Miyerkules, Enero 21, 2009

Qatar at last...

Hi... just updating my blog..

Im now enjoying time with my bro... Laast night we had dinner in Souq churva (limot ko name ng resto) bit expensive but food is well... First time ko rin to try shisha enjoy ako parang ayaw ko na ibuga, sarap ng apple flavore eh... hahahha


This morning, I'm with my bro's friend, Dave, having coffee at Columbia Cafe and later will be going to the nearest mall.. yung walking distance,or sa museum nila...

tomorrow we already have an engagement with their friends here in Qatar... enjoying my stay, but it's a bit expensive than in KSA...

Pics will be posted later... wala ako USB eh... ahahah

Martes, Enero 20, 2009

goodbye saudi arabia...

Haist... my journey here is almost over... in few hours, i will be travelling to see my brother in Qatar for several days before going home. Quite excited travelling again. I think this is the most awaited time of all expat; meeting family and be home.

Yesterday, I bid my farewell to our sub-contractor, The bigboss, sir Bernie ask me to come over for dinner and have a small celebration. Since I am not familiar with the place, I go with our janitor who works for the said company. I enjoyed it a lot and got drunk (I think almost all of us got drunk really)...

Ok, let's have a little rewind... After talking to Sir Bernie, earlier afternoon before taking my lunch. Our Filipina teagirl called me just to make my day bad. Just imagine telling me that I don't know how to mingle with others... Oh my... I told her, I know to whom and to when I should mingle. Why am I going to mingle with the persons who in the first place upon my arrival 2years ago welcomed me with chismis (gossips)?

Enough for that... and so let's continue, after the bad tripan, I went to Balad (City center) to buy some stuff my brother in Qatar asked me to. I felt easy this time... away from the that witch... hahahhaa

Party time, we had a good night. I enjoyed it a lot... partying with real people gives me good vibes. We had our drinks until 12midnight as they still have work early morning. I'll post some pics of our happenings once I arrived Qatar... Another engagement, I need to go to Cavite / GMA area on the second week February. Huwaaaa, i don't know where GMA is, but I am quite sure that I'll have a good time then... I will... really... ahahhaha

I don't have plan of going to office this morning, but some colleagues requested me to come. They said they prepared some thing I could treasure. Hmmmm... let me guess... a new phone? hahahha... my officemate/housemate already revealed. It's a new phone... Just puzzling me what unit would that be... an E66 as my housemate knows that I liked it most? Samsung latest unit as our office is situated inside Samsung Bldg and they could have really a good discount? or 3310? hahahha... I'll give you update once I get to Qatar tonight...

Maasalama Jeddah!!!

Thanks for the good and not so good experience I had... the nice and not so nice people I met...

Goodbye is the saddest word to say, but the most meaning I know. It is not merely bidding farewell to a leaving person but a wish of luck...

Goodbye... "God be ye" God be with ye (you)...

Linggo, Enero 18, 2009

one bangag...

praningan nnman nito s opis...


wlang tulog, papasok nnman.. hahahha... sana lng walang mangulit at makakatikim sila ng bangis ni one...

Slept last night after dinner, around 8pm... balisa na sa pagtulog dahil excitement nagising ako ng 12 midnight. at hangang sa mga oras na e2, less than an hour more before my duty, gising pa rin ako...


last 48hrs n lng ako d2 s Jeddah... yehey!!!


Goodbye Jeddah, Qatar... here I come...

Miyerkules, Enero 14, 2009

2days without TV

Oh God, spare me...

2days ago, I packed my tv set and asked LBC to pick it up with my things for sea freight courier. Oh my... am getting really bored. this was the first time I felt this way.

I already experienced a no tv policy during my seminary years, but this one is different. Though we have limited time watching TV in the seminary, there are lots of things to do... chat with co-seminarians, short conversation with our cook and laundry ladies, cleaning the seminary, cooking as well. Here, trying to save money, I can't cook. Going out mean to spend another 100 bucks which I was supposed saving for my 5days stay in Qatar and 1month stay in manila (including the processing of my papers.)

I got lazy going to work today. No TV, lazy of typing and chatting using my computer. I slept the whole day (not to mention sleeping with Mary... hahahha).

2days down, 7days to go... wish me luck pal... hoping not to go insane...

Martes, Enero 13, 2009

Jew's prayer for the children of Gaza (Repost)

thank's Fr. Mark for allowing me repost this prayer... http://marcusjulian.multiply.com/journal/item/10/Jews_Prayer_for_the_Children_of_Gaza


A Jew's prayer for the
children of Gaza


If there has ever been a time for prayer,
this is that time.

If there has ever been a place forsaken,
Gaza is that place.

Lord who is the creator of all children, hear our prayer this accursed day. God whom we call Blessed, turn your face to these, the children of Gaza, that they may know your blessings, and your shelter, that they may know light and warmth, where there is now only blackness and smoke, and a cold which cuts and clenches the skin.

Almighty who makes exceptions, which we call miracles, make an exception of the children of Gaza. Shield them from us and from their own. Spare them. Heal them. Let them stand in safety. Deliver them from hunger and horror and fury and grief. Deliver them from us, and from their own.

Restore to them their stolen childhoods, their birthright, which is a taste of heaven.

Remind us, O Lord, of the child Ishmael, who is the father of all the children of Gaza. How the child Ishmael was without water and left for dead in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba, so robbed of all hope, that his own mother could not bear to watch his life drain away.

Be that Lord, the God of our kinsman Ishmael, who heard his cry and sent His angel to comfort his mother Hagar.

Be that Lord, who was with Ishmael that day, and all the days after. Be that God, the All-Merciful, who opened Hagar's eyes that day, and showed her the well of water, that she could give the boy Ishmael to drink, and save his life.

Allah, whose name we call Elohim, who gives life, who knows the value and the fragility of every life, send these children your angels. Save them, the children of this place, Gaza the most beautiful, and Gaza the damned.

In this day, when the trepidation and rage and mourning that is called war, seizes our hearts and patches them in scars, we call to you, the Lord whose name is Peace:

Bless these children, and keep them from harm.

Turn Your face toward them, O Lord. Show them, as if for the first time, light and kindness, and overwhelming graciousness.

Look up at them, O Lord. Let them see your face.

And, as if for the first time, grant them peace.



Thanks to Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman for bringing to our attention the above prayer which appeared in the Haaretz Newspaper. Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman is a Rabbi of a Reform Jewish congregation in Jerusalem called Kehilat Kol Haneshama. A leader of the Israeli Movement for Progressive Judaism and of Rabbis for Human Rights, his congregation is a model for inter-religious understanding, dialog, and healing in Jerusalem.
http://www.peacecou ncil.org/ peacecouncilors. html

Huwebes, Enero 8, 2009

Bored?

Basahin na lng ng mabilis... (Read this fast...)
Pasko Paksiw Pasko Paksiw Pasko Paksiw Pasko Paksiw Pasko Paksiw (10 times)




ok na ba? kulang pa rin... eto pa ang isa (is it ok now? not enough yet, here's another one)
Peter Piper picked a pack of pickle pepper, a pack of pickle pepper peter piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a pack of Pickle pepper, where is the pack of pickle pepper that peter piper picked?




Wala ka pa rin magawa ano... basahin mo pa e2... (still sitting idle, read this too...)
Brown Fox Fox Brown Brown Fox Brown (3times lng)