2011: Toward a Desired END

Being Healthy

2011-04-19T13:51:00.000+08:00

After 2 years of giving myself an exercise routine and a leisurely diet choice to keep me healthy--that of bringing my LDL ("bad" cholesterol) to low levels and increasing my HDL ("good" cholesterol)-turning points were marked. But the discipline of eating remain a yardstick. Today, let me start a new challenge. Courtesy of Oprah's Four Weeks to Healthy Eating, I will indulge myself to week 1-4 prescription.

Week One: Make a Produce-Aisle Hit List

Eating more fruits and vegetables is one of the most important dietary habits you can adopt to prevent heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and hypertension and to manage your weight. Vegetables in particular will cost you little in the way of calories while offering huge health benefits.

Your weekly goal is to eat five to nine servings of fruits and veggies a day. That's not as challenging as it may seem. The serving sizes are reasonable—one medium-size fruit, a half cup of cooked vegetables, three-quarters of a cup of 100-percent juice, one cup of raw leafy vegetables, a quarter cup of dried fruit. Mix fruit into your breakfast cereal, add lettuce and tomato to your sandwich (with a side of a vegetable-based soup), eat a piece of fruit in the afternoon and a vegetable side at dinner, and you've taken care of at least five servings.

Before shopping, write down the names of five richly colored vegetables and fruits that you really like, then add to the list two that you're curious about and are willing to try.

brewing something

2010-08-08T07:25:00.001+08:00

We let Beacons die its natural death. We're part-timers that's all that limit us. But the vision and the desire for change do not stop us. These remained in our hearts. And with that, our minds don't stop to find ways on how to make things happen. We found a champion... she was there all along. On a self-declared holiday, I found an opportunity... an entrapment I may say... but that's creativity I guess. Lo and Behold! We are going on a third meeting with tasks and activities to move. 'Am excited of bringing in potential people. Looks like we're heading to it.

I have a lot already in my hands. I like it playing movers and shakers... I love the game and I know how to play it this time... Demi-results at the tip of my nose and I may say it is working sooooo welllllll. A totally different strategy for office and hometown. I have more mature key players at hometown which is easier for me... Because at office, it's like always going back to square one... levelling-off... shifting gear to a mode of like talking to a 5-year old (agh! these are lawyers and engineers am dealing with vs. farmer, teacher, youth, environmentalist, and a konsehal ha.)

Love it! May the force be with me...

A Reunion With a KABABATA

2010-05-02T22:48:00.001+08:00

We grew up together at IIRR Small Community. We had the same grade and high schools. We even had the same "bestida" style, hers is blue mine is yellow. We slept over at each other's haybols. We learned survival via the forestlike environs of IIRR. We sought each other's advice at teen life until the early days of married life... until one day, she was bound KSA! No email, no contact number, not even a clear postal address to locate her. I received a snailmail, replied, but did not prosper to a second one.

Last year, I discovered her at FB. Which led to HOLA, a reunion.

Am sooo glad she was able to go back to the mainstream of being a nurse. Twelve years she abandoned the profession to be mother and wife. But culture and economics are hard up. Opting to go a different direction where most Filipino nurses desired... US and Canada... eventhough the middle east is not that big paycheck... she indulged. And every sweat paid off. As to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, she had more than enough and continue to save for the future.

I sense happiness. She has 5 beautiful growing kids.

We shared 2 nights of reminiscing, updating, and visioning. God is GOOD!

The SOLID 3

2010-03-13T00:02:00.000+08:00

Wow, celebrating 24 years of friendship! Reminiscing one January afternoon over yummy lunch (carefully picked for health reasons) at a mall choice favorable to Ann (hehehe). I love these two ladies. Support to each other's chosen path is what we shared all along. Each time we meet, we never fail to give a sort of contact report on how's our own families, careers, the common IGP (eria-jethro), life's patterns, up to plans. All these variables times three... jampacked in just an afternoon... KULANG! Thanks to email (the best choice for communicating) because Ann is tamad to answer sms, texting Sheila is costly for me. And BOTH are ANTI-social networking peepz. The DevCom in us works best at interpersonal mode. My wish, I spend an escapade with these two SINGLE Ladies.

Oh PMO Oh PMO

2010-01-17T12:25:00.001+08:00

As always in any year-end and year-start of any organization, an assessment con planning saga is a regular. 2009 for PMO is for me a No, but... BUT for some it is a Yes, but... I dunno the take-off but as to me... am just being HONEST. If only to mindset on NO PRETENSE, if only to regard acceptance of failures as one brave option to get to the road of improvement. I can sense that we all want a good-performing PMO, an effective and efficient PMO... and critical works at stake... foremost of which is our roadmap to the desired state. That is ongoing... a strategic planning exercise being undertaken slowly and surely. All I hope and pray is that momentum will remain. Participation will be more. Output defined. Mechanisms agreed and understood. Will to make things happen n'sync with every player in us.

All new template

2010-01-17T09:31:00.003+08:00

It took quite a while to find and choose and upload a new template for MY 2010 IT IS. Since doing this is only once a year, i don't want to admit, memory gap strikes! It is always like am a beginner despite blogging for 6 years now. Hmmm....

So here's to capturing thoughts and moments. Reading and re-reading to M&E the targets set and MAKING THINGS HAPPEN!