Prinsesa’s Anatomy

I was searching for cat videos on youtube and I found this one with the title ‘Cats-they can be really stupid’.

Hell, I think the one who made the title should reconsider his choice of words. Cats are not stupid. They are impossibly cute, and autistic.

Hope this video made you laugh an average of two and a half laughs.

I have read a very interesting article in Reader’s Digest Asia about the wonders and learning saying hello could bring. One that I found most interesting was the point about how you always smile when you say hello, like hello and a smile comes a la fast food combo. I tried to say hello and yes, I was smiling. Of course I had to try it to prove the point.

What Mother Goose noticed in the article was this point however about how people these days tend to only talk to other people when they need something. She complained that it was awful, and I thought, what is so awful with being task-oriented? LOL

I think those are the same words that characterize society these days – task-oriented, and because it is task-oriented, people tend to undermine close, personal relationships – and that people is the reason why they are so many broken homes, broken relationships, even broken people, and broken vases in the world today.

Back to saying hello , I have always thought that cats have the most interesting way of saying hello, aside from the fact that they are the most narcissistic and autistic animals in the planet. As for my cat, Jin does not meow much, so seldom that Don Domeng thought he was mute.

However, I found this cat saying hello video for you so that you could see what I mean. Of course the cat in the video is not Jin. Jin is smaller, and not mute.

The summer semester in the college is moving quite fast with the prelims approaching next week, while me teaching chemistry is slowly starting to grow on me – that or the massage I got yesterday was just so fabulous that it seems like I have relaxed a lot today.

I went to see a physical therapist yesterday. I could say it was good because Mother Goose paid for it, but as for the experience, it was on that fine line between pleasurable pampering and excruciating torture. LOL. My body hates me.

However, because of that I got a good sleep last night – it was like the first drop of rain after a long drought, though I still got roused for a time or so, but it was a great improvement that I welcomed very much. Plus, my thoughts are kinder to me now. I guess the initial shock of me teaching chemistry is wearing away from my system.I think I am starting to like it – that or I am starting to like my students.

I also have realized why I decided to jump at the opportunity to teach chemistry  though I knew very well that it was unknown territory. Consciously or otherwise, I guess it had something to do with searching for growth in my very baby ant career as a teacher.

Let us put it this way, “unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” As my very wise friend put it, me teaching chemistry might be a mistake, but it was a great mistake. He might sound like Oprah but so far he proves to be right.

I have so many things running on my head. No, make that, so many things screeching, crawling, blending and cycling on my head, so much that they make me loose sleep.

The funny thing is they are so random that I cannot really say that I am thinking about them. I find that my thoughts are just in shambles now, like sodium that reacts violently with water. Great. Now I sound like a chemistry teacher.

Here’s what I think I am thinking:

1. How impossible it is that I cannot fall asleep early but does wake up impossibly early, and getting roused at that by the most minute sound in all the times in between the two.

2. When I was in college, I thought that the smaller the class size the better learning there will be, but now that I only have two students in one subject and seven in the other two makes me doubt that theory. I think it is corny, if ever there exists such a case. I am just thankful that the last class I have has 28 students – all grown up males, majority of which are way older than I am.

3. Why is it that I have to wait for 5:30 PM before I am free to go out of school even if I finish my class early?

4. How do you compute for the molarity of solutions? Molality? Normality?

5. Me teaching chemistry is quite a battle.

But umtimately, “this is Sparta!”

I was out for most of last week because I had a sudden burst of things to do that I really did not see coming, as was always the case with me.

The thing is this: everybody please welcome back Ma’am PM! LOL

Let me give you an advice, the next time you pray, or say anything, mean it because the Big Cat up in the sky might be very well eavesdropping. His whiskers are kind you know, so you might get what you are asking for easily.

When my Babe and I were having his birthday lunch, and it was a good lunch btw, I suddenly had the urge to say, “Sana makapagturo na ko ulit agad [I wish I could teacg again soon]. I like myself better when I am teaching.”

Would you believe, the next day early morning, I was called to a new college to teach! I was so struck by the speed of light response to my statement the other day. In fact, I felt it was so soon that I was unprepared for it!

I was being asked to teach organic and inorganic chemistry. I thought for awhile, “Hmm… I had good grades in chemistry in college.” But I wondred also if I still remembered them now because that was what, four years ago?

But I thought, if I backed down now from this, I am pretty sure I will back down from other offers like this in the future. ‘Like this’ meaning subjects, or challenges in general, that will require double effort and has a single shot of anxiety to boot that will come my way.

So I did not say no. In fact I accepted it and was already in class in the last two days of last week. I have not started teaching though, regular classes start today.

What I thought about was this: in my professional life as a teacher, there will be a lot of instances when I will be asked to do things I do not know or things that I do not perfectly know. In this case, I continually remind myself that there is no need to freak out and quit, because the right thing to do is to exert the effort to know it, work hard, and at the end of the day i am sure before  I teach it, I will already know it. I must never stop in finding ways.

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Last Saturday, my Man and I, together with our good friend Deer and my siblings went to the mountains to snatch a good time from the days of vacation slipping away, in a wonderful, wonderful place in the mountains here owned by my FairyAuntMother Fe and Chief Daddy.

I will not do much talking but allow the photos to shout out at you.

Lunch is served (on banana leaves of course)! These are my sisters Kulot and Ched, and niece, I think, Chi-Chi

This hanging bridge was built by ChiefDaddy.

It was so quiet up here! Loved it!

This is my sister Ched with an Aeta native.

The mangoes were great there. You pick them yourself!

The mangoes and pineapple stand next to each other. Where to look?!

These are wild berries. They are actually good, and sweet.

I say it is going to be a golden harvest.

All I can say is that I am really a blessed girl. If it is not the beach, it is the mountains. How lucky can you get?

The title might sound very possessive but there is a real need because on my past birthday, my Babe posted for me on this blog with the title Happy Birthday Babe. Having said that, I feel so stomped and unable to collect my thoughts because I am pressured to match his post for me before! LOL.

Happy Birthday Babe!

In the first few years that we were together, I wrote him a list of 100 reasons why I am so in love with him. When I gave it to him casually while eating at Jollibee, he was moved to tears. We were 16 then, I think.

Though we do not eat as much in Jollibee now than before, everything on that list still holds true to this day, if not I bet it has grown to add more and more wonderful things that we share together.

He is not only my lover but also my best friend, my consoler, my tutor, my engineer, my shopping buddy, my on-line game favorite party mate, my occasional caregiver and so much more that can go on and on and on.

I could really say he is a good guy because he has lived with my tantrums for quite a long time. I can’t really give you a precise time because we do not have an anniversarry, but we are turning 22 years old this year. You can see why birthdays and holidays are very important to us, because they mark our years together, like 5th Christmas together and so on. When we accidentally bump with friends from the past somewhere and they see us still together, they would look to him and tease, “Ang bait mo ha [You are very patient and kind]!”

I just wish him all the best for his birthday, especially in school. I could see how hard he was working these days and I could not be more proud of him. Last night when we were playing ROSE on-line, I asked him what his wish was for his birthday and he simply said he wanted good health and long life for everybody. I jokingly told him that I thought he was going to wish that I’d be thinner. LOL. At 110 lbs., he always tells me I am fine, but being used to only 100, I really gained a lot of unnecessary flabs. LOL.

I pray that we would still be together for many more birthdays to come, for the most number of birthdays to come. But if I really would think about it, I guess I won’t really have to worry so much. After all, we do love each other to pieces.

Happy Birthday Babe! I love you so much! But you already know that right?

If you have been to walongbote’s place, you might’ve known by now that the oath taking ceremony for new Philippine registered nurses took place last Monday of lent. I was there though we didn’t see each other. Mon was also there but I was so running late we failed to be seated together. I only saw him at MOA, of course beside SMX where the tedious oath taking ceremony took place.

Too bad I did not know beforehand that you could skip oath taking ceremony.

Of course I have no intention to talk about the oath taking ceremony, so let me tell you another story. Our family mall bonding at MOA, with Kuya and Kuya Nap too.

We had so much fun! However, by the end of lunch, my sinuses were killing me I had to leave. Still, it was so cool to hang out with them. I mean, how many families have such bonding time and actually enjoy it? We didn’t eat oat meal though but delicious stuff from our favorite Mrs. Fields!

The new image model of Mrs. Fields - Don Domeng!

That's Kuya, Mother Goose, and Don Domeng chilling out at MOA's ice skating ring.

When we went around MOA, we saw a photo exhibit of the World’s Heritage – a seven wonders of some sort. The places and photos were magnificent!

Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA.

The colors on the photo are created by algae. It changes from time to time depending on the type of algae present. According to the World Heritage description, Yellowstone National Park contains half of of all the world’s geothermal features and the world’s largest concentration of geysers – more than 300 geysers or two thirds of all those on the planet!

This is from Petra in Jordan.

Petra is said to be a Nabataean-caravan city that is half-built, half-carved unto the rock. The hollow you see in the photo is actually a cave.

This is Australia's Great Barrier Reef that piapot likes so much. And that's PM swimming on the frame.

I think Finding Nemo was filmed in this reefs. LOL. The Great Barrier Reef contains the largest colelction of coral reefs and also provides habitat to the dugong [sea cow] and large green turtle.

I sure would want to see these places for real one time or the other very soon!

Opting not to open my blog was the sacrifice I chose to do this lent [My Man would not allow me to fast on food because he is some sort of hypochondriac towards me]. My sister piapot ditched her phone while Kulot tried so hard to not watch Pokemon. My cousins, Kuya Alex MD, spends his lent break not on a break but on duty in the far flung area of Mindoro, while his brother, Engr. Kuya Nap, spent his day off on Good Friday not on day off but in the network office to fix things for all our cellular phones.

After a few days of sacrifice, I learned that it is very hard to give up things that I wanted to do – the normal routine for me was to check my blog upon waking up and to not be able to do that all of a sudden took a lot of mind bending.

The good thing was that it did not kill me so Happy Easter everybody!

Easter is one of my most favorite holidays not really because of the eggs but because of what it means to my faith. The idea that there will always be a resurrection – from all things dark – gives me peace and courage… especially that I am coming out of a loss of my beloved Cook, who is now having his ears happily scratched by the Alpha Cat up in the sky. Just knowing that Cook is in a better place now lightens my chest, because I can sure tell you that it hurt like hell.

But I am happy now. I think I am starting to accept the reality of things that Cook has now moved on, though without me, I am sure he is a very happy cat with lots of tuna to eat there.  I guess sometimes you really need to let go. Being the fighter that I am, letting go is never a part of my vocabulary, but now I understand that a good fighter must now when to fight but a better fighter must know when to let go.

I am dead sure Cook is having a new life up there, one that is better than we could both imagine.

This is Don Domeng's cactus that I watched blossomed a few weeks ago.

Over a few days, the bud was a beautiful flower.

It died yesterday, but the bud beside it also bloomed, like the cycle of life.

Peace to you all. Have a blessed Easter.

For the longest time, I thought I was the one being strong for Cook, but now I realized that it was Cook who was being strong for me, because he knew all too well that I couldn’t handle it.

I love you beyond compare baby. I promise I will never forget. We will always be Prinsesa and Cook.

Summer is here and the sun is getting hotter. See you all soon!

I know I have been blabbing so much about how great my vacation is coming along, how much I go to the beach these days, and how cool the weather is, so I thought maybe you should join in the fun too right?

This is Don Domeng's rainbow. Taken at the shore of his beach resort.

I would like to invite you all to Don Domeng’s Beach Resort called Fajardo’s Beah Resort located here in Pag-asa, Bagac, Bataan. Bataan is the province next to Pampanga and if you are from Manila you can reach it easily via the SCTEX.

You can view the profile and other lovely photos of the resort by keying at your friendster search bar fajardo_domingo@yahoo.com. It is very affordable and I promise you relaxation so much you will think you are dead LOL. Reading your blogs and comments, I just feel so bad that you aren’t getting any vacation! Hell, it is summer and you are supposed to get some downtime people!

Every time I see our guests, families and workers from a company outing alike, I do wonder if one of them is a fellow blogger. Hmm… I think it would be fun to share a word or too when you get there!

The sea is calling you

Imagine the sand on your feet, the sound of the breaking waves, and the magnificence of the huge blue sky above you. Now that’s what I am talking about.

If you live in the city, I am telling you, our sunset is to die for. Plus, if it is any consolation, the GMA 7 soap opera Zorro is being filmed next to our beach resort. *wink*

It is going to be fun!

Now what do you say?

For inquiries and reservations, you may call the resort number +639202198742 and look for the kindest manager in the world, Mrs.  Edna Fajardo.

C’mon, you are not passing this chance right?