My Third Home

(Top to bottom, left to right)
1. Cleanest airport ever
2. MRT's whole route
3. MRT station
4. Serangoon Road, Deepavali Festival
5. Deepavali Eve at Serangoon Road
6. Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple, Serangoon Road
7. Inside the temple (gave me the heebie jeebies)
8. A row of gorgeous indian scarves (expensive, too!)
9. You like chandelier earrings? I'll show you chandelier earrings! These babies reached past my shoulders! Darned heavy too!
10.Serves the best buttered naan and mutton in mild curry sauce this side of the orient
11.Finally! People taller than me!
12.Overlooking Singapore's skyline
13.Like u don't know the country's official mascot
14.Youth, Seiyu Bugis Junction
15.Sentosa
16.Can you say bookworm? Real Girls Eat by Girlosophy, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Rule of Four, Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life, Aphrodite: The Love of Food and the Food of Love, Tribulation Force and The Amber Room. All available in Books Kinokuniya, 2/F Takashimaya Ngee Ann City.

Will You Marry Me?

I have just uncovered a disturbing revelation. My mom is seriously wanting me to have a boyfriend and possibly get married in the soonest possible time. If nothing is scarier than that, I don’t know what is! Turns out that she called up my Tita Dette one night when she (my mum) was in Bohol. My mum was crying, and Tita Dette was understandably worried. She thought something happened to my dad or to my brother or to me. My mum said she was depressed about moi. When my Tita Dette asked why, she said “Kase wala pang boyfriend yung anak ko!” I seriously think that there is something horribly wrong with my mother. Di ba dapat ako yung worried? Ako dapat yung namumrublema nun? What gives?!?!

I think my mum is envious of her friends who have married off some of their kids already. I know she’s worried about me, and the fact that I’ve never had a significant other in my life further adds to her dismay. She’s worried that I’ll grow old to be alone, with no one to care for me when she and dad are gone. I understand her sentiments. Granted, a mother should worry about those things, but not to that extreme.

I’m not worried at all. The reason is that I’ve put my full trust in Him that He’ll take care of me whatever happens – whether I’m alone or with someone else. It was a very conscious decision on my part. If He says, I try my utmost to do. I know He is still preparing me for His plans. I don’t know if there’s a someone in His plans for me (I sure hope there is!), but I know no matter what happens, He’s there. Who knows, maybe we’re both being prepared for each other ‘coz we’re still rough around the edges (especially me, knowing how stubborn and hard headed I am). I believe and know He’s very happy whenever He sees two people falling deeply in love in His time. But in the meantime, as long as my significant other is not here yet, well, I’m doing what He wants me to do. I want to be beautiful in God’s eyes. I do.

I have bouts of loneliness every now and then, and I feel a pang of envy sometimes whenever I see couples holding hands, laughing, smiling or just…being with each other. More so when the couples I see are elderly. I look around, too (don’t think I do), in case my significant other is already somewhere around the vicinity of my life. It’s just that I don’t think it’s something to be worried about yet, or, ever. Or something to cry about.

I’d like my relationships in the future to be very meaningful and not just a so-so chapter in someone else’s life. I want to be a worthy chapter in a guy’s life who, in case we don’t end up with each other, will look back and remember me with fondness. Such a tall order, isn’t it? But definitely worth it.


Meet my last college crush, Friar

I nearly got into so much trouble with this guy. I met him during my senior year, and thanks to the Internet’s amazing capabilities, I managed to secure his high school grad pic and made it my screen saver. Law was pestering me to change my screen saver, because “gusto mo bang maraming makakita at makaalam niyan?” since my laptop was always used in our group’s presentation and in revising our papers in the RSF. I reluctantly relented, and thank the heavens I did, ‘coz the next class we went to, our teacher gave a long lecture right after our group’s presentation and my screen saver came on the laptop facing the whole class. Whew. Buti na lang nakinig ako.

On Letting Go

Got this in my email yesterday and I know it's the flashing neon message God is telling me about a few major things. Now I know what I'm doing is absolutely an order from Him. Homerun!!!

by T. D. Jakes
There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this: When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk a person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The Bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19] People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. And it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over.

Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to...LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ...LET IT GO!!!

If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth ...LET IT GO!!!

If someone has angered you ... LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge...LET IT GO!!!

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction ... LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents ... LET IT GO!!!

If you have a bad attitude...LET IT GO!!! If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better... LET IT GO!!!

If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him... LET IT GO!!!

If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship....LET IT GO!!!

If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves...LET IT GO!!!

If you're feeling depressed and stressed.... LET IT GO!!!

If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to... LET IT GO!!!

Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing !!! LET IT GO!!! Get Right or Get Left... Think about it, and then LET IT GO!!! "The Battle is the Lord's!"

Yes indeed. The battle is the Lord's. Ü

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