I'm kinda like my coffee morning series more so than when i first started it already and i hope you guys do the same.
So i say i am still lucky,apart from the blisters i got from my flying sunny side up,which is healing pretty past actually,i started peeling off the drying skin and revealing a fresh new reddish still skin on my eyelid and just around the slit,i am doing good despite.
I had made two trips to the supermarket yesterday,of course hiding my eyes behind my treasured Mango sun glasses which i got only because it was at 80%off. I was double checking my receipts because i didn't seem to have bought much like i usually does on Saturdays but my total amount spending was far too much from what i got, i know that the chops quite expensive but i couldn't believe seeing the price of my 5 celery stalks it costs me 16.75 SR,then next i bought 2 boxes of the same brand, same flavored chocolate cake mix but surprise to see 1 pack was at 6.50SR and the other at 10.50SR.Alright this is it i thought, anyway i need to go back to get some chips so i might as well check if i was overcharge or there was a mistake on their price tabs.And so i ended up paying just extra 2 SR for a 2kg bag of frozen chips because the price of the celery have amazingly gone down to just over 7.58 SR and the box of chocolate mix was 6.50SR.Well it wasn't that much saving but when we think of how much we are so extravagant at times even though we try to justify our own reasons for once in a while giving ourselves a splurge specially when we just got our monthly play,a little saving can go a long way in times of needs. This year my budget have been put through many trying times,i think i only manage to put about 500USD on my account for the whole year less all the medical bills and living expenses and monthly allowance for my parents that i sent,i was barely living and shopping only during sale period,though not so much now until we found this place outside the city that looks like a big warehouse of everything from clothings to beddings and bags all second hands just like a big flee market.Every trip to the souk was an amazing adventure it is like a treasure hunt trip because you cannot be expecting what you come across.I use to be a bag addict and i was paying from 60-over 100SR for a piece of bag either from Mango,Ninewest or Next,Now i must have about 30bags range from brands like coach,christian Dior,Louis Vuitton,Channel,guess,DKNY,etc and most of my latest bags are from the second hand warehouse sale at a very unbelievable cost.and they don't even look so old we heard they were from the junks of the royalties,after they have discarded them.Maybe i will resale this bags at ebay and make more money and perhaps i could put more in to my saving accounts,hmmm i thought of it nah i never want to part even one of my treasured bags i want to keep them all to myself,to remind me how i have tried to be thrifthy on my budget this year yet i found treasures in other people's junks.
Yet another day but today here i was whinning over my coffee how on earth how i have been so stupid over a half cooked sunny side up.I didn't wanted my yolk half cooked so i thought i'd give a 30sec go in the microwave,well now you might have guess what happend next but if n ot i am just happy but sadly tell you of my stupidity for the day.Ok i thought 30sec is enough to cook it through so out came the egg from the microwave,yeah silly me an egg is an egg but not how i look at my lovely now well done egg yolk hmmm sniffing even with a word from my mouth saying how good it looks...a second before i can ever remeber what comes next in my next 5 minutes after is a terrifying scream from the kitchen...it was a bomb explosion unexpectedly, now my lovely eff yolk have exploded into my face all over my head and it flew all over the kitchen walls and cabinets.What a disaster i can't remember ever have felt in so much pain as how pieces of scalding yolk hit me in the face which now i am trying to cover with my one hand and my other hand still trying to hold on to the plate as if my life depended on it,or i could have just let it drop to nurse my now burning ang paining face. I was half laughing and crying from the pain and on how i look in the mirror,i guess it is my own fault and stupidity if why on earth did i not prick the yolk before putting it in the microwave i don't know so i guess this is my own self inflected injury,never play with your eggs or they could turn out to be a home explosive device and can be fatal lol.
My usual confidence was high,i arrive just after 9pm to my boss residence from the airport where we have been kept in a separate room for 2 hours for reason i don't understand.Being new to Saudi i thought well it could be the law of the land and all are subjected to follow. I was not surprise to see that the house was a three story apartment in a private residential compound,and i have to sleep alone the night on my first day being that my boss and the rest of the family is still in New Zealand and that gives me a week to have the place to myself.After i dismissed the family driver,and ask him to take me to supermarket in the morning to get food stuff,i then continue investigating the rooms and the whole house,counting 6 bedrooms 2 dinning rooms,receiving room and family room,7 bathrooms,a store room,the wash area and kitchen...so found my room finally up the top floor with a big window over looking outside i thought it was rather nice...its like living in a penthouse actually.
9am all showered and ready.i made sure i don't forget that i should wear my abaya(long black dress)and with a matching veil to cover my head and part of my face before anyone sees me out.I really look like a black ninja no joke about it,and this veil keeps falling and slipping down,damn i thought i don't want any mutawa(police)coming and questioning me so i was more so concious keeping the veil on my head securely and trying not to slip and step at the bottom of my abaya.
At the supermarket i spotted a chinese cabbage among the other stuff i thought i could cook some soup with some ribs later for dinner.
When i got all what i needed,iqueued to pay my stuff from the counter when i suddenly realize i am being molested in the middle of daylight, this saudi man have been NOT accidentally touching my bum and i can tell you he has a slight smile in his lips when i look at him in disgust,i was ready to pound him now but i kept my cool seeing that he has only a bottle of laban in hand i had to ask him to goe girst before me just so i could get rid of him...what a nightmare in brood daylight. I head home.i am so fascinated by everything that i see along the street remembering what we have learn in our arabic crash course at the POEA/OWWA.Never walk infront of a man when you see him praying in the street,no eye contact such and such...and so i tried to keep all these in mind and kept reminding myself.
I reached home unpacking my marketing i got my biggest surprise,i can't believe i paid 15SR for a medium size chinese cabbage what i first thought would have cost me less actually cost so much more than i expected.that so because after then i found out it was imported from china.(duh)still it wouldn't have cost that much i reckon.I guess this whole first day trip to the supermarket have thought me more than what i should remember in a lifetime,never judge a chinese cabbage by the look of it,be nice to oggling maniac in brood daylight.
with a pen in my hand, and a notepad handy infront of me,I am sitting over my breakfast a toasted Khobuz(arabic bread) spread with butter and my now cold coffee.And yet i can't seem to think of something intersting to write.I am instead filled with things need to do and my work for the day.I need a jump start this morning so i thought, i have been feeling terribly lazy and feeling useless this whole week,the only thing i can be proud of is i manage to clear my mountain of ironning from the weeks laundry and now i got my room all tidied up. The weather have been absolutely nice around this time of year from january to about mid of february and from there on will have again to go through hot and humid days for months.How nice would it have been to go out and have a long walk even just around the compound so i thought, but then again now i am reminded around this time on my first year here,it was lovely and nice i decided to walk to a near supermarket to get some cat food, and on my way home i got followed by a man in a car trying to persuade me to get into his car bribing me with a crisp 500Riyal note( i am just smiling by the thought of it,i wouldn't be just worth 500SR i suppose not)He was bugging me off even after giving him a cold stare and dismissed him to leave me alone.I was half walking half running then thinking i must still have another 1km to go before i reach our compound.I have already made plans in my mind that if ever he will try to attack me i have 3 tins of cat food in my hand and i thought i could used that to bash him off and was so glad of the thought i did not skip my taekwondo classes in Singapore before altogether.He is such a bugger and all through home i just ignored him and was glad seeing some people then near our compound that only then he drive past me.I cannot imagine ever going out again on my own since then, and i wonder how many women have been in the same case and have kept their cool before against such nuisance in the street. For the last of 3 years,inspite of that incident, i have to say that i have absolutely enjoyed my stay here in the mid east,working with my boss and family have made the great difference andif not for them i wouldn't have been here anyway,not in my wildest dream would i have wish to come and work here after the many stories of rapes,matreatment and the many restrictions for women. Now what i think is that this past 3 years have been an eye openning and most adventurous life i had for working about 15 years ovearseas.Singapore have been fun,i have thoroughly enjoyed 13 years of good friends,picnics,clubbing and night life,outing,shopping or just wandering around the city night or day the feeling of safetiness was by no question,yet i view my last 3 year here something more adventorous to some point.About 2 years ago around this time of the year,i was up 6000ft. above sea level up to the peak of the highest mountain up the north of Jedah(taif).It was an absolute thrill and experience.Barely midway up the mountain peak, i told myself i can't take 1 step more up anymore,i was grasping for breath so hard,my pulse racing and my knees about to give way,the air is getting, the cold wind slapping my face...But the heck i thought if i gave it up now i don't think i ever will have onother chance to get this far like now or ever will get to climb this high again in future...aghhh reaching the peak was wonderfully mangnificent and so serene i made it!The view was so worth the climb after all.there's a lush vegetation on where there is a farm down to one side and on the other side was a cliff i dare if one fell off from there it will all be mangled up.We camp for 3 nights,there was rain in the night and just the day before we drive to the mountain there was a hailstorm in the city and that alone was never been a usual sight here in Saudi arabia and that alone for me was an experience of lifetime and the feel of getting back to nature, without the modern technologies in hand,no phone signals,no computer,yet it was like living in a way of life simple yet it was peaceful and happy.next coffee break i will tell you about my first trip to the supermarket...ANN
I decided to enter the chatroom today...of course the feeling was not the same as it was during the time when i was then chatting.During my time at the poolside room there was heart aka anne,maximuz aka bro neil,angeinlove,cloie,nasty4U,charminglady,and who to forget the president of kalukringan GMA ala mildred.sorry for the other old friends it was so long i have forgotten them though if i again ever see their old handle i will surely know and remember them but listed above are just but few of my batch here in FFF. Today as i was in the room seawolf was there one of the later batch of chatter i know some who said hi whom i can't recongnoze from their handle but seem to know me.But sadly to say that there was one person i truly know in the room that even i said hi to him he have not acknowledge nor even replied at all.Is it not so sad when we know all along that this people have become at one stage a part of us and it sort as if they have just move on with their new life and sadly we ( was not been part of the new existance in their life.I so decided to greet him in YM seeing that he is online and i got the same cold blank window staring back at me...sad huh?
Ohh well...maybe he just need to read this post to know he has been missed and i just wanted to know he is always remembered in many ways.
I don't know but i am hook to LITERATI.I like the challenge of playing with other people who are ranked higher than me and beating them(LOi don't know if i am just trying to prove to myself that my brain is still working perfectly fine and have not become aged in time.
As to my writing,blogs and literary articles,i seem to have become rotten.I don't know maybe i was just lacking the time, interest or i am feeling satisfied of my life right now which it was never been the case before.I was this person who have become like an open book,i can't stop writting whats up and about me all the time,but guess as people gets older there are changes in their life and maybe one change in me is to become a more private person that how i used to be.This could be something positive and it could as well have a negative side to it.
well before i completely loss myself to my main point,which is all about my simple addiction to literati games,i believe in life may not be in general but to some maybe,there are many different ways to expressing our emotional and intelectual capabilities.To some maybe good in doing other stuff and we are well above others to our own stuff,but my main point in here is there is season for everything, our interest of the moment will change in time so why not enjoy each moment while it last.Just like i was so addicted to chatting all i wanted was to stay chatting in the fff chat rooms whole or as long as possible,then blogging and the group discussions as well.Now i am into Literati games and what maybe next...Hmmmmm collecting branded bags maybe.hahaha Expensive addiction which i can't afford so i am safe then
For some who may be wondering what happend to klogby( yours truly of course ).Well it was a real busy start for the year 2008 for me.For most part of December last year i have been out and about shopping and preparing Christmas presents for everyone.I have wrapped out about 100pcs of my my homemade shortbread christmas cookies tied with green,red,blue,and pink ribbons and hand it out to everyone in church during our christmas service.For the ladies in church i got them some scented candles and the glass all nicely wrapped and tied with ribbons.You may say what is so special about what i have done.My reason is simply i wanted to spread the true spirit of christmas to everyone,which is the gift of love and giving.What makes it more perfect thing i have done it is if you may not know yet, i am here in Jeddah,Saudi Arabia and as you may know Christmas is not celebrated here as we do in our country or in any other part of the world,and in this same way i want to spread the spirit of christmas the same way we would have celebrated if we were home in Philippines. As for the start of the year, busy as always there seems to be something thats needs to be done at home,with the household chores and my ministry in church(teaching and music). For my lovelife...I can say i found my home.Happy as i have never been as much as before.we are both looking forward to a great year 2008 for us,there are sure great happenings ahead to look forward but all in all they are in God's time. I wish everyone here in fff blogs a great year ahead.Happy blogging everyone.God Bless you All!!!
A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open.
He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter.
The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its colour and drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband.
When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just five words.
QUESTIONS:
1. What were the five words?
2. What is the implication of this story?
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The husband just said " I am with you Darling".
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behaviour. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.
No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband.
That is what he gave her.
MORAL OF THE STORY ================== Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, in the relationship, but by this way we miss out some warmth that is needed... some things are not merely to blame..Remember always that life is not that easy to understand as it seems... Never try to apply your logic to understand every situation...
Guys,
If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world.
Now, we have gotten through one more fall, I can just admit I’ve got it all ’cause I do ’cause I’ve got you. We’ve crossed these battle lines too many times. It passes through the heart. But it never leaves a mark.
‘Cause your love just keeps on healing me, no matter how I bruise. If I just trust you, your love just keeps on dealing me one more cure, one more chance that wasn’t there before, In your arms, no pain can harm the way I’m feeling ‘Cause don’t you know that your love is healing.
I kicked around these lines in my head but I never listened to the words that you said. See where it’s lead. Well, I think I have it now
‘Cause you’ve showed me how And all I had to do was just to keep my eyes on you
was not been part of the new existance in their life.I so decided to greet him in YM seeing that he is online and i got the same cold blank window staring back at me...sad huh?
i don't know if i am just trying to prove to myself that my brain is still working perfectly fine and have not become aged in time.
