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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Greetings!

Hope you all had a Happy Christmas and an even more enjoyable New Year!

-From the De Guzman home-

Labels: Christmas, family

Friday, December 21, 2007

Afro Christmas

Yours truly,

Ellaine

Lui

Labels: office, random

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Marielle the Elf

This is good fun! In line with the holiday season, my colleagues and I Elfed Ourselves.

Watch Ellaine, Neil, me and Lui jiggle, wiggle and shake to Jingle Bells!

Try it. Elf Yourself, too, and if you wanna put a smile on my face (or make me fall off my seat with laughter), send me your Elfed Selves links.

Advanced Merry Christmas to all!

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Coldplay 2008 Album

I've just been reading about Coldplay's fourth album which is scheduled to be released sometime in 2008. Now that's definitely something for me to look forward to! After an unofficial album titled Castles was released in December 2006, I had been left wanting. Someone even commented that "it's just a bunch of b-sides. someone decided to put it together and make it a CD called 'castles'... they even gave it a cover..."

Now, while I think that's kind of harsh, I should be an honest critic even to a band I adore so much. For some reason, none of the songs from Castles had the same impact on me as songs like Fix You, Swallowed in the Sea or Yellow from previous GENIUS records. Hopefully, the 2008 album will showcase songs that could blow a listener away (kinda like the effect Fix You had on so many people when it was playing on the radio like 100 times a day. that's how powerful a track it was, and is). I read that the upcoming 42-minute CD will have a different sound and even contain a song Chris Martin had described as one "everybody should hear before we die." Now that is a bold statement to make and enough to wet the appetite of any fan.

I can't wait! And I will muster up every ounce of patience I have not to download the songs. Must... wait... for... the... ORIGINAL CD! *whew!*

Related stuff I've read online:

Washington Post
Wikipedia

Reuters
ColdplayingDotCom

Labels: music

Monday, December 10, 2007

Mentally Unhealthy

"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind."
~G.K. Chesterton

The whole of last week, I had been uncharacteristically morose. People around me noticed that something was troubling me. I myself would be the first to admit that I was preoccupied and bothered, so much so that I turned into a scatter-brain and was totally incapable of being my cheerful self.

Last week may have been one of the worst couple of days I've had in years. This was simply because I had gotten (or allowed myself to get) so caught up about my health. It was something I had taken for granted for the longest time. Now, I find myself faced with a direct threat to my total physical well-being and I can't but worry worry worry that I may never get my full health back completely.

I'd managed to live a healthy lifestyle thus far and am in fact surrounded by a family of doctors. Despite that, I'm not exempted from getting sick; no one is. There's only so much we can do to preserve our health anyway. At the same time, like every normal person, I want to be healthy, utterly and completely in the best physical shape at all times.

I guess I was just being too much of a worry wart last week. Some of these sicknesses just need to take their course; they eventually resolve themselves (at least we kinda hope they do). There's really no reason for me to get so caught up in worrying about it at the expense of my mental health.

And of course, I can always just cling to this promise and put my doubts to rest:
"...I am God your healer."
Exodus 15:27

Labels: health