Official Trailer: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
The official trailer of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows is out now:
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows will be released in two parts: part 1 is slated for a November 19, 2010 release, while part two will arrive in theaters on July 15, 2011.Excited na ako!
Smart Bro’s frequent down times recently is getting to my nerves! I’m thinking of getting a back-up ISP or maybe ditch Smart Bro altogether.
Here in my barriotic city, I have the following options:
Which one is better? I’d appreciate your feedback. Thanks a lot!
QQ (quotable quote) of the day:
Destiny is the bridge you build to the one you love. - My Sassy Girl
Recently…my days wouldn’t be complete without catching Simply KC. I know…I know…baka tumaas kilay nyo dyan! Well I can’t help it, natutuwa ako sa kanya.
During the summer season I was commuting from the barrio to the city on a daily basis in order to work online. On the average, I was just working 8 am to 2 pm days, with the hope of accomplishing more during school days. It’s been two weeks now that classes are going on and my days have gone really crazy.
I have already mentioned that a cousin is staying with us here in the city to help me with chores and with sometimes with Raine. However, he is also a college student (whom I am sort of helping out financially) and unlike last semester, he’s got a crazy class schedule this time.
Therefore I am mostly alone here… favorable to the fact that I need some peace and quiet while working. However, a disadvantage at times because - like any parent with school kids - my mornings can get really hectic. And so I have recently been starting my day at 4 am just to get a head start on stuff.
However, after a few days of waking up too early…it has taken a toll on me…that by Wednesday I am already snoozing during the 7 pm news, leaving Raine to close-up the house, practically. It’s good to sleep early right? It’s just that when I sleep too early in the evenings, I’ll be up and about by midnight.
So instead of staring in the ceiling and tossing and turning in bed, I’ll be working instead. And you know how that goes…I’ll be online through dawn! Worse, I just have to be up by 6 am to take care of my school kid. You get the picture… Ill be a zombie the whole day!
in my mind: the perfect work-at-home scenario
The downside to working at home is you get cooped up inside your house, in front of your computer all the time. Even breathing can get difficult at times. Air inside can get stale you know. Your electric fan blowing hot air in the summer heat. A/C is still too expensive.
With my meager blog pay, the fan and the computer alone brings my electric bill to a sky-high level. Electric power is just too expensive around here…not to mention the crappiest service that these electric coops provide us with…
I wonder when Smart Bro/Wi-max/Whatever-DSL or something else (Satellite internet? 50+K PHP for the unit alone! On second thought, that’s just 1+K USD! He he.) will ever reach my barrio?
Hmmmmmmmmm… online business…online business…shopping cart system..not to sell used books ha! Secret muna.
Oh well…in my mind there’s a perfect scenario I’m dreaming about. In my conversation with A over YM just now, this is what went on:
Me: u know.. times like these? i should be outside in our yard
kahit small table and beach umbrella lang
laptop ko andun
may internet!
that would be THE life!
open air,
crickets in concert
cool wind caressing the leaves
the branches swaying with the wind.
maybe a moon in the sky
starry skies
tapos mag yo yosi ka
tahimik! ahahha
SARAP!
A: this is not negative, how about mosquitos?
baka ma-dengue
Me: may electric mosquito killer naman
yung may UV light!
A: ok
Me: a cocktail in the other hand
A: take it easy
Me: ang mga mahal mo sleeping soundly sa loob ng bahay
A: yeah u want them sleeping kasi pasaway
Me: exactly!
hahaha
Always, I have loved what The Serenity Prayer says:
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can
and the wisdom to know the difference.
In all of life’s hullaballoos, if you can do all that…then you are off to a really, really peaceful life.
That way…there’s no need for pulse oximeters.
Fathers’ Day is special to me too. I’ve been a single parent and for years some friends of mine greet me on Fathers’ Day as well.
One advantage of being a single mom I guess, you get to be honored not just on Mothers’ Day but on Fathers’ Day too.I have a lot to say to Raine on this special day, but I’ll leave it for now and just include it in the LTR series one of these days.
Meanwhile.. I’ll just express some of my thoughts in a song.
Corny I know (Raine will probably say ewwwww! when he gets to read this!), but what the heck?! It’s my life… di ba?
LTR 2010-0001: To My Dearest Raine, On A Fine Saturday Morning
My Dearest Raine,
Last night I was particularly very happy that you went to bed on your own. When I checked a few minutes later, you were sound asleep. You weren’t even stirring that I realized you must be dead-tired considering the first week of school. After 3 months of oversleeping, you are forced to wake up at 6 am again.
You know it really stresses me a lot when you can’t sleep without me beside you.There are times I’m still working and you keep nagging me to go to bed. I know I should give in to your right away… but there are times my muse is on its ‘excited state’ that I can’t be disturbed. I’m sorry to say that your nagging disrupts my train of thoughts and it becomes too difficult to catch it back.
You see… it is just on Friday nights that I can have the TV to myself and for once watch something that I really want to watch. With some peace and quiet. That helps me sleep. Last night I finally went to bed at 12 midnight, you still weren’t stirring. Then the rain started to pour heavily — a huge blessing after months of dry spell. Besides, it got a lot cooler…making sleep more comfortable for the both of us. (more…)
I’ve decided to add 2 new categories to this blog that hopefully will take this blog to a new direction.
1) Letters To Raine (LTR)
It won’t be long that Raine is going to discover and read this blog to the letter. While he is mainly in 99% of the archives, I want to write blog entries that speaks directly to him. After all, he was the main reason this blog was created in 2004.
Letters to Raine will range from the mundane of stuff to life lessons I wanna document for him. I guess it would be nice that aside from talking a lot all the time to Raine, I have something in black in white to show him.
2) Glo’s Life Goals (GLG)
For somebody who has not been into resolutions and checklists, I wan’t to create a list of sorts for myself. Something I can tick off as I accomplish them. There’s just too much thoughts going through my head enough to keep me awake at night that I want to write them all (if possible!) before I forget about them in the mornings.
So there…I hope you’ll watch out for it.
Happy weekend everyone!
My money ran out so I am not yet done with Raine’s back-to-school shopping. I left out the big items such as trolley bag and a new rubber shoes. (Good thing that briefcases are not included in Raine’s shopping list!). Also.. small items like new white sandos and the likes.bMaybe in two week’s time (when the next pay arrives) I’ll be done with it all. I just needed to prioritize to stretch the budget.
On the other hand, we can wait 4 to 5 weeks more for my brother’s arrival. Raine was chatting with his Papa G yesterday and my brother promised to cover the items I haven’t bought (but Raine needs) when he comes home. Thank God for thoughtful brothers!
Yesterday, I had the longest day ever! It was really crazy… Because I slept early the other night while putting Raine to sleep, I was wide awake really early the following morning - at 3 am! So I decided to go ahead with my online stuff, thinking that I’ll be able to accomplish way much before it’s time to prepare Raine for school at 6 am.
So when 6 am came, I took care of Raine, helped him prepare, brought him to school and I got back excited to get back to writing. However, less than an hour into it…I ended up voice-and-video chatting with a long-lost friend of mine. Before I knew it, it was already time to get ready for Raine’s lunch break.
After lunch, my brother was buzzing my computer when I got back here. He wanted to chat too. So we did. For more than 2 hours! I told you…yesterday was indeed chika day! He he. Anyways, I was able to insert some more blog entries after chatting with my brother. Then it was again time to pick up Raine at school by 4 pm. When we went home together, I still had to take care of Raine first for various things. After which, I cooked/prepared dinner while hand-washing the laundry. Talk about multi-tasking, right?