Jamie Sullivan: "Without suffering, there would be no compassion."I got this video from an officemate's Yahoo! Messenger status link. This is for all cigarette smokers.
Last Saturday, my Tita-Ninang (auntie and godmother) asked me to bake some of her favorite oatmeal cookies (To tell you honestly, these are the only cookies I know and dared to bake). I've been in long suspension from baking then so I was so eager to do her a favor.
5. With a tablespoon, scoop a mixture to prepared cookie sheet. Drop each cookie mixture at least 2 inches away from each other.
6. Bake in 350 F for 10-15 minutes or until set but not dry.
(Freshly baked from the oven - chewy cookies)I find this meme from Ruff's blog amusing, and so I am voluntarily tagging myself to make one for myself.
The RULES couldn’t be any simpler:
1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc on SHUFFLE Mode,
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer, and
3. YOU MUST WRITE DOWN THAT SONG NAME NO MATTER HOW GAY IT SOUNDS.
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
iTunes: Talking In My Sleep (Christopher Cross)
Me: Always (Atlantic Stars)
iTunes: Starlight Express (El DeBarge)
Me: I am (Shades Of Life) (Billy Gilman)
iTunes: Of All The Things (Dennis Lambert)
Me: Dare You To Move (Switchfoot)
iTunes: Hurts To Be In Love (Gino Vanelli)
Me: A Little Love Goes A Long Way (The CompanY)
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
iTunes: A Whole New World (Aladdin Movie Soundtrack)
iTunes: Sailing (Christopher Cross)
Me: Breaking Free (Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens) -> I adore HSM!
iTunes: Tikman (Eraserheads) [English: Taste]
Me: Affirmation (Savage Garden) -> "... I believe in karma, what you give is what you get in return"
iTunes: Hand In My Pocket (Alanis Morissette)
Me: Forevermore (Jed Madela)
iTunes: Mother, We Just Can't Get Enough! (New Radicals)
Me: Friends For Life (Chico and Delamar)
iTunes: She (The Sundays)
Me: You Changed My Life (The CompanY)
Me: Buses and Trains (Bachelor Girl)
iTunes: You'll Be Here In My Heart (Phil Collins)
Me: Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson)
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE
iTunes: Baby Come To Me (U Turn) -> With Richard Poon doing part of the vocals (weehee)
Me: Every Now and Then (Jed Madela)
Me: Ngayon at Kailanman (Basil Valdez) [English: Now and Forever]
iTunes: Deep Inside Of You (Third Eye Blind)
Me: Handog (Florante) [English: Offering]
iTunes: Then You Look At Me (Celine Dion)
Me: Real Thing (Kalapana)
iTunes: There's No Easy Way (Jed Madela)
Me: Solo Otra Vez (Il Divo) [English: All By Myself]
iTunes: The Loneliness (Babyface)
Me: Lover All Alone (Clay Aiken)
I guess I am way behind here, nevertheless I am answering this meme. By the way, I was tagged by ladyMacho (^_^).
1. I have the ability to lock and unlock my jaw voluntarily. This is medically unsafe as "clicking" and locking the jaw is tantamount to creating friction on the joints that join the upper jaw and the mandible. Alas, I still click my jaw especially when I yawn, as I have been used to opening my maw to its limits since birth. My dentist joshingly says I've got talent. Hehe. She admonished to avoid doing it as it may severe the jaw joints. Well, it seems I need to practice yawning in a demure manner.
2. I'm a calorie freak. Labels on cereal boxes and fruit juices, junk food foil packs and dairy tetra packs... matter. I've developed this OC behavior on the food that I eat since the day I started shedding my baby fats worth 70 lbs. I think there's nothing wrong with monitoring Nutrition Facts of my food - it's a way of being a responsible food consumer. But too much concern is quite bothersome. It's a good thing I've learned to loosen up on the calorie counting (well, just a bit :p).
3. I did not attend my Accounting II class and consequently missed a test just to prove to one of my classmates (who pissed me off) that I was not a perfect student as he deemed me annoyingly. Gosh, this was childish and ridiculous. At hindsight, I would not have done such. But I did, 'cause I was totally pissed off. This was just plain insane. What's just funny was that I still managed to get a 1 on my report card.
4. I tutored my classmates for free. During college I was so dedicated in tutoring my classmates in most of our Mathematics subjects. I just felt happy that I was able to help them in their struggles.
5. I lost 2 inches off my waist in just a month without exercise. Oh yeah, I was apparently happy (Who wouldn't be happy to be size 32 from being size 34?) with the results but at hindsight it was insanely unhealthy. Weight-loss should be done with proper diet and proper physical exercise.
6. I shaved the hair on my limbs for nothing. This was when I was in first year high school. I just got curious on how my extremities would look and feel without hair. Haha! Which reminds me... there was an instance then when I accidentally shaved half of my left eyebrow. It freaked me out 'cause my face was not anymore symmetrical.
7. I have a fondness of watching tear-jerking films. A Walk to Remember made me appreciate such flicks. And so the list continued... A Moment to Remember, Bicentennial Man, The Notebook, ING..., A Sad Movie...
8. I think I am anal-retentive. Associated to my occasional obsessive-compulsive behavior, being anal-retentive predisposes me to being meticulous in such things like: In eating pancit, I eat the veggies first, then the noodles, then the meat/shrimps; I eat the skin and breading of hotdogs and chicken nuggets first; I want my CD covers folded the same way they are folded when they were bought; and #2 in this list.
I just had a whirlwind of on-off decisions in the past 24 hours....
Yesterday was my supposed departure to Israel but it was called off because of a technical problem of the airline carrier that would take me from Hong Kong to Tel Aviv. I was already at the Centennial Airport when I got the official directive from my office's Admin Assistant that the flight's delayed until August 18. Ergo, I left NAIA 2 with a frustrated mood (for wasting all the effort of bringing my heavy luggage and paying a hefty taxi fare, all for nothing) and went back home.
Then on the following sunrise...
Heads-up... a high-priority e-mail topping my Outlook inbox. 'Twas from my Senior Manager informing me and my other officemate that our arrival in Israel would be postponed indefinitely due to changes in the project schedule.
It makes me happy that I need not leave the country soon. It's just frustrating that I've already set myself yesterday on my departure. In the coming days, I need to set myself again once a new flight schedule's finally achieved.
For now, I am just happy to not leave the country (To tell you the truth, I was already missing the country and my loved-ones just while on my way to the airport). And if the trip would be scrubbed totally, the one thing I'd regret is missing the chance to wander in new land gratis.
I only have three nights left before leaving for Israel. It'll be approximately 17 hours of flight and slack period, Manila being connected to Tel Aviv via Hong Kong.
My preparations aren't halfway through; My luggage's not yet filled with my necessities; My brain's not yet trained for technicalities... Instead of being excited about this trip, I am more of anxious on what work environment I will have to deal with. This will be my first business trip... another "first" for me after some previous firsts I just encountered in the past couple of fortnights.
I've just received my bon voyages from my loved-ones... Gosh, those gave me the bad feelings of goodbyes. And I certainly didn't like it. I could actually empathize now to the emotions drenching our OFWs when leaving the country.
I am now in hiatus with sporadic attention to Drake's Ragbag....
¡Hasta la vez próxima!
An apparently funny, objectively stupid, and ultimately touching short graphic animation that evokes a seemingly superficial side of me. Presenting, Kiwi.... (Thanks to Roxie for reminding me about this)
Kiwi can't fly, he can never fly.... Yet he wants to feel, to experience, the greatest leap any bird can ever achieve. Even if he already knows it isn't possible, he takes the risk, the chance. Even if everything he wants is an end in itself... a sad end at that....
Since I was a kid, I have always had a fascination for sea creatures, especially mermaids and mermen (then, they were all mermaids to me, I didn't know merman existed in the dictionary). I was a Walter Mitty woolgathering about myself swimming aimlessly in the deep underwater seascape, with colorful corals and gracefully undulating schools of fish welcoming me to their humble abode. The feeling of it was surreal, it always rendered me futile with a big sigh, wishfully thinking my fantasy would had gone real.
to be continued somewhere else...
Photo courtesy of Worth1000
Rainy weather always connotes the feeling of sadness and solitude to my emotional dimension. The cold wind it brings, together with the seemingly ominous cumulonimbus formations, kindles melancholic mood. Capricious to the rational mind, such sensation I often feel is just a mere manifestation of my trivial self. Nothing significant at that. Though sometimes, it calls forth the elusive pains inside to introspection. Odd, but at hindsight, I like experiencing such plaintive occurrence.
"Love is always patient and kind; It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes."
It's been almost two weeks and I haven't touched the pool for another swim. Maybe that's why I've been ill lately. LOL. I just miss swimming...
Anyway, for all you people out there who want to learn swimming the e-FISH-ient way, you are fortunate 'cause I'm informing you now that swimming classes for kids and adults are conducted at Colegio de San Agustin swimming pool area in Dasmarinas Village, Makati. The swimming classes are headed by a group of swimming professionals and enthusiasts who have undergone training the Total Immersion way (Click the link to learn more about this swimming program). The course is typically a learn to swim program that utilizes the basic stroke, the front crawl, which is popularly known as freestyle.
Swimming freestyle efficiently is very advantageous for those who are into triathlon or for those who plan to venture into such activity. I tell you, if you learn freestyle the Total Immersion way, you'll surely swim it with ease and grace (I can attest to that, as I have employed the program's principles to my swimming routine).
If you want to know more about the swimming classes, you may click here.
IS WEIRD
... when you suddenly transcend to the 4th position from being the 31st in a class
... when you enjoy integration and differentiation in calculus, together with analytic geometry while your classmates are freaking nervous whenever an 8-page fully-graphed exam paper is given by your weird teacher
... when you memorize all the currencies of all the countries in the world and be called a walking encyclopedia
... when you get the highest grades from all the highest-weighted subjects but you're not even the Valedictorian or the Salutatorian
... when you make the school team win in a knowledge quiz bee competition despite you being just a one-day replacement for an absent member
... when you get a perfect score in your final exam in Numerical Analysis and half of your classmates are dying to pull their scores up to the passing mark
... when you become the class president, when you tutor your other classmates in Calculus, Statistics, Discrete Mathematics and Accounting... despite you being the youngest
SUCKS
... when you live-up a year unknowingly wavering your relationship with your one best friend
... when you do not realize enough how your best friend cares and appreciates you
... when you can't bring back the same relationship you've had with your best friend simply because now is not yesterday
... when you cry in the presence of your teacher and classmates because of a line from the Secret of the Fox
... when you're foolishly in love
... when you love and not be loved in return
... when people think just because you're queer you're all loquacious and promiscuous
... when you get exposed to premature sexual encounters that taint your innocence
... when people think you're all perfect when you're not
... when you're misunderstood
... when you're too kind
... when you unintentionally hurt someone's feelings
