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[This is a forwarded email. I thought I'd share it.] "Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice." 1. Pray 2. Go to bed on time. 3. Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed. 4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time schedule, or that will compromise your mental health. 5. Delegate tasks to capable others. 6. Simplify and unclutter your life. 7. Less is more.. (Although one is often not enough, two are often too many.) 8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places. 9. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time; don't lump the hard things all together. 10. Take one day at a time. 11. Separate worries from concerns. If a situation is a concern, find out what God would have you do and let go of the anxiety. If you can't do anything about a situation, forget it. 12. Li

This will be my last update on Maemae.  As of this writing, she is still in Baguio General Hospital completing her Meronem therapy.  Last time I heard, her typhoid fever caused her hepatomegally (liver enlargment) and they have also prescribed meds to correct that symptom.  They also removed her NGT the very next day when we brought her there and allowed her to go on a soft diet.  The day before, Maemae was telling her dad, "Paano naman kase ako makakabawas eh di n'yo ako pinapakain!?"   I'm glad the MD in BGH saw it ok for her to eat again. Her bowels work fine now.  On the 26th, she will have her last shot of the antibiotic and they hope to finally get out of the hospital.  They will stay in Baguio until the new year for her follow-up checks. Robert and Medy would like me to extend their gratitude to all of you who have been with them through those trying times by sharing your time in prayer and financial resources.  May the Lord richly bless you. Praise God for H

At around 1PM today, her parents and I brought Maemae to Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center for further evaluation.  We took the backroads of Ambuklao considering that it takes less time to get to Baguio via that road.  PTL, most part is now paved. An NGT was inserted last Dec. 14th at the hospital here and it helped a bit in reducing the distension in Mae's abdomen from 63cm to 57 today. She is feelng very weak now because she hasn't eaten anything for 8 days. I just came back from Baguio and I am a bit tired cuz B and I left for Manila on Sunday night to see his family, came home Monday night, and then I went to Baguio this afternoon and came home again after Maemae was taken to the E.R and I gave her mom a little tour of the hospital (where to find the pharmacy, laboratory, canteen, etc.).  I came back with the vehicle that transported her. It's good the roads in Ambuklao are better now and it only took us 4 hours to go and 3 hours to get home. Robert and Medy

No, you're thinking wrong. :) My brother is not gay, but he was forced to wear my sandals when we had to make a U-turn in the middle of nowhere. I was on a jeep (packed like sardines with sacks of rice, chickens, bags of junk food and boxes of various goods) that travels the worse-than-your-halsema road going to my birthplace. We left town at around 1PM and expected to arrive at around 6. Almost half way up the road that looks for the most part like a water buffalo mud pool, the jeep broke. The pile of metal (differential is it?) under its belly fell off because it has been "leveling off the stony 'hill' in between the path of the tires" for the last couple of hours. There were no houses in sight so we had no option other than to walk up the road and find a house while the guys try to do something about the jeep. After over half an hour of hiking, we came to a dwelling. There was a little sari-sari store with lots of ripe bananas for sale. We attacked the

I just came from visiting Maemae at the hospital.  I found her asleep in her mom's lap.  After a few minutes, she opened her eyes and gave me a weak smile.  The first thing I noticed is her abdomen.  It was too big and looks everything but normal.  There are both bad and good news about her illness.  The good is that her temperature which has been seesawing at 39 and 40 degrees C for the last week went down to 36 for the last 6 hours. The doctor said that this is a strong sign that the antibiotic (Meronem) is finally combating the infection on her swollen bowels.  The bad news is that they will have to insert a tube into her stomach.  As I said on the previous update, treatments being considered are surgery and an NGT (naso-gastric tube) for suctioning of the paralytic intestine.  This morning, the MD was preparing her for NGT insertion.  The parents asked me what I think about it and I didn't know what to say. Patients with NGT that I took care of years ago floode

After various tests including unltrasound of the abdomen, it was found out today that Maemae has a blocked and swollen intestine, medically called ILEUS-- a condition where a part of the intestine (large or small) is blocked or in this case of paralytic ileus, the bowel or intestine stops its peristaltic activity.  Treatment of this sickness is quite invasive since it might require total bowel rest, meaning the patient shall be required to fast for a few days.  Later on, a naso-gastric tube (a tube put into the nose through the nasal cavity then into the stomach) might be inserted for waste evacuation purposes and probably a surgery to empty the dysfunctional bowel and to correct the blockage.  Those are the treatments being considered but as of now, the doctor is keeping Maemae in a steady IV flow to give nutrients to her body.  She is also on that very expensive medicine to reduce the swelling of the intestine before any other treatment shall be done.  Hopefully the medicine will al

Dear Praying   Ones,   Please help us pray for Maemae (Myrle Kris Malcat), youngest daughter of my aunt Medy.   She was rushed to the hospital last Friday due to severe diarrhea, among other symptoms.   She is still in the hospital and yet the doctor has yet to determine what really is wrong with her.   Her lab work is threatening with her white blood cell count continuing to go way too low.   Her doctor just shifted to a stronger antibiotic which costs Php3400 a vial.                  -   Please pray for wisdom to the doctor. -   Pray for Robert and Medy as they figure out what to do.   (I suggested that they bring Maemae to SLU hospital in Baguio or St. Luke in Manila for another opinion.) Pray also that may they continue to find strength and comfort in the Lord as they battle with this illness that befell their daughter. -   Please pray also for financial provision for them.

ATTITUDE Author Unknown The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.  As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window. "I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. "Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen the room .... just wait." "That doesn't have anything to do with it," she replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on h

Rules: - Pick your birth month. - Bold the 5-10 that best apply to you. - Copy to your own journal, with all twelve months ( Click here for the months ). - Tag 12 people from your friends list. MARCH : Attractive personality ( di yata masyado kase maraming takot sa'kin) . Sexy (noon, hahaha) . Affectionate. Shy and reserved . Secretive. Naturally honest , generous and sympathetic (itanong na lang sa iba, kakahiya naman:). Loves peace and serenity . Sensitive to others (dati, di na masyado ngayon, medyo na-out of tune eh!) . Loves to serve others (in more general things, not much on washing dishes for someone or anything like that, c, i used to do that when I was younger but someone always told me na nagpapalapad ako ng papel so maybe i have a psychological thing with that aspect, lol) . Easily angered (hah! tumpak na tumpak). Trustworthy (guessed what? I got a most trustworthy medal in 4th grade, does that count? hehe). Appreciative and returns kindness (if i can). Obs

This last week has been unbelievably frenzied for me because all the tasks that I kept shoving into the back burner had caught up on me and forced me to move really quick. As always, trust me to put off everything I don’t like to do until the very end. Thank God, it’s over! Here’s what made my last week of November very hectic. But here are what made it interesting too: Eight more books of the OT that my team has translated were published in Kalanguya (although I have yet to see the new books.) My very good friend D (known to most of you as Layad or Fongakhan) spent a week and a day with B and me. We had a good time catching up on our gossip J but most specially, she helped me finish my academic work so that I was able to turn them in on time. My nephew turned 8 and we invited him over to dinner. We had his favorite spaghetti and ice cream (though super lamig na sa Vizcaya) and D made a yummy dessert out of Graham biscuits,

Praise and Thank God today! Yes, at last, I am now free from the 'oppressing' (hehe) school requirements.  I just typed in the last period on the last page of my paper. But you know, being the procrastinator that I am, I needed a few people to push me to do what I have to do, so this entry is in appreciation of those dear ones who gave their time to help me in any way they can. I thank God for UB and AJ for helping me conceptualize my Gospel Tract.  I thank God for sending my sis Daphne over to my home.  She came to take a much needed break (after a busy semester at Trinity in Singapore--busy nga ba sis? hehe) but unknown to me or Daph, God sent me an angel in her person to help me (as in doing the chores for me: i.e. washing the plates, cleaning up, cooking, making coffee, typing my papers when I had to write them by pen because we were occassioned by too many power blackouts one day, giving me ideas and aswering me when I go, "Ano na nga ba ang English ng....?&

One of the requirements in the course I attended last month was to come up with a printed Gospel Tract.  I have put it off for as long as I can because, I don't know... my brain just went on standby for the last few weeks and I couldn't get it to work no matter how hard and long I try to focus.  But two days ago, an inspiration came and yesterday I finished the tract.  I called it WHY?  Sometime ago, I received an email warning people about the movie The  Golden Compass.  I remember seeing its promo cut in a SM some months back and I even decided that I'd see it because the effects are quite amazing and starred in by a little girl as well as Nicole Kidman and Michelle Pfieffer. I thought it's a good movie, but the email said otherwise.  The email says, "There will be a new children's movie which will be out in December.... The movie has been described as "atheism for kids" and is based on the first book of a trilogy entitled "His Dark Mater

I was commenting on Kayni's latest blog entry but I kept going on and on that nagbainak so I cut and pasted it here. You might wanna read Kayni's entry to get a background. I remember my grandma's comment regarding the inability of celebrities to stay happy in a relationship (or to stay faithful in a marriage relationship), unlike their generation before. She said maybe it's because of the things we eat nowadays. Hehe! I am a believer of the religion :) "Love is a choice." I believe that Cinderella could also have been happy with the chimney sweep (borrowed from the movie EverAfter:). I heard people say, choose the one you think is best and make the best of it. Sounds simple enough. But that's in principle. Of course, it gets complicated in real life. Personally, I (and I'm sure many others) chose the person my heart and mind told me to choose, married him (rather had him marry me, lolz), and promised that everyday, I will make an active choic

This is a poem I wrote for my Old Testament 1 (The Pentateuch) course six years ago in seminary.  The professor gave us a choice between writing a 50-page paper or an artistic presentation on Creation vs. Evolution .  Of course, I chose the easiest way out and came up with a 1-page poem. T otal darkness, formless void, to splendor when HE said: “Let there be light!” H ands, never a need, for by HIS words The earth came forth. E ndless heavens, wonderful sights All in six days, by my awesome GOD. P ointless futility, this life would be Without the eye of HIM who sees E ve heeded the illusory lie, and Eden ceased Yet in HIS heart, love remained. "N ay, never shall you win!" was the word to the serpent But to the man, a promise… T enderly, HE fashioned history As a seamless blueprint… of liberty. A braham, oh how he held on! Never a question, but submission T hough blunders were up, plethora of gaffes Yet HIS plans, no faux pas can thwart. E volution, where is thy sting?

Got this in the email. I thought it's funny.. 1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down. 2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice. 3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that. 4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It 'In.' 5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso. 6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write ' For Smuggling Diamonds' 7. Finish All Your sentences! With 'In Accordance With The Prophecy.' 8 . Don't use any punctuation. 9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk. 10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face. 11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go.' 12. Sing Along At The Opera 13. Go To A Poetry Recita

Okay, let me do this since I'm in good mood, my computer just came alive, hmmmm.. 1. Page 101's post about the good cat! Check out her (Jane's post) 2. Still asleep. 3. Was yelling at my cable company. 4. 2006 is almost identical as 2007. 5. Fix da damn cable problem ASAP! 6. Eight cups of Seattle's Best coffee, Dr. Pepper Diet, and half gallon of diet water, hehe...16 hour period. 7. Men don't carry hairbrushes, maybe "transformers" do, but I have a black comb. 8. Paid for 10 gallons worth of water. 9. Home Sweet Home! 10. Door is blueish like the blue letters of this blog. 11. Any coins goes to my empty flower vase. 12. Today's weather is overcast and showers are imminent. 13. Anything chocolate and New York Blueberry 14. Being with my six month old grandson. 15. Cut my own hair? Kutab-kutaben ah! 16. Am I over 25? Try guessing?! Someone from MPYahoogroup decided to call me "alitao" so, I'm elated to say I did hit the century

Chapter 2:  A Lament by:  Abella Igyan nak kamannemnemnem, nihaya ngon ma-dem Agak piyan ni mannemnem, men tawwey tep amon naldem Pohok amon nalaem, hogat an la dimelem Hapa amon dagem et kan tay ilellelgem. Agak amta nem hipa ngata i mabelin ni ipapa Hiyay ag ma-gah koma, haya kan da ay lowa Igyan kita kamatama, kan tay aliwada law oonga Tep ahleg toy nandalnan da, et kan ta koma ay hiya. Hine-dom kan koy tola da la.... Hotada pamagbaga ni kan pa na-mo ay hobla Nonta hi-gayo pay i oonga, namahig ngo hota gaya Tep kami kamanggaya, pehed idan yo inobla. Nihaya kamawada, dakel ida ngon baga... Kantay tola da na-mo la a, pehed idan da impasa Aamed tayo da, pehed koma ngoy itibew da Di kadipohan da, man-iimih ida koma. Pigan to li na-mo ngo kailakwahan yo? Hapa mabelin ni heh-geden ko, i pan-ama-amagan yo? Timpo ni palabah yo, hapa itaoli yo? Amin kiho ag ombato, gandet ni matey kiho. Hi-gatayon too, kayman mampilli kiho Piyan Diyoh, angel tayo... hipay onoden tayo? No angel moy onode

Chapter 1: A Lament by: Ahiggem no hi-gam koman namaha mo indengel komay ya aliwan hinhuhulat ka anet koman pehed ka nem andi tep mo in-ingah ma-noy lowa ay baga nakol agak annak amta mangibilang ni hi-gam la. kan ta et ngo ay hi-apil ka mala et gayam ngon aliwa hipa anhan i nak nangkolngan ag nanghel ni mo pampephedan. agpoh to et ngoy nannaod mo hinopling ni amin i inhel ko aliwan hota dina-yon mo ooni gayam ay inggepak mo. tola annak i pahding ko ni manggayan hayan eggew mo ta gandet ni andi ganah ko mannemnemnem ni impahding mo. hapa an ingongoddan i galakgak koy ampet ngon hi lowinnaak! andi ketdi bahol mon hi-gak nem amon pintey moy liknak. no hiyayay mo bahaan ag mowak kayman ibagbagaan ta talagan ag taka hongbatan anggan mowak ingngogngogan. amtak ketdi ay hi-gam wa-wa-dan maligatan nem igyan anggan ngo dadan andi nak paniwangan pehed ni nak pangawatan mowak nangitani-koan anhimogal kon nemnemnemen mowak nangito-toogan. agay ahanin pang ngo at madegem i nemnem ko adih nem aw

Done while trying to keep awake in the middle of a lecture at 9AM. 1. Name one person who made you laugh last night? Si Ako (cuz I was alone last nyt) 2. What were you doing at 0800? Waiting for Prison Break S03E06 to load so I can watch it. 3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago? Taking a bath 4. What happened to you in 2006? Wrote and Published two anon books (in the local tongue) 5. What was the last thing you said out loud? Buwisit na pancake na 'to! 6. How many beverages did you have today? Isang mainit, maitim at matapang na kape 7. What color is your hairbrush? Black brush, brown handle 8. What was the last thing you paid for? A two-week meal for myself and my language team. 9. Where were you last night? In a Dorm Room. 10. What color is your front door? Kakulay ni Uncle Abella 11. Where do you keep your change? The tricycle driver's, my nephew, and neices' pockets... :) 12. What’s the weather like today? Breezy 13. What’s the best ice-cream flavor? Cof

One night, the insomniac in me was fighting with the night so I got up and did some digging on my old college notes. I found this: NIGHT IS OVER Odi Pei Gram #8 Happy Homes, Baguio City March 1995 There was once a rickety spider Half of her life she lived in a cocoon But then she had to come out because She’s now old enough to build a net of her own So she ventured out to try her silvery thread But every morning the dew would ruin her web And so again, frustrated and lonely She has to retreat and roll herself on a leaf “What on earth did I do to deserve such ill-fate?” She asked herself a hundred times and one. One day she awakened with a start There in her web is a young butterfly It was helpless Its wings were broken, trying to disentangle itself The delicate web broke The spider saw the hopeless fate of the butterfly Without a second thought, the spider cut her loose But in doing so, the spider had to suffer watching the fly fall With onl

As I have stated in my previous update here , our prayer group planned to go back to the village where we have all been born and introduced to the Gospel to listen, talk and have fellowship with people who are having problems in their walk with the Lord. We rented a big jeepney and left Bambang on Thursday (Nov. 1st) morning.  One member of our group failed to show up at the designated time and place while one came late and so we left without them.  The tardy one  took the passenger jeep and so we were very happily surprised when we found her in one of our target houses. Accomplishments: 1.  We were drawn much more closer to God and to one another as a team when we went there and found out that each of us one cannot do or say everything there is

I went to Manila last October 21st to attend a modular course on the Gospels.  It's called New Testament 1.  We talked about the historical, cultural, and a little bit of both literary and linguistic background of the first four books of the NT.  We also talked about what was written first:  Mark, Matthew, or Luke?  Who copied from who?  I also learned so many new things and you'll fall asleep if I begin enumerating them here. But here are some interesting ones: The Good Samaritan:  Almost all preaching that I hear or books I read about this parable focuses on the response of the hearer to the question asked by the Lord Jesus at the end of the story.  Who is our neighbor?  Our professor presented another understanding that I think does not take out from the story but rather presents another good way to make sense of it.  It is better than the interpretation where the parable was totally allegorized and even the donkey is taken to symbolize something. This one is not like that

I received raised eyebrows (hehe! No, maybe just curious questions,) as to why this blog is called GandangIgorota and the blogger is called "Ganda." Kaya 'eto, naging dipensib tuloy ang byuti ko... hayyyyy nakkkkkkhhwooo!!! Here are the reasons, once and for all.. First, I called this blogpage "GandangIgorota" because it was created at the time when my in-laws aren't yet convinced that I am indeed a pure-blood, cuz I don't look like the Igorota that they have in mind. That time, I was in an offended 'so-I'll-show-you-what-an-Igorota-thinks' frame of mind, hence the blog title. And of course it follows that commenters call me by my blog title. Shortened nga lang. If you must know also, before blogs and internet came into being, a little cousin of mine who is a stutterer cannot say my name so he gave me a nickname. He picked 'Ganda" cuz I always exclaim, "Ayyyy, ang ganda!!!" to whatever it is that I see or hear, be it deligh

I was tagged by Jean to do this meme... FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD 1. what do you call that thing where you are to put soil in seedling bags and bury a gmelina seed or two in the middle and they pay you P75 a day? I did that... 2. what do you call that job where you are commanded to clean 3 two-storey houses every waking hours while you're struggling in junior high? and you are also to carry stones as big as four of my head put together to a dirraas (Ilocano yan 'noh!) nearby, I did that too... (I guessed this is not really a job since I was never paid anything but a few pennies to pay the jeep to school.) 3. to check the blood pressure and bandage little wounds of people working in a roof tile factory and to tell the boss as needed that all his men are healthy, that I did too... and I was paid really nicely... :) that's just about all the jobs I had so far... :) FOUR MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED OVER AND OVER: 1. Cutting Edge 2. Ever After 3. The Prince and Me 4. Sandra Bullock and

I was tagged by Jean to do this meme... FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD 1. what do you call that thing where you put soil in seedling bags and bury a gmelina seed or two in the middle and they pay you P75 a day?  I did that... 2. what do you call that job where you are commanded to clean 3 two-storey houses every waking hours while you're struggling in junior high? and you are also to carry stones as big as four of my head put together to a dirraas (Ilocano yan 'noh!:) nearby, I did that too... (I guessed this is not really a job since I was never paid anything but a few pennies to pay the jeep to school.) They told my dad it's a scholarship grant.  Yeah, right!  3. to check the blood pressure and bandage minor wounds of people working in a rooftile factory and to tell the boss as needed that all his men are healthy, that I did too... and I was paid nicely... :) that's just about all the jobs I had so far... :)   FOUR MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED OVER AND OVER: 1. Cutting Edge 2.