In the midst of the hype of Harry Potter 7, I decided that it was finally time to add the complete set of the books for my collection.  Honestly, I haven’t read all of the books.  In fact, I only got to read book 1, half of book 2, and book 5.  What can I say? 

You see, there is always a chance that I lose interest in something, a book or a song, when it becomes famous.  That is why I only got to read half of book 2: Harry Potter was crazy famous by then.  Everyone who found me weird because I was a bookworm, were suddenly experts in literary art.  I kinda felt betrayed, books were my gig (Alright!  I was 21!  That’s my excuse).  You know how it is…

Anyway, the lot of you guys know that I have started applying the Law of Attraction into my life.  So in my morning quiet-time, I started picturing the complete hardbound set in my possession.  I don’t know if I would get around to reading them.  I just want to have the set in my collection.

Last Friday, the executive committee of my company treated us to a meal.  It was chaos in the pantry area, but I finally got a seat beside a manager from my batch, Ms. Dinah.  I have not talked to her in a while, so we were having an animated conversation to catch up on things.  I find her chica btw. :)  My quest for the books came up,  and oddly enough, she actually has an extra copy of book 6!  What a coincidink?!  Who actually has an extra copy, in mint condition no less, of a Harry Potter Book?!  Turns out it was a freebie for reserving the final installment of the series.

She offered it to me for 500Php, and actually asked if it was reasonable.  What luck?!  No, this is not just luck.  This is the universe moving circumstance and things to give me what I asked for, nothing less.

As far as the Law of Attraction goes, I am MAGNETO!

In all the years of my family’s devotion to the Catholic Faith, I was quite surprised that we have never gone to this church.

This is Sta. Clara Church in Katipunan, which also houses some monk sisters.  If I’m not mistaken, this is the Church from the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo books by Dr. Jose Rizal.  The place is just embraced by serenity, despite it being in the middle of the Metropolis.

I came with these guys — my new friends from the office.  They let us out of the office early last Monday due to network problems.  So we decided to do a short roadtrip to the Church.  Afterwards, we spent the rest of the afternoon at Timezone Greenbelt 3.

They’re sandals.

They are so comfortable that you don’t have to break into these shoes, err sandals.  I bought the Donny ones with the blue stripes.

Check www.sanuk.com for their line.  These are available at Rustans.

 

Rubi introduced me to House of Minis steak today.

 

I got this large slab of steak for 200Php flat.  I was pleasantly surprised that it’s delish.  Unbelievable!

House of Minis can be found at Food Choices Glorietta 4.

I never ordered Vanilla Ice blended from Coffee Bean before.  I looked down and saw this.   

It is on its way.

…we got rained on.  This was last Wednesday.

We went to Jollibee for shakes and pie.  It was already dark when we went out of the office, but we pressed on.  On the way back, the heavens finally cried.  We had no choice but to wait it out at a Jollijeep.  From Jollibee to Jollijeep.

Our feet were soaking wet.

But we were the happiest stranded people around.  When we finally arrived, we found our officemate Franco like this:

Buti pa siya himbing na himbing sa pagtulog. 

I lost all energy trying to explain The Secret to my brother this evening.  I could almost feel an icky feeling come over me after that conversation.  Urk…

This way of thinking is not just for material things, you know?!  Yeah I may have tried to prove that it works by attracting material things to me, but don’t judge something out of what you just overheard.  Haay…

I must focus on one more thing then… understanding.

Oh well, tomorrow is a new day.  I know that it is going to be a good one!

I’ll post some stuff then.

After lunch, we decided to go to the nearby 7-11 store to get some dessert.  So on our way back, I was eating a cone of cornetto, when the girls (both Mums) went inside Lady Godiva Beauty Station. 

So I sat there, eating my ice cream, waiting for them.  I was like a kid waiting for my mother while she shopped around.

I can’t remember how many times I did this with my Mum.

I wrote my goals the other day.  It’s a list of what I want my self image to be in the future in all aspects:  financial, relational, physical, intelectual, and spiritual.  At first I had a difficult time, but I was adviced to write what I didn’t want and then traslate it into it’s opposite polarity.  The results are my positive goals in life.  The key is to embody, as if you already attained them.

I learned that it is unhealthy to keep this survivor attitude of mine.  It keeps me from moving forward.  Since the universe acts only on what you focus on, there is no room for negative feelings if you want to attain your goals.  That is the Law of attraction.

I’ve since then let these positive feelings flow through me.  I’m excited.

Yesterday was such a stressful day for me.  From my way to work, negativity has been thrown at me in the form of a very insensitive person.  I did my best not to give in to it.  It can’t be helped.  I was taking public transportation.

I got to work to find that literally everything has halted.  We were sitting there doing nothing, paralyzed by the malfunctioned system.  I think the seven or so hours of idle time finally caused the collapse of some of my emotional safeguards.  For survivors like me, sometimes you have to use these safeguards to keep the negativity of your dark past at bay.  I scribbled down these few lines to articulate the experience.

Shards of sadness just came over me right now for no apparent reason. Well, I guess for a moment, i gazed upon the telephone and started to run through a list in my head of who to call. Finally realizing that there’s no one family member concretely in my life right now, save for one of my brothers.

I was again beset by a profound feeling of being alone. The dilemma there is that I do not even know if I want to connect with them still.

This overall feeling has taken over me such that I have built this invisible wall around me. I cannot learn to trust and depend on anyone new right now. I fear that I may never quell this chain of distrust.

Even on my way home I stumbled into some negative people.  Trials, trials…