Carrickfergus

I decided to change my background music today into one of my most favorite song ever. The title is "Carrickfergus" by Charlotte Church. The very first time I heard this song I fell in love with it immediately. It is such a very haunting song and it brings back special memories when me and my husband first met. We both love classical music so much. The very first time he told me that he has a collection of classical music, I was amazed as I have been collecting classical music cd's as well since high school. We made a promise that one day we will go to Ireland, the place where this song originated, and see the castle in Carrickfergus.

I wish I was in Carrickfergus

Where the castle looks out to sea.

I would swim over the deepest ocean

For my love to be with me.

But the sea is wide and I can not swim over

Nor have I the wings to fly

I wish I had a handsome boatman,

To ferry me over, my love and I.

I wish I was in the land of Eire,

Where the mountains reach the sea.

Where flowers blossom as I do remember.

Where my true love came to me.

But the sea is wide and I can not swim over.

Nor have I the wings to fly.

Ahh to be back now in Carrickfergus

To be together .. my love and I.

To be together .. my love and I.

I wish I was in Carrickfergus,

To be together my love and I.

I wish I was back home again.

***"Carrickfergus" is a typical lament of an Irish expatriate who wishes he was back in his homeland. The origins of the song are unclear, but it has been traced to an Irish language song, "The Sick Young Lover".
 

I am not Irish but I can definitely relate to the song especially during those times when me and my husband was still so many miles apart, longing for our moment of togetherness again. Although my interpretation of the song is somewhat different, it still boils down to the fact that when you're longing for something or somebody, and that somebody is so many miles away, it makes your heart grow fonder.

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Premature Baby Lands on Railroad Tracks

It can only happen in India. A young woman in India gave birth on the toilet of a moving train, with the newborn baby girl falling onto the tracks below. Toilets on Indian trains usually have just a hole that lets everything just fall down onto the tracks. In this case, the woman's relatives demanded an emergency stop and a search was then mounted. One and a half hours later the newborn was discovered on the tracks alive.

Source: Fox News

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Nasty Pop-ups

I have been informed by Poray that nasty pop-ups keeps popping up on my blog. I'm currently working on it. I know i'm not the first one who has to deal with it so I did my little research and sure enough, some of my fellow bloggers also had the same problem. I just followed what they had to do to get rid of it. I'm doing a little "trial-and-error" right now as I don't really know which one, among my "add-ons", is the culprit. I already removed some of them. I also went through my html codes and I found one that's very suspicious. Let's see what happens. Thanks for the info from Lara and Pinaysmile's blogs.

Also, I have a new domain name. Please update my link on your blog to http://www.celestialbookworm.com/ Thanks a lot.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone!

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Honor Student Suspended for Skittles

An eight-grade honor student in Connecticut was suspended for a day for buying a bag of Skittles in school. He was also barred from attending an honors dinner and stripped of his title as vice president in his class. The said candy violated the schools "wellness" policy.

Holy cow! Talk about school health Nazis!

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A Lesson About Time

Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!

Each of us has such a bank. It's name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow." You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success! The clock is running!! Make the most of today.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.

To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who just missed a train.

To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask someone who just avoided an accident.

To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal at the Olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with. And remember time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present.

***Note: This is a forwarded message that I decided to post here on my blog as it carries important lessons about how we should value our time.

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Living Life The Way I Should

How do I live my life? Do I live just for the sake of living? I found myself asking those questions today. So many of us do things without even thinking how it will affect our lives in the long run. Some just live without caring what will happen the next day. Still some live just for the sake of living.

Yesterday, I was really in a sour mood when I woke up. I basically woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I didn't know why at first. Then I remember saying how I hated that day. That's when it all started - one single negative thought became the breeding ground of more negative thoughts all throughout the day. All I saw were the things that I had to do. I was a mess - mentally. And the worst thing was, I hardly had anything done when the day was over. Thinking about it now, I feel sorry for my husband. But at the same time i'm also thankful 'coz everytime I think negatively he always comes back countering my pessimism with his optimistic aura. My husband is probably the most optimistic person I have ever known. I'm not saying that he doesn't get upset about things but 99.9% of the time, he handles it way better than I do...and way better than I ever can! And the thing is, he's way busier a person than I am! Now i'm ashamed of myself...

Do you know what INSANITY means? According to the dictionary, it means "extreme foolishness". But as J* puts it, insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results". It's like banging your head on the wall thinking that it's not going to hurt. Crazy, isn't it? That's actually me sometimes. But I try not to be like that as much as I could. I always try to be productive. I set my goals. To me, there's always a time for everything. But I also know that I have to be flexible as well, otherwise, I will falter.

Life is not just about making money or having everything you want. It's about relationship - with God, family, friends, neighbors...and even with people we don't know. We only have one life to live...and it's up to us to "live" it the way we should. After all, it's not the years in our life that count. It's the life in our years.

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Blogging and Me...

I finally found the time to write. I miss blogging. Unfortunately, blogging is not on my top list of priorities anymore. I'm not saying that it was. I just felt like it was. And I'm sure J* felt the same way too. I have been so busy lately, I think I'm going nuts. I need to re-learn how to be more time efficient. I feel like I'm wasting so much time doing things that doesn't really benefit me or my family. I just have to vent. For some odd reason, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

Then I realize I still have lots of things to do - a property valuation report to make, important papers to scan and file, phone calls to make, transactions to enter on quicken...lots of organizations to do basically, and on top of all that, i'm still not done preparing all the paperworks I need for the removal of my conditional residency. My 90-day window has already started. But I know i'll be fine. I still have time.

The list of things-to-do goes on and on.

I guess that's the "beauty" (in a sarcastic way) of working for yourself. Managing time efficiently is a must...to which right now I feel like I'm coming short of. I'm just glad J* is there to help me. Otherwise, I'm really gonna go crazy!

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