This Kiss

I'm so in love with this song! Ever since I watched it in Practical Magic, which I also love to watch. Just learned it was sung by Faith Hill.

Here's a video of it from MusicVideoCodes.com, hope it actually plays.

Faith Hill - This Kiss

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Actually every time I hear it I have this "feel good" sense. That's the thing with hopeless romantics like me. Just looking forward to that kind of lovin' every so often...I guess. =)

My Happy Ending

Unlike Avril Lavigne's My Happy Ending, I'm looking for my real deal bliss.

"Onto my metamorphosis!" I've decided to cut my slack-of-a-lazy-self for the past days and start getting serious about my weight program again. I hope it'll be better than reincarnating, I need one good slap on the butt to keep moving again. So here it is!

Whack!

Let's see how much weight that'll lose me! Check out my journal on this at my To Fitness And Beyond Blog.

Ciao!

Musings

I've been so bored with my routine for the past months that I decided to do things as I please ever since this week began.

All throughout this process of doing things from the schedule in my head (and not the one I painstakingly did three weeks back--more about this below), I got to ponder on so many thoughts that I wanted to blog about but didn't find the interest to start with in the first place.

So here I am now, decided to finally put it down.

• Campaignforrealbeauty.ph - is an effort so deserving of praise for Dove. Finally, somebody stood out to correct a long-going cultural err borne of commercialism and shallowness. I am happy to note that I belong to the 5% that believe they are beautiful! To which I sing, "I am beautiful, no matter what you say. Words won't get me down! So don't you bring me down today!"
  
• I want to go on a romantic escapade with my hubbie. It's been five long years of work, work, work and it has tampled on our passion for life and love. Yes, a week-long breather for the two of us in a far off nature-laden place would really revive our senses and vision for our future!
  
• Love is a very powerful instrument. Remember that. This is a language that transcends race, gender, specie, time, and space. This why I've noticed that my dog (and other loved-animals) tend to act and react in a manner a human being would. He didn't undergo training but he follows instruction as a person would in a human to human conversation. Thus, I believe that animals will only be able to show their true potential to us humans if they are given the opportunity and given the same respect as one would a fellow human. In the same way, I think this would enable us to understand animals better.
  
• A schedule is a schedule. It's like a plan. As John said, a plan is just a plan--it's only there to guide you. I realized that, after following my hour-by-hour schedule for the week after three whole days, my head has halted in total spin. I became more of a worry wart! Dang! I made a schedule so that I could do more, live more, and be more. I experienced something totally in opposite. My life felt superficial. I think I'm better off following schedules I write in my head. Another thing, I think what I should be aiming for is not doing more plainly but doing more things of value and with value to make my life richer. It's another classic example of quality over quantity. Live your life in the moment and enjoy it as it is. Spend it with the people you love rather than for the people you love. Life is short, after all.

That's as much as I can remember now. More to blog in the future!

Update On The PP Bottle

My Pondong Pinoy Bottle is two-thirds full. Nope, I didn't get to drop 25 centavos everyday--well maybe only around an eight of that two-thirds.

How did i get it full? Check out my donor: my husband, John! Thanks to his 25-centavos savings, I'm nearing my goal. (Is that called cheating? If so, I'll just have the bottle named after him then. hehe!)

Eleven days to go to filling it up! I hope this time it will be wholly from my effort. =)

Mercy

I found myself crying after praying the Divine Mercy Novena. It is just now that I got the chance to read it actually.

What made me cry is the fact that I finally grasped what it meant by being merciful--as God would have wanted it to be.

I cried out of conscience in knowing that I lack all the qualities of what a merciful person should be. That, I have a heart of stone. That, after all this time, my husband was right about me when it comes to my relationships with other people.

1. I am very limited when it comes to helping people--like I have a measuring device that tells me when to stop helping or to keep going on.

2. I always find fault in people or objects or events. I tend to overlook the goodness in the people I met, the places I went to, the events I experienced and instead bank on the possible negativities in them. I just won't accept things as they are. I am very suspicious.

I cried also because I realized why God gave John, my husband, to me. He is there to guide me and serve as my inspiration on how to become merciful to others eventhough I know they have the tendency to or will really abuse my kindness.

I am ever thankful for John! May God give me the grace to be like him!

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For this, I created another blog (now-turned entry post): Pledge of Mercy

My Pledge Of Mercy

There's no better way to change to become merciful than to start one step at a time each day.

I'll keep this entry as my log of the good things I learn from each being and activity I meet through the days of my life.

To start with, are two nibblets of goodness from my husband the a week or so back:

1. "Focus on the goodness of others. Stop picking on people's faults and
concentrate on the goodness in each of them. The same goes for the objects you
buy or the places you go to."

2. "Don't expect too much on someone or something. If you got something cheaply and it gets broken sometime soon in the future, don't be disappointed. Accept that it is the value of what you paid for. It's also like that in life and with people."

3. "Don't attach yourself to material things, possessions, persons, or experiences. Being able to let go means you have power over these."

There. These will be the things I will have to put into practice for the time being.

Going Techie

My hubbie and I went to the Macromedia Studio 8 Launch held at Mile Long Cinema (previously Louie's THX Cinema) in Makati yesterday.

The thing I loved most about this new ultra cool software is it's ability to edit videos and implement effects on it that you normally can't do from a set of three to four other softwares before.

Aside from the food, drinks and souvenirs, the inputs I got about the product makes me look forward to joining future Macromedia events. Honestly, I've been in most of their product launches here in Manila and I've savored each event, especially Titu's (their usual seminar instructor, which by the way wasn't in this recent event, hmm...) demo of applications made from their software and antics.

I surely look forward to get my hands on this software (pretty cheap if you have prior versions and the updates' price is fixed across-the-board for any prior version) and try out the hip techniques I can do on movie files! Hehe.

Pondong Pinoy

I've been saving my 25 centavos since August 28, 2005 when I got a mineral-bottle-turned-piggy-bank from the parish church.

I'm kinda excited to have lots of coins these days because I intend to fill-up that bottle in time for September 27, 2005--return time!

I understand the parish church will be using these for their medical missions and other church-related activities focused on helping the poor and needy. Called Pondong Pinoya, parishioners who'd like to chip in could get their bottles from the parish office and return it there after a month's time.

Just hope my Pondong Pinoy bottle becomes full to the brim by then!

Hanapbuhay, Kita, Atbp. Fair

Hey, been to SM Megamall's Mega Trade Hall 3 this afternoon! I, with my hubbie of course, checked out what's in store for us there on business opportunities and career enhancement. It was pretty informative and the offerings are pretty cool.

If you're up to know more about it, you can visit there website at: http://ph.jobstreet.com/announcement/2005/m/me_hanapbuhay.htm

But if you'd like to skip that part (medyo outdated naman yung site e), here's the sched for tomorrow (Sept. 3) and Sunday (Sept 4):

Sept. 3, 2005
10:00 = Talk on Virgin Coconut Oil
10: 30 = Jobstreet Learning
10:45 = Basics of Franchising
11:45 = Sample Business Franchise
12:30 = lunch break
1:00 = Hydrophonics
1:30 = VOIP
2:30 = Tupperware
3:30 = Business Event Management
4:30 = Presentation by GNLD
5:25 = Presentation by TESDA
6:05 = Mary Kaye
7:05 = How To Pass Call Center Job Screenings

Sept. 4, 2005
10:30 = Chocolate Molding
11:00 = VOIP
11:30 = Call Center Management
12:30 = Basics of Franchising
1:30 = Sample Franchising Offers
2:00 = Tupperware
3:00 = Bag Making W/o Sewing
3:35 = Sunrider
4:35 = Effective Sales & Marketing
5:35 = Tianshi

Hope to see you there!