Status: Throwback post, looking back--My Cup of Tea

It's been so many years now that I missed all the things I do when I wake up early in the morning a few repertoire that become a habit that hard to break. Sipping a cup of hot chocolate while mesmerizing of what's going to happen through the entire day in a long working hours in the office; sitting an hour daydreaming of a better thing to do or will happen in a day.

Then my day starts with all smiles in the lips and glee in the heart. No rushing hours, you are in control with every minute. You aren't clamored 'cause you have so much time left to do everything to gear up yourself. Take your morning shower, read a line or two of your favorite quotes, a minute exercises, these are all the things that I miss doing here in Dubai. I'm not able to do now due to tight hour in the morning.

having a cup of tea every morning before the grueling hours of work is a good start for a day....

Things are not all the same living in a different place, culture, aspect and ideas could even twist the perspective of a person. All my morning routing has gone now, and every morning is clamoring hours. Every day you had to rush waking up, with body pain, rush up for quick-bath, rushing up for breakfast or sometimes none-at-all, rushing up preparing yourself, hayayay, no time now for a good cup of tea.

the receptionist, the secretary, the document controller, I love my three in 1 job. As for me, it's better to have a busy job than to deal a boring day every day for being idle.

Living in a very fast pace country was not an easy thing to deal with, but you had to adjust yourself or if not you won't enjoy it even though you had the most advance life or you will face a boring day everyday. While you are surrounded by different kind of people, so different in what you grown up to, the language, the ideas, the perspective, sometimes it's hard to comprehend with their likes and dislikes. You will then realize how hard it is to become apart from the place where you have been raised, and then you will wish that my country will give much better opportunity; so that you don't have to leave, and work in another country just to look for a greener pasture, much greater salary just to make a living better than you had right now.

Yet, sometimes we use it as a tool to run away from the pain by leaving and hoping that it will take away what's hurting you. Or just take it as an experience to make you a better person.

Well, my morning cup tea has now stirred up!

(written: in Dubai at 5/14/2006)

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure itself. -- Nick Carter

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Post: Updates

Since this post is about updates I'm happy to say that I improved my reading I already read three books in a row last January which kind of rarely happen and this February I finished 2. In my previous post I mention that I've had problem on finishing one book at a time due to reading three kinds of book at the same time. So, I promise myself in my last post that I will not open another book until I finished the one I started reading and let me tell you THIS WORK FOR ME. This even improve my concentration, I am now more focus, more discipline, more organize and learn to prioritize things.

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What else?

I started to ...


... use planner again

... do sketching

... write on my diary

... watch more movies (he-he), because almost I forgot how to entertain myself by being so absorbed about other personal matters

... maybe write more in my blog

Lastly, I change my blog template to classic template again, before I use to blogkins template. I'll continually blogging for this is my outlet therapy.

So I learned that unless you practice what you decide to do you will not achieve any of it.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Sleepless on Saturday, Sunday is pizza time!

The breezy cold wind that touches your skin makes me want to fall sleep right away, but it is not quite right and unfair to have a headache on Friday evening when you suppose to sleep early and prepare for tomorrow church mass and prayer meeting all for the glory of GOD. But the headache gives more excruciating pain and terrible when it pitching your eyes like someone wants to take it out from the socket. I tried myself to sleep though its become more painful when I laid down I don't know which side is in favor of my sleep for there is non, thank GOD for a few minutes I haven't known anything, until I suddenly woken up by I gush of creepy sound and I found out that my sister is still awake at 2:59am sitting at the midst of the dark room. And, I found that my headache was gone, but not so good news is for I can't fall back to sleep, again. I tried all side but to no avail. So, I get up and get my Samsung Galaxy S5 and continue reading I heart London by Lindsey Kelk (all I can say is good writing from LK, she makes me finish the 4th and 5th series of her book in a few days, which is kind of unbelievable, I know myself well I could not so engross in a novel because I prepared reading non-fiction books than fiction). At 5am while reading there is a pop message reminding that I need to rest my eyes telling it's not good to read more than 60 minutes. Wow, this e-book reader (Moon Reader app for android) does an amazing job, I used to read ebook in Mantano reader for almost a year now, but this reminder message is what's lack from this app.

Coffee and Buko Pie is surely give me vigor for church mass and praises worship

Time check 7am, oh my gosh! This is what's a good books makes, when you almost forgot that you need to sleep again.

I'm the villain  who eats the big portion while Nanay is busy fiddling with her mobile.. Sorry can't wait for this pizza to fill me in.

Sunday, a pizza day! Yeah, after having not a good sleep yesterday I guess it's time to give myself a good boost. Though, this will surely break my diet, but who will resist the Pure Beef Pizza, no one, right?

To resit the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. -- Alan Bleasdale

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