Gardening Day

Yesterday dad and mom woke us up to accompany them buy new plants for our mini garden at home. Daddy drove the car, mommy sat on the passenger's seat, and Lyle and I sat on the backseat of Navara. 

We navigated the town of Laoac since daddy does not know the exact location where we were heading. So he had to go down the car and ask some residents. 

Thank God we didn't get lost and found the place after minutes of driving.

Dad and mom immediately searched for plants they preferred. I, too, looked for ornamentals which could be placed inside the house.

It's sad for me not to know the names of the plants we bought. But one plant stocked in my memory. It's the little plant named Dollar or Welcome Plant. I bought three of these plants and placed in our sala.

The pick up was full with ornamentals we bought.

When you get so stressed out, gardening can be a relaxing therapy to destress. Plus, the bonding moment you get to have with your family. I love off-duty Saturdays!

I can't wait for December

I fell in love with the month of December since I was young. I don't know why. Maybe because it's the "happiest month" of the year. Or maybe because a lot of people are happy during the month due to the bonuses they get.

But this year- 2013,  marks my being a father, and it's due in December. Well, Lyle's due is in December, and I'm the excited father-to-be! Hoping for everyone's prayers for us and for our little baby.

The photo shows our little angel's 5th-month ultrasound image. We still cannot determine the sex of the baby since he/she was facing down when the doctor checked him/her.

Being a news reporter

Four months. This is how long I have been in the broadcast industry as a news reporter in ABS-CBN's Regional Network Group Dagupan. I started in May this year and I am enjoying searching for the hottest and latest news and current events in North Central Luzon. Aside from the fact that you witness history unfold as it happens, you also get the chance to meet new people from different walks of life.

My most unforgettable news athering week so far is my night patrol duty. When I was tasked to roam around different polica stations at night for our morning news program, Bagong Umaga Bagong Balita, and of course for TV Patrol.

I believe that being a broadcast journalist is also being a public servant. This is because you mainly serve the people, and that you are obliged to give them news and information that they need. And that you to ensure that the news is balanced, fair, and objective.

"Kasama ang principal, ilang guro, at ilang estudyante ng isa sa mga Eco-friendly

na paaralan sa buong Region One, ang Carael Elementary School." 

Twists in Life

I will be a father this year!

Twists come in life when you are not expecting them. Twist in such a way that when my girlfriend and I were preparing for another phase of our career then all of a sudden we learned that we're going to have a baby. Twist, also, in a way that when we are supposed to prepare our body for our baby then all of a sudden there's the baby in her body.  

I am excited. We are excited. Hoping for more twists in our lives together as father and mother to our baby.

Feelings when you do not blog

It has been a long time- five months to be exact, since the last time I posted here on my blog. Then upon waking up this morning I just realized that I have been so selfish about some of my thoughts because I am not sharing them to anyone such as to the readers of my blog.

There are feelings that a blogger feels when he or she is not blogging, according to my self-centered monitoring scheme. Such feelings include sadness. A blogger feels sad whenever he has an idea that he should have blogged but he didn't. Sadness, due to the fact that he cannot share his ideas to his readers. There is this scenario that when a blogger feels an urge to post something and because he cannot do so he feels exhausted and sad all at the same time. Blogging is like an extension of one's self already and that even a single and short post can put a smile to a blogger's face already.

I don't know if this is also felt by some blogger because as of now this is what I am feeling. Sadness due to inability to blog anymore due to time constraint. Other social media platform such as Facebook and the micro blogging site Twitter serve as a blogger's resort when he or she cannot blog.

What other feelings do you feel when you do not blog? Share it here now.

Hello Teacher

I started teaching today and I enjoyed it. Teaching has been my secret career when I was much younger. I taught my cousins secretly in our study room and I even created visual aids for them.

Years have passed and I have real srudents now, and this thought still excites me.

Being invited to teach in a school known for 100 percent passing in CPA boards is an honor for me. I thank God because He gave me another avenue to glorify His name.

Driving to and from the school where I teach is tiring but knowing that there are students who need to be shared with knowledge plus the fact that it also is a way of glorifying the name of the Lord, is all worth it.

F5 then Shut Down

This time, I believe is the right time to refresh and reflect. I have been working for this job for almost a month now. My relationship with my job is like a romantic relationship's on-off status. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I don't but most of the time I am searching for ways to relive that love I used to feel for this career. I am not ranting, it's just that I can't handle the pressure anymore. So I am trying to refresh everything and praying that everything will be back to its proper pacing, just like before. This is somehow connected to my blog post prior to this.


I just want to get this over and done with. So I have to hit that F5 button before shutting down this career.  

Sablay

In UP, sablay is a symbol of graduation and honor. Hence, the reason why UP graduates wear this on their graduation day. But in real world, sablay is what you should avoid because it will or it might jeopardize everything.


 I am a fresh graduate from UP and is now working. At work, I often experience committing sablay. This mess creates an impression to my officemates about me and how I perform my duties and responsibilities. Maybe, just maybe, these mistakes are manifestations that I am not really learning my obligations. I believe that I have been in this agency for too long and that they are expecting me to have learn already my lessons, but what's wrong with me? Or is it about me or them?


Whenever we commit sablay, we often look for something or someone to blame for our mistake. This is an excuse to delve on the genuine reason why we have these sablays or why we commit them over and over again. I already know my reason, I just do not want it published. It's somehow personal and I have nothing to blame but myself.


So if you're a fresh grad and new on your job or at least have been doing that job since after graduation, I must commend you if you haven't experienced committing your own sablay yet. 


I think that sometimes it's about other people and not me, but if you will look at the bigger picture, it will only boil down to me- the person who does the work, the duties, and taking care of their tasks. I cannot find the purpose of this blog entry anymore, maybe this is just how I am feeling and thinking right now- so lost with all these sablays.