For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.....

I pray to the good Lord that He blesses me and my loved ones....

Jeremiah 29:11 (New International Version)

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Travel bug

I must admit, I am travel bug.

In the past 3 months that I've been here in the US, I have already tried almost all modes of transportation. Plane, Car, Train (Amtrak), Bus (Amtrak), MetroRail...uhm, no ferries or boat rides as of yet...maybe soon....

On my first month, I took a 15hours flight from Manila to Los Angeles. I spent my first night in a hotel in downtown LA and had dinner at The Grove. The next day, in order for me to go to LAX again, I had to take a bus to the Metrorail station, then Metrorail to the Union Station, and a Fly Away Bus headed for LAX. From LAX, I had to wait for an excruciating 6 hours at the LAX waiting area for my United Airline flight bound for Sacramento. (Oh, did I tell you I was on the standby list?)

Then a couple of days and weeks later, I was cruising town in my aunt's car and going on a one week roadtrip to South Lake Tahoe, then down to Disneyland, San Diego and LA. After a few days, a long drive back to LA for a business meeting. Finally, I decided I wanna spend a month or two in LA so I did go on another long drive back there...

Just a few weeks ago, I finally took another ride..this time by Amtrak from LA to Sacramento...That's 2 trains and 2 bus rides for me @ &68 in a 7 hour ride....whew! Met a lot of really nice people along the way....

Aloha, Hawaii! Mahalo for the birthday greetings!

I made it!

I was at the Honolulu International Airport at 11am, May 29, 2008, just a day before my 29th birthday.

It took me a while to get a ticket because the prices were so high, I had to search the nooks and crannies of the world wide web for the cheapest one. I took Hawaiian Airlines and got a $380 one way ticket to Honolulu from the Sacramento Airport. Whew! That's the cheapest I could find...

Anyway, will be posting more photos soon of my hawaii adventure....

Thank you or Mahalo to all those who sent in their birthday wishes for me last May 30th....

God bless!

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Serendipity

ser·en·dip·i·ty /ˌsɛrənˈdɪpɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ser-uhn-dip-i-tee]

–noun

an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.

The word derives from an old Persian fairy tale and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read,

"It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for, comes under this description) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table."^[1]

Quotations on Serendipity

• "In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur
• "Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for." Lawrence Block
• "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny …'" Isaac Asimov
• "In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts." Peter McWilliams
• "Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter." Julius Comroe Jr.
• "Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one—all red." Peter H. Reynolds
• "--- you don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously." John Barth, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
• "Serendipity is the art of making an unsought finding." Pek van Andel (1994)

Trivia

• The 2001 film Serendipity (Kate Beckinsale, John Cusak) revolves around two people who fall in love in "a series of fortunate accidents".
  

• Unexpected friendships or relationships, brought on by a series of serendipitous (unplanned) events have been fictionalised between Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack in the 2001 film Serendipity.

• Serendip (also Serendib) is the old Persian name for Sri Lanka.

• The word 'serendipity' has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company. However, due to its sociological use, the word has been imported into many other languages (Portuguese serendipicidade or serendipidade; French sérendipicité or sérendipité but also heureux hasard, "fortunate chance"; Spanish serendipia; Italian serendipità; Dutch serendipiteit; German Serendipität; Swedish, Danish and Norwegian serendipitet; Romanian serendipitate).

• The 1999 Kevin Smith movie, Dogma has a muse character with the name Serendipity (played by Salma Hayek).

• The 2002 story "Discovering Serendipity" (written by Misha Vara) explains how serendipity applies to the everyday's activities. This story tells how two people from different sides of Earth find each other in a new fantastic world, learning what Serendipity is about. She refers to it by being written by the same force that bumped with her since she was four years old. "Serendipity wrote this fantastic story, I was only the media to put it into paper".

• Serendipity: being open to miraculous findings not sought for. Andrea Weitzner

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