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My first attempt to digital scrapping, do you think I’ve got talent?  After creating my bobang pinay blog, I’m up to make another blog which deals with digital scrapping and photography. I even bought a software that is highly recommended for digital scrapping.

I’ve been to Michael’s last week after my exam for licensing for new driver. Oh! Did I say new driver?

Yes of course, I’ve been very vocal that I really need to learn how to drive and I am glad that I made it to the exam in one taking.

So, I’ve been to Michael’s, the arts and crafts store and bought myself a cross stitch materials.  I started cross stitching again after more than a decade and it feels good to be surrounded by threads, cloth and needles again.

I saw some beading materials also and it seems inviting, since I am into wearing fashion jewelries it’s about time, I guess for me to learn the art of beading too.

Digital scrapping, photography, cross stitching and beadings, isn’t it obvious that I am tired of being “boba”.  Yeah, I want to know if I got talent too.

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Is my site ready yet? I’ve been refreshing my site for an hour, I am in the mood for making a post today when I realized that I was like ditched by this miserable site in the middle of the long winding road.

It’s been a week since Entrecard launched their magic toolbar and I was in awed because I figured that it will help me to get more drops than usual. I’ve been goaling to get 300 drops a day but my long working days don’t allow me to do so. It is even cutting me to post regularly.

11 to 13 hours work daily, depends on what time I want to go downto my room, there is nothing much to blog actually. And I don’t have that much knowledge on everything around me, all you see here is nothing but whining and drooling over something I want to do but I cannot do or I am refusing to do.

Yesterday I received a call from Winghill Writing School, it is an online school for writing. I said before that I want to learn creative writing, I don’t want to just blog about something and earn a little. Alright, I am making myself stupid here.

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I saw this beside the pool this afternoon.  I was so excited grabbing my camera because this toad seem wants to play around, it didn’t even jump away from me when I was aiming my camera at him/her…whatever lol!

I so love my workplace; I described it like a zoo. Last time my employer catches a turkey from the bush, I got some pictures of it, but I was using my cell phone, so the images didn’t turn out well. If only I can take pictures of deer as close as this toad, that would be very pleasing.

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I want to count the reason I feel I had a good walk yesterday. I usually refused the thought of leaving my “confinement”; first I am tired of walking on the same old street. All I see is the empty road, dull front yards and the stillness of the woods – my routine to the park.

I sometimes think that striding the same path over again just adding an extra baggage to my solitude. But I cannot avoid walking down this alley. There are three possible way to get to downtown, I usually use the two, and the last street is going to be a long and tedious pace. That is going to be a horrible walk for me, so I slip out that street to my choices.

Along the County Road 89 (am still stunned with the street names I see, I have never seen a street name like that in Manila), the dreary atmosphere was replaced with eagerness to glance through every shop, I passed by.

Leafing through the pages of Pro-Photoshop Magazine – I, once again, inside the Shoppers Drug Mart browsing through some books and magazines – my eyes settled on the Nikon Workshop which will be held in Egypt. A cost of US$3,500 to experience different kind of Nikon DSLR and the beauty of Egypt in one whole week trip had made me to slip in daydreaming.

I was overwhelmed with the idea; of course I cannot sign up myself to that trip. The reason that I am not a professional photographer didn’t thwart me on dreaming that Egypt Photography Workshop, it is the cost that rouse me.

I left the drug mart and went back down the road, hope to have glimpses of what is new, or what I missed when I walked passed through this earlier.

I saw an Orthodontics clinic which I am very gladly to visit one of these days, the gym that would definitely going to be my hang-out on weekends and…. and the travel agency. What`s with the travel agency?

They are displaying these wonderful pictures taken in Italy and a question “DO YOU WANT TO TAKE A PICTURE LIKE THIS BY YOUR OWN SELF” was written in bold black cut-outs shouting at me.

I have read about Italy in my current reading Eat, Pray and Love. I read about Rome, Sicily, Sardinia, the heart of Venice, Lucca. I read names like Giovanni, Luca and Giovanni and Luca. I have learned the word Attraversiamo, which means “let’s cross over”. This means I need to cross over the street and forget about traveling and taking pictures weather in Egypt or in Italy.

I cross the street but the idea of traveling was still enticing. Why not? Maybe soon I need to contact Italy Vacation Rentals and or London Vacation Rentals (I remember how I envy my friend who had a trip to UK) or Paris Vacation Rentals.

So this is what my walk had given me, a daydream.

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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods.  But he cannot save them from fools.  ~John Muir

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Habang kausap ng tito ko yung tatay ko sa Yahoo Call, narinig kong sinabi nya na “e etong anak mo ang taas taas ng pangarap e!”

Dahil sa nalaman nya sa bibig ng dalawa kong pinsan na balak kong mag part time study ng photography, naisip nyang masyadong mataas nga daw ang pangarap ko. Ang sabi niya sa akin ang dapat daw isipin ko e magtrabaho ng maigi at mag-ipon para daw madala ko dito ang mga magulang ko.

Pag sinabi nyang magtrabaho, ibig sabihin nun tama na yung magtrabaho ako sa bahay bilang alila ng mga puti caregiver. At mas maganda e kumuha pa ako ng part time na madalas e house cleaner din.

Siguro hindi nga ako nag-iisip na kumita ng malaki dahil hindi ako nagsusumigasig makakuha ng part time nanny job o house cleaning. Sa isip ko kasi e limang araw na ngang ganun ang ginagawa ko e pahihirapan ko pa rin ba ang sarili ko na mag-alaga ng bata o maglinis ng bahay ng sabado’t linggo?

Kahit na batuhin pa ako ng may pang-uyam na tingin….limang tingkad na araw akong nagtatrabaho ng may labing dalawang oras. Kahit pa sabihin nilang pantay-pantay ang mga tao dito. Na kung ano ang kayang kainin ng mga mayayaman e kaya ring kainin ng katulad kong mahirap, iba pa rin ang pakiramdam ng isang katulong na pinay sa bahay ng mga among puti.

Isisigaw ko pa rin na, pwede naman siguro akong magpahinga ng dalawang araw sa loob ng isang linggo ano!

At wala ba akong karapatang paunlarin ang sarili ko? magamit ko man o hindi sa magiging trabaho?Lalo na kung alam ko naman na mayroon akong kakayanan maliban sa regular na pagpaflush ng iniwang maruming kubeta. Mayroon din akong pwedeng gawin sa labas ng kung kani-kaninong bahay…..

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