My ABC of Gratitude for Year 2010

Happy New Year Everyone!

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I have lots of things to say for my year end post but in order to keep it short and easy to read (Plus I'm kind of lazy) I'll just post my A to Z of feelings of gratitude for year 2010.

A - for the ANGER that taught me how to be kind to others and to my self.
B - BAMBI our Mini Pin, a protector in our home. her sweetness is a stress reliever
C - my COLLEGE friends who are far yet near.
D - for letting me DRIVE safe all year round, everyday and everywhere.
E - for the ENERGY that I have especially whenever I need to be strong
F - my FAMILY who has been always there for me every second of my life
G - my GUIDANCE Center family for being my second family at work
H - my High School friends who never fail to remind me that I'm so lucky to have them
I -  my other "I" as my alter ego
J -  for the JOY in every simple thing that I'm seeing
K - KATHY for being home this December after four years.
L - LITZ friends for being my best guy buds
M - for the MANGO TANGO cake which was close to the Mango Bravo cake of Conti's
N - NCD supporters, I Love Naga!
O - the 'OTHERS' who I might have misunderstandings with, my apologies
P - PSYCHOMETRICIAN, my work now. I'm trying to live up to it.
Q - to the QUESTIONS that made me turn to God and be more close to Him
R - the first full RAINBOW that I saw last Dec. 23, 2010
S - SKYSCRAPER friends for the friendship and the effort in promoting our city and province
T - for all the TRAVELS that I had this year, both for business and pleasure.
U - for the UNDERSTANDING that I got from all the people around me
V - for the VICTORY of my endeavors during year 2010
W - my WONDERFUL students esp the Psychology students
X - the X Factor God given blessing that helped me in a lot of ways
Y - YOU who is reading this for being my friend
Z - the ZEAL of life GOD has given me

I treasure every thing that comes across my way. Some of them might be insignificant to others, like a small piece of paper might be a trash but very important to me. Spare my shallowness, for I find strength in those simple things around me. I do not have a resolution or a promise for year 2011. I only have an ABC for year 2011.

A - ACHIEVE God's plan for year 2011. With His light and stronger faith to Him, I'll find my way right.
B - the BEAUTY of life that God has offered me for the past 25 years, may it continue to flow together with humility
C - the CHANCE to wake up each day and continue to discover people's goodness no matter how different we are.

Let's once again journey 2011! Cheers and God bless!

I LOVE YOU ALL!

Hibernated in New Year

After celebrating New Year’s Eve, I spent my 1^st and 2^nd day of the year here in Pili. This is where I spent my first 6 years of life if I’m not mistaken. Everything is simple here, parang nasa barrio nga eh, all is basics and for us nakaka relax tlga, coz its calm and peaceful away from the urban noise and pollution. Last Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, our family was in one house. Dati kc half of us will be in Naga and the other half here in Pili. We can’t leave the compound without any people or kahit isa lng.. mahirap na, maraming mawawala. Yan ang pangit kapag may mga kelangan bantayan ayan tuloy nahahati kami before. Pero thank God our cousin from Caramoan didn’t go home this vacation kaya we asked him to be the taong bahay during the two nights as mentioned. Guess what… I’m not online and I’m surviving just like the old days. Time for some recharging and reorganization of thoughts after having been weary for year 2008. It was a good year I guess, got a lot of surprises and a lot of demise, normally it’s what we call good ol life. The only challenge is we only get to appreciate surprises after it has opened in front of our eyes. On Monday will be back to work, back to paper works and back to business. A lot will be in store when I get back to office. Have to finish a lot communications and I have to prepare for 2 career development activities of the senior college students. Waaaa pressured!! I am! Sobra!

With the 2 weeks vacation, I really did nothing heavy so far, I only did the usual things that I do, household chores, errands and errands. I’m supposed to do a paper work for the TCP class and I’m supposed to do some readings. Waaaaaaa now I’m even more pressured.

But I guess I have spent my time worthwhile with my family and it’s what we call “quality time”. I also had the chance to see some of my high school best of friends. We seldom see each other but the distance and number of times we talk has never changed the value of friendship that we have. Yeah I hibernated and it helped me gain strength to be ready for bundles of surprises for year 2009.