Another Day... just updating on what's been happening to me lately

Wow! January's nearly over?! Barely felt it pass.

Really should stop spending so much, but in fairness my big purchases are truly really genuine necessities that I couldn't live without. They're both technically health related and preventive measures.

First big purchase this month was a new pair of glasses with transition lenses. Apparently my eyes got better and the current glasses I'm using now are too strong thereby giving me migraines. Hopefully I get rid of the headaches after I adjust to wearing the new ones which I have yet to get from OPSM coz it takes a week to order them. Ah well... there goes nearly 800 dollars @~@

Second big purchase were the Arbonne products (a day cream, night cream, neck cream, sun screen, eye cream, and body lotion) which would be absolutely good for my skin, (hopefully) preventing fine lines and wrinkles from developing. Hahahah, yeah. I'm using anti-ageing stuff. The same stuff I tease my mom about using. Then again in fairness my mom's skin looks waaaay younger than her actual age (coz she rarely uses makeup and always uses moisturizers), so I figure might as well invest on something really good to use for my skin. Will try the Arbonne products and I'll see if I feel any improvements. They're supposed to come in the mail this coming week. Can't wait :)

*sigh* I may need to start coloring my hair early... I'm noticing more and more white hairs. I don't pull them out. I just don't want to. But one sticks out rather prominently on the top of my head (coz it's still too short) and reminds me too often that I'm already 30 y/o... makes me wanna pull it out lolz

Gah... this post is becoming too vain, if not yet lolz.... good news though is that I can reschedule my Wicked ticket and watch it sometime March. Whew! Can't wait~! :)

Hooked on listening to Rent (musical), and reading Traci Harding novels.

Back to school. Doing Org28 on Mondays, placement at Tweed Super Sports Centre on Tuesdays and Wednesdays (and possibly Thursdays but that depends on my work roster), and the rest of the week at work.

Waiting

I have probably made it crystal in this blog that the one activity I detest doing the most was to wait without having anything to do; and yet here I am doing exactly just that. Waiting. Sitting on the curb with a shopping trolley filled with groceries next to me. Waiting. Being stared at by other shoppers because they've gone in and come out again with me still here trying to look busy with my phone when I really am not and am just resorting to rant in this blog because I absolutely hate it when I'm idle. I need my mind occupied, thank you very much. And as I have nothing to pass the time with except this cellphone... Well... I'm stuck waiting. I. Hate. This. :-(

Blind dates and other disappointments

Went to a blind date yesterday. The very first one I went to. It went generally well but I'm just not into the guy I met *shrug* too different in interests, I guess. I kinda found Seika-chan's reaction funny when I told her about it the day before. I think she was more excited about it than I was *lolz* I did follow her advise about dressing up a bit, but since I didn't want to look too made up I just went with what was comfy. I did wear a dress, so Tin peace tayo ha! *lolz* it's funny coz I think I hit it off more with that guy I rode the bus going to pacific fair with than with the guy I had a blind date with heheheh... ah well *shrug*

I wouldn't be watching Wicked on the 15th as I planned. The show got canceled because of the floods in Brisbane. Safety first. Even if they opened QPAC on the 15th I'd probably opt not to go anyway coz I'd fear trudging through the flooded streets of South Brisbane just to get to the Lyric theater. I'd probably get a reschedule for my tickets. Well, at least I'm hoping to get rescheduled because I REALLY want to watch the show. Worst case scenario would be to get a refund. But it's easy to reschedule me coz I'm watching it by myself. M.G. was supposed to watch it with me but I didn't know what his sched was so I never got to buy his tickets for him. Guess I should ask him if he still wants to go if the show reopens anytime soon and if we could still get tickets.

Flood

Woke up to sunshine and blue skies today, as though it hasn't been raining continuously for the past several days. Gah. Nature sure is unpredictable; here the weather people predicted it'll rain till the weekend too.

Anyways, yesterday while watching the news coverage about the flood they said that the worst case scenario for the upcoming weeks is for another storm to come in. My first thought was that 'no, that wouldn't happen, God wouldn't allow that to happen because it would be too cruel'. The immediate thought after that was more of the opposite. I thought, 'hmmm, that would be interesting to see if it happens.' Which right now bothers me that I thought like that at all. It sounds so apathetic. So uninvolved and unsympathetic and un-empathic about the suffering of so many people.

Coming from the Philippines, I've seen news coverage about flash floods before, of the devastation they bring in a place. Our province has always been at risk when there's a storm because of the floods they cause ever since Mt. Pinatubo erupted. So I sort of understand where the apathy is coming from. It's already kind of a normal thing to experience flooding for me.

Despite all of the damage, so far there's only been 10 confirmed dead. Not saying that those 10 deaths aren't devastating on their own; but what I mean is, compared to Ormoc that claimed hundreds if not thousands of lives or the yearly floods we get in Pampanga that also claim several unfortunate people's lives, 10 dead and 90 missing is a tragedy yes but for me it seems not nearly as terrible. Dunno, I guess it's just a matter of perspective.

But I must admit that I'm awed by the response of the government here in Australia. This morning the prime minister announced a hotline number people who needs Centrelink support could call to get financial support in order to rebuild their homes and businesses. In the Philippines, flood victims would be lucky to get a plastic bag full of grocery as the government's way of helping the victims. It's just so drastically different. It makes me wish I could somehow find a way to make it the same in the Philippines, to have my home country's government act so vigilantly and vigorously towards the good of its people. I'm not saying the Australian government is perfect, I just wish the Philippines government would emulate certain aspects of it (Centrelink for example).

One of my dreams is to be able to better the ambulance service in the Philippines, or at least in my home province of Pampanga. If I had enough money or the skills to gather people to donate enough and continuous financial backing, I'd work towards getting more trained paramedic and other emergency personnel, make them more visible and helping people in need. As I am now I don't have the skills nor the influence to make this dream even remotely possible. The closest I could probably get to it is if I could somehow enroll in a paramedic course, then get training and work in that field so I could get the experience and then later bring that back to the Philippines... hey, everyone's free to have a dream, right?