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Friday, June 1, 2007

a frivolous desert day at the monastery....

Petty matters are done during the first fridays of the months in our monastery. The day is monastically called 'Desert Day'. in layman's terms, it's holiday...

it is during this day when the monks free from 7Am until 5Pm, hence they can wear their civilian clothes (any getup which makes us comfortable, except the black long habit and gray short work habit),can sleep all the day long, can do their laundry, can clean-up their cell, can make trivial things inside their cells or outside and can watch their favorites collection of DVD movies (old and recent releases).

Today, i thought of attending petty things inside my cell: check on my iPod...charge digicams' batteries... check on my USB flash storage device... arrange my books on the shelf... fold my laundered socks and underwears... make my bed... arrange my books on their shelf, clean my sink, clean the showertiles of my shower room... clean the toiletbowl, and sweep the floor. Indeed very frivolous ones , that reflect how simple monastic life in a monastery is.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

bat me lampin sa ulo mo? maginaw sa desyertu?

sadako said...

hahaha. si reynz talaga hahaha. di lampin yan, pasador yan ni padre hahaha.

ei dre, para pala kayo seminarians ano, may wash day din. pano mo nakukuhaan sarili mo? may tripod ka? o yung bear dyan sa inyo ay pinakuha mo ng photo hahaha.

God Bless Dom.

forevermonk said...

@reyna

bwhahahahaha--- ski cap ko yan- i have a dozen of that but that one i was wearing this morning is my most favorite dahil bigay yan saken ng aking foster brother na si J= the one who tagged along with me last year during my home visit-the reason why i pushed thru with my plan to visit cebu mactan ....
at tama ka diyan- my room temperature is 56 degress---kaya mo yun?... at saka ang bumbunan ko ay nalalamigan-eh kaka ahit ko lang ng buhok ko sa ulo ko eh....bwhahahahahh.

forevermonk said...

@bluepanjeet

yeah. meron kaming 'wash' day dito at yun ay every first friday of the month... si bearcager ang pinakisuapan kong magkuha ng mga retrato ko- eh kasi mahilig yun sa porma porma sa harap ng camera- kaya ang nangyari ay mas marami pa siyang kuha kesa sa akin--walo lang sa akin na shots pero siya ata ay umabot sa 20..which i all wrote in his cd...
ei ok na yung feed ko- nalimit ko na siya at naalis ang mga pics-- so just update it in your feedreader...God bless you panjeet...

Anonymous said...

hi dom.. tagal kong di naka dalaw. medyo busy this past few days until next week.

ang saya siguro kapag dumating na that time of the month where in you get to do things you were not able to do for the past 29 days.

btw, i am now blogging at www.iRonnie.com and i would appreciate if you could update your link.

in the coming days i might incorporate my photoblog in that domain as well... have a great day.

forevermonk said...

@ymir

heyyy--buti naman nagparamdam ka kapatid-- salamat sa pagdalaw mo- oo nga eh, hindi ko na mabuksan sa feedreader ko ang isa sa blog mo--ok, palitan ko yung url ng link mo sa aking list...
si jeff pala nalagay ko na rin ang link nya sa aking list...ingats ka kapatid...

Anonymous said...

oo dinelete ko an kasi yung feed na yun.. medyo busy pa din kasi may ina attendan akong training tapos ini-incorporate ko yung photoblog ko sa i set no corner. hopefully next week medyo makaluwag luwag na sa sked.

ingats!

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