Just the way it is...: December 2008

Add Joy to the Holidays with Holiday Greetings

Greetings are the best means to express your feelings. Where greeting cards express your feeling with the help of images and quotations and custom text, these also are an excellent means to be present with someone even if you are away from him or her. It is also the best means to convey your emotions and make aware the other persons how you feel about him or her. Holiday greetings are also in vogue these days following Christmas holidays.

Greetings have though evolved over a period of time and now people have started preferring online greetings rather than paper greeting. Where paper greetings were popular in the past years, there is a sudden shower of online greetings options these days. The greatest advantage about online greetings is that it can be customized at will of the presenter. A person can customize the greetings with respect to the overall theme, size, cover image as well as the text inside the greeting. Besides, the online greetings also gives you the advantage to send it on a designated date or time, so it is like you can customize a greeting and the online greetings provider will make sure that it is delivered to your friend or the loved one on the required date eve if your forget to send it.

Apart from this the online holiday greetings gives you the advantage that you can order a greeting by choosing from a range of greetings available online and the greeting will be delivered giving a surprise to the recipient. So order one today.

I'm talking about this pool table below where we (my friends at work and I) used to play. Working on a night shift can be dreary too at times especially when you have to wait long in between hours before the customers starts to fall in. But thanks to this game... it keeps our dull moments away.

"Time to play the game!" was my gag line whenever I spot quite a lengthy silence between us at work particularly after dinner time and all the bar seats are still empty. I'm not a good player yet but during my entire stay, I get to learn new things about it everyday like the different ways and some of its playing strategies. And so far I have tried the most basic 8 Ball, 9 Ball and the popular, Straight Pool. It's pretty challenging... you have to try it yourself.

We, Filipinos perceived billiards as "larong istambay" (bystanders' game) but I was amazed to find out from many of our foreign guests especially Europeans were very much fascinated with it. And I mean they play real good in it. Hmm...do you wonder why?

Read more about it here.

when god takes something away from your grasp...

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To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.

Concentrate on this sentence...

"The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you"

I think this message will work well to people who doesn't possess the virtue of PATIENCE like me. True enough! Nothing worthwhile is ever easy.

Have a blessed Sunday to all :-)

they say...

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tears always comes next to laughter...

I don't know if you came across with this adage. To me it sounds silly and illogical but to some extent, it happened not only once but on several occasions in my life... although, I still don't see the relevance. I believe things happen for a reason. Sometimes, we provide our own reasons to make things happen. Even the tears that we shed at times is out of our own decision.

I spent the early part of the day yesterday crying over some personal reasons. As another cliche goes... "There is always a rainbow after each storm". True enough! After a moderate compromise, everything went well.

Early evening, same day...I received an invitation for dinner from a friend through SMS. No occasion was celebrated... it was just a plain and simple casual get together. We all enjoyed the food and have had so much fun chit-chatting about whatever that came to one's mind. We also had a drink after filling our bellies up. We had cocktail mixes, a bottle of wine and beer. I'm really not a drinker but doing it occasionally can be fun and relaxing too. We all have had a good laugh!

tears always comes next to laughter... (just an irrational reminder!)

So, did I cry again today?

Surprisingly, YES!.... but definitely not because I made a good laugh yesterday.

i finally quit ...

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... actually it was even before Christmas when I verbally raised to my boss that I'm giving up the job for some reasons but she requested me to stay until January till she gets somebody to fill in my position so for the time being I stayed.

Today, I'm officially quitting!

I'm quite sad because I really have nothing against my boss and the job itself. I enjoyed doing it somehow and meeting new friends and acquaintances is what added the fun and made the experience more pleasurable.

But why I gave up? The root cause is not really worth talking... well apart of course from the initial reasons I have mentioned in my post here. I think it is more safer to say... that I am simply giving the chance to someone who needs the job more than I do.

Sounds phony? No I'm not trying to be.

Being rational and civil... YES!

But I will never forget the experience. A one of a kind work experience I have had in 2008. I've learned a lot and it was awesome!

Someday, I still wish to visit the place again.

pagasa's first weather advisory for 2009

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Weather Advisory #1
LPA (Low Pressure Area)
Issued at 5:00 pm, 02 January 2009

THE LOW PRESSURE AREA (LPA) WAS ESTIMATED AT 340 KMS EAST OF EASTERN VISAYAS (11.0°N 129.0°E) IS EXPECTED TO BRING FREQUENT RAINS OVER EASTERN VISAYAS AND NORTHERN MINDANAO. THIS WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL CONTINUE TO PERSIST IN THE NEXT 2-3 DAYS.

RESIDENTS ALONG THE FLOOD AND LANDSLIDE PRONE AREAS ARE ADVISED TO TAKE ALL THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES.

The next update will be issued at 5:00 pm this afternoon.

Source: Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration [PAGASA]

The weather condition was one of the reasons why I decided not to go to work yesterday. The wind has been disturbingly blowing along with the rain on a whimsical directions all day. When I woke up from a 2-hour sleep this morning, the weather looks exactly the same so that prompted me to look up on the expert's forecast and that statement above tells it all.

My current location: Panagsama Beach, Moalboal Cebu (one of the affected areas).

I just hope my Internet connection would not get affected, with the annoyance that is predicted to carry on in the next 2-3 days. So far, it is still working fine!

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Lately, I have this guilt feeling towards my readers and visitors for the effort they have extended only to visit a getting so lousy and sleazy blog... (shame on me!) That is why I am using my belly condition as well as the so dreary weather for an excuse to get an off from work today. I am so stressed out as of late. My job consumed too much of my time and energy that it leaves me do nothing but to spend my free hours in bed sleeping instead of updating and doing the rest of my online chores.

I knew it!

With its nature and the responsibility that the job requires, I know doing a time compromise is never gonna be easy. So I am giving a thought of giving it up... I also need to weigh things out. Benefits and take home wise. Well, I knew actually from the start that I will never get even half of what I make from blogging but just because of the fact that I am starting to feel like I already become an internet slave which I don't think is healthy at all is what made me decide to get a land based part time job.

Tsk...tsk...tsk... silly me!

None of what I am doing is healthy at all but hey... practically aside, I would rather spend my time and effort to something that would pay my bills and would help me get by. I think that would make more sense...

happy new year to all :-)

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Now is the time to unfold new perspective and realize new dreams. Perhaps a time to rediscover our strength and faith within us... rejoice in simple pleasures and gear up for a new challenges...

...and like birds, let us leave behind what we don't need to carry...

Have a lucky and wonderful 2009, everyone!

my christmas rundown

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I felt unhappy I wasn't able to be here to wish everyone a Merry Christmas yesterday. Though I have said, I am not looking forward for a merrymaking, deep in my heart I still thought of peaceful and safe celebration for everybody.

I was thinking of letting it pass just like one of those ordinary days but last night my boss surprised us with a little get together party. Obviously, we don't know about it. We shared dinner together with her family, had a drink and she gave us holiday favors as well. As soon as I came home, JK was there waiting to spend his time with me so it was nothing awful at all.. and that wrapped it all up. I get to spend Christmas with some nice and special people. Plus, I got to talk to my mom and my daughters back home as well and I'm glad to know that they're all fine, healthy and happy.

There is nothing I could ask for...

...though it's a bit late, still Merry Christmas to everyone around here:-)

one of these days...

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Why don't you leave if it's that bad?
How can you let this happen?
If I was you, I wouldn't put up with that.
Why don't you just kick him out?

Just WHY do women can't stay away from an abusive relationship?

This is a very frustrating reality one can never imagine to happen to any of their loved ones. The questions above left me wonder... how on earth can a woman allow her husband or a partner to make them feel worthless and have their self-esteem stomped into the floor? They simply have no right! For me abusers are nothing but a bunch of trashy cowards. That's all they are capable of doing... punch, kick, slap, shove, humiliate and degrade those whom they think are weak and powerless.

I remember what my father told my ex-husband before he died...

"Talk things over no matter how complicated the problem is." "Never... and no one's gonna hit any of my daughters!"

Unfortunately, he was no longer around when my ex for the first time lay a hand on me some few years back. So NO QUESTIONS ASKED after he did! Just don't let me dig into the details for that is not what I am writing this post for. Even if I can be a whole lot happier now with the present relationship I have with JK, I still can't help myself not to worry for my sister and her daughters' situation. The main reason why I am still stuck here in Cebu until now. I have been wanting to go back to Davao a long time ago if not for them. But like what JK told me, no matter how good my intentions are and no matter how hard I am trying to help them out, it is still her decision that counts in the end. Which I think is true although for me, it is still unjustifiable!

It's only a day before Christmas... I don't even look forward to celebrating it this time. No one has ever a clue how desperate I am in trying to help her out from this situation because she simply don't deserve to be treated like what her "husband" is doing to her. And no one has a clue how disheartened I am for she don't seems to notice how much I care for her and her daughters despite everything I have done for them.

I know...

I cannot be her heart and her brain.

I can only be a sister to her.

And I can only do as I can.

I can only wish for wisdom to find its way through her mind and heart one of these days... if there's any!

supernancygirl

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Like what I said I'm no superhero. I wish I can do everything this super girl can do, tho but I know it can't be possible. I can only do what I can and when I can...

And JK can only imagine me as a super girl as he looks at me like I wanted to shoulder and save the whole world before myself, lol!

But seriously, I wanna grab this opportunity to thank him not only for this surprise image he made last night... somehow it lightens my emotional baggage... but more importantly, for always having a shoulder to lean on and a warm heart that comforts all the time despite our distance.

Well, back to the image... he's actually fond of doing stuffs like this using different pictures of me especially when I can't be around for him. And yes, this is the latest product of his so perceptive and clever imagination...lol!

What can I say!

See also related post here.

i forgot...

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Before I accepted my new job, I know I have to make a compromise with my time which is nothing easy for me at all. I promised myself not to take my blogs for granted but unfortunately, somehow it still did happen. Not on purpose, tho. I work on a night shift and as much as I would like to spend even a little time here after work, I cannot usually cause I just can't dictate my mind and body when and when not to work any farther.

I forgot, I am no super hero. I cannot do anything for everybody just like what I am trying to do right now. I forgot I should be observing some limitations too and only do things as necessary and cannot always make everything happen as much as I would like them to happen my way. And no matter how I am trying to make other people's life easier... I forgot I still don't hold the key on how the way they wanted to live it. Frustrations, disappointments, bitterness and resentments are all I got in return. Boy, how good am I on making someone else's life easy but when it comes to me, I'm no less than stupid. I think I should have my eyes open to the fact that I am no better than what I can be.

holiday greetings from deneero-ites

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updating here...

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While having a short break from work, I was thinking of dropping a few lines here using one of the computers here in our cafe. This weekend is gonna be a busy one for me. We do have accommodations for two groups of guests until tomorrow so instead of working on a night shift, I was asked to temporarily report during the day as well... Whew! I hope this won't take the best out of me. As I have mentioned here, the nature of the present job I have now is very new to me and every now and then I am learning new things..

Well that's all for now. Hope to visit you guys the soonest possible I can. Thank you so much for all your visits. Till then!

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