As an annual routine, let me reminisce and remember the best of my 2009 as a sign of my gratitude to the heavens. The year was a bliss! Thank you!

AYF 7: Philippines


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My 21st birthday has got to be one of the best birthdays ever. Two to three weeks ago, I wrote in one of my blogs that on my 21st birthday, "I wish I'd be six again" so I would be contented with the little things like leche flan. And indeed, my birthday was nothing material - it was a day of sharing and joy and happiness with friends who've ( Read more... )

So there's a "storm" in the Philippines. So it's raining. So you're not with your friends. So the situation is really depressing right now.

BUT HEY, LIGHTEN UP!

You two are two of the most optimistic and happy and go-getter people I know! There's no way you should be sad on this wonderful day!

Besides, birthdays are not only moments for get-togethers ( Read more... )

You know what's most frustrating?!

It's YOU! Of all people, it's YOU!

Growing up, I always knew what I wanted and I would really work hard to get them! So I never expected that the time would come when I'd find myself asking this question, "What do I really want?" Was I fooled ( Read more... )

I've been experiencing high levels of annoyance and anger lately, and I had to figure out why. My patience has been running out that I actually thought of looking up some patience on E-bay for sale!

Well, so far here are my answers:

1. I get really mad whenever my efforts are put to waste. I hate it when I put so much effort into something, actually ( Read more... )

"[Harry Potter] instilled in me the value of standing up for what you believe in, for what you know in your heart is right."

My not-so-love-but-definitely-not-hate affair with Harry Potter started when I was 12, a freshman - rather freshwoman - high school student (2001). We were then required to read Harry Potter for our literature class. (Some ( Read more... )

Throughout the years, I feel like I always find myself in organizations that are in trouble, that are in need of repair. But I never felt this lonely, this empty, this alone...

Well, all organizations are not perfect, but the organizations I was in - like Sanggu and IPA - were in some sort of "low stage" during the time I was with them, trying to ( Read more... )

When you don't know what to do with your present,
When you don't have any idea of your future,
When you can't reconcile the past, the present, and the future,
When past mistakes can't change your present,
When everything is just a blur...

What else can I hold on to, but faith, love, and hope?

Heroes have their moments, too. Courage, where are you?

I miss ( Read more... )

In high school, we always had our first Friday masses, and during one of these masses, Bro. Ogie gave this one homily which was really beautiful. And one memorable line from that homily was this:

Lundagin mo, Baby!

Bro. Ogie was telling us that in life, we just have to jump at it! We have to suck the marrow out of life to make it truly meaningful. We ( Read more... )