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..

Saving INTERNAL AND SD memory.. My HEART too!

I got a lot of photos in my phone and because of these, my phone ran slow. When I play Temple Run, it hangs and because of anger, I throw my phone to the floor. I neither have a PRINCESS DISEASE nor SPOILED BRAT problems. I just don't like it when something interrupts my moment. SO here's what happened to my photos.. Check it out!

 at Bo's coffee

 modelling

 my first week of permed hair..

 with Anna

 colleagues

 colleagues

 our moment with Jax, Kate and Anna

 permed hair

 After I had my hair back to normal

 with our students and friends

 fun

 Hensley, my gay friend. I will miss this guy.

 friends..

 vanity

 I told him not to bring flowers during Valentines but instead, he gave me a superb lunch date and a book to read.. Thank you langga..

 at Ayala with my langga

 Thank you my friends..

 The love of my life..

 My colleagues..saying good bye to them..

 Wendy and Hens with Dan at SM City Cebu

Things I couldn't forget in CDU ESL

So, i had my photos collaged . Thank you Photo Wonder for editing.

'Til my next stop..

Tea with Milk? Amazing!

Last Monday, I went to the previous company where I worked at for some important matter and after, I have decided to drop by Tea and Symphony near University of Cebu-Banilad, a new establishment that will give us a very informative innovation that tea (Camellia sinensis) is more than just the leaf-flavored or perhaps bitter drink that our grandmothers are quite fond of using this as a water. I, too have been drinking tea for a while and for a change from ubiquitous coffee breaks, perhaps it’s time to give tea a chance and let yourself become accustomed to its taste that soothes, even though some have caffeine, like coffee does. And all of us are not new to it's new combined taste - MILK. I love the taste and of course, the ambiance of the place. It's soothing, refreshing and good for this season - SUMMER. And because summer is coming to an end, try the new flavors of an old-imaged tea which is good for teens, young adults and old age.

Here are the photos of this flavorful HAVEN in the heart of the city.

Try the new taste of the town and get a refreshing feeling from just a simple TEA-mple.

'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..