Happy New Year!

It’s a New Year! :)

But before we let go of the year 2008, here’s my list of unforgettable things of 2008 (in no particular order):

1. Having a boyfriend! J (Ehem..greet me on Feb 18 for the anniv :p)
2. Graduating from Ateneo (with Honors, of course :p)
3. First airplane ride (Yay!)
4. First paycheck (Wohoo)
5. Bohol Office Planning/Outing
6. Valentine’s day
7. Birthday Surprise!
8. Subic getaway
9. Job Hunting (online and on feet (?), walking around Ayala Ave, that is)
10. Christmas and Post-Christmas Celebration

For Year 2009, here’s a list of what I hope to achieve:

1. Get Plan350 in Sun Cellular
2. Get passport
3. Spend more time with High School and College friends
4. Attend more Eucharistic Celebrations
5. Investing money
6. Reading one book a month
7. Reading news everyday (not just showbiz gossips or lifestyle sections)
8. One update in blog at least once a week ? J
9. Learn Online Banking
10. Open another bank account

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Get well soon!

Get well soon hon :p

Miss you :)

Fall for you

Fall for You

Secondhand Serenade

The best thing about tonight's that we're not fighting

Could it be that we have been this way before?

I know you don't think that I am trying

I know you're wearing thin down to the core

But hold your breath

Because tonight will be the night

That I will fall for you over again

Don't make me change my mind

Or I won't live to see another day

I swear it's true

Because a girl like you's impossible to find

You're impossible to find

This is not what I intended

I always swore to you I'd never fall apart

You always thought that I was stronger

I may have failed, but I have loved you from the start

Oh, but hold your breath

Because tonight will be the night

That I will fall for you over again

Don't make me change my mind

Or I won't live to see another day

I swear it's true

Because a girl like you's impossible to find

It's impossible

So breathe in so deep

Breathe me in, I'm yours to keep

And hold on to your words 'cause talk is cheap

And remember me tonight when you're asleep

Because tonight will be the night

That I will fall for you over again

Don't make me change my mind

Or I won't live to see another day

I swear it's true

Because a girl like you's impossible to find

Tonight will be the night

That I will fall for you over again

Don't make me change my mind

Or I won't live to see another day

I swear it's true

Because a girl like you's impossible to find

You're impossible to find

in Bohol

three days in Bohol last Oct 8-10, 2008 :)
with Sales, TSG, Log and Marketing Dept.

in Tagaytay

Marketing Planning in Tagaytay

Life at URC Flour

With Chef kaizer :)

At Cagayan de Oro Airport

Another angle

with Abby and Ji-Ann

Happy Birthday! :)

Happy Birthday hon! :) Wishing you all the best always! :) Love you!

A lot of firsts

A lot of firsts lately:

1. riding an airplane (and alone)

2. eating ostrich meat

3. being a cooking demo host

4. going to Cagayan de Oro

5. handling a company event on my own

I'm excited for more firsts to come! :p

5th month..

...and still very happy and in love. thanks hon :)

Tara

First Couple Photoshoot

Thanks hon, i'm always here for you too :)

My first project in URC - MAFBEX 2008

Manila Food and Beverages Exposition 2008

Me with officemates manning the booth (Tony, Fred, Me and Melody)

Pasta sampling for brand awareness and trial

El Real: the pasta brand we sell

Pasta Live Cookery we sponsored

working at URC

I'm already on my second week of my first job here in URC-flour division. So far, everything is still manageable. My boss gives me work once in a while but I haven't started on my real project here. Currently, i am functioning both for marketing and sales department. All of my officemates are older than me so I am still adjusting to the culture and nature of the grown-ups. Anyway, they are very friendly and happy people so I don't have any problems talking to them. It's just that I'm a little shy here :p Hopefully, this week is better. :)

My first job

JG Summit Holdings Inc. Management Trainee.

I’ll be assigned in Universal Robina Corporation (URC) – flour Marketing and Sales.
It’s a mixture of being excited, happy, nervous and sad. I am definitely happy because I really want to be a management trainee. It’s not really an entry level position because after the training you’ll assume a position immediately so it’s definitely a great first job. I really want to handle marketing of a consumer good so that’s a plus. And, I heard that training in URC is good too.

I am nervous because there are always bigger expectations for us, 25 lucky people chosen for the management traineeship for the Gokongwei’s group of companies. I am sad because there is less time for the people I love. 8am to 6:30 job takes away a lot of precious time that could have been spent with those I love. And from this time on, being employed leaves me no choice but to be more mature and be more responsible. I am now in the process of signing a lot of documents, filing TIN, Pag-ibig, Philhealth etc. which makes me feel nervous because these are legal documents. Hahaha

Anyway, for now I just want to make good use of my remaining time as a bum before entering the corporate world.

21st birthday

In my previous entry (a few days before my birthday), I wished that somebody would just plan my day and that I would just attend. And that was, well, kinda exactly what happened. :)

The day began in the worst possible thought and mood. Well, it was a mixture of disappointment, anger and sadness. The morning was just not so right for me. Anyway, I still followed the plan - lunch date, job haunt while waiting for rj – but my mood was just not getting better. There were arguments here and there. It reached the point when I just wanted to go home.

Anyhow, let’s just get to the best part of the day. Things were getting better since the start of the movie and afterwards Rj and I went around the mall (which we always do whenever we go out) then suddenly we saw Angelo and I called his name and approached him. I asked him what was he doing there and if he is with someone. He said he’s just alone and then he was kinda in a hurry so I just let him go. He didn’t even greet me! Haha Anyway, we just went on and looked for this restaurant (I forgot the name! :p) Anyway, when we arrived there I saw that the restaurant is full and I even saw some people waiting outside but Rj just kept on walking towards the door. I said to him that there’s a line outside but suddenly when I looked inside I saw Bennett! I got excited and just went inside and approached them. It was definitely the best part of the day – seeing all the people I love and having a surprise gathering. They sang and there’s a cake. I love it! :)

I love you guys! You just don’t know how you made my day really happy and complete. J
Blockmates and clique, this surprise dinner is really the best part of my day. Thank you so much for coming and I really appreciate seeing you all there. I miss you guys! I hope we can do this more often – just eating together and catching up on things.
Special thanks to “organizers” – charms, mon mon and Rj. Thanks also to Gino for texting everyone :p

I love you guys! :) It was my first surprise birthday celebration :)

Next birthday ulit! :p

*Thanks for everything. Things didn’t start and end right but maybe it happened for a reason. To make us stronger? I don’t know :p But really, thank you. It was definitely my most memorable birthday :p

Happy birthday to me?

Nope, it’s not my birthday – at least NOT YET. Well, it’s next Thursday but I still have no plan at all. A friend asked me if I have been celebrating my birthday in the past years and I said NO. Well, I usually not celebrate my birthday in a grand celebration or party if that’s the question. But YES, I do celebrate it in a simple way. I go out with friends (treat them if I have money), spend the entire day like there’s no tomorrow and just have fun, fun, fun.

Last year I had lunch with blockmates and had a trio date with mon mon and charms. The year before that I celebrated it with mel, marc and rb (I think). The year before that, I was with my ANi kids. This year? Hmm.. I have no idea. I remember telling RJ yesterday: “Pwede bang iba na lang mag-isip/mag-asikaso ng gagawin sa birthday ko? Aaatend na lang ako :)”

Sigh.. .if only it can be that simple: other people can think of the fun activities that we will be doing that day and I’ll just be attending and just be clueless about all the fun that I will be having that day. Can that just be my birthday wish? :)

I just want a happy happy birthday, whatever I will be doing or whoever I will be celebrating it with. Thinking about the what-to-do’s makes it stressful. That’s when I feel not celebrating my day at all :p

New blog, new life?

Nah…Maybe the new template of my blog signifies a new chapter of my life- one that is outside the gates of my beloved Alma mater. Finally, my fifteen years of studying is over and now I am about to enter the “real world”.

The thought of leaving something I love is not at all easy. But somehow, days before graduation flew so fast that only when we sang the Song for Mary did it finally dwell on me that I am certainly leaving the university I have loved (It was also the first time that I sang that song with all my heart). Being an Atenean makes me feel proud and happy. As I look back at my days at the Ateneo, it’s always a mix of different emotions and certainly I am very happy of the way I spent my four years there. I am blessed with all the friends I have gained. I have built long lasting friendships with the best people on earth. I joined different organizations and I am glad that I was given the chance to help other people. Certainly, not a single moment was wasted. Not a single experience I would not love to repeat. Not a single tear of sadness or happiness, I would have regretted. The whole experience was so complete that I could not have asked for more. And the best way to end the whole journey is finding the person you’ve been waiting for so long and yet still graduating with honors. How’s that for a finale huh? :)

The former title of this blog was Wishing Feathers. It represents my wishes a year ago when I started blogging. Some of my wishes came true and a lot more didn’t. Yet I continue to dream even more and just add more to the list. Because life is just like that - a bucket of wishes that when you wake up each day, you hope and pray that each one will come true at last. You live your day one at a time, climbing that ladder of success to reach your goals. Wishes make life a whole lot of fun...yet painful too, when it seems that wishes cannot be granted to you. But that’s the beauty of life and I am not at all afraid of it. I welcome everything that I experience as a gift of life, a lesson to be learned… And as I journey more to this crazy, happy, challenging world, I will still be bringing my bucket of wishes, hoping that each one will come true one at a time. See? Wishes never end! :)

I miss my friends

i miss my friends.. both HS and college friends.. :( I haven't seen my high school barkada for quite some time now and i admit that i really miss all of them. I'm thinking of inviting them next week to celebrate my birthday. haha :) I don't have much news about them and I am eager to hear many of their stories and gossips once more :p

I miss my block and org friends (it's hard to list all their names here). I am always in school (maybe twice or thrice a week) but it's all different now. I don't see the same faces in school anymore and this reminds me that everything is not the same anymore... :(

blogging and work

I like blogging because whenever I feel lonely or depressed, letting it all out on a journal entry somehow eases the pain. But on the other hand, I am holding back... trying to screen out first the words I am writing... There's always the fact that anyone can read it and I am afraid that I might be able to write something that I would be regretting afterwards. I really want to write about something right now...but I think I'd better not to. :p

Anyway, I am now in the point in my life when I begin to make real-life choices.I mean the kind of decisions that would somehow make or break me.I may be exaggerating a bit but that's how it feels. I always say that my first job won't be my last but hey,i might be wrong too. And I feel that my first job would really be a big factor on the career that I would soon be building. And it scares me that up to now I am still clueless on that. Being unemployed sucks. It makes me feel like I am worthless or my Ateneo education is not really that helpful after all.. Sigh..

But I am NOT the kind of person who gives up easily...so tomorrow is my job hunt! Watch out Makati! :p

because it's the love month :p

Love (Cor 1 13:1-13)

I may not be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains – but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have and even give up my body to be burned – but if I have no love, this does me no good.

Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.

Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; but when what is perfect comes then what is partial will disappear.

When I was a child, my speech, feelings and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways. What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. what I know now is only partial; then it will be complete – as complete as God’s knowledge of me.

Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love.

Is it you?

Is it you?
by Cassie

I'm looking for a lover not a friend
Somebody who can be there when I need someone to talk to
I'm looking for someone who won't pretend
Somebody not afraid to say the way they feel about you

And I'm looking for someone who understands how I feel,
Someone who can keep me real and who knows always
Baby I like to have you in my way
And I'm looking for someone who takes me there,
Wants to share, shows he cares
Thinking on the one that I've been waiting for

Is it you? is it you?
Maybe you're the one
I've been waiting for
Could you be the one for me?
Could you be the one I need?

Is it you? is it you?
Maybe you're the one I've been waiting for
Could you be the one for me? (Could you be?)
Could you be the one I need?

I'm looking for someone to share my pain (Uh)
Someone who I can run to, who would stay with me when it rains
Someone who I can cry with through the night
Someone who I can trust who's hardest right
And I'm looking for someone

And I'm looking for someone who understands how I feel,
Someone who can keep me real and who knows always

Baby I like to have you in my way
And I'm looking for someone who takes me there,
Want to share, shows he cares
Thinking on the one that I've been waiting for

Is it you? is it you?
Maybe you're the one I've been waiting for
Could you be the one for me?
Could you be the one I need?

Is it you? is it you?
Maybe you're the one I've been waiting for
Could you be the one for me?
Could you be the one I need?

Take for grant
How much I care (How much I care)
And appreciates that I'm there
Someone who listens
And someone I can call who isn't afraid of thought to share

Is it you? is it you?
Maybe you're the one I've been waiting for
Could you be the one for me?Could you be the one I need?

Is it you? is it you?
Maybe you're the one I've been waiting for
Could you be the one for me?Could you be the one I need?

LSS

Artist:	Rihanna
Album:	Good Girl Gone Bad
Title:	Hate That I Love You

feat. Ne-Yo

Yeaah
heyy heyy

That's how much I love you (yeah)
That's how much I need you (yeah yeah yeah)

And I can't stand you
Must everything you do make me wanna smile?
And then I like you for a while
No...

But you won't let me
You upset me girl and then you kiss my lips
All of a sudden I forget that I was upset
Can't remember what you did

But I hate it
You know exactly what to do so that I can't stay mad at you for too long
That's wrong but I hate it

You know exactly how to touch
So that I don't wanna fuss and fight no more
Said I despise that I adore you

And I hate how much I love you boy (yeah)
I can't stand how much I need you (I need you)
And I hate how much I love you boy (ohh)
But I just can't let you go
And I hate that I love you so (ooh)

And you completely know the power that you have
The only one that makes me laugh
Sad and it's not fair
How you take advantage of the fact that I...
Love you beyond a reason why (whyyy)
And it just ain't right

And I hate how much I love you girl
I can't stand how much I need you (yeah yeah)
And I hate how much I love you girl
But I just can't let you go
And I hate that I love you so

One of these days maybe your magic won't affect me
And your kiss will make me weak
But no one in this world
Knows me the way you know me
So you'll probably always have a spell on me...

yeahhhhh ohhhh ohhh
oh yeah

It's how much I love you
It's how nuch I need you
It's how much I love you (ohh)
It's how much I need you
And I hate that I love you
Sooooo
And I hate how much I love you boy
I can't stand how much I need you
And I hate how much I love you boy
But I just can't let you go
And I hate that I love you soo
And I hate that I love you soo sooo



happy valentine's day! :)

tarot card reading

I am not really into fortune-telling, but i think it is pretty interesting. Somehow it can serve you as a guide. Anyway, i had my fortune-telling session yesterday at Kaingin room. The cards below were the cards that i drew from the deck. The first two are the exact ones (exactly the same drawing ) but the last two are not (they are the same cards, though the drawings were different because these are not fey tarot cards).

In general, the result was good. Though, as you can see, the third card is pretty interesting. haha
Anyway, my question is about myself in relation to someone..gets? :p

"our" past

"our" present

My Near Future

My Future/ Outcome