Poem from Hon

(sent through Facebook last 16 February 2009 at 23:08)

I've read these a thousand times and I just want to share it with you.

Count your blessings,
Name them one by one;
Count your blessings,
See what God hath done;
Count your blessings,
Name them one by one;
Count your MANY blessings,
See what God hath done.

....and I thank God for letting you come into my life!!!

Wheything --- tsk!

How much do you wait? Sometimes you feel that you've waited for so long that you even forget that you are actually waiting. Sometimes it has been too long that you cannot even spell the word correctly anymore and you just write it as how you started to sound like --- sort of --- whey thing!!!

People wait - I believe since young, we were trained to do so. What are you waiting for? You wait for your friend to reply to your SMS?! You wait for your girl to say 'yes' to your love?! You wait for your baby to born?! You wait for you to expect soon?! You wait for your next job?! You wait for your payday?! And the list will just go on and on and on...

What do you do when you are waiting? Do you just stare at the clock as it continually moves it's hands clockwise? And staring long enough, sometimes you feel that the hands begin to move on the counterclockwise direction... Right?

When I wait, I wait patiently ... Not all the time, but I try ... When I wait, I worship the Father ... I believe that is the best place you can be when waiting ... I believe that John Waller's song had put it beautifully ... The song even taught me how to do so ...

While I'm Waiting

I'm waiting
I'm waiting on You, Lord
And I am hopeful
I'm waiting on You, Lord
Though it is painful
But patiently, I will wait

I will move ahead, bold and confident
Takeing every step in obedience
While I'm waiting
I will serve You
While I'm waiting
I will worship
While I'm waiting
I will not faint
I'll be running the race
Even while I wait

I'm waiting
I'm waiting on You, Lord
And I am peaceful
I'm waiting on You, Lord
Though it's not easy
But faithfully, I will wait
Yes, I will wait
I will serve You while I'm waiting
I will worship while I'm waiting
I will serve You while I'm waiting
I will worship while I'm waiting
I will serve you while I'm waiting
I will worship while I'm waiting on You, Lord

While I'm Waiting - Youtube

Where's the Love?

You said you love me, and I believe. But where are you now? Why do you need to keep me waiting? You started it, you've got to end it.

But I still love you. And it seems that I love more today than yesterday, than last week, than last month, than the first time I saw your face...

It's You

It is not hard to answer your question
On why I chose you and not her
It is really plain and simple
It is you, no more, no less...

I can invent all the reasons why it's not her
Maybe, she is not beautiful enough for me
Maybe, she is not as kind as I expected her to be
Maybe, she is not that precious at all...

But why do you need to know?
It's you that I want to spend the rest of my life with
I chose you, I did not choose her
It's you, my one and only you...

I believe that you love me too
For whoever I am
Without anything in between
You just love me, you just love me...

Honey, I love you
I do not want to lose you
Do not ask me again why I did not choose her
Because my answer will always be, "it's you"...

A Poem from my Love

NAME by Hon

When did ur name change from a proper noun to a charm?
It's two vowels like jewels on the thread of my breath.
It's consonants brushing my mouth like a kiss.
I love ur name I say it again and again in this summer rain.
I see it, discreet in the alphabet, like a wish.
I pray it into the night till it's letters are light.
I hear ur name rhyming, rhyming, rhyming with everything.

I love u!

Catching Up

Hi there! Happy New Year! Hahaha... It will be more correct if I say, Gong Xi Fa Cai! It means I was not late...

Anyway, I've been very busy the past few weeks after the holidays. I am really catching up with my training and assignment. I didn't realise that I only have two weeks left here in Burgess Hill. Do you mean that I've been here for that long? Whoosh!

I only do my training and studying from Mon to Fri. Sat and Sun are just really leisure... Two Saturdays ago, we went to Cambridge.

Then, last Saturday, we went to Windsor. I had the experience of entering a real castle for the first time. Woohoo!


The vastness, the grandeur, 'twas just spectacular.

Tomorrow, we will be heading to Stonehenge (one of the 8th wonder of the world) and Bath (we will be visiting the Roman baths where Cleopatra - not accurate I think - was taking her plunge).

Ciao!

Christmas Isn't Over

Today is 29.dec and it's 09.45am here in the UK. Well, yeah, I am currently in the office desk whilst I only see a handful of people in the floor. Most of the resources are still on their vacation. Hmm, I wonder where they are. I think that all of 'em are still on bed. Sigh!

I am still a bit sleepy. Last night, I arrived the apartment around 09.30pm. I sat and thought for a long time what I need to do. Am I going to eat, or am I going to wash my dirty clothes, first? I ended up doing the latter first. However, the first thing I really did after sitting in the sofa was switchin' on the tele and answering Mami Viols and Lyniel's SMSes.

I feel tired and exhausted. But deep inside, I am so happy and I feel so blessed. I couldn't believe that Christmas day is over and it was one of the best Christmases I've ever had. The thing is, I was so welcomed by many people whom I just knew a month ago. Filipinos are really the best! They never think twice to help their fellow Filipinos in need.... :)

I had the most wonderful time. Dinner @ Christmas eve celebration includes good food and good laughs. Each one from the table answered two basic questions: 1) At this time, what are you thankful to God for? 2) What is your most memorable Christmas celebration?

Here were my answers then. I am so thankful to God for giving me a permanent job during this economic downturn. Plus, I am so grateful because it included a bonus and that was me being sent to the UK and knowing the nicest people in London I was taking a dinner with at that moment. Thank you, Lord. Then, my most memorable Christmas celebrations were/are celebrations I did/do spend with my family.

After dinner, we had some karaoke. It was crazy. But I was soooo exhausted that whilst the ladies n' Ritchie were singing on the top of their lungs, I was in a very deep sleep. Ha ha ha! Good for me, cos they only slept around 10am the following morning...

Christmas day, Carol and Fernan joined the group, whilst Jeremy already flew to France few hours ago. During lunchtime, the topic was about marriage. I salute Fernan - he is a picture of a perfect gentleman. I am not sure if I can do that. Happy birthday, Carol!

Christmas supper - Ernie, Josy and Steve joined us. What is love? That's the topic whilst we were all torturing the turkey lovingly baked by Mami Viols. Of course, we did another round of karaoke after that. I think around 2am, whilst Moshi-moshi was singing, the ladies all went out of the room and said, good night, Rene! And that was a joke during breakfast the next day.

Boxing day - Lyniel, Eds, Claire, Rena and I went to hyde park. It was beautiful.


This picture was taken while Lyniel, Claire and I were on the wheel. We were like 'lil kids who visited a carnival for the first time.


Then, we headed back to the house and ate another nice meal.

The next day was yet very exhausting. We went to Harrods. But, Oliver and I made a mistaken and we ended up walking the longest distance whilst the cold was very cold indeed. We were not able to buy anything from there cos everything was very expensive. We were so hungry that we went to a jap resto to eat some sushi. However, we had some side trips to V&A and National History Museum before going to the sushi resto.

The sushi was nice but we are still hungry so we ate some crepe' at the nearby resto. Then, a time of killing our legs happened cos we had to tour so many shopping malls aka, window shopping. To end our day, we watched Twilight and it was so boring. Before we slept, we ate another nice meal from none other than - mami Viols.

The next day was already the last day - Sunday. We had a good service - but the word for that day was - INQUISITIVE. After service, we ate at the plaza - the usual KFC, baked potatoes, pizza hut, etc. Before partin' our ways - we spent couple of hours over Starbucks.

Whoosh! Do you still think that Christmas isn't over? Look at me! But, thank you, Lord!