Extension of SSS Satuday Office

Goodreads quote - on Love. Something i definitely agree with ...

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. 


Henry Miller
Happy Valentine's Day! Legendary literary lovers Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin stayed true to Valentine's tradition with their frequent exchange of steamy letters.

Goodreads quotes - on books

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. 


Toni Morrison
Happy 83rd birthday, Toni Morrison! The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner writes rich, sweeping novels, about the black experience in America. She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford—'Toni' comes from her baptismal name, 'Anthony.'

Katulong Blues - a warning

By its very term, a katulong (or helper) is one that is supposed to make life and work easier.
Keep that in mind as you read this particular post.

Beware of a day help with initials NB.  She is a big woman, rather clumsy,
She also has a tendency to disparage others - including her superiors to make herself look better
She used to help out but because she is lazy, she almost killed me.
Using police parlance, it would be Homicide.

What happened, you wonder?  Once upon a time, i was at work and she went to work.  The lady who irons for me supervised her.  Otherwise she (NB) would not have been in the house.

Well, she mopped the floor and because there was a spot that was difficult to clean, she concocted a chemical stew that was composed of water, lysol, zonrox,  and another strong cleansing agent.  Must have been vitriolic.  At any rate, she didnt completely rinse the floor and to make a long story short, i slipped.

i am disabled so i am careful about walking. if she had rinsed the floor completely, i wouldnt have slipped.

i confronted her the next time she went to the house.... and this is what she said.

ay sorry po.  nakalimutan kong banlawan ng husto.

can you imagine that?

actually, she was just too lazy to fully rinse the floor 

i am also particular about not mixing usage of things
rags used for tabletops are NOT used for the floors, and vice-versa
i have told her these a gazillion times - and she keeps saying she forgot
i have since concluded that she is merely lazy

i had told myself not to allow her to help anymore but she has a daughter who has a serious illness
and i sympathized with her plight - and after that she only mopped the floors with water
BUT
she told me i was the only one who would reprimand her everytime.
and that she was only helping because she hadnt found anyone else to go to....
so i told her to depart and never darken my doorstep

so, if she is now working for you, watch out - she just may kill your loved ones

Happy V in 2014

Happy Hearts!

May you have cozy times with loved ones .....

The Ghost Chair

i surf the net and i saw this on Taste Central (retail side of Deal Grocer)
this is a

Philippe Starck Louis Ghost Chair (Crystal)

This brings visions of Fairy Tale castles and glass slippers and Prince Charmings
perhaps a Beast or two

gorgeous, me thinks.
one chair is 17K plus.pesos

Some points on the salary loan program

There have been queries on a so-called "third salary loan" on the SSS salary loan program

First of all, the salary loan benefit is NOT a right, unlike most of the benefits of SSS.
Rights are inalienable* (see below) and the salary loan is NOT..

a new loan is one wherein there is no outstanding loan.  you can make a series of new loans, without distinguishing it as the first, second, or third (or etc) loan for as long as there
a renewal is one wherein there is an outstanding balance.

an SSS member can only have 1 (one) existing loan (that is, an open loan) at any one time so a "third loan" seems weird

*

in·al·ien·a·ble

inˈālēənəbəl/

adjective

adjective: inalienable

1. 1.

   unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor.

   "freedom of religion, the most inalienable of all human rights"

   synonyms:

   inviolable, absolute, sacrosanct; More untransferable, nontransferable, nonnegotiable; indefeasible "that principle is an essential, inalienable part of having ownership"

Goodreads quote - about our souls

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. 


Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin (born February 8, 1850) wrote early feminist novel The Awakening. She first began writing on the advice of her doctor, who thought that it would be therapeutic after the close deaths of her mother and her husband.

Goodreads quote - about reading

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head. 


Paul Auster
Happy 67th birthday, Paul Auster! As a novelist, he is preoccupied with the concept of chance. At 14, Auster was standing next to a friend who was struck and killed by a bolt of lightning.

Abueva - The Power of Form - Exhibit at the Met

Last Saturday, National Artist Napoleon Abueva celebrated his 84th birthday at the Metropolitan Museum at Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas located along Roxas Boulevard.

I considered myself lucky to be invited.  I was also invited at the opening, but i was indisposed and couldnt make it - so i found myself doubly lucky to make it to his birthday.  The "full" exhibit ended last month, the 31st of January.  The bigger pieces has since been returned to the owners - some to the Abuevas, a few to the Consunjis.  As a matter of fact, someone told me that Mrs. David M. Consunji was the lady in white lace.  Most of the Consunji art works were abstracts - and as i viewed them with a great deal of pleasure, i felt the power of motion expressed in the abstracts.  They were mostly bas-relief 

i loved the carabaos, but my favorite piece - the black glossy family of 3 that was roughly half a mil was simply not there, i looked for it and asked my friend and classmate if it had been sold but she wasnt sure
if you want to see a pic of this, hit the arts-and-friends label on the left and you will see it

i liked the bust of my friend Amihan, the eldest of his kids - and that of Duero, the youngest son.

my friend Alice likes the Judas kiss, the surface of this piece reminds me of the Easter Island heads.

i love the circular slatted room, and if i were lavishly rich, i'd have it near the pool, but protected from the elements.  you would know why if you had seen it.

i also would buy the doors, if i had a castle or mansion to showcase it.  lovely doorway - a gateway to beauty and spiritual peace.

btw, it isnt too late to see some of them, only the larger pieces have been removed.  you can still view the smaller items - 

the Met is open Mondays-Saturdays.  Go see it, and maybe buy a few, especially if you can afford it

Goodreads quote - about Solitude

One can acquire everything in solitude except character. 

Stendhal
The French novelist Stendhal (born January 23, 1783) was passionate in both love and work. His attack of dizziness upon viewing Giotto's frescoes for the first time was later identified as a psychosomatic illness and named Stendhal Syndrome—being overcome by an abundance of art and beauty.

Ah, these times - A Goodreads quote

Look around, look at the signs - they are everywhere....  


These are the times that try men's souls. 


Thomas Paine
January 10, 1776: Common Sense was a slim pamphlet written by patriot Thomas Paine, arguing that American colonists should rise up against the British. It was published 238 years ago today and sold half a million copies in its first year.

Know thyself - and others - a Goodread's quote

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. 


Abigail Van Buren
January 9, 1956: The first Dear Abby advice column appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, 58 years ago today. The author, Pauline Phillips, derived her pen name, Abigail Van Buren, from the eight U.S. president, Martin Van Buren.

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it. 


Isaac Asimov
January 2, 1920: Prolific science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was also quite the fanboy—he was a member of societies dedicated to the Nero Wolfe mysteries, Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and the world of Sherlock Holmes.

good to know that Asimov can be a fanboy too
i am very much of fan of SH

New Year Eats 2014.....yummy; cooked by yours truly

Birthday -

Clarits, me, Justine, Ging, Annabel

Annabel on my swing

Justine, trying out my swing

Israel, me, Efren

Liz, Jerry, Nick, me, Dale, Jimmy, Amihan, and Manny - Holding my flowers

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love my roses thing

A New Year's Eve post - A goodreads quote from one of my fave authors

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.


Neil Gaiman

Stan Lee of Marvel shares my birthday - a goodreads's selected quote

Face front, true believers! 


Stan Lee
December 28, 1922: Happy 91st birthday, Stan Lee! The comic book legend got his start filling inkwells and fetching lunch at Timely Comics, which would eventually become Marvel. He went on to create characters like Spider-Man and the X-Men.

Happy Christmas to All

The Belen

Noche Buena

And the Lord Jesus visited, and came to stay

Senor Santo Nino de Perpetua Socorro

yolanda

people respond differently, and through different means
this was a test,  and there were many bad reviews of people who ought to know better but did not

at the same time there were people who moved quietly, without fanfare

change begins with one person, youself.

a James Thurber quote from Goodreads

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer. 


James Thurber
December 8, 1894: Funny, dark, and slightly surreal, American writer and cartoonist James Thurber started out at the top, with drawings published in the New Yorker, thanks to his friend E.B. White, who was a writer at the magazine. Thurber was born in Ohio, 119 years ago today.

Which one?  At some point in our lives, we have all been nomads.

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A Goodreads quote on Pleasures

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. 

C.S. Lewis
November 22, 1963: C.S. Lewis, the British writer who created the magical land of Narnia, died 50 years ago today. On that same day, author Aldous Huxley also died and John F. Kennedy was assassinated.