this week felt like a long week. siguro rin kasi di ako sobrang busy (both work and personal life). tapos yung mga shows sa cbs puro pa lumang episodes except for “the mentalist”. well, my disappointment started monday. kasi i now watch a few shows sa fox. monday is “house” and “lie to me”. ready na ako nung monday, 7 pm, i’m at home, turn on the tv to fox, and what did i see? baseball
pero come 8 pm it showed “lie to me”, i think. my golly! di ko na maalala, for real. tapos tuesday same thing, 7 pm ready to sit and watch, old episode of “ncis”. pati yung “ncis:la” luma rin, kabago bago na show, lumang episode kaagad. hay… wednesday ganun din for “criminal minds” and “csi:ny”. kaya nung thursday i was thinking in my head “i bet you ‘the mentalist’ is showing an old episode as well” and to my surprise, it wasn’t. or if it was, i haven’t watched it before. in a way it’s good na rin kasi i got to catch up on the pinoy shows. shows with “s” kasi i also watch “pinoy big brother” now. i like melai and paul jake. parang ang sarap maging friend si melai. si paul jake naman, well, he’s cute & funny and he gets along with everybody.
aside from watching the pinoy shows, reading the forum at pinoyexchange about pbb took up a lot of time too. tapos there’s boundless pa, nagkataon a lot of people commented on that one post. it’s interesting to read that there are so many christian singles out there. some commented nga that they should organize a conference. come to think of it, bakit nga ba walang singles conference. they have conference to strengthen marriage, pero parang wala naman for singles. or baka meron but i just didn’t hear about it.
talking about singleness, i came across two great books regarding singleness. my favorite book on this topic used to be “table for one” by camerin courtney pero now it’s “press play” by patti gordon. i was crying after i read chapter one kasi i can totally relate. the other book (which i’m currently reading) is “what’s a girl to do” by janet folger. i just finished chapter one and i know that i’ll like it. i like how both authors are still single in their late 30s so they know exactly how/what it feels like. kasi yung mga books on singleness dati puro written by someone who’s married na and the stuff they write are focused more on how to find a guy and stuff like that. meron namang ibang authors na ang dating eh holier-than-thou, yung sobrang focus naman sa “all you need is God” “God is your husband”. i mean, i understand that He should be our focus and all, pero dahil nga sa holier-than-thou attitude eh di ako maka-relate. yung kay patti gordon, it’s so funny. she shares the mistakes that she made, the result of when she listened/didn’t listen to the Holy Spirit’s prodding. basta, it’s very encouraging for me. after i finished reading the book nga, it really made me want to get closer to the Lord. i got this quote by oswald chambers (which i posted on fb) from the foreword on the book: ”The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.” oh, one more kwento on books about singleness. about 3-5 years ago i got such a book as birthday present “did i kiss marriage goodbye?”. okay sa title, ano? i know my friend meant well, kasi alam niya i’m struggling with singleness. pero naman, alam rin naman niyang it’s a sensitive topic for me tapos bigyan ako ng book with such a title on my birthday. hello?!?!?!? i don’t think i ever finished reading that book. all i know is di ako maka-relate. to me it’s one of those holier-than-thou books. i won’t say naman that’s the worst gift i got for my birthday pero tumatak talaga sa isipan/memory ko.
last night was parent-teacher conference at awana. i have 5 girls so you would think i’ll have to talk to 5 parents pero i ended up just talking to 3. it didn’t take long for each parent kasi, like i said, i have the good and smart girls
they come prepared and motivated to finish the sections. with regards to them getting distracted since we’re using our pastor’s office, sabi nung director namin, i should tell them it’s a privilege. if they don’t focus and work on their handbook, that privilege will be taken away and we’ll have to switch with another group and go back to our classroom. good idea! one of the parent asked me to talk to her daughter about assurance of salvation. i realized then that i just assumed they all are saved kasi they grew up at church. it made me realize that i need to be praying for that. and i ask you, my few loyal readers, to please pray for me too. that i’ll be clear in presenting the gospel when the opportunity arises and that i’ll be able to explain well for them to understand. i’m planning to bring my evangecube next week. btw, one of the parent said that his daughter talked about me and likes me
i really like them too
i’m thinking nga of going to church early on fridays. kasi some of the girls are there early, that way i can chat with them more. oh, there’s this other girl (she’s in 3rd grade) that i like. she’s very malambing kasi. last night she was crying kasi a boy did something to her balloon kaya the balloon was hanging low. tapos she mentioned too that she left her bible in sunday school a while back kaya now she doesn’t have a bible. i think the Lord prodded me last night to get her a bible so i will make my way to the christian bookstore again. i say again kasi this will be my 4th visit in the past two weeks. that’s where i found the books on singleness… on sale
nothing planned today except visit the lius and help out (sort of) with melissa’s birthday gathering. ako nagprisinta last night kasi when pru told me that she’s having about 15 girls (9-10 yrs old), i asked if she’s the only adult. she’ll have two teenager helpers (megan and her friend) daw but i’m more than welcome to go help out, to which megan fully agreed, hahaha… but that’s not until later this afternoon. so i’m going to just relax this saturday morning. thank God for the weekend
p.s. no homework for chinese school, yay! well, last night teacher yow-yi said she sent an email with the homework. i told her i didn’t get any email from her and i assumed that she forgot. sabi niya she’ll send it daw pag-uwi (last night) but i still haven’t gotten it, so, no homework!!!
p.p.s. we get an extra hour due to the time change. yay!!!
p.p.p.s. november na bukas. matatapos na ang 2009. ang bilis naman.
one last thing, promise. we had a pinyata at awana last night. it’s our way of giving out candies i guess. the pinyata is so cute!!!
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by the time we got to chicago it was past 3 pm and since we haven’t had lunch we decided to buy something to go. where did we end up getting our late lunch? mcdonald’s
good thing we didn’t have mcdonald’s for dinner. that would have been a first for me - mcdonald’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner
. last time i saw her was at katie’s wedding almost 2 years ago. we went to her place and rested a little bit. later that afternoon we walked down michigan avenue to get to the millennium park for the free concert at the park. we stopped by the bean and took pictures, of course.








; my arms got darker too
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while we were at montrose beach, josh (carina’s eldest son) asked me to carry him and then said “let’s go farther (to the deeper part)”, pretty smart eh?
on thursday after 5 pm). theresa’s friend lamont met us there.




