i am woman, hear me rawr!

When I was younger, I wanted to learn how to play a musical instrument. My mom was quite supportive of the idea. However, although my siblings appear to be quite musically inclined, I am not. Haha. I did try to learn the piano, at one time, but that was a dismal failure. I experimented on the guitar, but alas, my fingers wouldn’t cooperate with me! My sister learned the piano quite easily (the real kind of piano, and not just a keyboard). One of my brothers did well with the recorder and the other learned to play an electric guitar. He was quite good at it, in fact, and he even explored getting one of those esp kamikaze electric  guitars. But me…I can’t even carry a tune right.

Lately, however, I have let loose and allowed myself to explore music a bit. I still can’t play an instrument, nor can I sing, but I have come to realize that simply going with the music is good enough. One musical instrument, however, that I have come to enjoy are those little shakers. And so even though I have just that as an instrument, I’m gonna join in a get some music playing

If I had the opportunity to, however, I think I’d like to give learning how to play the piano another shot. You, what instrument would you like to learn???

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I think I finally found it…the way to my prince charming that is.

Sus….just add water pala eh! And all this time I’ve been wasting my time on dating the wrong people??? Har.

Joke.

Seriously though, I have gotten to a point in my life where I have come to the realization that no one, meaning singles or couples, are better off than the other. Sure we have different issues and concerns, but both would have their pros and cons. I do enjoy my lifestyle now, but there are days when I do also see how nice it is to have the kind of lifestyle my married and babied friends have. For example, I love how I can splurge on random stuff on a whim because if I had a family, I’d have to prioritize other things, right? I know I don’t have to shop for mother in law gifts or baby stuff, and so I just buy random stuff for myself instead. BUT…I do wanna have the whole mother-in-law and baby stuff and the whole package, too.

In time, perhaps. In the meantime, lemme go grow my prince charming, yes? Haaaaaaahaaaa!!!!

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Yesterday, I got to usher in the Lunar New Year with a handful of really great girls who I’ve been friends with since we were, well, girls We met way back in our freshman year in college and though we weren’t all immediate friends, it wasn’t long before we were able to form such a great bond and it does seem that we’ve had a lifetime of friendship between us already I do admit there have been some falling outs every now and then, and there had been times that we’d go months without talking, but at the end, I do know I am soooo lucky to have these girls as my friends. Albeit so many things have changed, the core of who we are are still the same. I mean, for one we used to shop for useless things, like lip gloss and outfits for dates, dresses for our debuts and graduations and stuff but now it’s wedding dresses and christening gowns. Before we used to just laugh at how taxis and jeep parts would just be falling apart, now we worry about how our cars are so hard to maintain. But yesterday as we hung out, just us girls, no husbands, no children, no boyfriends, it made me remember how much we really are the same girls we used to be.

For that I am blessed. Happy Lunar New Year, folks

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Many of my friends know Christmas isn’t really one of my favorite holidays. I kinda get melodramatic and lonely during the holidays and well, suffice it to say it gets to me. This year, however, I found myself surviving much better than usual Yey, I suppose One thing I am grateful for about this holiday is that I was able to share such a great gift to many of my friends and family. While I did not really splurge on expensive gifts (although I did consider sending flowers online to my friends abroad), I am glad to know my little gratitude journal gift inspired many others to do the same thing For that, this holiday will always be remembered.

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One of my favorite things to do in the morning (and believe me there aren’t many because I HATE waking up early in the morning!) is listen to RX 93.1′s The Morning Rush with Chico and Delamar as I drive to work. They always, always crack me up! Today was no exception. I kept laughing out loud at how they were trying to teach the other DJ, Gino, how to pronounce the word“tubo” (pipe in English) correctly. In Filipino, the word can be pronounced in three different ways to mean different things. He couldn’t get it! It was soooo funny I literally was laughing out loud and I could barely breathe! It was funny how the conversation started, actually. They were just talking about the Top 10 (a daily survey kinda thing they do) and they started talking about how some people like making people do things while in costume, such as a French maid’s uniform, a shirtless gardeners outfit or even a nurse uniform for no good reason at all. So when he talked about the gardener, he said he should hose them down with a tubo. And the riot began from there!!! I know this blog post doesn’t do it any justice, but I just had to share my random bit of sunshine for the day. If you find a podcast for todays show, do download it and see how funny it is for yourselves!

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I realized that I have more blogs that I can handle. Not that I’m complaining, however. I just realized that I haven’t been so true to the way I wanna manage my blogs, to the point that my posts kinda overrun each other. As I was browsing through my archives here, I realized I have forgotten what my goal with this blog was. It’s really, as the header says, to blog about life’s hits and misses. In short, it would be to offer information about what’s out there and what I think about it. However, because I have fallen so deeply in love with yoga, all I write about it is that. So I decided to get a new domain just for that instead It will be called Archetypes and Asanas dot com. Cool, huh? Watch out for my yoga posts there.Now, as for my self-help, insights and melodramatic life posts (haha), they will now move on to Thought Bubble Project dot com, so please visit me there too.

But here, please expect to see more reviews, more information, more ideas and the like to get you to thinking about life’s hits and misses

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I have never really a very big believer in the whole, ask and you shall receive. I do know that it is a verse in the Bible, and I do know that God will always, always provide, but perhaps the cynic in me who has been disappointed too many times in the past makes it difficult for me to really believe in that. Yes, me of little faith.

Every once in a while I find myself getting whacked in the head and being reminded by random forces to just have faith. To know that even if the answers may not come in the way I want it to be, or perhaps when I think it should, there is indeed a force greater than me that makes things fall into place when the time is right, when the situation is appropriate and when it is right for me.

I have been wanting an iPhone for the longest time. However, given my decision to give up my preschool teaching job earlier this year, my finances have been a little bit tight and I had to reassess things. Not that my impulsive shopping self has disappeared, but I decided to put expensive purchases in the back burner. Plus I got to thinking, if I spent for an iPhone, that kinda would be spending the equivalent of what, an amount that would be equivalent to about four to six months worth of unlimited yoga. And given my love for the practice, I realized that the gadgets, I didn’t really need. Har.

Buuut….

That hasn’t stopped me from asking the Universe for a new phone or one of those new waterproof cameras that can replace my old Olympus one that broke. I guess I wasn’t specific enough because this is what it ended up giving me!

No complaints, though It was such a great unexpected blessing. I won this in a raffle during the press relaunch of a dietary supplement the other day (watch out for my post in www.fatgirlnomore.com next week ). Cool, right?

And so for now….I will ask more specifically. Dear Universe, please make the stars align and make my wishes come true…this March, I really want to do a yoga retreat in Palawan and I need to conspire with you for that to happen. We can do this, right?

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I’ve been a writing slump for the past two months. Three, in fact. So many things have happened since September and I had quite a difficult time picking myself up again. Sigh. There are days that are better, I must admit. Days when I feel like my normal self and I can find the words to write. Other days, however, seem impossible. All I can do is eat. Or sleep. Or stare into space. Or go to yoga, at the very least.

This is me trying to get out of the writing slump. Wish me luck.

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