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happy new year!

2011-12-31T21:14:00.001+09:00

in a few hours, it's bye-bye 2011 and hello 2012. God has been so kind to me and I couldn't ask for more. we're all healthy, we're happy and we're all blessed.

this 2012 i pray that God will continue to provide for us and that we'll all be healthy and happy and away from any negative vibes :)

my cyberfriends, i wish you all a prosperous and blessed new year! may we all be a better version of ourselves this new year and for all the many many years to come! Cheers!!!

God bless!

eventful christmas

2011-12-31T12:18:00.001+09:00

a belated merry christmas cyberworld! greetings went out late because our christmas was a bit toxic. we were not able to enjoy the day as my husband was in the hospital treated with dextrose IV because of diarrhea :(
while my daughter also having vomit and mild diarrhea episodes at home. all are blamed to gastroenteritis.

for iSha's case she had it while we're still in japan. on the midnight of dec. 20 we called to 119 ( emergency number) because she had vomited 7x within an hour. i was shaking scared. so ambulance came and ask basic questions and kept asking us if we have insurance. thank God we have! and then after about 30 mins we're in the hospital. iSha was carried to the doctor and we followed. doctor took a look at her and after about 5 mins he said it is gastroenteritis and nothing serious. and then i was relieved cause be said nothing serious. but no food or liquid for isha until the next morning. then we were not given any medicine and we were sent home. but before we have left the room, iSha left one more go :D the doctor seemed annoyed. hmpf!

and then 22nd was our flight bound to manila, on the plane, as we have just seated, she had another episode again :( poor baby. but now she's better and ok but just the other day she had a rise in temp upto 38.4 but went down within the day to normal temp. it's really hard when someone is sick. :(

as for patrick, suddenly the morning of 24th he had an endless visits to the restroom and it continued till the 25th.

dear God, this coming new year, please give us good health. let sickness and disease be away from us and please provide for our needs. amen.

belated merry christmas everyone! God bless!

where are the words?

2011-12-20T19:22:00.001+09:00

lately i've been struggling with finding the right words to explain my ideas to my colleagues. it seems like all of a sudden my mind is a vacuum. nothing in there. scary. i know. so here i am now, starting to write again. maybe i am giving my brain very little activity to work on. i think i need more puzzles. i need to push my mind a little to the edge. yeah this is the downside of what i am doing now, and watching lots and lots of nursery rhymes with my daughter seems to be not helping either. oh the joy of motherhood! i love my daughter so much and i love singing the children songs with her but they get stuck in me and i can't help but sing it even at work :D ok sometimes it's not involuntarily. hmmm maybe i am meant to be a children teacher after all!

Hmmmm...looks like i'm writing aimlessly again.

ok let me share some of the things that amazes me about my daughter - a 14 month old adorable XXL bundle of joy:
1. now she knows how to express to us whether she likes the baby einstein video we're playing or not --- by crying and waving her hands in the air at the same time if she dislikes it.

2. she sings twinkle twinkle little star in many languages --- ok but only in her mind for now :D

3. she can finish 1 whole banana and 1 whole mikan in one go.

4. from the daycare, when we're going home, she now gets her shoes from the shoe rack by herself. weeee!

5. she nods if she likes something and shake her head if she dislikes something. uh-huh uh-huh uh uh.

6. she bows if you seem to say thank you to her in japanese . it's sooo cute! oh my half baked japanese full blooded pinay baby.

7. she knows how to push the doorbell at her daycare. i know it's not that hard but hey, i'm one proud momma.

8. she loves to dance or errm jump to the new song of charice entitled louder. whenever i play it on youtube, i put her beside the rolled up futon cause she likes to use it as her railing to be able to dance and jump at the same time.

9. she will take my hand or her dad's whenever she wants something to eat and bring us to the kitchen. hihihi.

10. she can now stack up her pyramid toy :)

these might seem very usual but for a mom these are precious moments!

i'm so grateful to be iSha's mommy :)

it's almost here!!!

2011-09-09T10:41:00.000+09:00

it's exactly 50 days before my daughter's 1st birthday and i have not reserved nor prepared anything yet for her big day. i know, i'm such a lousy organizer of event after all. initially i planned to find different suppliers for each part of the children's party but since we'll be celebrating it in manila, it's just a bit troublesome to contact various suppliers. so to avoid this tedious task,we'll just find a fast food restaurant and reserve the place. at the moment, i think we'll be going with kenny rogers. it's not that expensive and they have a puppet show! my little girl loves puppets and hopefully she'd be thrilled to see one live. i thought i would like to have a theme of angry birds for her party hahaha :D i think they don't have that. i have actually asked one of the ibarra events place for this theme and told me that they don't have it yet. hee hee hee... my daughter's mother is so addicted to this game on her iphone and she thinks it's a good timeout from all the work in the office and from all the chores at home :)

anyway, my thoughts are drifting away and i'll update this entry once we've concluded elisha's party plans :) good day to all and happy friday woot woot!

jibber jabber

2011-05-26T09:55:00.003+09:00

i miss my kitchen. i miss cooking. about 5 more months to go! very much looking forward =)

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iSha is now so big. she's definitely growing up very fast. if i could just capture every moment when she does funny things, i would! now she can seat by herself -- but still wobbly and still learning how to balance herself. she can now stand in the walker. and she can now move from one place to another-- but you need to let her chase something. she loves singing! or mumbling :D when you sing to her she will mumble with you. she does the same when you teach her how to introduce herself. and when she recites the abc. she loves to watch the your baby can read video. but she can only recognize one word, arms :)

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next week my mother will be going home to the philippines. she's been weeping lately. she said she'll miss iSha. we'll sure miss her as well. i love my nanay so much though i don't say it to her often. she's now ageing and well... she's more unreasonable at times, than she used to be. but she loves my daughter so much and she's been constantly telling me that if i can bear another child again soon, she'll feel much better. my mother-in-law says otherwise. oh well, only God knows what the future brings.

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i'm still not working. actually i feel half-hearted to go back to work. but at the end of the day, i want earn some money of my own. if there's anyone who could teach me how to earn money while staying at home, it will be highly appreciated! i've been doing some stock trading online but things are not paying off as i would have expected.

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ok bye for now. my baby is now awake :)

tears and tragedy

2011-03-15T11:38:00.005+09:00

many of us are now well-aware of what's happening in japan. my heart breaking and i feel deep sorrow for the country and its people.

i have lived in japan for almost 6 years, on and off. and i have grown to love the country, the people and the culture. japan is my second home and will always be dear to my heart. let's continue to pray for the safety of the people and and that the survivors will have enough strength in their hearts to overcome their loss of family members, friends, properties, health and comfort.

japan, don't lose hope. we are with you and we will continue to pray for you.

for people like me, whom japan has been so kind and embracing, let's give back to japan in our own little ways. there are a number of ways to donate:

1. Japanese Red Cross Society

Name of Bank: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Name of Branch: Ginza

Account No.: 8047670 (Ordinary Account)

SWIFT Code: SMBC JP JT

Payee Name: The Japanese Red Cross Society, Donation for Japan earthquake/tsunami

Payee Address: 1-1-3 Shiba-Daimon Minato-ku, Tokyo JAPAN

2. American Red Cross

Minimum donation is $10. They accept Visa, Discover, AmEx, MasterCard and Amazon Payments. For people in the US, you can also send text message REDCROSS and send to 90999 to donate $10.

3. Other organizations listed in the TIME's newsfeed:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/11/five-ways-you-can-help-earthquake-and-tsunami-victims-in-japan/#ixzz1GdRKP8VY

4. Organization listed in abcnews article on how to donate:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/japan-earthquake-donating-relief-funds/story?id=13122660

5. Organizations in Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200365196648166

GOD bless JAPAN!

GANBARE NIPPON!

sss maternity benefits

2011-02-16T13:14:00.002+09:00

being an sss member has its perks from time to time -- well of course that's if you're a paying member (LOL).
about 2 weeks earlier i filed the 2nd part of my maternity claim to sss. yep there are two parts -- first part is when you have to fill up this form of notifying them that you're pregnant(i think you can notify as soon as you have proof of pregnancy) and the second part is when you'd submit the birth certificate of your baby or in sad cases ( proof that there was a miscarriage). thank God that this time, it's the happy case.
later last week, the check arrived ( am surprised that it only took a couple of weeks! i mean this is the government that i was dealing with ). and so the other day i went to sss to encash the check. again surprise surprise, there were only few people in the bank and so it was encashed in a breeze. i went home happy with few thousand richer =)

in case you're not familiar with these benefits ( as i have learned from few people and they're surprised that you can actually claim benefits even if you gave birth overseas --- for those who are living abroad but are paying their contributions ), you can get a detailed information from the sss website. click here or if in case the link doesn't work here's the url : http://www.sss.gov.ph/sss/index2.jsp?secid=789&cat=4&pg=null

if you're an sss member, i think going through the benefits portion of this website is worth the time.

btw, this scenario is for a voluntary member like me.

heart's day!

2011-02-15T09:33:00.006+09:00

every year, i nag my husband for giving me lavish bouquet of flowers on valentine's day. not that i am complaining because those flowers are really really pretty and makes me feel so so special. it's just that at the back of my mind, i know it costs a lot. i'm not a high maintenance girl to love ( except for my burberry bags haha ), and it can just be cheap to make me smile. but i know, my husband just want to show how special me and our iSha to him, plus this year's v-day we're not together. i think that's why he went an extra mile this year , the 3 dozen of colorful roses came with a haagen-dazs ice cream cake! these really put a smile on my face and company to my baby fats :D

we love you mahal and thank you so much >(^^)< and thank you Lord for my husband's job! with HIS grace, we'll be there soon!

i wish that everyone's day is filled with love =)

my life's changed forever...

2010-11-30T21:50:00.002+09:00

hello cyberworld!

it has been ages since my last post. a lot of things happened and felt so much blessed with all the things that happened.
my life has changed and so as my husband, as we welcome our bundle of joy, trixcelle elisha.

she was born last october 29 at the capitol medical center. she weighed 7.7 lbs. ( yep, she's one heavy baby! ), with length of 52cm. these statistics is somehow surprising for me since both my husband and i are not endowed with gift in the height department :D well.. maybe recessive genes...

and yesterday, she turned 1 month and i couldn't believe that time flies that fast ( well not during the times when i was so overwhelmed with the responsibilities of being a mom). and man, it's so tiring yet when she smiles -- though she does it unknowingly -- it makes my heart melt. during the first 2 weeks, it felt like hell for me. husband went back to his overseas job and i was left alone here in the philippines. my mother, though she really was giving her all effort to help me, is not of much help. she couldn't dance the baby ( which is the primary vice of baby isha ) and i was really struggling when baby isha started to cry. i didn't know what to do. i have no siblings and didn't had any experience with taking care of a baby. i was so stressed and felt so irritated. but slowly, now i am becoming better. i'm now much aware that baby cries. and now i have a virtual checklist at the back of my mind everytime she cries. is the diaper wet? is she hungry? has she burped? is her nose stuffed? does she feel hot? are her clothes comfortable? but usually the reason for her crying is that she's hungry. i tried to breastfeed her as much as i can but my milk doesn't suffice her needs so i have no choice but do mixed feeding. her appetite is really good.

i'll pause here for now and will try to continue my stories in another entry, another day. baby isha is now moving and in a while she'll be awake.

p.s. ayan rose, hehe meron na akong update :D will try to narrate my labor story in another entry =)

not so excited

2010-07-31T08:52:00.002+09:00

we're going home today and for the first time, i am not so excited about it. i will miss my husband and i feel down that he'll be returning alone to tokyo in a week. i know he will miss me and the baby in my tummy. every night he talks to her and say sweet things to my tummy. i know he'll be a good father. we're so thankful for our gift and we pray that GOD will continue to bless us to have a complete family =) and many more babies to come =D

ok now i'm confused about the tone of this entry, hmmmm... since it ended with a vision of a lot babies, it made me smile =)

now i'm snapping out of it and continue working on our luggages.

moving tummy

2010-07-20T19:27:00.002+09:00

woow! this feeling is so weird and yet so exciting. i can now see my tummy moving and i'm not the one making it move. there's really a someone inside my belly. oh our little one. i have been addressing our little one as she/her lately because of the last two ultrasounds but with the way she moves and the way she make those waves on my tummy, now i think we really need to wait and see.

but i guess, an active movement in the tummy of a pregnant woman is always a positive sign of a healthy baby. i love you anak! i am always praying for your health. daddy and i can't wait to have you in our arms when the right time comes =)

sorry about my last few entries.. yep they are all about the pregnancy. i know you understand ;-)

blame it on the ho-ho-ho-hormones

2010-07-14T17:39:00.011+09:00

cranky.

this past few days i felt crankier than usual. i easily get annoyed or irritated.
it must be the hormones cause after i have blurted out and expressed my unreasonable grouchiness, i feel fine. is this weird? i'm now on my 25th week of pregnancy. and i feel so much bigger than the past months. now baby is moving more often, especially when she felt cramped in my pants -- even in my maternity pants. but i so look forward to her every movement and sudden hiccups. here are some of my tummy/belly pics :D

pregnancy and the changes on my body

2010-06-18T17:56:00.005+09:00

so far my pregnancy symptoms are textbook. here are some of the reasons why:

1. first trimester -- i always felt so nauseated and anything that i put in my mouth doesn't taste any good. i only preferred mildly salted and mildly spiced food.

2. middle of my fourth month -- i gained back my appetite and i craved for watery and fruity foods.

3. boobs are bigger. yep need to buy new holders for them :D

4. skin darkening. oh this is so true for my nape and my armpit. excuse me. i know it's gross but what can i do, it is what it is. i'm so hoping that the book is also true saying that it will lighten again after the pregnancy. aside from the darkening, a number of new moles appeared on my neck.. and they are so itchy!

5. bigger feet. my... i have strong feet and legs. i can walk upto hours, happily. but now if i just walk for about 15 minutes, my feet hurts. and my size 24 shoes seemed to have shrank.. enkkk! no it was my feet that have gotten bigger. but thankfully, i don't have water retention on them. we call it manas in tagalog. how do you say it in english?

6. fifth month-- this is so calming for me. i feel more complacent now cause from time to time i can now feel my baby. i always talk to her and just say gibberish baby talk. i love her so much eventhough i haven't met her yet.

7. nails and hair. they both grow so fast! very fast. i used to trim my nails once a week but now i have to do it every 3 days. and my hair, i have already cut it myself. and now it is so unruly again because i can't straighten nor color it because of the chemicals that might harm the baby.i miss the time when i can just leave the house and not comb my hair because they are so straight. thanks to the technology of rebond.

8. always thirsty. i've read from the book and net that this might be a sign of gestational diabetes. but thank God, every visit to the doctor, sugar in my urine is always negative.
i just drink lots and lots of water. not so much of the juice now cause i realized they might have too much sugar even it's 100% pure. my mother has diabetes so i should really pay attention to this.

9. always feel like peeing. it's explained by the pushing weight of the baby on the mother's bladder cause she's now seating on top of the mom's bladder. so eventhough i have just peed, i felt like i need to pee again after a few minutes. felt kinda weird cause after you drink, after few minutes i can feel that i need to pee again. like humming the tune of drink in... pee out.

10. constipation. again, excuse me. but this is so annoying. i'm blaming this for my extra unnecessary weight. now i'm taking dietary fiber supplement so i can reach that "fulfilled" moment :D and this morning, it worked like a charm =p

11. sleepy. i always feel sleepy at work ( haha ) but even before i was pregnant, i was like this already. but now, i tend to take a nap after i got home from work.

12. mood swings. well not so much. but i am easily annoyed with the things that aren't normally annoying me. example: people not answering emails. yeah i know it's silly because they didn't ask me to write to them right? but now i am a bit pissed because of this ( hmm this is actually the second mail she ignored so i should take a hint right? ). well, after i eat my frozen cold kiwifruit, this will be gone ;-p

i need to count calories again?

2010-06-15T11:48:00.002+09:00

yesterday, my OB told me that on my next visit i shouldn't have gained any weight (*sigh*). it's because within 3 weeks, i have gained 2.25 kilos. i know what did i eat right? i'm ashamed to admit the sinfully sweet foods that i ate. i should have just sticked with my watermelon and melon cravings. but i diversified. i explored all the new flavors of ice cream in the frozen department. it was really enticing. there was this new creamy peach ice cream, then there was that azuki bean ice cream, then there was that mango gelato from ciao bella. and without knowing it, boom! 2.25 kilos :D

now, i should just pick up that bio yogurt and maybe even lessen my watermelon ( as they are also packed with sugar, i guess cause they are so sweet). i have discovered kiwi and they're really good plus i've learned that it is packed with the healthy folate. it was my breakfast today but the one that we bought yesterday was too ripe already. i missed the tinge of the randomly scattered sourness in my tongue.
so if you're buying kiwi, try to press a little and if it is already soft, pick another bag.

anyway, with the weight issues aside, the checkup went well. since it was monday, there are only few people. if it's saturday, we used to wait upto 4 hours in my OB's clinic. though our house is far from this clinic, we really go back to her cause she speaks english and she's female. if you're living in tokyo, this combination for an OB is really rare. there are a lot of male OB here which was a surprise for me cause in the philippines, it's not that common at all.

our little one is developing normally based on our little one's leg bone length and ear-to-ear head size. and now, our little one can't fit anymore in the ultrasound screen - i'm not particularly sure if it's the limitation of the equipment. still, the gender is not yet sure. our baby is still in breech position and i was told not to worry yet. so far, so good. thank you Lord! =)

at last!

2010-05-24T13:21:00.002+09:00

hola! it's been a looong while since i've put an entry here. i have a loooong list of excuses but i'd rather not dwell on that cause today i bear GOOD news =)

well... since my readers are mostly my FB friends, so i bet you know my news =) i know i can't help smilin' =)

last saturday, we went to the doctor again and things are still going so well, i'm now 17 weeks pregnant! and my OB already told us if our little one might be a girl or a boy ( which i will not disclose yet cause i know it's still too early to be sure ), but P and i are just so happy. our hearts are full of joy and gratitude to HIM above for giving us this third chance to be parents. we saw our little one's hands and fingers --- thank God there are five fingers in each hand, the stomach, the bladder, the heart --- all in the right place, and the spine is now formed. thank God for technology!

i was really so scared to blog about this because the last ones didn't end so well. so if you're reading this, i'm still asking for your prayers to wish us to have a healthy pregnancy, delivery and baby. thank you very much to all of you who have prayed and sent all their positive thoughts. i may not be able to send back to you the same thing but i do always pray to HIM that HE bless you hundredfold more.

our little one is now very active. he/she's always showing off whenever he/she's being watched on the screen in the doctor's clinic. the third time we visited (our little one was about 13 weeks, and our doctor exclaimed, you're baby is jumping... ooohh.. i couldn't hold back the tears). now i'm on my second trimester and vomiting episodes are behind me now --- hopefully. my little one is not a fan of red meat so until now i try to minimize pork and beef (except yoshinoya's gyudon ) intake. whenever i eat --- my usual amount of servings --- i always felt like hurling. now, i love green salads, not-so-flavorful chicken, any stir-fried veggies,bitter gourd with egg, vegetable tanmen, fruits and above all fruits, watermelon!!!
i also dislike foods with strong flavors like curry, thai sauces, tomato sauced dishes... they are not friendly with my tummy.

from time to time, i'm now feeling some movement in my belly.. like there's some soft beating or butterfly flying that only lasts few seconds. but i read from the net and from my book that usually those movements --- they call quickening , can be felt from 18th to 22nd week so i'm not really sure if that's my baby letting me know that she/he's doing fine inside mommy =)

thanks for reading my post and i wish you will also have a good week ahead. God bless!

pyramid

2010-03-04T18:33:00.003+09:00

i've heard this song a thousand times already from youtube (my husband almost memorized the lyrics *woot!*) but this video here is new. i think it's interesting. should charice make it in the US, that would be really awesome!

did you like it?

of friendship and love

2010-02-18T17:17:00.004+09:00

today is the last day at work of my good friend A-san. i'm really sad that she's no longer working in my workplace. i will really miss her. we don't hang out together a lot but whenever there's opportunity to have chitchat at the office, we always do :D
A-san, i wish you all the best. thank you very much for your friendship. wherever you go, just always remember there's a Lucelle that will always be your friend. mata aimashou ne.

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V-day i received a card and a box of chocolates from my poetic and ever loving husband.
i always look forward to the cards that P makes for me because he has this gift in composing love letters/poems, naks! ;-)
here are some random verses from the poem:

i imagine us years and years from today
sharing a park bench, holding hands so quietly
winter companions waiting for the sunset...

our memories brushes the same years,
as we silently share the same fears
our waves of laughter drifting away tears

like a poem perfectly written
with verses spoken in rhythm
we're couplets in unblemished rhyme...

and so i thank God for you
for giving me the benefit of hearing you cry and smile
and inciting and inviting me into every shades of your life

you are my friend, my joy and my light
you are my heart and my heart is yours
for the rest of our lives...

the 2nd picture is the chocolate cream cheese cake I made for P. =)
we spent this day attending mass, then went on a walk in ryogoku and then we walked home and later that night we just shared home-made hamburger steak dinner with wine and this cake for dessert (while watching winter olympics hehe).

i think they should not be together

2010-02-08T12:34:00.005+09:00

that is udon and fried sardines.

i'm one of those people who are not shy to to cook something that has no name.
if there's a lot of veggies that have accumulated in the fridge, i always saute them together - as long as they still look edible, you know what i mean :D my husband will always ask me what is the name of the dish that i cooked, and i will just invent names for my dishes... cooking food this way, from time to time, is exciting at the same time economical ( if the dish turned out fine haha).

lunch time today my tummy was calling out "hunger in here!".
last saturday i planned to cook kare udon but my husband craved for pizza, so udon was out of the picture. and today i planned to cook it again but i toyed with the idea of putting the fried sardines (in a can) instead and check if it will work out ok. well...i'd say not much.

it's not so disastrous but i now i know that the fried sardines is better be mixed with pasta, basil and olive oil. i think that will be more pleasant. or maybe the udon be mixed with minced pork or chicken, if you will add curry flavor. i love spicy and zingy food!

anyway, i still ate it and it was tolerable.

my ingredients: 1 can of fried sardines, 2 packs of udon noodles, curry powder (1 tsp), oil - olive oil is better, dried chili, garlic. i sauted the garlic and sardines in oil. then i washed the udon noodles before putting in. i add about 30ml of water.i added the curry powder and the shredded dried chili to taste. when on the plate, you might want to add a lemon flavor to eliminate strong flavor.
and tadaaaa!

i took this picture after i had a portion of it -- that's why there's that empty part of the pan. i'm not good with food presentation so i just took a shot of the cookware where i cooked it.

tonight, menu is spicy chicken drumettes and ampalaya with egg. i'm not sure if they are good combination :D i was supposed to cook kare kare but i didn't find the beef cut needed.

happy cooking! =)

asashoryu is leaving sumo

2010-02-06T22:01:00.001+09:00

we've just learned this today.
this is really a bummer. i love watching Asashoryu in his bouts but his ritual before each bout is what i'll miss even more (the way he bites his lower lip and makes his small chinky eyes even smaller then he'd slap his right hand to his right side).
wooow, the fire and the character that he brings to the game is simply awesome. they say that he's a bad character out of the game but i think that should not be included when you're judging him as a sumo player. come on, why did he become a yokozuna after all. he's one of the greatest sumo fighters for me. hands down to you Asa!
well now, Hakuho is the only reigning yokuzuna. he's really good but he's vibe is just too goody-goody. it somehow bores me as a fan of the sport. thrown in some spunk dude cause you're really good. pondering on it, maybe technically and physically better than Asa.

anyway, here is Asa's farewell press conference:

probst effect

2010-02-05T21:25:00.002+09:00

just realized that i dreamt of jeff probst last night and he gave me the most dimpled charming smile.woot!
and i slightly melted... :D

Picture taken from here

yey it's friday!

2010-02-05T12:57:00.002+09:00

this week feels like a very long one! things are just crazy lately in the office with all the scrambling we need to do for a certain event.

anyway, it's now friday and tomorrow my boss will be leaving to go visit his country. so i guess the possibility of me going to barcelona for the mobile world congress is now 100% NO possibility :D
oh well... see you barcelona some other time... hopefully!

on another note, i'm reading materials about mobile technology and found this new smart phone project of Access and Emblaze. it's called ELSE mobile. check it out: http://www.elsemobile.com/#/Connect/OneBrainBase. though i noticed that the menu is somewhat similar to that of macbook's display when you hover on a minimized application with sub windows.

on tv series, last wednesday i was so excited to watch the first two episode of the new season of lost. now i know who/what the black smoke is! :D and one character really died... that's why she's staying in V (yep, i'm a spoiler). and another series, chuck. woohhhw, lara lang is now in chuck. hmm.. interesting.... so is smallville done already? another, the big bang theory. i loved the last episode. bazinga! watched it like 5 times :D
tv series are my alterworld =)

one of those light bulb moments

2010-02-01T15:47:00.005+09:00

1st day of a new month! oh Time you fly so fast... who's chasing after you?

i remember i had this post few weeks ago about my chasing-changes-looking-for-something-unknown yakyak. now the month of january ended and i'm still not certain of what is really that something i was trying to achieve but you know what, i'm now less confused. a number of things have recently transpired and it made me realize that i'm an ungrateful, self-centered yakking *itch.

i'm blessed with a wonderful and loving husband. i have a steady source of income. i have good health. i still have my nanay. i can buy things that i want. i have many good friends. all my basic needs are being provided for and few luxuries are thrown in from time to time. i am doing really well. so what was i still craving for and blabbering about that i want (baby -- my conscience just whispered to me hihi).

a couple of weeks ago, my very good friend A-san received a letter stating that she's been let go. i was so surprised. she's really good at what she does and unfortunately there are just things that are beyond her control. i will miss her. i will truly miss her. ohh A-san. i wish you all the luck when you travel overseas again. i pray that you'll find that happiness and special someone who'd make you happy.

then i met again this another friend(T-san) who had asked my help about finding a part-time job here in tokyo. she said she's surprised that it's so hard to find job in tokyo now. if in two more months, she can't find one, she's no choice but to go back to her home country. she told me to not let go of my job yet.

then my friend in pinas, well she's almost my elder sister, is trying very hard to find a job overseas cause she wants to look for a greener pasture and better income. she wants to let her parents rest and stop doing the heavy jobs just to put something on the table.

and here i am, i have a relatively stable part-time job. working only 20 hours a week, taking home a somewhat meager salary but considering the amount of work required by my job--it's pretty reasonable, having the luxury of being at home by around 4PM everyday whilst watching the latest episodes of tv series and cooking dinner for my husband... i can go on and on but i know you know what i mean --- i can say i am so much blessed. thank you God for all the blessings and realization of all your blessed manifestation. thank you!

so the conclusion? for now (until my next down moment?), i will just be thankful for what i have. i will continue with my job until they fire me too or until i found another IT-related job. i will continue to hope that i will be pregnant this year. and will continue to strive to find happiness in everything and hopefully share happiness to other people =) ohh.. this last one can be that something that i really want to do. hmmm....

we don't even have one!

2010-01-29T20:00:00.002+09:00

and they have just recently welcomed their 19th one!

http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/18-kids-counting-parents-debut-19th-child--950

well, life's just like that =) congratulations to them!

anyway, i know this year is our year! amen!

is strawberry a fruit?

2010-01-22T17:57:00.006+09:00

recently i realized that all my life, there's this one food that i have been missing... and that my friends is strawberry!

i didn't like strawberries before. hmm... maybe because i didn't had the chance to have a taste of it back in the philippines (i haven't been to baguio yet)... and i always thought it's a sour food (it tasted so when looong time ago i bought some from sm supermarket).
i was never a fruit lover until i came here in japan. ok still not a fruit lover but now i eat fruits. the fruits here are just fresh and yummy and varied and they are nicely stacked. and everytime i enter supermarkets, they are there as if calling my name.

yesterday i bought this pack of strawberries and on the plastic there was a face of a man. i was curious and later learned that he's the grower of the strawberries that i was enjoying.
now, talk about putting a face on a name or ... fruit, right? :D

anyway back to my question, is strawberry a fruit? for me IT is. but wikianswers trumps my answer, i guess. see here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_a_strawberry_a_fruit_or_a_vegtible

mac test 123

2010-01-12T18:57:00.003+09:00

husband is still not home - he'll be coming home late , he said there's a lot of things he needs to do in the office - so i got the chance to take this baby on the blog... err, take this baby to write my blog.
actually this ain't bad at all. i'm so liking the wide screen and soft keyboard, but still lost in figuring out the strokes for its mousepad :D sorry mac newbie around here.

actually i don't have anything to write that has of any nutritional value...so let me just blabber around..

confession: since it has been weeks since i really wrote a blog entry, my english nowadays seem awkward.. maybe it's the lack of any new tv series to watch or perhaps because i'm now on the brink of moronic phase.

i don't know if this has something to do with my age or any other unassuming factors, but i've been feeling a bit restless lately. seems like i want to chase change but i don't know where to start. i can't even define the change i would like to chase. i want to change job but i don't have the guts to find another one. i want to start a business, but i don't even know the business i like. i want to make a website, i can't even decide what contents would i provide. my oh my...
i don't know if these thoughts are the byproducts of my recently noncompetitive attitude towards my tasks in my current job or just random thoughts buried in my subconscious mind.

well well.... i hope by the end of this month, i can figure out what i want to do and how to start to make it done.