I didn’t realize it’s been more than a month that I haven’t posted anything here. The days just whizzed by.
Christmas also had passed and I didn’t even get to feel Christmas. It was the first time our family spent Christmas away from home. We were in Boracay, along with hubby’s side of the family… a planned vacation while his siblings (and family) who live abroad all went home for the holidays.
Although it was a great vacation, it was quite difficult to feel Christmas. We still celebrated with our traditional noche buena but i guess it wasn’t enough. Perhaps it was because of the lack of some activities such as the opening of gifts (especially with the kids’ excitement and anticipation), the very seldom heard Christmas songs in the air and the missing decor-filled ambiance.
It was like trying to celebrate Christmas on a hot summer day in the beach… hmmm… which was exactly what we did.
We returned home the day after Christmas. It felt strange to see all the unopened gifts under our Christmas tree. It was like being transported through time and going home realizing you missed some days.
This makes me wonder if I’ve become too dependent on external festivities and activities that we do on Christmas to make me feel it. If I truly understand what Christmas means, then should it matter where I spend it?
October was a rough month for me, though I guess I should also say it was a great month… for improvements and good things came out of the challenges that happened last month. There are a lot of questions, what ifs and still some lingering hurts, but it’s better to focus on the all positive changes that has happened.
As much as I had a lot to write about the past weeks, I didn’t feel like blogging about all the negative stuff and the trials. I guess it was too difficult to put them to writing.
Though I wonder if it would have helped more to ease the hurts to release them into words…
“Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.” — Maxwell Maltz, 1899 – 1975
“God has always led me of himself – The first idea I can recollect when I was a child was a desire to nurse the sick. My day dreams were all of hospitals and I visited them whenever I could. I never communicated it to anyone, it would have been laughed at; but I thought God had called me to serve Him in that way.” — Florence Nightingale, Curriculum Vitae, 1851
“I felt as though I was about to fill a space in the world that was meant for me and had long awaited me, a mold, as it were, made for me alone, but discerned by me only this very moment.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Oak and the Calf.
“If a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, then God has called him.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
For years, listening to this song has helped me a number of times ease some heartaches and broken spirits. Hope you still have your magic…
I can see it in your eyes
You need a friend tonight
‘Cause someone broke your heart in two
You need a volunteer
To wipe away your tears
Someone who will rescue you.
Your whole world is tumbling down
Can’t get your feet on solid ground
You’re looking for someone
Someone you know, you can count on
I’ll rise to the occasion
Help me through the situation
I’ll be your inspiration
Yeah, I’ll rise to the occasion, oh
No memories to shake
No promises to break
Just tender love and honestly
I can offer you so much
And I feel it when we touch
Maybe this was meant to be
I’m gonna share a secret with you
My heart’s been broken too
I’m looking for someone
Someone I know I can count on
So won’t you rise to the occasion
Help me through the situation
You can be my inspiration
Take to heart this invitation
Come on come on baby, ooh
Rise to the occasion
We’ll get through this situation
Be each other’s inspiration
I’ll rise to the occasion
I’ll give you real apprecation
I’ll be your inspiration
The whole song is not an apt description but it does hurt when I breathe so I wish I can hold my breath – - to forget…
Hope life’s been good to you
since you’ve been gone
I’m doin’ fine now–I’ve finally moved on
It’s not so bad–I’m not that sad
I’m not surprised just how well I survived
I’m over the worst, and I feel so alive
I can’t complain–I’m free again
[Chorus:]
And it only hurts when I’m breathing
My heart only breaks when it’s beating
My dreams only die when I’m dreaming
So, I hold my breath–to forget
Don’t think I’m lyin’ ’round cryin’ at night
There’s no need to worry, I’m really all right
I’ve never looked back–as a matter of fact
[Repeat Chorus]
It only hurts when I breathe
Mmm, no, I’ve never looked back–
as a matter fact
[Repeat Chorus]
Hurts when I’m breathing
Breaks when it’s beating
Die when I’m dreaming
It only hurts when I breathe
I have yet to meet a lady who isn’t smitten or doesn’t fancy semiprecious stones especially when it comes to accessories as necklaces, earrings, or bracelets. Whether it’s a turquoise, a rose quartz, a coral or an onyx, I’m sure there is one (or many) of those stones she would love.
That is why ladies would love the newest accessory collection, “De Classique”, recently launched by Sundrench.
It features a classic and timeless design for necklaces and earrings. The style can be worn for casual daily or formal use. As far as the Sundrenched girls are concerned, this is one of those fashion accessories that never goes away.
Saturday, the day Ondoy hit Metro Manila, was literally and figuratively a dark and dreary day for many of us. I am thankful and I know that our family is very fortunate not to have witnessed and experienced the fierceness of Ondoy. We were so blessed to have encountered only the rains and a little flood that was barely ankle-deep outside our house, even oblivious that less than two kilometers from our place some homes and our parish was already a little over waist-deep in water.
I knew with that continuous heavy rainfall, a lot of areas in Metro Manila would be flooded, but I never really imagined the immensity of the devastation it caused ’til I saw the news and the aftermath in the internet and even in facebook.
We are deeply saddened by the people lost and the great number of families displaced from their homes. We really pray for strength, faith and forebearance for all the victims of the typhoon, and for more immediate aid to come for whatever needs they may have.
Upgrading to a new computer always has its positive and negative side, for me that is.. Of course, the plus side is obvious.
The downside I hate about it is re-installing every single program that I use — from the OS to the default browser I regularly use that is Firefox to MS Office to Anti-virus applications to YM to Nero burning programs to various Adobe software up to the occasional and miscellaneous programs such as video editing apps and a few games.
I got my new box recently and up to now I have been setting it up again and again. Sigh.
It’s a good thing I got all my data backed up in an external hard drive. Up to now I’m still accessing data from there. I haven’t copied them to the new CPU as I’m still monitoring if things are stable enough already…
This task has made me miss blog updates and blog-hopping. Sigh.
I wonder how true here… Something to worry about if it is… especially for the generation of our kids who started using celfones at an earlier age than we did…
