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March 2011: Inspirational Quotes!

The great men of science are supreme artists.
~Martin H. Fischer ~

Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
~Sally Koch ~

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands
but seeing with new eyes.
~Marcel Proust ~

For a community to be whole and healthy,
it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.
~Millard Fuller ~

Happiness is that state of consciousness
which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~Ayn Rand~

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
~Chinese Proverb~

When you don't know what to do, get still.
The answer will come.
~Oprah Winfrey ~

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening
out from an original center.
~Seamus Heaney~

Limitations live only in our minds.
But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
~Jamie Paolinetti~

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
And never hope more than you work.
~Rita Mae Brown~

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age.
As long as you're learning you're not old.
~Rosalyn S. Yalow~

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
~Vincent Van Gogh~

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
~Pearl Buck~

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~Marianne Williamson~

There's a hero in everybody.
~Dark Guardian~

We always talk about working together...
perhaps crisis can give birth to new evolution.
~Yuka Saionji ~

Never before in history has innovation offered promise
of so much to so many in so short a time.
~Bill Gates ~

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
~James Levin~

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
~Muriel Rukeyser~

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
~Helen Keller~

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
~E. Joseph Cossman~

Goods are called good because they can be used for good.
~Clement of Alexandria~

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others.
~Krista Tippett~

When tillage begins, other arts follow.
The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
~Daniel Webster~

I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
~Mother Teresa ~

Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything,
You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets.
~Clark Moustakas ~

Live simply that others might simply live.
~Elizabeth Ann Seton~

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
~Tenneva Jordan ~

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, ...
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
~Robert F. Kennedy~

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference.
He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
In every moment, we can find and live our purpose.
~Tiffany Mackey~

a strawberry farm visit

It was one sunny day of April when one of my dreams came true. That’s to see and visit the strawberry farm in La Trinidad, Benguet. Though we did not pick strawberries because we did not had enough time to do it, seeing strawberry plants as well as lettuce was enough. Happiness filled my heart.

Come, please join me and take a look at Strawberry farm.

Now, who wants strawberries? Uhmmm…yummy!

Our Baguio Trip

It was during college days when I first visited Baguio City. Now, after more than a decade I was so glad that I was able to go back in Baguio City.

We stayed there for three nights and four days, yon nga lang hindi rin kami gaanong nakapag ikot because we were busy doing some works. And during night time when we were already free to roam around eh medyo pagod na at nagkakatamaran ng lumabas lalo na ako na hindi naman sanay sa mga gimmick and night out.

Our event was held at Villa La Maja Hotel. Medyo malayo sya center but the place is so quiet and the manager and the staff were very accommodating.

the hotel

view at the opposite side


going inside the hotel

at the garden area

Lucky enough that they have a big conference room to accommodate our guests. We were expecting only 85 – 90 persons but then bigla silang dumami at umabot ng mahigit 100 persons.

And while it is very hot here in Manila, we were also very lucky to experience and enjoy the very cold weather there in Baguio City. Uhmmm… look at the fog. I love it!

A Manaog Trip before Holy Week!

Before i take a vacation, let me share to you the pictures from our Manaog trip.


It was not a planned trip. But it was indeed a good decision and a very nice experience to go inside and see the Manaog Shrine before Holy week.

A blessed Holy Wednesday everyone!

What’s up! I’m back!

Hey guys, kumusta na kayo? I miss you all. It’s been more than a month since I last visited this blog as well as your blog. My work schedule was very hectic. Everything seems to be urgent. My 8 hours official time is not enough to finish things that I need to be done for the day. So there were times that I need to render overtime even on a Saturday and even without pay just to catch up things that really need to be done. And aside from that, there are negative energies and inconsiderate people that surround me which put my patience always on test. Yon ang mas nakakasama ng loob! Anyway, I’m back and I got a lot of stories and pictures to share with you guys. For more than a month a lot of things happened. Some made me happy, some made me sad & worry, and of course, some made me angry. And just to give you a little idea on what happened, ito munang tatlo:

I already enrolled my daughter in a nursery school for June. Meron na akong studyante and I’m so excited na for her.

I went to Baguio City and Kalibo, Aklan for official business. I got lots of pictures there. Share ko sainyo later but of course hindi pwede yong may kinalaman sa work na mga pictures ha for security reason. Mga rebelde kasi kasama namin eh.

My husband got an accident last month in the province. Buti nalang hindi gaanong matindi ang pinsala nya. Aside from the hospitalization and medicine, I paid damages for the vehicle he used which is owned by his own brother. Ang nakakasama nga lang ng loob kasi kinagabihan lang matapos ang accident, my sister-in-law texted me and wanted to collect payment immediately. Eh ni hindi ko pa alam ang totoong kalagayan ng asawa ko kasi nandito naman ako sa Manila.

That’s it for now guys. Hanggang sa muli. Happy weekend!

February 2011: inspirational quotes!

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
~George Kneller~

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
~Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture) ~

Looking closer can make something beautiful.
~Cynthia Lord ~

Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.
~Gregory J. P. Godek ~

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
~Herbert Spencer~

The greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do.
~Walter Bagehot ~

What I call the depth of generosity is when people are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
~Oscar Wilde ~

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
~William Shakespeare~

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
~Henry Miller ~

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one.
It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life.
The first is that we are all one.
~Joesph Campell ~

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.
~Peter McWilliams~

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
~Thomas Merton ~

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
~Don Herrold ~

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
~Gandhi ~

To build toilets is easy, but to shift people's mind and hearts is the real work.
Software is more important than hardware.
~Ishwar Patel ~

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
~Mark Twain ~

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
~William Ames ~

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it.
~Mark Twain ~

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
~John E. Southard ~

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
~Emma Golmam~

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
~Gail Devers~

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
~Robert Collier~

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
~Scott Caan~

To touch can be to give life.
~Michelangelo~

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
~Phyllis Theroux~

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~Claude Monet~

Silence is a fence around wisdom.
~German Proverb~