unexpected

ring ring

someone called

i'm still okay

i have
definitely
moved on

I want Men in Trees back!

(on TV and in real life)

I was downloading my favorite shows from the internet when I learned that MEN IN TREES is CANCELED!!!

I got hooked up with this show when I stayed in the States last year. In a nutshell, the hour-long dramedy was about Marin (Anne Heche), a relationship coach who has failed with her own -- on her way to Alaska for a speaking engagement, she found out that her fiancé was cheating on her! Slapped in the face, she ended the wedding plans and retreated to Elmo, Alaska. There she met Jack (James Tupper), a wildlife expert who became her friendly knight. From being just friends, their relationship blossomed and she started rethinking about the men she thought she knew.

One of Marin's thoughts about him is "Friendship between a man and a woman is complicated, especially if they've shared something more. There are times when love can be stronger and even more rewarding if it's built on the foundation of a really great friendship. But wherever it's headed, wherever it's been, being just friends doesn't have to mean settling for something less. Sometimes it can be the brass ring after all."



With all the love and friendship in Men in Trees, it was overall a feel good show. It approaches the "perfect" girls’ angst on love (or the absence of it) satirically.



And like most relationship and relationships-to-be on real life, someone can steal the one you have invested all your emotions with. One of my crying scenes was when Marin was telling Jack "She broke your heart and all I tried to do was fix it" as her final piece on letting go of Jack who is going back to her pregnant (Jack not the Father) ex-fiancé, Lynn.



I remember a quote from Marin saying “Everyone will be remembered, and if that's the case, you have to ask yourself, "How do you want your story to go?" ...How do you want to be remembered?” Sigh... I am gonna miss this show! I hope ABC brings it back. I want this show to be remembered and not canceled!!!! I want Jack and Marin back!!! I actually want Jack for myself!

Ion Detoxication Foot Bath

I first heard of this detox from a friend early 2006. I was intrigued by how she described the toxins coming out of her feet and turn the water into a different color. Last Sunday, my cousin and I were watching television with other friends. And again, I, along with my cousin, was intrigued. Then our other friend told us that her dad was undergoing the foot bath treatment here in Lucena. And instead of the thousand bucks advertised on television, it was only three hundred pesos. Good deal, eh?

So, we decided to go to the "detoxifier" the next day and set an appointment. And to our luck, walk-in clients are charged one hundred peso less as part of their summer promo. Yipee!

I got this excerpt from http://www.fountainofhealth.com/ionfootbath.php. It helps explain how this kind of detoxification happerns.

The Ion detoxification device is a method for creating a bio-charge that is both safe and compatible with living matter. Water is the obvious medium used because up to 80% of the human body is water. Water is an active substance, so when water comes into contact with something, the frequency of what it contacts is integrated into its own frequency structure and thus becomes its signature. When you immerse a body mass into water, the frequency is instantly added to the water as a "memory".

The Ion Foot Bath detoxification accelerates change in the body. Aging and disease states are characterized by a diminishing anabolic capacity and an increasing catabolic capacity. Toxic buildup of cellular waste and debris is the inevitable outcome of these trends. Reversing them through whole body detoxification requires nutritional support, particularly digestive enzymes, reduction of stress hormones, trace minerals and fatty acids, which are involved in the movement and transport of raw materials in the body.

After thirty minutes, the water I am soaked into has turned into brown. This color signifies that my liver is being detoxified. Apparently, this color is usually associated with fat impurities and alcohol.

Ooops...

a pretense

This Sunday, I got to spend my time with a group of children, whose ages range from six to sixteen, living at a center near our village. They were full of energy in all the activities and they wear their big smiles in every picture taken. Watching them was nostalgic, they were happy… until I learned about their life.

• A six-year old girl who has the built of a less than four year old one. She has difficulty in color and shape recognition. Some kids were picking up on her and were making fun of her drawing and coloring.

• Three siblings were simply abandoned at the gate of center. The youngest says she does not love her other sister and she is serious about it.

• Most of the kids do not know when they were born so they celebrate their birthdays at the time the center took them in. With this, most of the kids’ ages are just estimates.

• Some kids are battered by their parents. Most have been raped by their own uncles. Some have been raped and battered as well.

Sigh. I wish this kids have my the same life I have…

And they are just kids… kids who are supposed to be the ones whose only worries are what games to play and will they like the food their parents will be giving them for supper. Instead, they get to confront adult problems -- Dilemmas which are so much bigger than mine. And they get live with it. And they get by.

My life as a kid has been full of sleeping, eating and playing all day. Happy days with no worries! Today has been not that different, except working and studying has been added and sleeping has been lessened for play to happen at night. Happy days with a few worries! I would settle for that!

a draft of my love letter

For the longest time, I wanted myself to fall madly in love again. I want to experience again the kind of love that creates butterflies in my stomach and tingles in my spine. I want my tan cheeks to blush and my body to flinch every time I remember him.. I want my mouth to stop eating even when I am so hungry simply because he's there... I want to see Blessie in love with someone and not with the idea of having someone.

This happens…

… somewhat.

For the longest time, I wanted to be in love and be loved back. I want to feel like someone's princess again... a girl so special being loved by that equally special someone. A someone who makes me laugh and cry at the same time. That someone who would not dare leave me and tries to be with me longer than forever. Someone who keeps his promises.

Sigh…

For the longest time, I told myself I will meet him soon. But it has been never been soon so far. A lot of waiting, preparing and praying has happened already. And I sometimes grew tired of that. But I know I just have to keep on preparing and praying harder because I want that someone to be with me sooner...

Please, Lord!

For the longest time, I have created myself a possibility for me and my life the possibility of being a princess to my prince. I do not know who he is yet. But I know he is just there looking for me as well. And I will know who he is soon.

For the longest time, I have been preparing for him to come into my life. I know I am still in the process of preparing myself for him but I do hope the preparations I did are enough to meet him already.

Or do I still have to work on my love handles before we meet?

For the longest time, I do hope we are already in the same block. In our separate sides, we are walking closer towards the corner... towards each other.

For the longest time, Lord. I know You are guiding us. And I know we are just a few steps away from each other.

Lord, help us find each other now, please.