I HAVE A REASON
February is unnoticeably tiptoeing out and I haven’t written
anything for this blog. Please forgive me for being a slack little vegemite (yes, it's Aussie speak), well, I have very good reasons why.
First of all, I have gotten busy submitting papers
for my second trip to Melbourne. I’ll be leaving on the 12th day
from this post and will be away for six weeks on vacation. That means I will be
absent from here until my return in April. I had thought of some posts and even
got some photos (somewhere in my computer) for this year’s “Love” month but
never really got around to posting them. And I have a very good reason for that too.
I have accepted a translator job online! I translate
manuscripts from Filipino to English and vice versa; oh the benefits of being
bilingual! My client is a science fiction book writer and works in one of the leading
publishing companies in my country so I feel really honored to be hired. It’s
not a full-time work which makes it lovely. Although I’m given deadlines, I can
work on my own pace. I like it. I’ve finished and submitted all my assignments
yesterday so I have time to spare to blog for the remaining days of February
and a few more of March before the Holiday and this is the first of the series.
So, how was your “Valentine”? A bit late, I know, ten days
late!!! But how was it? I don’t really celebrate the 14th but I don’t
condemn those who do. I believe in celebrating “love” every day the whole year
round. I prefer to be surprised with my favorite snack bar on an ordinary day
than a bouquet of flowers on a designated date just because everyone else is
getting one, so by force, because the occasion calls for it or else…your
boyfriend, husband or whoever has to buy you some.
Just a little trivia for you, do you know that St. Valentine’s Day has been officially stripped off the Roman calendar of official Catholic feasts in 1969 because of vagueness in origin? Although the holiday has Roman
and Catholic roots, no one really knows how it began or who started it, not
even St. Valentines. So don’t be depressed if your Feb. 14 wasn’t so romantic
or you had none at all. Again, it’s just one of those traditions men blindly practice
without real knowledge of it.
Well, this is long now. I hope I’ve made up for my lack of
time to post here. Hopefully, I could do some more before I disappear again.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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