The West Coast

Been in California for two weeks now. Will be right back to write some more.

How Fast Can Your Wishes Come True?

How fast can your wishes come true? Do you believe that once you've asked for something, it would eventually be given? I believe. Just like before, somebody gave me a new laptop. When I enrolled last Fall 2012, I didn't have one. But I made use of what resources I had available on campus and I managed to finish two semesters without my personal computer. (I had one, a heavy-duty IBM which I left in the Philippines.) Now, just when I was no longer paying attention to my 'need' of owning a computer, it was the time it arrived.

The angels are jumping-up-and-down- happy. 


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Hibiscus for Mother's Day

 Amid the beautiful roses and tulips I see around me, I still miss the sunny flowers of my homeland. So, for all mothers in the world, this bunch is for you. Happy Mother's
 Day!

Homesickness 101

When you're in America, your husband is in China, and your daughter is in the Philippines, how would you feel? I could say that this has been the longest isolation I've ever had in my life- being away from loved ones too long. Why didn't this happen when I was 20's and very much unattached? May 8th 2013 would be our 3rd wedding anniversary, and I don't know what I'd be doing that time. This universe has a huge sense of humor.

Women I Follow # 2: Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian psychoanalyst, best-selling author, scholar, and a very rich lady (how can you not get rich when your book stayed so MANY weeks at the New York Times List?)

What she's about: I first got a chance to know her when my mother handed me the book entitled, "Women Who Run With the Wolves". Since then, I have had a better understanding of the feminine nature.

Can You Live on $10 a Week?

I just finished packing up 14 boxes of things at the dorm. Good thing my resident educator allowed me to store my stuff at the dorm's storage as I do not have a permanent address here in the US. Now, after the semester is over (and after month-end of April), it is time that I balance my ledger and update my files.

Yes, can you live on $10 a week, as a student? I can. I live on campus, my meal plan is pretty much cared of by my scholarship and  I don't drive or commute. I realize that on an average week when I do not spend on books, etc., I average on $10 a week or less. These are just to buy paper, print, etc. I don't buy snacks - I have a lot in my cupboard from the cafeteria. I don't buy soap, etc. because I have a lot of that too, enough to last for a year. Afterwards, after living up on this, I have a little extra such that I can still afford to buy an Amtrak train ticket from the East Coast to California. With student advantage card, of course. I'm happy, I feel prosperous. :) And that feeling matters. :)

On Assignment

Wrapping up towards the end of the semester is one of the busiest days of a university student. Paper work is unforgiving. So is packing up things at the dorm; stalking the registration officers for the fall admissions. Busy. Busy.