The Monastery

In my previous post, i told you about our visit in a monastery. Now I'm going to share to you the pictures we took from the place.

Everything is scheduled in the Monastery

Books of Faith

Isn't the flower cute?

Nuns Dress(taken inside the room)

They really prepared the room for us...and we really liked it!

Christ's Image

We were not able to get up stare.

The Conference room

The Chapel

The Main building in the monastery.

The Retreat House

So that's the monastery looks like. If you notice I never mentioned the name of the monastery that's because it's a cloistered community. You cannot get inside without a permission from the Mother Superior. We took pictures but we were not sure if it's allowed there so to be fair enough I didn't mention the place na lang.

Three Days of Living a Contemplative Life

Wow! What a weekend!

My friend, Cha and I had been planning to visit a monastery ever since and stay there for days...we don’t have plan of entering in a congregation though…we just want to experience a monastic life. Hmmm…maybe u guessed already what’s this article all about, noh? Yes, we visited a monastery(nuns)…a cloistered community with people(monks) who live a contemplative life.

It was Kuya Eigene(a former seminarian now a postulant) who introduced the monastery to Cha. And Cha who knew that I am also interested on the thing told me about it. Then we decided to visit the said monastery and asked permission to the Mother Superior if we could search in. We were so grateful when the Mother Superior(a Japanese) gladly said “yes”. She said that the workshop (search in) should be at least three days. So after our exams last week I went there with Cha.

There are only five nuns there, 2 are Japanese and the 3 are Filipinas. The Mother Superior is a bit older than the others (70years old), the other Japanese Nun is 51years old. The three Filipina Nuns are at their 40s. They look young though. In fact if they didn’t tell us how old they are, we might think that they are young 10 years younger than their real age. The main language they use is English because the Japanese Nuns cannot understand Filipino language. Kaya pansamantalang naging englisera kami ni Charisse hangang sa dumugo2 and aming mga ilong.

Kidding aside, living a contemplative life is hard if you are not used to. We had hard time of adjustment on our first day there. When we arrived, Mother whispered us to keep our silence. There is a time to chat (just 30 minutes during recreation) but most of the time they devote themselves into solitude. Even in works like, washing the dishes and cleaning the rooms, you are not allowed to talk unless you have permission from your mistress. Silence in work is offered to God. It should be coupled with prayer…prayer for the poor, for those who are suffering, sick and the like. Their everyday life is tide up with prayers--morning prayer, midmorning prayer, noon prayer, mid afternoon prayer, afternoon prayer and evening prayer, mid evening prayer. In the middle of morning and midmorning prayer, and afternoon and evening prayer there’s a 1hour contemplative prayer. In my first contemplative prayer I really ran out of words. Nakapikit na lang ako at nakikiramdam sa mga susunod na mga gagawin.

God’s presence is everywhere in everything you do. The solemnity of the place makes you feel that He is always beside you…even when darkness fills the night.

It was, indeed, an extraordinary weekend for Cha and I. It was a cloistered community, thus, people are not allowed to enter the monastery unless they are permitted to. Lucky are we to have had searched-in there. I may not be destined to be a monk but for sure, the memories I had in the monastery will always remain in my heart…and I will cherish it forever. It was really a great weekend!

Examination Days

Next week(monday-wednesday) will be our examination day... plss pray for me guys na makakuha ako ng matataas na scores...wanna go back to the dean's lists.. hayzz... lost it last 2nd sem kasi... it's not that important to me though... kasi i know naman my capacity as a student... hindi man ako 'yong super galing pagdating sa klase alam ko nman sa sarili ko na mayroon akong ibubuga..minsan nga lang nakakapanghinayang. ako kasi yong rush kung mag-aral ng leksyon(minsan nga hindi pa)..tas when i get to get my grade na.. doon na naman ako nghihinayang. phew.. ganyan talaga, nasa huli palagi ang pasisisi.

sometimes i blame the internet nga eh.. medyo adik kasi ako eh.. kaya mnsan huli ng pumasok sa klase sa kakainternet..minsan nga umaabsent na lang..kaya rin minsan hindi nakakatake ng mga quizes. hay..

no grades below 85 with an average of 90 ang nakapasok sa dean's list sa school namin.. last sem my lowest grade was 88 however my average didn't reach 90 kaya ayon...nagsisi na naman ang lola nyo.

well, honestly gusto kung makabawi this year.. 4th year na kaya ako noh. Huwag lang sana akong tamarin kasi na! hayzz.. kaya sana tulungan nyo akong magpray for my exam... salamat in advance! :)

The Fifth Commandment of Yaweh

“Honor thy father and mother”

That’s the FIFTH COMMANDMENT of God according to the Bible.

One after noon when I arrived home I saw my mom with other neighbors talking to an old woman, who looked either a beggar or crazy because she’s so dirty (and smelly according to mom), in front of the chapel beside our house. I didn’t mind them though, instead I went home and watched T.V.. When my mom went in the house, I asked her ‘who’s that woman and why were they talking to her.’ She said, the woman was a vegetable vendor. She came from Tupi and soled her vegetable there but unfortunately, her money was stolen from her so she walked from there(Tupi) to our place. “Anways, Kagawad Barrientos will take her home.” said my mother. “Poor old woman.” I added.

The next morning when I woke up, mom told me that the old woman was still there. She also asked me to give the her food to eat for she(the old woman) might be very, very hungry. I hurriedly went to the kitchen and got her food. I gave her the food and she softly said thank you. I asked her where she live and why was she there. She said, she’s from Marbel(the term we call the Koronadal City proper)…and that she’ll go home after the mass. There I learned that she was not crazy. I also gave her coffee.

Three days had passed and the old woman was still there in front of the chapel. Whenever a person offered her to go home she'll just nod…but when someone carries her and her things to a vehicle, she’ll go angry. There were people also who gave her money for her fare but she didn’t dare to live the place. Whatever things or problems she may had we didn't not know. But one thing I am sure with, the woman is lonely--not literally lonely though...but lonely in the sense that she has no family to take care of her...guess she was abandoned...

After talking to her, I felt pity for her. "Does she have family? Where are they? Are they looking for her?" i asked my self. I cannot imagine my parents looking like that of the old woman when they grow old. Parents should be loved and valued. When they grow old it’s our responsibility as their children to take good care of them just how they took care of us when we were still small. It’s not really necessary that we give them material things. Just some attention and they’ll be okay...and if you don’t want our parents be like that old woman, thus, we should honor them and gave them importance.

Three days after the old woman left the our place. We don't know where did she go...if she went home or just find another place again to be her temporary home.

PS Students Declared NO CLASS After Their Retreat

I am so guilty right now.

After the our retreat in GenSan PS students declared NO CLASS on friday, July 25, 2008. it was just a sort of joke at first...we were kinda tired kasi. We were just laughing at the thought that we will not go to school after the retreat for the reason that we still have hangovers. When one of our classmates said "Oi indi na lang bala ta magsulod sa klase bwas." others anwered "Sige." But we were not sure that time yet...Still in doubt pa. When kath, the neirdest person in the group, said "Ok, hindi ako papasok bukas..and that's FINAL!" I made a decision na hindi na rin ako papasok...all decided na hindi na papasok. and that's it, we didn't go to our class yesterday.

I was at my aunts boarding-house that friday afternoon when a friend, Charisse, texted me that I have letter from Sister Andy, saying that the officers of WAC(Women's Advocacy Center) will be having an urgent meeting that afternoon. I had hard time thinking what to do that time, whether I will attend at the meeting or not. I was in a dilemma. If I'll go to school and attend the meeting, there's a possibility that our teachers will see me. If I won't go,on the other hand, Sister Andy might think that I'm not a good leader. So I took the risk of going to school...

I saw Kath at the meeting area too. When we were about to go out in the room where the meeting was held, I saw Sir Joseph, I pulled Kath's hand to go back inside the classroom baka makita kami ni Sir. And sabi n'ya naman "Nakita n'ya na ako kanina." sabay labas. Sumabay na rin ako at ayon na nga, nakita din ako ni Sir. Tiningnan n'ya kami ni Kath na as if karumal-dumal ang krimeng nagawa namin. Wala akong nagawa kundi ang yumoko na lamang.

Sir Joseph is always like that...we're used to it na actually...but yesterday was different, maybe because I'm guilty...guilty sa ginawa namin sa kanya...sa kanila. Just imagine waiting for your students to come inside the classroom and then no one comes. phew!

We're so bad talaga. And to think that we just came from a retreat. *T_T* I can't help but feel sorry sa ginawa namin(ko). Para ngang nahihiya na akong magpakita sa mga teachers ko nextweek. hayyzzzz...

Retreat in General Santos City

Hi guys. Just arrived yesterday from a two days retreat in Holy Cross Center, Calumpang, General Santos City.

Honestly, before we went to GenSan the only thing that's inside my mind was "just go with the flow weng". I'm going for a retreat because it's one of the requirements for graduation...that's all. But you know what, when we arrived at the venue area...things changed. I began to reflect and evaluate myself as a person... I realized that I was there in the place not just of the "requirement-thing" but to discover my self more, to share with other people, to renew myself and to be with God again.

I could not put into words the gratitude and happiness i'm feeling right now. Basta I'm very much glad and thankful that the school required us for a retreat. It was worth our time...It was something I'll treasure and never forget for the rest of my life.


P.S
The photos i promise to post here will be posted next week. We were not be able to take photos during the retreat because the facilitator didn't allow us--makakadisturbo daw kasi. All our gadgets, cellphones, mp3/ipod, and cameras taken and just given back to us when the retreat was over. The facilitators have our photos though...and they allow us to copy it later. :)

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Out of Town!

Tomorrow we(graduating students) will be having our retreat at Calumpang, General Santos City. Honestly I haven't prepared yet. Lol.

Anyways, i'll try to post some photos here that will be taken during our retreat in gensan.. :)

toinks! tat's all, just wanna inform you that i'm out of town for two days...
tata!

SY 2007-2008 is over!

it was posted ilang araw before the examination day.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

SY 2007-2008 is over!

whew! the school year ends! congrats to the graduates of batch 2007-2008! :) proud of yah guys! :)

tapos na na din sa wakas ang tress at pressure para sa final exams! whew! 4th yr na jud ko(how did you say so?)! wooohhoo! kinda afraid though.. did not study during the exams.. waaaaaa.. dami kaisng gnawa eh.. whooaaa.. i hope i will be able to get high grades pa rin--kung hindi magigng dean's lost ka wenggay! ok lang din naman noh.. hahah.. atleast kahit papaano naging member nman ng honor society--kahit hndi nagastudy maxado!!! hahaha...

neweiz, we had a lot of fun last night! as in fun! hahah... we gave a tribute party to the 4th years polsci studs...kahit medyo late na nag-umpisa yong program(my program ba?) eh enjoy naman yong party. well, the program started past 8 na so we decided na sa gitna ng program na lang kmi kakain instead na after ng program...but what happened is that pagkatapos na kain eh mukhang naenjoy ata ng lahat(specially the graduates) na mapicture2 so ayon hanggang sa naligo na lang iyong iba eh hindi na tinapos ang suposed to be program ng mga lower years... toinks.. we didn't want nman to spoil the night for the 4thyears(graduates na pala) so nagsiliguan na lang ang lahat! well, kahit hindi natapos ang program "kuno" the THING is they(graduates) ENJOYED the night and had lots of fun...naglaro kasi kmi sa swimming pool ng "habulan" at "open and close the basket" eh...pero ibang version non...intead na magsasabi yong taya ng "open the basket, close the basket, change partner" he will going to say "tao, bahay, bagyo"...when he says tao, that means, tatakbo yong tao sa loob at maghahanap na papasukang "basket"(or taong naghahawak kamay), when he says "bahay" yong 2 person na naghahawak kamay eh maghahanap na taong icacaptures, pagsnabi namang "bagyo" eh magkakagulo na at ang mga kahit cnu pweding maging basket at atong makukulong...kung cnu yong maiwan sa gita sya yong taya! whew! super saya talaga! :) namaos nga ako ska muntik na di makahinga! hahaha

basta ang saya.. nag-enjoy talaga ang lahat!
to all the polsci graduates, CONGRATZ sa inyo! :) gonna face the real word na, kaya nyo yan! aja! kayo pa!

Posted by Weng at Tuesday, March 18, 2008 0 comments

umiral na naman ang katangahan ko!

Monday, March 10, 2008

umiral na naman ang katangahan ko!

after my major i hurriedly went outside the class room and went to the canteen for i am very hungry--was not able to take my breakfast this morning... i was eating my branch (Breakfast and Lunch) when i remember to text my boyfriend. I checked my pocket but my cellphone was not there so i opened my bag and looked for it but i did not find it there...my heart beated so fast then i decided to go back into the classroom wishing and praying that i'll find my cp there and no one had stole it. when i got inside the room i saw my cellphone on the desk of the chair where i had seated.. Thank God it was still there! whew!

It was not the cellphone, actually, that is important... What makes me worried is the numbers and the messages stucked in there... the numbers, are very important enable for me to communicate with my love ones and my friends and classmates... and i'll treasure the messages in there so i am very much thank full it was not stolen! oh, thank you God! :)

Bussy Me!

It was posted before the final examination days.

Bussy Me!

I have done so much things this week. and actually, I’ll be quite busy in the following weeks. Kinda tired but I’m glad I still have time to get online though.

Reasons for my bussy days:

• The Political Science Week. Our club decided to have a one week activities at school with the theme: "Anti-Political POlitics". The following activities were the concert(politics in lyrics), film viewing ( Schindler’s list, Gone with the wind, and The inconvenient truth), Battle of the Brains(a quiz bowl), and the meeting de avance wherein the agenda is to meet and know more about the aspiring SSG officers( the club facilitates the said activity). Being an officer of the club I have corresponding works/tasksto do. But those works/tasks are not that really hard though. Actually, I was not able to attend the said activities because it was held during night time, our school is quite far from home. My parents wont allow me to stay in school that late coz it’s kinda dangerous to go home at night and there are no jeeps nor tricycles na sasakyan. And honestly speaking, I am a bit passive with regards to the school activities---for some reasons ofcorz! So para makabawi I did all the buying of all the materials needed and help making the posters and posted it.

• Course Promotion. Our club moderator suggested that we should make a way to promote our course to the graduating HS students because the course enrollees decreased this school year and she’s afraid that we might get nominated for suspension. Now the club agreed for a room to room course promotion at the High Schools in the City. This activity will start on Wednesday (tomorrow) until Friday.

• SSG Election. Our club volunteered as COMELEC for our university SSG election, so we facilitate the said election. We made the ballot boxes, posters to announce to the students the election day and guide them where to vote. We are also assign to guide the students during votation and count the vote after. Well, ofcorz the works are subdivided and there's the so called "shifting" of time sa pagbabantay ng prinsinct polls.
  
• Bulletin Board. PSS decided to make a bulletin board wherein concerned NDMUans could express/share their thoughts and opinions with regard to the grand issues in town.
• Course Requirements. We have so many requirements at school but this subject, The Local Gov’t. in the Philippines, is our main concern as of the moment. It will be passed and presented next week so we are working hard for this. The requirements include the profile of the certain LGU where we are assigned(I and my group were assigned to the Province), the list of the LGU’s officials, their functions and duties, League of LGU and etc. We have visited the site of the province but the informations we got there are not enough so we to go to the different provincial departments. Also we are required to interview the local chief executive. In our case, we were not able to interview the governor(just the admin.) because she is so busy. Actually we have just interviewed the said admin yesterday. If I have time, I will share to you our interview-experienced. Hehe. I also have this project entitled "Pastoral Integration" where in I need to get informations about my own Parish Church and GKK including my involvement in the church activities.We are under the parish church of TAmpakan though we are not part of the town for the reason that our Barangay is nearer to the town than to the City proper of Korondal, the city where we belong. This is the reason why I was in Tampakan yesterday(stated on my other blog)and actually, I came back to the town just this morning to gather informations because there was no office yesterday---dunno why, and super pa talaga akong naghintay sa wala--- and am glad i was able to get the information i needed for my project. GKK info na lang ang kulang ko ngayon. but it's ok though, tabi lang naman kasi namin yong chapel sa bahay anf kilala ko naman yong mga officers and persons that i need to interview.
  

So that’s it. Those thing made me busy these passed days. I hope I could still update my blogs by the next days. Finals is fast approaching so medyo magiging bussy ang lola nyo. hehehe

wish me luck guys.. :)

Posted by Weng at Tuesday, February 26, 2008 0 comments

Crushes

Crushes

Do you have crushes? Me? I have bunch of… haha… I do remember that I was in kindergarten when I first have had a crush on one of my classmates named Jeffry. And you know what? It lasted for over 5yrs… hahaha… When I reached High School, I shifted to pop icons. I went crazy over those band boys and animes. My ultimate crush happens to be Ben Adams of A1. I have so much copies of song hits and I almost bought all their albums. And I always voted for their song on MyMix before to get into the Hit Chart. But when I reached College my taste on men changed. I became more attracted to my professors and to classmates who have “gender crises” (others are really identified as… you know… ‘BS’)---good thing my boy friend is straight-oriented! Funny, eh? But it’s true… and I don’t know why am feeling this way. All I know is that most people who are like them are responsible and funny to be with... no dull moments when you are with them. Maybe those are the factors why i get so attracted with them. Pero aside from them marami pa akong mga crushes like athletes, student leaders etc…sa mga ganoon lang talaga ako madaling maatract.

Pero sa dinami-dami nang mga crush ko I never thought of having relationship to anyone of them—can’t imagine. Hahaha…

How about you? Do you have crushes too? Why don’t you share it with us?

Posted by Weng at Saturday, February 23, 2008 0 comments

Am I ready to get married???

Am I ready to get married???

Got this from Sheng... it was a sort of a test.. i was kinda curious so i decided to take the this as well... and i was surprised with the result...

Here, have a glimpse:

You Are 67% Ready for Marriage

You are almost ready for marriage, and you could be ready to be engaged. You're still figuring out the details of your ideal relationship!

Are You Ready for Marriage?

Try it too and see your scores... hehehe

Posted by Weng at Tuesday, February 19, 2008 0 comments

Advance greetings

Advance greetings

A day to go at araw na ng mga puso... i think lahat ata ay excited sa araw na ito eh.. bakit kaya noh? hehehe.. anyways, i just want to greet you all an advance

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Happy Birthday Tina!
Wish you all the bests girl! hugs

2 comments:

ilovephilippinestoo said...

Happy Valentines Day to all! Hmmmm... Love is in the air. Where and who is your date on that da Weng?

Ingat palagi.

12 February, 2008

Traveling Free said...

Spending the special Valentines Da with your loved one in an island is really a freat escapade.

Happy Valentines Day to all!

12 February, 2008