Cooking for family :)

It's just sheer joy to spend quality time with family!

Yesterday, I cooked caramelized pineapple with ice cream for my Mama, Papa, Kat (she was here), and BingBing. Too bad, the others weren't around. I also prepared pesto, a quick recipe over the phone courtesy of Adong, hehe. It's just super fun to do something good--- and delicious---for your loved ones, 'no? Gives me that sense of "completeness". :)

Later tonight, I shall be cooking sole with spinach, an easy to prepare dish but healthy. It also adheres to the blood type diet my brother's following. Next week kaya, what shall I prepare? Hmmm...

Oh! I can't cook next Sunday pala, there will be a bazaar at the park and everyone's invited to eat there because it's a fundraising activity by the church. So no cooking next week. By the way, Kat and I will have a HumanHeartNature booth there, so I hope you, dear readers (if there are any, haha :D ), can come on 5 September 2010, 8am-9pm, at the Tahanan park for some Sunday-afternoon eating and shopping! :)

Women leaders

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT!

The women leaders of BIDA Change! :D

Maan Palmenco, Edz Mendoza, Tracy Villanueva, and Noey Arcinue

thoughts again in the xrd lab

I find myself writing and thinking a lot while here in the XRD lab. Maybe because this lab fosters an atmosphere of "if-you-don't-appear-busy-you'll-be-asked-a-lot-of-questions". Haha!

I'm all alone in the XRD lab now, and I must say, it's good to work here. No one's around, the surrounding's bright, it's cool, it's quiet, it's conducive to write. I'm a social animal but there are times I just want to be alone with myself. Masarap din pala yung ganung feeling. Mahirap kasi makakita ng tao na katugma mo talaga, pero swerte ako kasi may nakita na ko. But sometimes being alone is just the way to go.

Losing Momentum

Oh no.

I'm scared.

I think I'm losing momentum for my thesis. This week have passed and what have I done that's substantial? Nothing so much really. Just prepared oriented slides for XRD. And today's already Thursday! Oh man! I'll do sieving tonight to prepare my samples for oriented analysis then by tomorrow do the oriented slides. I have checked with Kuya Joval my samples and he'll just grind them in the agate mortar then I'll have all my samples with me.

Oh dear Lord, I humbly ask you to please inspire me again and to enlighten my faculties so I may finish all my analysis this August. Please, please, please. Also, may I not neglect my responsibilities in the Church (youth ministry, choir, lector, etc.) Thank you!

thoughts in the XRD lab

I'm now at the XRD lab here in NIGS. I wonder if the x-rays here can be deadly or mutagenic. Hwow! Magkaka-anak pa kaya ako? Anyway...

When I walk along the corridors here at the Institute in the day or at night, an overwhelming feeling envelops me, something that makes me feel nostalgic of things. I feel that I'm really in a University, this is what a university should be like, should feel like. Kahit hindi gaano kagandahan itong NIGS, I love this building. It may take a while to cross to the other wing since the building is "U" shaped, I like to think of it as a form of exercise.

Cath, Kat, and I jogged around NIGS one night, when the rain outside was pouring. In fairness, masaya! And I got again that "university feeling" :) Even if this building is old, so is its style and materials, I am endeared to it.

Wow new template!

I got excited upon editing my blog's template! Woohoo! It has such a refreshing look for me! I miss the old one though, but I can always revert back to it. Time for a new change! Natuwa ako sa bagong hitsura ng blog ko! Yehey!

Thanks blogger.com! :)