i once was lost but now im found

i just finished the movie sabrina (after 3 attempts and always falling asleep before it ends). i just got so nostalgic because i came home to a sort of "weekend off" leave due to the holidays and my piggy isnt here.
i was sorting through photos to pass the time and you know how it always turns out that you feel how life was so easy back then......well that was what i felt. but another realization came to me as i was trying to piece together my lifeline through my pictures. you see i had a picture of me in a medschool uniform then my graduation, my first day as an intern, my oath taking and my first few days as a resident. in each event there was a different group of people with me but there were people who were constantly there and i guess these people were the ones who helped me realize my dream and are the reason i am where i am now.......thus the saying "i once was lost but now i found myself" really hit a note.
sabrina had found herself in paris by running away from something she had wanted but knew could not have and i, well, i found myself by sticking to my guns. its funny how sometimes you know what you want but dont know why. some would opt to be more critical but some, like i, would throw caution to the wind only to find out that what they wanted was really what they wanted. funny.... or should i say lucky.......
we often complain about how life is so hard and how more comfortable we were "back then" but you know what i think, i think we are given situations with a level of diffuculty according to our capabilities. because if you think about it, you just think life was easy back then because you are looking in retrospect. but in those days you werent always having the time of your life. you were, like you are now, tackling issues and overcoming hurdles.
if you keep on looking behind you, you might just not see the step on your way and trip, and fall, and ruin your chances of climbing to a better place...............im blessed to have found my footing, blessed to have found myself!

the emperors new clothes

especially for you

Especially for youI wanna let you know what I was going throughAll the time we were apartI thought of youYou were in my heartMy love never changedI still feel the same
Especially for youI wanna tell you I was feeling that way tooAnd if dreams were wings, you knowI would have flown to youTo be where you areNo matter how farAnd now that I'm next to you
No more dreaming about tomorrowForget the loneliness and the sorrowI've got to sayIt's all because of you
And now we're back together, together
I wanna show you my heart is oh so trueAnd all the love I have isEspecially for you
Especially for youI wanna tell you, you mean all the world to meHow I'm certain that our love was meant to beYou changed my lifeYou showed me the wayAnd now that I'm next to youI've waited long enough to find youI wanna put all the hurt behind youOh,And I wanna bring out all the love inside you,
Oh And now we're back together, togetherI wanna show you my heart is oh so trueAnd all the love I have isEspecially for you
You were in my heartMy love never changed
No more dreaming about tomorrowForget the loneliness and the sorrowI've got to sayIt's all because of you
And now we're back together, togetherI wanna show you my heart is oh so trueAnd all the love I have isEspecially for you

birthday lunch

maan and i had a good lunch last sunday. we went to this restaurant at shang where they served good filipino food with a twist. we ordered tilapia belly with coconut sauce, really crunchy lumpia and ginumis for our beverage. for our dessert we had really yummy polvoron and kapeng barako........yum yum!

the case of the missing history

today i had planned to finish my report for friday but in the middle of the process i realized that i was missing my pad paper with the histories of the charts i could not take from the record section! i looked everywhere! where could it be?
bummer, bummer, bummer........

rainy day escape

sometimes when deep in our hearts we want and try to do our best but obstacles get in our way, God knows just what to do to get us through

jostein gaarder and my favorite coffee place

i bought "the orange girl" during the second day of my leave. i enjoyed it as it had a nice twist. i remember being in le cour de france reading and getting all teary eyed near the end of the story..... so yesterday, i had missed my chance to watch the comedy/lovestory of the cine europa and went to powerbooks to see if anything interested me as i resigned to sit at starbucks and wait for my better half who had dropped me off at shang to go to a stag party. i was already all the way in the store at the teen readers section, im embarrased to say, when we were prompted to go to the exit as the store was closing. desperate, my instinct led me to the jostein gaarder books and i picked out "the solitaire mystery" (it was that or "the devil wears prada")
i headed to my favorite coffee place, should i even begin to say which, and got myself no less than a grande of the coffee of the week. i was forced to share a table with a young girl, a few years younger than i, being a saturday evening, my favorite coffee place was a favorite hang out of the old and young alike. satisfied with my purchase (the book i mean) i opened my grande to mix with sugar and to my dismay spilt all over the table and my newly opened book. so now i will always remember that book with coffee stains as the saturday before my leave ended which i spent cozily reading in my favorite coffee place.
a note of advice, do not get verona if you dont intend to stay up all night as it is sssstrong!