I have so much to be grateful for this month. I thank the Lord for giving me another year in this world. The greetings of friends and family were really overwhelming, had a handful of celebrations with colleagues, friends and family. I really felt the love. Thank You, Lord!
I am also grateful for the 4 months of marriage. It has been wonderful! I'm truly blessed to have a very good husband, partner and friend. I think we're able to establish some routine at home, with my husband cooking, while I wash the dishes! This is quite an odd arrangement, but I'm glad my husband doesn't mind. Hopefully soon I could cook for him. Wish me luck!
Since it's the birthday month I prayed to the Lord for a lot of things. One of them is a very special one :) I do believe that God answers our prayers in the way that is best for us, so I just keep my faith. And for who I am, what I have right now, I am very grateful to the Lord.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
100 days
Para akong presidente, nag-count down ng 100 days since our wedding day :) It took me a few days to notice that, yeah, it's been more than 3 months, or 100 days na pala. Mabilis din ang panahon.
We have been generally following our normal routine of doing work and house chores. We're glad that Doy found his camping stove, which we now use for cooking. Doy was able to cook pasta, fried foods, and his very delicious scrambled eggs. Sadly, though, I'm still unable to cook. But I promised Doy that I will cook when we're able to set up our big stove that we purchased a few months ago.
I'm still pretty busy doing research work for a nonprofit organization, as well as a project for my thesis. I wish I could focus more on my thesis, but I also need to earn money, and my nonprofit work allows me to do that. The challenge for me is attending to all these activities, and giving my best for each one. Doy spends most of his time at home while doing freelance work, so he takes care of most stuff in the house. I'm also glad that I a able to work a few days a week at home so I get to spend time with Doy.
We're glad to be able to ride a bike again in the monthly critical mass rides of the Firefly Brigade. We rode our tandem bicycle. It's been a while since we last used our tandem bike.
We have been generally following our normal routine of doing work and house chores. We're glad that Doy found his camping stove, which we now use for cooking. Doy was able to cook pasta, fried foods, and his very delicious scrambled eggs. Sadly, though, I'm still unable to cook. But I promised Doy that I will cook when we're able to set up our big stove that we purchased a few months ago.
I'm still pretty busy doing research work for a nonprofit organization, as well as a project for my thesis. I wish I could focus more on my thesis, but I also need to earn money, and my nonprofit work allows me to do that. The challenge for me is attending to all these activities, and giving my best for each one. Doy spends most of his time at home while doing freelance work, so he takes care of most stuff in the house. I'm also glad that I a able to work a few days a week at home so I get to spend time with Doy.
We're glad to be able to ride a bike again in the monthly critical mass rides of the Firefly Brigade. We rode our tandem bicycle. It's been a while since we last used our tandem bike.
Photo by Erwin Paala
Monday, June 7, 2010
One of those days
Teaching is one of my passions and interests. I am trying to build a career that is related to teaching or to training. I am glad to have landed in jobs in the past that gave me opportunities to teach or do training. I pursued graduate studies and post-graduate courses to enhance my craft. I also did some consulting jobs that involved training.
In one of my recent consulting jobs where I did training, I felt that the objectives of the training has hardly been achieved. I really felt bad because it is my responsibility to help achieve those objectives. I was the resource person. There are a lot of factors that have affected this, but the bottomline is I was not able to prepare well enough, and that I feel that I lacked a lot of competencies of being a good trainer. I feel I have shortchanged the participants and the organizers. I feel that I am not fit for the job.
I hope that I will really, truly learn from this experience if I am to become serious in becoming a good, or even an excellent trainer.
In one of my recent consulting jobs where I did training, I felt that the objectives of the training has hardly been achieved. I really felt bad because it is my responsibility to help achieve those objectives. I was the resource person. There are a lot of factors that have affected this, but the bottomline is I was not able to prepare well enough, and that I feel that I lacked a lot of competencies of being a good trainer. I feel I have shortchanged the participants and the organizers. I feel that I am not fit for the job.
I hope that I will really, truly learn from this experience if I am to become serious in becoming a good, or even an excellent trainer.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
New Beginnings First Month
Doy and I have been married for more than a month already. There have been some adjustments of course, but I guess having dated Doy for close to 9 years have helped a lot. I know that Doy had to adjust with having me around the house, since he was used to living alone. I for my part had to adjust with doing the things that were usually done for me before, such as preparing food to eat, washing the dishes, laundry, etc. Although already known to us, we also had to adjust to each other's sleeping habits. I'd like to think that we are discoverers, discovering more on our relationship, of each other, and of ourselves.
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