i need more than 24 hours a day...again i have been busy these past few days drafting documents, writing emails, doing personal errands, and so many more...and as if these are not enough, i started doing storybooks for weddings that could earn me a few pesos...i said a few pesos because when you begin to equate the number of hours you spend doing it plus the "damage" it does to your brain thinking how the layout should look plus the electricity you use at home and the depreciation you factor in by using your computer against the supposedly additional income, it may not be worth doing it...but i'm enjoying it so far, so what the heck.
today i'm off to Batangas for another conference...got to finalize an agreement we inked with another organization...tonight will be the official signing of the agreement...tomorrow morning we'll trek the upscale side of the Taal Volcano, if the local government would allow us...afternoon i'll be speaking in a session for about two hours and then back to Manila by evening.
next week is going to be a busy busy week again as we will be hosting another event we call Hope Celebration at the Holiday Inn...we'll have businessmen and supporters coming from all over the Philippines and some guests coming from our international office in Florida...then Asia travels are next...haaay!
i so want to go on vacation.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
i want to go on trips
there are times when i dread my schedules of travel...when i hate the times that i have to make trips that would take me away from home, because travels could sometimes get in the way of your own schedules...when you have to accept the "if-you're-not-on-road-driving-then-you're-on-the-air-flying" situation.
but right now is not one of those times...now is a time that i want to travel...not in a few years...not next month...not next week...and not tomorrow.
i want to travel now...pack my bags...get in the car and on the road...get a ticket, and fly off somewhere...it sounds deliriously enticing but i want to go backpacking in Europe or Asia...i want to go on spontaneous roadtrips– sightseeing and taking pictures of every beautiful place i see...i want to dance under the moonlight and bathe in the warm sunshine at an exotic beach somewhere in the Carribean... i want to feel the breeze on my face as i roll down the window while cruising a highway of some foreign land...i want to do that now.
but then...it's late in the night...i have to get some sleep because i have work tomorrow...maybe i'll take a trip somewhere in my dreams.
next month and in the coming weeks after that , i'll be doing some real trips in country and in Asia...i wonder if those will be times i'd love or dread.
but right now is not one of those times...now is a time that i want to travel...not in a few years...not next month...not next week...and not tomorrow.
i want to travel now...pack my bags...get in the car and on the road...get a ticket, and fly off somewhere...it sounds deliriously enticing but i want to go backpacking in Europe or Asia...i want to go on spontaneous roadtrips– sightseeing and taking pictures of every beautiful place i see...i want to dance under the moonlight and bathe in the warm sunshine at an exotic beach somewhere in the Carribean... i want to feel the breeze on my face as i roll down the window while cruising a highway of some foreign land...i want to do that now.
but then...it's late in the night...i have to get some sleep because i have work tomorrow...maybe i'll take a trip somewhere in my dreams.
next month and in the coming weeks after that , i'll be doing some real trips in country and in Asia...i wonder if those will be times i'd love or dread.
Monday, January 15, 2007
sickbay
it was a kind of experience i would never dream of...especially on holidays.
Christmas season always is a special season for me...it is when i get to spend a lot of time with my family without having to think about work...as always, we painted the town red again last Christmas with parties and dinner invitations from left to right...everyday was going-out day for us...Eastwood, Baywalk, Tiendesitas, malls, restaurants, Intramuros, Greenhills, and yes even Luneta Park.
everything was going on as planned until the ever kill-joy virus hit us...it first hit Kaiel on Dec 28...he was running a very high fever for two days so we had to rush him to Medical City...we were so concerned about the Dengue virus...his blood had to be tested for platelets count and we had to spent the night inside a room in the ER...when the results came out, he tested negative.
the very next day, it was my turn to catch the virus...while Kaiel was still recovering, i came down with a flu...my body ached so much i couldn't get myself to walk, so i was in bed most of the time...thinking i could recover quickly i refused to be confined to the hospital....and while i was in this situation, Mitchi caught it too...so at this time there were 3 people who were sick at the same time...but what made it worse was that it was Dec 31st already...we literally had to greet the new year in bed.
you think we're done?...first week of January, Alice experienced severe headache and vomitted continuously...we had to rush her to Medical City...she was confined for three days...she had x-ray, blood test, x-ray again, blood test again, until we lost count of the several procedures done on her...parking fee was exorbitant at Medical City...you don't get a discount even if you are a patient at their hospital....40 pesos for the first 3hours, 10 pesos succeeding hours...that's more than 200pesos a day...the hospital was full and we had to wait 13 hours before we got transferred from the ER to the transition room...and another 16hours before we were finally checked into our room...Medical City is so big, but the rooms were not enough to accomodate all the patients during that time...the staff told me that this was the first time they had that many patients, and they too were surprised...looked like a lot got sick after the holidays...hmm, interesting..
it was also during the time that i was sick that my laptop crashed.. i lost not only 40 percent of my files, but also contact to the world...imagine this...you're sick, you're in bed, it's the holidays, everybody was out, everybody was partying, your laptop crashed, you have nothing to do at all...could somebody die because of that?... i think i was ready to die then...everything just sucks.
but in all of these, God is still good...i may not have been able to enjoy the noise of the holidays, but i was able to enjoy the silence of life...i have a wonderful family and i have a good God.
on a sidenote: watch Blood Diamond...it is one great movie!...i saw Leonardo Di Caprio in Titanic, i didn't like him there, although women would swear he was very good looking...but we, men, didn't care...i saw him in Departed, i thought he could act...now i saw him in Blood Diamond, i'd say he's a stellar performer.
Christmas season always is a special season for me...it is when i get to spend a lot of time with my family without having to think about work...as always, we painted the town red again last Christmas with parties and dinner invitations from left to right...everyday was going-out day for us...Eastwood, Baywalk, Tiendesitas, malls, restaurants, Intramuros, Greenhills, and yes even Luneta Park.
everything was going on as planned until the ever kill-joy virus hit us...it first hit Kaiel on Dec 28...he was running a very high fever for two days so we had to rush him to Medical City...we were so concerned about the Dengue virus...his blood had to be tested for platelets count and we had to spent the night inside a room in the ER...when the results came out, he tested negative.
the very next day, it was my turn to catch the virus...while Kaiel was still recovering, i came down with a flu...my body ached so much i couldn't get myself to walk, so i was in bed most of the time...thinking i could recover quickly i refused to be confined to the hospital....and while i was in this situation, Mitchi caught it too...so at this time there were 3 people who were sick at the same time...but what made it worse was that it was Dec 31st already...we literally had to greet the new year in bed.
you think we're done?...first week of January, Alice experienced severe headache and vomitted continuously...we had to rush her to Medical City...she was confined for three days...she had x-ray, blood test, x-ray again, blood test again, until we lost count of the several procedures done on her...parking fee was exorbitant at Medical City...you don't get a discount even if you are a patient at their hospital....40 pesos for the first 3hours, 10 pesos succeeding hours...that's more than 200pesos a day...the hospital was full and we had to wait 13 hours before we got transferred from the ER to the transition room...and another 16hours before we were finally checked into our room...Medical City is so big, but the rooms were not enough to accomodate all the patients during that time...the staff told me that this was the first time they had that many patients, and they too were surprised...looked like a lot got sick after the holidays...hmm, interesting..
it was also during the time that i was sick that my laptop crashed.. i lost not only 40 percent of my files, but also contact to the world...imagine this...you're sick, you're in bed, it's the holidays, everybody was out, everybody was partying, your laptop crashed, you have nothing to do at all...could somebody die because of that?... i think i was ready to die then...everything just sucks.
but in all of these, God is still good...i may not have been able to enjoy the noise of the holidays, but i was able to enjoy the silence of life...i have a wonderful family and i have a good God.
on a sidenote: watch Blood Diamond...it is one great movie!...i saw Leonardo Di Caprio in Titanic, i didn't like him there, although women would swear he was very good looking...but we, men, didn't care...i saw him in Departed, i thought he could act...now i saw him in Blood Diamond, i'd say he's a stellar performer.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
last year, this year, the "work", the hospital...oh come on!!!
this is my first entry for the year 2007 and i am doing this inside a room in a hospital.
so many things have happened since my last entry and a lot of things have changed.. i got sick before the year ended and had to struggle on my bed greeting the new year when it struck 12 the last day of the year..my laptop crashed and i had to be a hermit living in stone age for quite some time.
i can't write sensibly today because i am out of time trying to catch up on literally dozens of email messages that i have to respond to...and i am only using an airborne access here in the hospital.
i promise, as soon as i am able to finish this thing called "work", i will write in details what transpired between my last entry of last year and this entry...for now, i have to work.
so many things have happened since my last entry and a lot of things have changed.. i got sick before the year ended and had to struggle on my bed greeting the new year when it struck 12 the last day of the year..my laptop crashed and i had to be a hermit living in stone age for quite some time.
i can't write sensibly today because i am out of time trying to catch up on literally dozens of email messages that i have to respond to...and i am only using an airborne access here in the hospital.
i promise, as soon as i am able to finish this thing called "work", i will write in details what transpired between my last entry of last year and this entry...for now, i have to work.
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