Kat's Notebook

New Year means a new everything – goal, perspective, aspirations, changes, etc. It  inspires people to improve from the past and change for the better. Last year I made some new year’s resolutions. It was a half-hearted attempt to set some goals in my life. Well it was more like half-hearted in my actions to [...]

2011 has been a very good year. I thank the Lord for all the blessings He has showered upon me and my family. One of the reasons I blog is to be able to remember such blessings that came into my life. As 2012 unfolds, I’m taking time right now to be thankful of what [...]

Hello guys! I hope you have a good start in 2012. In my succeeding articles I will become nostalgic and look back on 2011 to have a proper goodbye of the past year and a proper hello of the new year. So what’s happening in 2012? Well all I know are: the Summer Olympics in [...]

I want to greet you all a Merry Christmas. I also want to repost this greeting I got from someone in Facebook and I greet you with this message too: I could wish you joy n peace to last a whole life long. I could wish you sunshine or a cheerful little song. Or wish [...]

I had a very wonderful and fun time in Japan. I loved the culture, the people, the etiquette and manners, the history, the old buildings, etc. Initially I was intimidated with this country because I had expectation of it being too strait-laced, too high-tech, too rigid. But when I came to the country, I found [...]

My biggest travel this year would be Japan! Finally I would be able to step on this beautiful country that I had been dreaming of. I had been meticulously planning the itinerary for 2 months when my sister gave me the go ahead for this trip. So for the whole month of October I would [...]

For the past 2-3 weeks, my sister and I were volleying ideas where to travel for her one-week holiday on October. The ideas whittled down to two choices: France or Japan. I would love to go to either one but my sister wanted a cheaper travel so we settled on Japan. I’d been planning on [...]

I’m on a crunch time. As I write this blog, there are millions of things that I need to do in preparation for my vacation back to the Philippines. It hasn’t been a year and I’m going back to my home country already. It hasn’t given me enough time to miss it. Anyway the reason [...]

Happy new year everyone!!! It’s time to start thinking and writing 2011 instead of 2010. After the parties, the celebrations, the indulgence, the self-reflection, what are you most hopeful for 2011? Are there things you want to achieve and things you want to change? Are you brimming with optimism that this year will be better? [...]