New Year is the gateway between the years old and new. As the year 2008 wrings in, unequivocally, let us wring out the bad, negative, destructive, unproductive, selfish ways and habits that, for decades, have continuously pulled us down.
We are the master of our thought!
In complete control of what we feed our minds. Start the year right by saturating our minds with good, positive, constructive, selfless thoughts. Such persistent, consistently thought patterns – interfused with unshakable faith, heavily laced with dogged perseverance and hard work – surely will pave new paths, open new avenues, and endless possibilities…to better our lives and those our fellow life travelers in the year ahead.
A peaceful, super-abundant 2008 to all of us.!
Makasuyaon man may countdown dyan sa ibaba tapos ako yaon digdi sa taas ta kadakul trabaho.
okay sta. claus check nga natin whos been good and whos been a little bit bad... nandyan din ba ako?
that's lawrence wonderland! beautiful ano? its just that hes tired of waiting for me to arrived. our flight was delayed and landed on the other part of the bicol region.
sabi kasing sa naga city at hindi sa legaspi city ang kulit kasi! sino ba nag booked ng ticket ko? _________________________________________________________ ang cake, si kuya dante at ang mga bagahe! we only have 5 hours left before christmas at si kuya dante ay naipit sa pagkahabahabang traffic! _____________________________________________________________
sa wakas ...kahit na mali yong landing at delayed at naipit kami sa traffic pauwi. nakita ko na ang ricefield si ivan at si love.
I just can’t believe that this month and this year is getting over again. And while im on my way up this little gadget of mine blink up telling me if we could make it on time just for tonight. Hello, Big Brother! I just raced against your elevator and I am sorry to tell you that I make it this time.You know I am damn tired of this windows vista thing. How incredibly difficult, time-consuming and complicated everything around here is. They want a complete revolution… a PC makeover. The last couple of weeks have been pretty rough. Most of last week, our department was never been pretty busy before. But because they want to have their systems change and so our night routine change! I am about to transfer a trillion accounts from XP to Vista.How bloody expensive every little thing is… Don’t you think Big Brother needs to be overhauled too? It would be so nice I guess!
But I don’t wanna be affected. Ok we are changing it. We just need a little more time. Duh?... And we are on break at this moment. A forty-five minutes break. And the vista doesn’t affect me. And I am not afraid of Big Brother either. So, how are you doing right now and why do you wanna know 8 things I am obsessed with. So here we go:
1. TOYS AND CHRISTMAS – I treasure those toys papa gave me each Christmas. I wish he will give me that Transformers Ultimate Bumblebee on the tweny-fifth. And there’s no other day happier than Christmas. I get to see everybody and it’s a long holiday all expense free for me.
2. A GOOD BOOK – you must give me a really good book for me to stay home or else im out again.
3. LOVELY FLOWERS – it’s relaxing in the eye. And the smell so wow!
4. A BRAIN TWISTING GAME – It helps my mind focus.
5. McDonald FOODS – its my all time favorite.
6. CAR – who don’t want to have a car anywayz.
7. MY WORK – I love my work because I get to travel for free. And sometimes I hate it too when the seminar last for a week or two. I miss a lot of my family gatherings and when I get back things look odd.
8. SUNSET –for it means I am off to work and I am ready to take new problems and challenges and complications that spring up on the hour and how much I can do even when Im bone-tired and half-dead and there’s always a new tomorrow to sleep and a sunset to start!
My forty-five minutes is up now. I may not know or it may not really be possible for me to be there when you need me, but you could be sure that my prayers are there, urging heaven to assist you in your time of need. Don’t worry too much about your bad dreams. Its just a dream and it wont be happening ever.
There is one thing about trains…it does not matter where you are going, what matter is…deciding to get on the train…
How do you do? Since I am talking to you right now but I am not really with you, you have to say your answer to yourself. Take your time…one, two, three, four, five… then take a deep breath.
What was your answer? How did you feel? Was your answer represents the real you – your true state and not with the pseudo-intellectual-being in front of the mirror- who only happens to be concerned with the superficial meaning of life?
Most of us when faced with that “boggling” question, we would instantly reply with a stubborn “I’m fine, thank you”, whereas, the real deal is the opposite… what a hypocritical way of defending one’s happiness in life. There is no rapid cure for that disease and malady; it has to be taken one step at a time, like a slow moving bicycle perhaps? Or a small shaft amidst the stormy sea. Slow pace, but with a consistent and sore direction towards hope, that everything in your life will fall back into its own place, in its own time.
Sometimes, in the peak of our lives, while being dizzy over fussed schedules, meeting deadlines, drinking gallons of coffees to stretch our eyes wide, 10 minutes lunchtime, killer shoes, blisters gained while running with your heels on, trying to race against the old and creaky elevator to make it on time, and punching your head when your flash disks wouldn’t open when in front of a meeting, endless waste of bond papers because your printer is not on the right mood, there is one small voice within us, saying softly “things do happen, just take it slowly and believe.” This is indeed a fact. Being a part of the team opened my eyes into a lot of other perspectives. I have learned a lot of things which the academe usually forgets to impart.
One example would be: cramming is for school-giggling-girls. Correct. Before, I somehow managed to master the “art of cramming”, in every bit and aspect of it, left and right, side by side, up and down.
My motivation comes from the adrenalin rush I usually get whenever “deadline” is facing at me in a downright angle, and believe me, I love it… but, that was before because, back then my only concern is myself. My grades, and my performance (can you see, it is all on me), so, cramming does really work, I am not stepping on anyone.
However, inside the workplace, I learned, that whatever field you are in, whatever the position, still every one’s pace and action is being directed to a one common goal that the company has. So one cannot and should not be mess up with the flow. I have become aware of the outcome of irresponsibility, other lives would be wrecked and others would be in confusion, pain and distress.
So during those times, where is the small-big-word called “hope”.
I found out that “hope” does not dissolve into thin air like gas; it stays within even when you think that there is no room for a needle. Hope is as big as love. You just have to remember that everything does happen for a reason.
When your cards do not give out the combination of numbers you want in order to win a couple of pesos, then it means that somewhere out there, one person is trying to fix things for you, to lift you up and bring you much closer to happiness, preparing you for a better future, giving you an ample time to be ready, when your big break comes.
The decision to get on the train really depends on you and on oneself. It does not depend on anything else. Having the guts to finally stand your ground is one thing. Doing everything you can to strengthen your ground is another and believing in yourself that you can defend your ground is better.
It is like a storm, when you don’t have a pocket umbrella in your handbag, when it pours, you would be wet, but still, you would be able to feel the miracle of the rain. Whereas, being prepared most of the times, will only get you dry, leaving you with the mysterious and edgy feeling of “what does rain feels like on my skin?”
The decision does lie within us all. Hard times do exist, just be happy that it does happen, because it is another memory to share when you would be drinking coffee with a friend.
Hope and pain is inevitable. Life is incomparable.
