L I F E

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

— Mother Teresa

cute trash cans

Nope, they aren't gigantic photos of soda cans. They are actually trash cans. Saw these in Mactan Shrine during the annual food festival sometime last April? ( i forgot the exact date) Cute noh? You should try and be there during the annual food festival. Lots of major restaurants and resorts in Cebu will showcase their specialties. With just one night, you can't get enough of all the food you like to buy and eat. Anyways, the festival runs for a week.

being useful

How do wealthy people get that way? By making themselves useful.

How does someone in a leadership position get into that position? By being useful.

How do you take an ordinary day and turn it into a memorable, extraordinary one? By doing something useful and valuable with it.

If you're constantly worried about what you can get, then you'll never be satisfied. Yet when your focus is on what you can give and on finding new ways to be useful, your life will be richly rewarding.

It is truly a blessing to be useful, and a joy to be effective and productive. Think of the many opportunities available for you to experience that joy in your own unique way.

Look at yourself, look at the world, and look for how you can be useful. Choose to make a difference, and not only will you bring much value to life, you'll feel great about being able to do it.
-- Ralph Marston

worthwhile summer

Summer is officially over. Students are back to school tomorrow especially the students from public schools. Maybe i could have made my summer more productive if i engaged into something that is worthwhile. I should have taken some sports lessons or cooking lessons. I read this class offering from one of my emails and was really interested. Though sadly, the classes are only held in Manila. Tsk! The class could have been really perfect for me! What a pitty! :D

Wanna know what the class is about? --> Introductory Cooking Course for the Clueless! hehehe! :D

11 Lessons In Life

*It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

*A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.

*The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

*It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

*It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

*Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.

*Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

*Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

*A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life; a timely word may level stress; a loving word may heal and bless.

*The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

*Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.

long weekend

It's a long weekend for us and i had no planned activities of whatever sort. I was just at home the whole time watching TV and sleeping. Yesterday evening, I went to Fuente Osmena at about 8pm after watching a few segments of the PBB show out of unbearable boredom. I roamed around hoping to find some new Koreanovela dvds. I got hungry so there goes my drama, eating alone in Mcdo! :P How true is the saying that what is forbidden is sweet. :D

hearty slippers

Who doesn't like freebies? Sure enough, most of us do. Getting free items is just elating. Sometimes even the things that are for free aren't really that useful to us but the fact that it is for free is just so cool.

I went to one of my favorite shops one time and purchased some toiletries. The saleslady approached me and asked me if i want something from a group of items listed on their board. I asked what is it for me if i buy something from the list? She said that i'll get a pair of slippers for free! I took a look of the slippers and i got so attracted to the designs in an instant. I selected immediately an item from the list and included it in my shopping basket.


I went home that night with a smile in my face for i just had a new set of pink with heart print slippers. :P

name tag

Then again i was given by my thoughtful seatmate with a cute item - a pinky name tag. It's really heartwarming when someone remembers just how you like things to be. The thought of it is very much appreciated always.


She got this when she went to her hometown in Bacolod during the Panaad festivity.

start of classes

Classes for this school year is just about to start and compared to other students, I think i am way far prepared than them! LOL! I got my cute set of ballpens, pencils and notes already.

One of my stress relievers is going to bookstores. It isn't reading or buying book however that does the trick. Seeing all those cute school supplies just make my day and i can't help but buy them for myself. Well, who said i can't buy them and use them? I still can - in the office! :P The office supplies provided by the company are dull and ugly. Why choose to be dull when i can choose to be colorful? :D

see? looks like it is owned by a kindergarten student :D

my favorite... i love mickey/minnie mouse as well

side view of the note pad
When i think about it, I never had these stuff when i was schooling. I was lucky if i could have a new set of cheap notebooks and pencils. I think buying this cute things is just a part of my self rewarding moments.

short shorts

Most of the time, i'm just comfortable wearing walking shorts than long pants when i'm out. I often envy those ladies with nice set of legs. And how they could strut with those sexy short shorts. Last weekend when i made my journey to 'Colon' even when it was raining, I met my dream shorts! Not only it is a short shorts - it's also pink! Wanna try it on? ;)