My Treasure Basket

Queen Seon Deok

Queen Seon Deok is one of the telenovela’s I interestingly watch everytime I come home from work. I have recorded all the links to the different episodes that I have been following. It is a historical drama with heart-thumping action and suspense. It is wisely created that you would not know what would happen next.

Queen Seon Deok is a Korean TV Series about a princess named Deokman who later became Shilla’s first queen. Deokman as one of the twin sisters was sent away with the palace maiden by the king himself because of a bad omen that the birth of a twin in a royal family will  cause death to all male children of the king. Deokman later went back to Shilla after assasination attempts were made upon her to find out who she really was which forced her to disguise herself as a man. She joined the Hwarang, a military establishment. She later found out that she is a princess and the real story why she had to be sent away. Now, the freedom of the people of Shilla depends on her strength after the death of her twin sister.

What I love about this teleseries is that you can always expect something thrilling. Every episode is getting more and more interesting. I just recently done watching the last available online episode 48 and I cannot wait for episode 49…

Love Bond

My husband gave me this bracelet which I call “Love Bond” on our Love Anniversary last month. He never forgets our anniversary. He greets me first, most of the time. Along with the bracelet is a message that I want to share with you because it might just help you ease your day…

There’s always time to stop and smell the roses,
to contemplate a different point of view,
to choose your path along a road less traveled
and transform the old routine to a new one.

Each morning, simply give yourself permission to set aside your list of things undone,
step back and claim a little space of silence.

There’s nothing more important than your spirit so let it be free and adventurous.

Give yourself the gift of inspiration – take time to sit, to breathe, to simply be.

Saang Seafood Restaurant

Saang Seafood Restaurant

My Family

I am 2 months pregnant with my first baby. I am starting to feel weird about the taste of food. I do not want to eat the same food that I have already eaten in a day. I feel that I want to eat something but I cannot figure out what I like. So tonight, me, my husband, brother, cousin and my sister’s family went out to a seafood restaurant located on the hills of Bosai, Cebu. You have a lot of choices and the cost is just affordable. The entrance is just 3 to 5 meters from Marco Polo Hotel and is 10 to 20 meters away from the Bosai main road. The ambiance is nice with cool breeze and city lights view. It is a good place for hanging out with friends and families. Nice also for team lunch or dinner.

A Psalm of Life

I first learned this poem when I was in my 5th grade. I remembered my teacher told us to copy it from the blackboard. Back then, my interest in literary works is amazing. Every time I see one I will really read it and try to understand it. I love the rhyme at the end of each line. I also love to decipher its meaning. I can still remember how I memorized this poem after seeing it for the first time. I can still remember when my teacher asked for a volunteer to read the poem in front of the class. I volunteered. Right there and then, I recite it in front of my classmates. They were so impressed. It was one of my happiest moments.

A Psalm of Life is one of the poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It tells us wonderful lessons in life. For me, A Psalm of Life is a reminder for all of us to think and act for ourselves and for other people. It tells us that even if our bodies die, life continues through our soul. Although we die, life’s goal is not the grave, but how we live each moment that we are alive. It tells us that to live is not to enjoy nor to become sorrowful, these are just the consequences of our actions. Therefore, we need to act, to work so that we can improve our present status in life. Life is short however it is the journey through life and becoming the good person GOD wants us to be that is difficult and takes long time to achieve. Life is a battle itself and that everyone can be heroes in their own special way by doing a nice and truthful act that will serve as our legacy to other people who were lost. This legacy will become their inspiration on how we overcome difficulties and this will help them realize that there is always hope. However, no matter how successful we are, we have to be cautious for life brings us not only good things but untoward events as well.

So let me share this poem to you…

        A PSALM OF LIFE

    TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
        Life is but an empty dream ! —
    For the soul is dead that slumbers,
        And things are not what they seem.

    Life is real !   Life is earnest!
        And the grave is not its goal ;
    Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
        Was not spoken of the soul.

    Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
        Is our destined end or way ;
    But to act, that each to-morrow
        Find us farther than to-day.

    Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
        And our hearts, though stout and brave,
    Still, like muffled drums, are beating
        Funeral marches to the grave.

    In the world’s broad field of battle,
        In the bivouac of Life,
    Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
        Be a hero in the strife !

    Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant !
        Let the dead Past bury its dead !
    Act,— act in the living Present !
        Heart within, and God o’erhead !

    Lives of great men all remind us
        We can make our lives sublime,
    And, departing, leave behind us
        Footprints on the sands of time ;

    Footprints, that perhaps another,
        Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
    A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
        Seeing, shall take heart again.

    Let us, then, be up and doing,
        With a heart for any fate ;
    Still achieving, still pursuing,
        Learn to labor and to wait.

Been a long time…

Since the storm Ondoy that hit the Philippines and left a lot of people in Manila homeless, I lost the energy to post. Well, it is not that I lost interest in writing. There were a lot of reasons:

1) Since the storm, I had a difficulty logging and connecting to the Internet. So I decided I will just write and save my posts in my hard drive.

2) But soon after the storm, I was not able to post items because I got addicted. Just finished watching DN Angel Anime and now I am so excited to finish Bleach although I am still on episode 39. It is getting interesting with all the external and internal mysteries going on in Soul Society.

3) While my co-workers visited me from work, I learned Farmville, Farmtown and Cafe World. Now, I am so busy I am so excited to share my experiences!

I will be posting my post and will backtrack it since I wrote them before this. Happy reading!