Be patient with a timeline that is not yours to define - Meg Fee of my favorite blog the Wild and Wily ways of a brunette bombshell.

Dinner and A Play

Yesterday Noel, Kiko and I caught the 2nd run of Atlantis productions' In the Heights.  The star-studded cast was great. The girl who played Nina, K-La Rivera has a really beautiful voice. I have never seen Nyoy Volante on stage and he played Usnavi well, I didn't know he raps. My favorite characters are Sonny played by Marcos Acosta - really funny and Feliz Rivera who played Benny is as usual really good.

After the play we had dinner in Cerchio in Tomas Morato.  The place is really nice and the food is good.  We tried several dishes and I liked them, although I wish we tried the sisig pizza too.  I was only able to get pictures of some of them.

I ordered Pumpkin Malunggay Soup and Kiko ordered Cream of Spinach (no picture)

One of my favorites that night, Vietnamese Spring Roll.  We also ordered Grilled Shrimp with Pomelo Salad and Drunken Shrimp which I have no picture.

Half-eaten Crispy Tilapia which is really good.  We also ordered the Grilled Gindara Steak with Eggplant Salad and Garlic Pasta.

We tried 'Cool as a Cucumber' too but did not finish the glass.

Here are some after dinner pictures taken in bubble tea.  Side note, I am really going gaga over my  new app, Pocketbooth which works like my old app Classic booth. :P

                             

                                           

 All in all, it was a fun Sunday.  Thank you Lord. :)



I Pray

I was blog hopping again and saw this from one of my very favorite blogs.  There is no reason on earth to not repost it here.  It is totally and completely true. 

I can't help it.  I am helpless.  It changes me.

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time--waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God--it changes me." -C.S. Lewis

Gentle Rain

I have been quite used to walking under the moonlight towards the bus stop lately after work. I look forward to it actually. Today was different though because the moon is hiding, instead there is a gentle sprinkling of rain. I walked in it, under a pink umbrella that smelled of my spilled cologned. I walked in the rain, nothing romantic like how Gil Pender feels. Just me, leisurely walking with my pants' hem kissed by the puddles along the way.

I do not particularly like rain but today was different. I might just learn to like it - probably.

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Sunday Message

Service was extra good today!  I knew God was talking to me again, reminding me that His plans are so much better than I want things to be.  I realized that as much as I trust Him, I still want things to go my way and when it doesn't pan out, I go crazy.  I guess we are all wired that way.  It is something I should really work on - trusting Him with all my heart and just blindly letting go because He does not need my help.  Only by completely trusting Him will we be delivered from all our fears.  His will be done!

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. - Proverbs 19:21

Pastor Richard reminded us that God manifests and intervenes even in the impossible situations to accomplish His sovereign plan.   All of our grumbling and complaining doesn’t get God to give us what we think we want.  It is always going to be His will that triumphs.  It is never our way but always God’s way. So in all situations – WORSHIP.  He is always with us, good times and bad.

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. - 1 Peter 5:7

#KONY2012

Yesterday Chai asked me about what the KONY2012 hashtag everywhere was all about.  I was at work for more than 18 hours so really I have no idea what it was.  So since it is the time of google and loads of information at the tip of our fingers, she searched and found the most wonderful, gripping and heartbreaking video I have seen lately.

After watching, I had to just post it too.  This morning I read that for some reason this was a hoax and that though it is really happening, the campaign was some sort of scam to get money from people.  An idea that if true is just as saddening as the whole video.

Well, scam or not.  We should all take part in trying to make this world a safer place for the future generation.  There will always be something that we can do, even if it is just posting this video on our pages to make Joseph Kony famous.

2 things. Lately...

1.  I have been whiny, I apologize.   I catch myself vomiting all this emotional garbage when I am not hiding behind the shadows of reading and movies and tumblr.  Truth is I don’t like this  version of myself.  I would rather sleep than deal and be this way.  I wish I can sleep all these away. 

2.  The little pockets of time.  Those stolen moments amidst the busy.  The moments when I slip out of the war zone and breathe and laugh a little – if I can.  Those are the things I am thankful for. 

To be fixed.

Running dangerously low on hope lately it is crazy. I have always thought that if I have a word, it will be HOPEFUL. So this is just majorly sucky that I am feeling this way. I imagine my heart animatedly rotting inside of my chest because of all the bitterness and resentment I have been feeling towards pretty much half of mankind right now. A heart beaten down, taped up colored by different shades of grey. Not a pretty sight. Believe me, I don't want that heart. I do not want an ugly bitter heart but I have to be honest with myself that that is what I have right now.


Fact is, I am unhappy and there is nothing else I could do about this except pray it up. I wasn’t exactly a model daughter to our Almighty Father these days, but the beauty of it all is that I didn’t have to be. I lit 4 candles today and I talked to Him about my heartache and my stupid thought that I could fix it all by my lonesome self. I can’t. I confessed that I cannot and that my broken self need Him to step in and fix it for me. So, I am lifting it all up now. All of it.