Happy New Year!

Hi Guys! I hope you enjoyed the holidays. Well, I pretty much enjoyed it thanks to my loving family and friends. I had a great time with my cousins and long lost relatives too. Whew! I miss them again. I can’t wait for Christmas and New Year already so that I can see them again. I just love them. 

Well, may this year 2008 bring more blessings to our homes. Have a prosperous New Year guys! 

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas guys! I hope everyone is having a good time as much as I do. Let’s celebrate the season by showing our family and friends how much we love them. Let’s not waste this time of the year to be giving and cheerful.

Ciao. 

To Nicole - Some Friendship Quotes

“No present could bring more joy to open, Then the one filled with your smile.”

“How sad it would be,to be blind. To never have seen your smile. I remember the first time
I heard your voice, a sound I never tire.”

“Every time you cross my mind, I think how lucky I’ve been, to have you as my special friend.”

“So remember, not to frown, for I know someone, who is in love with your smile.”

“Your best friends are going to hurt you every once in a while, you must forgive them for that.”

“Forgivness is the key to your unhappiness.”

“Compared to friendship, gold is dirt.”

“Sometimes i think we don’t need anyone else in the world..
but then again who would we talk about.”

“Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they are meant to be there;
they serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or help you figure out who you are.”

“When you have no light to guide you and no one to walk beside you, I will come to you.
When the night is dark and stormy, you won’t have to reach out for me, i will come to you.”

Halloween Trick or Treat

Hahaha! My friends tried to scare the hell out of me this Halloween. They conducted a surprise halloween trick for me but they failed to get me scared. Hahaha. In fact, I was the one who scared them Waaaa! Scaredy cats!

I was pretty much aware about the surprise thingie when my cousin slipped and opened about their plans. Wahaha. I am so bad. I even didn’t show them some appreciation by playing along. Instead, I concocted my own plan to scare them, instead of them scaring me.

Haha! The plan worked out. Yes, my plan. They were all pale and red in fear. The look on their faces was just priceless. I can’t wait to do this again next year. 

OctoberFest

My friends and I really feel ecstatic when October comes. That’s because we know it is the month of beers. Yeah, baby! Beers, alcohol, and all that. We love it.

Just last week, we raided a disco bar which served free bottles of beer and invited a famous band to make the customers happy. That was quite a party. We all had fun.

Whoever invented OctoberFest should be given an award or something. This month rocks! 

Friendship

I have been blessed with many people I call friends. They are always there to help me out when I am down and lonely. They are always there to comfort me and offer words of encouragement when I am totally in a mess. I love my friends. And this is for them. Some famous quotes about friendship.

“Best Friends Listen to what you don’t say”

“People never know how special someone is until they leave,
but maybe sometimes its important to leave,
so they are given that chance to see how special that someone really is!”

“Friendship is like a violin; the music may stop now and then, but the strings will last forever.”

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.”

“I never had better friends than the friends I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”

Since we met its been you and I, a tear for a tear baby eye for an eye and u know that my heart gonna cry if you leave me lonely cuz u not just my friend your my home.

Spiritual growth

I must admit I am not a religious person. Well, at least not as of the moment. But I used to be. I used to be part of a church which is quite radical and active in its evangelistic thrusts. I was quite the passionate and indignant member. I obeyed the rules. I followed every commandment. I reached out to a lot of people through sharing my faith (aka recruitment). I did everything that my pastor told God was telling me to do. I made fruits. I was a happy disciple.

Well, I was till leadership responsibilities came. When I became a leader of a small discipleship group, everything changed so suddenly. Things became fast. Things became figures. Things became goals. And things became quite clear. I have been fooled. I was led to believe that things are done with a pure heart. I was wrong. Leadership taught me to do things out of fear, out of obligation, out of figures. It didn’t take too long for my heart to be led astray and all I see are figures and goals. There was no happiness in serving anymore. I served in order to save my ass.

Spiritual growth? Yes I can say I have grown spiritually through the challenges that I faced. I learned that in a graceless church, sprituality cannot thrive. In a church driven by performance, the members are people pleasers rather than God pleasers.

I left. And I realized that what I considered growth was just a facade.  

Really really bored…

I have been really bored lately. Well, that should been one reason to update this blog often but that is just not the case. I am not really sure why I am bored. To think, I have everything I need to be entertained and all that. I have friends who keep me company and I have a job that I really like doing.

But lately, things are getting really slow. I felt that my energy sort of declined the past few days. I started feeling tired and completely out of touch with the current routine I am doing. Malling. Nightlife. Internet surfing and chatting. Seems everything is a blur and that sometimes, I feel like just lying down in my bed and reflect on what I have been doing with my life.

I think I really need a break. And so I will ask my boss to allow me to rest from work for a while. Perhaps two to three days rest are enough. Well, I am going to tell him tomorrow. I hope he agrees with my plan. Wish me luck.