moments of colours

A very merry Christmas to all !!!!

Have fun… Enjoy the holidays!

God bless you and your family!

Maiylah of Maiylah’s Snippets gave me this award… Thanks sis!!

Award…

1. Put the logo in your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who shared it with you.
3. Pass this award to your Blogger Friends
4. Add your link to the list of participants below
5. Leave a message for your nominee on their blog.

Blog Lovers: 1. Soul Anchor 2. Cookie’s Corner 3. Ane of Life According To Me 4. Tales of a Pinay Single Mommy 5. A Girl For All for Status 6. Sasha says… 7. Maiylah’s Snippets 8. Moments of Colours 9. YOU NEXT!

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I’m passing it to:

1. Crimson Heavens

2. Imitation Angel

3. Chica and Pumuckl

4. Scraps of Mind

Happy holidays!!

…like Christmas!!!

Yup,yup,yup!!! It’s December! Count downs, lots of greens and reds and whites and golds, shining and shimmering are all around! More of the Christmas decors are taken out of the boxes. Hmmmm… Christmas carols are hummed more now.

It’s the time of year to prepare for celebrating the birth of Jesus. Just like what the homily yesterday reminds us, “watch”.

Let us watch our words, our deeds and intentions. May they all be to send out joy, love, peace and goodwill to our brothers and sisters — whatever is the color of skin, whatever religion we practice, whatever the economic situation is. We all can send a smile and brighten (lighten) another person’s day.

So send out lots of smiles, watch out for the blessings that come our way (even if at times it might be presented negatively).  Let us pay it forward to send out the happiness of the season and remember the reason why there is CHRISTmas!

Merry Christmas!!!

I have been feeling low these past few days. I had to change my email address to a new one. I can’t view even my friendster page now…. Until yesterday, I have been receiving calls from my friends to confirm if the mail they got from me is true….. Oh well….

Then, as I checked on my page this morning and dropping on some visitors’ and my friends’ posts, I got a note! I have an award from my new found sistah, Timi of Crimson Heavens. Thanks sis!

Got this power blog award from Timi too.

The Rules:
1. Each blogger must post this rules.
2. You need to choose ten people to be awarded and list their names.
3. Don’t forget to leave them comment telling them they’ve been tagged and to read your blog.

I pass these awards to…

AniqueAnik

Maiylah’s Snippets

WTF Do you Blog About!?

Chica & Pumuckl

Cutie Booty Cakes

Just in time, I was able to change my password and get the names of my yahoo contacts. I have spent the morning trying to wait for my antivirus to finish scanning my pc. Whew! Its a different feeling when you’re used to using that inbox for a time. You tend to type the same password as if your fingers are in automatic mode. Oh well, at least I was able to send the disclaimer to all my yahoo contacts.

Thank you once again to Maiylah of Maiylah’s Snippets;BK of Symphony of Love’s Blog; Myrna of WTF Do you Block About!?; Timi of Crimson Heavens; and Ana of  Chica & Pumuckl - 2 Egyptian Kitties in Germany. And to my sis and cousins who immediately called my attention to this. You really are good friends and “angels” sent to lend a helping hand ! God bless you always!!

Ahhh!!!! My yahoo account has been hacked!!

I just received a call from my relative about me being in a hold-up in London. It’s a good thing they called me up immediately to confirm. I wasn’t able to check my mails last night because of a brown-out.

Thanks BK, Timi and Ana for your comment. I’ve been too trusting. It was my second time to receive a message about the yahoo alert. The first one was from my friend sent through the yahoo messenger. Then when I received a yahoo mail about it, I thought it was for real.

For those you who would contact me through my email account at yahoo, please don’t send it there anymore for I cannot open it now. My username and password have been invalid. I have tried several times and it won’t open.

AHHHHHHGGGGGGH!!!! I can’t inform my friends and relatives whose email addresses are in there!

Please be careful!

For those using yahoo, this message is for you too.

I got this email at lunchtime today. Here are the details:

Account Alert Dear Valued Member,

Due to the congestion in our Yahoo servers,there would be removal of all unused Yahoo Accounts.You will have to confirm if your E-mail is still active by filling out your login info below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons. Username:…………………….. Password:……………………… Date of Birth:………………….. Country :…………………………………. After updating your account information,your account will not be interrupted and will continue to work as normal.Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience. Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account before two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

I did reply immediately. Yahoo is my primary email account and most of my friends get in touch with me through it. Hope this info is useful to those using yahoo too.  I think some users are not opening their inbox daily so kindly get the word out.

Have a great day! God bless you!

(also posted in my Friendster and Multiply page )

I’ve been tagged by Maiylah to do this meaningful tag. It’s a meme highlighting the threat of breast cancer and how important it is to practice early detection procedures like self breast examination.

I would like to tag:

Scraps of Mind and Symphony of Love

It’s ALL SOULS’ DAY today. We pay respect and remember our dearly departed loved ones.

Every year, we say special prayers for souls when this day would come. Some may say the souls don’t need prayers anymore, but they do. It may be just a tradition to others, but there is a deeper meaning when we really say prayers for the souls.

The priests say that when one dies, a soul moves to a place called purgatory. This is a temporary waiting area for the soul. This is where life lived by the individual is screened, analyzed and is later given the go signal whether to go up to heaven or down below.

To make a vivid picture, [Note: This is in my point of view, ok? =) ]

–>imagine a soul as applying for a housing space in heaven (Remember, Jesus promised us that everyone will have a house prepared for us up there in heaven). Each soul has a blank form and are still waiting to be interviewed by St. Peter and his team.

The location of the house being applied for is in heaven.

Every good comment we say here on earth about our dearly departed loved one, his/her form in purgatory gets filled up. Every prayer we say for the soul’s intention, the form gets substance.

Now, what about the souls which belong to those people who have not been prayed for? That’s why there are prayer warriors here on earth. They pray for the souls of those who have been forgotten by their own families.

So, right before the names of our dearly departed are called by St. Peter, we should have said plenty, plenty of prayers for them already. This is for the benefit of the soul… so that when St. Peter opens the Book of Life, looks at each entry and compares it with the prayers and comments that appear in the form, the application to heaven would be approved. A special house will be assigned for our departed loved one.

So, let us always try to remember to say a little prayer for them, especially on occasions like this. =) Each soul in purgatory needs a little push from us who are still living on earth.

Have you said your prayers for them?

(posted also on my Friendster blog.  )

Whew! It’s been almost a week away from the computer for me…

I’ve been hit!!!! uhgg! … My friend said I’m just joining the trend because many have it too. … It was something I have not had for months. It started last Sunday morning. I woke up with a very cool bedroom voice. Being an alto I thought, gee, I sounded like a host on a radio program!!  Cool huh?? I thought it was…… just for awhile…..  It’s just something itchy on the throat. It will go away. Just drink lots of water!  But when the feeling of coldness came in my feet and hands, with the changing of the weather to a cloudy-rainy day, with lethargy setting in, on a tropical hot sunny day, I realized something was wrong.

I tried to back track what I did and ate the day before. What seemed different from the food I normally eat. Then I remember! I drank cold water during lunchtime at the office!!!! We we’re offered softdrinks but I declined. There were so much ice. Also, as much as possible, I don’t want it because it’s too sweet.  I want water,  better for my digestion. So I went to the dispenser which had hot and warm water spouts, the first time I used it. But this particular Saturday, it has cold water. I forgot to add a little hot to make it at room temperature. What my mind was focused on was, I want a drink of water.

Uh-oh!!!! BAD! A very, very, wrong choice!!!! 

So came, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. … I thought just a few days rest, good food, fruits, plenty of fluid intake, vitamin supplements, are all enough and the hurting tonsils would go away. BUT…. came Wednesday morning, I got the chill. Fever was 38.9 C. My little kitties within woke up, making those wheezing sounds again. Counter attack was in place — swoooop! 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, wooooosh. My head started to ache. A pop of the paracetamol would relieve me for a while and let me doze to sleep…. Coughing was becoming heavy, phlegm was soo thick… Counter attack two!! —nebulize!!!!! zzzz… eat, drink fluids, meds…zzzzz…. 39.4 C… cough ! cough !cough ! …fluids… meds zzzzz… ! ! !! zzzzz… zzzzzz. I was sweating all over. At least, the fever was going away… At 5pm, “Inay” was getting worried. Our home remedy was not enough. She called her sister for additional information. Trying for the doctor at that time was impossible. She was out of reach and would arrive at our town late that night.

Thursday morning, we went to see the doctor. She said my heart was beating too fast. Blood pressure was 130/80. I said it’s quite high. I just have 110/80 or 110/70 on normal days. She made me raise both arms up to test something I dont know what for. Then she checked my tonsils. She said there is too much inflammation. She asked if I can still manage to breath well hearing so much noise inside me. It made me cough loud and spit out phlegm. She immediately asked the color. I said it was yellow green. Thick. Good thing that I brought the tissue paper roll and plastic for the waste. I was hoping not to be taken to the hospital again because I don’t want to as much as possible.

The doctor prescribed me antibiotics, an expectorant medicine and oral steroids for five days. She said, I need that and I have to let her know if it’s working after three days or I need to really be admitted in the hospital.

It’s the second day of treatment with professional assistance. So far, wheezing has subsided. The kittens are all asleep again now. No more headaches while coughing. Although, the throat still hurts a bit, there are still a lot of antibiotics to take. The meds are taking effect…… and most of all, YEHEY !!! I’m back in the saddle again, typing!! I missed the reading, updating, dropping, surfing the net.

We’ll, that’s how one wrong choice and an unconscious move got the better of me these past few days. I have been careless of the things I take into my body. I forgot there is only one patented body, originally made and molded by God, gifted to my parents, endowed by the genes of generations that has come before me, nurtured by the love of my family and the people I have met– … (even through cyberspace).

Looking back, I believe it has served its purpose. It has allowed me time to think of other things and discover other passions I’ve neglected. Focusing mostly in spending time in front of the computer, I have neglected the needs of my body for rest. My immune system had been low. I realized, I should regulate my schedule for surfing the net. With global warming affecting the whole world, I could contribute as my share lessening the use of electric appliances. I noticed our walls and ceilings that needs repairing .  I realized a number of things I have neglected to do. It has provided me ‘moments’ of insights to become a better daughter to God, Mama Mary and my own mother; a better sister, a better friend, a better me.

The quote, “take time to smell the flowers” has a new meaning to me now…. Because of a wrong choice!

Thank God, He has gifted us the free choice right? And a wrong choice can always be chosen to come out better! Here’s to a better me! (and a better you, to you too!) God bless you!!