trips with purpose

Hey all!! just a little update about what i've been doing lately, hmm.. maybe for the past few days or week...i think..ok, better shut up with my intro.

Last week, me and my friends went to Iloilo City to process some stuffs for the upcoming examination.. (yeah, we should process it there, a sea distance from our place). It sucks right? travelling in the sea is not my thing, but dont get me wrong i love travelling in different city. Actually we didn't finished that day but since we have nowhere to stay, we need to go back home and my friends want to go back, so i have no choice. Went home and sleep. I remember i feel so tired that day... it feels like when i look at something it feels like its moving like im in the boat still.. haha~ so we decided to go back on the next week.

My weekends was great since i stayed in the house, but im feel bad coz of my stomach. it is acting weird again. im so scared! until now it is in pain from time to time..... hmmm, hope its not _______. *scared* this happen when u knew the diff signs and symptoms of diff diseases/disorders... not good at all.. x(

oh, my Sunday was great too. Woke up by a phone call from my friend's uncle. He did called coz he said my bff Joanna who is now in Las Vegas got a gift for me, so he need to give it  today. I was surprised, never thought she would give something for me, suddenly i miss her.. it's been a year now. :( 

and guess what she did gave me.... a very useful book.. Nursing book and some chocolates, and hand wash soap... she's very sweet~ Thank you Jo!

she really named all the items! thanks Jo!

and oh, that day too, bro got a new phone.. LG phone, that soon to be mine.. hahahaha.. now im using 2 phones now, his phone and my phone ( my mom want to have it too)... LOL!!

Monday arrived, and i wake up early for my trip.. another trip to Iloilo, i think this time i can finish it. oh well, i woke up early but ended up running to catch the boat!! literally running using my high wedge heels...but i get used to it.. :D Arrived there and waited again, and my gosh... the people there are soooo sloooow!!! and got so pissed.. ugh.. oh well, good thing, i control my temper.... haish~ finished by 2pm and went to the mall to refresh, and eat and EAT!!!!! all my money went to foods... which is good thing though...

ok, i think i said enough... ahahahaha.. so i better say my goodbye and goodnight... im planning to minimized using the net and maximized my sleep... hahahaha.. im losing weight already, last time i checked, i lose 5lbs, in a week... is that a bad thing or good thing? oh well... i'vee been trying to lose wt. ever since...so its a good thing, i guess..... :)

here are some pics during the trip...

leaving iloilo

arrived @ iloilo

the boat

moving farther

the clouds...

michael

with Kat

love Krushers!!!

with Kat and Michael

again with them

            

the plates

solo, me

my order! really tasty!!!

till next time

xoxo,jas

What happens in Heaven when we Pray.

*a friend of mine shared this story in FB and i want to share it here in my blog! so nice!!!!!


WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN WHEN WE PRAY?

This is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen and is so true:

I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, 'This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.

I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.

Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.

The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them." I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth..

Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise , only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section, my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed.

"How is it that there is no work going on here? I asked."

"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments."

"How does one acknowledge God's blessings? "I asked.

"Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord."

"What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked.

"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy, and if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity."

"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness.. You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day."

"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... You are ahead of 700 million people in the world."

"If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world."

"If your parents are still alive and still married.. .. you are very rare."

"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair......."

"Ok," I said. "What now? How can I start?"

The Angel said, "If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all."
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Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are..........

ATTN: Acknowledge Dept.
"Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful people with whom to share it."

If you have read this far, and are thankful for all that you have been bles sed with, how can you not send it on?

I thank God for everything, especially all my family and friends.

Just be yourself.
Everyone else is taken.

and i pray~

Time to blog again… I know Ive been blogging a lot lately…blogging a lot of myself like my favorite author, books, music but this time it will be different… Let’s just say, I’ll be blogging in general form maybe like about life and stuffs… J so Im warning you already  if u don’t want to read  this cheesy blog of mine, u better stop here, it’s fine.. hahaha~ ps. sorry for the late post!

Life as we know it is precious. We are the holder of our own action and doings and no one else, but what will you do when along the way your life will be taken away from u in just a snap? Are you prepared? Are you ready? These are the common question I always encountered. We all know our life here on earth is just borrowed from God. Sometimes we take life as for granted (maybe I can include myself to that situation). It’s sad but it’s true and it’s reality we are talking about here.*sigh

My point is we must start to appreciate the things that are happening into our life, even little things. We tend to forget it coz we are blinded with a lot of our vices and stuffs, for one I would admit it again. So it all depends on us, to control and balance it.  We also tend to remember  the mistakes and negative stuffs we had committed before which is good if when we use it as a guide for our better tomorrow, but if we get stuck to that simple mistake and just take it for granted we will never succeed. 

Ok, as u can see maybe ur wondering why im writing this kinda stuffs, it is because I feel bad about what I am hearing and watching in the television, internet and in radios, not to mention the crimes and crisis we are suffering right now. But earlier I was been informed by a friend of mine that one of her friend died ,actually I didn’t know what the cause of it at first not after I saw it in the news that it was a car accident. Whoah, I was reading the article and I got teary eyes knowing that they are still studying and younger than me. They still have their dreams waiting. It’s sad that in just a blink of it, it was all taken away from them. And that’s the time I opened my eyes to reality and life. I took my life for granted somehow. So that’s why I feel a bit guilty. Sometimes, I feel bad when something is wrong, and suddenly conclude I hate my life and sometimes wish to die because of it. But I am not aware that there are people in this world who have problems worst than me. I never ever think about that not until now. So somehow this incident is somewhat a mind opener to me, that we should appreciate life whatever it is planned and make the most out of it.

After an hour or two, I saw in Twitter the news about Japan being hit by an earthquake and tsunami.  It got me worried, but I still continue surfing and lurking in the net. Suddenly a news flash appeared on the tv, a footage of the earthquake which ranges 8.9 magnitude and live video of the tsunami happening right now to them. Watching the video it gives me goose bumps, and I can’t believe that it is happening to the world right now. I mean it seems that im watching a movie of a new 2012 ver. or something worst, I can still picture it out on my mind. It’s scary and im totally frightened… Indeed, you cannot stop the forces of nature when it attacks you. L sad case.

Events and Incidents happening into our life have reasons… I guess, there are a lot of reasons why is it happening to us. Testing us, teaching us to be strong and keeping us united as one. In a state calamity such as this, people gather together to help one another and that is truly a remarkable mark of Unity. Let just not lose our faith on Him. This is the time to hold on each others hands, setting aside our differences and accepting the new challenges that may arrive. Whatever race, beliefs we got,  we are brothers and sisters no matter what.

Live and cherish life as possible as we could!

Pray. Live. Love

Pray for Japan, and pray for the World!

                             xoxo,jas

ignored...

Being ignored by someone close to you without knowing the reason, hurts

Or maybe again Im being too paranoid as always

Thinking something is wrong and making it as a problem of mine

Im not sure, but that’s what Im feeling right now.

Hi or hello, that’s ok for me

Or even good morning, good afternoon or good evening

But I haven’t got news from you

Since the day you said “goodbye” and “take care” a couple of weeks ago

Please tell me what’s wrong

So that I will not think anything nonsense and stupid

Just please tell me again and I will listen

Because this girl right here is tired of guessing coz u left it hanging

I’ll wait and I want you to tell you that

Coz that's what friends are for, right?

Friends do tell

Even if it hurts

-jas-

big fan of Ms. de la Cruz books

ok i got to admit, im a HUGE fan of Ms. MELISSA DE LA CRUZ books.. preferably her BLUE BLOOD NOVELS and her upcoming new books, WITCHES OF EAST END and WOLF PACT, looking forward to that...I mean i love reading fiction especially those involve magical and supernatural stuffs. so maybe that explain how i really love her books..

Since Im talking all about her, i would like to share some infos about how brilliant her works is and how awesome she is. To start off Im proud to say that she's a Filipina, I remember reading her life story featured in one magazine here. How she started to read and love books and her fave bookstore is the bookstore i really love now and forever, the National Bookstore. Aww.. really love her, I hope someday i could meet her--attend to her book tours... *cross fingers*

Oh, did i mention she tweeted to me... that's the best part, she sometimes tweeted back to her fans... i remember last year she said "hello" and the next tweet she said "hello Manila" (even im not from Manila) it feels good that she still love and acknowledge being a Filipina.

For now im looking forward for her upcoming books... really.. i just read the synopsis, and i was like.. cant wait to grab a copy of it.

WITCHES OF EAST END by Melissa de la Cruz 

her 1st Adult Paranormal Series

Release: June 21, 2011 

 Synopsis (Product Description):

It’s the beginning of summer in North Hampton, and beautiful Freya Beauchamp is celebrating her engagement to wealthy Bran Gardiner, the heir to Fair Haven and Gardiners Island. But Freya is drawn to Bran’s gorgeous but unreliable brother Liam, and sparks fly when the two decide to play a dangerous game of desire, following an ancient story of love, betrayal and tragedy that harks back to the days of Valhalla.

Witches of East End follows the Beauchamp family—the formidable matriarch Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid. Freya, a sexy bartender, has a potion to cure every kind of heartache, while Ingrid, the local librarian, solves complicated domestic problems with her ability to tie magical knots. Joanna is the witch to see when modern medicine has no more answers; her powers can wake the dead. Everything seems to be going smoothly until a young girl, Molly Lancaster, goes missing after taking one of Freya’s irresistible cocktails. As more of the town’s residents begin disappearing, everyone seems to have the same suspects in mind: the Beauchamp women.

Fraught with love affairs and witchcraft, Witches of East End…

LOST IN TIME by Melissa de la Cruz

the 6th book in the Blue Blood Novel

Release: October 2011

"Lost In Time" picks up with Schuyler Van Alen and her love Jack Force forced to go their separate ways after their trip to Florence. She must travel to Alexandria to fulfill the Van Alen legacy by searching for Catherine of Siena and the Gate of Promise, while he returns to the Big Apple to face his twin sister (and former bondmate) Mimi. Things get even more complicated when Mimi jets off to Egypt to find her former lover Kingsley Martin, all while the Coven threatens to fall apart around her. cr: mtv.com

BLUE BLOOD GRAPHIC NOVEL

October 2011 

finally, i want to see the characters in cartooned form, so im a bit happy knowing this.

but ofcourse if getting a chance if they going to film this, much better.. hahaha.

cant wait for this one too..

WOLF PACT by Melissa de la Cruz 

Release: April 2012 

It doesn't have a cover yet but i read, some sneaks of the book and its awesome.

She is working/writing this book now so i need to wait for more..

It is the continuation of the story of Bliss Llewellyn from the Blue Blood series

I think those are the books im looking forward for this year and next...really cant wait... that's all i can say.

so i guess i better sleep now and goodnight...

xoxo,jas

sweet escape with carlita again~

both of us

Ok, last Thursday me and my friend, Carla went for a meaningful outing/bonding...First off we went to our school to process some papers and met some of our classmates and then talk a lot... Its good to chat with them after a few months not seeing each other... good times...And then after, Calay accompany me to mail something and then i accompany her to the bank after... its like we have a meaningful day... We did a lot of things...


Then after the bank we headed to the mall, then decided to watch a movie... Im planning to watch 2 movies, one local and the other foreign. But we ended up watching 1 movie and that's I AM NUMBER FOUR. Ok, i read the Prologue and Chapter 1 of it in the internet and i love it, so i decided to watch it plus the actor is handsome and hot...double the LOVE! As for our lunch we decided to take it with us in the cinema room.. Shawarma rice, Apple Shake for me and Corn Shake for Calay-- really good... eating lunch while watching, it seems in the house only... and oh, we ordered bbq popcorn since we are craving for it.

Carlita

me

                         

After watching, we decided to visit some exhibit  we saw in the mall... its actually a cute exhibit since it shows different styles of the rooms inside the house... cute one..took some pics with it...

 

love this one....

             

 Ok call me "choding" coz i always want to play in the arcade... so after the exhibit, we wnet to the arcade to play.. hahahaha..... car racing (frustrated driver), and then House of the dead gun game (loving it).. ^__^

hands on the wheels....

Hoot~

After that, we decided to EAT again.. can u believed that... ahh, pigging out all the time... We decided to eat  @ Calea , its more of a coffee/dessert/pastries they prepare... I decide to order my fave cake, well its my fave since its actually my last year bday cake... its just im craving for it... and then a mocha latte, which i can say a bit "errr" u know what im mean.. hahaha...

mine,bday cake last yr.

this is the thing.. 

carrot cake of Calay

                  




Calay and I had a great time that day... even its raining hard, it feels warm in the inside... in my heart.. i will always remember this things, that's why im blogging it all in DETAILED form...LOL...

Oh well till next time...tata~ 

xoxo,jas