Things I am Thankful for

1. Great marriage - sweet, loving, caring husband.
2. Fantastic Career - my work allows me to grow and be useful.
3. Healthy life - my husband and I are in great shape
4. Abundance and prosperity - We earn more than enough.

Today, I'm thankful for:

1. The rejuvenating siesta
2. Peaceful day
3. significant progress in my paper

My prayer, to get pregnant right after I graduate from my Masteral studies.

Grumblings!

When it rains, it does pour. But the sad truth is, I still don't get the hang of it. I'm overwhelmed! I get stressed!

For the last three weeks or so, I felt I was in a pressure cooker! I had to beat a couple of dealines....I had meetings here and there....Issues that require immediate attention kept popping up....My mind had to multitask....Work was endless! And in the middle of all these, I got severe colds that gave me terrible headache for almost 5 days and "meaty" cough up to this day. Boy, I feel so beaten. I want to bolt!

Thank God, today is a holiday. I was able to recharge for 3 days...I have been sleep deprived so I catch up by dozing a lot. Long weekend is indeed fun.

I wish weekend is 3 always days... I wish I'm finally over this ratrace...

Feeling Nerd..heheh

I'm in our school's Libarary trying to be busy. So I'm posting this using the school's internet connection.

It's gratifying to pretend studious at times. At least from 11 am up to now I know I'm productive. My mind is working. I'm learning.

I forced myself to go to the library because I must complete my three pending subjects. As you may have seen in my previous posts I went out of the country last Feb. One of the papers I need to finish is the baby thesis.

I've browsed some related articles. 'Have updated my draft as well. But my head is starting to ache already. I thought it best to have a short diversion by trying to write something. So comes this post.

n95

grrr.. Am having great difficulty. Am posting this blog using my hubby's n95. Am still exploring its functionalities so whenever i press a wrong button am prompted to a wierd screen...this should be a different paragraph but i do'nt know how. Anyway, at least am able to scribble my thoughts. My husband is snoring aloud. It's almost 4 pm on a lazy afternoon of stormy 7at.
My husband got awaken so he taught me how to navigate the keypad for another paragraph.
I planned to spend the long weekend completing my papers and reading books. But i don't think i can do it.

Still Awake

It's 1 am. I'm very much awake. Updating my friendster profile. Cleaning my yahoo mailbox. Reading mails.

I got enough sleep the whole daylight, that's why.

You might think I'm a friendster freak. I'm not. Just thought it may be time to post photos after years of letting my account exist without anything interesting on it. Haven't tried uploading pics either so I thought this moment may be the right one. Connection is free. Not much traffic.(I'm using dial-up so I'm sure you know what I mean. I'm just uploading 9 pics and it seems like forever. ) I'm starting to get bored so I decided to post.

You may wonder how my week has been. It was hectic. I was put in the firing line for about twice. But I was able to manage. I was a bit sad because I can't seem to say the right, powerful words during two presentations. But what the heck! After days of rewinding how I failed I got used to the idea that I was not satisfied with my performance. That's why during our session in toastmasters, I volunteered to pick one question for the impromptu speech. I obliged myself, else I won't learn. I really feel I need to improve a lot in this erea. I'm not hitting the point whenever I'm called to deliver an impromptu message! I can't avoid it for the job I have now, so might as well do something so I won't feel bad anymore.

Moving on to the lighter side, we just had our sportfest. I feel recharged. I joined basketball, badminton and bowling. I played table tennis too. Not to compete. Just to sweat. I never thought playing cardio sports after toiling the wholeday would be rejuvenating and fun! It's tiring but after the game, I 'm able to work again for about 2 hours! I felt better! I'll make sure then to join in sports activities after work. I've been missing a lot.

Going back to uploading of pics, 3 more to go and I' done. See... it's been almost an hour. How I pray dial-up can be faster than 56K...

I was busy reading news and culumns in inquirer.net. Obliged myself because I need to be updated with current events for my compre exam. I intended to take it this Aug. But I don't think I'm ready so I'm postponing it to January.

While reading the columns, I chanced upon a blog of a highschool student of PhiScie. I thought she is a seasoned blogger until I saw her profile. She wrote quite impressively. To make my story short, she inpired me to post in my blog as well.

Blogging is like writing a journal to hone one's writing skills. Specially for my case. Our reviewer emphasized that being able to write well helps a lot in passing the Comprehensive exam. So before January I should have posted at least 20 insightful articles and stories in my blog to increase my writing confidence.

Before I made this post, I read what I wrote previously about Netherlands plan.

Just to update you on that, I've been back since end of March. The 3 months plan was shortened. And I'm thankful! I had difficulty adjusting to the food there so I don't think I would be able to survive for that long.

Netherlands is highly advanced in terms of infrastructure and technology. But as I recounted to my mother in-law, it's lonely there. Philippines is still the happiest and the most beautiful place for me! If we've only managed our resources and environment properly, we can be one of the richest countries on earth.

Besides, Netherlands is an entirely flat country. It's not like the Philippines where wonders of nature abound. Not much adventure... less breath-taking sceneries. But I cannot deny the fact that "biking" is a lot fun there.

My three weeks stay there have been fruitful. I went back to the Philippines bringing with me the things to finish. Unfortunately, because of a number of set-backs along the way, I'm still not half-way. But I' not worried. I understand that a "change" project is not easy. And it cannot be accomplished overtime.

Okay, I'm startng to emote...hehehe... Going back to my original purpose of posting this, I hope this boosts my writing confidence, one way or another.

Our big boss was impressed!

It's been confirmed. I impressed him! He even endorsed me to one of his executives to work with them in the big project he was contemplating on. Thank God! I will be in Netherlands for 3 months to do this project. This part really thrills me! On the other hand, am a bit disheartened of some situations at work. I feel so overworked. I lot are continuously being passed on to me. I'm not even asked if I can still accommodate more. right now, I'm not able to sleep because the work I left hanging keeps bugging me. I was hoping to finish at least one of it but my husband started to show a tantrum. Instead of creating a scene, I decided to go home already. Truly, I was pissed off. I never thought I'd be put into this pressure. I'm being bothered by something that is not supposed to be my job. Well anyway, so much for the whining. I have been dragged into it so might as well just keep my head on accomplishing everything so that I'm done with it once and for all. Maybe God has a reason for letting me into this mess. This may be his way of making me prove what I'm capable of accomplishing. I pray after writing this post, I'll can have a sound sleep like my husband. He's snoring right now :) Going back to my trip to Netherlands. I hope it can be postponed until March. I don't want to drop my Weds class. I'm going to school right now and enrolled for 9 units. I don't want my 2k to be wasted. On the otherhand, I also do not want to lose the opportunity of going to a place like netherlands and working with our executives there.