Sunday, November 22, 2009

Parking Lot

Almond eyes in maroon sedan

Mystic glances from a fetching man
Indeed, he left totie the knot,
How I used to love the guy in the parking lot.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Broken Thoughts

Over lunch yesterday, I had time talking to a friend about how unfair and aweful love is. Well, not specifically love but the effect it has on women and the terrible pain guys caused girls. I dont know. It just came out of my mouth. The fries-dipped-into-sundae moment was not that comforting at all. it was bitterly tasting especially if you were seated amidst a happy crowd, galavanting like there's no tomorrow. urgh!


Relationship, love, guys. Seated a table apart from us are lovers..girl walked out from a guy after dealing with pettish (I assumed) bickering...fretting. Girl masquerading that familiar post-quarrel look. The guy remained seated useless of his possession of a human heart. I guess that was how a conversation with my friend started. Then I started blabbering. I remembered how Dj Gino told on air that guys want to dialogue...always want to dialogue. There was uprising within me. of course, the dj was just totally favoring his co-monkeys. Coming from a past non-closure relationship, I could attest that I've provenly tested immature monkeys who always bang the door as if they were never inside it. I detest John Gray for making us believe that men wants to talk it out at the right time with the right attitude, that men are just focused with coming up with solutions instead of dwelling with a broken barrow. I have waited, cried, fret, pushed, insisted. I got tremendously tired and then labored again for another phase of monotonous waiting, until one day, I managed to move on with disappointments that I have gotten so familiar with little by little. Where have all the guys went when atomic bomb exploded?!

I guess, women are stupid by nature. We know certain things will hurt us but we go ahead aiming what complicates life. Unreluctantly, we shrugged off the idea of pain. We live and entertain all kinds of feelings for the sake of that damn masochistic idea of being more humane. Women are submissive stupids, vulnerable, fragile, emotional. Men are real whores who submit in lying for the major times in their existence. Perfectly insensitive. There are times I am confronted with a mirage of William Parrish in front of me, telling me that "Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived." or at some point, I get so blank thinking...wondering if ever we would ever stumble with someone who will care for us the way we wanted to be cared for because the truth is it is difficult to find.They are rare and more often than not, you can just find them in a well-directed film. Bad:(

So to speak, I am besieged with all the feelings in the world. The kind when you have believed you a're okay for the longest time, having tete-a-tete with indifference and then suddenly that floodgate of emotions that you have been trying to resist had opened. My mind signaled a hault but my heart is but a fool that can hardly stop doing things it wanted to do. I really hate this feeling of being emotionally ached because out of somewhere, I can cry and then there is this literal heavy heartbroken pain right in my chest.








I am lonely, drowning in the deepest meaning of the word and I can't swim. I am in pain. Shouldn't the world stop?:(

Thursday, October 1, 2009

A DAY OF PRAYER AND ACTION

World Vision announces that October 1 is A Day of Prayer and Action.
On this day, Let's all join everyone to pray for an end to global poverty, disease, and injustice, and speak out against it as what World Vision aims.

World Vision Day of Prayer and Action Prayer Points
Pray together for your community…
: For awareness of needs within your community.
: For courage to be intentional in getting to know your neighbors.
: For opportunities to partner together in advocating for justice.
: For willingness to love your neighbors as yourself.

Praise God for…
: The opportunities that will be presented to you throughout the year that will bring change to your community.
Pray together for our leaders…
: For wisdom for our leaders as they begin to make decisions about where and how to spend money.
: That bold action will be taken to provide the necessary resources to fund interventions that alleviate suffering.
: That policies and laws would be put into place that would promote the cause of the oppressed, both locally and globally.
: For leaders to seek God’s will above their own.

Praise God for…
: The truth that His love and power reign supreme above all the leaders in this world.
Pray together for the hungry…
: For the children who die from hunger every day.
: For wisdom for government leaders who are seeking effective means to address the food crisis.
: For greater efforts to urge Congress to expand hunger, child nutrition, and agriculture development programs to eradicate child hunger worldwide.
: For God’s guidance in showing us how we can help to break the cycle of hunger.

Praise God for…
: The large amount of food aid, agricultural training, nutrition education, and food protection resources provided by World Vision and made possible by donors from around the world.
Pray together for those suffering from HIV and AIDS…
: For the more than 15 million children orphaned and made vulnerable as a result of HIV and AIDS and that those in need would be provided adequate care and support.
: For the millions of people living with HIV and AIDS who have been designated eligible to receive anti-retroviral drugs, but have not yet due to insufficient funds and delays. Pray that they might receive treatment.
: That pregnant mothers who are HIV positive will be able to access the drugs and other measures necessary to help them prevent transmission of the virus to their unborn child or infant.
: For the more than 77,000 caregivers that World Vision has trained and equipped to care for those suffering from HIV and AIDS.

Praise God for…
: The AIDS prevention and care programs that World Vision operates in more than 60 countries.
Pray together for children in slavery and bondage…
: For those children who are taken advantage of and suffer greatly ─ that they would be comforted.
: For those that would exploit or enslave others. Pray for a spiritual breakthrough so that might release their captives and work to prevent the captivity of others.
: For the advocates around the world who are standing against slavery. Pray for their protection from harm by corrupt officials and those who enslave children.
: For World Vision’s programs, that they would continue to help prevent children from falling into slavery and protect and restore those who have survive the ordeal.

Praise God for…
: The many policies put into place over the years to protect children from exploitation and bondage: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, The PROTECT Act, The Child Soldier Prevention Act.
Pray together for those suffering from malaria…
: That recent efforts focused on ending preventable deaths from malaria by 2015 will be achieved.
: That families threatened by malaria will receive insecticide-treated bed nets and other interventions that they need to protect their families from this killer disease.
: That the difficult economic period will not prevent individuals and governments from responding with the financial resources needed to protect children and help end malaria (more than $6 billion a year).
: That we might see malaria eradicated in our lifetime.

Praise God for…
: The extensive distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets to malaria-infected regions around the world, through World Vision.

Let's all join and heartily participate:)

Tayo at si Ondoy

here's an email I received from World Vision. Read on...Please turn on images.


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Dear Friend,

World Vision is rushing emergency supplies to children and families devastated by the catastrophic typhoon that swept through Manila and surrounding provinces in the Philippines before hitting Central Vietnam. Thousands of homes in these areas are damaged or destroyed. Your help is needed now.

"The impact of this typhoon on Manila has been shocking," said Elnora Avarientos, World Vision's national director in the Philippines. "Many have lost everything, including bedding, food, education materials, and clothing. The poorest living in slums and settlements are especially badly hit."
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A child is evacuated from a submerged house during flooding in the outskirts of Bocaue. REUTERS/Erik de Castro

Help Now

World Vision is working with the Philippine Coast Guard and the government disaster response team in Vietnam to distribute aid as quickly as possible. They are dispatching relief by helicopter to some of the hard-to-reach areas. Our emergency response teams hope to reach nearly 150,000 people with food and other relief items in some of the hardest-hit areas in both countries.

World Vision is distributing emergency survival kits — including food, blankets, temporary shelter, and clothing — to provide immediate aid to affected children and families.

Help provide emergency supplies to victims of Typhoon Ketsana as well as those affected by the earthquake that hit Indonesia and the earthquake/tsunami that hit Samoa.

Your support is crucial right now.

Thank you, and God bless you for your faithful support in times of need.

/s/ Rich Stearns
Rich Stearns
President, World Vision U.S.

P.S. Please also join me in praying for those in the Philippines as they are bracing for another storm that is scheduled to hit Thursday night or Friday morning.

Let's all find time to help people in dire needs. Lahat ng tao may magagawa. Walang maliit, walang malaki. Lahat ng tulong mahalaga. A simple prayer will do. And it's what matters most. This is not the time for us to take advantage of the situation to display our selfish interests. Wag tayo mamuhunan sa nakapanglulumong sitwasyon ng kapwa natin Pilipino. let's all hold hands to help them stand. Filipinos keep the piesces together. And as heroism unfolds, I am proud to be a Filipino.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Silence...

I can hear the deafening sound of loneliness shouting at me):
Yero-it-it-sikik-sikik
(zero-eight-eight-six-six)

Yesterday, I gave myself the right to be disappointed. Gypsie, a classmate of mine way back second year high school met me somewhere in Pasig so we can talk about her proposal to teach English to a set of Korean kids. I felt somewhat interested so I went and grabbed the opportunity. Anyway, I was thinking this could be a great start to my aching plan of life's major overhaul.

Kevin, the korean who tied up with Gypsie about the entire business seemed to be a kind, smiling guy. It was about five o'clock in the afternoon when I got to talk to him for some sort of interview about myself. Did I make a mess out of it? When I explained things to him I saw puzzled looks left on his face. Maybe because according to my friend, his English fluency isn't that polished yet making him unable to understand me well. ):

Everything ended up with Kevin wanting me to e-mail him my resume (resum as what he pronounced it). There was a tinge of reluctance on his face. The resume thing is still on hold until I get further notice from Gypsie. When I went home, I've got a strong feeling I wouldn't be able to get the job. I was also unsure if I still want it anymore. Disappointment clouded my head although I know I wouldn't be feeling this longer since I find it hard to understand how they pronounce words. At this point, I don't want another stress-inducing job since I intend to fix and heal my wounded emotional aspect. Well, don't get me wrong. I can still manage to handle other kind of pressure and stress but not able to understand Koreans at their first stroke of words is way too stressful on my end since this work requires me communicating with them everyday.

I woke up today feeling a bit of disappointment still but rather thinking that this job is not tailored for me. It's not just meant for me.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Media Suicide






I don't know what went to his mind when Arroyo agreed to do a lIve interview with mareng winnie and igan. The interview had been so transparent to show how his stupid reasons left him dead and humiliating in front of taxpaying filipinos. Ill-gotten wealth is really unexplainable. We should understand why he made a total mess out of this interview. HAhahaha! Indeed, Arroyo's corrupt doings made them richer and richer while majority of the Filipinos become poorer and poorer. Our sacrifice is their gain. They teach us to do some belt-tightening habang nagpapakasasa sila sa pera ng milyon-milyong mamamayan. Thank God, we're wise enough to know. Salamat sa interview na ito.

Ilang bahay pa nga ba meron sila sa ibang bansa na nakatago sa pangalang Arroyo?

Friday, September 11, 2009

I hate Cakes


My friend told me that there's something special about cakes during birthdays. She said, it's the fancy of believing to what they call "ONe candle, one wish.." I couldn't almost relate to the feeling she shared since I hate cakes no matter how beautiful it present itself...anyway, some people made me feel like an icing melting to a bunch of thoughtful thoughts friends baked for me...Here's something that refreshed me after a night of stressful phone calls that always keep coming...

-----Original Message-----
From: "Nicethor Baltazar" <nicethorbaltazar@yahoo.com>
Sent 9/9/2009 9:29:23 AM
To: "Rhods"
Subject: HAppy Bday!!!

Rhods,
Happy bday to u.
Thanks for being there always.
......as a a good friend
.....as an editor..lols.
dami ko natututunan sa u as a writer...specially now binabalik ko na pagsusulat ko through my blog. hope di ka magsawa magedit. nyahehe.
...ingats always! God bless u always
-----------------------------------------------------

One candle, one wish..is it true? I don't know...but someday, in my wishful thinking, I dream of spending the rest of my birthdays with someone who will feel lucky enough for celebrating such a special day with me...someone happier than I am. Maybe, I would love cakes then.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

One night of Danger

I never knew the feeling until I witnessed it last night. Horrifying...I left my house around 12 midnight, sleepy and still feeling tired since working graveyard is so stressful. I took a jeep going to Guadalupe. It was not an empty ride. There was a middle-aged woman embracing her bags put on her lap. She was sitting right across me. I remembered even passing her "pamasahe" to the driver and even asked, " sa tulay po kayo?", she shook her head. "sa west lang ako.."West Rembo, for those so many who are not familiar with the place, is just so near where i took the jeep...

Along Pembo, there were 2 guys who took the same jeep where we were in. Ung isa nakasabit while the other one was sitting just an elbow beside me. Well, yeah. I usually sit middle of the jeep but last night, since ayoko mag abot ng pamasahe sa driver dahil super haba ng jeep, I intentionally sit beside that guy...my bag with my jacket clung to it was placed on my lap handsfree.

A few Blocks just before the middle-aged woman took-off the jeep...I don't know....but I instinctively grasped my bag and placed it on the left side of me..opposite that pretentious guy sitting right next to me...and then.."para! para! Para! sigaw nung guy na nakasabit. And then all of a sudden, when I turned my head right of me, the guy beside me incredibly nabbed the middle-aged woman's bag in a jiffy..The snatcher ran fast the narrow street and gone...totally eaten whole by the darkness..The woman was almost in tears. I had goosebumps all over me. Shocking!

Unexplainable...It was as if I had a telepathic mind that night. I realized how lucky and Loved I am. God never failed me in those times that I am unawarely needing His presence. Amazing. He's always right on time. Have I done something good to be blessed with such protection and care? Maybe. I don't know. I just realized that there were unseen angels around us sent by Him to keep us safe.. and the only way for us to send thank you is to be good in His eyes. Wonderful.

The night has pangs, it surfaced dangers. I learned that it would always be better to be keen and observant of the things and people around you. Maybe, next time I would go to work far earlier than devil's time. Our safety is something God wants us to be enveloped with.

Last night was one of those days when I could say that I have fully seen HIm. After all, that woman could have been me.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Evanescent

It is because of you why I am acutely aware of how unhappy I am...:(
Strum

"I just want to go there and hug you..." for a moment, i feel like a melting ice that succumbs through the warmth of something which I can't yet find a name for. I dont know how to call it...i mean, the feeling that sends shiver down my spine...so vague yet it's there. Words come so unexpectedly and when he uttered it, i notice my feet floating above the clouds. blissful. I could almost hold happiness at the palm of my hand. It is his sweet gentle fingers strumming my heart.:)

Friday, August 21, 2009

BLindfold


Democratic or pseudo-democratic?
fascists...
we yearn to practice freedom.
A Shopaholic for Nothing..:(

Have you ever realized how dependable your friend is?

Long thick eye lashes, new clothes and accessories..a walking vanity mirror.
I was stuck in the mud and you came to stare. Claim all the beauty but that is all you got and all you are.

Sleep with beauty

Walk with elegance

Dress like vogue

But turn to no one...

Facade...

One day, your friends will put a tag price on you too...

Your worth becomes priceless and gold the moment you weather the storm with a friend.

I want someone who comes out like blood when I'm wounded...

Saturday, July 25, 2009

E for Effort

Para sa mga taong naistorbo ko, napuyat, nahilo ko at kinulit ng walang sawa habang naghahanap ng space for rent...

Roman Claudio-- the copy-paste-and-save man.
pagkatapos ko sya istorbohin thru ym, i was surprised to know that he copied-pasted-and-saved these stuff for me.

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Rox and Trina

Small people can do great things..Lol! Si rox na sumama saken nagbuhat ng things...kay trina na pinagalitan ng nanay, sa lahat ng mga antok natin na padami ng padami araw-araw

Ate Joy and Her bestfriend
Glen Carlo Arocha
XXtian

Thanks, Thanks!!!:)






I have been away from the pc screen for... well... almost a month I guess..imagine this, 1124 unread emails, 109 facebook notifications..what else... Where have I been?! Lol! JUly is really a tough month for me..you know...father suffering from a heart disease, sister with pangs growing, growling everyday..stressful demanding job, financial disaster every now and then, looking for a new place to stay...*sigh...it's really a rainy month, isn't it? I am soaking wet.

I have actually been yearning to visit my sweetrhoda.blogspot all through those days that I was gone but hey, I found it really difficult to sit down and face a blank space with cursor blinking at me and all that while my mind is so full of pensive wrecking thoughts. It was like, I have a baggage of things to write but my mind thinks faster than my fingers can type... I felt so down that all I can do was just stare and watch everything fall into piesces...eventually, I was no difference to a blank boring space.. only that... yes, I went blank but not really.

Good thing, I have weathered them one by one..on my way to fully recovering and drying my self up after the storm. Everything is slowly going back to its proper place now. The most peaceful thing is, I have found a new corner under the sun and it somehow excites me to log out of my avaya and hurry home.. no, don't get me wrong. My newly found place is not palace-like that glitters from afar but I love it. I love the feeling of laying down, resting myself to sleep without having to worry what a house mate would say...I mean, what a growling house mate would say...(Lol!) Priceless!:)

What a dose of growing-up lessons to learn! What can I say..Bring it on!!!:)

Monday, June 29, 2009

Empty Weekends....

...I don't want empty weekends anymore:(

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Help, I dig my own grave!

Last night, I woke up with severe upper right back pain and an aching throat. I couldn't explain the feeling but pain caused me to absent from job that day. I was awake all night for not feeling well especially that during the prior weekend I was suffering from peptic ulcer. I could not remember anymore what time I was able to rest myself to sleep. When I woke up this morning, I was a bit okay and friends have actually advised me to just give my tired body much of a rest. Amidst me sitting in front of the porch, I realized these pains are something I never experienced before, knowing that I used to have a very healthy strong immune system. Could it be that my job has taken its toll on me already?! Not sure...I am frightened... here's what I found out...
1. Reports say that working night shift could increase women's risk of breast cancer. The disruption of body clock could hinder the production of melatonin that increases our risk of cancer. *melatonin is known as a substance that helps prevent cancer cells from growing*.
2. Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). Something we can acquire from sitting and taking in calls for long hours. The said medical condition can cause blood clot forming that could travel and eventually lodge our heart or lungs.
3. BurnOut Stress Syndrome (BOSS). This can cause high psychological job stress and depression. Symptoms include chronic fatigue and stress which could affect the heart and endocrine system, insomnia.
4. Muskuloskeletal Disorder- outsourcing body pain along the work.
5. Computer Vision Syndrome- Soreness, dryness, blurred vision, light sensitivity and headache.
6. Dysphonia- inability to speak, pain croakiness of voice, irritating cough, poor vocal power, inability to modulate and breathing difficulties.
7. Severe Stomach Related problems
8. Ear Problems
9. Sleeping Disorders.
10. Acoustic Shocks- any temporary or permanent disturbance of the functioning of the ear, or of the nervous system, which may be caused to the user of a telephone earphone by a sudden sharp rise in the acoustic pressure produced by it".
We, call center agents are often told to satisfy customers by providing excellent customer service. We have lots of unmanaged stress and pressure cause partly by customers who have unaddressesd issues of their own. We often hear them bad-mouthing us and we as an ever loyal blinded employees are told by our employers to just grin and bear it. tsk! tsk! tsk!
References:
Human Resource Management and Occupational safety By Carol Boyd

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Dear Brokenhearted,

I just came from the gym with lots of heart-wrecking things to tell you... the deepest feeling of melancholy triggered by the heavy rain had open floodgate of emotions which I wish to escape from...how I wish rain would make me numb and incapable of recognizing pain, emptiness, and sadness...

...I'm sorry I am too busy to sit down with you right now and enumerate disappointing things that happened today but I'll get back to you as soon as I can...

Sleepyhead,
Rhoda

Monday, June 15, 2009



One Fine Fruitas Moment

Sweaty and all that..we never get to skip one fine fruitas moment in one of the comfy Alimall Cubao couches after work out. And here's what my sleepy eyes caught while staring at Fruitas cup...read on...

Strawberry a good refreshing cleanser for the whole body. Orange helps in cleaning up your

system. Melon a gentle laxative that stimulates action on the kidney. Watermelon stimulates the appetite,

while cleansing the bladder and the kidneys. Apple helps relieve indigestion. Keep cholesterol still and

suppress the appetite. Banana an excellent aid in digestion. Mango gives energy, vitality and promotes

healthy skin. Papaya an energy booster that stimulates the appetite and cleanses the internal organ.

Pineapple aids in the digestion of protein. Grape an excellent metabolism stimulator.:)

I found out apple shake tastes great. You should try it.

*The stalking Cubao clouds were always been raining since we started meeting Kuya Eoji of Telus Cubao GYm. Working out/shopping (Lol) has been a great outlet of releasing stress. I personally would not mind strolling amidst the rain just to get there.

Monday, May 25, 2009

12 killed as boat capsizes on way to Puerto Galera

"Let's all pray for TC Nina Cads eternal repose. She encountered a boat accident yesterday on her way to Puerto Galera." I woke up last sunday with this text message coming from my supervisor TC Mac. I was shocked. I had to read all over again, scroll up and down looking for some twist of joke in his message but booom...it ended there. Her face registered right through my head when another unread message confirmed what the first tried to say, "Nina Cads died in an accident today at Puerto Galera. The boat was hit with big waves and it flipped over. She was declared dead on arrival by the doctor around 3:25pm. She was with TC Mae Benitez during that time. It was Mae's team building, 6 agents joined the activity. We have a total of 8 participants 2 of which were Mae and Nina. All of them survived except Nina. We are now coordinating with local authorities regarding the transport of her body. I have already informed Boss JP and Boss JC. Bodge already informed Nina's family. I already spoke with Nina's father regarding the travel details. Please cascade to your tam and let's offer a prayer for Nina's soul. May she rest in peace." I immediately texted my friend then to gather further information about the accident. I don't know. It's just that I couldn't believe it happened in just a snap of a finger...especially for someone I used to always see in my workplace. Immeasurable pain surfaced me thinking as to how her family and friend would react upon hearing what had happened. I couldn't imagine how it broke their heart..it's way beyond thoughts. Until now, I still get goose bumps all over whenever it crosses my mind. My sincere condolences to the family of the victims. Prayers for them and strength to those who were left behind.