I love Christmas. I just have to get that out there. I’m the wide-eyed girl who squeals when Christmas songs start playing in the malls, lighting up even brighter than the Christmas lights that surround her. Filipinos normally begin their countdown around September. I have my decorations up by September, but start the countdown around…
Read MoreMy Best Yes
I don’t really know what to say when people ask me where I’m at in my life right now so I simply answer, “in between.” But really, what does that even mean? Earlier this year, God gave me a vision of being pulled out from where I was and being placed in a new land,…
Read MoreIt’s Christmas and Everything Seems Dark
“Why are there no lights out?” It’s early December and I was pouting to my brother how everything is as Christmas-sy as it should be except the new city mayor decided not to waste money on lights and decors this year. A few days after that, we were on the drive home when he complained…
Read More
I Want To Get Engaged Too
You guys, I’m not kidding. Two men got down on one knee to propose to two of my friends last week and while I deeply rejoice with them, I can’t get out of my head the fact that life is quickly passing me by. It’s surreal to think that we went from talking about wedding…
Read MoreI Give Up.
I give up. There, I said it. I just can’t do it anymore. I’ve never really talked about it on this blog and I only shared about it to very few friends, but let’s get it out in the open now. I graduated from university almost two years ago with the idea that I’ll pursue…
Read More
A Kind-of-Photo-Blog: 20 Things As I Turn 20
I realized that this blog hasn’t been a personal space really. And while I don’t plan on making it too much of such, this post would be a peek into my life. I hope that reading this one would make you appreciate life in all of its entirety – grand or ordinary. ✨ I turned…
Read MoreNew Year’s Resolution: Move On
I had a New Year post all planned out, and it was sooooo not this. It’s December 30, we just had dinner at CJH, and dad’s driving to visit our tito’s house. We were joking around until out of the blue, I felt an onslaught of emotions overtake me – emotions that I have not…
Read MoreNothing Left
“Lay your life down” Again and again and again I have, Father Over and over again And it hurts It always hurts so much I don’t understand why Why You ask so much of me Why You mold so much Breaking, stretching As if I can’t take a break Like I can’t catch my breath…
Read More
Tales From Summertime: Always On Time
Plan: 6 am – leave Tuguegarao 11 am – arrive Pagudpud 1 pm – go to Lighthouse 3 pm – go back to Tuguegarao Reality: 6 am It was Good Friday and we were supposed to be well on our way to Ilocos when we found out that one of the wheels of the car…
Read More
Tales from Summertime: Face your Fears
Fear can either paralyze you, or it can make you come alive. What stories do you want to tell your children and grandchildren? Are there even any at all? Live a life worth telling stories about. You are eventually going to die in any case. The real question is, are you going to live? Will you be able to say “I am doing what I was born to do. I am where I was created to be?”
Read More