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Mamayeng's birthday '12
The best lola in the world! So giving! So self-sacrificing! So kulit and fun!
Bye Rhonz!
Our Rhonz was accepted at a company outside the country, yay! We've been praying for this since last year and now the day has come.
We made a surprise visit to her house on the day of her flight. Apparently, she just woke up and hasn't even had time to freshen up. Zet wasn't able to join us though because a relative just died.
Tere made her a little gift to remember us always.
We made a surprise visit to her house on the day of her flight. Apparently, she just woke up and hasn't even had time to freshen up. Zet wasn't able to join us though because a relative just died.
Tere made her a little gift to remember us always.
Pundaquit with Tere and Rhonz
I couldn't wait for summer any longer. So after the getaway that I had with God, I went backpacking with two of my best friends to Zambales.
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| shopping at wet market at 2am |
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| island-hopping |
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| snorkeling for 3 hours |
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| checking out what's the fuss about this Anawangin place |
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| anawangin |
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| sunset at pundaquit |
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| at Capones island |
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| beating the heat at Meat Plus |
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| one of them farted in the heat of the day |
disappointed because the waves are strong in Capones
and it's hard to snorkel
lunch back at the resort
the resort we stayed in
scorching hot
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| you can't leave anawangin without a shot here |
Getaway with God
Last weekend, I was on a getaway with God.
It was an amazing encounter! Felt like a dozen times overwhelming than those group retreats that churches facilitate.
I was shaking in wonder and worship.
What God revealed to me that day deserves its own separate post.
In the meantime, I will never forget this weekend of being alone with God. I am regularly alone with God in my quiet time, but the remoteness of the place makes it all the more special and more impactful. Back in the metro there are hundreds of things that distract me. But when I filed my vacation leave, hopped on a bus to take a 6 hour trip to a place bringing nothing with me but my bible and my blackberry with the network signal turned off containing my downloaded podcasts, God feels so near and so clear.
"I must decrease so He can increase."
- John 3:30
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| Just me, Yourself and the sky. |
Snorkeling!
Growing up in a family where you need to work to eat and you live paycheck to paycheck, I was programmed to believe that leisure is just an unnecessary expense and something to stay away from. A mere suggestion of any type of leisure would earn disapproving looks from the old ones and would bombard you with so many sermons about how life is hard already as it is.
We are born to suffer. We do not deserve any pleasure.
This is one of the areas wherein Jesus shattered a wrong mindset. It all started when my small group buddies Chikee and Doc Genesis took me to a vacation.
Today I took one teenyweeny baby step towards my dream. I can't wait any longer. There's always some bill that gets in the way, some (seemingly always valid) excuse to procrastinate. I don't wanna wake up one day, gray-and-old thinking, "Wait, all this time I actually thought a day will come when there will be no more bills??"
No. So today I NIKE'd it.
"Just do it!"
Hello, summer!
Oh heck. Yes, there's no epiphany or deep revelation or anything on this post...I'm just blogging my ensemble. I don't do this but I guess I am now. :D
Glad I can go to work wearing this. It's so hot outside but I need a jacket or a cardigan because it's so cold in the office.
