Keystroke Journal

Have you ever had a strange busy day? I guess that's how I would describe mine. I was in a class teaching when suddenly an elderly man approached me looking for his son. With a shy smile, I told him his son wasn't in my class. He left apologetically. In a short while, a young lady came into my class looking for a colleague. I told her he might be in his office. Then came another woman asking for another colleague of mine. I told her to check it out with the receptionist in the adjacent room of her whereabouts. Meanwhile, I went back teaching. They're not the last hopeful seekers, though. The last person to come into my class to look for someone else was a pizza delivery guy. Wow, was I tempted to say YES for the pizzas! However, my day ended without knowing the pizzas' whereabouts ...

Strange things are happening in a week's time. Spammers from European countries have been registering in our church website with strange sounding names. For at least four days we’ve been bombarded with these out of this world usernames and email accounts. It’s a good thing that our web developer was able to block these undesirable elements. Now we’re hoping for the best. Coincidentally, unsolicited calls have been contacting my mobile phone for days. This day wasn’t spared either. I still got calls from these 803+ numbers. And yes, the usual early morning call, too. My dad, who was annoyed of the calls, too, came into the picture by talking to the people who apparently had no idea that their phone’s being used. They, too, were surprised of the said calls. Now we’re hoping that this will be resolved soon. As I write this very moment, we are waiting for the police to come to our place. Our church van, which was parked beside our house, was stolen in broad day light. The strange...

Last night, I dreamed of seeing tiny, crawling, caterpillars that slowly moves around while fuzzy, pint-sized butterflies, busily hops from one colorful set of petals to another bunch of intensely hued fresh flowers. Surprisingly, they're all perfectly-packed inside an open, transparent, large zip-lock bag. And then I awoke, bewildered, from what I just saw in my castle in the air.