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Today is October 28, the feast day of my favorite saint, St. Jude Thaddeus. Today is also the birthday of one of my best buddies since college, DARYL! So, which one should I write about first?hmm..ok.

I consider St. Jude Thaddeus one of my favorite patrons, aside from St. Joseph and our Mother of Perpetual Help. Back in college, I was staying in a boarding house in Intramuros, and one of my boardmates, Nerise, asked me and other classmates to go with her to St. Jude parish near Malacanang to do the novena. I was a bit problematic that time with my university standing, because I really needed to have a 2.50 average (a hurdle for all PLM students and shouldn’t have any failing grade) so that I wouldn’t be kicked out that semester. So, from then on, I would religiously go with Nerise to St. Jude every afternoon despite the heat and the crowd. Of course, I also did my best to study harder that sem, so no more mountain climbing for me then. Lo, and behold, at the end of that grueling semester (fourth year 2nd sem, i think), know what was my GWA? EXACTLY 2.50! Truly, God gives us what we really need! (more…)

I should have finished my overdue blog about boxing, which I have started writing right after the Pacquiao-Barrera fight, but both my schoolies had their exams and school presentations for the last two weeks so I couldn’t really stay glued to my laptop and finish the post even if it just needs some editing.

Anyways, I was about to do that task yesterday but I was not really in the mood to write so I just changed this site’s theme because I was getting tired of the old blue one. So, for those pips who visited this site last night and noticed how quirky was it, am so sorry because I was actually doing some dry runs on many themes - ten or so, i think. I actually had settled on an olive-style theme but my husband told me he doesn’t like it. I was not really satisfied with it either, but of all the themes I downloaded, it’s the easiest to manipulate and add widgets to. (more…)