i’m getting lazier each day.
there are times that all i want is to have fun under the basking sun!
or sometimes, i want to just sit down and enjoy watching the time passes by.
oh! how quick it is yet how much is wasted.
above all else, oftentimes, it is great to take an escape
from the hustles and bustles of city life from time to time
and just kick back and relax and appreciate life once again 
I had a good chat with a friend last night and we were talking about life and problems. Now, I just want to share to you some of the beautiful lines I came across while reading the Tuesdays with Morrie book. I hope you’ll be moved the way I did back then.
- do i wither up and disappear, or do i make the best of my time left?
- the word “dying” was not synonymous with “useless.”
- accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.
- accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.
- learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others
- don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.
- dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
- life is a series of pulls back and forth. you want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. you take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.
- a tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. and most of us live somewhere in the middle.
- a wrestling match. yes, you could describe life that way.
- love wins. love always wins.
- the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. and you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.
- so many people walk around with a meaningless life. they seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. this is because they’re busy chasing the wrong things. the way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
- money is not the most important thing. i need to be fully human.
- if you really want it, then you’ll make your dream happen.
- maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
- the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in
- we think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. but a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, Love is the only rational act.
- why are we embarrassed by silence? what comfort do we find in all the noise?
- i give myself a good cry if i need it. but then i concentrate on all the good things still in my life. on the people who are coming to see me.
- how useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity.
- not everyone is so lucky.
- you closed your eyes. sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. and if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you’re in the dark. even when you’re falling.
- we’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks - we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. so we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, is this all i want? is something missing? you need someone to probe you in that direction. it won’t just happen automatically.
- we all need teachers in our lives.
- we will hold hands and there’ll be a lot of love passing between us. we’ve had thirty five years of friendship. you don’t need speech or hearing to feel that.
- everyone knows they’re going to die but nobody believes it. if we did, we would do things differently.
- to know you’re going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. that’s better. that way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living.
- is today the day? am i ready? am i doing all i need to do? am i being the person i want to be?
- once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
- most of us all walk around as if we’re sleepwalking. we really don’t experience the world fully, because we’re half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
- truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are.
- we are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. the loving relationship we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
- the fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. if you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. love is supremely important. love each other or perish.
- without love, we are birds with broken wings.
- this is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting other’s know there’s someone who is watching out for them.
- spiritual security — knowing that you family will be there watching out for you. nothing else will give you that. not money. not fame.
- do not stop your lives.
- there is no experience like having children. if you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
- don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent.
- detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. on the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. that’s how you are able to leave it.
- if you hold back emotions - if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. but by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. you know what pain is. you know what love is. you know what grief is. and only then you can say, “all right. i have experienced that emotion. i recognized that emotion. now i need to detach from that emotion for a moment.”
- wash yourself with the emotion. it won’t hurt you. it will only help. if you let the fear inside, if pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “all right, it’s just fear. i don’t have to let it control me. i see it for what it is/”
- same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely - but eventually be able to say, “all right that was my moment with loneliness. i’m not afraid of feeling lonely, but now i’m going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and i’m going to experience them as well.”
- when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads - none of us ever get enough of that. we all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. most of us didn’t get enough.
- all this emphasis on youth - i don’t buy it. listen, i know what a misery being young can be, so don’t tell me it’s so great. all these kids who came to me with their struggles, their strife, their feelings of inadequacy, their sense that life was miserable, so bad they wanted to kill themselves…and in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. they have very little understanding about life. who wants to live everyday when you don’t know what’s going on? when people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you’ll be beautiful or this pair of jeans and you’ll be sexy - and you believe them! it’s such nonsense.
- as you grow, you learn more. if you stayed at twenty-two, you’d be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. aging is not just decay, you know. it’s growth. it’s more than the negative that you’re going to dies, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you have a better life because of it.
- why do people say, “oh, if i were young again.”… you know what that reflects? unsatisfied lives. unfulfilled lives. lives that haven’t found meaning. because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. you want to go forward. you want to see more, do more. you can’t wait until sixty-five.
- listen. you should know something. all younger people should know something. if you’re always battling against the older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
- the issue is to accept who you are and revel in that.
- you have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. looking back makes you competitive. and, age is not a competitive issue.
- we put our values in the wrong things. and it lead us to very disillusioned lives.
- we’ve got a form of brainwashing going on in our country. do you know how they brainwash people? they repeat something over and over. and that’s what we do in this country. owning things is good. more money is good. more property is good. more commercialism is good. more is good. more is good. we repeat it - and have it repeated to us - over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. the average person is fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what’s really important anymore.
- you can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.
- the truth is, you don’t get satisfaction from those things. you what what really gives you satisfaction? offering others what you have to give.
- if you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. they will look down at you anyhow. and if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. they will only envy you. status will get you nowhere. only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
- do the kinds of things that come from the heart. when you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. on the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back.
- love is how to stay alive, even after you are gone.
- i believe in being fully present. that means you should be with the person you’re with.
- part of the problem, mitch, is that everyone is in such a hurry. people haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. they think the next car, the next house, the next job. then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running.
- in this culture, it’s so important to find a loving relationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that.
- a loved one is so important. friends are great, but friends are not going to be here on a night when you’re coughing and can’t sleep and someone has to sit up all night with you, comfort you, try to be helpful.
- i’ve learned this much about marriage. you get tested. you find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don’t.
- if you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. if you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. if you can’t talk openly about what goes on between you, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. and if you don’t have a common set of values in life, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. your values must be alike. and the biggest one of those values? your belief in the importance of marriage.
- marriage is a very important thing to do, and you’re missing a hell of a lot if you don’t try it.
- people are only mean when they’re threatened. and when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself.
- big things - know how we thing, what we value - those you must choose yourself. you can’t let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
- every society has its own problems
- look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. we don’t see what we could be. we should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.
- living means i can be responsive to the other person. it means i can show my emotions and my feelings. talk to them. feel with them.
- don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.
- be compassionate and take responsibility for each other. if we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place.
- forgive yourself before you die. then forgive othres.
- there is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. these things i so regret in my life. pride. vanity. why do we do the things we do?
- tears are okay
- you can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
- you need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.
- people act as if death is contagious. death is as natural as life. it’s part of the deal we made.
- it’s natural to dies. the fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. we think because we’re human we’re something above nature.
- as long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. all the love you created is still there. all the memories are still there. you live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.
- death ends a life, not a relationship.
- once you get your fingers on the important questions, you can’t turn away from them.
- there is no formula to relationships. they have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.
- love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.
- that’s the part of being human. stop, renew, stop, renew.
- sometimes, when you’re losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.
- there is no such thing as “too late” in life.
I came across this story in Facebook and for some reason, it had touched me. The story is very touching and may the married and the soon to be married couple learn from this very beautiful yet sad story. Enjoy reading!
MARRIAGE
When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.
Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce.. I raised the topic calmly.
She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?
I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Dew. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her!
With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company.
She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Dew so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.
The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn’t have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Dew.
When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.
In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn’t want anything from me, but needed a month’s notice before the divorce.
She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month’s time and she didn’t want to disrupt him with our broken marriage.
This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day.
She requested that everyday for the month’s duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning.. I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.
I told Dew about my wife’s divorce conditions.. . She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully..
My wife and I hadn’t had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mummy in his arms. His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don’t tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office.
On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn’t looked at this woman carefully for a long time.. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her.
On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me.
On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn’t tell Dew about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger.
She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily.
Suddenly it hit me… she had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head.
Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it’s time to carry mum out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day.
But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn’t noticed that our life lacked intimacy.
I drove to office…. jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind…I walked upstairs. Dew opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Dew, I do not want the divorce anymore.
She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead.. Do you have a fever? She said. I moved her hand off my head. Sorry, Dew, I said, I won’t divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn’t value the details of our lives, not because we didn’t love each other any more. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart.
Dew seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away.
At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, I’ll carry you out every morning until death do us apart.
That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed - dead.
The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves. So find time to be your spouse’s friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy. Do have a real happy marriage!
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
“cause all of the stars are fading away
just try not to worry, you’ll see them someday
take what you need and be on your way
and stop crying your heart out”
Needless to say, I am hurt today. I hate to feel this. I don’t want to cry nor be in pain. But, there’s no escaping anymore. It’s here already. You know, the feeling where you feel so down and you want to tell the person who caused it but you just can’t because you don’t want another fight to crack up? It sucks, literally and figuratively. And sometimes, it just doesn’t make any sense for the person won’t even give a damn of what you’re trying to say. Big headed crack ups usually do that and I hate it. I hate it BIG time! It pisses me off, actually.
For the most part, I am here to rant and I won’t feel sorry for this. I just need some outlet, I need to let this out. I’m tired of bottling things up. I’m tired of not being heard. I’m very tired of keeping everything inside me and pretend I am okay. Well, hello world! I’m not okay. I hate it when people don’t give a damn of what I am trying to say because hey, I listen to you even if it can get really ridiculous at times! Why do you have to treat me this way? Why do you keep on pressing an issue which, in the first place, doesn’t exist anyway? Well, world, why can’t you just be happy that I’ve reached out to you? Why do you have to think some silly stuffs and think of it negatively? Because for Pete’s sake, I was just trying to reach out to you with no bad intention or whatsoever you would wanna brand it! Tell me, world, do I need to be triggered just to be nice to you? Do I need a concrete reason to start treating you nicely? Why can’t you just be thankful that at last I’ve realized my mistakes and have treated you nicely for the very first time in months! Why do you have to be very complicated, world? Why can’t you just be happy for I’ve changed?
Well, maybe you’re just the same old world I’ve came to know - the complicated one who thinks that you’re always right and that no one can ever prove you’re wrong; that your ideas are very ideal and should not be contested. But, hey, world! I just want you to know that I’ve changed already. I’m really sorry but I can’t put up with your games anymore. I’m not planning to and will never intend to play your game again. I will never be the girl who would show up in your doorstep and pretend that everything’s okay because in reality it’s not. I won’t be that someone who would just smile to hide the pain. Those acts were just plain stupid, I’ve realized. Now, I don’t care anymore. Take me or leave me, I’d still be the joanmarie that have been shaped up by the past but have been built stronger by the person I am today.
Mood today: still very sleepy but wants to get out of the house! 
I’m stuck here in the room today. Just woke up an hour ago, actually. I came home at around 6 in the morning as I spent the night at my friend’s house for Yen’s despedida get-together thing. Our get-together was not really that grandiose, it was more simple - just the beers, grilled pork belly, grilled chicken, junk foods, tent and us. However, no matter how simple it is, the purpose of the get-together was met. We joked around, laughed, told our stories, recalled the past and the sort.
One thing that struck me was the time when someone opened up in the group. Her point was, harsh words should not be said between friends. If it can’t be eliminated, somehow, it should be lessened as it can hurt other people. And then she said, she realized her other friends are not like that to her. And then the boys reacted (maybe because they are the ones who love to throw funny comments or sometimes, harsh comments to us). They said that, that is the essence of true friendship. For only true friends can dare to care enough and tell you the truth (even if it’s harsh). Now, for a moment there, I realized the boys got a point. For when I compare the way I treat my other friends with them, it’s totally different. When I am with my other friends, I tend to be very tactful with the words I say. I look out to my actions and see to it that I would not hurt them. But when I am with the group last night, I get to be who I am. I get to be with myself and I don’t care if they hate what I do or say for I know they will always be there for me.
I closed my night or shall I say morning with “lagi bah? (it’s right) you can always be yourself when you are with your friends and you care enough to tell them what’s wrong with them. You never worry if it might hurt them for as long as they realize the truth behind their actions. You get to laugh at your mistakes with them. You get to stumble but then stand up not just with your two feet on the ground for support but with their feet too. You cannot afford to be shy to them for you know no matter how messed up you are or funny you are, they will always be there for you. And it’s nice to know that I am privileged to have found these kind of friends. I am very thankful that despite our differences, we can still reconcile with each other and manage to keep the friendship alive and unshaken.
True friends are like your family - they will always be there for you. I’ve found mine already, I hope you’ve found yours too!
—- oh, sorry I can’t post the pictures here as the camera’s with Yen. I haven’t got the chance to copy the pictures last night —-
It’s my first time to visit Cebu for Sinulog and boy was I really excited! I have been looking forward to this trip since December and have even asked someone for our accommodation there (Cebu). But, something happened and that someone backed out the day before our departure. Worse, when I called up the hotels that day, they were fully booked. FAST FORWARD for I don’t want to talk about it further. Tish!
January 15, 2010 (Friday)
- My beau and I left CDO at around 11am - 12noon and expected to arrive in Cebu at around 7pm. Both of us were worried already as to where we should stay for the night. We contacted friends but to no avail, they can’t helped us either.
- Around 7pm, as expected, we arrived at the Cebu port. It was raining hard outside so we have to wait until the rain would turn into drizzle. Alas, the rain slowed down and we decided to go.
- Outside the port, we hailed a taxi cab and then instructed the driver to a hotel that my beau had stayed when he visited Cebu last year. It was at Sarrosa International Hotel. With fingers crossed, I went to the front desk and inquired a room. Thankfully, there was an available room which cost us Php 3,100 with free breakfast. Although it was a bit pricey, we didn’t have much choice so we booked it.
- Luckily, the front desk woman told us that a vacant and much cheaper room was available the next day. So, we reserved that room and decided to transfer there before 12 noon.
January 16, 2010 (Saturday)
- Had a late breakfast at the hotel and proceeded to work and send reports as well as checked our ATMs.
- Decided to go to SM and shopped. Jev decided to allow me to shop using his credit card as a gift for my birthday. I bought a Mango shirt (the design I have been wishing to have - plain shirt with the Mango print), a charm bracelet with the letters of my name dangling on it, bleach catastrophe shirts and a So F.A.B. sandals. weeee! My smile was sooo big!
had lunch at sbarro's
- decided to join the procession happening on that day. The funny thing was, we don’t have any idea on the route of the procession so we just followed the people walking on the streets! hahaha! However, we didn’t finish it though as we were so tired and somebody said it’s going to finish at around 8pm.
- At around 5pm, we decided to go to Ayala and wait for Jev’s friends there (Aron Ofngol, Bentot Ofngol). To kill the time, we strolled there and I happily took snapshots of him as I already have my own set of pictures there during my last visit in Cebu.
here's the two of us in Ayala
- After that, we had our dinner at Kenny Rogers (this where we’ve met up with the Ofngol brothers, too)
- Jev badly needs to go to the CR so we (Jev, Bentot, Aron and I) decided to go to our hotel and let Jev do his thing at the same time wait for Bel Govico to arrive.
a view outside our hotel room
here's a picture of us with Bel, finally :)
- Bel was our designated tour guide as he knows the place well since he studies in Cebu. We decided to go to Fuente, Osmeña then headed to Crown Regency Hotel to try the Edge Coaster.
@ the busy street of Fuente
- we headed up to Crown Regency Hotel and met up some of their MMV neighbors. I think they were the Alquisalas Family. Not that sure, though. But I heard Jev mentioned the name.
a view from the elevator going up to the 38th floor
with their neighbors
@ the 38th floor of the hotel. we're in between with the telescopes and behind us is the railing for the edge coaster
- I really wanted to try the edge coaster so I had to convince Jev to ride it with me. He was really scared but in the end, I got what I want. 
His friends tried the edge coaster too! It was really fun and worth the cost! No KIDDING!
here's us trying the edge coaster. it's before I tilted the coaster.
- then, we at around 1am, we proceeded to Cebu’s IT Park and strolled there for a bit. Rested at KFC and bid our goodbyes at around 2am.
January 17, 2010 (Sunday)
- Jev and I decided to have a side trip in Bohol (to save our money as I need to celebrate for my birthday, too). We decided to visit my relatives in Panggangan, Calape, Bohol.
- Had videoke sessions at Ate Bebeth’s house and was amazed by how Visayan my half Filipino - half German cousins spoke.
- Was about to go for a swim in their sanctuary but unfortunately, it was low tide. 
arrival at Bohol
January 18, 2010 (Monday)
- Jev and I had to wake up early since we’re going to Dumog, Island. It’s a white island somewhere in Tubigon, Bohol.
- We ate our breakfast and lunch there and enjoyed picking up shells as well as other sea creatures. BTW, the ones we’ve picked were the viands we had for breakfast and lunch. I love the food! Sa-ang (a big shell) really tastes good!
- And, I get to eat a lot of fresh sea foods as well as fruits!
on our way to the island
a picture of how the weather was during that day.
luckily, it didn't rain :)
- after our Dumog Island trip, we visited my grand mother (father’s side) as well as my father’s older siblings. We ate our dinner there too but didn’t stay that long as we have to travel early the next day.
Januray 19, 2010 (Tuesday)
- woke up extremely early so that we can catch up the earliest ride back to Cebu.
- though our flight was still in the afternoon, we decided to go back early so that we can visit the Sto Niño Church to pray.
- lit our candles in the Church, heard mass but we’re late
- visited Magellan’s cross
- ate a sumptuous eat-all-you-can at Cabalen’s
- did our last minute shopping and pasalubong buying at SM
- stayed in SM while killing the time
- and finally, by 4:40 PM, we’ve arrived safely in CDO.
buhbye Cebu, till our next trip!
greeting Cagayan de Oro with our tan (blame it on Bohol)
Despite some mishaps, I did enjoy the trip and I’m looking forward to the next one!
A lot of things have happened in my life since the last time I wrote an entry here. I’ve been busy dealing with every events and yes, tired and way too lazy to even tap the keyboard and tell you the goings on in my life.
DECEMEBER:
- Mom arrived from California! A happy feeling for we get to celebrate Christmas together again (a rare occasion due to distance)
- Played golf for the very first time since highschool years! Yep, my swing and the way I play didn’t improve. (just as I’ve expected! haha!)
- Spend lesser time with friends as I’ve concentrated being with my family but made up to them in January.
- Got myself INKED! Well, not a fancy tattoo, though. Just an eyeliner tattoo to feed my hunger for eyeliners and so I would lessen the time I need when I wear makeup! haha!
this is me minutes after I got the tattoo! Look at those eyes! Looked like I was crying for hours! But didn't regret it, though. I super LURVE it!
JANUARY:
- My eldest brother got married with his girlfriend of 13 years. FINALLY!
- Got to celebrate my mom and dad’s anniversary again for the first time in years! We had a post anniversary celebration and decided to dine at Cafe Laguna. Bill was paid by us (the children, of course).
- For the first time in my life, I had been able to go inside a KTV bar with ballroom music and live performance by local singers in CDO. Congratulate me, people!
- Bye bye time to some of my family members, including my Mom. But this time, I wasn’t sad compared to the last time we bid our goodbyes. Why? For I know we get to see each other again, sometime soon!
- I really love to travel and finally, I did it! Went to Cebu for Sinulog with my beau and friends. (will share the details on my next post, promise!)
- Tada! I turned 22 on 22! I don’t know why but for some reason, I’m still happy looking back as to how I celebrated my 22nd birthday. Though I didn’t get to celebrate it the kid’s way, I surely had fun celebrating it in a much simple way. (again, details will be poured on my next post)
- Tonight, I won’t spend it here in our home. I’ll have an overnight with my friends in Mac’s house. It’s a despedida get together since Yen and Zacky are leaving the country this February 2 and 3. Can’t wait to be with them again!
So far, my 2 months worth of life’s slice is great! I didn’t have any regrets, whatsoever! Looking forward to another slice!
Enjoy life while you still can, friends!
my birthday’s coming up! and yes, just like any other person in this world, i have my own wish list, too! to save you from getting stressed, i’ll give you the list of what i want for my birthday! hahaha!
1. a kiddie parteeeeh! — yes, i wanna have one and i’m planning to have one. however, i’m still not sure as it depends on the money i’ll have after the sinulog trip. hahaha!
2. cross-training shoes — you’ve read it right! finally, i’m fancying shoes! and imma use it for exercise. yey!
3. gym (duffel) bag. — i care less about the brand. just give me one.
4. xbox controller — i don’t care if it’s wired or not. i just need one for my new toy.
5. a 23″ LG LCD monitor with HDMI port — it’s for my xbox. hahaha!
6. altec lansing speakers — the MX5021 model (again, it’s for my xbox)
7. one guitar controller for the xbox — it doesn’t matter if it’s wired. my set lacks one guitar. lol.
8. books, books, and BOOKS!
9. a DSLR camera
10. speedo swimsuit — imma enroll to swim class for my scoliosis. haha!
11. steaming cup of seatle’s best coffee
12. old alternative MP3s
13. all of my pictures printed and placed in an album (as in lahat ng nasa hard drive ko! haha!)
14. starbucks’s planner
15. cinnabon — yummy!
16. candy’s sinful chocolate cake — i don’t want a slice. i want the whole cake! yummmmm!
17. a one year free hosting and domain name for my weblog. mine’s going to expire this year.
18. a computer chair — yung comfy masyado, ha?
19. a table — imma use it for my laptop and some other stuffs
20. free of charge in any Sentara nail spa services
21. chicharong bulaklak — no kidding! hahaha!
22. a one year supply of Cosmopolitan magazine for FREE!
Congratulations to miss Chriselyn Clavano Bedolido for passing the NCLEX Examinations!
Here’s my new bum buddy (as we are the ones who are always at home nowadays, so we call each other as bum buddies) yet a very old and dear friend of mine. I am just so proud of her for having been able to pass and be a Registered Nurse already. After all the countless late night studying, finally, it has paid off! Good luck in your career, bummy! I’m gonna miss you by the time you’ll go home to your new place. And oh, don’t forget the Coach, Burberry or the LV. LOL! Kidding, bummy!
Congratulations again! You made me proud! Keep it up!
this is me! happy =)
Everything is doing great lately and I am very happy with how things are going. My spirit is usually high nowadays and it never fails to surprise me.
One of the main highlights as to why I am happy, well, it’s because my mom will be home for the Christmas Holidays. I mean, our family don’t get this chance easily anymore since my mother’s out of the country. Again, I’ll experience the warmth of having my family complete amidst the cold winds of December. My Christmas this year will be happier than usual and yes, it has life now! Ain’t that cute?
Second, my relationship with my significant other is getting better each day. We’ve determined our shortcomings and have been really trying hard to correct it. Our relationship is changing and it’s for the better and it’s heart warming to know that it’s not just me or him who is working in our relationship. It’s very good to know that we’re now working as a team, as a couple. After all, it takes two to tango, right?
Third, I have the best friends ever! Words can’t explain how thankful I am to have them and to keep them for how many years.
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