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With the passing of a loved one, one would realize just how fragile life is and how we should appreciate and celebrate every minute of our lives. May you rest in Peace, Mik.
You’re one of the few people I know who’s very passionate about photography. These shots aren’t as good as yours but I hope that these serves as a salute to an incredible life you’ve lived; a life worth emulating. Descanse en paz. Que Dios te bendiga.
I know I don’t have a celebrity-like skin but I know how to take care and pamper myself and give my skin a bit of vanity it deserves once in a while. lol!
Given the kind of beautiful (eck!) life I’m living, I know that I need more than regular spa treatment; I need something that goes beyond the values and standards set on relaxation regimen most people revered to be effective. So, I went to Marquee Mall and sought for the most glamorous and highly-sensationalized spa center – there I saw Let’s Face It. Yes, I know! They’re offering 20% off for facial care! I grabbed the opportunity. Money is tight these days 😀
I told the reservation lady to reserve two slots for my friend and I. She immediately acted to my satisfaction and before we know it, the pricking ladies started doing their jobs. Let’s Face It is highly endorsed by Cleo, a friend from a not-so-good company I previously worked at/for (yes “for” not “with”, if you know what I mean). Damn, prepositions are really troublesome to use!
I had facial care with LFI twice or thrice already and it all seemed fine, but the last one would be the “last” I think. I thought there’s something wrong with the way they do facial care. After the religious pricking, they’ll use a thing that emits some sort of laser and run it on your face, apply a little cream and tell you its done. I mean, I think the procedure where they attempt to close down the pores they’ve opened up in the first place is missing..
Don’t get me wrong; I think LFi is good but I think they need to rethink the way they do facial treatment so that it would include tightening the pores back (at least) before concluding the procedure. As usual, since my skin is super sensitive, after the procedure, it was swelling like an over-aged tomato and equally beyond recognition! Well, its not about the procedure, its my skin as its always like that. 😀
I’ll still take advantage of other services they offer but will try facial from other providers in the city I think. Any thoughts?
I just got home from a dinner date with a friend who used to work at the company I used to work with, too (I hope I have successfully confused you).
You see, she now works on a different company and she never stopped telling me good things about this company in Clarkfield so I thought this would the best alternative to seclusion in the years to come. She asked me to drop by (their house) after learning that I already resigned from my “previous” company and now living a secluded life in my apartment.
I kinda love the kind of lifestyle I’m living – less money, less worries, simple life like the back-to-basic stuff, and all. After 8 years of being a corporate slave, I think that I am ready for a one year sabbatical leave. I am starting to realize just how much time I have literally lost just by working non-stop for the past 8 years. I missed my friends and family; I’m catching up just now.
The local paella Monica, my friend, cooked for me was awesome! I ate half of the 7-serving on platter! It was humiliating but she was just laughing while seeing me gormandize the food. Good food + real friends = heaven.
As part of my Gearing up for 2010 move, I’d started working on improving my work conditions at home. Well, as I’ve already shared with you in the past, Jaypee and I started an online business which we are yet to unveil this month. I am quite excited about this art collection and we’re hoping that you guys will take a look at it and provide us feedback if possible so that we can improve our collection.
I had to customize my work station to fit to my work and study needs. You see, I’ll start studying language next month and I’ll probably need more functional space to work on so that I can concentrate on my studies and have a comfortable place to work as well; work because I took a freelance work from a friend abroad. I wish I had the liberty to share the complicated process involved in my work but I try not to. But I can if you insist 😉
Here’s how my new work station looks like. I had a couple more pictures on my Facebook account. Feel free to check ’em out. Happy New Year!
My Custom-made Computer Table
My German and Spanish Books
As the year closes, I’d like to congratulate myself or a job well done! I’ve never been proud of myself what I’ve accomplished for the past few years but this year, I’d like to tell everybody that everything that I’ve hoped and wished for this year actually all came true. Perhaps, I’ve told you about me leaving my job to pursue my passion in design and language. This has been one of the highlights of my life in 2009 and I’m very optimistic about the great future ahead of me in 2010.
My life has been both challenging and colorful this year. Indeed, life is what we make it. We have a choice to live a life full of regret or life full of love and inspiration from people around us. Take a deep breath and enjoy the plunge in a pool called life. Happy New Year! 🙂
Parol (Christmas Lantern)
A few hours from now, it’ll be Christmas day! 2009 is the most memorable and most challenging year I’ve ever had: memorable because this is my last year at work and challenging because this was the first time that I have to make a bold move to change my life and prepare myself to a wonderful future.
I cannot thank you enough for touching my life. You, my blog friends, are very much supportive of what I do and whatever I write in here. Your comments always enlighten me and inspire me in some way. As the Christmas day approaches, I wish you and your family a Christmas that is full of meaning, fun, and love.
Merry Christmas Everybody!
Don’t talk when your mouth is “Fool”. Its funny how you talk about positive things about your life and how you do this and that when you and your “friends” see every bits and pieces of other people’s frailties and inadequacies. Pitiful tsk tsk tsk.
– my FB shoutout.
I am never combative even when I’m in the midst of a heated argument. But don’t test my resolve because I can be venomous, too. It saddens me that some people can be so judgmental about other people’s lives and personal choosing (I hope you know what I mean). Never will I apologize about my way of life and preferences. Its God whom I’ll apologize to and not to pretentious, sinful, and self-righteous people. I hope I’m putting my message clearly especially among people who are quick to judge others.
If there’s something that schools and parents should teach their children, it would be RESPECT.
I must admit that I’ve been a lazy blogger and I haven’t been updating my personal blog lately. Although I don’t feel the need to tell you of some super-personal things about myself, I think that at this point I must share what had happened last week to ease the pain I am feeling right now.
Just last week, on my way home at around 11PM, a lady from a Angeles Univesity Foundation Medical Center (Angeles City) hospital called me up telling me that my mom wants to talk to me. Upon hearing my mom’s voice she told me that she went to the hospital herself because of a blood that came out of her mouth when she coughed just that night.
I know she was coughing for days and I thought she had gone for a medical check up a few days back when I told her so. But you see, old folks sometimes willfully forget things and take their health for granted. Its just mom and I who stays at home so it sometimes very hard for me to monitor all her movement.
As I’ve already shared in my blog a few years ago mom got hospitalized because her two lungs collapsed and she suffered severe aneurysm. I thought she had tuberculosis but she was tested negative for it. However, as a precautionary measure, she was given TB prophylaxis to prevent any secondary infection brought about by her already depleted immunity. Now, she was diagnosed to having pneumonia. I was quick to tell my family to limit their contact with mom since almost everybody I knew in our community have colds because of the cold weather. This would prevent further exposure to pathologic microorganisms on each side.
As I travel the road going to the hospital where my mom was at, it was like my memories of her staying in ICU for almost one month two years ago flashed back on me. I couldn’t cry but my heart was bleeding with fear, anxiety, and confusion.
My friends who knew my story know what I’ve been through. My mom’s hospitalization two years ago was really a tough time for me. It has completely depleted my savings which I worked on for six years. In days, it was all gone due to hospital bills and I knew back then that I needed more funds to sustain her confinement and continue her medication.
God knew how I needed help so He sent angels to help me out. These angels where in the form of friends from work and from college. I was deeply indebted of them. All in all, the bill including the medicines that I bought during her stay in the hospital reached more than PhP 400,000.
Now that my mom’s disease is back, I feel like the whole world went down on me. She is currently undergoing medication at home and I am hoping that we’ll be able to get through this new challenge we’re facing right now.
I am naturally a jolly person. But just like everybody else, I also share part of the world’s pain. Through this blog, I am able to partially disburden my heart from all the misery my mom’s condition is giving me. And as a person, I hope you guys would understand.
Thank you for listening and if there’s one thing I’d like for Christmas, it would be peace of mind and good health for me and my mom.
If you think visiting a dentist is fun, think again. I just had an unexpected tooth extraction while my doctor is running through his regular jaw checkup on me. One of my molars were infected for some reason and it should be removed immediately to avoid any further infection. Its condition is beyond treatment so they had to completely remove it. It was a quick decision and I said “yes.” Can you believe that?
I was really shocked and I got really hungry after the more than two hour minor operation. I was drained physically and psychologically…After that, we went to a local resto and I ate like mad hah! (spaghetti and soup only).
Sharing some of the pics my friend took when we’re at a local resto.
After a traumatic visit to the dentist
Trying to forget the feeling
I’ll pause for the meantime to give myself a simple relaxation by visiting a spa and salon later this afternoon at SM Clark. I’ve been working so hard for the past few months and never thought of pausing for a while and think if I ever had the time alone for myself and gave myself a pat in the back for a job well done.
We should always remind ourselves that we work to live and not live to work. I’ll keep you posted. Enjoy your weekend.
The Brown Mestizo 