i want this!

This is a wonderful elephant collection,,,,,

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but it is expensive, isnt it... but very lovely

but you know, i wonder, what happens to my collection when i go on to the next existence....
i have to find a collector someone ..... to bequeath them. someone who will appreciate them

27 Days to Christmas

I was walking and saw this sign

27 Days to Christmas

and well, i paused and thought about Christmassy things

well - i posted on my journal to ask my e-friends if they wanted cards

this year, i am rather busy, but will attempt to make my own cards and to "force" myself

i bought some digital images, some of it art - to frame and hang, some of it elephants...

i do have most of my Christmas gifts ready. I shop the entire year so i wont have to rush by Christmas, but i still have to wrap them (if i run out of time, i will put them in gift bags)..

I do NOT have any Christmas decorations yet!!

I shall do it this coming weekend, whether or not the painting of the rooms (just mine, really and the bathrooms) are done.  i do have to have the curtains done!  ah well, we will see. will report to you.

i have planned my Christmas dinner, my birthday (which falls right smack between Christmas and New Year), and New Year. i have partly shopped for it.  i dont know if i can still have Excelente Ham.  I cant go to Quiapo, you see........

maybe i should start putting them in Christmas bags......

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A whimsy post - an Etsy shop of Uncommon Creatures

i get mail from etsy shops.  this was one of the shops i got in my email today.

i collect elephants and i found the elephant in this shop gorgeous.  she has won awards.

i can hardly wait for my own.

do peruse her shop.  she has some of of the most amazing creatures.

so if you know someone who has all the money in this world (like Bill Gates, or Warren Buffet, or the Sultan of ......, or maybe the Marcoses for local flavor) and you cant think of a present, you may want to take a gander at this shop.  remember, you can have yours customized.  Or pick one that is existing and make little changes to make it your own.  a wonderful shop. 

Click here to go to the etsy shop of Uncommon Creatures

The Elephant and the Dragon, published in 2007

by Robyn Meredith

Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics said this book is an exciting and journalistic account of one of the great economic stories of our time.

i got attracted to this book because i collect elephants.  and well, when i did a search on elephants, this book popped up (so did Agatha Christie's Elephants can Remember - a book i have read more than once) and i decided to purchase the book.i just got the book today!

although it is old, well relatively old, i think i will enjoy reading this book. i just hope to have the time.

weekend of 3-5 August 2012

i had labs last Saturday, and everytime i have labs, i slightly go .... i was going to say panicky, but that isnt the right word.

i just have to have to have my labs early.  I go to NKTI before 6, or go exactly at 6.  this sat i got there at exactly 0600H, and i was number 9 in the queue.  by 7, that is, an HOUR LATER, i still had not been called.  wow, i thought that was a bit much. then my alarm for my meds rang!  this alarm is for me to take my prograf (tacro), a pharmaceutical drug i must take at a regular time.  So i had to talk to the technician, she told me i could take that (i knew that) but i told her that i had not brought my medication since i thought i would be home by that time. so she took my blood and i appreciate that. like the other kidney transplants, i do not like being late for this particular medication.

NKTI labs is really very good at skeds.  however, some patients are taking advantage of the policy of the NKTI lab by arriving late and expecting to be served ahead of everybody else (except for those people who will have tacro just the same).  i dont approve.  when i needed to have my tacro graph test, i arrived early.

i think the NKTI  lab head would have to not put everybody ahead, what happens is that everybody who does not require the tacro graph get relegated to the end of the tacro graph line.  i think this is BS.  i think they should also move the regular line!!!

the results of my labs arent very hot, so i need to eat more veggies!! and a tad more fruit.  apples, pineapples, and papaya are on my list to eat.  i have to eat more fruit and less carbs.

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on a lighter note, i found 3 elephants at home, all of them the central decor of bags.  also, i got a comic called power pachyderms #1 and the X-Men.  Havent really opened it yet because i cleaned some more.  i am looking forward to the day when i have cleaned everything and all i would have to do on the weekend is read - i want to finish reading my complete Calvin and Hobbes, do my paints, and do a little poetry, and talk to my friends across the oceans.  i have a few pieces of canvas i want to fill.....

in the home improvement section -

i also need to improve the mural designed by some of our "boys", i got to inherit the "office" mural but i need to "fix" it because the roof leaked on it. then i need to have the narra cabinets fixed. i have had the dining and kitchen ceiling fixed, so they just need to be painted.  maybe by next week.

but the beds look great and my study is shaping up very nicely.  and my clothes have been undergoing some weeding and fixing.  i should start wearing some of those "gowns" at home...... i will see.  i did buy them to be used at home, when i want to feel glam.  i think every woman should have nights/days like that.

plans

i like it when a plan comes together.  so Sunday was cool.  things went according to plan.

that is always a good thing.

The Elephants - last weekend of July

i have been mentioning my elephants so i thought i'd give you a peek at my collection.  i started collecting in grade school and am still collecting to this day. 

ELEPHANTS

pink elephant wooden pencil holder, salt-&-pepper elephants, & perpetual thai elephant calendar

lockets, pendants, necklaces, buttons, pins, clips - all elephants

a candle holder gilded pink elephant, a tall blue elephant, a papemelroti elephant glassholder, odds-and-ends

 the elephants in the grey frame is new.  found it in ebay.  the tall blue elephant was given to me by Juancho, we were officemates at STI.

elephants galore

the gray elephant in the white box - beside the blue rhino and elephant - was made especially for me by an etsy vendor from Korea.  Sui?  will check my etsy.

Horace Templo gave me that elephant behind the white elephants.  it is crystal and has yellow ears. 

Jerry O. gave me the wooden elephant with the shocking pink "matt" on his back just this July.
Dale gave me the elephant on the saucer-with-depth.  and i got the elephant beside it from papelmeroti - probably a long time ago. the PE in papemelroti stands for Peggy,  who is from Sayans, and my classmate.

my elder brother left his Beta Epsilon sticker in the glass. So no, it isnt an elephant but it is difficult to remove so i will let attrition take care of it. 

my 2 elephant pillows, my thai elephant bag - given by Alice, my elephant cd carrier in my elephant decorated box

do you see my brass elephant bell?  i dont remember where i bought it. the grey flat like elephant is actually a soap dish and the oldest elephant is the one that my lola Petra owned - the large right-most elephant on the first tier.  the collection is valuable only for me.

Weekend 20-22 Thoughts

I had a chance to chat with the wife of a friend last week.

Her husband is Beta Epsilon frat brother Junette Cruz.  i do not remember his batch.  If you are a Betan aged 50 and above, you have probably been to the house - where i live - as i live in ye olde homestead in Kamias.  Junette (Juanito is his real name) remembers the house and has pointed out the same to his wife, Marlyn.

Junette is currently undergoing dialysis.  Dialysis costs about 4K plus per session, and he has 2 sessions per week.  Diabetes caused his ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease).   Hemo-Dialysis is NOT easy, and it is expensive.  Money doesnt flow the way it used to flow....

Did you guys know that Junette has a special child?  Well, now you know.  

If there are any Betans or other friends out there with money to burn, you might want to say hello, or better yet, send him some special loving through a deposit to his bank account.  Every bit helps. Do you know that 300 will pay for transportation costs?  I have his cell phone and his wife's cell phone number.... so if you want to know, just comment or send email through this post. 

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When one is sick, and boy do i know this well, one feels things a lot more deeply.  Hurts are deeper,  Pains are sharper, but a bonus, Joys are .... more ebullient and ecstatic.  And one feels lonelier.  A little kind word to say hello goes a long way.  Do you have a sibling who is sick?  Have you asked if he or she is still alive and well?  No?  Ah, then at least you have shown your true colors.

Or are you envious and jealous because this sibling seems to have money you dont have so you dont care?  Do you wish the person dead so you might inherit?  Hahaha.  Fret not, you are probably not in the will anyway. 

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In a strange way, there was communication with Edgar H. Sarte last weekend.  i found several letters that he wrote to me while i was at STI.  Some of them, if you will believe it, discussed/talked about STI policy.  i always did ask him when there were things i didnt agree with;  i would tell him why i and he would return the favor.  Such were the letters.  I did found 2 pictures of Angelo, he would send them sometimes as Angelo is my godson. My, he was so very young then.  Now, from Vilma's FB, he is grown into a handsome young man.  i wonder what Ed wants to say .....  i have seen him several times in my dreams so maybe one of these nights he will make an appearance.

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i did go and visit the Pharisees.  And although i know i am healed, i fear i must visit the Pharisees some more.

my brilliant nephro, my Sayans high school classmate, Dr. Benita S. Padilla - who still heads the NGO Kidney Friends - she is connected with NKTI (National Kidney and Transplant Institute), has changed my meds again.. If she had been my doc from the beginning, i may not have needed the transplant in 2008.

Still, God has a plan and i abide by His Will.

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and oh, i re-arranged my elephant collection.  havent taken the pics yet ...
just to fascinate you, i have elephant buttons, elephant hair clips, an elephant push pin, an elephant pair of salt-and-pepper containers, an elephant shaped pillow, an elephant candle holder, an elephant eraser,  elephant paper clips, an elephant picture frame, and elephant odds-and-ends.  :-)