Favorite...

Farewell to my most favorite woman... I love you.

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom, for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

I was not fortunate to inherit your green thumb... but still you tried your best to teach me to work the soil you love. As a child I saw you sow seeds and healthy plants grow. You used to fill our yard with roses and orchids. To this day, I am still ignorant of what you were trying to teach me... all I know is flowers are beautiful and you love them so.

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

You let me play outside as much as I want... as long as the sun is out but when night falls you would call me home and would bring out bring your slipper to my stubborn backside if I don't heed your call. You loved me and never hesitated to discipline me. Thank you.

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces, of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, sayin', "How do you do?"
They're really sayin', "I love you"

While I was growing up... I took you for granted. I know you love me and I love you but I have never spoken the words to you... when I was sure you would still understand me. It was too late when I was able to hold you hand and say "I love you"... I hope you heard me and understood. These past days... I've prayed hard that the Lord will let you feel how much I love you... across the distance... it was one miracle that I have asked of Him. In my heart, I know that He has granted my secret wish. I love you.

I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more, than I'll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

You heard me cry and watched me grow... and I think I did learn more... but most are not as important as those you have tried to teach me. You tried to teach me how to conduct myself as a girl... how to keep house... how to cook... how to sew... you were great in all these aspects and I was (still) a slow learner. The best lesson I learned from you and I hoped I learned well is to be strong. Despite the challenges you faced... you did not give up... you did your best with your abilities to keep moving forward. You worked hard despite whatever emotional or physical pain you feel. You had faith and would pray even when you could barely keep track of your rosary. You were independent. You are our role model.


Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Oh yeah

Without you, we will not be here. Farewell my beloved Lola and rest in peace. It was an honor to have been your favorite granddaughter.

Sheet Music - Ave Maria in G Major by Franz Schubert

Hallows!!! I've playing around with Finale Notepad... you can download it for free from here.
Now what would inspire me to find a music sheet and retype it in Finale? hehehe Anime of course. My sister forwarded a link a few weeks ago... it was an anime series called La Corda d`Oro. I watched the entire series on crunchyroll and if you are interested you can start here. There were several classical music played on the series but what seems to be the main piece (played more than once and on several episodes....) was Ave Maria by Franz Schubert.

Now if you liked the anime and would like to try playing it on the violin maybe the attached Finale file will help you get started. You can transpose it automatic in Finale to any key you want and you can make it faster or slower so you can practice with it.

So can I play it yet? Wahaha nope. It's still wishful thinking on my part.

**You need Finale Notepad to open attached file ave_maria_GMajor_high.MUS**

Ave

Hang on Tight

Hang on Tight
Originally uploaded by h20tubig

Yesterday was Hope Northeast's Family Day. We gathered in Sentosa to have fun with family and friends. ^_^ Among the games played was Catch the Merlion's Tail... it was fun and very tiring. hehehe Even if I did not join... I was laughing hard along with them.

When I got home and starting working on the pictures... I started to remember other "touch tail" games I have witnessed or participated in. It brings back cheery days from Chikka's summer outings... my high school's week long anniversary celebration... playing on the streets with childhood friends... fooling around with my cousins.

Yesterday was enjoyable and it makes me doubly happy to remember fleeting memories from the past.

hallows... kulit lang saglit... am craving liempo

Parang ang tagal tagal ko na di naglologin dito.... di na ako updated... oh well... just want to pop up here and say HI!!! to my friends. hehehe buhay pa po ako.

Tsaka.... pano ba mag grill sa stove? Bumili kami ng stove top grill kasi nangangarap ako gumawa ng liempo. wahahaha hay. gutom na naman ako.

Alam kong BAWAL to saken... pero nagcracrave ako... di ko gusto lasa ng barbecue dito... gusto ko ng LIEMPO!!!! hahaha

Ang Gulang ng Meralco! Balik Bayad!!!!!

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/gma/20080515/tph-casi-o-calls-for-refund-of-systems-l-d6cd5cf.html
Ngayon ko lang nabalitaan na ang gulang ng meralco! Tayo nagpapakahirap magbayad ng kuryente at tax tapos sila libre kasi tayo pala pinagbabayad! Wah!!! Balik bayad! Balik bayad!

Care Package From Home

Here's the package sent to me from home. ^_^ It had food, clothing, favorite sheets and towels inside. =)
I now have a month's worth of my favorite wafers... I know there are a lot of wafers here but I really love Nissin's wafer. They sent over several packs of toasted mamon. I brought a pack to the office and my officemates liked it. Oh and they sent over lots of my bath soap too. ^_^ hehehe The clothes I liked a lot and they fit except for a couple of pants and a blouse that was too loose. hehehe It has been a while since I tried on a top that's LOOSE! Now why are they sending me clothes right? Well... clothes here are quite expensive (based on price and quality relationship) and it's really hard to find clothes that fits me. At least in Manila, we already know which shops sells clothes that has a high probability of fitting me and with far better quality for a fraction of the price here. ^_^

Going Home

going home
Originally uploaded by h20tubig

Am supposed to be home today... but due to work... and the fact that I am not yet registered with POEA... am still here. Hay... I miss a lot of people, a lot of places and the food.

Fortunately, Mama sent a package over from Bacolod... in it were clothes that I badly need, blankets and towels that I like and food from home. ^_^ I guess than will do for now... hmmmm... they should have packed my baby brother in too. I miss the brat. Thank you to my wonderful family for sending me a care box. hehehe

Oh well... back to work for me.

Hallway to rooms

Hallway to rooms
Originally uploaded by h20tubig

For the past week, I have been last to turn off the hallway lights... which is not the norm. Usually I would turn in early and Janice would retire later and she's usually the last one to turn off the lights. But since last weekend, she's not home... She went to a church camp in Thailand. Just a few moments ago, she sent me an sms saying she's back in Singapore... their plane just landed a little while ago. ^_^ It's been a lonely week with work keeping me out late and no one to chat or be grumpy with later. And.... I hate being last to turn of the lights. hahaha I have been sleeping with the room lights on. Janice please please hurry home so I could finally have my first good night sleep in days. ^_^ hehehe no wonder I was anemic back in Manila. wahahaha

Janice! Am not so slow anymore! wahahahaha

My laptop has been booting real slow these past few days and Janice was suggesting that I upgrade my unit. I was considering it but I just use my laptop to post process pics (if I remember to make time) or to surf hehehe I'm still happy with it (even if I haven't fix my sound card yet) and the only thing that irked me is that it takes almost 2 minutes to boot. =)
Searching for the answers online... I stumbled on bootchart... sorry I forgot to bookmark the site where I chanced upon it. Anyway... it's easy to install... just apt-get install bootchart

It makes a pretty picture where we can check boot sequence and how long it took for each application.... so based on this pretty picture... (I cropped most of it... sorry) Usplash was taking a loooooooong time.So after I removed Usplash which is just a boot up beautifier by suppressing the lines of logs usually filling the screen.... my boot time was significantly shorter. Yey!

Kim Diosa

Kim
Originally uploaded by h20tubig

It's been a week or so since you have gone home after your OJT stint here in SG. Hope you finish college soon and come back here. We miss you. Take care. ^_^

Hi Owie!

Owie, Me, Joy @ Bugis, Sg

It's been years since we last saw each other... over the years you have not lost your bubbly personality. ^_^ Good luck, keep in touch and thanks for dropping by to visit me and Joy.

Me Again!!!

Another pic Janice took of me... Yey! Saya may nagpipicture saken. wahahahaha
Siempre... this is me... jaywalking. =P

Hello Gimp!

Been using gimp for a few months now and it really irks me that gimp does not have the action capabilities of photoshop.... well I was wrong. It does have that action capability... BUT you have to write the script for it. No shortcut like in either photoshop or firewords where you just save from history. Eniways.... heres a script that will place "photographed by h20water" at the bottom right corner of images. ^_^ Save the code as some_filename.scm and drop it into gimp's scripts folder.


; An example script that writes a fixed string in the current
; image.
(define (script-fu-stamp-h20water img drawable)

(define text-float)

(let* (
(y_start (- (car(gimp-drawable-height drawable)) 11) )
(x_start (- (car(gimp-drawable-width drawable)) 120) )
(img_h (car(gimp-drawable-height drawable)) )
(img_w (car(gimp-drawable-width drawable)) )
(watermark (car (gimp-layer-new img
img_w img_h 0
"Watermarked" 100 0)))
)

;work with "watermarked" layer
(gimp-layer-add-alpha watermark)
(gimp-drawable-fill watermark 3)
(gimp-image-add-layer img watermark -1)

;set to b & w
(gimp-context-set-default-colors)


; Create the text. See the Procedure Browser for parameters of gimp-text.
(set! text-float (car (gimp-text-fontname img watermark
x_start y_start "photographed by h20water" 0 1 8 0
"Sans")))

; Anchor the selection
(gimp-floating-sel-anchor text-float)
)

; Flush output
(gimp-displays-flush)

)

(script-fu-register "script-fu-stamp-h20water"
"stamp h20water"
"stamp photographed by h20water in the current image"
"H20water "
"H20water"
"2008-03-07"
"RGB*, GRAY*"
SF-IMAGE "Input Image" 0
SF-DRAWABLE "Input Drawable" 0)
(script-fu-menu-register "script-fu-stamp-h20water"
"/Xtns/Haya")

Kitchen Updates + EP!!!!

March 2 marks the end of Janice's lease to her Tampines flat and I had to say goodbye to her kitchen, the one that I have become accustomed to using. Before we left, I was able to try making fried rice with ham and egg. It was edible but I kinda left out the salt so it was salt or pepper to taste. hehehe They said it was fine and to make it again... I did not eat it though because it would surely jack up my bad cholesterol level. hahaha Janice likes fried rice so I'll probably make this once in a while... at least I know what stuff I put in there. ^_^

We moved to our new place last weekend and I finally got the chance to cook in our "new" kitchen. I tried cooking shrimp with fried oatmeal... and Janice is currently sitting beside me finishing it off. hehehe yummy! I like the "old" kitchen but the "new" one I like better... will be posting pics soon.

Aside from moving and trying out new recipes, we joined the Hope church sports fest (will post pics soon) and I finally got my employment pass!!! Yehey!!! Now I need to find time (or inclination) to visit the embassy and poea. hehehe

Congratulations Julie!

Congratulations to my cousin Julie Christine Cuansing for passing the December 2007 Nursing Licensure exam. ^_^

This is me.

This is me.
Originally uploaded by h20tubig

It's been a while since I had a picture of myself that I really like. ^_^
This is me just 2 days after my 28th birthday. A great result of me and Janice working together. ^_^

Yahoo!

I started work yesterday... so far orientation mode pa ako sa office. Met more new pinoy friends too. ^_^ Nakakatuwa, nilalapitan nila ako to welcome me. Super nawalan ako ng kaba na baka wala ako makausap sa office. ^_^

Printer Adventures ::
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Day 1.0: Super high tech ng printer (sorry wala sa bundok namen ang model na to)... nagprint ako di ko mahanap kung saang slot lumabas sa dami ng trays... so ginawa ko print ulit ako... sabay takbo para pakinggan kung saan nanggagaling ang sound ng papel na linuluwa. harharhar
Since na double ang print ko... tanong ko kung saan nilalagay ang scratch... di ako naintindihan nung dumaan... akala niya nagtatanong ako pano magxerox. hehehe

Day 1.1: Email from HR, may form kailangan daw papirmahan sa boss ko at email pabalik sa kanya... since email galing and email pabalik... forward ko naman sa boss ko thinking na digital signature ang ilalagay niya. Tama diba? well... MALI! hahaha ayun... nilapag ng boss ko sa harap ko hard copy ng form na may pirma niya. hehehe Di pa nag tapos dun... eh diba sabi ng HR email ko sa kanya yung form... so hanap ako ng scanner. Tama naman diba? hehehe Tama nga. Tinuro ako ng officemate ko sa scanner. ^_^
Guess what... yung scanner... at yung high tech printer ay iisa. Buti nalang yung napagtanungan ko ngayon ay naintindihan ako... tinuruan ako pano magscan to email. ^_^ Aliw!


Day 1 lesson learned: mababait at matutulungin new officemates ko kahit na di kami nagkakaintindihan minsan. (2 palang nakilala kong Filipino nung day 1 at pareho sila nakaupo malapit sa boss ko kaya di ko ginambala para magpatulong sa printer. hehehe)
Tsaka... kahit mas malaki pa sa akin ang printer... di niya ako kakainin. hmph.


Day 2: parang nag growl saken ang printer nung dumaan ako. wahahahaha

Day 2 lesson learned: kahit mas malaki pa sa akin ang printer... di niya ako makakain.

Kitchen Updates

This is Janice's kitchen. This is where I have been learning to cook. ^_^ Usually I mess up the area but I try to clean it ASAP. hehehe The picture does not show it but the kitchen area is quite roomy... the counter you see on the picture is just half and it occupies just a third of the kitchen area. ^_^ It's well equipped to cover my basic cooking needs and there are lots and lots of cupboard spaces.
















So far... I have successfully added the following recipes to my can do list. ^_^

Bistek

Crabstick Salad -- does making a salad count as cooking?

Soy Chicken(like this a lot!)

Kailan with Pineapple -- Kailan is a local vege that Janice likes. ^_^

Tilaok ng Manok

Pansin ko lang.... wala ako naririnig na tilaok ng manok dito. Kahit nung nasa Ortigas ako nakatira... may naririnig ako na manok. hay... hindi. hindi ako nahohomesick. hmph.