Monday, May 31, 2004
Tired. For whatever reason, I couldn't get any sleep last night, although I was attempting to for about 7 hours. It didn't help that I had to get up at 5:30am this morning. I would say that I only had about a half hour of sleep, at most. So I pretty much ended up walking most of the way during the 5K. One of the things I was looking forward to after the race: breakfast at IHOP. After breakfast, the second thing I was looking forward to: a nap. When I got home around noon, I slept for about 2 hours before I left for a picnic at the beach. Now that I'm back home again, I should probably stay up just a little bit longer. If I go to sleep now, I might end up waking up at 2 or 3 o'clock later on. Then my sleep schedule would be really messed up.
Sunday, May 30, 2004
Gonna run on the Saddleback 5K tomorrow with no practice whatsoever for the past few months. No recent exercise. Not even a single DDR set. Yay.
Thursday, May 20, 2004
Two bug-related stories:
During the last day of the mission, it was really painful for me to walk around. So painful that I was limping all day. When I took off my shoes at the end of the day, I noticed that both of my ankles were extremely swollen. Apparently, I had been bitten by cockroaches the night before. I didn't think that roaches could bite. It's a good thing I was surrounded by people in the medical profession. I ended up being on antibiotics over the next ten days. The cool thing about this was when we were at the airport to fly to Cebu, the airport staff noticed my predicament. I was then offered a wheelchair, and we were given priority boarding and seating on the plane.
The other bug incident occured when we were visiting my friends' relatives at Papaya before heading back to Manila. We were lounging around and having some drinks and snacks. The sun had just set, and it was starting to get dark. All of a sudden, a LARGE swarm of moths flew by, pretty much taking up the entire patio area. A couple of my friends started running indoors, but the moths still followed them inside. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't really escape because of the condition of my feet. That was such a strange event. Even the locals hadn't seen anything like that happen before. I think I now have a better idea of how the Egyptians felt during one of their plagues. Anyway, someone mentioned that it might rain soon, and the moths were just trying to keep from getting wet. True enough, it started sprinkling within the hour.
During the last day of the mission, it was really painful for me to walk around. So painful that I was limping all day. When I took off my shoes at the end of the day, I noticed that both of my ankles were extremely swollen. Apparently, I had been bitten by cockroaches the night before. I didn't think that roaches could bite. It's a good thing I was surrounded by people in the medical profession. I ended up being on antibiotics over the next ten days. The cool thing about this was when we were at the airport to fly to Cebu, the airport staff noticed my predicament. I was then offered a wheelchair, and we were given priority boarding and seating on the plane.
The other bug incident occured when we were visiting my friends' relatives at Papaya before heading back to Manila. We were lounging around and having some drinks and snacks. The sun had just set, and it was starting to get dark. All of a sudden, a LARGE swarm of moths flew by, pretty much taking up the entire patio area. A couple of my friends started running indoors, but the moths still followed them inside. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't really escape because of the condition of my feet. That was such a strange event. Even the locals hadn't seen anything like that happen before. I think I now have a better idea of how the Egyptians felt during one of their plagues. Anyway, someone mentioned that it might rain soon, and the moths were just trying to keep from getting wet. True enough, it started sprinkling within the hour.
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Friday night, I went to the David Crowder Band concert at Newsong church. That's a whole lot of worship music, almost enough to make up for the weeks I was gone.
Anyway, as far as the medical mission during the first week of the trip, we were at the Abesamis' hometown of Gen. Tinio (aka Papaya) in the rural province of Nueva Ecija. I was assigned into the media team. Anyway, our job was to basically just be historians, go around and videotape and photograph everything going on. From time to time, I would end up being an English/Tagalog translator as well. The cool thing about being a media team member is that I got to see every aspect of the mission from the evangelism to the medical to the dental to the pharmacy areas. I was able to witness how God was working in each area of the mission. During those three days, over 1700 people were seen and heard the Gospel. Thanks for your prayers.
After the mission, a few of us went to the island of Cebu to vacation for a few days. But I'll talk about that another day.
Anyway, as far as the medical mission during the first week of the trip, we were at the Abesamis' hometown of Gen. Tinio (aka Papaya) in the rural province of Nueva Ecija. I was assigned into the media team. Anyway, our job was to basically just be historians, go around and videotape and photograph everything going on. From time to time, I would end up being an English/Tagalog translator as well. The cool thing about being a media team member is that I got to see every aspect of the mission from the evangelism to the medical to the dental to the pharmacy areas. I was able to witness how God was working in each area of the mission. During those three days, over 1700 people were seen and heard the Gospel. Thanks for your prayers.
After the mission, a few of us went to the island of Cebu to vacation for a few days. But I'll talk about that another day.
Friday, May 14, 2004
*grumble*grumble* Jet lag sucks. I end up waking up at 3 o'clock in the morning. Add to that the fact that my neighborhood now seems uncomfortably quiet compared to my family's house in the Philippines. No more sounds of tricycles, late night karaoke sessions, crowing roosters, or squeals of pigs being slaughtered next door to lull me back to sleep.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Whoa! When did they change the interface for Blogger? I haven't really been on the internet in a while. Anyway, I'm on the way back home, accessing the internet from Incheon Airport. Lots of stories when I get back.
