On Birthday Greetings, Wedding Crashers and Dencio’s
Wednesday, August 10, 2005Teddy and I celebrated my birthday with lotsa chomping i mean oops… hehehe.. I also learned that Cap’n Pao of Via Astris and I share the same birthdate.
We watched Wedding Crashers and then ate at Dencio’s Bar and Grill. We had our favorite sisig and calamares. Yummy! We are definitely going back to Dencio’s soon.
To all my friends and buddies who greeted me, thanks! =) I want to let you know that the past year has been very good to me, thanks to all of you.
Here’s to more birthdays and looking forward to a better future.
Cheers!
Non-working holiday due to SONA 2005
Friday, July 22, 2005My officemate got a text message from her sister after our lunch break saying that Monday, July 25 is a non-working holiday. We asked, “But why??” Then we thought, could it be because of the SONA on Monday? hmm.. To satisfy our curiosity, we of course searched the net for the latest in the news but couldn’t find any.
We waited, and at 2:45, I finally got this from INQ7.net:
Monday a non-working day in Metro Manila
First posted 02:14pm (Mla time) July 22, 2005
By Christine O. Avendaño
Inquirer News Service
MALACAÑANG has declared Monday, July 25, a special non-working day in Metro Manila.
Monday is the opening of the second regular session of Congress.
In Proclamation No. 880, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the day was declared a non-working day “to encourage and give opportunity to Filipinos to listen to the [State of the Nation] address of the President and be involved in the affairs of the country.”
My officemate said that in the previous years, work is not suspended due to SONA. I wonder what’s the difference for this year.
I guess we’ll see on Monday.
Anyhoo, happy long weekend everyone!
Two traveling angels
Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family.
The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion’s guest room.
Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement.
As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it.
When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, “Things aren’t always what they seem.”
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife.
After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night’s rest.
When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears.
Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field.
The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen?
The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused.
The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die.
“Things aren’t always what they seem,” the older angel replied.
“When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall.
Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn’t find it.”
“Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead.
Things aren’t always what they seem.”
