Forget yourself long enough.

"Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside & help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand''

Isn't it more fulfilling if we people share our success with others? 

May we find joy in finding our way to success and as we become successful, let us not forget to bring other people along with us. ☺

Love,

the little kid

It Never Ends ♥

Last Friday night, July 13, 2012, after a rough day at work I finally got to be with my college friends! The last time I was with them was second week of March. Luckily, there was no conflict on our schedule so we were able to see each other! 

I know everyone would agree that it's a joy seeing your friends once in a while, and get crazy with them. 

I have a bunch of good friends (old and new) and Lindsay and Heather are two of the best people I met. 

This video shows 60% of what happened that night.  At Lindsay's place. Right amount of food and drink, videoke, love, fun and friendship

I think it's never too late for a Call Me Maybe video, right? 

''Nurses by profession, idiots at heart'', says Lindsay. Ha-ha! 

Yeah! Take a break and get crazy! ♥

Our Daniel ♥

Hi, let me introduce you to the additional joy in my life. Thank you Jesus for my sis-in-law's safe and smooth operation.

June 6, 2012, another Muñoz was born. 

Daniel's first photo sent to us. 

Woke up one morning with his photos tagged to me. 

got his looks from his older brother, Dominic. 

I wake up every morning seeing my four nephews on my phone's wallpaper. I've said this before and I will say it again, they make this world a better place to live in and my life has been really wonderful when they came. 

Welcome to the world, Daniel!!

I can not wait to meet you little boy! ♥ I love you from the bottom of my heart!!!

Love,

tita menmen 

In just a snap.

photo from google

Your life can change, in just a snap.

I am here to share the story of one the patients that I handled that got closer to my heart. Let's name her patient J. She's 21, young, newly graduate, and unemployed. 

Heartbreaking situation. When you are in the ICU, you get to monitor your patients very well. You get to talk to them even if they don’t respond. It was her 8th day at the ICU the day we handled her. Still, in deep coma. Judging by her looks, you'll know she is a quiet and a kind girl. I was at her side when her dad came to visit. I kept on holding back my tears every time i hear her father tells her this: "Anak, gising kana. Tagal mo na tulog eh. Andito na si Papa, gising kana". , "Gising kana", . I got to know her from the stories of her father, siblings and friends who come to visit her. I don’t know why I feel so close to her. Maybe because I personally think she is a nice person, a good daughter and sister.

The day she got in the hospital was the day that the company she applied for called her up for an interview; unfortunately, she could no longer pursue it. At the moment, she hasn’t been really good, but her Glasgow Coma Scale is improving (a bit).

She did not come from a wealthy family; one of her brothers will not be able to continue school because of her hospitalization, and many more. What happened to her was something her family did not expect. At this moment, she needs our prayers. Nothing but our prayers.

PS. 

To those people who ask so much to their parents, think. To those people who are so self centered and just full of themselves, think. You are way too blessed. 

To those young people reading this, please value your education a lot.  Please value your friends, your family, the people around you. More importantly, please value your life. I know, all of us commit mistakes, even big mistakes that we can never change, but life always goes on and.. Just remember, that sometimes our wrong choices, our mistakes, our struggles bring us to the right places. So make a difference in your life, and if you still can, make a difference in the lives of many.

Guess what, just like YOU, she also wants to help her family, she wants to have a job, she wants to enjoy life. And… I pray, she will. 

You don’t have to be an angel. We don’t need to be angels. We just have to make sure that we make our everyday count because our lives can change, in just a blink of an eye.

By the way, happy 2nd anniversary to my blog! I dedicate my TLKC's anniversary to you, Patient J!  :-)Plus, this is just in time for the Father's Day Celebration! Patient J lost her mom when she was in highschool, and it's just her father who has been with them (patient J has 8 siblings) for the past years. What her father told me after the visit was, ''Ayos lang mabaon sa utang, basta magising lang sya''. A father who will do anything for his child. Enough said.  

Love,

the little kid

Respect Begets Respect.

Photo grabbed on Facebook

RESPECT.

First, I do not know how you define ‘Respect’. I do not know how you define respect in your dictionary. The only thing that I know about you is that.. I know you know this ‘Respect begets Respect’

Secondly, before I scribble down my thoughts let me tell you this before you make a judgment. I am a sinner. I do not read the Bible every day and I do not know everyone in the Bible nor everything in the Bible nor every verse in the Bible, I sometimes fail to pray the rosary daily, I sometimes fail to attend the novena, and yes, I don’t get to complete all those Sunday masses in a year. I even left a religious group. I know, tell me. I am a sinner.

I woke up today, thanking my God for another day, thanking my God that finally I didn’t have any palpitations as early as that (my mama will surely get mad when she reads the word ‘palpitations’ Poor little me I’ve been having some on and off palpitations for almost a week, brought about by caffeine, little physical, mental and emotional stress and lack of sleep), so moving on, I checked on my Instagram and saw a photo of a woman posing on the crucifix for fun (taken on a holy week). I was like what-is-this-girl-thinking, seriously? Yadah yadah yadah.

 I checked on my Facebook timeline and the photo has gone viral, well there were several people who even posed for that. Heck.

Just like what other people say, it is not a matter of religion, it’s a matter of respect. I want to quote what my friend, Monique Fajardo, said about those photos ‘Whether you are roman catholic, protestant, atheist, buddhist, muslim, etc. we should at least have respect for the belief of others. The crucifixion is very sacred to us Christians, that's why other people react so violently at this, i mean you wouldn't want something you respected so much be seen as a joke by others. It's not a matter of religion too, because for all we know some of these people might be Christians themselves, it's just a matter of RESPECT.”

Those who get to read my blog posts know that I am no angel. I am no angel BUT I do believe in my God, I do believe in the Gods of other religious groups. Yes, I may be a sinner BUT the God that I have taught me what respect is about

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This aint a joke. I think those people need to go back to the time when they were little with the Golden rule being taught to them.

Why did I blog about this? Because it pays when you respect other people. I mean, you can not choose to love every single person in the world BUT you can give them the amount of respect that they deserve. 


Again, respect.. begets..respect.

love

the little kid