Year-Ender Special

Through God, the Year 2008 brought many joy, prosperity, achievement and enough challenges in my life.

I have been blessed. My family has been blessed. My love ones and friends were blessed too.

Truly, God bestowed his wonderful blessings this Year 2008 which I am very thankful and grateful of.

Thank you Lord!

Here’s the summary of what happened this Year 2008.

January
15:God blessed me with another year to celebrate.
20: We celebrated Hone’s birthday
22: Start of my class for the 2nd Term

Feb
3: Mama’s birthday bash.
9-10: We attended Jinna and Othan’s Wedding in Tagaytay

March
8: Sheryl and Art’s Wedding Day held in Shangri-La.

April
1-5: End of 2nd Term
12-13: 25th Anniversary of Papa and Mama held in Batangas
Mid: Trained the INV5 Batch 3

May
4: Marga’s Birthday Celebration
Mid: Trained the INV5 Batch 4
Last Week: Start of My 3rd Term

June
2nd: INV5 Team Building in Batangas

July
Mid: Turnover of Gerald to Ruel
Mid: Change of Schedule to Night Shift, 10pm to 7am

August
2nd: Issue with Credito
22: Star City with Hone
29: Dinner with HS Barkada

September
6: Start of 4th Term in DLSU
Mid: Farewell Uel; Team up of ATO Appeals/Reactive and INV5

October
18: Star City with Ceragem Staff
26: Tiffany’s birthday/dedication in Mc Donalds; Transfer to TCC
30: Hone and Sweet’s 3rd Anniversary

November
2: Back to Morning Shift
16: Papa’s birthday celebration in Sbarro, SM NorthEdsa

December
11-13: Christmas Shopping
18-19: Check-up in Medical Plaza and Makati Medical Center
20: INV5 Team Building at Red Box
22: Diurnals at Medical Plaza with Dr. Abesamis-Dichoso
25: Meeting of Tan-Mosquera Family
31: New Year's Eve Celebration

Christmas 2008

It's the time of the year when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. A beautiful prayer has been uttered by my dad at 12:00 am and I'm really thankful that God has blessed our family throughout the Year.

We had many foods on the table and I can't help but to compare our dining to the dining I saw in Junior's house. Of course, I do not want to reiterate that they are poor, what I want to reiterate is that our family received so many blessings and we should be thankful to God for bestowing us all these bountiful blessings. Without HIM, we're nothing.

It's great that some of my mom's relatives spent Christmas with us. It was a blessed Christmas. Thank you, lord for giving Jesus Christ to us. Jesus, Happy Birthday!:)

After a couple of hour, we all went to sleep for the morning's event. I set-up my alarm at 5:30am. God gave me a wonderful and enough sleep.

Woke up at 6:15 and I crammed 'coz I'm about to cook the Carbonara recipe of Kuya Alex. I had all the ingredients but I was not sure of what to do. I was really clueless. Anyway, I just started doing things like chopping the onions, garlic and carrots, boiling the chicken, pre-cook the bacon, etc, etc... I wasn't sure of what the outcome will be... 7:30 came, my Papa woke up, followed by my Mama. I was still in the kitchen, cooking. Lots of stuff to do. At 8:00, I was done, I asked them to taste it and they all agreed that it tasted good. I hoped they're telling the truth, 'coz that's the food I'm going to serve later for our meryenda.

I texted Hone to come immediately as we are bringing 2 cars.

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When he arrived, we immediately, fueled our van and picked his parents in their house, then went back home to picked Kisha and Lola. Then, we proceeded in Elysian, our house in Bulacan.

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When we got there, the house was closed and we didn't have the key. Good thing that just a few minutes, the caretaker of the house immediately arrived and opened the house for us. Soon after, my parents also arrived. It was mingle time for Michael and Mine's family. His parents were kind and soft-spoken. I know my parents liked them as well. Aside from the fact that they wanted someone to look after the house they also like the idea that they no longer have to pay for the caretaker, plus their relationship with Michael's family is being strengthened. I just pray that there will be no problems between them. They also ate my "carbonara", again, recipe of Kuya Alex. I'm glad they liked it, as well as the leche flan of Tingky, the cookies and brownies I've brought. They also brought my favorite spread- tuna spread. It was a fun Christmas Day with them.

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We had our lunch in my Uncle's house. My cousins on my father side were there, together with their kids. Funny thing was when we arrived, they we're like confused as to why I was there-- haha, all along they thought I was already in UK. I told them, that's it's only in friendster and how I wish I'm already out of this country.

As usual, they prepared so many foods. Foods flooded. Stomachs full.

My inaanak, Jaya, have grown so fast, she's now a teen and I can't help reminisce the days when I still held her in my arms when she was a baby. Goodthing, I've altered my gift to her.:)

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From there, the van and the other car splitted. Hone together with his family and my lola went home while mom and dad had to go somewhere else pa.

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The day ended so well.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Let's celebrate for the savior is born!

To Hone for our 3rd Anniversary

I made it special for Hone. I collected all our memories for Year 2008. We're blessed to have each other. I love you Hone with all of my heart.

Last Day in EBP

It was as if we were living our last day. Somehow, it's true. It feels sad that I have to leave the place which has become my "cradle" for 2 years, 2 months and 18 days.


EBP has brought comfort in me. It's location. It's facilities. The establishment around. The people in there. It has been my second home. I’ve been comfortable transferring from 21st floor down to basement, back to 21st and up to 26th. Surely, I’ll miss eating in Jollibee, Chowking, KFC, Mc Donald’s Red Ribbon, Tapa King and the ever-famous Mini-stop of all time which never closed in any holiday.

Tingky, Carla, Grace, Chan and Cathy and Lhen had some picture moments. Check it out:

I’ll definitely miss EBP, but I know that everytime I’ll be visiting again this place, it would always feel “Home”.

Mama and Papa's Silver Anniversary

We went in Batangas with Hone to celebrate my parent's Anniversary
Here's the video I made:

Trip in Tagaytay

After waking up, bathing and eating, we left Jinna's mom. Then, Hone and I explored Tagaytay on our own without any car. Yeys. Here are the pix: