the calling

today is the last day of March! whew! i'd like to post one entry before it's all gone. the past few days have been silent. i scanned my planner to see if there's any significant event that occured during those days but nada! ala!.

ah! last tuesday was Cris' birthday, had dinner with the cell group at the OIC. boy! i was able to see my PBA idols from the Talk 'n Text, wow!! i only see those guys on TV but last tuesday, i was lining up at the buffet table with them. they're here in cdo for out-of-town game today at XU gym. the guys were so cool and ang lakas kumain, i think i only had 2 servings pero 5 yata bawat isa sa kanila, hehehe!

and i also had a great holiweek, a retreat and a sunrise service during the Easter.

be joining later with my thursday bible study group.

today also will be Lloyds' last day at work, by next week he'll be in Chiang Mai, Thailand for a 2-month mission. the guy was so excited and often tells me that this trip will be the turning point of his life.

this guy has been very influential in my spiritual and personal growth. he was the one who encouraged me to read good books, and he often lent me his favorite books, which i am now stucked into. it is true indeed that along ur journey you will meet people who will help you build ur character. Lloyd has pursued his greater calling , and i am yet to find mine. :-)

think

 

sow a thought, reap an action
sow an action, reap a habit
sow a habit, reap a character
sow a character, reap a destiny.


everything started with a seed of thought, everything will then have its compounding effect. :-)


"you cannot travel within and stand still without"
- James Allen

detours

the past two days were among those paid vacations i have been enjoying with the government. government people call it "planning workshops, congress' and blah blah blah".

it's not that i am a disgruntled government employee, never was, but the past two-days added to the lists of those lavish spending habits of the government. oh well, as if i'm new to this kind of system. it would be justifiable if in return excellent outputs were materialized... and i have nothing more to say to that.. hehehe!

and so we spent two-days at the Camiguin Highland Resort, a little of work and a portion of vacation. nakakatuwa kasama yung mga matatanda... daming reklamo, sa pagkain at sa kung ano ano na lang...hehhe! ito pah, kala nila na the hotel we're staying was Camiguin Island Resort, eh Highland pala, eh di sa bundok.

while we're on the van, sayang saya nila to see the beautiful beaches, eh nung papunta na kami sa hotel..halos sabay sabay silang nagtanong sa driver "oi! ba't papalayo na tayo sa beach?? ano ba to?? hindi pala Island, Highland pala!"hehehe!! gusto ko na sanang magtanong "ano bang pinunta niyo dito?? trabaho o ang beach?? eh alam ko naman ang sagot, di ko na lang itinuloy! eheheh!

most of the participants were from Manila, first time to be in Camiguin. disappointed talaga sila sa venue... ba't daw sa bundok, gusto pa naman nila ang beach.. hehehe! eh 4 km from Mambajao yung hotel.. but all in all the trip was great. oh well at least for me. :-)

rockstar

rob thomas 

matchbox20 minus rob thomas... pinag-tripan ba naman si rob thomas...inalis sa picture...kaput!!! at pinalitan ni mike tuyan... hehehe!??

i used to be an alternative rocker....heheh! alam mo yung taong.. who acts like a rocker, get's up like a rocker, talks like a rocker...and hangs out with those wannabe-rockers like themselves???

feeling ko talagang cool na cool ako noon when i go out with my barkada's, wearing sunglasses kahit madilim na, t-shirt at jeans na kupas, long hair, goatee at balbas ala-mr.suave... then inuman-marathon hanggang umaga... uwi sa bahay, matulog, tatawag na naman ang barkada...inuman na naman...

that was me few years back..hehehe! jobless, hopeless, purposeless, loveless...hehehe daming "less"sa buhay ko.

ang gusto ko lang siguro gawin sa time na yun maging rocker....hehehe! rock mp3's?? u name it!!

i was actually taking a "road to nowhere"... until i got tired of it and God found me. :-)

now i winch everytime i hear my cousins playing and singing along with the same music i did before, talks, and dresses like a rocker... oh no!! soon enough these guys will be in places where i used to find myself drunk, jaded, and wasted... and they too think it's cool..

i was talking to my cousin a few days back.... he likes to borrow stuffs from me, mp3's, cd's, my chuck taylor shoes, yung mga t-shirts ko na mga pang-rocker kuno, and how he's fond of asking me my days in college when he used to see me looking like a rocker... oh no!! i need to guide this child or he'll be taking the same road i took before...

just recently i found out he joined a fraternity...boy!! he's just about to enter college..and now i was so surprised to see both his ears pierced... oh no!! i never pierced my ear when i was a wannabe-rockstar...

now i find myself counseling my little cousin, and the need to guide him not to become another wannabe-rockstar but to enjoy the seasons of his life with godly friends, with his family, and for him to find his purpose, as well as for him to grow towards his God-given potentials.

good thing he listens.... when i told him.... dont u dare take another step closer towards that path, i took that road before, i've been there!!...

now i'l keep praying...and hope that i will now be a good model for him.

attitude matters

okey, i only got 5 minutes for this entry. heehehe! i'm learning to master my time.. i can see a pattern here already... it seems like this is going to be a weekly journal... yeah it is... i see entries for monday only... oh well, at least im still not abandoning this journal. :-)

"all is well that begins well"
so to start my week, i have it all planned and scheduled.. blogging is not part of it but i guess i can spare 5 minutes. besides, a few people would like to know how am i doing...

my attitude is what keeps me smiling these days... i am so amazed how u can alter ur situation by altering ur attitude of mind.. i guess this is one of the greatest truths God has taught me...

how can a man like Job, Joseph, and Paul remain in God, enjoy their journey, and even exhort other believers to "rejoice in the Lord always, and again, i say rejoice" even they themselves were suffering??? were they out of their mind??? hmmm... how did they sustain themselves, remain humble, and accomplished what God had set before them? amazing!!!

i remember sharing this to a friend and she told me "that's weird mike!! how can u say that the journey is as enjoyable as the destination when ur suffering??" i just smiled coz she still didnt get it... she didnt see the whole picture... we have different perspective...

i shall be telling myself over and over again during the course of this journey "when all else fails, attitude matters..."

pay now and play later

i feel so fulfilled as i walked down the corridor of XU graduate school and submitted two of my final case analyses at the MBA office last saturday (march 05, 2005). wow!! how time fly so fast!! one semester has just been completed.. di ko man lang namalayan...

so far, i am enjoying this journey that i recently embarked on... the new friends that i gained, the time we spent on coffee shops and fastfoods discussing cases, the debates during class, and our weird professors who have their distinct odd behaviours...hehehe!

although i missed my saturday basketball games, my afternoon at the movies or beach or a good book, my thursday bible study group in our local church CCF (u just wait guys coz im coming back na! heehhhe), and of course a great deal of my limited income...but it's worth it. the process i went through during the first semester of my MBA taught me lessons of persistence , determination, and focus...i'm still practicing these principles though but the journey in itself has brought me enough joy already...

i realized that one way or the other i need to learn these things.. it's always been my fervent prayer that God will always remind me of my purpose... that my eternal perspective will always dominate my thoughts and heart... and that i should enjoy this process that i am going through...

i know God is training me to be strong... so that i would be able to take care of the people that i love, who will be going along with me in this journey. so that i will be able to help others find their way also...so that i would be able to complete this earthly journey with a smile :-)! and then fly farther...

this is going to be a long journey... i'l just face them one day at a time.

japanese, vietnamese, & potatoes

this is one of my favorite shots (below). this was taken last 2003 at the Miarayon Region of the protected area of Mt. Kitanglad, when i was still working with the Information Division. at left is our researcher from the Department of Agriculture, Allan Bacho talking to our farmer-cooperator (right) in our project on White Potato Production. i dunno exactly what they're talking about, perhaps about potatoes..hehehe!

i have to wrap my camera with a cellophane coz of the fog... and look at those white potatoes...u dont see them right??? hehehe! of course coz they're rootcrops, but those two guys (left - allan, who looks like a japanese, right- farmer, looks like a vietnamese)were standing on that green potato fields.

i've been in the protected area three times and each time i was there, it was like always the first time.. the indigenous people and the way they lived fascinates me, and also the extremely cold weather.



japanese, vietnamese, & potatoes 

alay-lakad atbp.

i am suppose to have a half-day off from work today coz i joined the motorcade for the Fire Prevention Month early kanina... but still i have to be in the office to finish some pending jobs. i woke up at 5 am coz the the motorcade starts at 6 am. i have to wake up and be there at C.M. Recto Avenue at exactly 6 or else i would have to ride the fire truck during the motorcade. hehehe!

yesterday, i submitted my letter of apology to our director for missing the ALay-Lakad last February during the Heart Month Celebration. actually, di talaga ako nagising noon kasi 5 am ba naman magstart yung Alay-Lakad. Ba't naman kami lang lagi ang ipinapasali pag may ganitong activities??? lagi nalang ako!! ako!! ako!! hehehe! kasi naman.. average age ng employees sa office namin ay 50 years old yata... so ayun.. kami na lang (young people) lagi gigising ng maaga para mag-Alay-Lakad atbp..! di ba mas kailangan ng mga matatanda yung exercise??? hehehe!

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just doing some snapshot on my screen. u can actually do this using u'r keyboard, try pressing the key "PrintScreen" then whatever is active on ur screen should be saved on the Clipboard.. just paste it on whatever photo editor u have.


snapshot