Its July 29, 2011, due for ngn and legacy lines which means this is going to be a very busy day with lots of people and as expected the business office will overflow with paying subscribers. But, the sad thing is that the payment system is down. Its always been like this for the whole week, the system is off and on every day, its frustrating that we have to manually encode the payments and encode it the day after. Wew! Im helpless, cant do anything about this. How can this be? A telecommunications company as big as this one is also as slow as this one. Tsk tsk tsk, life is like this, we may not like everything but we have to embrace wholeheartedly even if most of the time we lose our patience and get tired of a system that is totally out of our control. Its a test of patience and endurance, and a test that we will manage to smile despite the odds the subscribers are there vigilant and sensitive, more often than not I feel like a clown, you have to smile, pretend its always ok, take care of them with grace because they deserve the best and the way we serve them should not affect minor setbacks that may come along the way. I wish the system will be ok tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day!
01 August 2011
21 July 2011
Thank You Lord
Its a beautiful day! Yesterday my heart was anxious and worried but God has given me this joy in my heart and peace of mind. God has a way of making miracles in our lives when things seemed vague and dark but somewhere behind the darkness comes the light that will reveal God's loving promises. He is always faithful, He loves us so much and will give us the desires of our heart as long as we seek Him first in our lives.
I talked with Ate babes ( she is my spiritual leader) yesterday, I prayed hard before the talk since I expected other things from her, I expected to be reprimanded and imagined things beyond understanding. But praise God she spoke of encouragement and spoke of her frustrations and share her dreams for the training apartment and for the ministry. I know hoe she and her husband worked hard for the ministry and how they have given their lives for the ministry and for the training house but felt dismayed with the attitudes of the people in the training house. Im one of those living in the training house and felt shame that I was not doing the things that is expected of me and me co housemates. I felt relieved and jumped for joy after we talked and I shared it with my house mates. Though what we talked about was not at all positive things but as a whole it brought joy and peace to my heart. I am filled with hope and I have felt the goodness of God.
Thank you Lord, thank you for everything!
20 July 2011
Its my life
19 July 2011
first time auntie, that's me!
I have been happy since the day we learned my younger sister was pregnant. I was hoping for a baby girl but then it didnt matter.My heart sang for joy when I saw the helpless baby sleeping soundly not minding our whispers and our laughs.How cute is our angel. It was a great feeling. I wish I could have a baby of my own but that will have to go through a very long process, a very complicated process. But i wish I could have twins, a boy and a girl, hope theyll not going to be the cry babies that would get the worst of me, but thats under my prayer list yet, to be listed on my action list after my wedding.
15 July 2011
A new Look
I have changed my template again. Again! Yes, again, and this is for the nth time. It was kinda boring and I never had that much motivation to blog anymore so I guess a little tweak could inspire to blog. well, my next posts could prove how blog stimulating this new template could be. But, so far, I guess a new look could inspire me to blog more and more. I was a bit busy the previous days and had no enough motivation to post new ideas and new things, nothing came to mind, there were lots of things that came along that I just let it slip through my fingers and never talked about it here. Somehow, I have chosen to be silent and kept just a memory in my heart and mind and soon forget them to oblivion. Im just a trying hard blogger, a second rate trying hard copycat but I enjoy doing this, im not also a writer, im just a second rate trying hard feeling writer, wahehehehehe, I wish I am, I envy those who have the skill but I can just stare and watch in silence.
12 July 2011
29 June 2011
Matthew 21:22
"If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
Im so happy!
Thank you Lord!
Im so happy!
Thank you Lord!
That's what the Lord promised me this morning during my quiet time. Just the right motivation God gave me to continue and press on with all my endeavors. There were may times I felt hopeless with some situations in life (work related stresses, problems at home interpersonal problems, financial problems and etc.) but today God gave me the perfect reason on not giving up praying for everything. Im so happy,very happy.
He also said in His word in Numbers 23:19
God is not human, that he should lie,
not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
He also said in His word in Numbers 23:19
God is not human, that he should lie,
not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
24 June 2011
My Leche Flan Flop
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| I wish my leche flan looked like this one..... |
I felt excitement, I was so thrilled I hurried home to make THE LECHEN FLAN.
I started making the caramel without water and the white sugar and left it on the pan, and did my egg yolk separation and mixing the condensed milk. After I mixed the egg yolk and the milk thoroughly I went to get the caramel and to my surprise I saw a stone like thing with the laddle immovable...tsk tsk tsk now what? I reheated the hardened caramel and placed it in the llaneras and poured the eggyolk mixture covered it with foil and the steamed for 30 minutes. It was a tense waiting moment, I kept testing it using the toothpick to see if it was done. I tried eating one llanera and it was soso though it may not look like the one sold in restuarants but to me it tasted like one, hehehehehe. And in the morning, I had difficulty removing the leche flan from the llaneras coz I realized I used very sticky caramel for that, I have to remove it from the top part of the flan coz it was really hard. The taste was soso also and \i have decided in my heart that I would make a better leche flan, I have another leche flan recipe and I just hope it would be good enough.
Rating for my leche flan: 3 ( 1-10 and 10 being the highest)
10 June 2011
08 June 2011
Water Colors 101
Getting to know how to use the water color brush my first lesson....
my water color leaf
eclectic? incomprehensible.....
flat wash
graded wash
light wash plus dark contrast
flat wash plus water flicks....
06 June 2011
Flying high: zipline adventures....
I tried the longest zipline in asia and it was spectacular; a wonderful experience...
id would like to go back and ask for more ....
experience; i have tried many zips but this one is great....
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| zip at papakits liloan cebu |
03 June 2011
Fun day 2011
When they said that we going to Initao for the 2011 funday I had second thoughts about joining.
Many decided not to go but i took my chances and it was worth my
time. I enjoyed it. it was spectacular!
Something I never expected...
amazing water, makes me want to swim at noon!
picture picture under the sun....
i tried their version of zipline and took the plunge...
sun bathing? waheheheh
having fun
cool place to enjoy your summer
we are the survivors....
tribu bakiki
the souvenier t shirt
Neena's Thank you cards
This is my first time making thank you cards for a kid's birthday....
the pictures: got the design form imikimi and finalized at powerpoint
and saved as jpeg...
The finish product....hmmmm I dont know if its good enough...
chose this one to compliment with the color pink star...
The pink ribbon to match barbie's pink aura...
and the pink star
27 May 2011
Will there be a game 6?
Im a frustrated and broken hearted laker fan and a miami heat fan in the making, it would be alright if they lose this game. A game 6 would make it more exciting. For me there will be a game six.
24 March 2011
Zelmarq's life testimony
I grew up in a small part of Carmen, in this City, born into a god-fearing family for which I am thankful. We attended church regularly , but knew nothing of a personal relationship with God. My spiritual life was a routine, I thought going to church every Sunday, joining the church choir , joining holy week activities and doing good works were enough. I Never heard about salvation although i studied in a Catholic school in high school. Life was all normal and there was nothing to worry about since my father provided for our needs even if his heath was not that good. My mother was on his side giving all her support and affection for the family.
My Father’s heath got worst. Our going to church, kneeling for his health and even medication were not enough to stop him from leaving us.
I am the ate of 7 siblings, I had done my part of being the good daughter, tried to fill the missing link that my father used to have but things were never the same. Life was difficult, I ended up working as student assistant to support my studies and even my mother washed clothes just to support the family.
There were a lot of questions in mind that were beyond my comprehension and just brushed it aside and went on with the so called busy life I had. There was this emptiness, something was missing. This emptiness defines lack of purpose or substance; and meaninglessness.
Life was about me, I, and myself . It revolves around my studies, then work, family, career. It seems a purposeless life. I don’t even read the Bible and have no personal relationship with God. I only fall on bended knees when things get rough and its through Him that i cry out and find peace. It was a life without assurance, that if I die i didn’t know where i was going for i knew my good works were not enough to save me.
One day kuya Jerry asked us if are willing to have Bible study and introduced us to ate Cessie who became my spiritual mother last May 10, 2001. She introduced to me the Good News- that all of us are sinners that deserve death and hell, but God loved us so much, He sent Jesus Christ to die for our sins, and rose again. We can now go back to God be believing and receiving Jesus Christ into our hearts. I opened my heart and believe Christ as my Lord and Savior. There were tears of joy on that day I met Jesus by faith. The same joy that ate cc felt, the same joy the angels felt when i said yes to Jesus, there must have been a grand celebration in heaven with angels rejoicing. Its indescribable, to know that Jesus cared for me and have died for my sins and how important i am to Him. I felt so special. Jesus died for my sins, my sins behind that cross at Calvary. That as a sinner I needed him, no amount of good works, education, good morals, religion could save me. In John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life no comes to the father except through me”. Before, all my efforts such as going to church, doing good, helping the poor, being a good daughter, doing good at school were all worthless and all dirty in God’s eyes. (Isaiah 64:6 )
That was the start of learning and loving relationship with Jesus, my Savior. But one thing I realized that life without Christ was dull and empty, but with Jesus in my life many things change, my plans, my priorities, my character. Although they are gradual, but there are sure changes, changes for the better and best.ly. I have learned to be sensitive to others and God gave me this desire to really share His love to those who are still lost. I used to depend on my parents to help me and guide me but then the new life with Jesus helped me to depend on someone far greater than my earthly parents could give, my Father in heaven. I have found peace and comfort in the Bible, my source of hope.
I thank Christ Jesus, who had strengthened me, for choosing me to serve him even though I was a blasphemer, a murderer, a persecutor before . But Jesus has sown mercy. Now, I don’t want to go to heaven alone, i want to see friends, family, classmates and officemates and acquaintances. I want them to share with me the joy with Jesus in my heart and I want to see them in heaven also. I thank God for this life that he has given to be used by him to reach out to many more.02 March 2011
Wednesday weeping
Yes, I cried this morning.
I saw rose rendon on facebook and I how I love the picture of her and her father.
I miss my father. I miss him so much. I ended up weeping. I wept hard. I never had the chance to have a picture with him and as far as I can remember we never had a family picture when he was around. My heart aches. Its aching more than the first broken heart I once had, its painful. Im embracing the pain. Its always this way, I end up getting involved with my emotions. Its already 3: 25pm and im always teary eyed since this morning when that thought comes to mind. I just try to think of happy thoughts to chase my tears away, but the tears just try to remind me that its alright to cry. Crying can be a good exercise for the heart.
Im not alone. There are lots of fatherless children in the world but cant I help but reveal the melancholic side of me, it does happen. Im just glad even though I no longer have a physical father have my Father up there who has lavished me with so much love and care, who died for my sins and save my from eternal damnation, my first love love, Jesus Christ.
Its ok to weep once in a while.
Its ok to cry.
And to those children who have their fathers with them, pray for your fathers, for salvation, for good health and for protection, always. Treasure each moment together.
Zelmarq
01 March 2011
CDO blogger group
Im glad I found the cdoblogger website and Im so happy we have one big blogger family here in cagayan de oro city.
Blogger template gaga
28 February 2011
Late night supper
Im so tired. Went home late today since its the last day of the month and cut and lots of work done today but still lots of work waiting to be finished tomorrow. I tried to finish them but I have decided in my heart to go home and eat, I need to refuel, anyway tomorrow is another day. Most of the time when I get home late I no longer eat dinner, sleep will help me forget hunger but tonight was an exception, I was starving and needed food, I want food and thank God there was still pinakbet on the table and fried fish, wow, it was perfect, it was the dinner I dreamed of, wish granted, Thank you Lord!, you are so awesome. And the late dinner fed a hungry soul and kept me awake, I cant sleep with a stomach freshly fed, I need to burn a few calories somehow and browsing through facebook and a few blog hopping was a great calorie burning activity to keep up.
Im tired.
I need to rest.
Tomorrow is another day.
Im tired.
I need to rest.
Tomorrow is another day.
