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Nang nagsimula akong mag-lomography, sabi ko sa sarili ko gagawa ako ng sarili kong lomo wall kapag nagkaron ako ng magagandang shots...at ayan na nga! tadaaaan! proudly presenting my lomo wall! well, as you can see kinulang ako ng 3 pang pictures para makumpleto sya pero dedma na di naman masagwa e! hehe! makukumpleto ko din yan at nagaantay na ang kabilang side ng wall ko para sa isa pang set!

those are products of my Holga 135 using different films...me B&W, colored, colored na expired, at redscale films! naiwan ko sa pinas ang paraphernalia ko pangredscale pero ok lang madali nalang gawin yun! im planning to collect all lomo cams there is in the market maliban sa pagkokolek ng rubber shoes, caps, bags, shirts, at shot glass gusto ko lahat ng lomo cams! mukhang me batang mamumulubi sa pinapangarap kong koleksyon! ahaha! LC-A! LC-A! LC-A! ahaha!

medyo napahinga ako ng konti sa pagfefektur at busy ako kakakayod dito sa land of milk and honey! hehe! inaantay ko lang dumating ang favorite subject ko kasi pag andito na sya gagala kami ng gagala kaya im sure madami akong makukuhang magagandang shots! im excited kaya by bilisan mo na para magawa na natin ang kabilang side ng pader! =)

apat

HAPPY

4TH YEAR

ANNIVERSARY

BABY!




I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

nakikita mo ba yang kama ko?
inaantay ka na nyan matagal na!
pwedeng pwede na tyong umikot dyan pramis!
ahaha!
sana andito ka na para naman me kahati ako sa cake ko na napakalaki!
infairness pagkinonvert mo presyo nyan halos 200 pesoses na yan!
alam kong hihimatayin ka sa mahal! ahaha!

missing you bad by!
hope to be with you soon!

when it rains, it pours...HARD!

i had a very rough day today. actually kahapon pa nagsimula nagtuloy-tuloy lang kanina. laging sinasabi ng PT aid ko na magsayado daw mahaba ang pasensya ko. i told him in real life i am impatient and i easily get pissed and it takes so much control on my part to contain my temper kaya naman im proud of myself kasi tumagal ako ang halos 4 na buwan sa trabaho na hindi napuputol ang pisi ko...hanggang kahapon! sino ang maswerteng mga tao na nagpa-snap sa kin??? mga nurses na kung umasta e mga dyos at dyosa na di naman mga kagandahan! (see hanggang ngayon lumalabas na asar pa din ako! di masyadong halata di ba?) I have nothing against nurses at di ko gine-generalize dahil unang una nurse din ang asawa ko (kaya by pls lang wag na wag kang tutulad sa mga nurse na akala mo araw araw e me PMS kahit sa totoong buhay e menopause na!) kaya lang some of them are just plain bitches who act so unprofessional and who do not have any manners! (bato-bato sa langit!)

i just felt so bad yesterday kaya ipinagdasal ko nalang ang mga hinayupak! i still felt bad when i woke up pero dedma nalang. i know im not my usual self kasi kanina serious ang moda ko. im not all smiles when we treated our 1st patient. i was with my OT partner and we're just doing our usual stuff, no big deal. when i was writing my documentation, the charge nurse of the floor approached me and told me that the patient's family said i was rough on their grandma. ako rough??? oh come on! of all the acute PT's in our department ako pa daw ang rough? but still i went to the room and apologized. told them i am just doing my job and im sorry they felt that way but that's just the way we do it. they accepted my apology but told me they don't want me to see the patient again. that's fine with me, i really wont see them again anyway. PTA na ang next in line na makakakita sa kanila after i did my initial eval and treatment. when i told the story to my boss, who happens to be my mentor, she just laughed. told me you cannot please everybody so why try? tama nga naman! kanya kanya lang ng opinyon yan. but still i felt bad coz that's a first for me. di ako sanay na sinasabihan na im rough coz im not. lagi ngang sinasabi ng PT aid ko sa kin na i should learn to toughen up or else everybody will just bitch out on me.

lunch time, i bought a $4 grilled chicken sandwich sa caf. paakyat na kami kasama ko ang PTA ko ng biglang mabitawan ko ang sandwich. ayun tsugi ang $4 ko! tsk! i went back to the caf and just got a to go $2 something tuna sandwich. sabi ko sa cashier na nalaglag ang pagkain ko. naawa naman sya sa kin. sabi nya kuha daw ako ulit ng grilled sandwich kung ayaw ko nung tuna and she wont charge me anything. sabi ko ok lang kasi nagmamadali ako dahil me meeting kami sa rehab. told her i really appreciate it and i started to feel better dahil naisip ko goodness will always prevail. she must be the rainbow after the rain.

mas masaya dito pramis!

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ADIKTUS

As per Sir Jim Paredes

Dying to live
HUMMING IN MY UNIVERSE By Jim Paredes
Updated November 23, 2008 12:00 AM

Have you had long episodes when you felt like you were walking on unsure territory, where you found it hard to see beyond what seemed to be the dreary fog of life, when everything seemed like an aimless, meaningless blah? When I am in such a funk, my higher self wants me to break out into something new. And longer periods like this are sure signs of new major undertakings.

Transitions are scary. One is being asked to leave one place and go to another. Never mind that the place one is leaving has become boring, transitions can still be daunting. It demands of whoever is going through one to let go of the safety harness in one comfort zone and jump into another, and in the process become untethered, unsafe and unattached, (hopefully for only a while) until one reaches (if ever) the new terra firma.

When we decided on our move to Australia, I was weary of the political situation in the Philippines which seemed stuck in a deathly inertia. I also remember feeling that everything else I was doing was pretty much a been-there-done-that affair. I felt the ache that the rest of my spirit was feeling because it needed to find something new to come alive to. I remember trying to imagine seeing people I love for the last time since one can never tell what could possibly happen. I remember selling our cars and seeing our prized possessions being packed in boxes for shipment to a country where we had only a few friends or relatives. It was scary — definitely — but at the same time, the very boldness of it made me feel alive to myself.

In moments like these, one’s senses awaken and it can be a profound spiritual experience. Any new person I meet, a new detail I encounter, a path uncovered becomes a sign that seems to affirm that I am being led to a new life that awaits me. It feels like God, in His/Her/Its divine plan, is doing the leading. How can it be otherwise? Serendipity is everywhere. The signs unmistakably affirm the decision of the new life wanting to be lived.

It is definitely a growth spurt of sorts, and like all growth, it asks us to turn away from the familiar and embrace the new. In many ways, it is like what we experienced in our teenage years when we woke up to discover our young bodies being reshaped for tasks that would go beyond what we were doing as children. All of a sudden, we were taller with more body hair and bodily urges that were so powerful. It definitely felt different. Needless to say, we felt unsure of ourselves in this new body. There was an awkwardness, a doubt, a confusion about what we had become. We sensed that something in us was dying and something new was being born.

In such moments of great change when one is in the process of leaving one state to go to another, the challenge is not to look back, although the temptation to do so is great. One must continue to walk on the path even though it is unsure, dark and often bleak. To look back and ask the “what ifs” about one’s decisions too early in the journey is to become stuck — like Lot’s wife in Sodom and Gomorrah, immobile and turned into a “pillar of salt”! Scary as it is, we must do it if we are to move forward because it is the path to growth. One might even feel at times that to continue is part of one’s soul journey. Emerson put it well when he said that “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.”

This process of dying and awakening into something new requires a new mindset. The worst attitude to have is to leave one place and go to another only to expect to live the exact same old life one had, rejecting new things that will surely come along. It’s a sure prescription for unhappiness, like insisting on experiencing summer in a winter setting!

I admire people who go through life’s stages almost seamlessly, who are able to pick up the pieces after a tragedy, like those who are able to find a new love and marry after the death of a spouse, or the end of a long standing relationship. Or former addicts who are able to have functional happy lives after rehab. Or people who leave jobs they have been in forever and boldly move on to new careers. There is something light and nimble about their ability to drop what has stopped working and leave it behind regardless of sentimental ties in order to embrace the new wave that can make one bigger.

Have you ever realized that many times, we may be putting more effort into preventing growth than simply allowing it to happen unimpeded? Yes, it does take effort (often unconscious) to be lonely just as it takes effort to be happy. It takes effort to maintain our biases, defend our views, feed our fears, and argue in defense of our shallower convictions that keep changing.

Being unconscious can bring us to lonely, sad places in our lives that are actually prisons where our spirits die. From time to time, all of us do in fact live there, but there are those who, tragically, do not know any other home.

Life, I believe, is a cycle of birth, death, acquisition and loss, a dance marathon of opposites. Wherever we find ourselves, its opposite will manifest after a while if our life is to be completely lived. To awaken is to consciously accept what has died in us, to mourn it and move on to something where we can have a greater experience of being alive. Being awake allows us to choose being happy and free.

For roughly the same effort, where would we rather invest our time and resources and our lives, in consciously choosing joy or unconsciously choosing fear?

The following quote from Rumi, one of my favorite poets, never fails to soothe my fears about any transition I must go through. He wrote:

“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”


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My sentiments exactly!

Im on my way to the other side of the world.
Sad or glad? BOTH!
Glad because finally this is a baby step to achieve our BIG dreams.
Sad because I'll be leaving the love of my life behind. (huhuhu!)
But I have FAITH...
Faith that we're on the right track...
Faith that this sacrifice of not being together for a while will be all worth while in the end...
Faith that everything will be okay...
Faith that sooner than we imagine, we'll be together again...


P.S:
oo noh, powtah! 6 months by...im giving you 6 months! haha!
at sa mga mas atat pa sa amin na umalis na ko...eto na! this is it! hmmpt!

P.P.S:
andun daw si jomari yllana kanina sabi ng isang kasabay ko for H1 visa interview! kiber! di ko nga sya napansin e! busy ako masyado kakadasal na matapos na ng walang problema at walang tanong tanong sila mr. consul! at dininig ng buong kalangitan ang dasal ko! Anim na tanong at anim na sagot na walang paligoy-ligoy and im done! sisiw! hehe! salamat sa taas! kaya dun palang alam ko ng we're on the right track!

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH baby! MAHAL NA MAHAL! =)