This is how we eat heart shaped biscuits..
Hey somebody stole my heart
Lei: somebody broke my heart
Me: I’m gonna eat your heart. nom nom nom nom nom
can you hold my heart?
eating heart shaped cookies is fun. Is your fun as fun as my fun?
And all of the sudden my blog seems to be all about you and how you’re trying to kill me with your sweetness, literally and figuratively.
I love hand written letters about a song, a poem or a feeling. It makes me feel that love is tangible and real.
guess who came by at our house last night to give me these? eeehh my hair just got longer than ever.
These are the long overdue pictures from our baccalaureate mass. Students from different institutes were patiently waiting in line before taking their seats. These nursing students were so disciplined for keeping their lines straight.
Meanwhile there’s us. Taking pictures while waiting for our seats.
Anyway it was a beautiful day, a day to really thank God for all the blessings that we had in college. The priest talked about us graduating and having different careers. He told us that the secret of most successful people is that when they do things they do it like there is so much more to it. They do it with much passion and much fulfillment.
After the homily my imaginary mother, our school president, MOM Lydia Echauz gave a very inspiring speech. Her speech was very straight to the point and very useful. It was years of wisdom in a nutshell. So here’s what i got from it:
1. Find a job and do not be dependent to your parents. Help support the household.
2. When earning save 10% of your income and use it only when you retire. Live a simple life.
3. Give 10% of your income to the poor or to the church.
4. Take care of your health. You know what they say health is wealth and your body is a temple.
5. Take care of your soul. Stay close to God and you will never go astray.
6. Be faithful not just in name but also in practice.
7. Be a good citizen. Abide in rules. Follow the 10 commandments.
8. Treat people well. Be kind and helpful. Be a blessing to others. Fund a poor child in school.
9. Marry if you’re mature already. When you’re willing to give without asking for anything in return, when you are selfless enough. And if you have kids be sure to love and affirm them, teach them good values.
10. Be worthy. Live by FEU’s values of fortitude, excellence and most especially uprightness.
True that Mom, I believe in everything that you said. I do pray that I can do all that.
(we got photo bombed!! One random nursing student joined us in this picture lol.)
This day was not even enough to express how thankful I am for my college friends, block mates, professors, org mates, my education and the incredible experiences I had in this university. In everything that I’ve done and in everything that I will do, it’s all for God’s glory.
This year I remember posting in my Facebook page that i’m gonna make an artwork for the first five people that will comment on my post. I was actually worried that my friends might ignore it because who would want my crappy artwork? I’m no artist. Luckily some of my friends pitied me. So as promised here are the artworks that i drew in our iPad for my block mates/friends/merciful people Koreen, Deo, Angeli, Rachel and for my former friend and now boyfriend Keso.
Thank you for making me live my new year’s resolution/goal to create something beautiful with my hands. So let’s make art and give it to somebody we feel is amazing.
Kamoteng kahoy breakfast in bed :)
I’ve been craving for kamooteeng kahoooy for months, months! and now that i have one i can’t enjoy it because i had my retainers adjusted yesterday and it hurtssss like i’m gonna die. Isn’t life too ironic? It’s soo poetic and bittersweet.
I had the best memories with my college best friend. She’s the only person that makes me feel so warm and happy during rainy days, when we would walk from school to Tayuman and stop over to eat at Lola Elys because there are no jeepneys around. I love how I’ll twirl my umbrella so that she can get wet. I miss how she gets mad at me for doing that but then again she always gets mad at me. She gets mad whenever I’d pronounce words wrong, whenever I’d say I’m richer than her, whenever I’d tell a story twice, whenever I’d talk too much or too loud, whenever I’d forget to bring my umbrella, my comb, my mirror, my money or my brain. She gets mad at me all the time and in a strange way, I miss that because nobody has ever got mad at me that much but still wants to be with me at the same time. I love you best friend :)
You know when you were young and your world revolves around your imagination where you believe that you can fly or can breathe underwater or have any cool super powers, where somewhere you knew that there is a village made of food and that you can climb rainbows and slide to get to the pot of gold. It may seem so ridiculous now that you look at it but when you’re young it made you feel infinite. It made you feel like you can do anything. I’m very imaginative and sometimes i come of as crazy and delusional but i believe imagination makes a person creative and unique. It makes people build new things and opens doors to limitless possibilities.
It’s sad however that as we get old and learn the laws of physics that human beings can’t fly or breathe underwater and it’s not possible to climb and slide on rainbows, we seem to forget how important imagination is. We get confined with limited choices that no we can’t be a doctor, a yoga teacher, a journalist and a detective all at the same time. We start being too realistic that we stop to create and think outside the box. We get stuck in a routine where we are not even living but just functioning because we have to work to earn money, never minding if we actually love what we do and if we feel fulfilled doing it. We fail to contribute something new and beautiful in this world because we only do what most people do, afraid to be a little different, and have a dream so big that it scares us.
I think the reason why I find life so wonderful is because I believe that there is more to it than the usual traffic jam or the routine work we have at the office. There is so much more to discover and so many things to do, to share and to become, if we only use our imagination.
