In just a matter of 2 weeks, Hubbie was able to grow this plant from a handful of grass into a lovely bouquet of lowers!
Hubbie is quite a green thumb isn’t he?
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COE!!!!!!
I just can’t contain my happiness. Neither can Hubbie. The process of us being together involves a lot of waiting. We wait to see each other on our trips. We wait for documents. And the waiting for the documents can make you crazy I tell you (although the waiting for the day of our trip is torture as it is as well). We have one more document yet to apply for and wait. That would be sort of like the final lump in the throat before we can plan full force for the few months ahead.
But for now, let’s enjoy this one shall we? =D
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It was released by the Japan Foreign Affairs (Nyukoku kanri kyoku) last Wednesday (exactly 6 weeks after application but roughly around 4 weeks discounting holidays), arrived by mail last Thursday. But since it’s a registered mail, Hubbie has to personally receive it. Hence we were only able to see it just now.
It’s indeed a good blessing to receive our COE at the same date as our 4th month as husband and wife. Thank you Lord!!! ^_^
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Hubbie’s story: It was almost 12 o’clock and he was on his way out our room to check on our mailbox. The mailman was supposed to deliver the mail at 9~12. But on his way out, he met the postman haha. In his surprise he exclaimed “that’s mine!”. haha, cute.
Rainy Summer?
I had to show Hubbie the Church we’re getting married in and our reception venue. Hence when we went to Tagaytay-Batangas for our interviews, we had to squeeze in the visits in our schedule.
And i’m glad we did. The place was even more beautiful that day, January 4. There was a clear blue sky and yet it wasn’t hot. It felt like Japan in early May. And in the afternoon as we saw the sunset when we got out of Ville Sommet, it felt like early autumn.
When we went to Caleruega at past 4, there was a wedding so we couldn’t get inside the church. Hence we just roamed around the premises enjoying the scenery. The fine blue sky coupled with the cold weather created an effect that when you look out the horizon, it doesn’t look like a tropical place. It definitely reminded me yet again of breathtaking Tuscany (I wonder when can I get to visit the place again).
We liked it so much we had difficulty leaving the place in that we had to make a stopover by the roadside to take some snapshots.
Anyway, Hubbie and I think the couple who were having their wedding that day was very lucky to have such a beautiful day for their wedding day. Then Hubbie said, “Let’s pray for good weather on our wedding day. Let’s start praying now, everyday”.
And I totally agree with Hubbie. Never underestimate the power of prayer. I really think starting the praying now is a great idea especially with the news below that it’s gonna be a rainy summer this year.
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ann/20110120/tph-it-s-going-to-be-a-rainy-summer-no-d-fb8bb4f.html
Short(ening) attention span
I have a number of blog backlogs about our trips over the holidays but I just have to post this as I find this one extremely important especially since I think I haven’t completely read a single chapter of a book in just one 10-minute sitting ever since we started our wedding preparations. I usually read just 5 pages at most; brrr.
The internet has been tons of help in planning for our wedding. As mostly I look up wedding ideas, my research is heavily graphic-focused with fast reading on captions and titles and headings. Whenever I encounter sites that only have pure texts on it, I tend to skip it. I did this again and again until lately, I have noticed that it takes some effort and some amount of patience for me to read heavy text websites. And somehow, I find this taking-some-amount-of-patience-to-read quite disturbing although I can’t quite put a finger as to why.
Yet another thing that’s nagging at the back of my head is my forgetfulness which I think is getting worse by the day. An idea would pop in my head and if I don’t cater to it the moment it popped, it’d be gone even only 2 seconds after, poof!. Then, I had to take some effort to remember it. It’s like there are a lot of stuff running through my head competing for attention.
When I read below blog post and read the part about loosing the ability to “contemplate and reflect”, alarm signals went ringing inside my head, telling me to go grab a book ASAP. I just might mimic Hubbie for a while and read tons of books, at least until after these worries are proven unfounded.
Hubbie’s plants
I dearly hope I can see you soon.
Leaning against one of the potted plants is a Mother and Child artwork we bought last Dec 31 in Boracay. Hubbie and I were moved with the story of the kid selling the artwork that we decided to buy two pieces (for a good discount hehe).
On another note, I thank God that I have such a sweet husband.
lost luggage tags
I really don’t want to post any negative outbursts here in our wedsite. But my lost luggage tags were quite special to me hence this post. Mind you, I didn’t loose them by chance or out of sheer negligence.
They were specifically removed.
I didn’t notice their loss until now, when I was starting to account my stuff after our trip. After some investigations (from pictures) and recollections, they were removed for our flight to Manila from Kalibo. Arrghhh!! I just find it so frustrating!! They were luggage tags for goodness sakes! They were put on the luggage to help identify the luggage. Huhu.
One was a gift given last Christmas – it was orange (one of our wedding colors), bearing my married name with our home address in Japan on it. The other one was the luggage tag I got in our Vietnam trip – from our favorite hotel in that trip (Ancient Hotel in Hoi An). It was a wonder the person who removed my luggage tags didn’t removed my destination stickers from all my trips. But if he/she has done that, I would probably be in fits – I (and Hubbie also) sort of want my(/his) gray luggage to be filled with destination stickers.
Frustrating T_T. It was a good thing Hubbie was able to take a picture of my luggage in NAIA while waiting for our flight to Kalibo.
