Life of a Kat

Just make sure you notice... the collateral beauty. (Collateral Beauty, 2016) I had never completed watching a movie without shedding a tear. Tonight, I cried a river while watching this movie. I tried to get distracted by ironing some clothes while watching, but I had to stop what I am doing because I need to catch up with the lines and every thing in between, until I decided to pause it, finish my task and sit down to play it again where I left off. Different stories in a single movie. The pain of losing someone coz death, separation from a daughter coz of divorce, saving a company from getting a buyout, fear of losing a life-long investment, terminal illness kept a secret, the thrill of chase of big dreams. He made an appeal with death. He questioned time. He said goodbye to love. But he never acknowledged life. How does each of us cope when tragedies strike our lives? Do we ever get to see the collateral beauty attached to it? How long does it take to get a clear view of t...

Do you ever read something and feel like it's just for you?  -Jim Preston (Passengers, 2016) I just finished watching the movie today. Out of the blue, I decided to click on it, instead of my usual tv series episode on queue. And as usual, I cried before the movie ended. It's a love story that bloomed in the most unexpected place and time on a journey to a new life. They were supposed to be asleep for the next 120 years until they reach their new planet, but something went wrong and a passenger, Jim Preston, was awaken 90 years before their expected time of landing. An android bartender kept him company. Until he had grown a crush on a fellow passenger and he had started prying on to her personal profile, growing more fond of her every single day until he decided to wake her up but kept it a secret. Being the only couple alive on the ship, they have no one else to go to but each other, they bonded and fell in love with each other. But of course, secrets are meant to be rev...

I want to tell you about my day. About how I am feeling, how lonely it could be, how crazy my thoughts could go. I want to tell you.... How I woke up at 7am but opted to stay curled in bed until I hear my stomach grumbled and eventually, I had to get up and fill up my tummy with whatever I have on the fridge that day. How I tried to figure out how to hang dry all my washed clothes coz I included the beddings and towels. How crazy the weather can change in here, it's sunny today, rainy tomorrow, sunny again for the next two days. Warm day, chilly evenings. How I had delete my acount and uninstall Tinder on my phone. Apparently, I seem to have build enough connections for now. How I have lots of chocolates on the fridge, but I opted to buy a very expensive slice of cheese cake, coz that's what I really want to eat. Matcha is for another stressful day. How biking let me discover places and cities near me. How I got a very cheap monthly mobile sim subscription witho...

So this is how I celebrated my first Valentine's day in Japan: Woke up at 5am. Walked to the bus station at 6:30 4-hr bus trip to Kumamoto for a "training" Ate burger at the Freshness Burger Completed the "training" Walked around the Kumamoto Castle Got lost somewhere in the Kumamoto Castle Found my way back because people are so nice and helpful. Finished reading After Dark by Haruki Murakami in the bus. Walked my way home from the bus station. Came home to a cold and silent apartment. It's gonna be like this for the next days. Coming home to a very silent home and alone for most of the time. Nothing new about that. Except for the cold weather. This is just a stage. Just like any dream, one day, some day, I won't feel alone anymore.

Wherever I go, there will always be that one person who would tend to drain my energy at work or in life. To survive, I gotta fight that negativity. Sometimes, the resistance to the thought of the negativity could also be a reason to get drained. Days are getting tougher and tougher. The almost laidback days at work are over and WORK is starting to speak for itself. With two training trips ahead, nine demo lessons on queue (5 already completed, so four more to go), days are becoming restless and restless at work. Family and real friends just know when I need a little rescuing. Just an hour of phone call and then, everything seems to be put back in perspective again. Younger sisters sending me single word messages out of the blue, telling me they miss me. Papa, logging on to skype using my bro's account just to tell me he had opened a new account for my future remittances. But all along, I thought I was talking to my brother. LOL. Then, that scheduled call from a friend fr...

Dear Future Boyfriend, A-uno na naman ng Pebrero, 2017 na. Wala naman. Ini-inform lang kita. My training trip ako sa Feb. 14 kaya busy ako. Love, Meow.