STAY GROUNDED

             I’m a one step closer to reaching one of my endeavors in life. As of the moment, I am reviewing for a board exam. Yes, I am chemical engineer in the making. God knows how badly I want to pass, however, there is one thing I am afraid to happen.

See, I grew having lots of expectations from people around me, though it’s such a pain, it makes me feel so proud whenever they congratulate me to every success I have. However, the more “congratulation” I get, the more proud I become. This is what I am being afraid of. I don’t wanna lose myself and get drowned in the sea of success. We are all human, and I guess, this is one of traits human being has – boastful. I owe everything to God and I it scares me that one day, I’ll forget him and become so much in love with myself and with the luxuries of success.

Who doesn't want to get rich? Who doesn't want to be famous? Who doesn't want to be a well-respected person? Who doesn't want to succeed? Everybody does, however, as for me, if I succeed but lose myself in the process, I’d rather die unsuccessful.

Right now, I am pleading to God that He may grant my wish and that is to become a REGISTERED CHEMICAL ENGINEER and be able to practice in my field of expertise. But this plea comes with a condition that He would always disturb me and reminds me to remain grounded in everything I achieve. That in every success I acquire, all praises, honor and recognition would ALWAYS go to Him.  IT’S NOT BAD TO WANT TO SUCCEED, WHAT’S BAD IS TO FORGET THE ONE WHOM WE OWE OUR SUCCESS WITH.
WORK HARD, SUCCEED BUT REMAIN GROUNDED. With this, God will always bless you with greater things than you couldn't possibly imagine.

 1 PETER 5:6

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.                        

Me and God

Me: God, can I ask You a question?

God: Sure

Me: Promise You won't get mad
... ... ... ... ...

God: I promise

Me: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today?

God: What do u mean?

Me: Well, I woke up late

God: Yes

Me: My car took forever to start

God: Okay

Me: at lunch they made my sandwich wrong & I had to wait

God: Huummm

Me: On the way home, my phone went DEAD, just as I picked up a call

God: All right

Me: And on top of it all off, when I got home ~I just want to soak my feet in my new foot massager 


& relax. BUT it wouldn't work!!! Nothing went right today! Why did You do that?


God: Let me see, the death angel was at your bed this morning & I had to send one


of My Angels to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through that

Me (humbled): OH

GOD: I didn't let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit 


you if you were on the road.

Me: (ashamed)

God: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick & I didn't want you to catch what 


they have, I knew you couldn't afford to miss work.

Me (embarrassed):Okay

God: Your phone went dead bcuz the person that was calling was going to give false witness 


about what you said on that call, I didn't even let you talk to them so you would be covered.

Me (softly): I see God

God: Oh and that foot massager, it had a shortage that was going to throw out all of the power in 


your house tonight. I didn't think you wanted to be in the dark.

Me: I'm Sorry God

God: Don't be sorry, just learn to Trust Me.... in All things , the Good & the bad.

Me: I will trust You.

God: And don't doubt that My plan for your day is Always Better than your plan.

Me: I won't God. And let me just tell you God, Thank You for Everything today.

God: You're welcome child. It was just another day being your God and I Love looking after My 


Children...












(REPOSTed from facebook.)

6 Things to Keep in Mind

1. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present. 
2. What other people think of you is none of your business. 
3. Time heals almost everything, give time. 
4. No one is in charge of your happiness except you. 
5. Don't compare your life to others, don't judge them. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 
6. Smile. You don't own all the problems in the world. :)




(Note: This post isn't mine. I have just copied it from a text message sent to me by a friend.)

Mr. RIGHT

It's been a hard quest for us girls to find the perfect man whom we'll entrust our whole being with. For us, as much as possible, we want a perfect man. One who is strong, courageous, smart, loving, caring, understanding, God fearing, gentle and handsome inside out. But as of our generation today, it's hard to find a man who possess even just three of those characteristics that we want him to have. It's like finding a needle among the bushes.

I've been thinking lately, how may I able to find Mr. Perfect? I don't wanna grow old alone. I wanna find him. I'm already 19 and a couple of years from now, I will be graduating college and I want that as soon as I have finished taking my board exam, I will start finding him. Enough already for those self control, I will start to open my heart to any man. Yeah, I know, true love waits. But how long will I be waiting? I want to be in a relationship with my perfect  man for at least five years before marrying and give my whole self to him. I don't want to commit a mistake. I already have done once and once is enough. I will not fall to the wrong one again.

They say, we need to experience something in order for us to learn, but for me, as much as possible, I want to learn it from other's experiences. I may not have enough experiences, but I know, I already have enough lessons learned from the experiences of my friends. And one of those lessons is that there really is no Mr. Perfect, only Mr. Right. The right one that God had been thinking when He had created us. One whom we cannot stop our self from loving with and when we see him, we can say that we're willing to ignore all other handsome and perfect guys around us. He may not possess all the characteristics we want him to have, yet, we still love him.

As of now, I have not found him yet, but when I find him, I promise that I will never let go of him.

Funny

It's funny how the person I hate so much before is the one I'm in love with right now.

The person who always gives me an irritated face is one who makes me smile.

The person whom I want to lose out of my sight is the one I wanna see so badly.

The person I don't wanna talk to is the one I've been exchanging silly and nonsense jokes.

It's just so funny how the person I don't wanna get near before is the same person I wanna spend the rest of my forever.

God Wants Me to Know

          

          If you feel yourself floundering in the sea of life, try leaning back and floating. Let yourself be supported. Gaze into the beautiful sky and allow time for your spirit to be refreshed. Then when you are feeling stronger, simply choose a direction and start swimming.

From: GOD WANTS YOU TO KNOW @facebook.com 

My parents may not that old compared to the video, but eventually, they will soon. This video has touched my heart so much. It made me realize how short the time we have on earth and with that, we need to use that time wisely. While it's not too late, let's show our love and care to our parents. 

So much for the pretensions. 
So much for the lies. 

So much for trying to meet their expectations. 

So much for not being myself. 
I'm tired of it. 

I wanna live.
I want a life. 

I want to be free. 

I will listen to them no longer. 

I will be me!

Hello DECEMBER

          December 1, 2011 at last! This month is my most awaited month of the year, because aside from being the year's last month, this is also the month of the birth of Jesus. What makes this month an awaited one? Well, this is the time when giving, loving, peace and understanding are mostly felt. The warm hello and greetings of "merry Christmas" from people passing by, the gifts from families and friends and most of all, the perfect time of gathering family members together are just are an "oh so overwhelming" jiffy that could make your heart fly. But those acts I've mentioned earlier are just part of the party. The most important thing that we need to do is to be grateful to our Almighty for giving us His only begotten son who have saved us from our unrighteous deeds. 

          On the other hand, how sad it is for me to think that those signs of loving and giving are can only be visible on Christmas season.I mean, when it's not Christmas, it is rarely seen. Why can't we show this every month? (Oh well, it's just a thought! Let's go back to the happy one.)

          Another awaited things on Christmas are the Christmas decorations. Especially with us, Filipinos, we love to decorate our houses with lights and lanterns (star shaped lanterns mostly). Beautiful and twinkling lights on roads, parks and almost everywhere plus the Christmas carols we sing on every houses are just very wonderful and very overwhelming on the heart.

          The happiness that Christmas brings is the most awaited one. It is not all about the twinkling lights, foods and gifts, rather, it's about the smile brought about by the love from others. Let's be joyful for this season, above all, let's all be thankful to Jesus for coming to our lives. 

         MERRY CHRISTMAS to you.  :)

That Feeling

From LOVE AT FIRST HICCUP. I just watched this movie,
which made me feel what I'm feeling right now.

I want to feel that feeling again.

It's been three years since my last relationship. It's not that nobody courts me, it's just me having an oath not to enter any relationship before college graduation. As a college student, kinda weird huh? But it's not for me. I have this principle that TRUE LOVE WAITS.

Being like this is not easy. You've got to have a lot of self control. I kinda miss the feeling by the way. Having someone to greet you good morning in the phone, someone you could talk and tell almost everything, one who you feel comfortable with. I miss the feeling of being taken care of, I miss having someone to call my own, to love and cherish.

Well, I'm still young, I still have a lot of time. That could wait for sure and my prince charming could wait too.

Naah! I just wanna express what I'm feeling right now. 

My New Year's Resolution

Since new year is near, here I go again with my new year's resolution. Well, I guess, it's too early for you to be thinking about it, but for me, it's not. So here I go.

This 2012, I want to fulfill all my plans. Here are the following plans I need to do:

1. Be a CHRISTIAN by heart not just by name.

          Life on earth isn't about what will you become in the future and how successful you are. It's about how you spend every minute of your life being an instrument and servant of our ever loving Father. We need to live as christian. Live like Christ did. 

          Well, I am a christian but I have noticed lately that I have drawn myself far from God. It seems I cannot reach Him anymore or maybe it is I who's refusing and avoiding Him. Living a christian life is not that easy, but I'll see to it that I'll be able to fulfill this. I put this one first on the list because it is our greatest priority as children of God to be His child by deed, by words and by heart. 

2. Be the ideal daughter my parents want.

          I'm not saying that I am the worst daughter, but I'll just say that I do mistakes sometimes. Mistakes that I regret right after doing so. I love my parents so much that there is nothing else I want to see on earth but their faces full of laughter. Well, they are happy, but I want to make them happier. 

          Sometimes, I could feel that I'm a burden to them, well, not to mention that they have to pay for my tuition fee this semester, because I've been suspended with my scholarship. I want to give them a gift, something that they could always cherish forever. Since, I am a gift to them as they say, I need to make them feel that I'm a gift. I really want them to be happy everyday, and I think, just by being a good daughter, I will be able to make them happy. I just hope so. 

3. Be a responsible student. 

          This is the field that I suck the most. I don't hate school I just get a little lazy on studying my lessons and became very hard working mammal on procrastination. That maybe the reason why I fail a subject this semester that leads to the suspension of my scholarship. I need to get good grades today. I can do this. 

4. Try to cut the pride.

          I know I have this pride that drives me to offend someone. I don't want to do such things but I sometimes forgot that what I'm doing is not good anymore. I need stop myself. I sometimes brag things too and I don't like that. It's like a disease that comes to you naturally. It's like a voluntary muscle, it just do what it does without telling it so. I need to cut this!  

5. Less bitterness.

          When I say bitterness, I mean being rude or hot tempered or I don't know. I don't understand it. I sometimes feel being bitter to people whom have not done anything bad to me. Sometimes, i get mad when I see the apartment so messy, (I hate mess by the way, I don't wanna see my stuffs up side down.), I get bitter when others are noisy and are being so childish. I don't know, I just don't understand this feeling. I still need some time to go deeper with myself and investigate the source of this bitterness.

6. Healthy diet.

          Woah! I need to put a lot of work on this. I eat unhealthy foods a lot and I know that it's not good for my body. I need to encourage myself on eating veggies and stop skipping meals. I need a discipline!

7. Be thrifty.

          I spend a lot of money on unimportant stuffs. This year, I want to see a remembrance of me being thrifty. I need to save money. 

8. Less procrastination.

          Woah! There's a lot of self discipline needed for this. I just hope I can do it! AJA!

9. Get enough sleep.

          The longest hour of sleep I get everyday is six hours, not bad huh? But I need eight hours for a proper sleeping. Got to stop procrastinating so that I could sleep early.

10. Have a life!

          Be happy and gay! Be free and expressive! Be myself !

Super Crush

When I was in high school, crush is not a big thing to me. I did not even remember myself having a crush on someone. But since my college life started, this crush thingy has started with it too. Well, at first, it was just like admiring someone you found very handsome, cute or appealing. I really don't have big crushes on people around me, my crushes are those male actors who played a very awesome role in the movie they're in. Well, as for you to know, I love watching movies of love stories, teenage stories to specific. 

Once, when I was a second year, I saw this movie in titled CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE with Mario Maurer who acts as Shone in the movie. By the time I saw him, my heart goes like this: dug dug, dug dug,! Oh my God, what a handsome man. Since that very moment, up until now, my huge crush on that man is very alive. Yeah, I know it's impossible to for us to be together, (HOPING??? hahaha) but I hope I would be able to meet him before I get married (hahaha).

I'm not the kind who easily fall in love with someone, and just to make everything clear, I'M NOT IN LOVE WITH MARIO MAURER! (hahaha) I just have a crush on him. That's it!  So, for those who wants to be my prince, you still have a chance. (hahaha. Feeleeer!)

Dear Mom,

These are exactly the words I wanna tell mom. :)

Oh wait! I still have one.

I love you Mom!

After almost a year and a half of the showing of ECLIPSE, the TWILIGHT SAGA BREAKING DAWN part 1 is finally here. Its premiere was last November 18, 2011. This movie is one of my most awaited movie of the year. Well, I'm a devoted Twilight Saga fan.

Here, Edward and Bella finally got married and is expecting to have a baby who is said to be a threat to the wolf pack and vampire coven because of the extraordinary power it possesses. 

Undo

          There are things in life that we wish not to happen but they do, we wish not to have done, but we did, things that we want to be undone but we can't. We don't have the ability of a time traveler that can go to the future and see what will happen if we do this and that, we don't have superpowers that can turn back time and undo the things that we regret. Were human, we all do mistakes, we do things that we deplore. No matter how much we tell ourselves not to regret because at one point, it was exactly what we wanted, there would just that moment that we would tell ourselves, "I wish I have not done it.", and it's too late, we have nothing else to do but to lament. What's the hard part about it are the sufferings, if it would not be physical, it will be emotional pain and it's hard. It's really hard. It slowly kills us in the inside, it can makes us weak, vulnerable, lazy and most of all, it can makes us stop living. 

          The pain, if not treated well and handled properly would make us hopeless and a hopeless life means a meaningless, senseless and useless living. We need to stop the pain, heal the wounds and go on with our lives. The only  way for us to do it is to face the consequences of our actions, try to find solutions for the problems, stop thinking of undoing what have happened, be open minded, live back on track, start a new beginning, and most of all, we need to entrust our life the omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent God. Only with Him we can be healed, take a rest and keep calm. Only with Him we can achieve peace and hope. 

Just a Thought

Every bad things that we are suffering at the present are consequences of the wrong things we have done in the past. It is therefore necessary to live your present life rightfully so that future will not face regrets.

Wake Up!

Few decades ago, Philippines was considered as one of the promising countries in Asia - acclaimed by World Bank as a future power house. Well, we cannot deny it because, as we can see, we have a lot of resources to utilize for our progress. 

With over 7000 islands, we are endowed with a fertile land and a subtropical climate that provides an environment for different species of plants and animals. We are also anointed with lots of mineral, agricultural and marine resources and an extensive coastline filled with marine life.It was said that we can attract foreign investments because of our stocks of gold, silver, copper, cobalt and useful minerals for industry and according to Philippine History website, the country brags for it's many forms of natural waters which adduce a huge harvest of fishes for local consumption and exportation abroad. 

Inspite of these facts, what happened to the Philippines now? Does it progressed? Well, the answer with that is obviously no! In fact, it became worst. According to Rommel Banlaoi a political science professor at the National Defense College, "Philippines is the sick man of Asia".

What made him said that? Well, look around you, do see the answer? If not, let me tell you. 

Let's start with the most obvious one, the population growth. Philippines has ranked 12th as the most populous country in the world; 84 million by the end of 2004, and counting. At an annual growth rate of 2.36%, the population will have doubled by 2033 and may reach 200 million by 2042. It's a young population (50% is under 21 years old) and it's facing lots of afflictive shortages. Shortages on food, shelter, doctors, teachers, nurses, midwives and other vital needs of every citizens.Today, we are also threatened with the constant rise on the prices of oil. Let's add to that the arrivals of typhoons after typhoons plus the increasing rate of unemployment of the Filipino citizens and of course, the nation's huge domestic and foreign debts. With all the presence of these elements, poverty in the country is really expected to worsen. 

What happened to the Philippines? A promising country who turned out to the sick man of Asia. Who are responsible for these catastrophe? Who are to be blamed? Is it our leaders, or we are also part of it? 

Some says that Filipinos are indolent, thieves, corrupt, undesciplined, crab-minded and divided, is it true? If it is, can these traits be considered as the main reason why we are suffering poverty?

The answer is yours. The change is also in you. Wake up and make a move. 




sources: www.atimes.com and www.emanila.com.


PS: Please bear with my constructions of words and paragraphs, I'm not a good writer. :) Thank you!

Happy Birthday Nay

We all say that we are lucky to have our mother and yes! It's true. We love them in ways we cannot express through words. 

Today is my mother's birthday and I'm proud to say this: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE PRETTIEST AND VERY UNDERSTANDING MOM IN THE WORLD!


Others call their mom "Mommy", "Mama" or  "Mom"
but me? I call her "NANAY"! Others may not like it, but for me, it sounds sweet. 


I am not that close to my mom but I love her so much! She may not know it, but God knows. I am shy of expressing my love for her that's why, I'll just express it through this blog. I know that I should tell her how much I love her, she deserves to know it, but I think, I still need some time and a lot of courage to say. Well, I have greeted her yesterday in advance! 

Me and my sister with OUR NANAY

Nanay is so strict for me, but as her child, I'm already used to it. I even sometimes tell her jokes whenever she tries to scold me (hahaha) and she will then laugh with it (tada! end of conversion)!


I'm not sure but I think it's her 47th birthday today and I won't be able to surprise her coz I'm miles away from her but at least I have greeted her already. 


AGAIN: 


HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANAY! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! WE ALL LOVE YOU (me, dodoy, lolong, inday and tatay)!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE, PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING! WE'RE SO LUCKY TO HAVE YOU!


<3


xoxoxoxo!


:)

Missing Them

High school life is really a great stage of a teenager. This is the time where curiosity, stupidity, craziness and all other weird and extraordinary stuffs happen. This is also the time when you will be able to get along with lots of friends and spend a lot of time with them. Have fun, say anything you wanna say, go wherever you wanna go and do whatever you want to do. Anything! Even if it's annoying, disgusting and humiliating, you'll just do as long as you're having fun. 

This clip below is one proof! See how these friends of mine act! Gayness as I say! hahaha! But I just miss them and all these funny stuffs they're doing! 

I may not have the best friends in the world, but I still love them! Very much! I miss them a lot. Sometimes, I cry (with buckets?) of tears when I remember them. I sometimes wish to go back to the past and be with them again, do crazy things, laugh with them and talk with them.

Well, I still am spending time with them during semestral breaks or vacation, but it's just not the same as before. Maybe we grew older already and have mature minds that we can no longer dare to do those weird stuffs anymore. 

Here is another clip below! Check it out! Boys do crazy things too! This is what I love with my batch! It doesn't matter if you're a boy or a girl, as long as you're having fun, you do almost anything under the sun.

These boys love all the girls in the batch! I mean brotherly love. I can always rely on them in times of needs, comforts, anything. They can even give your boyfriend a punch on the face if it happened that your boyfriend hurt you. That's them. That's us. 

I miss this batch! 

I love them so much and I'm very proud to belong to them!

Cramming

I always tell myself not to cram during exams so that I will be able to have higher scores than what I usually get when I cram. But no matter how many times I tell myself not to, I'm still doing it. I just can't get into studying my lessons when it's not the night or the day before my exams. I just don't like it so much coz I'm afraid of having failing grades at the end of the sem.

I still am struggling right now on how to start studying my lessons. I'm having an exam tomorrow on my major and I still am not opening my notes or my book to study and worst, I have not listened to our teacher during discussions so I really need to study from the start so that I will be able to understand everything.

I am not that bad student that you have in your mind right now, I'm just a lazy one. Hahaha. :)

Anyways, I need to study my lessons now. Well I just hope I can start the momentum already.

PS: Here's some tips for you to absorb much during cramming:

 1. Stay away from distractions. (Laptop, Cellphones and etc. )

 2. STAY AWAY FROM YOUR BED. (You don't want to fall asleep in the middle of your study.

Don't you?)