Friday, October 22, 2004
happy friday!
from an old archive of the friday five:
1. You're the opposite sex. Besides the obvious playing with the new parts, what would you do? See how good my "game" is, socially, economically, career-wise. I wanna experience the difference in how I'm treated as a male. I wanna see how bad the gender bias is.
2. You're someone famous. Who and why? Oprah. I wanna see how out of touch she really is, like how she was so amazed at the Costco experience. But also be able to make such decisions that affect so many people in a positive manner.
3. You're the King (Queen) of the World (no, you're not James Cameron). What edict would you pass? I would rid the world of idiotic people. heheeh, j/k. i don't really know. Peace on Earth? Mandate that everyone look out for the best interest of one another? Impossible things like that, I suppose.
4. You're no longer in Kansas (or this world) anymore. Where are you? I'm taking a nice walk around Central Park, when it's empty in the early morning. Not worrying about safety and such, but just enjoying the scenery of the lovely Fall morning by myself.
5. You have a clone standing next to you and it's going to work/school for you while you get to play hooky. What are you going to do today? Do wedding errand fun with Mina and hang out with my best friend.
have a fabulous weekend!
1. You're the opposite sex. Besides the obvious playing with the new parts, what would you do? See how good my "game" is, socially, economically, career-wise. I wanna experience the difference in how I'm treated as a male. I wanna see how bad the gender bias is.
2. You're someone famous. Who and why? Oprah. I wanna see how out of touch she really is, like how she was so amazed at the Costco experience. But also be able to make such decisions that affect so many people in a positive manner.
3. You're the King (Queen) of the World (no, you're not James Cameron). What edict would you pass? I would rid the world of idiotic people. heheeh, j/k. i don't really know. Peace on Earth? Mandate that everyone look out for the best interest of one another? Impossible things like that, I suppose.
4. You're no longer in Kansas (or this world) anymore. Where are you? I'm taking a nice walk around Central Park, when it's empty in the early morning. Not worrying about safety and such, but just enjoying the scenery of the lovely Fall morning by myself.
5. You have a clone standing next to you and it's going to work/school for you while you get to play hooky. What are you going to do today? Do wedding errand fun with Mina and hang out with my best friend.
have a fabulous weekend!
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
snow trip 2005
yay, chris is planning this one! we had such a blast in 2003, so i hope y'all can come again!
sign up, get more info at: http://www.taobracing.net/mammoth.shtml
enjoy the pictures of our last trip, courtesy of jongobongo:
mammoth landscape scenes
mammoth peeps & happenings
hope to see you there!
sign up, get more info at: http://www.taobracing.net/mammoth.shtml
enjoy the pictures of our last trip, courtesy of jongobongo:
mammoth landscape scenes
mammoth peeps & happenings
hope to see you there!
Sunday, October 17, 2004
my lil bro & grief
my lil brother has a blog. he's a lil person now. funny to see him grow up. i gotta talk to him about some stuff. teenage angst. oh, how i do not miss that.
grief
on other news, a friend from church passed away on thursday. i wasn't all that close to him, but i did train as a lector (reader during mass) with him a long, long time ago and he got stuck reading for the 7:30am masses cuz he said he was open to that. we also chaperoned a couple of confirmation retreats these last two years. and i actually just worked with him last month at the confirmation class. he had just agreed to take on the junior high ministry. he was only 22 years old, about to graduate from usc this spring. he and his family were very active in the parish. i actually just left him a voicemail inviting him to a meeting last thursday and then my mom called me half an hour later asking me if i remember him. i said, yeah, i just called his cell phone. and my mom asked me if i talked to him and i said no, i left a voice mail. and that's when she told me he passed away. i asked her what?! how?! and she said that he took his life. his mother found him slumped over in the garage. carbon monoxide poisoning. he apparently had much pressure and didn't know how to say no. my god, i just saw him. i was even looking forward to working with him and getting to know him better.
i didn't think it affected me all that much. but now i know why i've been so off this past weekend. i thought it was stress and/or loneliness, and especially cuz glenn and i haven't had much alone time at all. but now i know it was because of pete. grief doesn't hit me right away, i noticed. but it eventually hits. i went to the prayer service this evening and i cried so hard. i've never seen the church so packed as it was tonight. people were standing in the aisles, spilling outside the church doorways. he touched so many people's lives, even for the few moments that i knew him, he made such an impact on mine. there were classmates of his, many family members, lots of tears. everyone grieving. we will all feel the loss of his presence. may God bless him and have mercy on his soul. we will miss you pete!
thanx for comforting me bebe.
grief
on other news, a friend from church passed away on thursday. i wasn't all that close to him, but i did train as a lector (reader during mass) with him a long, long time ago and he got stuck reading for the 7:30am masses cuz he said he was open to that. we also chaperoned a couple of confirmation retreats these last two years. and i actually just worked with him last month at the confirmation class. he had just agreed to take on the junior high ministry. he was only 22 years old, about to graduate from usc this spring. he and his family were very active in the parish. i actually just left him a voicemail inviting him to a meeting last thursday and then my mom called me half an hour later asking me if i remember him. i said, yeah, i just called his cell phone. and my mom asked me if i talked to him and i said no, i left a voice mail. and that's when she told me he passed away. i asked her what?! how?! and she said that he took his life. his mother found him slumped over in the garage. carbon monoxide poisoning. he apparently had much pressure and didn't know how to say no. my god, i just saw him. i was even looking forward to working with him and getting to know him better.
i didn't think it affected me all that much. but now i know why i've been so off this past weekend. i thought it was stress and/or loneliness, and especially cuz glenn and i haven't had much alone time at all. but now i know it was because of pete. grief doesn't hit me right away, i noticed. but it eventually hits. i went to the prayer service this evening and i cried so hard. i've never seen the church so packed as it was tonight. people were standing in the aisles, spilling outside the church doorways. he touched so many people's lives, even for the few moments that i knew him, he made such an impact on mine. there were classmates of his, many family members, lots of tears. everyone grieving. we will all feel the loss of his presence. may God bless him and have mercy on his soul. we will miss you pete!
thanx for comforting me bebe.
i got a new toy!
so i finally joined the digital age and got a digital camera! i'm most proud of the price i got it at...$125 with our new computer, whoohoo!
i'm all picture-happy now, so i introduce you a new category on the sidebar over there ---->
caroline's 24th bday
nepomuceno family reunion i put together 4 cameras so there's lots of duplicate shots.
emely's 23rd bday party
i'm all picture-happy now, so i introduce you a new category on the sidebar over there ---->
caroline's 24th bday
nepomuceno family reunion i put together 4 cameras so there's lots of duplicate shots.
emely's 23rd bday party
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
still alive
i know it's been forever since i made a real post. so here i am. many friends are getting married and it's been fun (but tiring!) helping out, doing research, finding cutesy things here and there to incorporate. but most of all, it's just nice to spend time and get to know my best friend and her relationship with her man. good peeps, different perspectives and that's what i failed to realize last year. i'm usually pretty good at considering other's perspectives and not take insult or offense at what they say or do. and i usually follow my instinct. just that time, i didn't and it wreaked havoc on our relationship. anyway, it's water under the bridge now and we hang out, even if it's to do wedding errands.
work has bene insane. it's obviously let up if i'm able to blog now. i had a monstrous project that kept me up at 3am on a sunday night, only to keep me at work again on wednesday evening until 11pm. it was so exhausting and stressful! i even broke out in stress zits. i've taken a break from that project, but the only reason why is to do payroll tasks since thursday until today. so i take a break from one job task in order to do another. but at least, i'm used to this one, not nearly as stressful.
in other news... i got a digital camera! that's old news actually, cuz it's been a month already i think. but i still haven't learned how to post pictures. i haven't even taken the time to just upload them. but i will soon enough. i have a cute little 2-year-old cousin's picture that i wanna share. i played with her during my family reunion and she was the most adorable lil thing! my other cousins were telling me that she's suplada (conceited/bratty/cranky in tagalog) and doesn't like to go with just anyone, especially those she doesn't know. so it was a compliment that she totally latched on to me and we hung out the whole time!
it'll be 2 years next month since our first date. amazing how fast time just flew by. i keep getting that question asked (mostly by relatives). and no, we're not ready. not for a long time. we still have the same argument over and over... and i've been able to turn it around to a positive. but it's wearing me down as well. it's discouraging to begin with and this last one happened last week at the height of my stress level. i really didn't need to be arguing with him, especially a conversation we've had 10 billion times (okay, maybe only 900,000). so i broke down in tears multiple times. and just like all the other tears i've shed in the past 2 years, he's been there to just hold me. i love that. even when it's his fault ;) hehehe! the difficult times are definitely times of growth, but the good times still outnumber the difficult.
but still, we're not ready... so stop asking.
happy 23rd birthday to emely!
and i hope y'all had a lovely columbus day. i didn't get it off, but with the traffic that light, it was enough of a holiday for me, so thanks to all the government and bank workers out there who didn't have to go to work!
work has bene insane. it's obviously let up if i'm able to blog now. i had a monstrous project that kept me up at 3am on a sunday night, only to keep me at work again on wednesday evening until 11pm. it was so exhausting and stressful! i even broke out in stress zits. i've taken a break from that project, but the only reason why is to do payroll tasks since thursday until today. so i take a break from one job task in order to do another. but at least, i'm used to this one, not nearly as stressful.
in other news... i got a digital camera! that's old news actually, cuz it's been a month already i think. but i still haven't learned how to post pictures. i haven't even taken the time to just upload them. but i will soon enough. i have a cute little 2-year-old cousin's picture that i wanna share. i played with her during my family reunion and she was the most adorable lil thing! my other cousins were telling me that she's suplada (conceited/bratty/cranky in tagalog) and doesn't like to go with just anyone, especially those she doesn't know. so it was a compliment that she totally latched on to me and we hung out the whole time!
it'll be 2 years next month since our first date. amazing how fast time just flew by. i keep getting that question asked (mostly by relatives). and no, we're not ready. not for a long time. we still have the same argument over and over... and i've been able to turn it around to a positive. but it's wearing me down as well. it's discouraging to begin with and this last one happened last week at the height of my stress level. i really didn't need to be arguing with him, especially a conversation we've had 10 billion times (okay, maybe only 900,000). so i broke down in tears multiple times. and just like all the other tears i've shed in the past 2 years, he's been there to just hold me. i love that. even when it's his fault ;) hehehe! the difficult times are definitely times of growth, but the good times still outnumber the difficult.
but still, we're not ready... so stop asking.
happy 23rd birthday to emely!
and i hope y'all had a lovely columbus day. i didn't get it off, but with the traffic that light, it was enough of a holiday for me, so thanks to all the government and bank workers out there who didn't have to go to work!
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
courtesy of the Lurker
on the life's not fair note...
Tiger Woods, Millionaire golfer and Nike Icon, got married yesterday in a private ceremony to his Swedish Supermodel Girlfriend. And when you thought he couldn't have it all, it turns out that his new wife has AN IDENTICAL TWIN SISTER!
hahaha!
Tiger Woods, Millionaire golfer and Nike Icon, got married yesterday in a private ceremony to his Swedish Supermodel Girlfriend. And when you thought he couldn't have it all, it turns out that his new wife has AN IDENTICAL TWIN SISTER!
hahaha!
quotable quotes
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"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the
greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
~unknown
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"live a life that others will remember years from now, NOT because it pointed to you but because of how it pointed to the One who made you."
~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
"we grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant"
"we could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box"
"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
"there comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they'd be happier if we'd let go"
