Relationships Meme

1. Are you serious when it comes to relationships?
- on a certain extent yes.

2. Are you afraid of commitment?
- yes, i am---i was never fond of commitment of all forms may it be to family, friends or work...but once i'm in, i'm loyal and i never turn my back on them.

3. Are you a risk taker?
- generally speaking yes

4. What can you say about long distance relationships?
two things i'd have to say:
(1) long distance relationships are only for the strong hearted. if you think you can't do it, let it go. if you've tried it and it doesn't work, let it go.

(2) it's up to the couple to make life a little bit easier for each other while they're apart. if the long distance relationship is bringing out the worst of both parties, let it go---it's not worth it.

5. Can you love a person who doesn't love you?
- i loved someone who didn't love me back and all it did was bled me dry and i kinda lost
my self-esteem along the way too. after that, no way, i'd rather be alone
than be with someone who doesn't give a damn about me.

6. How can you say that a person loves you?
- when he brings out the best in me and tries his best not to hurt me.

7. Are you good in handling relationships?
- with my last boyfriend (who is now my husband) i think i became good at handling relationships

8. Willing to give everything?
- in a logical sense yes

9. Best thing you have learned from loving?
- that love should start from you--love yourself first...then the rest will follow. you don't give up what is important to you in the hopes that a guy will love you--you just don't! if you love yourself, you will find someone who has the same values as you.

10. Do you demand your loved one to change into someone you like to?
- no

11. Would you let go of someone you love?
- yes, love lets go.

12. Is sex important in a relationship?
- yes, i believe a couple should also be sexually compatible

13. What is the major reason of a break up?
- loss of respect from either one of the parties involved

14. Most important ingredient/s in a relationship?
- sense of humour, appreciation of even the smallest of things, friendship, teamwork

15. Ever regret loving someone?
- no, everyone i've loved will always be considered a friend.

16. One thing you hate about love?
- that sometimes it blinds you

17. One thing you like about love?
- that it inspires you, that it brings out the best in you

18. Worst thing you did to a loved one?
- hurt them??? i know i'm vague but i haven't really done anything catastrophic to hurt someone so bad.

19. Are you in love?
- yes

20. What do you feel right now?
- happy and inspired

21. Do you flirt?
- of course, but only to my man

22. Cheated/have been cheated on?
- yes to both questions hahaha

23. Does the person you love knows you love him?
- yes, he knows very much how much he means to me

24. Have you been caught red handed?
- no, i'm smart hehehe

25. What attracts you most?
- on physical attributes, it's always the man's eyes that gets my attention. but as a whole, i'm usually taken with someone who's fascinatingly fun, smart and creative.

Photos via http://www.inmagine.com

Little Lenten Sacrifice

ASPIRE NOT TO HAVE MORE, BUT TO BE MORE - Archbishop Oscar Romero

Caritas Australia 2008's Project Compassion is giving out Lenten Sharepacks (thru our Parish) wherein you'll find six envelopes, one for each week of Lent. Each week, the relevant envelope should be returned to the parish containing your donation.

The first week envelope is for the Philippines:

The other five envelopes will go to Australia, West Java (Indonesia), Kenya, Brazil and Fiji.

My little Lenten Sacrifice this year is to save my lunch money for the week (no lunch out or buying lunch at work) and instead bring lunch from home every day. The money I'm able to save from not buying lunch for six weeks will go into these envelopes. It's not much but as the Caritas envelope says "It only takes a little to make a big change".

On My Way To The Supermarket and Back

The sun shone a bit this morning so I brought Mrs. Kanyon with me to the supermarket.

I'm very fortunate to be living near a park with a lake and what's good is that it is strategically on the way to the supermarket. What joy to have the luxury to walk buying fresh goodies to and from the grocery store!

At 11:05am, on my way to the supermarket, the lake looked like this...

Spend about 15 minutes taking shots here and there but didn't stay long as clouds were already forming over the horizon. And so I had to continue walking towards the grocery store.

The reason why I went to the supermarket today was because I needed to buy ingredients for a dip that I wanted to make and bread to go with that dip. When I'm all done with that, I walked back home and as usual, I had to pass by the park. It was about 12:00noon and this was the sight the awaited me...

It was such an amazing sight to behold!!!! I have only seen clouds forming like that here in Australia. It looked scary but I was more in awe at how immaculate God has made such a creation. It was terrfyingly beautiful.

You can probably understand why after about 10 shots, I had to walk home fast. Even if I had an umbrella with me, I didn't want to get my camera and groceries wet.

When I arrived home, it took about 10 minutes for the rain to finally fall. Very angry rain that was. I just had a quick lunch and a little bit of net surfing, then in a few minutes fell asleep inside my room listening to the rain. And this time, no more bad dreams.

Dream

I just had a bad dream. I dreamt I was in my High School Reunion and for some reason, I was tasked to be the photographer of the class. The good part of the dream was I saw everyone's faces clearly as if I just saw them yesterday. The bad part was after the pictorial, all my photos were blah :( I was nearly in tears but I woke up (I usually wake up when my dreams turn into something bad).

Now I know what this is about. I'm totally having guilt feelings about photography lately because I haven't touched a camera for two weeks. Yep, two weeks. What's to blame? (not that I need blaming):

• the rain that never seem to stop falling for the past couple days here in Sydney
• books that need reading because things may happen very quickly in the nearest (!) future so I need to be ready any minute
• during weekends I spend most of my time studying for the citizenship exam
• sometimes I'm just too lazy or too tired to get up and shoot

Oh well, hopefully the sun shines a bit today or tomorrow and I'll probably do some wandering with my camera.