Bisdak Babbles

I’m late posting my photo hunt entry! I hope I haven’t posted these yet as photo hunt entries. These are 2007 spring pictures of Kyoto - my favorite place in Japan, and I think the most beautiful, too!

Happy photo hunting!

I’ve been absent from blogging world these past few days.  I didn’t have time to watch my favorite animes because my hands were full (and still is) configuring a Joomla-powered website.   Joomla is way more difficult to configure than Wordpress but it’s really good.   Enough of geeky stuffs…

I was on my way home yesterday when my flatmate called.  I was a bit alarmed when she told me that there was a fire in our apartment building!  But I calmed down when she said that she couldn’t see smoke coming out.  I rushed home and still saw the building surrounded with firetrucks and firemen.  Maybe it was just a false alarm, or was it because the firemen were too quick to respond to the emergency? With our limited Japanese, we couldn’t ask anybody about it, so until now, it remains a mystery. 

I came across this site of Bugaboo stroller. This made me remember those days when I had to buy baby stuffs for Shaynna. I bought her a stroller, too. But it wasn’t put into much use before Shaynna turned two. She didn’t like sitting in the stroller. She preferred to be carried. A cousin gave birth to a baby boy and she borrowed the stroller. Each time Shaynna sees my cousin using that stroller, she wants to sit in it, too! At three, as expected, she got over it. Now, that stroller is being used by my niece. Here’s a photo of Shaynna during her “stroller” days. Too bad I don’t have a photo of her in that stroller.

I can’t remember when I did my last meme. Thanks to Fortuitous Faery for this one…

The rule: Click copy/paste, type in your answers and tag four people in your lists! Don’t forget to change my answers to the questions with that of yours.

1. Four places I go over and over
* malls
* Kyoto
* second hand shops
* electronic store

2. Four people who e-mail me regularly
* my sister
* Mr. T
* a tita (but mostly forwarded emails)
* a cousin

3. Four of my favorite places to eat?
* Mangan Restaurant in Glorietta, Makati City
* Dessert all-you-can-eat buffet in Hep Navio, Osaka
* Tita Fanny’s in Iligan City
* Dessert Factory in Ayala Center, Cebu City

4. Four places you’d rather be?
* in my hometown, with my family
* in Australia (if only I had the money…)
* in Europe (money is still the problem)
* in Manila where I can hop from one mall to another to eat Filipino dishes and watch movies

5. Four TV shows I could watch over and over.
* Bubble Gang
* Britain’s Got Talents (auditions)
* American Idol (auditions)
* Friends

6. Four lucky winners ( of this tag..)
* Yeweifang
* Florence - I know you’re busy but you can do this after you’ve settled down in your new home!
* Elaine
* Levian

Didn’t have time to browse through my photos, so I present you this one:  a photo of Shaynna and her great-grandmother. She’s my grandmother, my mother’s mother, and I fondly call her “Lola* Iyang“. She helped raising me up, and now, she’s also helping raising my daughter, Shaynna.  At 71 years old and wrinkled, I think she’s still beautiful and she’s the sweetest and the best grandmother in the world!

Two major events happened to me this week: it was my first day of work at another company and the panic upon hearing my family’s evacuation due to MILF’s attack near my hometown. Most of the people have gone back to their homes but they’re still afraid of MILF’s possible attack especially at night. I just hope there’d be no more bloodshed over this centuries of disagreement in Mindanao.So, how was my first week at work? The office is just small and there are only 10 us at the office. So far, I love it there! Here are the reasons why:

• We’re allowed to dress casually,
• We can eat at our tables
• Work time’s from 9:30AM-6:30PM. Most of the companies here have 9:00-6:00PM working time.
• The office is only about 7 minutes by bicycle from my apartment. I don’t have to wake up early to catch the train!
• Because it’s near, I can go home during lunch break which is at 12:30-1:30PM
• I can use NetBeans, SQL Admin and dozens of other applications at the same time! Unlike my beloved laptop that’s already too slow…
• Yep, finally after two years of bugging my boss for a Java project, I’m doing Java right now!
• There’s a surround sound system for music!  Though most of the songs I hear are Japanese.

I still can’t remember everyone’s name but I hope they’ll remain as kind as they are now.

“26 persons — 23 civilians and three soldiers — killed in fighting triggered by attacks by fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Lanao del Norte province on Monday, officials said.” Inquirer.net

These killings happened just a few kilometers away from our house.  Some of those casualties may had been my acquaintances.  I called my family a while ago and they’ve evacuated the children (including Shaynna) to Iligan City.  But my mother, along with some cousins are staying at my house tonight for fear of burglars.

Dear friends, I ask for your prayers for the safety of my family, friends, neighbors, the soldiers, and everyone in Lanao del Norte.  For the families of those casualties, that they may find strength and healing.  For the deceased, that they may enter into the fullness of eternal joy, despite the injustice that they had went through.