Liv in a Life Well-Lived

Book in Hand: A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Austere Academy Song in Mind: Too busy thinking Word in Mouth: Too busy thinking I think I haven't really explained adequately what I do for a living. All I keep saying is that I'm a development officer and that I work for a non-government organization. I also keep repeating that I'm mostly always harassed or stressed or going insane with the workload. I haven't lied. But I did leave out the wonderful parts about doing the job I do. What I do is mostly developing and implementing new projects geared towards social development -- be it in education or health or livelihood. So far, I really am into the groove of educational projects -- I've handled school building projects, helped distribute thousands of school desks all over Luzon, handled employee volunteering activities of different companies. There's the occasional tree-planting stuff, the tutorials, the book donations. I'm extremely proud of a program bei

Book in Hand: Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey (rewriting of the famous fairytale) Song in Mind: You wouldn't want to know Word in Mouth: I think I'll shut up now Aha..eh... so...I'm sane now. Or as close to being sane as I ever would be. Last night was scary. I actually felt my insides buzzing with the weirdness of it. I have a mind to say I may have been possessed. Weirdest night ever. And thanks Mariel for keeping me a bit grounded. Just a wee bit human. Edward too. I wasn't exactly high on drugs or anything. I don't even drink beer or alcohol. Sugar high is the closest I'll get to any kind of high. Last night, I wasn't all me and I'll leave at that. (My dark twin has resurfaced and I fought heaven and earth to regain my balance--- bwahahaha!) Okay. Sane now, remember? Yep. But I so promise never to blab like an idiot in my blog again. I will not narrate stuff as if I'm rereading a Pepe and Nene picture book. I will speak in both English and Filipino

Bakit ba kasi ang hirap mag-process the iniisip ko ngayong araw na ito? Ang dami kong balak, ang dami kong plano, wala pa sa kalahati ang nagagawa ko? Hindi ko nga alam paano ako nagsusurvive. Pesteng computer ko, di pa nakikipag-cooperate. Unang blog ko to na Tagalog. See ang babaw ko. Yan lang ang irereport ko ngayong gabi na ito. Sa tutoo lang, new experience ito. Buong buhay ko ata, pa-Ingles-Ingles ako. Paano, kindergarten pa lang, pag nag-Ingles ka, bida ka. Sinasabi ng mga teachers "Very good, Olivia! You are a very smart girl!" Naniwala naman ang bata. Nagpalakpakan naman ang lahat ng maipaliwanag ko sa Ingles na " My favorite doll is Rainbow Brite. Her hair is very colorful and she has a star on her cheek ." Para bang sukatan ng pananalita ko ng Ingles ang lahat ng angking galing ng kamalayan ko. Siguro akala ko, maiintindihan ako ni Rainbow Brite. Kasi akala ko, Amerikana siya. Kahit may tatak na Made in Japan ang kanyang puwit. At habang tumatanda, mas ma

Book in Hand: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Song in Mind: Hoo-hoohoo, hee-heee-hee, wiggle-wiggle-wiggle and laugh with me! Word in Mouth: Gayb! I am a tad guilty. Today is Good Friday and as my Mummy keeps on saying I should be observing the holy rites of Christ's death. I know I am wrong, and all my justifications will not render me correct, but I do not feel like being doleful today. We spent the whole day in an uncle's house where my adorable, adorable cousin simply filled up my hours with play. The kind of play that is actually hard work. Whew! Taking care of kids ain't easy! It took me two hours to get him to take a nap. I told him the story of "Rumpelstiltzkin" complete with funny voices and all! (Had to take lozenges afterwards. I scratched my throat because i cackled and cuckooed a lot) It all paid off though. On the last wing of his resistance to sleep, just when he was about to close his eyes, he looked at me and gave me the sweetes

Book in Hand: Read This and Tell Me What it Says by A. Manette Ansay Song in Mind: Hooo-wheee-eeeee, areebombom, in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.......... Word in Mouth: Whadafa? Oh why is it not Friday yet??? Need. To. Get. Past. Wednesday. Someone hit my head with a club so I can justify conking out.

Book in Hand: Magic for Sale Song in Mind: Sorry, my mind is still blank Word in Mouth: Unghh...zzz....wha?? That was a good weekend right there... It's my sister's birthday tomorrow and as per family custom we celebrate it early if we could get away with it. =P I only helped her shop for clothes and some stuff as gifts. Yeah, it was a pretty relaxed weekend, which is great because it totally made up for last week's hurricane schedule. ANd this week, probably won't be so much different. Could you blame me if I just want to hibernate until the next Saturday comes?

Book in Hand: Still that danged Seduced by Moonlight... I swear it doesn't make any sense and I'm just finishing it because I don't want to waste the 300 bucks I spent for it. Song in Mind: The Sun is Up and I've Got a Million Things To do.... (you can say that again) Word in Mouth: Itchy Bitchy Ha! What a day... Actualy, lemme say, what a week. If I live through the next two days, I can officially call myself a survivor. Tsunami that is my life. Bleh! New movie reviews are up in my GG Theater blog. Includes A Very Long Engagement, and will soon have Sideways, A Series of Unfortunate Events and Million Dollar Baby. Meanwhile, I have an article to write for our company newsletter and I better do that first before I go lazy again. =P

Book in Hand : Still " Seduced by Moonlight " (argh, it's all about unseelie fairies and the story ain't friendly) Song in Mind: Lean on Me coz Harlemm Lee sang it in last night's episode of Fame ( Go Harlemm !) Word in Mouth : Blow Away, My Zephyr .... *shrug* This morning... or should I say, yesterday morning, I woke up feeling fantastic because I heard it was raining!! And it was still dusky outside and when I looked out my window everything was wet and nice and it was cold. It put me in such a good mood that I didn't even mind half as much that I had to go to work. And when I got home at 8:30 p.m. I didn't knock on the gate immediately. I spent some fifteen minutes just standing in the middle of our empty street and stared up, up at the night sky. There were so many stars. That's the good thing about living in the boondocks. Yes, it's far from everything else, but it sure is near the heavens. *sigh* Tidbits: * I want to watch A Series of Unfo

Hey, Look what I found! Ahahahaha! This is the Book Club. That's Peloy on the left, Mariel burdened with my arms 'round her and Edward towering over everybody. Not in pic is Norman. Aww... sayang. *shrug*

  Ah, those goold old high school days... That's me with my best friends: Dre & Yel in our old house

Book in Hand : Seduced by Moonlight (and it doesn't make much sense) Song in Mind : Run by Kitchie Nadal Word in Mouth : Oh, Sugar! Sorry. Really sorry. My Dad just got out of the hospital yesterday, and I've been staying with him since last Sunday as watcher. That's why I haven't written much lately. Now that he's out, we're back to the same routine and here I am, early for work again. And I'm swamped with work. Up to my neck-full of shiat. Work-Life Balance isn't really a very easy thing to do. Hay. But today is friday. And no matter how much work needs to be done, and even if I actually have to go back tomorrow to finish everything, I'm still in a good mood. Friday is friday is friday. =P Nway, I was browsing through some other blogs lately and I realized how utterly, aherm, boring, mine is. Some blogs are so full of colorful words (and I don't mean yellow and pink) and angst and anger and --- and --- mine is so, well, me. I can't really