Moods #66

Top of the World | Shonnen Knife

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Notes to the otherside 008

Diary entry as of 1:56

Happy day to my one and only H 💜💜💜

Hugs and cuddles all day for you 🥰

Diary entry as of 2:17

I love you, H 

Always and eternally 💕

Diary entry as of 4:01

Missing H every single second

Diary entry as of 4:55

I hope we can share a cake and some tea/coffee in your special day 🥰🎂🍵

Diary entry as of 5:41

Kissing my nightmare

Diary entry as of 6:24

Squeaky clean 🐧💦

Diary entry as of 8:28

Office but busy

Diary entry as of 8:49

Maybe I will have a slice of carrot cake, it is one of my favorites. How about you, what cake would you like?

Diary entry as of 10:02

How is my nightmare doing? <3

Diary entry as of 10:45

I love veggie sisig from Vege Select yum yum

Diary entry as of 11:49

Deep end of the waters

Diary entry as of 12:35

Keep swimming, swimming and swimming and then make vows

Diary entry as of 13:42

In the deep ends of the dark waters, there is the purification, only those who can venture through the deep dark waters can experience the purification

Diary entry as of 15:00

I have soy milk!

Diary entry as of 15:38

This week is really full of adventures!

Diary entry as of 17:24

Wow, still very busy but I have food in the house <3

Diary entry as of 17:54

Another day closing, a prayer and thanksgiving for all the guidance 

Diary entry as of 19:22

Hooooome

Diary entry as of 20:44

Still working

Diary entry as of 21:18

Wow finally, the work day ends!

cat and dog

Oh, and about 33 things/phrases

As a way to close the past year, let me try to write a list of some of the memorable, exciting, unexpected, weird, fateful, incomprehensible, magical, illogical, happy, terrifying and wonderful things that happened in my small yet excitement filled life.

01 ~  reluctant packing up

02 ~  moving out 

03 ~  endless ride shares

04 ~  lalamove and moving in

05 ~  two blue suitcases

06 ~  honorary dismissal

07 ~  evening classes

08 ~  reflective portfolio on Education

09 ~  practice teaching

10 ~  fliptop battle

11 ~  Lapu-Lapu, Panday Pira, Urduja, St. Cecilia, St. Therese, St. Joseph and St. Monica

12 ~  grand demo

13 ~  the BIG day after grand demo

14 ~  visiting and staying in UMC with dad and mom

15 ~  Bambang and stethoscope 

16 ~  Soler St, Binondo

17 ~  GSIS Manila Building

18 ~  Yoga in Silang

19 ~  Bukid Kabataan

20 ~  two bookmarks and coffee GCs

21 ~  Christmas and New Year cards from China, Japan and Manila

22 ~  Breakfast at Antonio's

23 ~  explosion of Taal volcano

24 ~  Senior Citizen booklets

25 ~  fixing government documents

26 ~  BIR RDO

27 ~  Trasierra

28 ~  huge stationery hauls from Shopee and Lazada :)

29 ~  Gourmet Farm, yum

30 ~  online classes with my students

31 ~  pandemic and ECQ and lockdown

32 ~  blogging again 

33 ~  learning to cook more vegetarian dishes

As always, I am grateful for the year that was. It was filled with endings, beginnings, uncertainties and fateful encounters. Magical and absolutely unfamiliar. Definitely some of what happened last year will continue to spill into this year, but I still have to filter and define most of them. What I am really sure of now is that I am growing to be more accepting of myself. I am more connected to my core. Maybe adulting is not that bad after all but it takes a lot of effort and willingness to go through this journey.

To close this, let me bid 33 goodbye and hello 34.

Gift to myself

Pidgeword Journeys

the new object of my affection

hearts

O-well, eight days to go

Am turning 27 in eight days. But bahumbug, universe you have been very keen on letting me know about the adventures and misadventures that life has to offer. Maybe you need to cut some slack? ^^

But as I have been enjoying loving my vacations lately, it makes more sense if I maximize all my precious minutes in these provinces that I visit. 

Well, my stars gave me one big surprise early this month and guess what, the compass points north!

***Yes sweet swans, I will be busy packing again and travelling again***

Road trip up north. Weeeheee!!

So before I go pack my travelling bag (I am getting better at it weekend after weekend) I should make a list! These bullet points are not only about my north adventures, but also I will include some random dreams (achievable or not), some advocacy, some personal accomplishments, some pretty little facts about myself as I reached my 27th mark in this big universe. So guys here:

Ready, here we go with lists again!

That 1km zip line at Hannah's Resort in Pagudpud, I shall conquer you! 

(but how does one ride a zip line ba? it would be my first time, just now I am getting the cold feet! 

I must research ^^)

Packing my travelling bag

Lentils soup

Mediterranean Cuisine

Photography (sheesh, this term i dug up from back in the good olden days of freshie college)

Walking along beach, waves touching my feet as the sun rises up

Colored pens on planners

Vegetarian kare-kare

Sale seat tickets

Weekend getaway

Porgy and Dexter

Meditation

Bombay bicycle club and Daughter

Volunteer

Sky gazing

Odie and Allie

Century Old Houses in Vigan

Postcards and stamps

Mango bravo

gourmet garden

MA papers

french indochina

single life

career

emails, blogs, instragram and twitter

Opera mobile browser, two thumbs up

dirty ice cream at sunken

yogurt and mangoes and muesli

blueberry jam and butter and focaccia

spinach quiche

blueberry cheesecake

lemongrass ginger cucumber cooler

full moon over the beach horizon

permaculture

spica and aldebaran and regulus

panda 

jogging and biking

flying

Parent's house

pallas athena, hermes morpheus and hermes thaddeus

lovelovelove

My birthday week recap: Fati and I

The week before this one was super duper busy! Whew, met up with so many loyal and loving friends, all carrying good news of growth and positivity. At night before sleeping, I often think to myself how blessed I am to have such wonderful connections and stable relationships. When all else fails, I know that I shared myself and my life with the most awesome people. These friends constitute my core, I become whole because of them. And on my 26th year, I dedicate this week remembering the past week that made all the difference from my recent birthdays. In this journey of my life, I came to a point when I can say that life is more meaningful because of the genuine connection that we make with friends we meet along the way, no matter how uneasy the terrain and how bumpy the ride. And is it not worth saying that those friends who decide to stay and keep in touch during rough patches deserve our love and care and support from now until that awesome forever?!

So for my 26th year, I celebrate friendship. This is the stuff that life is made of <3

Candles show us the light!

The photo above is Buddha Day at Marikina. I and Fati were holding candles for a prayer for humanity. (May 13, 2012)

Happy birthday Doc Ronald (late post)

Well what more can I say, happy birthday doc!

After more than ten years of friendship, since our wild high school days up to our adulthood, hard-to-make-decision days to serious-talk-over-cups-of-coffee to driving to our future schools (you med, me a place to teach) I wish you all the determination and happiness in the world. May you have lotsa caffeine filled days with people you love and cherish.

Happy birthday Fati (late post)

Life is a piece of  . . . churros!!

And indeed yummy churros!

Yes, it's the ultimate ladies' talk when I bond with them <3
(fati, me and romina)

Lauren, cheers to you my dear friend

Happy birthday dear <3

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

*i thank you God for most this amazing
ee cummings
**her birthday is really last Friday, October 7, 2011