Pre-Home Adventure

In two day's time, I will be breathing the air that filled my childhood chest. I will be trotting on the muddy pavements that had witnessed the triumph, the eviction, and the fluctuation on the hopes and dreams of the Filipino people. On Saturday, I will be kissing the land my forefathers gave their lives up for. I will be home, again.

I am a fanatic of the cramming method. I love the creative juices at work when I am time pressured, and they seem to ooze out imaginatively just when I need them. I decided to do my last-minute shopping today; I had been troubled by the types of gifts for my family. But today ideas came shooting at me, and I have been hit by a firing squad.. One more round of shopping for chocolates and I am done!

Transformers 3

Except that my ears hurt because of the 3D glasses, but the whole experience of the third installment of Transformers on IMAX and 3D is just amazing!

I attended a Latin Mass again, but I had to furtively tiptoe my way out and sprinted when I reached the exit of the quaint St Joseph's Church to the MRT station. I hurried to get to Orchard where the big cinema was booked. I took flight to reach my destination and arrived just in time for the trailers to start coloring the screen.

And I was not disppointed. Optimus Prime and Shia La Beouf's movie duet is simply fantastic!!!

Movie Time (Office Version)!

It has been quite a while since my office had some functions with my participation in it. My manager exquisitely concocted an idea to deepen the bond between all of us by going to the cinema, hand in hand maybe, and watch a movie. The only problem to this brilliance is that announcement was done late. Almost half could not make it!

Those who could marched our way to the cinema, settled in, and laughed our hearts out to Mr. Popper's Penguins. His aim is to soften the ambience relatively, which was effective I guess. I look forward for more! :)

Residual effect

This is a residue of yesterday's fleeting elation. I did not have proper sleep, prayer was my breakfast plus Milo on the side, but I felt energized and extremely happy. It is all because of yesterday's event.

I narrated to everyone what transpired, even to non-Catholics. Most of them looked a bit disoriented, and puzzled maybe with the conspicuous, ecstatic twinkling of my eyes while re-telling the story. It was the excitement in my being that hooked them; I could see their attention dwindling in the middle part. It did not defeat me; my story continued. I could not contain the joy that was within me, and the only way was to recount it to others.

I hitched a ride on my way home, and I was in the car with our Spiritual Director, who is a nun. I asked her about her order, how she started, how her family reacted. Then she asked me if I was interested. I looked away, smiled, kept quiet for barely ten seconds then negated. Not that I am putting a stop sign on possibilities. I am taking one emotion a time. And all I know is that, seeing the two angelic nuns and the pietistic version of the tabernacle, the beautiful prayers and the synchronization of the priests and the altars boys, visually digesting them purified my spirit. I was flying. It was serendipity. :)

Latin Mass

A first time that is worth the experience! I attended a Latin Mass in a foreign land with the people I consider as siblings. It was a great celebration!

Itinerary

Bedtime procrastinated. A sign of dedication to this blog? Certainly!

I just finished booking flights to the province to visit our grandmother who has not seen my brother for ages. I will be going home for a two-week visit in july (for which this blog will be temporarily halted I expect), and in the middle part of the trip will be a sojourn to the birthplace of my father. This trip to home would be the most memorable! :)

Zzzzz....

3rd Day

This has become a challenge for me, to be able to see through the rain and be the adversary of good and bright happenings. Thus, the extension of recognizing good occurrences in other people, celebrating and embracing their successes. I choose to be surrounded by amazement.

My friend, a loyal fan of her outdated, touch screen phone, has decided to upgrade her utilities. She braved to shear the string that's binding her away from her necessity, went to the mall with a few other friends, and signed up deliberately for a plan for a high-end gadget. This girl whose fetish is shoes and bags, who is amazed by gadgets but is never convinced to own them, has taken a big step towards riding the bandwagon. Her old phone is dilapidated. She has finally moved on. And I'm proud of her! :)

Stranger

So I made a covenant to diligently update this blog for all the positive things that I experience in a day. I opened my eyes extra wide today, I was extra observant and overly-sensitive, in a good way. I smiled beyond my two ears, with cherries on top, knowing that by giving I shall be receiving. And the sun started to set.

I was on my way to dinner. I sojourned to the ATM, my friend transacted her business after mine was finished. I was standing near the machines awaiting my friend when I received a series of looks and sweet beams from a stranger. A greeting flew straight to me I was caught unaware. I smiled in reciprocation.

It was enough to warrant an entry to this blog. :)

Let There Be Light

And there was light.

Inspired by the Book of Happiness, I gave birth to this second blog for the sole purpose of compiling only happy moments. As they turn into memories, before the subconscious archives and crystallizes them, they will be immortalized by religious effort in this journal.

How was this concepted? I was in the salon doing a touch up of my unruly hair, engrossed in the book I chose to accompany me. It was in that book that a suggestion popped up. As my hair straightened, so is the idea for this blog. The salon, with its secular music and temporal vanity, became the birthplace of
my rainbow journal! Amazing contrast!

Think happy thoughts! :)