Dionese, we're going back to Puerto Galera!!!

Did we tell na ba Dio that we're going to Galera on Saturday?????? Dio, Kid and I are going back to Galera with the rest of our team, this time as friends!!!! Haha haylavsyu Kid!!!!

The last beach visited was Malapascua, now I am so itching to go back to the beach back in June. And wow, it's been a while since I last set foot on Galera. 3 years!!! Going back to the place brings me bittersweet memories - of a time in my life where I don't ever, ever wanna go back. I am looking forward to going there with Nicky, Les, Josh, Raya, and of course, Orchid!!! Too bad Nico can't join us - we are planning to take him as a butler - in Tagalog, julalay for our pictures!!!!

I soooooo love the sun!!!!!!!! Guys, let's go!!!!!!!

Stairway to Heaven. Love's Sacrifice

The ultimate love sacrifice. This Korean novela is the ultimate when it comes to selfless love. I remember watching episode after episode of this drama with my sister a few years ago - crying like a baby - at 1 in the morning. As I watch it again tonight, I am once overcome with emotions, especially that part when Tristan let go of the the steering wheel and covered his eyes to protect it from the suicide that he is about to commit.

youtube video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkjX6od4plw

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIONESE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love you friend!!!!!!!!!! Nyam nyam nyam!!!!! :)

Things to Do in 2007? A review!

Right about this time last year, I pulbished a list of things to do in 2007. Let's see how I fared~!

1. Get CCNA-certified! - nah

2. Eat an exotic meat - snake (or frog perhaps?) - nah

3. Perm my hair. - YEAH BABY

4. Go to Batanes. Alone. - nah

5. Approach a movie star - take a picture with him and get his autograph. - nah

6. Join an NGO. - nah

7. "Run" the Milo Marathon. - nah

8. Apply for driver's license. - nah

9. Renew my passport. - nah (just expired last oct!)

10. Look for dad's hard-to-find CD requests. - in a way yes, via limewire! lol

11. Write a love letter to my mother. - YEAH BABY!

12. Pay a professional photographer for and make-up artist for some glamorous shots. - nah

13. Try colored contact lenses! - nah

14. Trek on a weekend. Better yet, BUNGEE! - nah

15. Wipe out my unpaid balances in one of my credit cards. - lol

16. Approach a chunky (huggable) hottie in a bar. - nah

17. Have my hand photocopied (Tom Hanks in The Terminal!) - nah

18. Fit into a 2pc bathing suit. (waah!) - i wore a 2 pc bathing suit, i didnt say LOOK GOOD on it. lol

19. Apply for a promotion (hi tl!) - YEAH BABY! and i got the promotion!

20. Visit Bohol and take Tita Evie with me. - nah

21. Eat at the Christmas Chocolate Buffet at The Peninsula with my sisters. - well, almost, until Cherryl and I cancelled the date!

22. Pamper myself at Sonya's Garden. - nah

23. Get serious with saving up! - lol

24. Buy my niece a life-sized doll house! - but i bought her toys everytime she visits us!

25. Go back to Don Bosco Batulao for a spiritual retreat. - nah

26. Say YES! to a wedding proposal :P - YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

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I actually felt bad towards the end of the list. Man, 2007 was uneventful, so I thought. Kind of save the best for last, say yes to the man of my life!!! :)

Control of Your Heart

*this piece of literature helped me during my times of despair... i don't know who wrote it but i will reposting this for everyone to ponder on...

Control of Your Heart

A wise and understanding heart does not repay a hurt with a hurt. In doing so, the heart is diminished. Fissures form. Love leaks out. Every pain given in return for one received, changes the contents of the heart. It is no longer defined by love, wisdom and understanding. It is redefined by the bearers of hurt and hate, pain and prejudice, meanness and madness, sorrow and sadness. You give away control of your very own heart.

The despair of being hurt is healed by overcoming it, not clinging to the hurt and inflicting more of it on the world. When darkness is added to darkness, no one can see, no one can love. Everyone loses.

Love is not always warm and fuzzy. Sometimes it's the integrity we hold on to when we're tempted to strike back. Sometimes it's the honor that keeps us from exchanging the valuable contents of our heart for the harsh satisfaction of lashing back.

No, the way of love is not always easy, but when night falls, dawn is assured.

The integrity and honor of a wise and understanding heart, rises with the sun of a new day.

"Because you have asked for understanding to discern judgment. I have given you a wise and understanding heart." 1 Kings 3:11-12

Living in love and loving life

I love my mother, but this is shameful!!!!

This is probably one of the most shameful things my mother has ever done in her entire life. If you look closely at the image,this was one fo the anniversary cards she gave my father. I do not know if she was just pressed for time and was in haste in picking a good greeting card or she was on a tight budget that she just crossed out the Y's and added R's and S's. OUR anniversay instead of YOUR anniversay. Ha!

Tsk tsk tsk. She didn't even used a correction pen. She used a black marker in all its glory! :D

I LOVE YOU MOMMY!!!!!

Sleepless in Manila

It's almost 3 PM. I should be sleeping, but here I am - stomach-full and wide awake. I have a night schedule this week due to the leadership training I attend from 8 PM to 12AM at Emerald Ave. AND I AM SUPER SLEEPY!!!!

With my regular morning schedule, I can render 5,6 even 8 hours of overtime. Yesterday,though, on my 3rd hour of OT, I was dead as a vegetable. I used the PC inside my director's office, and for every 20 or so strokes she makes on her keyboard, I did one or two, three the most. For the first time in six months, I bought a Starbucks frap with caffeine on it (I have always been a fan of the green tea variety).

This is the main reason why I was able to let go of my former job so easily. I used to be nocturnal, but not anymore. I crave sleeping when it's dark outside, and I love to go through Manila traffic, I don't want to watch the lunchtime news - I want the primetime one. NIGHT SHIFT. I hate it.

*we now return you to regular programming....

The changes that you have brought in me....

I used to be a crazy girl, but now I am a woman with direction. I used to loved so much to the point of losing myself. Things have changed for the better. He loves me. I am loved, and we have never been happier. I used to think that I would grow up taking care of my niece on weekends and spend my nights alone. All of that has changed as soon as I realized how much I love Joshua.

There came a point in time that I cried everyday when I realized we could never be, but now I am crying tears of overwhelming happiness. He was happy for me when I was happy with someone else, and only a selfless man can do that. I almost lost him, and now we are determined to spend the rest of our lives together as husband and wife.

He is my beacon, he is the reason why I am glowing inside out, he is my source of hope and strength and my only prayer to God is to keep him safe from harm until we can be together, until I could take care of him and bear his children. :) I love you baby and let's spend the rest of our lives together!!!


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What makes two people fall in LOVE? Could it be that first glance? That first touch? That first smile?

For me it was just knowing that her heart was true. Such a simple thing that even a child can pertain, she showed me love through many different reasons. Her tears have touched my soul, her smile has brightened my day, and the only thing that has been terribly wrong was me. I do not regret the mistake made, it has opened my eyes to how much my love for her is true. Oh how the years have been cruel, keeping us only as friends, allowing us to transcend into someone elses arms, yet bringing each other back into the love that never ended.

I do - are the words left for her. I do - LOVE YOU REGINA. I do - wish that we are together for the rest of our time spent here and even furthermore. I do - think about you every hour within my time awake. I do - dream of you ever so often. I do- want to be in your arms, feeling your breath colide against my face. I do - believe our goals are reasonable and that one day we will have what has been ever so hoped for. I do - yearn just to hear your voice. I do - know that Jade and Caleb can become our reality. I do are the words left for her.

WTF???? NO privacy in Multiply??????????????

Some of my friends can view the pics I set for individual viewing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean they are not nasty naman, but I AM SOOOO EMBARRASSED. I feel so exposed!!!!! This started happening when they decided to publish right away the pics that yo post through Flicker instead of saving it as a draft. And now my boyfriend is complaining that he can't see the pics!!!!

So to all of my friends who saw those pics intended for my boyfriend, I AM SOOO SORRY you had to deal with my vanity!!!!!!! FRIENDS PA RIN TAYO!!! lol

Audio and Video repl on multiply!?!?!?!?!?!

Wow!!! Joshua told me that you can post video and audio comments on your multiply pics -- and yeah it works perfectly!!!! I am impressed!!!!!!! :)