My Handsewn Domo Plush

A first try on Domo plush. It's hand sewn and I gave it to my friend Jess as he requested. I'm not sure whether he'll give it to someone or he'll keep it for himself. Whatever he does with it, i feel the appreciation even if the domo plush I made wasn't exactly the perfect domo.

LOLx

A new poem posted on my other blog Love, Music and Poetry Cafe. Please read and share if you like it. Thanks!

SFC Kids And Youth (SKY Group)

Lately, I've been busy organizing a youth-oriented presentation for an important yearly event - Mariology.


Mariology is the theological study of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mariology methodically presents teachings about her to other parts of the faith, such as teachings about Jesus, redemption and grace. Christian Mariology aims to connect scripture, tradition and the teachings of the Church on Mary.






I started organizing the kids and youth within our Catholic Christian Community and named our group, with the whole community's approval - SFC Kids and Youth Group (SKY Group). I think this will be fun since I enjoy being with the kids - away from all those problems and sharing stories and jokes with them. Giving them answers to their questions about things - anything under the sun.


I'm excited about this group though am also worried when I have to leave them only after a few months because then I will go back to Manila and continue my studies. Anyway, I think I don't have to worry about their activities since there are lots who support this group. Maybe it's just that I'm worried about missing them altogether - all the fun we're having while learning at the same time.


I already have lots of activities in mind for this youth group and I hope we will be able to fulfill everyone of them.  

My Chocolate Chip Cookies and An Article I'm Writing

I baked cookies this morning for my sister to bring to school for her snacks but we forgot to pack it so as usual, some of it ended being eaten by my brother, who ate, two cookies at a time. Looked like a sandwich. I slept too much again today. Lately, I've been very sleepy. I'm not sure why. Is this a sign of depression? I just hope not.

Then I began to read the autobiography of St. Therese (Little Flower) but being able to read the introduction, I had to stop. Many of what was written in this introduction contained a lot things that I have experienced or thought of - something like that so I want to write an article first before I continue reading it.

I won't be writing my own autobiography but I'll be writing in it some of my experiences in life in connection with my faith. My own experiences through my life with how I lived and live with God in my life and had this kind of communication with God , Mama Mary and the angels. I want to write down the lessons and messages God has told me. I want to see the differences of my faith (experiences) with what I will be reading in the book. I'm not saying I have a lot in common or a lot of differences with The Little Flower. I'm also not saying that I could be someone who's special or different from others because I'm just a normal human being - a sinner at that. I don't have premonitions or things like those. I'll just write how I communicate with God, mama Mary, and the angels and how they answer me back (through dreams or answers through personal experiences - loses and gains).

In short, I'll be writing an article about my own experiences about my faith and compare it with what's written in the book. I hope St. Therese wouldn't misunderstand what I'm doing but since I know God is with Her, she'll know for sure what I'm trying to do. Maybe I'll finish it by tomorrow or on Wednesday. I'll make sure of it so I can continue reading the book already.

I Want To Revive This Blog

Whoah! When was my last blog? I know... a very, very long time ago.

How's every blog doing now? Everybody still keep their blog alive but I haven't. And again, I want to revive it.

I've been busy with our vacation and many problems. I've been fully out of the blue lately, too because I've been confused with everything I have in my hands right now. I'm not really busy, it's just that my mood swings are kicking off again. 

I'm watching Korean TV series to get a new feel, a new flow of emotions so I can have new ideas on what to write about and how I'll write my new stories. And I've also been thinking what genre to write right now. And then there are my old stories/novel which I must edit, revise and re-write so I can turn them into a book or e-book, whatever's better.

Then my artistic instincts start to kick off, too and I had to sew these plushies which are two talking cats with magical powers, a fifteen year old girl and a sixteen year old boy who are all part of the new story I'm thinking of writing right now. It's adventure/fantasy genre. I'm not sure about it yet but I'm really into the idea right now.

And then there are also these books I have to read, learn, understand and reflect from. It's not that I'm obliged to but I'm making myself be obliged because these books are important to me. No sentimental values or reasons like that. It's just that I think I'm ought to read and learn them myself. Maybe it's because I miss studying in school or maybe there are other reasons. I'm not sure of. I just want to finish reading and studying them. I'll also be posting some reviews for those books after I read them or maybe after every chapter I can post some of my view/notions about those topics there.

And then there are my Catholic community related projects or plans which I'm not sure if I'll really be going through with. I need the approval of the majority of our members first. It's not that I'm not sure that they'll approve of my ideas but I'm not sure about myself if I can keep up if it's going to be approved.

Another is my beads and crafts tools and supplies which are still there for me to do. I've been planning on making accessories to sell but it seems there'll be no buyers if I make them so right now, they're just there in my shelf.

And a new hobby is added which is baking and since I'm not really good in it even how much effort I put in, I just can't stop trying to learn and practice more which takes a lot of time in a day.

With all of these, I don't know where to start. I made a schedule last month but I haven't followed it. But now, I'm trying to start with everything again. I'm starting with blogging right now and maybe everything will follow. I'll update on Goodreads and then I'll make articles against RH Bill which I'm also feeling is right to do now.

I'll write again tomorrow if there'll be any progress with my sched.

Reblogged: The Devil's Shopping Advocate

The Devil's Advocate: A 6th Month Anniversary Give Away!

Click the link above and check out her cool blog!

She's been bloging for 6 months straight and I just wish I've done the same. As you can see, I haven't been active in blogging again since I've been busy with many things especially that I'm still on vacation right now.

 

Okay, so being on vacation is no excuse to be inactive these past months (?), I admit but it's been so hectic and I really didn't have the energy and enthusiasm to write anything new.

I'll be blogging again, as I promised a few people/readers and myself once I get back to Jeddah. After I get settled in again. It's not easy having to go here and there every now and then and just write anything. I just like to write/blog when I'm in the mood and when I don't have other things in mind. 

Like right now that I'm busy thinking of the small business I want to establish, scrapbooking, making jewelries, paper arts and other crafts, rewriting the draft of the novel I wrote and going back to the reading challenges I've joined for this year. And there are so many more so I've been dumbfounded and stuck with everything that I was confused which I must do first so there.

*Sigh

I'll be back. I'll be back.

ENQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW WEEK 22

No, I am not a new Tabloid Reporter, but it is a feature so 

that we can all get to know each other better.  

This feature will be open from Thursday at 12:01 A.M. and close on Monday at 11:59 P.M. to allow those that want to participate over the weekend the opportunity to do so when they have more time.  So you may want to check back on Tuesday or check the previous week's link on Thursday to view everyone's answers.

Links to all previous can be found by clicking the Enquiring Minds Want To Know page in the right sidebar for those who missed a week or two and want to catch up on everyone's answers.  To do that please link up using the actual post link  instead of the link to your entire blog so people can find your "Enquiring" posts easier. 

If you are just joining this feature 

WELCOME!!!!! 

We all become friends/followers but most of us will never meet in person, this feature is to help us all get to know each other better.

Each Thursday I will post 3 questions for you to answer 

that you can copy and post on your blog with your answers. 

You don’t have to be a blogger to participate either. I will be using a Linky List for the blogs to use to participate and follow each other around to get to know each other, but if you are not a blogger just answer the questions in the comment section following the post on your favorite blog. Please feel free to click on the links and visit other blogs too.  

This way we not only get to know other bloggers, 

we get to know our followers too.

I am really excited about this meme 

and hope many more people will join the fun!!!!!

Are you interested?

Last week's questions were pretty heavy
 but this week to some easier questions.

WEEK 22 QUESTIONS and MY ANSWERS

1. What time do you usually wake up each morning?

This week, I've had sleepless nights (you can read my post below about why I can't sleep) so I wake up at around 1 in the afternoon.

2. What time do you usually go to sleep each night?

Again, I'm still sleepless. I sleep around 4 AM.

3. Standing at the foot of your bed, do you sleep on the right side of the bed, left side of the bed, or do you have the whole bed to yourself?

Me and my sister share a room and at our old flat, I slept at the right side of the bed but now, I sleep on the left side of the bed.

Now be sure to copy and paste the information and your answers into your blog, then come back to link up, so we can come to your blog and read your answers.

I hope you will come back to this meme every week and tell your friends so we can all get to know each other better and get the answers to all the questions 

Enquiring Minds Want To Know!!  

I want to have a puppy

Okay, I haven't written for... how long again? See, I can't even remember. Really!

I've been busy reading and having visitors at our flat these past few days. Long story. And another that I want to confess, which kept me from blogging and everything else is because I fell in love with... nope! not someone... but I fell in love with a shih tzu. But actually, I fell in love with the idea of having one.

I became like... so addicted with Animal Planet on TV and then episodes of DOG 101. And there it started, I wanted to have a puppy. I thought about it for a few days and thought maybe time will make my feelings pass by - strong feelings of having a pup - but then I can't sleep, can't eat well and can't read much because I was there, using this net book or my phone to surf the net about puppies and dog breeds, how to take care of them, what they need and where to buy and everything else.

It's complicated for me. First of all, my mom is against it then comes the problem with the expenses but then more complications still.

I'm not sure whether there will be complete supplies for the needs of a dog here in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia since I've noticed that people here aren't dog lovers making me conclude that pet shops and or veterinarians here aren't that good with providing the needs of a pup if I would have one and I'm afraid it would die because of those circumstances. I'm afraid to hurt a baby such as a cute shih tzu pup but I really want to have one. I want to take care of one and play with it and cuddle with it and watch it grow older as I grow older, you know... those kinds of things. And take responsibility for it like a mom.

I really pray that I could have one and take care of it until it reaches the end of its days.

Movie Marathon Again

Last night, I watched two Filipino movies - love stories.

 I watched "Till My Heartaches End" first. A movie starring two of the most famous actors/actresses in the Philippines - Gerald Anderson and Kim Chiu.

It's a movie about one girl having a boyfriend for the first time and a boy who finally finds the one he truly falls in love with after having many girlfriends in his past. They both have family problems but it isn't the main problem they are facing since the problem is the girl is focusing too much on the boy, she doesn't want to open up to anyone and widen her world anymore that's why they always fought. The boy grows afraid that they may hurt each other and that they could end up hating each other in the future if the problem isn't solved and the only solution he knows for the better of both of them is to break-up. Going on with their separate lives, they accept what they think they understand while they face the family problems they have been facing since childhood. They take that chance to fix up everything while they're on their own and one of them knows that they broke up not because they don't love each other anymore but because they love each other too much, they had to.

The other movie, on the other hand, is about family and love relationship. The actors/actresses in the movie are Claudine Baretto, Anne Curtis and Richard Gutierrez.

The older sister Ciara takes responsibility for her younger sister Julia since their mother died after giving birth to the latter and their father followed soon after. Ciara works in the United States and Julia followed after receiving her student visa. Storm, Julia's boyfriend joins her with a tourist visa.

To gain immigrant status, Julia desperately asks her sister Ciara who is already an American citizen, to get into an arranged marriage with Storm.

Storm and Julia starts to drift apart as Julia has been always busy with her studies and work leaving more time for Storm and Ciara to be together. Thus starting an unexpected love affair. Julia learns about this and Ciara breaks up with Storm for Julia but Julia is too hurt to accept her apologies and efforts.

This puts the sisters' relationship in jeopardy and they struggle to live without each other but the story goes and of course, I won't be putting what the ending is. You have to find out on your own.

Maybe I'll watch another movie today but I'm not sure. Whoah! It's already 1:30 PM here. I have to take a nap for tonight's plans. Ho-hum!

Reading Challenge Hunting

Yesterday, I've been hunting for reading challenges to join in for this month and for the whole year. I've joined in six from different blogs. It's posted on my other blog and the link could be found on the right side of this page. Check it out if you're hunting for reading challenges, too.

Besides my personal reading challenge of reading up to 50 books this year, I want to join more challenges. I have 35 in my to-be-read (TBR) list and I'm planning on reading all of them because I've been neglecting to check the remaining books in that list and read them so I decided to join the Off The Shelf Challenge wherein you have to read books from your TBR list which you have before joining the challenge. Adding another book to you TBR list and reading it, before joining the challenge, and including it in your number of books for the challenge is against the rules. That's how I understood it.

I'm thinking of actually putting this blog and my other blog together so I 'll just have one so it wouldn't be so confusing but I'm also considering if that'll make this blog messy. The thing is, how will I be able to put them together? I'll think about it again.

Stylish Blogger Award

Wow! Thanks Rocio for awarding me the "Stylish Blogger Award"! And you have 2 of this award already? Really cool! I'm not sure if I can award 15 recently discovered great bloggers, too but I will check the blogs I'm following one by one again since I'm still a new "follower" to them.

Here are the rules if you are awarded:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post.

2. Tell us 7 things about yourself.

3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers.

4. Contact these bloggers and let them know they have won.

So... here are the 7 things about myself:

1.  I have a sister who is practically my twin if she isn't 14 years younger than me.

2. I have a lot of notebooks including my journal and the notebooks where I'm writing and I've written my stories/sequels/poems/quotes.

3. I love stickers.

4. I keep a cute yellow dress right now which I can't really wear since I have this scar below my left knee.

5. I am an Aplastic Anemia/Bone Marrow Failure patient.

6. The color of journal right now is red, which isn't really my favorite color.

7. Right now, the apple of my eyes and the owner of my heart is still the same person.

I'm afraid I only have 8 blogs for the recently discovered great bloggers right now. They're the ones I often check and open. They're all great!

The 8 blogs I pick for  recently discovered great bloggers from the ones I'm following are:

1. The Blue Bookcase

2. Jules' Book Reviews

3. words, words, words

4. The Perpetual Page-Turner

5. The Reading Life

6. Reading While Female

7. The Dream World Never Ends

8. Beyond Limits

In my opinion, all bloggers are great! It's just that every person has their own tastes and interests affecting their decision on who to follow and not to follow. Every one also starts a blog one post at a time and eventually will attract more followers who really get interested in following them, right?

Thanks again Rocio!

Have a great day! :)

Movie Marathon

The other day, I watched two movies - April Bride and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.

 

I've been meaning to watch HP 7 soon as it was released here in the net but since my internet connection isn't excellent these days, I postponed and postponed watching it until the other day when I decided to do it. To actually wait for hours so I could finish watching the movie. At last, I'm done watching it but it left me hanging. I'm totally looking forward to the release of HP7 part 2 in the theaters. I'm going to watch it there because it's the final part of the whole story of Harry Potter and I want to watch it in a very large screen so I could appreciate it more. Watching HP7 part 1 in my net book lowered the excitement I had when I first wanted to watch it, moreover the low connection of the internet that ruined the mood. At least I knew what was happening in the movie since I already read the book itself and I wasn't getting lost even if the movie I watched was very choppy. When compared to the movie, reading the book was actually better than watching it. I've noticed that in novels turned to movies. I enjoy reading the books more compared to watching them because for me, the books are more detailed.


Anyway, "HP7 part 2, I'm looking forward to watch you in the theater".


The other movie, I watched was a Japanese movie about a couple married in church on April 5, 2007. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been told that she only had a month to live.


The title of the movie is April Bride. To those of you who are okay with watching movies with a not-so-happy  ending, you can watch this. It's very good and speaks of true love. I also love the music in the background when they were getting married. The title of the song is The Rose. You can check out the links I provided if you're interested in watching the movie or listening to the music.

A Room for Imagination

Here are some pictures of how our (me and my younger sister of 8) room looks like.

The first and second picture are pictures I just took a while ago. It's our wall (above our bed) which we filled with stickers of fairies, flowers and butterflies yesterday. I want to encourage my sister's imagination and talents, which FYI, is seriously reflecting mine. I mean, she's like a mini me since everything I can do, she can do, too at her young age.

She has the heart for arts and crafts and writing, too. And she's starting to read books like I do. When she can't sleep, she reads the Bible or the prayer book we have or sometimes, the magazines I have and the new book she received last Christmas as gift (High School Musical). Oh, and she also likes puzzles like I do. We're practically like twins, in the sense that we have so much in common. She's like my clone LOLx.

The above picture is our closet which we also filled with stickers and the pretty girl in the pictures is me. hahah

This last picture is my work desk. That's my net book and my journal and the little notebook behind the net book is where I jot down the notes for the script I'm writing. The lavender purse is where I keep the scarf I told you about on my previous post. The calendar I have came from Bossini. Okay, now I noticed I haven't changed the date yet. Today's supposed to be 11.

I also have a table calendar which I didn't take a picture of. It's from the magazine "Computer Arts" I bought last month. Haven't really written anything in it yet except for some birthdays and the start and end date for Script Frenzy which is still going to be on April.

Okay, I've blabbed enough for today. I'm still thinking what I'll be doing today. Maybe knitting, writing the script or reading or maybe all of the above. Got to go on with today's activities. :)