...to kick off my shoes and take a "Nestea ad" fall onto my bed for dreams that will no longer be haunted by cluster analysis, PPS estimations formulas and R Language programs.
It was a weird semester. But it was the best ever. I'm so thankful for all that has happened. And it's so great that I can look back on the past months with God and chuckle while tears of joys stream down my face. My Lord is so great, so loving and so patient with me. Baby steps...baby steps.
Before going home, I'm joining a camp. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time. I can't explain why but I'm not letting the fear keep me home. Hehe...I hope I can keep doing that until that bus actually pulls out of the center and is there's no turning back.
October 19, 2006
October 16, 2006
BOOK SALE!
I love my books but this is going to go to a good cause... Hehe. Contact me at 09158264137 or email me at coffeeformegan@yahoo.com if interested. Haggling is permitted. =) I'll be in Ilang until the 21st. =) All books in good condition.
P40 each:
Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
100 Successful College Application Essays
Little Alters Everywhere - Rebecca Wells
Curtain - Agatha Christie
Jewel - Bret Lott
Chasing Cezanne - Peter Mayle
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
How to be Good - Nick Hornby
P80 each:
Artemis Fowl: Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer
Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
Victory in the Wilderness - John Bevere
In the Eye of the Storm - Max Lucado
I also have lots of magazines (Seventeen, YM, Elle Girl) and I'd be more than happy to hand them over for free to anyone interested in them (for scrapbooking perhaps?).
P40 each:
Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
100 Successful College Application Essays
Little Alters Everywhere - Rebecca Wells
Curtain - Agatha Christie
Jewel - Bret Lott
Chasing Cezanne - Peter Mayle
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
How to be Good - Nick Hornby
P80 each:
Artemis Fowl: Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer
Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
Victory in the Wilderness - John Bevere
In the Eye of the Storm - Max Lucado
I also have lots of magazines (Seventeen, YM, Elle Girl) and I'd be more than happy to hand them over for free to anyone interested in them (for scrapbooking perhaps?).
October 14, 2006
The Next Best Way to Start the Day
...have a mug or two of coffee to shoo away any sleepiness
the best way to greet a new day?
Although, I have to say how it is such a battle to do so. Drinking the coffee is so much easier.
the best way to greet a new day?
Although, I have to say how it is such a battle to do so. Drinking the coffee is so much easier.
When I've had no several sleepless nights...
it comforts me immensely to know that my God never sleeps, His hand has never swayed from keeping me and that in these times of weakness, He comes through as my strength and wisdom.
October 08, 2006
You know you're probably ill
...when you find this funny:
Stat Seniors: How's the exponential smoothing and winter's method going down?
Mine's not doing too well...
October 06, 2006
Mes Amie La Belle
You mentioned wanting to chat with Mr. Lewis. That piqued my interest so I went and had a grande with him in Starbucks. Here's what hit home for me:
"Now, Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbabble: but when I was antheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. This rebellion of your moods against your real self is going to come anyway. That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods "where they get off," you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion. Consequently one must train the habit of Faith."
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
P.S.
I'm now broke. Starbucks and Mr. Lewis were worth it though.
"Now, Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbabble: but when I was antheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. This rebellion of your moods against your real self is going to come anyway. That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods "where they get off," you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion. Consequently one must train the habit of Faith."
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
P.S.
I'm now broke. Starbucks and Mr. Lewis were worth it though.
October 05, 2006
Two Signatures Later...
Krissy doesn't have to change her city address. Her mother releases a sigh of relief heard over three provinces.
In other words, Ilrehan pa rin ako next semester! *Whoops!* Thank you God!
Haha, I won't miss any views of this kind from my doorway:
I'm so thankful that I don't have to move out just yet. Mind you, I was ready to. I was ready for anything life would throw at me because I was thinking that it'll break the monotomy of calmness and push me into a place where my faith could maybe thrive again. You know that it's said in the great book that one should consider it pure joy when trials hit because they are helping your faith to grow. And if there's something really important in life right now, it's my faith (even if it's shifting, stumbling, and sometimes crawling along). I'll take however small a mustard seed it'll come in. I'll take crumbs right now if that's all there is.
In other words, Ilrehan pa rin ako next semester! *Whoops!* Thank you God!
Haha, I won't miss any views of this kind from my doorway:
I'm so thankful that I don't have to move out just yet. Mind you, I was ready to. I was ready for anything life would throw at me because I was thinking that it'll break the monotomy of calmness and push me into a place where my faith could maybe thrive again. You know that it's said in the great book that one should consider it pure joy when trials hit because they are helping your faith to grow. And if there's something really important in life right now, it's my faith (even if it's shifting, stumbling, and sometimes crawling along). I'll take however small a mustard seed it'll come in. I'll take crumbs right now if that's all there is.
A Meeting of Two Exhausted Pilgrims
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:44:43 PM): lam mo, nagiging manhid na ata ako sa Christian life myself
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:44:53 PM): hindi ko maexplain
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:45:11 PM): u don't have to. i think i get you if you got me
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:48:36 PM): grabe parang nakakadrain ng energy
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:48:41 PM): do you get those days where you're like "oh, oh yeah, i'm, a christian. oh, what's that? who am i? this all seems very silly."
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:48:55 PM): true!
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:50:16 PM): and then days when you're like "okay, bible some more, prayer some more, serve some more, maybe shut up and listen some more to God"
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:50:21 PM): wala nang pumapasok. na-inundate na ata ako e
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:50:36 PM): lam mo ba, I haven't personally prayed for months already. can't find the energy to do so
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:50:48 PM): hay, I'm going to hell right?
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:51:36 PM): you're not going to hell. we're not going to hell.
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:52:58 PM): coz there's this crazy God who took our word on the "okay, i'm a mess. i need you. and you redeemed me. so i guess that makes you my savior and lord" thing and he's gonna dog our heels in the most maddening ways
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:53:18 PM): that's the thing. I don't think he's dogging me anymore.
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:53:20 PM): you still going to church?
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:53:24 PM): sobrang numb na ako. promise
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:53:32 PM): yes I go to church pero parang mechanical na lang
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:53:47 PM): okay. but you're still going.
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:54:00 PM): and you're bothered about the numbness...
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:54:06 PM): sounds like dogging to me
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LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:07:37 PM): hay naku. don't worry about it. This too shall pass. ahaha. thanks for the encouragement. Siguro one of these days, I will have the strength to try again
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:08:58 PM): you will. one of these days you'll wonder why you're suddenly bawling out and hugging your bible to your chest and lying down in a fetal position. it'll drive you nuts though.
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:09:34 PM): ahahahahhaa. at least something's happening na, ehehe
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:10:11 PM): yeah...and it'll happen to you. go get nutty!
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:11:55 PM): gusto kong ipukpok sarili ko sa bato sometimes. parang may nadisconnect na cord sa heart and mind ko. yung sinabi mo nga dun sa blog mo na your mind knows but your heart won't feel it
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:12:32 PM): parang ganun. you know. but then... so what?
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:13:28 PM): oo nga so what di ba? it's just to freaking hard to do and it's making me so tired so let's just stop. let's just throw the towel in... is that how you feel?
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:13:36 PM): yeah. just about
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:14:18 PM): god you better make some good grafitti on the wall or the burning bush thing to get me beating myself up over you...
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:15:56 PM): honga e
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:15:56 PM): yeah, i think i get you.
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:16:13 PM): yeah. *leans head against the wall*
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:17:10 PM): pero parang hindi mo rin maatim na mag let go kasi you know how it was to be with Him. hindi na yun mai-erase ng kahit anong stagnation
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:17:39 PM): haha!
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:17:51 PM): and that's where it starts to get interesting...it's like tension on a cord...one side want's to give up and say so what... the other is saying 'but you've tasted the goodness of the Lord and you know this is the truth'
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:19:57 PM): true. hindi ko na alam gagawin. parang dapa-bangon-dapa-bangon-dapa-bangon 24/7. tapos there's a point na parang "ano ba yan." mag-aapologize na lang ba ako sa Lord forever?
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:21:38 PM): haha..hirap gawin
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:22:31 PM): ei, i really really have to go. so sorry. write/text/anything if u wanna. just know that you're not crazy or anything.
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:23:41 PM): sureness! thanks!
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:23:49 PM): thank you too
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:24:13 PM): i'll be out looking for divine grafitti. i'll let you know when i find any. LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:24:23 PM): yes please! ahaahah
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:44:53 PM): hindi ko maexplain
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:45:11 PM): u don't have to. i think i get you if you got me
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:48:36 PM): grabe parang nakakadrain ng energy
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:48:41 PM): do you get those days where you're like "oh, oh yeah, i'm, a christian. oh, what's that? who am i? this all seems very silly."
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:48:55 PM): true!
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:50:16 PM): and then days when you're like "okay, bible some more, prayer some more, serve some more, maybe shut up and listen some more to God"
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:50:21 PM): wala nang pumapasok. na-inundate na ata ako e
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:50:36 PM): lam mo ba, I haven't personally prayed for months already. can't find the energy to do so
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:50:48 PM): hay, I'm going to hell right?
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:51:36 PM): you're not going to hell. we're not going to hell.
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:52:58 PM): coz there's this crazy God who took our word on the "okay, i'm a mess. i need you. and you redeemed me. so i guess that makes you my savior and lord" thing and he's gonna dog our heels in the most maddening ways
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:53:18 PM): that's the thing. I don't think he's dogging me anymore.
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:53:20 PM): you still going to church?
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:53:24 PM): sobrang numb na ako. promise
LaBelle (10/4/2006 3:53:32 PM): yes I go to church pero parang mechanical na lang
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:53:47 PM): okay. but you're still going.
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:54:00 PM): and you're bothered about the numbness...
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 3:54:06 PM): sounds like dogging to me
________________________________
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:07:37 PM): hay naku. don't worry about it. This too shall pass. ahaha. thanks for the encouragement. Siguro one of these days, I will have the strength to try again
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:08:58 PM): you will. one of these days you'll wonder why you're suddenly bawling out and hugging your bible to your chest and lying down in a fetal position. it'll drive you nuts though.
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:09:34 PM): ahahahahhaa. at least something's happening na, ehehe
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:10:11 PM): yeah...and it'll happen to you. go get nutty!
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:11:55 PM): gusto kong ipukpok sarili ko sa bato sometimes. parang may nadisconnect na cord sa heart and mind ko. yung sinabi mo nga dun sa blog mo na your mind knows but your heart won't feel it
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:12:32 PM): parang ganun. you know. but then... so what?
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:13:28 PM): oo nga so what di ba? it's just to freaking hard to do and it's making me so tired so let's just stop. let's just throw the towel in... is that how you feel?
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:13:36 PM): yeah. just about
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:14:18 PM): god you better make some good grafitti on the wall or the burning bush thing to get me beating myself up over you...
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:15:56 PM): honga e
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:15:56 PM): yeah, i think i get you.
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:16:13 PM): yeah. *leans head against the wall*
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:17:10 PM): pero parang hindi mo rin maatim na mag let go kasi you know how it was to be with Him. hindi na yun mai-erase ng kahit anong stagnation
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:17:39 PM): haha!
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:17:51 PM): and that's where it starts to get interesting...it's like tension on a cord...one side want's to give up and say so what... the other is saying 'but you've tasted the goodness of the Lord and you know this is the truth'
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:19:57 PM): true. hindi ko na alam gagawin. parang dapa-bangon-dapa-bangon-dapa-bangon 24/7. tapos there's a point na parang "ano ba yan." mag-aapologize na lang ba ako sa Lord forever?
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:21:38 PM): haha..hirap gawin
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:22:31 PM): ei, i really really have to go. so sorry. write/text/anything if u wanna. just know that you're not crazy or anything.
LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:23:41 PM): sureness! thanks!
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:23:49 PM): thank you too
StillLimpingAlong (10/4/2006 4:24:13 PM): i'll be out looking for divine grafitti. i'll let you know when i find any. LaBelle (10/4/2006 4:24:23 PM): yes please! ahaahah
My Soul Waits For the Lord
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption. And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
October 04, 2006
Late Late Late
...because it's been hard to find the time or mood to post. =P
We're one happy lot. It's not hard to detect humor and fun in the stories swapped in classrooms and dorms today. It sounds like Milenyo was one big adventure to all of us.
For the ladies of room 122, adventure fails to describe our Milenyo experience whose highlights for us included:
- a three day brownout
- rushing to the coop to grab candles and trying to study by candlelight
- our window screen threatening to fall down because it couldn't withstand the wind
- the tree behind our room falling towards our room resulting in cracked window panes
- the tree in front of our room falling (thankfully) away from our room and taking with it one of the lamp posts in the garden
- a rat entering our room throught the gaps of the window screen (apparently the fallen tree acted like a bridge between wildlife and us)
- a snake nearly entering our room. actually, we're not sure if it entered or if it slithered out so we're constantly checking the floor and our beds.
- dinner at 4PM presumemably because the mess hall didn't want to spend on candles
- night trips to the bathroom fraught with avoiding "cat bombs". Apple failed to dodge one on the first night.
- trying in vain to find a working ATM
- a short walk around to survey the damage which proved to be quite extensiv
- a trip to Marikina to charge all electronic devices especially our cellphones
A suggestion:
- The government or the utility providers should seriously consider phasing out electrical poles. Instead, bury the electric (and telephone?) lines underground. That way, we won't be so paralyzed by power shortages because of poles falling over
I went to SM North last Sunday. And do you know what? I could actually see the sky. No billboards in sight. Much better that way. Both for aesthetic and safety reasons.
Jollibee Philcoa had a great business day (night?) on Thursday. Establishments along Katipunan became extensions of dorms, houses, and apartments as everyone escaped the gloom and heat for some light, food and a chance to study. Yey for generators!
Of course, it may seem like a memorable, almost fond, experience to us but there are towns that are still in the dark, people in serious need, people missing and people whose lives were ended. Let's keep them in our prayers (however sporadic they may be?)
P.S.
Ze iPod lives! Thanks to the Apple Service Center in SM North.
We're one happy lot. It's not hard to detect humor and fun in the stories swapped in classrooms and dorms today. It sounds like Milenyo was one big adventure to all of us.
For the ladies of room 122, adventure fails to describe our Milenyo experience whose highlights for us included:
- a three day brownout
- rushing to the coop to grab candles and trying to study by candlelight
- our window screen threatening to fall down because it couldn't withstand the wind
- the tree behind our room falling towards our room resulting in cracked window panes
- the tree in front of our room falling (thankfully) away from our room and taking with it one of the lamp posts in the garden
- a rat entering our room throught the gaps of the window screen (apparently the fallen tree acted like a bridge between wildlife and us)
- a snake nearly entering our room. actually, we're not sure if it entered or if it slithered out so we're constantly checking the floor and our beds.
- dinner at 4PM presumemably because the mess hall didn't want to spend on candles
- night trips to the bathroom fraught with avoiding "cat bombs". Apple failed to dodge one on the first night.
- trying in vain to find a working ATM
- a short walk around to survey the damage which proved to be quite extensiv
- a trip to Marikina to charge all electronic devices especially our cellphones
A suggestion:
- The government or the utility providers should seriously consider phasing out electrical poles. Instead, bury the electric (and telephone?) lines underground. That way, we won't be so paralyzed by power shortages because of poles falling over
I went to SM North last Sunday. And do you know what? I could actually see the sky. No billboards in sight. Much better that way. Both for aesthetic and safety reasons.
Jollibee Philcoa had a great business day (night?) on Thursday. Establishments along Katipunan became extensions of dorms, houses, and apartments as everyone escaped the gloom and heat for some light, food and a chance to study. Yey for generators!
Of course, it may seem like a memorable, almost fond, experience to us but there are towns that are still in the dark, people in serious need, people missing and people whose lives were ended. Let's keep them in our prayers (however sporadic they may be?)
P.S.
Ze iPod lives! Thanks to the Apple Service Center in SM North.
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