different kind of christmas

this year, i'll be spending christmas in my hometown of Bogo in Cebu. it's a town 100 kms north of the queen city of the south. haven't been there in years. i think it was before the millenium even started. now that i look back, that is a long time ago.

christmas was supposed to be spent here in manila, like all the other christmases that passed before. but because my grandmother suffered from a hip fracture just a few months back, her doctor had advised her not to travel yet. so, to bring the family together, we're the ones going home.

it's sad in a way because we were really sprucing up the house a bit for the pamamanhikan on the 18th, hoping that everyone will be here to celebrate the momentous occasion. my grandparents won't be here to witness it. too bad. :-( oh well, things happen for a reason, i guess. for now, that remains a mystery.

i'll only be gone for 4 days max. can't afford to stay long in cebu because my fiance is also waiting for me in manila. we are hoping to maximize our time together since we rarely get to see each other and be with each other for a whole month.

speaking of coming home, there's only 2 weeks left before my sweetie comes home. can't wait. ;-)

blog mania

judging from the new look of my blog site, one can assume that i did nothing today but face the PC and toyed with the scripts of my template. i didn't realize it would turn out to be so fun, not to mention, easy! it just took me a lot of research though, but i'm happy the results. at least for now! i can never get enough of something especially when it greatly interests me. you'll be seeing more blog revisions in the days to come. that's for sure! =)

THE church

the parish of st. james the great in alabang

finally, i breathe a sigh of relief as i was able to reserve a date for our upcoming wedding. we decided to hold it on the 22nd of december 2005, since all weekends of december were already filled up. the available fridays were either too early or too late. so we ended up with a thursday.

it makes a whole lot of difference having a date for the wedding. prior to this, i was a little panicky having no date yet. now, we have to book a venue for the reception. this will narrow our choices to the alabang area. hopefully, when my fiance comes home in december, we can book it already.

i've attached a picture of the church. i took this when i went there to reserve for the date. my mom and i fell in love with it instantly. we paid immediately since there were no doubts as to the beauty and elegance that the church boasted of.

i had mixed emotions when i first saw it. it finally dawned on me that i was no longer a kid and that i was soon going to enter another phase in my life. it was just overwhelming.

a little bit of astrology

just for fun today, i tried this astrology site's compatibility/conflict analysis. wala lang. trip lang. here's what i got:

Emotions and Communication Between You
These aspects detail the quality of the emotional connection and basic comfort between the two of you and your ease or difficulty in communicating, talking with each other and simply understanding where each of you is coming from. These aspects also describe how you reason together and resolve issues or problems.

Leah's Mercury in Aquarius, and Joseph's is in Pisces:
Although you are attracted to each other, there are times when one of you will have great difficulty in figuring out where the other is coming from and what she (or he) is trying to tell you. Your styles of communication can be very different. The premises upon which you base your reasoning or the logic you use will often perplex your partner. Especially if you have to decide on projects or activities together, your differences can quickly become an issue between you. Talking things through slowly, step by step, will help each of you to understand how the other arrived at his (or her) opinion or conclusion. This will take patience but in the end will be worth it. What's more, by taking the time to really understand how your partner is thinking, you can not only learn something important about your partner but also get a different perspective yourself. You will also learn how your communication affects others, since your partner is probably not the only one who can't always understand what you're trying to say or figure out your logic. You've attracted this kind of relationship exactly for the purpose of fine tuning your thought processes and becoming more adept and flexible in the ways you have of communicating with others. This will be doubly useful if you are in a business that requires writing or regularly communicating with others.

well, what can i say? there's some truth to it. hehe! :P

blunder number one

me at 18 months

see the title? hehe! my original intention was to upload a picture to my profile. instead, it posted the picture here. oh well... now i know! :-P

so as not to put my picture to waste, lemme talk a little about my childhood. the picture was taken just outside our house, where i am still residing. i really think i don't look me. as my mom puts it, i started out looking like a caucasian infant. but after the first trip to the beach, i wasn't able to give justice to that anymore. i took on my dad's skin color since then. typical morena.

i had so many good memories of my childhood -- from wearing adidas striped shorty shorts to wearing bell bottoms to being subject to my mom's experiments on my hair. god, that was disastrous! hehe! those were the times...

kids these days are too hung up on malls, the TV and all the other comforts that their generation can offer. my sisters don't even know how to ride a bike or swim! i guess to get something we have to give up something in the process.

time to turn in now. i hope next time i get it right. but just in case i don't, i'll make sure to post another equally nice picture. something that i can talk about. until then, wish me luck! =)

poetry day

it's poetry day today. didn't know what else to post.

it all started in high school when our english teacher encouraged us to write some poetry. that did it me. since then, it has become a hobby, a past-time. it's cathartic, if you ask me.

for starters, here are a few poems i wrote way back in college...

entanglement
entangling the folia of my mind
resembling a huge nimbus
I am confused.
unbelievably happier moments
on wired conversations
transfigures into
utter awkward deafening silence
as we face.
what happened?
what went wrong?
ask me not.
rather
ask him.
~lmyd 080695

vision
the purest of thoughts
unfleetingly lingers
traces of your face
perspectively kept.
time passes
am caught unawares
as though, in isolation
I exist.
trapped, unabled
as the matter of the gray
fades into absolute blackness
yet for a tiny speck of thought
on which a blinding vision
of you
I see.
~lmyd 080695

the following set were created very recently. inspiration was drawn from my other half. ;-)

slave
you haunt me,
in wanton pursuit,
whether in dreams of deep slumber
or in wakened states of consciousness.
a fragment of you,
a reminder everywhere,
i extricate myself.
sheer madness is what it is,
as the vicious cycle
ceases not,
i am enslaved once more.
~ lmyd 062304

bliss
the hot breath of your moist mouth
on my skin,
it tingles with anticipation.
the subtleness of your touch
wreaks havoc yet is sublime.
my lips quiver as they await,
yearning with a thirst
only you can sate.
the absurdity of it all
i care not,
as i ceaselessly wait
for exquisite bliss.
~ lmyd 062304

rain
i drifted into a trance
as drops drummed heavily on the tops
into an emerging realm of boredom.
the swish of rods
hypnotically sway me into absorption
thru perilous depths of thoughts.
swimming, as though drowning,
gracious as the blaring horn jolts me
but still staring blankly
into the immense vast pane.
~ lmyd 062304

first meeting
thunderous beating
pounding in my ears
bursting with emotion.
walking hesitantly
stealing glances
through the screen.
meeting of the eyes,
body and soul
coalesce into one.
~ lmyd 082904

that's enough literature for one day. it's raining outside. very ideal weather for curling up next to a warm body. sadly, my warm body is far away. it's times like these (among other things) that i miss him so much. can't wait for december.

first time

finally! a blog of my own... it took me a while to get started because the darn site keeps telling me that my preferred URL(s) is/are already unavailable. i was really stumped! i ended up including my sweetie's name to end my misery. hehe!

i'm not really sure what goes on in writing one's blog. i've had a couple blogs from my hipstir and myspace accounts. but i think this is entirely different because there is so much you can do with it. the possibilities are endless.

since we're on the subject of "first times," this is THE first time i'll be announcing over the web on the net. yup, this is it! i'm getting married!!! :-) i never thought it would ever come to me. but i guess everyone deserves to be happy also once in a while. i am really excited but still quite dazed. everything has happened quite fast and sometimes i have to pinch myself to see if all is true. so in the next entries, you'll be reading a little about the wedding preparations aside from the usual stories-of-my-life bit.

bed time now for me. had 5 patients today. i can't imagine how my colleagues can manage to see 7-8 patients in a day. maybe it's the age. hehe! :P

ta-tah! till next entry... :-)