Ate, Prayed Loved

I have long been waiting to hit the theater for this movie, waited for months even. So when i had that one opportunity, i grabbed it and watched.. (drumroll) Eat Pray Love.. alone. My second time in the movie house to be alone. And once again, I was okay with it, as others may think of it as a little weird. watching movies alone is not an uncomfortable thing to do, at least for me it isn't. One of my most loved ME times even.

Eat Pray Love
It was one of those movies that I could personally relate too. I have recently gone through a time where I didn't like what was happening around me. Weeks, months of stress and pressure and drama. and all that confusion and decision making to do.

And although I may not have traveled from one country to another, like Liz did, I am grateful to people who have helped me find myself and find Him too. There's my cousin, Alexis, who is right about now across the globe from where I am. She has, once again, reminded me that there is no other being i should rely on to, the only One who could keep me.

then, there's one of my bosses who have taught me the benefits and great results that meditation and yoga can do to your life and well being. I believe that these two have truly been a great help to me, most especially. and I am not regretting getting lessons from him.

So here are some of my favorite lines from the movie, Eat Pray Love. all of these lines were said by Richard from Texas, Liz met him and became her friend in the Holy city/ Ashram in India:

1.) Ruin is a git. it is the road to transformation.
2.) Silence is a wonderful form of devotion
3.) The meditation room is inside (of you).
4.) Select your thoughts like you select your clothes everyday.
5.) Stop trying, surrender.
6.) waiting for him to forgive you is a damn waste of time, Liz. Forgive yourself.
7.) Believe in Love again

From Ketut, a Balinese teacher:
1.) You loose balance, you loose power.
And then he teaches Liz a new form of meditation:
Sit in silence and smile, with your heart and mind.

Last few words from Liz:
God dwells within you as you. God dwells within me as me.

I have greatly appreciated the movie, now its time to appreciate the inspiration where the movie came from, the book Eat Pray Love: A woman's search for eveything across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert


mtniere

Still

When you feel that stress ans pressure are above you, maybe even taller than you, you no longer know what to do or how to feel, or you are way beyond what confused is like, look up to the sky. Lift up a prayer, with tears when the situation calls for it. Or better yet tell Him everything that concerns and bothers you, causing all the stress, pressure and drama. When closing your eyes will help, do so. And when you have done all this, with eyes closed still, make sure you are positioned/ seated nicely and in a comfortable manner, take a moment to just breathe. Slowly, breathe in and then breathe out. Take in those heavy and long breath from the stomach, and then release by breathing out nice and slow. Do this for at least 15-20 minutes. Feel the air that you breathe from the nostril to the diaphragm, and then let go.

Meditation will help ease out and cool down the mind, body and spirit. And while you're at it, remember to keep this song in mind:

When the oceans rise and thunders roar,
I will soar with you above the storm
Father, you are king over the flood.
I will be still. Know YOU are God!

Let it help and comfort you amidst stress and pressure.

mtniere

hope to i-don't-exactly-know-what

today, September 10, i woke up with a little glimpse of hope. i was gonna leave for somewhere, i was gonna have fun with friends, i have imagined this weekend months ago. everything has already been prepared: tickets, a little of my savings, clothes that i can just randomly pick from my closet, i had all of these prepared. there was just one thing missing, something that seemed all too small for me, but not for my parents.

i thought they could at least trust me enough to let me go. i thought that by getting and paying for tickets months early, they would allow me to go.

but much has already been said, after that one call this morning, nothing and no one has made me smile again. i don't exactly know how and what to feel. tears have been shed and that glimpse of hope have faded.

let's wait and see how long this will stay. my rants, my thoughts, my feelings.




mtniere

writing to earn

Recent changes have surfaced and decisions have to be made. They weren't all that easy. Questions upon questions came pouring in.

To work in a place that you know nothing about? Or at least, you're not happy to be at, simply because you don't understand what is really going on. But as they say, stick to it cause the money is there. The salary is high and you'll eventually be happy knowing that you are able to purchase or provide for yourself and those around you.

Then again, another opportunity is presented to you by the one industry you love and is most comfortable to be at. Although it clearly dose not pay much but its is where your passion lies. The industry you prepared for for four long years. Something that you know you will be happy at and will enjoy working, at the same time, will be having fun with.

So now, the bottom line question is: do you work for an unhappy workplace which is hiigh paying? Or do you go to where your passion is at but have to make up for the pay that you will be loosing by looking for alternative means of generating income for yourself and those around you?

With guidance and prayers, i have come to a full decision. something, that hopefully will have no regrets in the end.

mtniere

Cebu checklist

( x) Gone to Simala

()Watched the dolphins at Tanon Strait

( x) Been to Kawasan Falls

(x ) Been to Malapascua

( x) Been to Bantayan Island

( ) Had a date/meeting at Plaza Independencia/Fort San Pedro

(X) Watched the Sinulog

( ) Danced in the Sinulog

(X) Went inside the Fuente Osmena circle

(x) Been to Tops

(x) Been to the Cross at Mountain View

( ) Drove a car up to the Robinson's carpark

(X) Ate puso(X)

Ate at No Problem/sutukil

(x) Passed thru the Transcentral Highway

() Drove by the SRP

(X) Been to Ayala Terraces

(X) Been to SM North Wing

(X) Swam in Plantation Bay's manmade Lagoon

(X) Been to Shangri-la's Mactan Island Resort

(X) Been to Vano Beach or Marigondon

(X) Used the 2nd Bridge

(x) Been to the manmade island at Maribago Bluewater

(X) Been to Tambuli or Hadsan

() Dined at White Gold House

(X) Rode a tartanilla

(X) Been to Carbon

(x) Bought dried fish in Tabo-an

(X) Bought pirated DVDs at Traders

(X) Ate CNT or Alejo's lechon

(X) Ate monster pizza at JCA

(x ) Lit a candle at the Basilica

(X) Heard mass at the Cathedral, Redemptorist, or Sacred Heart

(X) Listened to Y101 and Jack the Wack

(X) Listened to DYAB/Leo Lastimosa or DYSS/Bobby Nalzaro

( ) Watched a movie at Century 21 or Belvic or Oriente or Queen Mini

(X) Ate steam rice at Ding Qua Qua or Dimsum Break or Harbor City

(x) Ate grilled cheese sandwich at Orange Brutus

(X) Seen the Magellan's Cross

(X) Been to the Lapu-lapu shrine

() Watched the Fluvial parade

() Shopped at Metro Colon

() Owned a Mactan guitar

() Stopped by at Island in the Sky

(X) Been to IT Park

(X) Had coffee at Bo's coffee

(X) Dined at Majestic

(X) Dined at Chika-an

(X) Dined at Golden Cowrie

(x) Crossed the intersection of Colon St. and Osmena Blvd during rush hour

(X) Bought freshly-cooked chicharon in Carcar or at Villalonga's

(X) Killed time at the lobby of Waterfront Cebu City Hotel

(X) Gave otap, rosquillos, dried mangoes, or ampao as pasalubong

(X) Ate Mandaue bingka or puto or budbud

(X) Swam at the Cebu City Sports Center swimming pool

(x) Jogged at the Cebu City Sports Center oval

(X) Been to Taoist Temple

(x ) Been to the Cebu City Zoo

(X) Drove through Ma. Luisa or Beverly Hills

( ) Been apprehended by CITOM

(X) Gone island-hopping to Nalusuan, Olango, Pandanon

(X) Swam with the fishes at the Fish Sanctuary

(X) Gone bird watching at the Bird Sanctuary

(x ) Ate kalderetang kanding

(x ) Ate kinilaw nga tangigue

(X) Ate humba

(X) Ate at Larsian

(X) Tasted the D'Original Siomai sa Tisa

( ) Checked-in at Queensland

(X) Bought a smoothie at Thirsty

(X) Bought groceries at Robinsons Fuente or Fooda or Colonnade or La Nueva

(X) Browsed books at National Mango

(X) Been up Club Ultima/Crown Regency

(x ) Rode the Edge Coaster or walked the Skywalk at Crown Regency

(X) Ate guso or lato or lukot

(X) Walked through Colon from Gaisano Main to Gaisano South or v.v.

(x) Enjoyed buwad(x) Ate ginamos(X) Had Sr. Pedro roasted chicken

(X) Ate Cheaverz ngohiong

() Climbed up to Good Shepherd

(X) Tried masareal

(X) Braved heavy traffic during fiestas, esp. that of Guadalupe and Opon

(X) Listened to Local Ground music

mtniere

Tree planting on Birth Date

June 19, 2010

Today I turn a year older. And what better way to celebrate my 24th but by doing something worthwhile and fulfilling than the care for Mother Earth.

For the first time in my entire life, i volunteered to plant seedlings of Cebu native trees today. I was with friends and together with other volunteers from different companies, in participation with Philippine Business for Social Progress’ Cebu Hillyland Reforestation Caravan, we planted species that were endemic to Cebu: the Cebu cinnamon, Narra and another species. The reforestation effort was done at Sitio Cantipla I and II, brgy. Tanuan, Cebu City.

Its never too late to do a simple act of planting seedling trees and watch them grow. Little efforts to restore our forest can go along way.

sun kissed and hurt remedies

you how it is when one really loves the beach, as in, really love that two months of summer isn’t enough?! some people are like that, and i’m probably one of them.

being in a family who has the priviledge of owning a house by the beach with the distance of just some 2hour drive away from the city, i get to enjoy much from the beach, fresh air, nature, the stillness, the sunrise and sunset.

but i just realized that amdist loving being sun kissed, one should also be responsible in protecting the skin. so after enjoying a weekend at the beach and being sunburned, i was forced to look up the web for home remedies to cure the hurt the sun has caused my skin.

so here is a quick ten home remedies to sunburn from www.fatfreekitchen.com/home-remedy/suburn.html

1. drink a lot of fluids for rehydration.

2. cold compress dipped in vinegar, ice and water lightly rubbed unto the burned skin. this takes the heat out off the affected area.

3. apply some mashed tomato with crushed ice on the affected area for treatment and relief.

4. take in vitamin E supplements to reduce itching.

5. apply the pulp stalk of tive aloe vera or tha aloe vera gel, tak a leaf of aloe vera plant, slit it open at its end, and rub the inside over the burn.

6. add some baking soda to cold water and apply to the skin, it reduces the burning effect immediately.

7. slowly rub slices of fresh cucumber over the burns.

8. soak some tea bags in hot water, take the bags out and let them cool. when they are still warm, place them on the affected area for one hour. this is good for the treatment of pain.

9. apply some drops of lavander essential oil on the burnd area, then spread it witha pece of tissue to cure sunburns.

10. put some vinegar on a cotton ball and rub lightly on the burned area.

on my burns, i tried number seven first, then did number ten. and i just felt the burn for a day. it worked for me.

a quick list of don’ts to sun burn:

1. Do not burst blisters to get relief.

2. Do not apply creams, butter, benzoncaine, lidocaine, petroleum jelly, baby oil or other greasy lotions or substance for sunburn treatment. they trap the heat inside and prevent healing. leave the sunburn exposed to the air for faster healing.

3. Do not use lotions with lanolin when you are in the sun

4. Do not wash burned skin with strong soap.

this may be a little too late, considering that rain has started pouring down. but who knows, this may just come in handy anytime.

enjoy the beach, the sun and still have a great ime with out thinking of the pain afterwards, or at least be prepared with simple remedies to it.

mtniere

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