Today's thoughts

Day 10 of healing

Today started GREAT!!! I had breakfast with my family and we had a wonderful and fun conversation about life, love, and relationships. It was an animated discussion, with my brother being the most emphatic of all, haha! Kulit eh. But I'm really happy that I started the day right. Positive vibes would ripple throughout the day!!

Yes!! Today I'm excited to learn something new again! Very fortunate to take part in DOST's Write Right Workshop. We will tackle how to write business letters, memorandums, and minutes of the meeting. These are basic letters but it's nice to refresh the memory what the standard formats should be.

I've had my fair share of writing, be it technical of feature writing. I'm more a technical writer I guess, as I was trained in the sciences to write succinctly. I also read The Elements of Style by Strunk and White and that helped a lot in fixing my composition. Though I've forgotten its principles, the one that stuck to me is: Omit needless words.

Anyway I would just like to share what happened yesternight. Mama and I (Bettina was there too) attended a talk by Bro. Arun Gogna about managing your wealth, be it financial, spiritual, emotional. etc. My takeaway points are: Give. Save. Spend.; Do not be afraid to give away what's precious to you because God will replace it with something better or greater; at the end of the talk we sang Kunin mo O Diyos. It was beautiful. It's a reminder for me to surrender everything to the Lord: Kunin mo o Diyos, at tanggapin mo, ang aking kalayaan, ang aking kalooba, isip at gunita ko, lahat ng hawak ko, ng loob ko, ay aking alay sa Iyo.


Day 11 of healing

It was a busy day!!! We wrote two big documents today: Progress Report and Project Proposal. I enjoyed writing the latter so much!! My brain got challenged!! I used to only read project proposals and perhaps also contribute a little input but mostly it was my adviser/ supervisor who would write the whole thing. But now, I think this is a crucial ability for me to learn because I am now expected to think MORE on my own; contribute significantly to outputs and decisions; and produce substantive results. Writing proposals is a crucial skill that is needed to get funding from institutions for your project to happen. Wala kang proposal, wala kang trabaho, wala kang pera. 

Day 12 of healing (just two more days and it will be two weeks!!!)

Today I started the day right by having breakfast with my family!! Yey!!! Super happy lately that I get to spend time with them before going to work. It's such a happy primer for me to start the day. I remember my biochemistry class, there needs to be a primer for your DNA to start forming. Parang ganun din yung akin. I need a primer to function properly throughout the day. And what better way than to spend it with family.

In the evening I met up with Arvin, Dennis, and Mico and we went to Dia De Muertes!! :) It was an event sponsored by Ayala Museum together with the Mexican Embassy. It was a fun night! Ayala Museum had this gimmick of touring the participants inside their galleries where there were actors dressed in ghoulish attire. There was also an ofrenda set up at the lobby, it was so nice! Really in accordance with the Dia De Muertes festivity. We also played a loteria game where a giant loteria card was on our table and we needed to block out a column to win, like bingo. We must answer correctly to block one cell in the loteria card. We didn't win but it was a fun experience, especially when four nerds/geeks get together for a quiz night, hahaha! After that we ate at McDonald's and just chatted the night away until it was time for us to go home.

Day 13, 14, 15 of healing (Yaaaas it's been two weeks!!!)

Okay so our family went to PUNTA FUEGO in Nasugbu, Batangas, YEY!!! It was a super fun getaway for our family! A 2N/3D outing to celebrate the 40th Wedding Anniversary of Ma and Pa! Super saya because we were all together in a beautiful resort with awesome facilities. Also, this really helped me pour out and weed out whatever bitter emotions I have left in me. My family is my stronghold. They listened to my stories, my rants, all the bitterness spewing out of my heart. They were patient and forgiving and non-judgmental, all of which are very important to me when sharing my hardships and ordeals. I will try to post something about this trip.

Day 16 of healing

Jazz night with Mico, yey! So we went to Single Origin in BGC to listen to this jazz duo play relaxing jazz music while we were eating. The food was good, their drinks, better. Had a fun night talking about a lot of stuff; from personal experiences to the mundane activities we do. I like talking with Mico, his range of conversation topics is really broad. And I like that we can discuss serious and deep stuff and we can both understand each other. Love that part.

Day 17 of healing

Half day at work today! Yey!!! It will give me more time to prepare for the Poblacion Halloween night with Jennie, Mito, and Alexis! I plan to wear this heavily sequined dress in leopard print! Tingnan na lang natin kung hindi magreflect sakin yung mga ilaw, haha!

Update: so happy that Alex and Mico were with us! :) the night became even more fun! We did a birthday salubong for Mico whose birthday falls on All Saints' Day.

It was super traffic going to Poblacion! We bar hopped from Agimat to Apartment to whatever bar that was not so full of people. Grabe ang daming taooooo! I am not sure if I'm still cut out for that kind of scene, but perhaps if I would set my mind to it, kakayanin naman.

All in all it was super fun! Spent Halloween with super good friends! Mej may kilig factor din on my part, HAHAHAH!

Day 18-22 of healing (1 to 5 Nov)

A lot has happened during the long weekend. To sum it up:

1 Nov - had an impromptu date with Mama at ATC. I took her out to lunch at Hokkaido Ramen Santouka. We had a great time together :) I also bought gifts and personal effects. Joskoh ang bilis ng pera.

Later that night I went out with Bea and Diale and we watched Bohemian Rhapsody. It was such an awesome movie! :)

2 Nov - It was our choir's Halloween Party! Our group won the mashup contest, woo!!! Sad though that Ex was there and we were even worse than strangers. We just ignored each other the whole night, as in. Walang pansinan at all. Oh well, let's move on. I guess it's like that. Negativity out, positivity in! :)

3 Nov - In the morning, Papa and I went to Festival Mall to have the PC repaired. I also bought myself a Nokia basic phone worth PhP890. Haha! Finally, my 16y/o Smart Postpaid number will be used in a phone again. Bonded din with Papa in the morning. In the afternoon, Noey, Kitt, and I met up at Starbucks at the condo and discussed our PPCRV Voter's Ed module. We divided the tasks and somewhat got a bit overwhelmed with what we need to do. Para sa bayan talaga ito!!

Later that night, I met up with Arvin who's leaving on the 10th! Huhu! My heart is breaking :( But this is temporary. He will be back after seven months.

4 Nov - uuuugh, last day of vacation!!!

Today, Kuya, Laurice, Audrina, Angelo, and I went to The Mind Museum in BGC and we toured around the facility and had such a blast!!! We saw a replica of a T-rex's bone structure, it was huge! Also had fun in the applied sciences section in the second floor and the natural sciences section at the ground floor. Taught Audrina and Angelo basic science to pique their interest. Hopefully I can 'clandestinely' convince them of pursuing science, haha!

After which we heard mass at 7:30pm and ate at Max's for dinner. Super saya!!! It was a complete family day!!! Perfect to begin the work week!!! :)

5 Nov - uuuuugh. Work continues.

Need to draft an outline for the DOST Security Strategy Plan. I need to do this well. I know I can do it. I just need to focus.

Later, I'll go to the gym, woo!! I miss doing Aerial Yoga and BodyPump. Need to have those cuts appear again!

P.S. It was during this week I swam my first kilometer in 40mins and I was able to do 600m in 18mins, woo!!!

Things will just keep getting better from hereon. I will be okay. :)