air and water shots
Posted on: April 16, 2011
gotta love em!
When we went for a family outing I asked everyone to do a jump shot.
Happy birthday to my uncle and papa. 🙂
Here are some of the fun shots.
She epitomizes happiness
When I asked everyone, I really mean everyone even my 90-year-old grandma.
She is game for everything even jet ski!
let them be, it’s their birthday 🙂
how to find your heart: Madness
Posted on: April 14, 2011
I consider myself a very lucky person. I wake up every morning without having to worry about what to eat. I’m blessed with fine comforts of not having to do my own laundry, cook my own food or even make appointments with my dentist. For most days, my job requires only four hours of my day. I am surrounded by people who make me laugh, care for and love me. I can travel anytime, anywhere. I can do a hobby anytime. I am well clothed, sheltered, and fed. And yet I have decided, just recently, to leave it all behind. –Oh yes baby, madness.
I think it was early this year that I have become all existentialist again. Somewhere between the “luxury of having it all” I felt lost. I prayed for “something,” Â not really knowing what I should be praying for. I just feel I’m losing passion, no purpose.
It was my aunt and mom who introduced me to the whole idea. At first I was very reluctant, why would I want to leave all the comforts I am having here? This was until I realized that maybe this is the “something” I was praying for.
So in a few weeks, I’ll be leaving for Europe – to study business in London. For a year I will bask in cold, strangers, and do-it-yourselves. I know it’s not going to be easy and doing this makes me a bit of a masochist. The line between freakishly scary and unrelentingly exciting is thin, yes. Yet here I am! 🙂
“The crisis is the most blessed situation that may occur for countries and persons alike, because it leads to evolution. It’s during crisis that great inventions, discoveries and strategies are born. Without crisis there is no struggle, without struggle life is a tedious routine, an irksome agony. Without crisis there is no value” ~Albert Einstein
Uhuh Mr. Einstein, I think that’s exactly what I’m looking for- value. Paradoxically, the struggle most of us try to rid, is the exact thing I’m looking for right now to make me whole again. The question is no longer if I’m mad or not, where it takes me, is.
Love Letters
Posted on: April 13, 2011
I was going through things in my room, making notes of what to bring and what to box (as I will be leaving for Europe soon) when I bumped over several letters that were given to me years ago. Call me old school, but I have a thing for letters. Reading those silly, lovely, hilarious letters made me miss the days when pens and papers were the gods. I mean call me uptight, but if I get a text message saying: “ei wasSup?!” – I promise, you wouldn’t catch me replying to you unless i really need to.
We were in Cagayan then, attending a nationwide gathering of Youth for Christ. We were there as a band. We met a LOT of people and one of them was Myco. I was in high school and he was in college. It was just a week’s worth of hanging out. I don’t remember much of him actually, only that he is good looking and really smart (or maybe just naivety of my young age), but certainly this letter beats the text messages I’ve been getting recently.
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for the love of dead cells!
Posted on: April 11, 2011
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how to find your heart: Be wild
Posted on: April 11, 2011
When I talk about my growing up days I usually get gawking faces out of sheer disbelief. My neighbor even tagged me as “the girl who looks like an angel, but…” Harsh. Does it really have to be with a BUT? Though I wish I can be popular as sweet, studious, well mannered, perfect daughter, I’ll never trade my ever spontaneous days.
There was a time when:
- Party used to be my last name. I was married to it. It’s not really helpful when you have a friend who owns a bar, even worse when you have friends willing and eager to join you drink night or day.
- I almost got kicked out of school because of my tardiness and absence. I just feel I’m wasting too much energy sitting in a room, listening to someone who talks to a book, when I could have been doing something great for the economic market, like  shopping for instance. Not to brag, I pass my tests anyway.
- I bended curfew so much I needed to climb fences, gates, trees, etc…
- I shopped soooo much.
- I passed out and never remembered a single thing, that some gay guy started to pick up a fight with me because I spilled a drink on him. They said I just shrugged off the guy. haha
- I made out with a stranger.
- I flipped more casino cards than textbook pages.
- I cut class to check in a hotel or condo hop with my friends.
“We were pretty wild then!” said my college best friend.
Yes, with shiny disco balls. I thought. Resolved to the notion that we’re rock and roll stars, marking almost everything we do as “spontaneity at its finest” – always trying to outdo the last one.
As the years passed, maybe we have moved on, but there are a few things I’ve realized:
- that I’m now better living the “rights” because I’ve the lived the “wrongs.”
- that I’ll always be willing to try anything except drugs.
- that my parents love me no matter what state I’m in.
- that I’m no longer capable of flirting when I’m least bit interested.
- that nothing can replace passion over something when it comes to true happiness. Meanwhile, moments shared with people through sillyness, laughter, and all can truly fuel up that passion.
How to find your heart: Be spontaneous. Be wild. I’m not saying you should go into binge drinking. I’m saying find your comfort slipping in and out of your norm. Anyway, you can always say it’s all in the name of self discovery!
Happy hunting!
Woohoo!
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