Answered Prayers..

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

I had the best summer ever two months ago. After all sleepless nights because of overthinking about my work and the stress,not to mention, I found a major comeback to straighten up and savor every moment of FULL REST, EAT MORE and FULL REST again while it lasts. And when last month gave me the decision to move forward and start looking for a job, I was taken aback. I was intently looking for the confidence I had few years ago in the deepest part of my heart and of my self and I was suddenly came to thinking, "Am I ready to do everything and start all over again?". It made me shiver and I felt the pressure to the idea of great expectations. I can't afford to fail because my dreams are for my family and I'm doing all of these for them. I can't imagine being agitated of what might comes out WORST.

And I PRAY..

Today, I was hired and all PRAYERS have been answered. Monte, my fiance was right. There are things in life that are not intended for me. I wanted to have what I want and do what I feel comfortable of doing and in which I know I'll be better-off with those. And it started to drown my expectations and frustrations began to subdue my positivity when LIFE said "NO". He said TRY LOOKING AT THE BRIGHT SIDE BECAUSE PERHAPS, THAT'S WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO DO. And I tried.

I always believe that for whatever reasons I am feeling this way, God allowed it to happen because He thinks giving me unmeasurable circumstance would definitely lead me to HIM. And though at times I failed to see the good side, He is always there ready to change the course of the wind and turn my head to the opposite side.

I am delighted. I have been BLESSED. Of course, I feel nervous because new environment and people mean a life to start afresh and prove that they got the right person but I know, my life and those who have done the same, will forever be a living example of those who PATIENTLY WAIT.

Thank you so much for all the people I have encountered in my life because they are my INSPIRATIONS and my DREAM.

— feeling blessed.

 

 

 

 

 

'Til my next stop! 

Going Twenty Seven

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

God! THANK YOU AND I LOVE YOU.
Time flies so fast and I can't believe that I am almost at the end of the calendar. GOSH. Where has my life gone?

There are lots of things that happened in my previous life and good or bad, I am thankful for all of them. Good, when all people expect their life to turn out really great and for those whose life has been a wonderful silver platter, then they can always rejoice. Bad, for some who have been through HELL and took all the smiles on their faces, they can always be grateful because of the lessons they learned whether they like it or not and either they accept certain circumstances in their life positively or negatively.

When you are young, you think of a fairy tale-kind of life. Like prince charming saving you from the tower, everything you hold will turn into gold or when you have problems, in just one click of a hand every heartaches and dramas will disappear into thin air. But as we grow older, we understand that life is no fairy tale. There are no genies to give us three wishes, no animals or dwarfs that could help us when we are in trouble and especially no prince charming that can save us from the wicked witch. Only US that can make our dreams into a fairy tale and it depends on us how to make it magical.

Our world is real and I realized it after graduating college. My life has been a roller coaster ride when sometimes I am up in the air and other times, I am trying to climb going to the top. It was so hard for me to look for a job at first, when the employer declined your application, when you think it is unfair that the applicant hired together with you is no better than yourself. But that's how life works. And that is God's way to show that we can't always have what we want when what He does is preparing us for something even better. And I want to say to my GOD..

So in my coming birthday, I am turning 27 and AGE is an attitude. Let me say this. I want to be 

It is okay?!! Hahaha

I am still young physically and at HEART. LOL. I compiled some photos that has the number 27 and I'll explain what do these photos mean to me.

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays.- Mikhail Baryshnikov 

 Well, partly true as what the author said. Even when I was young, my parents don't really celebrate a huge party but only a family gathering. I haven't invited friends to our house yet and my family is not really sociably-kind of people and for me, honestly I envy some friends of mine when they invite me to their house. I can only invite my friends to eat in a restaurant or to go somewhere and I am okay with that. At least I can still celebrate birthdays.

 When I was a teenager, I used to play billiards with my classmates. It was fun when you play with your boy friends. Haha.. And it was a good thing I found this picture. 

 One of my wildest dream is to have a tattoo on my body. Isn't it cynical? I am not that type of a person who's into this but if given a chance, I want to have one on my hips near the butt. LOL!

Watching sports are boring but I find this quite interesting because of the word "WIN". I want to be a winner every day of my life. I know I am not perfect but in God's grace, I want to pursue everything even how hard they are and to be great in God's eyes.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life. - Denis Waitley

 The actress of 27 Dresses, Katherine Heigl. Gosh, how she managed to wear all of those clothes and keep them? I admire her so much because she has attended 27 weddings of her friends and had the chance to keep them in the closet. I only attended few and no gowns kept inside my closet. Haha   

 I want to be 27 FOREVER but that is ridiculous and super kaloka, right? I don't want to stay forever like this because it's fun to go through all stages in your life until you die. SUPERB!

 If I am going to hold my birthday party soon in my own house with my husband and kids, I want to share my movie night disease with my friends and have sleepover. Amazing!

 She is one of the icons in the music industry and one of my favorite singers. How did she handle all paparazzis and issues about her. Imagine about the intense rumor that the reason she dated all the boyfriends she had was just to make or create a song. Doesn't she have inspirations? She is so exquisite.

 I am at the point of my life where marriage is an important ingredient in a life of late 20's - especially women. I want to play with my children while I am still strong and not like an old woman who wants to stay at home and do some embroidery. What a nightmare! 

 I want to do 26 things for this year while I am still 27 years old and I still have to think about it. Check my blog soon for this update. 

 One of my favorite actress in Glee. Quinn Fabray. She is really a great actress and beautiful. And good thing we have the same age bracket. She is two months older than me. Great! 

 Do I have to include this? I have a lot of goals in my life especially health-related but not bad if I give these a try. I always do the following except number 1 because I am super thin before but not now because I am getting fatter, number 3 because I guess I eat less than 1000 calories (that's too much??), and number 5 - SODA which is part of my daily meal's life. How can I eat my meal without soft drinks? HMM..

 I don't know yet!kkk

I included this though this is not necessary. I have a hubby who is very supportive and I want to tell him everyday as long as I am still strong of how much he means to me and i really love him..SO MUCH! 

This year, I pray that whatever happens in my life, I will love my age wholeheartedly and I will do my best to do good to give thanks to my LORD♥

I love my life even when I say I don't. Life has been good to me because nothing bad happened to my family for the past years though my grandmother died because of old age. Life is beautiful. God gives us problems to solve on his condition - TO TRUST HIM. And I am fully aware that we don't have a bed of roses. We only have GOD who is so merciful and so loving.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost 

Thank you for the gift of life - for every single breath that I take, for every sunrise and sunset, for every fresh hope, for every smile and happiness, sadness and loneliness, for my family, friends, and all loved ones. Thank you so much. 

'Til my next stop..

Brisk Walking for Exercise

"Walking is man's best medicine."
-Hippocrates

Do you remember your first step?

Remember your first step? What a fuss everyone made! And then you continued to walk right on through childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood, but somewhere along the way, like most adults, you probably stopped walking so much. In fact, the percentage of adults who spent most of their day sitting increased from 36.8% in 2000 to 39.9% in 2005! Part of the reason may be your hectic, stressful life, with not a moment to spare for recreation or formal exercise. The environment plays a part too; inactivity has been engineered into our lives, from escalators to remote controls to riding lawn mowers to robotic vacuum cleaners to electric toothbrushes to the disappearance of sidewalks and safe places to walk. But research shows that all this automation is bad for our health. Inactivity is the second leading preventable cause of death in the United States, second only to tobacco use.

You'd think a simple activity like walking would be just that, simple. But fewer than 50% of American adults do enough exercise to gain any health or fitness benefits from physical activity. Is walking our salvation? I don't know for sure, but evidence suggests that it's probably a good start.

What are the top 10 reasons to walk?

-Walking prevents type 2 diabetes. The Diabetes Prevention Program showed that walking 150 minutes per week and losing just 7% of your body weight (12-15 pounds) can reduce your risk of diabetes by 58%.

-Walking strengthens your heart if you're male. In one study, mortality rates among retired men who walked less than one mile per day were nearly twice that among those who walked more than two miles per day.

-Walking strengthens your heart if you're female. Women in the Nurse's Health Study (72,488 female nurses) who walked three hours or more per week reduced their risk of a heart attack or other coronary event by 35% compared with women who did not walk.
-Walking is good for your brain. In a study on walking and cognitive function, researchers found that women who walked the equivalent of an easy pace at least 1.5 hours per week had significantly better cognitive function and less cognitive decline than women who walked less than 40 minutes per week. Think about that!

-Walking is good for your bones. Research shows that postmenopausal women who walk approximately one mile each day have higher whole-body bone density than women who walk shorter distances, and walking is also effective in slowing the rate of bone loss from the legs.

-Walking helps alleviate symptoms of depression. Walking for 30 minutes, three to five times per week for 12 weeks reduced symptoms of depression as measured with a standard depression questionnaire by 47%.

-Walking reduces the risk of breast and colon cancer. Women who performed the equivalent of one hour and 15 minutes to two and a half hours per week of brisk walking had an 18% decreased risk of breast cancer compared with inactive women. Many studies have shown that exercise can prevent colon cancer, and even if an individual person develops colon cancer, the benefits of exercise appear to continue both by increasing quality of life and reducing mortality.

-Walking improves fitness. Walking just three times a week for 30 minutes can significantly increase cardiorespiratory fitness.

-Walking in short bouts improves fitness, too! A study of sedentary women showed that short bouts of brisk walking (three 10-minute walks per day) resulted in similar improvements in fitness and were at least as effective in decreasing body fatness as long bouts (one 30-minute walk per day).

-Walking improves physical function. Research shows that walking improves fitness and physical function and prevents physical disability in older persons.

The list goes on, but if I continued, there'd be no time for you to start walking! Suffice to say that walking is certainly good for you!

Excerpt from medicinenet.com

I had brisk walking than jogging. They are the same and they function the same. And since I want to maintain a healthier and physically fit body, I MUST do this. Aja!

'Til my next stop..

Eleventh Blog UNPost..

Taken last December 29, 2012 at Sumilon Island..
You'll never know who truly loves you that they will do everything to show it and I have found the TRUE LOVE OF MY LIFE.

I didn't know that going to Sumilon Island was the time that would change our lives forever. When he knelt and proposed to marry him, at that moment, I couldn't utter any word but "YES" alone. And at that rare time, I knew that he is the ONE,

I would like to say THANK YOU SO MUCH to my fiance, Monte for being my real guardian, best friend, adviser and my LOVER. Thank you also for my Japanese friend, Saoli Akiyama and one of my closest friends, Janice Cabradilla for going with us in the island and sharing precious and irreplaceable moments with us. THANK YOU.

These are some of the photos taken while we were there.

YEAR 2012 is such a memorable year for me. The wedding?! SOON!Keep posted..

'Til my next stop..

How to Curb Your Envy (To all my FRIENDS)

Excerpt from: YAHOO NEWS

Do you catch yourself lusting after the designer bag your officemate just bought with her bonus? Or wishing your friend would show up to a dinner looking less than perfect—for once? Why is it that you can’t shake these negative feelings? You like these girls and you get along with them, but deep down, you can’t help resenting their seemingly good fortune while you suffer from just plain bad luck.    

But have you ever considered that, instead of bad luck, you could be suffering from envy? Former guidance counselor Nympha Banzon says, “Envy stems from a dissatisfaction or discontent of what one has and who one is.”  Why not ask yourself: Why do you begrudge your officemate her bag? Is it just because she can afford it while you can’t? Or is it because she works harder and puts in more hours, thus deserving her bonus, while you feel you can’t be bothered? It’s time to stop the envy. Here’s how to do that:

1.    Get to the bottom of the problem.
And believe me, it’s not your friend’s perfectly put together look or your officemate’s designer handbag. It’s something in yourself. Are you unhappy about something greater than not having what your friends have? Is there a bigger problem gnawing at your insides? Identify it and you’re on your way to fixing it.

2.    Know yourself.
Banzon suggests listing down your strengths and weaknesses. Once you’ve made your list, take a good look at the items and accept each and every one. Then, focus on your strengths and how you can enhance them.

Preacher and bestselling author Bo Sanchez, in his book Don’t Worry, Be Happy, suggests forgetting about what you aren’t good at and making your talents grow instead. If you aren’t good at baking, don’t waste your time trying to perfect a soufflé. If you channel that time into improving your already pretty awesome singing skills, who knows what recording label you might land next year?

However, weaknesses that are detrimental to your growth must be worked on as well. If you’re always late or perennially procrastinating, overcoming these flaws will surely up your productivity and potential for success! 

3.    Know that you are unique, and embrace that.
It’s easy to envy people we want to be like. Sometimes, you can put a positive spin on it by taking the qualities you admire in someone else and making them your own. But things will go downhill if you fixate on the fact that you aren’t like the person you envy—and even hate her for it. Because this really just means the person you hate is yourself. For not being like her.

Once you realize that everyone is unique, you’ll start to see that there’s no reason for envying someone else. One trick you can use is to think about your goals in life. It’s possible that you and your friends may act the same and even look the same, but do you want the same things out of life? Probably not. Keeping this in mind will help you remember that life is not a competition. At the same time, it will be easier to celebrate what’s special and unique about you. 

4.    Be thankful.
Oprah was right when she encouraged the world to keep a gratitude journal. She even suggested starting with your breath if you feel there is nothing to be grateful for. Slowly, you’ll be looking at life through a totally different perspective, wanting to find reasons to be grateful rather than focusing on what’s lacking.

5.    Distract yourself.
If you can’t seem to get all the negativity off your mind, get out of there! If you’re holed up in the office, at home in front of your computer, or at a suffocating family gathering, make an excuse and take a breather. Then find something to take your mind off it. A yoga class, an art class, or even a movie! You’ll need something to remind you that there is so much more to life than the envy eating you up inside.

6.    Do something for someone else.
The best way to battle a lack of something in yourself is to focus your energies outward. Doing something for a person who needs your help will direct your attention away from yourself. You’ll be more concerned about someone else, making you forget about your imperfections and even feel good about yourself. In addition to this, “There is blessing in giving.”