Sabatical

I am on Sabatical leave from blogging.

The cat is out of the bag. Yeah, I am taking the November 2017 Bar Exam. I've been busy with trying to graduate, and now that I did it - I graduated with a Juris Doctor Degree last March 2017. And instead of deferring for a year before taking the bar exam, I am taking that leap of faith and go through with it just the same.

That's why you haven't heard from me for a while.

Everyday, I am doing a balancing act - the balls I am balancing are my career, studies, and my vocation as a mother and wife.  We also have a small business which I am trying a manage.

I need to be done with the bar exam, and I need to be a lawyer soonest. =)

So many things have been put on hold or status quo -- that I need to finish this and take back my life.  After the bar exam, there are a lot of things to be done. New things waiting to be discovered. New adventures waiting to be explored. But I have to live in the moment and seize this. I just have to. For my dad, for my mom, for my husband, for the kids, for the family and of course, for myself.

I am scared sh**, alright. Of the unknown, but I know, one day, I will read this and say, what was I scared of.?

Little is Too Much if God is Not in It

A devotional book entitled "Keeping God in Small Stuff" by Bruce and Stand reads 

          A national best-selling book suggests that you shouldn't sweat the small stuff. Many people treat the small stuff in life as if no one - not even God - has any control over what happens. They call it "fate" or talk about how they are "lucky" or "fortunate" when certain things happen or don't happen.

Don't Cha-Quit

Growing up, below is my favorite inspirational poem. Three decades after, it still gives me the same kick when I need some perking up. I don't know who actually wrote it - but whoever you are, thank you very much! You don't just know how many lives you saved.

A Lesson On Humility

Dear Prince and Psalm,

I am sharing with you this poem I’ve come across which had helped me a lot in my journey through life:

Road to a Credit Card Debt Free Life

I got pregnant, got married, got pregnant again, in that particular order.

And then one day, I woke up from my deep slumber and realized that hey  I can't let life run it for me, while I just watch on the bleacher. I have to take control of my life. I cannot just make babies. I had to give them a better life, a better future, probably better than my own.

But of course, you and I know that it's not as easy as that. But sure boy, it helps and it's the start!

Winning every battle begins in the mind.  But after conceptualizing it in your mind, you actually have to move your "arse" and work for it. As for me, it always involves, pulling my hair up.  Every time I see myself of catch myself, pulling my hair up in a bun, messy or otherwise, It means serious business with a capital letter S.

Birthday Nugget for my Son

Dear Prince,

My eldest child, you are now 14 years old (September 11), I am happy to see you grow into your own man.  I am happy to hear your thoughts and conviction.

First, let me throw it out there.  This is not a "Safehaven" movie kind of thing, where the mother, who died early due to cancer writes a letter for her 2 kids for special occasion.  I will not die anytime soon, I still have a long way to go. It's just that, sometimes, teens are getting annoyed through formal "one-on-one coaching/mentoring technique", thus I am innovating - "parenting through blogging". Yes, I just made that up just now, but it sounds good, so I might go with it as theme of this blog.

Growing up, I have my own qualms and issues. I have so many questions to ask the world.  And it was not until I had you that some were answered; that I found myself.  Through prayer and books, and through my mentor Dr. Rita Gatuslao, I was able to find myself.

Just as she shared with me her book entitled The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz - I am doing it with you and Psalm, eventually.

Part 3 of 3 - Credit Card Debtor's Perspective on R.A. 8484

Let us do a “throwback” a bit. Before that collection letter with the provision of RA 8484, (because I think that’s the final straw), you had at some point had a brush with what “Rebecca  Bloomwood” in Shopaholic experienced: collection agent!

Don’t worry, this part will teach you your rights when that awful phone rings. But of course, we are not discounting the fact that those banks deserved to be paid. It’s just that, just as they have their rights, so do you.  The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) issued a set of rules and regulations governing the credit card operations of banks and affiliate credit card companies. The following (but not limited to) are considered unfair collection practices: