lin dan!

remember my entry about mvp cup??? oh well, it turned out that my friend , jonjon , watched as well and he was able to ask lin dan for an autograph & have his picture taken.

















oh well, he's one of the reasons why i am still interested in badminton, hehe:)

conferences

I've been reading the blogs of my siblings & friends from SFC. I can't help but be envious of their SFC activities esp. the conferences they went to. Some conferences I've attended during my six years of stay in the community made a major impact in my life and the others, although the effect was not that intense, still empowered me. I must say that the most relevant conference (for 20 something people) I attended was the Lifestyle Conference back in '99. Mind you, after the conference I vowed not to buy Cosmopolitan Magazine (which I was collecting back then) anymore and I became less conscious of my looks but gave me an insight to focus more on developing my inner beauty. The best conference was the Family Conference. I do not want to elaborate on the details but I got total healing from this conference, enough said.

I haven't attended any conferences yet now that I'm in CFC. I do not know what type of conferences they have but I hope that they are as empowering as the ones I attended in SFC. I hope that we could attend soon because I am experiencing spiritual drought at the moment.

3-day weekend

Today is the last day of our 3-day weekend. I must say that I was able to relax fo the past 2 days. My husband & I went to Tagaytay last Saturday & Sunday, it was so relaxing! I was able to get a full sleep which has become rare to me these days! There are so many people in Tagaytay, guess lots of people want to unwind like us, we even saw my husband's friend, Dondi, hearing mass in Chapel on the Hill. Now, what will I do today? Hmmm. I'm going to attend a dance class w/my sister & some friends while my husband fixes his car. Hope we could still do something afterwards like watch movie, eat out or have some coffee. Whatever, basta gusto kong masulit pa ang araw na 'to:)

infidelity...hmmm

oh no, i'm not talking about myself here...i have a very happy lovelife:) it's just that a lot of the people around me (family & friends) were victims of this so-called infidelity lately. i saw the sadness in their eyes, how they were hurt & how hard it is for them to move on.

i have experienced this as well but i was not the recipient (i just don't want to dwell on it, those who knew me really well knew what happened to my family). that experience also had an effect on me, i thought i would never learn to trust men (i even told myself that i would never get married) but God has other plans. you see, in every experience, God is saying something to us. in my case, God told me to be careful in choosing my life partner which i did.

lately, with the things that happened to these people, i've learned that women are as capable as men in committing this. yes folks, so my previous assumption about men was totally wrong. but honestly, can you blame them (if they are not married that is, otherwise it will be a mortal sin)? if they are very technically single & they felt very drawn to this other person...can you really blame them? one of my friends said, it all boils down to values...that may also be true but all i can say is ...maybe that person is just really not meant for you. God will search a way for you to find "the one". maybe you met this person for you to know what you're really looking for in a partner, or maybe that person will lead you to someone who's really meant for you...you can never really tell. as I've said God will lead you in finding the right person for you even if it means you'll get hurt in the process. ouch!!! i know infidelity can do that, but that's part of life. you will never know the true meaning of joy if you were never hurt, much more the true meaning of love if you never knew how it felt to lose it.

so cheer up people (you know who you are), no need to mope around...be grateful that as early as now, you have discovered that he/she is not "the one" for you. as the saying goes, you may have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince:')