Bumming on Holiday

We had a holiday last Monday, Apr 7, in honor of Araw ng Kagitingan which is really celebrated today (Apr 9). I don't agree with the government's doing that because I feel it makes the whole point of the celebration moot and does not make us better as a people culturally, but as a worker, that's to our advantage. Long weekend for us. For me, it was even longer. I had a training half-day of Thursday. The rest of Thursday and then Friday I opted to use for my mandatory leave. That left me with several days of free days.

I was thinking of using those days to write the ebook I'm doing for my freelance writing work. I was able to do some research and reading but basically, I just bummed my way through those days. I read two romance novels (the Steeple Hills brand or the other one, another inspirational brand are my usual fare—they have Christian themes so the love stories are still Christ-centered and the stories or plot are good; the other one was done by Nora Roberts, her old and classic love stories. If you're a romance novel fan you'd know that she has steamy stories but I discovered her earlier works which are really funny and have good plots, and they're clean). The other one that I really wanted to do was to watch "Lovers," a Korean telenovela starring the woman who starred in "Lovers in Paris." Her name is Kim Jung-eun, apparently a well-known Korean actress. I wanted to but the DVD that I got was not working properly and I was only able to get the replacement by Sunday afternoon. So from Sunday, around 4pm, I started to watch the show. I stopped Monday, 6am. I slept a little and woke up again around 8am plus. I started watching again at 9am plus Monday and finished around 8:40pm that day. Whew!!!

I had fun doing that as the show was funny and touching. My personal success for me was that I was able to bum without too much guilt. Though when I think about it, even my bumming is still a bit competitive and rigorous. Next time I should try to bum where I really will not do anything and will not stay awake so late. Maybe try to sleep in until late morning or something like that. Hehehe.