’ll come out the last out of the movies because you have to see the full list of credits.

8. They cant change a light bulb without making a sketch.

9. They fuck up all the tables with their cutters.

10. They rather study the paisley pattern on your outfit than listen to what you have to say.

11. They will fill your house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings.

12. You never know if it is really an original or a copy.

13. They make collages with your photos.

14. They do not know how to add and subtract, they just understand letters.

15. They idolize people who nobody knows and speak of them as if they were his colleagues.

16. They take pictures almost daily and all are cut in weird shapes.

17. They ask your opinion about everything but they do whatever they want.

18. Everything is left justified, right or center unless they arrive late.

19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.

20. They use iPhone for everything, because everyone has one.

21. You can not decorate the house without consulting them.

22. They steal street signs.

23. Always carry their hands painted with something.

24. They buy dolls unfinished for them to paint.

25. Everything becomes something other than what it really is: cards as tickets, cards as …

26. When arguing, you will be nicknamed like the OSX spinning wheel (not affectionately)

27. Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.

28. They hate Excel.

29. They read comics.

30. They want to save the world only with a poster.

31. You will spend the day brainstorming.

32. On vacation they will take you to countries that you do not know exist and have no beach.

33. Museums are their second home.

34. They know more positions than the Kamasutra.

35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.

36. They listen to music you have never heard of.

37. They can´t cook a normal dish, they always have to experiment with new ingredients.

38. They read rare books: stories of children, Semiotics …

39. When they are going to tell you something, everyone has read it in their facebook and twitter.

40. They have own iPods before you knew they existed.

41. The orgasm they remember is when they heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia.

42. They have their own shops just for them and there are the most expensive in the city.

43. They want to spend all the money in the Apple Store.

44. You will never understand their gifts.

45. They see ordinary objects and laugh.

46. You wake up in the middle of the night hearim them screaming “When is the deadline?”

47. They see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.

48. They dream of the day nobody will make a single change to their designs. ◄ This.

49. They rather pay for a font than for a special birthday gift.

50. They are always sleepy because they work 24/7.



Tuesday, December 6, 2011

status: grateful for this great joy ♥


i had a pretty rough week last week and it ends on a not so amusing way. my entire year has been fairly nice, fairly dull, but most of the time it was a happy year until last thursday... i saw some things that doesn't feel good from the inside and based on my experience, i don't tolerate this kind of situation in life so i decided last saturday that i will let go, that it's totally over and i won't care anymore.


what i wrote on my previous blog entry put my heart to shame because i said there that my Christmas looks a bit gloomy.. i'm ashamed of myself and thankful for the Lord because He reminded me once more that the essence of Christmas is Jesus Christ. He gave Himself to save the world and experiencing a bit of a heartache won't change the truth that God's gift for us is ultimate joy and that we should celebrate merrily because it's the birth of Jesus Christ. He is worth all the joy we will experience on that day and in the future. that's why i will really celebrate my Christmas day thanking Him for a wonderful job He has done in my life this year. He deserves it. 


back to the issue, in the midst of  this another "blow" in my personal life is the realization that God isn't finished yet in writing my own destiny. it's my fault that i'm being impatient always. :p but i know i will be owkay again and again and again. i know this is just another bump in the road but i also know i will thrive on this wisely. i'm such a strong woman now, you know (i know). :)


to end this post on a positive note, i am so thankful with my friends.. they make my burdens lighter and put my self-esteem on high again just what i needed the most. lastly i am so thankful for my personal Rock and Salvation because He's always there, as in He's using different circumstances in my life to let me know that He won't leave me and that He loves me very much and He has better plans for my life. i just have to trust Him unreservedly. 


Kaya maraming, maraming salamat, Panginoon sa mga paalala sa akin araw-araw. ♥ :'*



Friday, December 2, 2011

My heart was saying, “Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long.” The Lord was answering, “I must teach you to long for something better. 
- Elisabeth Elliot (Passion and Purity)



To long for something or someone better is His will in our lives. We shouldn't really settle for anything less than we deserve because He bought us at such a high price. We don't deserve people who will only play games with our emotions, who will not value our trust, and who will not take really good care of our fragile heart. 


Maybe the reason why this certain thing is happening in my life is because I need to put up firm standards with people I choose to welcome in my life.  I was really looking forward in the holiday season because I'm expecting that something exciting will soon unfold but unfortunately someone already blew it away. At this early stage. Behind all these things, I realize that happiness can be stolen big time through online evils. Such pathetic move. I really don't know why they do that. 


But having weathered same situations in the past, I know I can get on with this issue once more. I know that I am now a strong woman and I can handle all these setbacks in my life with grace and confidence. My holiday looks a little gloomy from where I am right now but hopefully with God's grace, I'll be okay on the Christmas day itself.



(ps: i miss this kind of rants ha? i seriously needed this thing once in a while to avoid mental madness. :p)