Funding for 40th Birthday Trip

Funding for 40th Birthday Trip: To celebrate my 40th birthday this year, I am set to go on a solo vacation to Cebu and ask for pledges for pocket money for that trip AND donations for the outreach/advocacy that I currently support – a group of scholars for their schooling.

Let's play caption this

I told you I'm not in the mood to blog...

I'm actually lazy now and can't think of captions for these photos...

So go ahead and play around with it...

And try to spot me in the photos as you do...

last few photos taken inside Sumaguing Cave

Sagada Outing and Outreach

I miss blogging...

I miss taking photos too...

But since I'm not much in the mood to blog so I will just upload photos here and share the links to my album during our trip to Sagada a few weeks back...

Thank goodness I grabbed the chance because it's my first time to go see Sagada!

Day 1 in Sagada

Morning of Day 2 in Sagada







And the final album contains photo of our outreach and our last day in Sagada

To see the rest of the photos click on the links below:

Sagada Day 1

Sagada Day 2 Morning

Sagada Day 2 Outreach and Day 3

Gravitate towards like

Last weekend, I joined my friend Sitti and the other Sittizens to visit this orphanage in Parañaque.  

When Sitti observed that we ended up with babies "like" us, it made me wonder how true that was and whether we do gravitate towards people like us...

photo edited to protect the baby's identity

In my almost 8 years of working in a school, I've always been working with highschool students.  The only interaction I've had with younger children is whenever they visit my co-counselors or when I encounter them when I roam the school grounds... People know how ambivalent I am when it comes to children and perhaps kids know it too because they steer clear of me as well haha Just kidding! I don't bite! I just don't do baby talk and would not initiate the cooing when faced with a baby or a toddler...  I would rather just observe and stay in the background...

Which may have led me to this baby girl in the orphanage... She was literally just observing and keeping quiet amidst the visitors in her little nursery... The rest of the group was welcomed by toothy grins and little arms together with a "carry me plea"... while she just observed and stayed put in her crib... 

While my other friends "picked" their baby, I ended up at her crib and trying to get a response... Wow! It was a test of patience I tell you... She was really just looking at me or just smiling... I was waiting for her to tell me her name! haha impossible of course because she was still too young to talk... 

Good thing my patience paid off... and when she finally "warmed up" I didn't expect her to start running around inside her crib and I mean literally! You know this sudden bust of adrenaline when you just need to run and expend this energy you have! Gah! Imagine the Tasmanian devil running around in a crib - that's what she did until she got tired of it and got distracted with the toys I was handing her...And she finally wound down and seated herself... Whoops! Define adrenaline rush...

Looking back at the time I spent with that little girl makes me wonder if whether you do gravitate with people who are more like you... As the old adage, birds of the same feather...and in the next breath, opposites attract too! So go figure! haha

One thing I'm sure of, I enjoyed the time I spent in that orphanage - it was a first for me in the sense that I really interacted with the babies - very unlikely of me because I would rather just observe and stay quiet...

Maybe it just takes a certain little soul to magnetize you... No wonder babies are the center of attention... you can't help but gravitate towards their innocence and effervescence.