a surprise

in a day when you think nothing was working, and nothing was going right, something surprises you.


today, i woke up really late.

i was rushing.

i was in two minds whether id go off sick today from work because it seems i caught adrian's chest infection.


but i ploughed through. (thinking that i have all the time to be off when my mama comes here..yes, she has her ticket!!!).


i even had the audacity to post a short blog (Hey YOU), even if i was running late.

i was a little rundown, but quite giddy.


it must have been a sign that good news were coming my way.


inside the car, where i have my 'alone' time to do my morning prayers (prayer-on-the-run,lol) and 'chat' to my God, the sun that shone through the fields just made me feel like singing.

i sang a song, in lieu of prayers. a song to thank Him. (i sang the song "thank you" because it ws the first thing that came to my mind).


first time i ever did that. i normally breeze through my daily prayers like it was a recited memorized poem (and a little "chat" wih Him).


today was different and by afternoon,i knew why.


my sister Ana texted me to tell me their visas have been approved. the error by the embassy thinking that ROi and Ana were married has now been corrected and that their visas are ready for stamping, as soon as their passports are sent.

(i have resigned to the fact that Ana's and Roi's visas werent going to make it this year, but im proved wrong!)


i didnt know if i was to be happy, or to be irritated that i always have bad timing.


we already bought a ticket for Mama..and as everyone know, december tickets are soooo hard to come by, that it took me a long time to get her ticket that would fit into the time frame when we could pick her up from the airport.

which may mean, even harder for us to get tickets for the three of them to come together.

the problem now is getting a way of getting everyone on the same dates as Mama's ticket is nonrefundable.


worst case scenario: mama will be flying on a different airline, while ana and roi are on a different flight.


bahala na! as long as i got them here with me no matter how short.



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i guess tomorrow, i need to sing even more "thank you's"...



how bout you? any surprises your way?



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the moment i took this photo, i received a wonderful news that my niece Mika was born. we just scaled a small hill by then, looking for a country tea house. we crossed villages, and many a sheep-dung infested fields..thats my hiking shoes, and thats the view all the way to the next field.






one of our photo stops..can you see the view behind us, we had to climb that, to get to the town where we parked our cars.
on this stop, i was surprised too, because i didnt know i could scale heights that i did.