Who said ex-lovers cannot be good friends? But, you have to consider that we are not ordinary ex-lovers. (Hmmm… does it sound right?) Well,  two psychologists who are ex-lovers exchanged text messages like this:

Niel 2-December-2008 8:21 AM

Ey, good morning.

Mochi 2-December-2008 8:23 AM

Ey, good morning. Work ka na?

Niel 2-December-2008 8: ( Read more... )

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."  -Arthur Rubinstein

Niel breathes deeply.

I was so exhausted today. I slept at 3:00 AM last night finishing my lecture presentation on how to compute for the 2 Way ANOVA.

By 8:30 AM today, I had to wrestled in getting an FX for Buendia in Philcoa.

By 9:40 AM, I taught my Statistics students how to compute the 2 Way ANOVA manually.

By 12:30 NN, I had to take the LRT and Megatren to ( Read more... )

For the 21st century, Martin Seligman & Mihaly Czikszentmihaly (2000) reminded us that Psychology is not just the study of pathology, weakness and damage; it is also the study of strength and virtue. These strengths and virtues always serve as buffer to mental illnesses, thus, Positive Psychology provided a framework for doing a science that also ( Read more... )

May pimple ako sa ilong! Sakit.

* Niel is kinikilig.

(I developed a crush on someone last Sunday while we ate sushi and watched the new James Bond film. And yes, I have been thinking about for the entire week!)

I study love academically. And I discovered that love is an attachment process, love has three components (intimacy, passion, and commitment), love is for spiritual growth for you and the other, and love is a story. My readings always tell me that there is no encompassing theory to fully describe, explain, predict, and control one of the greatest ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago, I deleted all of my saved messages from him. I sort of held on to this one. So when boundaries are not clear, this message will remind me that we are not together anymore, or also, when I need to remind myself that I did my part.

I do not need reminders anymore. I can face it now. I am finally deleting this:

Mochi 25 September ( Read more... )

… stepping on the weighing scale and seeing that I am 172 lbs today.

Goal ko = 150 lbs by February 2009. Bwahaha. Kaya ba?

Go, go, go!

A poem I got from a book about listening ( Read more... )

From a forwarded text message ( Read more... )