After reading a lot of hullabaloo about abaca (nasty comments about the management, the chef, the manager, and the food… though i have also read quite a lot of promising entries that makes Abaca something to try for) my hubby and I decided to try it out for ourselves and see if there is any grain of truth to what we have read.

Upon invitation by our good friends and foodtrip buddies, Benjie Ordoñez and his charming wife Magene, we didn’t let the chance pass by. 7PM we started.....

Has life ever traumatized you? Just as the body can be traumatized or wounded, so can the psyche, the emotional, and the mental aspects of a person. The wounding of the psyche is real and impacts a person’s feelings of security, well-being, and dignity, beliefs around ourselves, and even our will to live.

Jesus feels your sorrows and as your High Priest has a supernatural ability to sympathize with your weaknesses (Hebrews 4:15)......

Pulled From: Istorya Daily Blog | Written By: thisbe.ara

Tonight I woke up from my looooooooooong hibernation from Istorya.Net because someone knocked my cave of memories and told me that I should go back and that in one way or another, there are people who miss me. I said that I was just lurking.....

there’s a very thin line between prejudice and preference. and it seems that this line shifts depending on ocassion as well as the kind of people one is with. some would even go as far to insist that the distinction doesn’t really exist. “there is no spoon,”  to quote from a movie, hence anybody can bend the line to any direction that point to his or her interests.

i am learning this in.....

this is what i wrote (almost the same but not entirely accurate anymore) for the make your fairytale essay exam (one of the battery of exams i had to take for a job application. We were required to make at least 15 sentences.)

Once upon a time…no, let us not start with this. it is too classic. why not start with the hard facts. Let us start with…

The only thing permanent in this world is change. The only thing constant in this mundane.....

        Once upon a time a girl, whose heart was still whole and untroubled, met a boy prince. He had such woe in his eyes and a hole in his heart to match. She decided she’d try her best to make the boy smile again. As whole as she was that time, she could not resist the broken spirit’s unseen need for rescue. 

       Sooner on, the girl and the boy became best of friends and grew so close to each other that only they can comprehend what was.....

Forgive me, but I just can’t wait to say this…

Extending the life of an aging server is no walk in the park. It involves a lot of reading and countless rounds of “trial and error”… despite all the boredom and the loooooong process, there’s something out there that keeps me ticking… make no mistake, I am not a programmer nor a webmaster by profession… I am simply someone who likes to tinker with stuff and try to make them work (although sometimes.....

I really resist (or do I resent?) the trite words that are often given as sage advice to someone who is going through difficult times.Well, just think about poor people in Afghanistan or Africa (or your sister, or someone you knew thirteen years ago, or someone you don’t even know who’s in pain). What if you were in their shoes? You can always find someone who has more problems than you do. Be thankful that yours are not as bad as theirs. Just think about that . . . you know, walking in.....