27

Today Im turning 27, 10 years since highschool, 6 years since college, 5 years working.

The younger version of me would have never guessed what Im doing with my life or how I turned out to be. When I was in my teens and early twenties I always thought that I will be having a family of my own when I reach 25 (which many of my friends knew). But here I am 2 years after the 'deadline' still single, not committed and in the wild so to speak.

Im always finding ways to improve myself (maybe not physically...), I try not to be bound in my comfort zone, I try to always think out of the box, do adventure and experience life, seeing new places and meeting new friends.And yet I always find myself thinking, am I a good son? The answer is maybe, it is a hard question to answer and can only be answered when Im dead, maybe in my eulogy.

As I have written a year ago, my saddest birthday, now that I'm 27 - no more celebration (the food, party stuff). Starting with this birthday I will go to church and thank the lord for giving me another year to grow, maybe treat myself a good lunch or dinner, reply to those who will greet me and that's it, I will call it a day. I have other things in mind - but it is exclusively void of any celebration with many people.

And yes, I am not that scared back then when I was 25 and I asked myself what will I be, right now Im pretty confident that I can be something of some use soon. I will not rush life, but take it a step at a time. As I am getting older (more mature?) I realize that life is a one pass cannot-be-rewind event, so I have to carefully live as what I'd like to live to minimize regrets.

I would like to grab this opportunity to thank those who remembered. :D

Relieved. Relive. Relief

It's finally over!

Another milestone has finished and I'm giving myself a pat in the back for making it. And yet, why do I feel uncertain about the future? Why do I love to be back to the "state" where I previously been? Was it a wrong decision I'd made?

Only the future knows.

But for the moment I'm euphoric for having made it to this point, and it is enough to not think of the worries. I can honestly say that the 21 year old me would have not believed (after 6 years) that I'm here and not over there (to where I imagined myself years ago).

Questions surrounds me more than answers, and life has to go forward. It's not about meticulously planning your life that matters most (in my opinion) but how you react to what's going on in your life that matters most.

I'm relieved that I made something out of my time, my talents and skills.
I'm relieved that I am a part of the society, and not a menace to society.
I'm relieved that I can still do the the things I wanted to do, despite the limitations to which Im currently bound.
I'm relieved that I have true friends.

It always puts a smile on my face whenever I look back, reliving the memories of the not so distant past.

Reliving the memories of my childhood, I can recall that my first memory was when I was 4 years old because I wanted to go with my mother to the baptism of my younger sister.

Reliving the memories when I first went to kindergarten II and crying over to my lolo because I was shy to go inside the classroom.

Reliving the memories of my elementary years where, I am the key holder because I'm always the first one to arrive and maybe a teacher's pet (as some of my classmates zealously accused me of). And that tragic day when I was fooled into turning over the proceeds of the canteen's basket, when 2 kids persuaded me to give them the money because they will be the one to give it to the canteen. That is my first taste of how evil some people are. When I lost a textbook and was afraid to face my grade 4 school teacher. When in Grade 4 I was considered as a fast reader and was the tutor of my other classmates who can't barely read. When in Grade 6, I got the highest NEAT score in my section.

Reliving the memories of my high school years where there was an awkward time meet new friends. When I was part of the top 10 in the first grading and was so proud of it. When hormonal changes, changed the way I looked, my voice, my whole being. When ignorance innocence left me. When some deaths of close family, you value life. When you falll in love but is too young for it. When finally, after you've settled and have your friends, then you know that you'll have to part ways and start a yet new beginning in college.


Reliving the memories of college, and the crazy things I've done. Again meeting new friends, this time though these people have a circle of friends already and it's a bit harder to get into that circle. College life for me is the most challenging since you have this notion that after this hurdle, life is a breeze when you are working on a job in line with what you are studying, but life takes turns not that you know of at that moment.

And finally it is a relief that I'm still here, with all those experiences I've undergone in my life. It really is a blessing on how you've survived and still surviving.
It is a relief that my family is still here.
It is a relief that my friends are still here.
It is a relief that I still find my purpose.
It is a relief that I'm growing mature and not just growing old.

It is a relief that God is still with me.

SpEd 605 Teaching the Hearing Impaired

Our instructor Mr. Acuna coaching us on how to interpret the song "You" by the Carpenters. The week after next we will be having our first song interpretation exam.

Can You Imagine Me Singing and Dancing to This Tune???

hehee, Can you imagine me singing and dancing to this tune?

listen to the song the interesting part starts at 01:23 minutes into the song...

Track 3 - Unknown Artist

Let's Start from Here

Let's Start From Here English - Joanna Wang
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Because Sometimes ... And Yet You Don't

Because sometimes
We are just so near
And yet you dont

Because sometimes
We are side by side
And yet you dont

Because sometimes
We are face to face
And yet you dont

Arts and Crafts (2nd set of activities)

Activity name: Finger-print art.

Instruction: using your fingers with water color, make an impression on the paper and form any shapesyou like (flower in this example). Make sure that the fingerprints are visible (dont overlap or use too much color)

Activity name:Egg shell Collage

Instruction: Using a colored eggshell (dried at least 4 days), make a collage of any shapes that represents something (it was recently Independence Day hence the flag and the map).

Activity name: Window Light Display

Instruction: On a plastic lid (cover of a plastic container), paste cut-outjapanese paper in various shapes (I just used triangle here).Then ornament it with sequence and/or glitters (some did theirs forming some figures, I did just randoming). Wrap a ribbon around the lid and tie it into a knot. You can hang this in the window (it has a stained-glass effect)

Confections of a Workaholic

(a.k.a Why I Love to Work, The Sweet Reasons of Working)

This list is unordered:

1. Money. Money is the root of all evil, and nobody's perfect. Being imperfect leads to being evil and since we are in an imperfect world THEN we need money! (i know my logic is bad...hehehe, but you got the point right?)

2. Friends. no, not the breathing human coworkers. These are those friends you got to talk and share your opinions because they are not there physically. They live inside facebook's chat or in YMs, or inside comment boxes.

3. Surf. Don't want to get wet? But you could get drowned though so be careful.

4. This may sound weird but - I love the sound of typing. The music it makes when my fingers touch the keys of the keyboard, its like a composition without a score. (geeky)

5. Learning - seriously, we work because we WANT to learn, RELEARN, and continue LEARNING and whatever words with LEARN on it.

the love that never was

i can be honest, but cant be true

can be tearfully joyful, yet blue

seek in me the truth, cause all youll see is you

but dont be fooled because that love was never you

yes it was a love that never was

maybe not as tender as our hearts

cause for all these years were through

i did never forget the feeling so true

and in time we'll find our destinies

forgive me and the time I've wasted

fate and faithfully praying

well see each whom we've fated

Joanna's Sendoff

Over a year ago it was me whom my friends sent off, sadly now we're saying adieu to Joanna - Mam Jo, which I can claim is one of the most outstanding employee.

One thing I'm sure about Mam Jo is that she's one of the smartest person I know - I'll bet everyone who knows her would totally agree.

Mam Jo I think everyone already signed your scrapbook, and you know that we are just here for you always. Don't forget us. Pray for us.

Hoping that what you embark on will give you the happiness and joy of following your path. Expect us to visit you one first Sunday sometime!

As tatay Nish wrote on your scrapbook - see you on your next life! ?Whahaha
Seriously, you'll surely be missed.

Future Violinist?

As always, children are amazing! Or at the very least, children always amazes me.

Here is my nephew, barely two (2) years old imitating how to play the violin. There is a story how he learned to imitate the movements of a violinist even though none in our family are musicians nor do we have an actual violin.

YouTube. That's it, that's the explanation why my nephew learned how to "play" the "violin".

It was probably that my mother or one of my siblings watching the music video of Celine Dion's To Love You More that my nephew, Lance, saw and probably liked the tune of it. I realized that children absorbs every information you threw at them like sponge on water. As my mother fondly recalls, my nephew would and still will request the music video once he sees anyone of us using the computer.

Being, so far, the only grandson of my parents - he gets what he wants, or more accurately he gets what his grandparents "thinks" he wants. It was just a matter of days that he got a plastic guitar and stick to fully imitate the violinist.

And Im gonna tell you he really put his feelings in every performance (just look the picture)!

Yes, I miss being a child, no big problems to think about, no immediate future to worry - but hey I'm already digressing.

Lance, enjoy playing your "violin", maybe it is time to learn a new piece?