Condolence.
May 8th, 2008
This morning my previous elementary teacher and her sister was attacked by two armed men while they were on their way to the Church. They fought back and our teacher’s sister got killed in the incident. Our teacher is still in the hospital and we have been told that she doesn’t know yet that her sister is dead because the doctors are unable to tell her yet because of she was still hysterical.
I pray that the Lord help Mrs. Wagan in healing the wound caused by this unfortunate incident and may her sister’s soul be at peace with God. We pray that justice for her death be found.
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Church Lessons - Keeping your focus.
May 5th, 2008
Its been quite long since I actually wrote a decent entry in here. This past two months has been very difficult and taxing for me spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and physically. My mind has been filled with many worries and unfortunately I gave in to my weaknesses and I crawled back into my shell again.
Today, I went with my family to Church. It has been very long since I last went to one, for after the Church we attended back in Pangasinan broke up into two factions, nothing has been the same ever since. I knew my spirit wanted to go since Saturday night. I knew it was telling me it was time, that I was ready and that it knew I wanted to as well. My family had been attending this new Church they found a couple of months ago from a family friend that Mom had in the hospital. This morning when Dad was waking me up, I felt how much I was being stopped by something I could not see. I can clearly feel it pushing me down on my bed, telling me not to go. It almost succeeded. I wanted to give in and just sleep, but my spirit was calling me. My spirit knew I wanted to go back to Him not just in thought but physically as well. I needed the Church back in my life. With the help of God’s name, I was able to push away what was stopping me from going to the Church today, and take part in the service.
When I got there, I was overwhelmed. The people inside that room were all singing and praising God and you can see them unashamed to cry. Men and women, children and adults were there offering themselves to Him. Each one elated that they are able to wake this day to worship and give thanks to Him for everything. Being there was like finding that something I lost. Even though something in me was still trying to tell me that I shouldn’t care, that I should just shrug it off, that service I went to today changed something in me.
The pastor talked about the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, and in the sermon he shared with us 3 important lessons that I clearly remember. The first lesson was God telling us to keep our focus on Him. In our world, there are many distractions that keep us away from Him. We find many things that keep us busy but we must remind ourselves that if our focus is not on God, we are bound to get lost. So we must always keep our senses up so we an avoid the temptations that lure our focus and attention away from Him.
The next was that keeping our focus on Him is not enough. We must also be clean so that He can work through us. A person who has given himself to God would be a living example of the change in his life. Once we have accepted Him, we choose to turn our focus away from everything else that is against His will, and by doing that, we become clean.
The third lesson he shared was that we must not only keep our focus on God and become clean, but that we must also listen to Him so that we would actually hear what He is saying to us. In order for us to fully live for God, we must listen to what He tells us and follow it. We must take that step to show Him that we have fully given ourselves to Him because we accept and do what He asks us to do. Taking that step takes faith in God, for we start to rely on Him rather than our own capacities.
On my own, many things seem impossible, but with God carrying me through everything, nothing is impossible.
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Finding the perfect home for me.
May 5th, 2008
Our family doesn’t have our “own” house yet. We are still living at my grandmother’s house (my grandma’s sister) so we currently consider that as our home. I have always been fascinated with houses so one of my dreams would be having one of our own. Dad and Mom still have so much on their hands so saving for our own home is currently our of the picture. However dreaming is free so I can’t stop myself from looking at House Plans and the more designs I see the more I want to find.
We used to have those Home Plans magazines but it has been a long time since we last subscribed to it. I was so elated when I found out that I can now check new and old designs online. By being able to see plans on my computer without having to actually buy the magazines, makes it easier because there is a much larger range of designs to choose from compared to those we had in magazines. It also makes it easier for me to find which kinds of designs I am interested in, which would be those made with wood, especially those with log cabin textures and that have that earthy comfortable feel that simply speaks home to me. That’s why I always keep a look out for Log home plans because I would like to see what new designs are available so I can modify my dream home accordingly.
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My aunt just died.
April 19th, 2008
I just came back from the barrio because we got a call yesterday around 10:30pm that our aunt has died. Mom and I went out and looked for a funeral service as well as the clothes needed for my aunt and we went there and stayed a bit. We had to go back home since my younger sisters were at home and dad has an early meeting tomorrow. We will go back there tomorrow hopefully Ate Nita can stay here to look after my sister and brother so Mom and I can help out with the rest of our relatives.
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Tired and weary
April 18th, 2008
Something just happened and I am just bummed about it. No sense of talking about it anymore. Its not gonna help anyway. Guess I have to just find something else worth doing.
I need more rest, my headaches are starting again.
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Leaving so soon.
April 12th, 2008
I haven’t been blogging for quite sometime since my mom’s aunt (my lola) who lives in the US came back here and stayed for almost a month. We will be taking her back to the airport today because her flight is scheduled at 5 am. Overall her stay with us was a pleasant one and I will miss her a lot. She will be back again next year but for a much shorter time because she would be joining a group of friends from their community in Alaska in a cruise. She would then be leaving her group behind to go back here and spend a week or two and then she’ll go with my mom to Hongkong and Thailand.
I’m not sure which exact cruise they’ll be in, its might be Princess Cruises but I’m not really sure. I looked for it and I think I like the places they’ll be visiting that’s why mom said if things get better by then, we might also take a cruise vacation. But since many of our relatives live in Alaska, I suggested to mom that maybe we can try getting the Royal Caribbean since one of the destinations of their ships is Alaska.
Although one of mom’s friends who have experiences with cruises already suggested the Norwegian Cruise Line as one of the ships we look at as well. Right now we are still looking at all available options but I will surely start saving so I can have some extra pocket money when next year comes.
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Why GoPets and its community ROCKS!
March 25th, 2008
Lately I wasn’t feeling good so I haven’t posted much. I was starting to feel tired and I know I needed to do something to take my mind of everything that has been bothering me for the past weeks and since the trip to Puerto isn’t up yet I had to find another way to enjoy myself. I used to play GoPets back then. I had taken a long hiatus from the game since last February 2007 since I was experiencing my cluster headache crisis plus the problems I had with my leave of absences at the university I decided to check it out again even when I knew there would be so many changes and many people probably had forgotten me.
In case you don’t know what GoPets is, the homepage says :
GoPets is a community that is made up of both real people and virtual 3D pets that live on their owners’ desktops. Each GoPet is a visually and emotionally unique creature that eats, sleeps, and plays with its owner. When a GoPet gets bored or restless, it leaves its home desktop to wander the net, visiting the desktops of other GoPets users.
When it travels, your GoPet visits your close friends and also introduces you to other users with similar interests. The GoPets service provides several modes of communication (including Instant Chat, web messages, and IKU, a unique icon-based message system) that you can use to strengthen your ties to your friends.
You can purchase items for your and other users’ GoPets through the Shopping link of the GoPets website. Items can be purchased using Shells, the GoPets currency. There are three kinds of Shells: Gold, Pink, and Green. Green Shells are automatically earned through activity in the GoPets service (for example, just staying logged in to GoPets earns you a continuous trickle of Green Shells), while Pink Shells are given to users who undertake creative activities (like making new IKU icons). Gold Shells are purchased using real money. Each kind of Shell can be used to purchase particular items at GoPets stores (some items have Green Shell prices, some have Pink, and some have Gold).
When I got back at the forums, it was like coming back home. Though there are many new players and a lot of the old players I knew had left, much of the community I know still exists. I was welcomed by old players such as Asynjur, Meep, Shirley and Chii who have been my friends there. I was having client troubles but Asynjur helped me so much that I am very thankful to her. I wouldn’t have gotten the new installer without her help. 
After installing and logging in, I was really overwhelmed by the changes that had happened. Good thing many players were again there to help me out and thats why I’ve started to enjoy the game once again. There is a new specie already which are Pandas which can be adopted using MSN and boy are they cute. xD I have 4 pets already 3 of which are female cats and one male dog.
I have taught my pets crafting. My Pixie is a farmer, Minea is a chef, Benjie Bean is a fisher while Celeine is learning to tailor. Its hard at first but with the help of the GP community I was able to start over and get into the changes. One of the most significant changes would be GoLand. In here we can now have 10 lands each and travel there as well to our friends lands to check their desktops. We can finally setup our favorite theme lands without having to get alternate accounts. My main land is currently under construction since I’m trying to make it my farm where I can harvest fruits and plants with Pixie, so Minea would have ingredients for her cooking and Celeine for her tailoring.
Here’s a screenshot of my two sheeps and my banana trees:
The sheep drops fleece which is picked up by my farmer and then used by my tailor. The banana trees drop bananas which my chef uses in making her banana split recipes. 
This is my other land which is at 118, 134 which will be used for my April Fools Birthday Beach Party in GoPets:
The pets have many stuff to play with there since I filled it with toys and other beach stuff. (I’m just too excited for my outing that I had to make a beach land in GoPets, hehe.)
Look at Pixie cook barbecue while Celeine rests and looks at the wonderful beach view:
Below, Pixie got a bit tired cooking so she went and started playing with an RC car that we won before when the new minigames such as Eets and Diner Dash were first released in GoPets. (Yup we can play the DinerDash2 and Eets full versions by paying with gold shells. Wheeee!)
Then I saw Minea lounging around in one of the hammocks there sleeping lazily while her Sad Penguin micropet (which I really think looks like Linebeck in Zelda’s Phantom of the Hourglass Nintendo DS game) circles around her.
I then spotted Benjie Bean trying to fish in the Arid Pond we bought earlier while Celeine rests on the hammock after using the Jungle Swing. (The Jungle Swing is an old premium item its the huge tree there.)
After that muscle-aching fishing trying to catch some trouts, Benjie decided to go try the diving pond and rejuvenate his sore muscles. xD
At least I can enjoy the beach with my babies right now. xD I can experience the real thing once Kath and I push through with our vacation. Since my birthday is on the April 1st, I’ll be celebrating it in GoPets too so everyone’s pets are invited. Menu consists of many tropical drinks, barbecue as well as desserts and coffee in case some pets get too much of these “drinks” and can’t drive home to their owner’s lands. xD
P.S. In case you are interested to try it out, please join through my inviter link ok? ^^
CLICK HERE TO JOIN GOPETS
Do send me a message in case you are lost or something and I’ll try my best to help you out. I can also help you start out with a few green shells and some food to help you level up.^^ My beach land is also always open for visitors so you can bring your pets there to play and eat. I place food and drinks there at different times when I log-in so it will help in your leveling.
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Yay for Puerto!
March 21st, 2008
Since I posted earlier about wanting to go to Puerto Galera, it seems I will really be able to go there this April. Andrew will be going there on the 18th with Dennis as well as his high school friends. They’ll be staying there overnight since most of them have work already. Since the trip with Kath would be around the end of April, I figured I can go with Andrew too. Hopefully Au, Mina and Vicky replies if they could go as well. We haven’t been on a trip outside Manila for long time. The last one being Au’s debut in a resort in Batangas.
Since I’d like to drop a few pounds before the trip I considered taking a diet and jumpstart my gym workouts again since I haven’t been exercising since the end of February. Eeeeek. I did read for information in the internet and I saw something about Orovo. I didn’t know what it was at first but I read the site and it sounds good. Though I will have to stick with what I have at the moment which are oats and fiber drinks. Lol.
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I want to go to Puerto.
March 20th, 2008
My sister went to Boracay for the Holy Week with her officemates. She does need to get a break since she’s been in the call center for a year now. She’s been feeling sick a lot especially since her work entails late night shifts. Since I didn’t have funds back when they booked their tickets I wasn’t able to go with her. Now that its really hot here in Batangas, I wanted to go out and get a break myself from all my computer tasks. I need fresh air and I need the open sea. Seriously. I need to take some time away from the computer and spend it on a beautiful place like Puerto Galera at least as a birthday gift to myself.
I haven’t had a real vacation in years. I was eyeing Bohol earlier but I thought that it would be better to have extra pocket money for the vacation rather than spend it all on the round trip tickets from Manila to Tagbilaran. Since Puerto Galera is nearer, I’d rather visit it first, and then visit Bohol and Boracay later this year or next summer. Since I want it badly, I’m being uber thrifty this days so I can save up for the Puerto trip. Haha, I managed to talk to Kath earlier today and she wants to take a vacation as well. Her classes haven’t ended yet so we’ll be waiting a bit for her finals to finish. Hopefully more moolah comes this week as well as April and May. Since I have a bit of bills to pay I have to make sure that the trip were having doesn’t make too much of a dent in my pocket. So instead of getting some of the much needed furniture in my room, like a new desk and chair for my computer, I’m opting for some discount furniture for the time being. I can get new ones once I get a better job opportunity than the one I’m currently in.
I’m even thinking of call centers again but everyone I know says it isn’t such a good idea especially since I get these really bad headaches. But we’ll see.
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BB9 and The L Word
March 20th, 2008
Do you read wikis? I’m an avid fan of some wikis that discuss interesting topics such as Big Brother and other television series that I enjoy watching. Last night I was reading the Big Brother 9 wiki at http://bigbrotherwiki.wetpaint.com/ and some of the comments its members were giving were quite heated. The comments and exchanges being done by the members has really upped my curiosity so I am most likely going to find ways now to get access to the feeds so I can understand what all the other people are talking about.
Another show that I have been watching before when we had 2nd Avenue, The L Word, have their wiki here: http://lwordwiki.sho.com/. So it seems the show is near its ending and though I am not a lesbian the show is really an interesting series to watch. Since I don’t think we have the latest seasons here in our country, I might grab a DVD of that one when I get myself the complete Sex and the City collection.
I’ve been reading other wikis but at the moment the ones I mentioned have the most interesting developments. Maybe I’ll try making my own wiki since its free and not much of a hassle to set up since its pretty much drag and drop. I’ll be trying WetPaint.com since the wikis that I’ve been following uses them.
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