Update...

I'm getting over my cold,
and it's finally June!
Weee!!!!

I'm loving Donald Miller's 'Blue like Jazz' right now.
He's awesome in taking issues by the horns, things no one wants to put into harsh writings about Christian living.
Thanks, Nana!
Books been a blast although I've slowed down tremendously due to my need to sleep and get well faster that way. Another 6 and a half to go!


I'm thankful for wisdom in ways I cannot comprehend today.

Sometimes I think if I took all the advices I give other people, I would be a so much better me.
But that in itself is another story, and the focus at that point is just that; 'other people'.
After all, not everything is about me, myself and I.

Words of the day.

Knowledge isn't power when you're not acting upon them.

Love is not a commodity.

I'm Tired

of having such a long bout of cough and flu.
of being mad at irrational personalities surrounding me.
of being idle a lot.

Am thankful that I've been able to work from home the past 3 days.
For books bought and borrowed the week before.
For Giotto (some amazing chocolates from Germany that outshines every other chocolates so far, I think I meant to say it's right at the top of my list of chocolates right now.).

Am thankful for friends who comes alive when I need the slightest hint He still cares.

Am thankful for reminders of my youth. Convent celebrated Teacher's day today and sparked quite a few memories.

Was remembering those Boyzone crazed days. I miss SG so much today. Nostalgia.
Went through some videos of him on youtube. Too bad he died at 33.

And thankful that May is almost over.
Freaking June can't just get here soon enough for me.
Looking forward to non-existent, non-planned holiday that will probably happen sometime between July til December. If I can wait that long. A timeframe is sort of a plan, I suppose. >.<

Looking forward to working in a new environment on Monday. NOT!
Construction dust filled environment that I've been avoiding all week.
'Open space' concept is just bleah. What happened to having some little privacy?
I suppose it also means I have to find some better crying spot of my own.

At the rate I'm going, I think I won't even pass 200 thankfuls in a year.
I need to be more thankful.

Post number 335th

I was going to do a post about books and Giotto and how delighted I am about both.

But that post is now on hold, because as my last on call weekend of the year 2011, the system has decided to play a joke and I have 130++ emails still to go out of 320, the rest which consumed the last 4 hours of my life that I could have been napping or reading away. >.<

So here I am taking a short sane break before the madness continues.
Also because the rest of the seniors has gone for dinners and lunch, it's only fair that I took a break as well.

I am thankful for the seniors who are helping me out, it could very well be all me alone single handedly, but this is still frying unnecessary brain cells away.
So depressing.
Bleah!

Movies

Water for Elephants
The title itself is only mentioned once, as the responsibility of the narrator during his time in a circus when they purchased an elephant for the new main act after he shot the horse that was the main act before he joined the circus, out of pity for it's pain and misery of an infected leg. Heck, he almost lost his own life for killing the horse. It's pretty sad, the show showed all the hardship the people behind the scenes and animals  have to go through. The mad circus master and performers have better living circumstances on the train but the people who pitch the tents up are left to fend for themselves. Some are thrown off the train along the way when there's not enough money to pay and feed them and when they are thrown on rocky area they died from the fall. There were parts where the torture was too much, I covered my view with my bag.

Priest
In light of the recent going-ons,
which (by the way I laughed my heart out when I read because of how outrageous it is, despite it being so true and dangerous), I can't help but realize that the movie 'Priest' puts the Church in a creepy, dark stand of denial. The underlying vow being 'Obey the Church, or you don't obey God' and everyone within the locked down city is forced to hold that vow or be treated as outcast and live in the Wasteland. They denied the existence of vampires out of city wall even when there was proof right in front of them. That aside, it was creepy, tons of bloodshed and I winced everytime the vampires came out to play. The creepiest part for me was where one of the hero had to walk past cocoons after cocoons of vampires, and of course they came out after him at some point. I didn't mind so much when they fought the vampires in the daylight.
Surprisingly, the movie isn't launch in the US yet. According to the internet, this show was held back a year from release to introduce it in 3-D. I'm scared enough watching it just like that!


I have a tendency to structure really long winded sentences.
An English lecturer once called it 'flow' but I think its just ridiculous.
Is there a cure for this?

333rd Post

Woke up thinking it was Monday and I was late for work.
And sank back into bed when I figured out it's only Sunday.
Felt more alive thinking it was Monday instead of Sunday.

The words 'If my heart has grown cold' is striking a strange chord inside, battling between denial and wondering how far gone am I. Has it gone cold? My last break was like, just in mid August.
And I can't remember what the next verse after that says.


Maybe today won't have felt so crummy if I've woken up late and gone to church like usual instead of being early and irritated myself because no one was there early for the one time I was actually early in a long while.

Maybe today would have been better if I've just gone along and smiled at every mother and wished them 'Happy Mother's Day'. Of which I did not, choosing instead to hide in my usual corner and keeping conversations to a minimum. I could have even been subconciously sulking over nobody coming early when I did. Who knows? Who bothers?



I need sleep. Tons of it.