after school

i'm in the library right now. been here for more than an hour and i'm supposed to be getting copies of the journals that i need to read. then i realize that usb's not allowed, haha. thus, i started doing nonsensical stuff such as bloghopping, checking emails and my friend's friendster accounts when i should be reading more about my research! haha...anyway, in a few minutes, i should be going. i'll be visiting my sister in valenzuela since it's my nephew's graduation day. haven't seen them for three months and i miss them. good thing i was able to squeeze it in my busy schedule. but gosh, i need to work on paper and i better do it fast. i want to give my best this time since this is my last term. good luck to me tlaga...

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To my tartie: HAPPY 26th MONTHSARY! Thanks for the care, love and for accepting all of me the past 26 months. Looking forward to more years with you... one day, i hope to write our love story (hehe, mushy!)

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hala, i forgot. got an errand. tsk.. byeee

happy monthsari =)

in lieu of our 26th monthsari tomorrow, my tartie sent me this while we're both bogged down with work in the office. love the gesture! so simple yet so sweet. funny how this simple act made my heart melt. 2 years backward, when we were still starting, we used to have elaborate celebrations of our monthsari and give each other gifts. now that we're more mature and, well, getting old, simple acts of love such as this would do... *kilig*

vote earth!

i'm guilty of taking our natural resources for granted. i've wasted so many papers in the past, ignored the recycling programs that were implemented some years ago and littered relentlessly. it was last year when i first heard about EARTH HOUR. the drill was for people to switch off their lights for an hour. i thought it was just another ordinary environmental campaign . it turned out to be a worldwide campaign and had hastened people's awareness on global warming. this year, i learned that the said event will be held on the 28th this month. i first found out about it in a poster that greets everyone who enters the buidling where i work. and so, i marked the calendar. i guess this time, in my own little way, i could do something about global warming and save the earth as well, hehe...and oh by the way, i've also started recycling. i have gathered all the papers that i used in the past and try using them again, the backpage's still clean anyway... i know these are just small things but i also know that they somehow could make a difference.

i hope everyone would mark the same date too!... it's the least that we can do to our beloved mother earth. according to several write-ups, the said event has been transformed into the world's first global election between earth and global warming and we are all given the opportunity to vote for EARTH by using our light switch.

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Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.

We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour.

happy anniversary

i suddenly realized that today's my first year as a QA. much has happened in the year that was---laughter, tears, disputes, gratitude and naysaying. the part that i love most is the growth that i experienced not just career wise, but emotionally as well... it's been one heck of a rollercoaster ride but i'm glad that i'm still on solid ground and am still eager to make a difference not just in the company as a whole but in each teacher's life. thank you for all those who had appreciated my comments and my pang-'ookray, ' hehe. for all those who had raised their eyebrows, sorry but i'm just doing my job :p..

looking forward to another fruitful year!

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quotation for the day: money makes the world go around.. hehe, thanks to that teacher who made me laugh today :D

happy tawts!

need to change my mindset; my mind's clouded with negative thoughts since i've been bombarded with a lot of issues lately... i need something were i could draw my strength and enthusiasm from... for starters, here's a short but powerful and motivating article for me! thanks to my newfound friend as well, tl monique, whose happy disposition is just so infectious.

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Happy Thoughts And Their Power
Posted on March 9th, 2009 by

The power of happy thoughts shouldn’t be underestimated. In an average day it is estimated that we have around 60,000 thoughts.

It is known that happy people think more happy thoughts than unhappy people.

Happy thoughts connect us with the clarity, confidence and courage to act… to know what to do. To travel down our own path rather than the same trail everyone else follows.

Jealous, angry and fearful thoughts take us away from our own path… our own purpose. They strip us of our power and ability to act effectively.

If we think happy thoughts… we create happy perceptions… which lead us to happy events. And so we create a exciting circle (where we become ever happier) as opposed to a vicious circle.

If we think fearful thoughts we become afraid and act defensively. This pushes away other people and other possibilities away from us. And so we become lonelier and more afraid.

The route to a happier life is through happy thoughts. Not just because they make you feel better immediately… but because happier thoughts give you a stronger and more stable foundation to your life. You are in control rather than being bounced around by life.

stop me!

much as i don't want to be a prescriptivist and be very strict about grammar, i couldn't help but feel bad (and laugh sometimes! hehe, bad!) when i hear people utter grammatically-incorrect sentences. i know for a fact that my grammar needs some help but i know as well that my English is intelligible enough,, hehe...here are some of the ungrammaticalities that really gotme in my months as a teacher of English:

1. you didn't forget to order your friend.. (wow friend, binebenta ka pala)

2. So-so is, I think an English, Konglish, English for Korean. (ano ba tlaga, ate?)

3. I'm going to have a pity, all right? (how nice of you)

4....meaning it's not all the time raining, it's not all the time snowing or it's not all the time windy (so anu nga ang weather?)

5. Water is a liquid. it's not a thing. (really?)

6. I'm the girl and I'm going to say, "why did,, why you did not,, why you didn't arrive last night, why didn't arrive last night..." (relaks lang kasi)

7. Can you please complete? (complete your sentence muna before i complete mine )

8. You mean, is the parking lot is available? (is yes, ma'am)

9. You're a scary cat! (nakakatakot ka daw!)

10. I'm out of the office anymore. (then it's your problem anymore!)

11. They charge for delivery charge? (whatevs!)

12. You're gonna have a nosebleed... I'm starting to nosebleed. Blood is coming out of my nose. (OA, ha!)

13. Don’t they did trick or tricking? (ako ba niloloko mo?)


*** post script: got the title from one of the segments of my favorite showbiz news program, "the buzz" some years ago." too bad it's not part of the show anymore. it was one of the highlights of the show for me back then. i would laugh out loud hearing glaring ungrammaticalities uttered even by my favorite actors/ actresses :p

food for the thought

since i do not have ample time and any concrete idea on what to write, just allow me to share this message that i got from our dept. meeting:

"I don’t know what your destiny will be,
but one thing I know:
the ones among you who will be really happy
are those who have sought and found
how to serve.”

- Albert Schweitzer

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so there, i hope everyone of us could have the chance to serve others, in any way, someday. It think it's one good reason for us to say that we were able to make our lives worth living. :)

change

change is really constant. we must brace ourselves for changes everyday.

got a dose of this inevitable reality today---i moved to a new station just like almost everyone. now, i'm very close to the entrance of our office and very upfront! hehe..am happy still coz i now sit with my fellow QA's and we don't have to use messenger anymore so that we could communicate. however, there's a part of me that's nostalgic at the same time. i'd surely miss my ex-team and their team leader who has become a friend to me...

i know that the move that had happened today was not easy for everyone. i'm sure we all are in low spirits especially since this change has been brought about by the present crisis. i just hope everyone could adapt to this soon...

indeed, we cannot control change. however we react to it depends entirely to us. each person has their way of coping anyway---we could be adamant, resistant or flexible to change. i hope everyone's amenable to the last one though; after all, they say that only the dead ones couldn't embrace change. ;p