Month: November 2008

11/23/08
this is my 2nd time to visit Mama Mary in Simala
i suggest, if you want peace and quite retreat to Simala, do not go during weekends
a lot of ‘pilgrims’ visiting, who are 70% are like feeling ‘naa sila sa mall’
and that includes us

you’d most probably get frustrated when you try to have a sincere connection with Mama Mary, and then you see people texting while lining to kiss Mama Mary and there’s a big sign that says ‘Feel the presence of Mama Mary’
and, you see people taking pictures of Mama Mary when there’s a sign infront of them telling that ‘taking pictures is not allowed.’ and, they cannot even be discrete about it.

it kind of irked me seeing people carrying/holding their shoes/footwears in lining for Mama Mary
i just don’t get it that if they cannot have faith in Mama Mary to watch after their footwear, how much more with their ‘intentions/wishes/dreams.’

—– mouth zipped —- end of my himantayon talent —

11/23/08
this is my 2nd time to visit Mama Mary in Simala
i suggest, if you want peace and quite retreat to Simala, do not go during weekends
a lot of ‘pilgrims’ visiting, who are 70% are like feeling ‘naa sila sa mall’
and that includes us

you’d most probably get frustrated when you try to have a sincere connection with Mama Mary, and then you see people texting while lining to kiss Mama Mary and there’s a big sign that says ‘Feel the presence of Mama Mary’
and, you see people taking pictures of Mama Mary when there’s a sign infront of them telling that ‘taking pictures is not allowed.’ and, they cannot even be discrete about it.

it kind of irked me seeing people carrying/holding their shoes/footwears in lining for Mama Mary
i just don’t get it that if they cannot have faith in Mama Mary to watch after their footwear, how much more with their ‘intentions/wishes/dreams.’

—– mouth zipped —- end of my himantayon talent —

11/01/08

11/01/08

i just had the sudden urge to level up my beauty
to at least be a notch higher than the maxi-peeled skin of my yaya sisterhood
so that my husband would no longer confuse me as the ‘chimay’

it’s God will that mark and i had fight the night before
which put him in a bad mood
so he canceled his biking event today to show me that he’s sulking, in protest
and, i should feel guilty because now he’s sulking
but geez, i’m done with that tactic/strategy from migi and meg so me dedmatic
since he’s going nowhere, i took the chance of leaving mati to him
so i can find my outer beauty

it’s my very first time to have some facial
because i’m stingy
i find it too ‘sosyal’
and, simply because i don’t like it

but since after i gave birth, my all-time beauty regimen of eskinol/ponds gave me pimples
i tried other stuffs but they just don’t work on me
freckles are then populating my face
in short, tomtomon na ako nawong
which does not look so cute because i’m no white like lindsay lohan

so when finally, i had my facial done
i realized why i’m not totally sold out to ‘pa-facial’ is because
i’m impatient — i’m so not happy that it took 2 hours for the facial to finish
i could have done a lot of ‘rampa’ in the mall for the 2 hours
another reason why i don’t like it is the close contact with another human that you are not familiar
i find it a bit uncomfy for someone, i don’t know well, kneading my face for hours

i’m contented with the results though (anyway, facial or not, i’m beautiful since i’m God’s creation.)
and, i’m not traumatized
so most probably, i’ll be going back

so now, any one care to share some ‘pa beauty’ to replace my eskinol/ponds regimen?
don’t suggest gretchen barreto’s oil of olay because it did not work on me
sorry, gretch. =(

i just had the sudden urge to level up my beauty
to at least be a notch higher than the maxi-peeled skin of my yaya sisterhood
so that my husband would no longer confuse me as the ‘chimay’

it’s God will that mark and i had fight the night before
which put him in a bad mood
so he canceled his biking event today to show me that he’s sulking, in protest
and, i should feel guilty because now he’s sulking
but geez, i’m done with that tactic/strategy from migi and meg so me dedmatic
since he’s going nowhere, i took the chance of leaving mati to him
so i can find my outer beauty

it’s my very first time to have some facial
because i’m stingy
i find it too ‘sosyal’
and, simply because i don’t like it

but since after i gave birth, my all-time beauty regimen of eskinol/ponds gave me pimples
i tried other stuffs but they just don’t work on me
freckles are then populating my face
in short, tomtomon na ako nawong
which does not look so cute because i’m no white like lindsay lohan

so when finally, i had my facial done
i realized why i’m not totally sold out to ‘pa-facial’ is because
i’m impatient — i’m so not happy that it took 2 hours for the facial to finish
i could have done a lot of ‘rampa’ in the mall for the 2 hours
another reason why i don’t like it is the close contact with another human that you are not familiar
i find it a bit uncomfy for someone, i don’t know well, kneading my face for hours

i’m contented with the results though (anyway, facial or not, i’m beautiful since i’m God’s creation.)
and, i’m not traumatized
so most probably, i’ll be going back

so now, any one care to share some ‘pa beauty’ to replace my eskinol/ponds regimen?
don’t suggest gretchen barreto’s oil of olay because it did not work on me
sorry, gretch. =(

this week has been quite… i don’t know what word to describe it.
anyway, my ‘special child’/autistic cousin is sick
he has a not-so-good infection which resulted to a big bulge at the right side of his head
which alarmed us all because it might had affected his brain
since both of his parents are abroad, as the eldest cousin, i am, somehow, responsible
anyway, a lot of questions, issues, uncertainties, a bit of disappointments, guilt feelings
but let’s not dwell on that
instead, i want to thank the Lord for putting all things on places

i want to thank the velez hospital for refusing to admit us with the ER nurse’s reason that all surgeons were on conference
i perfectly understand them as my cousin was in an ‘aggressive’ mode
(it was i who decided to go with velez because mark turned me into a velez-loyalist, long story
plus their patient traffic is not that much so the staffs could really take good care of you)
but in the end they still accepted us

which is thanks a lot to my good friend/batchmate, who i can’t believe, is actually now a real practising doctor, Godo
who helped us get into the hospital
she bravely handled my cousin (imagine that it would take at least 4 men to ‘handle’ my cousin. and, she is this small 4’11” girl)

thanks to all the nurses, residents, and medical staffs who i felt were a bit ‘scared’ to handle my cousin but nevertheless they take good care of him

thanks to the 3 doctors who are handling my cousin – the psychiatrist, the infectious diseases, the ENT

thanks to bro. jerry for lifting our spirits up when we were so down
we’re already on the 2nd day in our hospital, and there are no conclusive findings yet from the doctor
as they’re also having a hard time of letting him undergo lab tests, scans as it’s difficult to make him cooperate
my cousin cannot talk so we do not know what really he is feeling
so we’re like guessing, groping for certainty that everything is alright
but thanks to the word of the Lord thru bro. jerry for the affirmation that everyting will be alright

an incision on the affected area was already made to discharge the ‘nana’/puss
according to the doctor, the infection is soooooo painful for my cousin
she still needs to do a follow-up operation to totally remove the cause of the infection
but before she can do that, we need to make my cousin be cooperative
the follow-up operation is not the problem, but it’s how to correct my cousin’s behavior

still, i’m looking forward that every thing will work out
aside from the right medical attention, the healing of my cousin, i deeply pray for someone’s heart to truly open up and accept my cousin.

this week has been quite… i don’t know what word to describe it.
anyway, my ‘special child’/autistic cousin is sick
he has a not-so-good infection which resulted to a big bulge at the right side of his head
which alarmed us all because it might had affected his brain
since both of his parents are abroad, as the eldest cousin, i am, somehow, responsible
anyway, a lot of questions, issues, uncertainties, a bit of disappointments, guilt feelings
but let’s not dwell on that
instead, i want to thank the Lord for putting all things on places

i want to thank the velez hospital for refusing to admit us with the ER nurse’s reason that all surgeons were on conference
i perfectly understand them as my cousin was in an ‘aggressive’ mode
(it was i who decided to go with velez because mark turned me into a velez-loyalist, long story
plus their patient traffic is not that much so the staffs could really take good care of you)
but in the end they still accepted us

which is thanks a lot to my good friend/batchmate, who i can’t believe, is actually now a real practising doctor, Godo
who helped us get into the hospital
she bravely handled my cousin (imagine that it would take at least 4 men to ‘handle’ my cousin. and, she is this small 4’11” girl)

thanks to all the nurses, residents, and medical staffs who i felt were a bit ‘scared’ to handle my cousin but nevertheless they take good care of him

thanks to the 3 doctors who are handling my cousin – the psychiatrist, the infectious diseases, the ENT

thanks to bro. jerry for lifting our spirits up when we were so down
we’re already on the 2nd day in our hospital, and there are no conclusive findings yet from the doctor
as they’re also having a hard time of letting him undergo lab tests, scans as it’s difficult to make him cooperate
my cousin cannot talk so we do not know what really he is feeling
so we’re like guessing, groping for certainty that everything is alright
but thanks to the word of the Lord thru bro. jerry for the affirmation that everyting will be alright

an incision on the affected area was already made to discharge the ‘nana’/puss
according to the doctor, the infection is soooooo painful for my cousin
she still needs to do a follow-up operation to totally remove the cause of the infection
but before she can do that, we need to make my cousin be cooperative
the follow-up operation is not the problem, but it’s how to correct my cousin’s behavior

still, i’m looking forward that every thing will work out
aside from the right medical attention, the healing of my cousin, i deeply pray for someone’s heart to truly open up and accept my cousin.

after 5 days, no make it 6, including sunday, of being highly in demand by mati boy, not to mention the 2 other labor-of-love kids, i’d greatly appreciate an extended time for sleeping come saturday. i’d be happiest if i could sleep even until 8am, since mati wakes up at 5am because he feels he has an 8-to-5 job (does anybody wakes up at 5am on a saturday?).

after 5 days, no make it 6, including sunday, of being highly in demand by mati boy, not to mention the 2 other labor-of-love kids, i’d greatly appreciate an extended time for sleeping come saturday. i’d be happiest if i could sleep even until 8am, since mati wakes up at 5am because he feels he has an 8-to-5 job (does anybody wakes up at 5am on a saturday?).