new template

thank you Mondi Bochok for my new template, but please change it again next week. want a different template every week. I really like the cute designs from design studio, so my style but unfortunately I have to pay for it and it is really expensive. your next project, learn how to do those beautiful designs so that i won't pay for it. hugs

ipod touch

I had my Ipod touch for almost 2 years now, but i never really appreciate it until now. I came to a point where i gave it to my husband because I'm too busy to upload songs or even listen to it. But now, since a friend of mine uploaded games that I love like plants vs zombies, diner dash, and a game similar to guitar hero mt Ipod never left my side, a stress relief for me. My baby also has a baby piano game in my ipod and she also can't take her hands off the touch. I love it.

mutya ng cavite (ivy style)

last saturday i told my husband that i want to cook mutya ng cavite. i searched the internet for the recipe and luckily i found one. although i really didn't follow the steps but i think my mutya is a success. at least that is what i have been told by my husband. he told me that it tastes like the mutya ng cavite of a famous resto here. i just mixed the following ingredients :-)

saute onion and a bulb of garlic on a half cup of butter. then add carrots and celery stalks. then pour a can of milk and nestle cream. wait for it to boil. add flour if it is not thick enough for your liking. season with salt and pepper to taste. add the shrimp, clam, mussels and chunks of white fish.

i will try another dish next time. :=)

blogging again (hopefully)

it's been four years since my last blog. a lot of things happened. mike and I got married last dec. 9, 2007 and we already have a one year old baby girl, her name is Mikalah Julianne.

we've been to different places these past few years. went to boracay again with my family and friends. went to bohol and cebu on our honeymoon. we were supposed to be going at sagada but we learned that i'm already pregnant and my ob advised me not to go. hopefully we will have the time to go there this year.

i transferred at imus branch and i passed my resume at our hr dept for me to transfer at our head office. recently, mike and I decided to try our luck in Singapore. hoping to build our future there.

right now, i'm still awaiting for the decision of the group head if he will hire me as his EA. unfortunately, there are a lot of candidates who also want the same position. I know for myself i'm very much capable in handling that position and I hope they can see it. in God's will i hope everything will fall into it's proper place.

sing me a song

how i love to listen to this old spanish song ... my honey told me about this song .. and i instantly fell in love ...


CONTIGO APRENDI

Contigo aprendí que existen nuevas y mejores emociones
contigo aprendí a conocer un mundo nuevo de ilusiones.

Aprendí que la semana tiene más de siete días
a hacer mayores mis contadas alegrías
y a ser dichoso yo contigo lo aprendí.

Contigo aprendí a ver la luz del otro lado de la luna
contigo aprendí
que tu presencia no la cambio por ninguna.

Aprendí que puede un beso ser más dulce y más profundo
que puedo irme mañana mismo de este mundo
las cosas buenas yo contigo las viví.
Y también aprendí
que yo nací el día en que te conocí.

translation

With you I learned that there exists new and better feelings
With you I learned that to know a world of new hope
I learned that a week has more than seven daysto make better(days)
the few more happyand to be lucky to have it all
With you i learned

With you I learned to see the light on the other side of the moon
With you I learned that I wouldn't change your presence here for any other

I learned that a kiss can be very sweet and very profound
And that I cal leave this world tomorrow
Beacause I've already lived the best thingsin life, with you
And, with you, I have learned,
That I was born, the day that I met you

MIP, a bucket of tears, and a prayer

Yesterday morning while listening to the usual “chikahan” of my officemates I suddenly cried and they all stopped and stared at me. They asked me what is wrong. All three of them got MIP (Merit Increase Performance) which means they got a bonus for having a job well done. They started talking about how they badly need that money. Ate Ethel mentioned that just the other day her son asked her when she would buy his medicine since he has asthma and her little girl asked where she got the cake she brought home the other day (because that day a client of ours gave us a cake) and her girl wanted one. She told them that when she receives her salary and get enough money she‘d buy them the things that they want and need. Ate Rhines talked about her husband calling her for gas money and she has to borrow money from her sister. I cried for the reason that I started to feel sorry for them, we are all having difficulties at our office these past few months. We now belong to the “overworked and underpaid” class (cannot claim overtime even though we worked for more than 12 hours a day). That overtime claim is a big help to us because it means having extra money to buy things that we need. Unfortunately, our new boss declared that in our line of work we are “the unsung heroes” which I think is “A BAG OF SHIT”. Not only are we not being paid properly, there are also incidents in our office that makes you want to scream and say “IKAW NA LANG KAYA DITO, PALIT TAYO NG PWESTO!!!” and “DARNA!!!” (because we need her superhero strength to keep us going).

I told them that God never leave our side. He knows the hardships that we are experiencing and he is rewarding us with things unexpectedly. On that moment I realized that I am luckier since I do not have their kind of problems. I suddenly appreciate the 400-peso bill inside my wallet. I also became conscious of the things that I have and the people around me.

I thank God for showering me with blessings more than I could have asked for. I want to say sorry to Him because sometimes I take things for granted. I wish for love to conquer my heart. I pray for the people that I love to be blessed with good health, a prosperous life, and to make them closer to God. I also pray for the people that I encounter everyday. I wish them a lip that never tires to smile, a heart that easy to forgive, and a hand that readily helps.

what am i thankful of for this day

I have watched this at Oprah, she said that we make a journal of the things that we are thankful for, and may it be big or small. I remembered crying at a certain portion where a boy wrote a poem about how he appreciate his teacher, it touched my heart because a love from a child is unconditional because they only see the goodness of one’s heart.

So today and the after this day and the day after tomorrow and the next day after that day, I promise that I will write something that makes me appreciate my life once more.

IM THANKFUL

- to my classmate Theyie for a very nice message that she sent me today.
- to the “kundoktor and the driver” of the bus that I rode this morning for not making me late at work.
- to the old lady who said good morning to me with a big smile on her face.
- to our guard who gave me a plate of “pansit with pichi-pichi”
- to “Tatang” who bought me tissue and a biscuit. (kahit na mali ung biscuit na binili nya dahil hindi ako kumakain ng peanut) I still appreciate the effort
- to Jason dahil hindi nya me nakalimutan invite for a badminton game today kahit alam naman nya na hindi ako makakapunta.
- to my HANI who fetch me at Mercury Imus because its raining.
- to the inspiring email message that I have received today.
- and for arriving safely at home.