My JOY List!

i had been meaning to fill out the list weeks ago upon prodding by Bro. Bo Sanchez (Mentor No. 1) in his article ‘What is your Joy List?’

i really want to DEFINE my joy list to enlighten me on things that is really important in this life. then suddenly, work piled up, family issues cropped up, and other temporal matters disturbed the stillness… talk about the great irony of life!

awryt, so now that i have some liberty at work since my boss is in baguio for conference (yay!), i finally have a chasm of time to fill out the list of things that gives me joy.

What makes me tick inside…

 
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They will miss me…

something to make you laugh…

and yes, i can VERY WELL relate!

thanks to my newfound mentor, Mr. Francis Kong, who is inspiring me for excellence and success!

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Who I Miss Lately…

 in no particular order…

1. JUNNIE GURL
2. maricar gay
3. gf margie
4. libay
5. sherwin
6. rizza
7. des
8. bimbie
9. atty. peewee
10. linette
11. ate dory
12. ate yolly
13. mr. G
14. mayette
15. edith
16. ate maris
17. boleng
18. chinggay
19. joan p.
20. jhie2
21. bespren JAY
22. cuzin Jun
23. my newest office shoes (missing at home since monday last week! geeez…)

 
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‘Ms. Mindanao’

2 weeks ago, i had a 2-day seminar on ‘Effective Business Writing.’  upon introduction, i mentioned that i am likewise a cebuano-speaking individual, and on further probing, mentioned to the group that my roots are from Mindanao. i think i got tongue-tied a little bit and groped for words to explain where the blood running through my veins really originated.

eager to make myself known, my mind screamed and tried to explain that:

1. both my parents came from Mindanao– Nanay from Dipolog City, Zamboanga Del Norte, while Tatay was born in Panaon, Misamis Occidental (two of the most memorable places of my happy childhood), hence, my proficiency in the Cebuano language;
2. my siblings and i were born and raised in Sampaloc, Manila, where we lived in for 3 decades before finally migrating somewhere south Manila;
3. i am a Mindanao-Manila gurl to the core (whatever that meant).

i got lost somewhere when the lecturer, a very gentle and endearing soul, Ms. JBV, recalled not my first name but No. 1 of the above paragraph. and until the end of the seminar, recitiations or otherwise, she had since called me ‘Ms. Mindanao.’

i would’ve preferred to be called a Manileña since i was born and raised here. but i knew that would be false pretense and superficial. there is more to life than being born and raised in Manila but when your genes are screaming otherwise, you have got to listen intently.

so, what gives?

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Some Hang-ups

i dunno how one can be too careless???

with the rising cost of living and everyone is tightening their ropes, can you imagine someone losing a thousand bucks, still steaming out of an ATM machine???!!! and ‘SORRY’ is the one pathetic word you can say??!!!

one can only be too dumb.

a thousand bucks is still a thousand bucks. no amount of explanation can cover up for the lost hard-earned money.

sigh.

SIGH.

(super) sigh… 

The Eraserheads Reunion Concert

very late post, see.

the mere title of this post triggered so many repressed emotions in my  hypothalamus.

if you google the above-captioned title, about 144,000 posts were all over the blogosphere (so that makes this post the 145,000th).

BUT I DON’T CARE.

 i knew i have to blog about this one way or another.

my knuckles have been restless since the day i learned that my favorite-favorite band in the entire universe is having a reunion concert. it’s a once in a lifetime concert. it could be their last reunion concert. only God knows.

THE ERASERHEADS.

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The Speech of My Lifetime

i came across one great piece from another yahoogroup of ‘entrepreneurs.’

it’s amazing how one simple commencement speech can actually imprint the hearts of those who can relate and who can actually learn. wisdom is eternally embossed. 

albeit the persistence, call this piece my own: The Speech of My Lifetime.

to better appreciate and understand what this intense writing is all about, i urge you to please read this beautiful piece first. 

    [warning: a very long read. but it’s worth it…] 

savor every single wisdom…enjoy reading! 

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Life and How to Survive It  

 ~  Commencement Speech by Adrian Tan (writer of the Teenage Textbook)   

  to the Nanyang Technological Institute graduating class of 2008.

 

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Infatuated???

i have a crush.* 

    [definition #5. Informal. a) A usually temporary infatuation. (b) One who is the object of such an infatuation.]

i am feeling abnormal recently…  

we all know i am a 34-year old mother of 3 kids. i have a super-dooper loving hubby who takes care of me. i have a healthy  relationship with my family and good friends at the side. i have an exciting and challenging job. i am an extrovert and an achiever. see, i am complete.

here’s what’s wrong. i am recently infatuated with a girl. ya heard it right, boy. A GIRL. a lady, woman, a girl officemate. see, that’s weird.

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Listening and learning

i am an in-depth listener. 

hence, i am a learner.

months and months of endless meetings, conversations and familiarity with top management allowed me to view things a little more unconventional. i realized that learning is not confined in reading and actual experience. learning by way of listening is just as important and more often exceptional.

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Frozen Moments

i’m excited!

my life awaits for so many opportunities. someday soon, things will happen according to what i designed. some call it fate, i call it the law of attraction. the universe will provide it for me with God as the only approving entity. everything is  going to work out well.

one day at a time…

i am excited for me!

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