Manic Monday
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The Bangles

Six o'clock already
I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissin' Valentino
By a crystal blue Italian stream
But I can't be late
'Cause then I guess I just won't get paid
These are the days
When you wish your bed was already made

It's just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic Monday

Have to catch an early train
Got to be to work by nine
And if I had an air-o-plane
I still couldn't make it on time
'Cause it takes me so long
Just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
Blame it on the train
But the boss is already there

All of the nights
Why did my lover have to pick last night
To get down
Doesn't it matter
That I have to feed the both of us
Employment's down
He tells me in his bedroom voice
C'mon honey, let's go make some noise
Time it goes so fast
When you're having fun

 

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And the prodigal blogger returns! It's been over a month since my last entry, and I've been receiving numerous text messages from friends asking how I am.

 

Well, apart from the sporadic dementor attacks, I have been doing great for the past several weeks. I will defer listing down the number of things and people who have been keeping me on my toes...but suffice it to say, I'm happy where I am right now.

My good friend Kiko has been egging me to return to writing -- and I do admit that I haven't written anything creative in a very long time. I don't want to think that the muse has left me, maybe she just went on a sabbatical, giving me this much needed time to prioritize my career.

Writing has also taken the back seat in favor of teaching, Speech Central is more and more becoming my home-- and the staff and students there, my family. Truth to be told, Leanne and I do treat them like our own, we instruct them, correct and reprimand them, but also worry about them kids when they're not around or whenever they're anxious about their exams or their jobs.

Of course my life still isn't the bed of tulips I'm praying for. But in the course of several weeks I would like to think that I have learned to complain less and be more thankful. Nowadays I try to look for the silver lining in every storm cloud that passes, no matter how faint it appears to be.

I still get anxiety attacks like every other human being...and that's when I turn to my friends for comfort and support. There's always an excuse to meet for coffee or dinner or turn the scheduled business meeting to a weekday night in town.

Life is good, even on the most manic of sleep-deprived Mondays.

God Bless ya all! Mwah!

Remember September...
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Today would have been the 13th birthday of my youngest brother, Larry. If you're no stranger to this blog, then you probably know the story already.  It's been 12 years since he passed, but the family chooses to remember and celebrate, in our own special way, his birth anniversary.

In the same breath, I choose to acknowledge the significant people and events in my life associated with September. Some old memories worth going back to, a few treasured people whose birthdays I always celebrate in my heart, and a lot of new experiences I hope I have learned and grown wiser from.

As the earth, wind and fire hit song goes... do you remember, the very first time in September? =)

All in good time, I'll start dancing again...soon.

Differential Diagnosis: touched

On a Night like THIS!
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Some days I feel like Cinderella...Last Friday we did away with denims
and flip flops in favor of pearls and stilletos.

On the occasion of my boss' 60th birth anniversary, we all dressed up to the nines and put on our brightest smiles at the Palms Country Club in Alabang.