火曜日, 12月 27, 2005
Now Certified!
I am now a PMP certified yahoo~~~~
I can't believe it. With 1 month, review if you have spare time preparation paid off! Thank God. Alleluia!
My success factors (aside from divine guidance):
- Prioritize! Organize! I have learned the virtues of self-discipline especially because I didn't have time for review classes.
- My ultimate motivator, Jason! If not for his persistence, I wouldn't take this seriously. If not for his inspirations, I wouldn't push myself to do this. If not for his 100% faith in me, I wouldn't have tried my best.
- Kaze ni makasete miru (let the wind blow you), a CM song. I've played this song over and over again the past 48 hours just to free my mind and not give in to pressure. This will also be my 2006 theme, Kaze ni Makaseru. Will let the wind blow me away because it's going to be A-OK?!
# posted by Unknown : 7:10 午後
Curtains Closing For 2005
A few days left and 2005 will be nothing but a chapter that has been. I have been tremendously blessed this year of the rooster. Blessed with a challenging career. A job that lets me fulfill a dream of seeing the world. I've been to 3 continents this year, can you imagine that?! Asia, Europe and America. Wow~ Ain't that the coolest thing?
This year I have been blessed with great new friends: Avril Ronnan, the coolest and warmest Irish I've known by far. Donal Murray, Kang Zau, David Chen, 3 great PMs that I'm lucky to have worked with this year. I've been tremendously close to Yuki, our ex-admin assistant. I'm glad that she's started her new life with her fiance. Would you believe that my crush, Tomo Iida would become a good friend? And then there's Tito. People care about me, I'm really touched. A long-lost friend found me in friendster. She was a college classmate, Mona. She wrote this tear-jerking testimonial about me. I swear to God I don't remember what she's talking about, but I cried. I was touched. I didn't think I made such a huge impression on someone who's really honest and good. This will always be one cheerful thought to think about everytime I come under spell of depression.
Hw can I 4get some1as nice as Emzie,eh sya dahilan kung bakit ako nkapasa kay SirCarub. Khit puyat at pagod n sya, tinapos nya GradingSystem ko, she's really an excellent programmer!& I'm really happy she's successful nw.I remembr,we share d same interest about composing poems(that tym,love ko about nature),bt wen i read her compilations of poems,it was all about luv! kya i there4 conclude, sya naka-influence skin 2 also write poems about love!At eto pa,she's also a gud writer,& a very good 1,ha!Sya sumulat ng kwento na ginamit namin non sa isang activity sa English.(remember Emzie the song of AirSupply?)& fr. that song, she was able 2 write a story n mala-James Bond ang dating! (at syempre pa, mawawala ba luv angle)na-enjoy ko yun ha,kasi mahilig din ako sa detective at suspense stories.She has been very good 2 me,kya nga isa sya s mga una kong hinanap s friendster & nahirapan ako ha!bt im glad aftr almost 10yirs,I found her.I also feel d same way 2,emz,hope we cn catch up on each other.
My two brothers have finally found their bearing at school, what a relief. The most important thing in my life is my siblings welfare. I would give my life for them. That's how much I love my siblings. Their success, good health and happiness is my greatest achievement. Although I have this disfunctional parents, what the heck, they're the only family I have and can ever have. Sometimes I'd like to give humor into it and I sometimes think that my crazy side was the genes I got from both of them.
As for HB, so much has happened, and yet so much hasn't happened. My professional life is also toxic and I'm close to burning out and I can't afford any other form of stress anymore so the past few months I've really given up and surrendered this to the Lord. I even lit candles, did the novena, offered prayers to all the chapels, cathedrals and churches I've been to the past months. 2005 has been crazy but I will just let 2006 be.
Before the year ends I still need to accomplish one huge feat. I'm not sure if I'm ready for my PMP exam but I don't want to back off now. I will do it. I will not fail myself.
Am scheduled to go home on Dec 28th early night flight. Then the morning after that will be at St. Luke's to have my ankle checked and visit my derma. Night's probably for my evil step sis Vek & Marla. Plan to go up Sagada on the 3oth and go down Jan 1st. I want a peaceful New Year this year.
The week of Jan 2 will be for the banks, insurance and hopefully, if God permits, the purchase of a new home in Junction. Week after that will be for friends...and maybe swimming :) I plan to go with Blesh and check if these swarovski beads hobby is also for me.
Of course, everyday will be spa days, malling days, and jollibee days! I'll be off to Tokyo again on the 12th, 13th's the New Year Party. 14th-15th snowboarding weekend with Agdie & friends. Week after that is CRM workshops. Then snowboarding weekend again, with Kanada-san, maybe...Whew ~ the curtain's not yet drawn but I'm beginning to feel exhausted, which means I should stop right now and wish myself and all the people I love a very Merry Christmas and A Prosperous New Year!
# posted by Unknown : 2:15 午前
月曜日, 12月 26, 2005
A Different Kind Of Christmas
This was not the first Christmas I spent alone but this felt different. I had a different kind of Christmas this year. I mostly slept, the weather was too cold I didn't dare go out. I was too tired and the one thing I really needed was rest. In between sleeping I would turn on my TV and flip over the pages of my PMP reviewer. At one point I contemplated on going to a ski resort, but "NO", I've decided to impose self-discipline, I had to focus on my review. I don't want to fail because I don't want to do this torturous reviews over again.
I cooked myself pasta for Christmas dinner as I watched the 4-hour Christmas musical special on TV. My YM started to pop Merry Christmas messages. At about midnight I quietly had my dinner and I thanked God for all the blessings I received this year. The great people I knew this year, the stupor I've done, all of it put a smile on my face. I only had one gift this year. I didn't go Christmas shopping mostly because I'm too tired. But I realized that one gift is enough. I realized that all those YM messages were enough. I realized that I am so blessed to live inside a warm, homey shelter blessed with good food on my table. I realized that I'm blessed to be healthy and I have everything I need. I also realized that some people needs to fight for survival, for a place just to warm their cold bodies in this season.
Christmas is not about twinkling lights. It is not about exchanging gifts. It is not about dining at the most expensive restaurants, or having festive Noche Buenas. It is about the birth of Christ, the highest expression of selflessness. It is about Him telling us that He came to world to carry our crosses because He loves all of us. It is about Him showing us that the greatest of miracles spring from love. Christmas is about miracles and love and compassion. Every Christmas should be a reminder that we are all blessed and we should pay this blessing forward to those whose eyes are too misty to see miracles.
I have been praying for miracles but now I realized that I have them all along inside of me, unopened gifts from God.
# posted by Unknown : 12:12 午前
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