P A T C C

This year has been amazing to me.
Started the year being legal but ironic how I never got a driver's license, a voting ID and stuff adults tell you to comply when you turn 18. I like the driving lessons part but I guess I have to go through school first while envy my other friends through Instagram.

I've had adventures over the summer with my classmates. Going out on a trip to a nearby island without parents for the first time made me feel a bit uneasy at first, but it turned out not as bad as i thought. Then I begin to get addicted to it I'm willing to be on the beach on my own.  My first international trip was also a good first of the making of an aspiring traveler. I got myself lost in the city of Macau with no communication leaving me an empty pocket and a good memory to lead me back home. From that it taught me a lot of things. There are times that I feel reckless and free I'm just glad it happened to me

I  had a great Christmas. I wasn't expecting presents at all. I was trying this thing called "giving until it hurts" from the feeding project we had with the indigenous and street people. At the end of the day, it feels fulfilling to give what we have and not asking for any return at all. Noble work.

I almost concluded that this was to be the worst year ever. There was a point that almost everyone hates me and I feel all screwed up I don't know what to do to fix it. Eventually everything was fine and things followed well and good.

2013 had been good, bad and ugly. Overall it's a year to celebrate! Have an amazeballs year ahead guys!

Reading Waking up in the late dawn missing the last Dawn Mass, missing a good plane fare for summer vacation and having a bad sleep is not one of the things that you don't want to happen on a Christmas eve. Today was supposed to be a day full of cheer and be festive and getting excited to wear your new red dress and admit it, showing it off in a crowd of church goers during the midnight mass. But still, the universe is still the same hairy guy pulling out its tantrums on us and constant mood swings.

I was reading Thanksgiving post from aiaaaa.net and it inspired me to feel grateful. Let's try to scratch that and be on the greener grass. So instead of sticking a middle finger up in the air, why not thank a few things that constantly reminds us how we are extremely blessed.

• For parents who not only sends us to school but sends "I love you" messages as well.
• High school buddies who never fails to give abdominal cramps due to excessive laughter
• College buddies for the copies of American sitcoms, season by season.
• For indie music that reminds me to be reckless at times.
• 8Tracks who keeps me up at 3 in the morning.
• Oh, and you too coffee. Yes I love you too.
• Cheap airline fares making a poor aspiring traveler's dreams come true.
• Amusement parks and my undying love for Disney
• Frank Sinatra Christmas music for giving me the "Christmas with dad" feels.
• Percy Jackson
• The existence of tinting lip balm and everything that makes me effortlessly attractive.
• Ateneo for the wonderful college year
• Carlos for blabbing so much about you. Even if you're out of topic, he never fails to share what he learns from the internet with his distracting hair.
• Mitch Albom for the tear-jerking books 
• For last minute instincts and ending the day with imaginary glass cheers.
• S&R for everything American.
• Pizza who understands me at all times.
• Keepsakes for welcoming me with your cheap buffalo wings.
• Two Door Cinema Club for making me promise I'd lose my concert virginity to them one day.
• Java Jive where everything started.
• The guy playing drums at Timezone playing September which became our song.
• To every stranger who have been a fiber of my life 

Most things may be shitty, but the sparkles are the ones who always shine bright. Have a Merry Christmas everyone! :)

 Last Friday my friend Johanna and I went to the 3-day Christmas bazaar in Davao Convention Center on its first day. We were drooling over the clothes on sale, crafty goodies (I went insane over the washi tapes) and found the best red cheesecake bars and can't stop talking about it.

We got married and had dark cheesecake kids.

We got no money as much as we wished to bring home some stuff so we promised ourselves to go back the next day with  our moms. Scored myself an outfit worth Php200 from Soul, two washi tapes, three sample of whitening soaps (HAHA I GET IT!!!) and a ham. I'm digging bazaars so much I think I should put it on my yearly calendar and save up for it.

My definition of a Sunday is getting stressed with school works, as usual. Not the chill type of person because I make last decision work. Might as well change my routine by relaxing by the pool. Witnessing a periwinkle sky was the best part.

The previous week was pretty sluggish as time moves so slow. I still can't believe I cried my eyes out in class (ugh something terrible happened) and been in my school blues. But call me lucky for having friends, family and a boyfriend of keeping up with me and surprisingly take me on a picnic night date with glowsticks!!!!