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My Thousand Words for the Day
Want to take a wild guess what I feel today?Photo Source: 777Denny...
A Lesson from My Parents
Because November is the month both my parents died (though in separate years), I have been pondering about things that they have taught me. When both your parents are gone, you kind of have these moments of real hardcore reflection. Unless they appe...
Morning Rush
I have been having those blank feelings of regret for the past few weeks. I have been focusing on the wrong things I have done in the past. It was affecting my present in a big way. This morning, I just felt that God loved me complete with the war...
Bad Disaster Movie
The typhoon that skipped Manila decided to anyway visit the country. He went to another part and stayed there for a week! Now, a town is 60% buried underwater and to top it all off, another city experienced a landslide. I wish this were just a way...
Happy Happy Joy Joy
I always contended in this blog that prayers are heard and they work. But sometimes, people think it is all lip service until an actual MIRACLE happens. Yesterday, the Philippines was bracing for another storm. It was not just any storm, it was ac...
The Experiment
Around six months ago, I decided to stop complaining. I did it because I just could not spend any energy over things that have a way of cyclically involving me in negativity. My mantra was (and is) this is the way things are, I need to accept it. A...
Jumps and Clothes
I have been jumping from day to day the last few weeks. Yesterday, I felt a familiar sense of personal disapproval. I wanted to seek validation from people. I wanted to hear I was a good, smart and a wonderful person. However, I decided against d...
Needed to Quote This
"You see, Satan desires to have women in a stronghold of exploitation, sexploitation, distortion and desolation. He knows how effective and influential women can be, so he works through society to convince us we are so much less than we are." - Quot...
On Blessings and Disappointments
God has been really blessing us. In spite of this horrible economic situation, Heikki found a job as a school teacher. This job came at the most perfect of times not because of anything but because we somehow planned it to be this way. With all th...
Note to Me
Last Saturday, Heikki and I got baptized again. We went to the beach where we gave our testimonials, was dunked into the water and then had a picnic. I have nothing really deep to share now but just that I want to remember the date when we were bap...
Test 1, 2, 3
My last two days have had bad moments. Our business website has decided to get sick and host some virus. In effect, it needs to be down for a while. It would not be much of a problem if we did not have a course coming up, thank you very much!Our e...
2010 - The Plan that Was
One of my email addresses has 2010 at the end of it. I made that email address in 2003 when I was still in my first job, was single and had an unhealthy mix of ambition, confusion and frustration. The reason why I had 2010 in the end was because I ...
With Lines in Between
I am a bit worried about work. It is Sunday evening and still I think about work. I have once again come to realize the last few week that I am not a machine. How many times do I need to be taught that? ---Heikki and I are planning our church weddi...
A Message
Yesterday I woke up feeling a clear message spoken to me: "If you are faithful to Me, I will be faithful to you." What does this mean? I still don´t know actually but I have been doing small things to be "faithful" like going to the ladies´ break...
Geometric Living
Whoa! It is June already! It has been six months since I made my resolutions. Since then I have prayed everyday. I have been walking everyday as well but sometimes I do not walk that extra meters to stay fit. I really should start working on that....
So I Had a Bad Day
Bad days live in infamy. I was all set to have a long working day today. After days of preparing of my Masters Degree exam, which unfortunately did not go well, I wanted to focus on work. So, what happens then? Disaster of course. Today was the d...
No Wonder
The Philippines is currently being rocked with a celebrity sex scandal. It has gripped our nation as the the darker side of a once-lauded celebrity doctor is exposed through his various sexual exploits that were secretly recorded. There have been m...
Concepts and Realities
We watched Mammoth last Thursday. I wanted to watch the movie because of two reasons: (1) I have liked Michelle Williams ever since I saw her play Jen of Dawson´s Creek; and (2) The movie was partly shot in Filipino.I will not comment on the movieÂ...
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter! :) I think it is the first time in my life where I genuinely believed that Easter is an important holiday. My heart, mind and soul finally understands what this day is about. I can blabber on how I came about this moment but I cannot ...
Points and Prints
Picture Mania - I promised I would post some pictures of our new flat so I will! We have found the camera and the charger so pretty soon I will post some pictures on this blog. :) Passing my port - I need a new passport since my surname changed (due...
The Great Equalizer
I was watching the news this morning and realized that the G20 meeting is happening in London. Apparently, the British government is spending $10-million for a meeting that is supposed to give some solutions to this global economic recession. Ironic...
Woot! Woot!
I had my ultrasound this morning and it showed that my liver, uterus, kidneys, and bladder seem to be the right size (i.e. no inflammation). I am really happy about this and very thankful to God about this piece of good news. The check-ups are not ...
Busy Bus
The Atheist Bus is going to have its campaign in Finland. This bus has been traveling around Europe and have been receiving some media mileage because, well, it is quite controversial. According to the organizers, the bus roams around so that athei...
Fear
When I was around nine, my favorite song was Philippine pop icon Francis Magalona´s Mga Kababayan Ko. So, when news of his death came last Friday, I was saddened and I got scared. Death has always scared me. My mom´s death sixteen years ago made...
Beauty Not the Beast
I really enjoy growing up. I like that I am no longer 18. I would much rather be 28, thank you very much. Though getting older also means that my metabolism is slower and facial lines will start to show. Though I have sympathy for women who are obse...
Not Your Typical Valentine Post
In the last 100 years, the progress of humankind has been going at an incredibly fast rate. Imagine 100 years ago, there were no planes, no internet, no television and no McDonald´s. ;) Life has moved at an unprecedented fast pace. Human society h...
Dead Inside
I have not been writing about my dad and his death for a while. It is not because I am not grieving but because I am handling it rather well. The last couple of days I felt lost. Sometimes I was happy. Sometimes not so happy. I felt I had no futu...
More Than Words
Unburdening
The last few days I have been feeling quite heavy. I know I am not sad though. I just feel like I am carrying some invisible load that I want to get rid of pronto. I know the astrology enthusiasts would surmise that this is probably caused by Merc...
Copy Pasted
This has been posted on many blog sites before but I wanted to still post it here because I think the message of this is very beautiful. This was claimed to be written by Mother Theresa of Calcutta. DO IT ANYWAY People are often un...
