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I was tagged by kayni I am: sleepy... hehe I think: I'm losing my edge... maybe my mind too :) I know: that God's love in everyone's heart is the only thing that can make this world right. I have: a dream, to write a bestseller... (a bestseller in my tribe) I wish: I'm home with my lovey... I hate: strange men seatmates on a bus seat who are inconsiderate of your discomfort. I miss: my lovey... I fear: sugar and acne I hear: the neighbor's puppy barking I smell: my laptop overheating I crave: for my husband's inihaw na tulingan, and kilawin na yellowfin I search: for long lost friends (and x-bfs (hehe) in yahoo, reunion.com, altavista, google, etc. every now and then. I wonder: if i will ever be a mom... I regret: losing my patience over trivial things with people that I love I love: reading and translating.... and you! I ache: whenever I miss B :) I am not: taking my health for granted anymore. I believe: that all things work together for...

Start:      Nov 17, '08 08:00a End:      Dec 12, '08 4:00p Location:      SIL. Bagabag

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It seems to me that August 1st came centuries ago and yet here you are still holding on with five more days to go. Not that I wanted you to end because your end will surely find me wanting--wanting in the things that I should have accomplished many weeks ago. As I look over my shoulder at the days that had passed, it seems that all I did was beat deadlines. But August was an interesting month too, no doubt. The last of my aunts, my best friend in grade school finally got herself a husband and so last weekend we were all fired up preparing for the wedding. The ceremony went well except for the part that my sister and I had to hunt for candles (again...) when we thought all was ready. It was also a nice time catching up with family especially seeing new additions to the clan... an assortment of baby cousins, nephews and nieces that I don't get to see very often. You also brought an evening of relaxing dinner with blogger friends Bill and Wil. (Thanks, you two...) Now, August, you...

Nagulat sina sara, biglang may umakbay at bumati sa kanila! :) Some pics taken during our aunt's wedding in our backyard where Sara and I were the runners.

I just finished reading a book by LeGette Blythe called The Bold Galilean.  It was a biblical epic on the life of our Lord Jesus told from the point of view of the Roman centurion whose sick slave Jesus healed.  It was a novel well-written. All of the elements of a good story are there--the accounts found in the Gospels with a few fictional embellishments here and there to move the story along.  Two weeks ago, I read a bio-documentary of another biblical figure Pontius Pilate written by Dr. Paul Maier.  It is also under the label of historical fiction but at the end of the book, the author had notes on each chapter of all facts, events, and people that truly happened and existed historically that were documented extrabiblically.  Last week, I read  The Flames of Rome by the same author.  As the title implies, it is a novel about the reign of Nero and the persecutions of the Christians during Nero's reign.  The novel depicted a beastl...

This is a meme:  You know how pages like amazon and other shopping pages have "wish lists" beside their shopping cart?  So this is a wish list meme: MY WISH LIST: 1.  A complete volume of C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia (I have a pdf copy, but it's more enjoyable to sit on a chair, with a book, and turn the pages instead of clicking arrows.) 2.  A complete volume of Bodie Thoene's AD Chronicles. 3.  A pink violin for my sister in law 4. Paul Maier's Books for my bestfriend     a.  F lames of Rome     b.  Skeleton in God's Closet     c.  M ore than a Skeleton:  It was One Man Against the World     d.  In the Fullness of Time     e.  Pontius Pilate 5.  A boyfriend for my sis D  and maybe for R and J too... and S also? hehehe 6-7-8-9.  Good health for all the people I love.. 10. A pretty mare.....a real live one... I tag layad, pinehills, b...

Thanatos, I learned from my Greek vocabulary last week, means death. You're familiar with Thanatology of course--a term derived from two Greek words 'thanatos' and 'logos', which means the study of death. I don't know why this week, I have been kind of obsessing with death. I jokingly told my husband that when I die, and he wants to marry again, he cannot and should not marry another Igorota. In one of my classes, a professor said that everyone she knows whose about to die kind of know that their time is near. I don't know how, but the expert said, intuitively they know. (I don't know if even those who are killed by tragic accidents had some sort of a premonition about their impending death.) Anyway, my recent brush with death has reminded me so strongly of my mortality. It had me thinking and made me write my last will and testament. Well, my will includes the selection of songs to play during my wake, what the living should do (e.g. try to have ...

Born with a humble beginning spent youthful days mostly in service your beauty is not ordinary your mind is so deep like the sea your voice is so gentle like a breeze your vision is so clear your pen is powerful your heart is so pure you are wise like a princess your love is so true your commitment is forever your faith is so strong and your work is for generations you are an inspiration to millions of youths after you you are a blessed child of God.   (this was written by a 'fan'  I mean a 'fwend' (hehehe) and I thought it's a good thing to share to all the women out there who are kind of 'fool enough' to love their people, language, and ultimately God, more than the comforts and promises of this world!  The world may see us as fools, but nursing? journalism? banking? teaching? business? anyone can do that! but what we do? something tells me, only a few can.  so we are among the chosen few..... and we are loved! :-)

I remember when I was in college, I hated Behavioral Psychology so much.  That is because you are forced to look at yourself--that is your inner self, and if you don't like what you see, the tendency is you'd hate the course, like I did.  One of the theories I met then was Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Development.  And now, I met him again in my Life Span Development, but now I have a different attitude towards the theory, hopefully because I have grown a little bit since then. :-)  Reading and studying Erikson’s psychosocial development theory is like submitting oneself for psychoanalysis.   One cannot help but relate each stage to oneself and one’s own development, asking if one was able to navigate through the stages victoriously.   Compared to, say for example, Piaget’s, I like this theory better in that it provides a more descriptive and true to life’s experiences, prescriptions and descriptions, as well as a birth-to-the-point-of-death stages...

I remember when I was in college, I hated Behavioral Psychology so much.  That is because you are forced to look at yourself--that is your inner self, and if you don't like what you see, the tendency is you'd hate the course, like I did.  One of the theories I met then was Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Development.  And now, I met him again in my Life Span Development, but now I have a different attitude towards the theory, hopefully because I have grown a little bit since then. :-)  Erikson came up with eight stages of psychosocial development which starts from infancy up to the point of death.   His stages include 1) Infancy, 2) Early Childhoood, 3) Play Age, 4) School Age, 5) Adolescence, 6) Young Adulthood, 7) Middle Adulthood, and finally, 8) Late Adulthood. In the Infancy Stage which is from birth to eighteen months, an infant is to develop Trust to his caregivers if his experience is positive, if not, the infant will develop Mistrust, meaning he ...

On OPENMINDEDNESS: "I am incurably convinced that the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid!"    G. K. Chesterton "Where there is no sympathy, there is no understanding." ON MINISTRY: "BE A SOLDIER OF CHRIST.... in active service DO NOT BE in the Secret Service."  

Start:      Aug 2, '08 11:00a Location:      CFM, Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya