Tita Mila

Tita Mila is also my sister's mom.

Thanks Tita Mila for being there. For always opening your home to the whole family. For always being helpful to all of us.

Thanks for reaching out to us. For reaching out to me. Thank you for accepting me and Kd. I really appreciate you giving Kd a gift for Christmas as well. It really means a lot.

Thanks Tita Mila, today is for you :)

Tita Ceci

Tita Ceci is 1 of my mom's sister.

Hey Tita Ceci, thanks for always being present. I mean yeah, you're always in every family affair and you always try hard to stay awake even if it's very late already. Just so you can spend time with us.

Thank you Tita Ceci. I remember before, when I was a lot younger, like 6 or 7, I go to your house when I was sick. You take care of me before when no one can stay at home with me while I was sick. That was just a few times but hey, thanks nonetheless.

Thank you for being so funny especially when I introduce you to the few friends that I have introduced to you.

I know I have not told you but I am grateful that you are a part of my life.

Thanks, Tita Ceci. Today is for you :)

Oh, and happy birthday! Tomorrow, the 31st is your birthday pala!

Thank you, Ate Tin!

2 for 2! Ate Tin is my 2nd and last cousin in my mom's side. We're a pretty small family.

Thanks, Ate Tin for reaching out to me by talking to me every time we see each other. I understand that our age difference may make it difficult to find a common ground but we do anyway.

Like Ate Pat, thank you for accepting Kd and I. It means a lot that my few close family members are okay with how I am. I actually think that that is enough for me to not care about what everyone else is going to think and say.

So there, thank you. Today is for you :)

Thank you, Ate Pat!

Ate Pat is 1 of the 2 cousins that I have in my mom's side.

Thank you, Ate Pat for sharing your life and yourself to the family. For genuinely wanting to make all of us a part of you. For passionately sharing your hobby, photography, with all of us. Thanks for the photos that otherwise, none of us will be able to take. Thank you for the laughs and for the fun times.

Thank you for being okay with how I am. Thanks for accepting me and Kd as well. I really appreciate how you always extend invitations to Kd for all our family affairs.

Thanks, Ate Pat. Today is for you :)

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Thanks everyone! :)

Jecko.

Well.. Thanks Jecko. Because if it were not for you, I would not start this blog. Haha. Pongfreak is almost turtlefreak. Pong pagong. Haha so there.. Anyway.. Thanks.

Thank you for walking into my life and for staying.. For a bit. You taught me a lot. A lot about life and a lot about myself. I am grateful that you walked in to my life at the time that you did. I think that I am where I am now, happy, because of you. Not entirely though, but significantly for sure.

Thank you, because if it were not for you, I would not have known how to decipher between WHO's real and who's NOT.

Today is for you.

Sister-in-law

Jom is my brother's wife.

Thank you , Jom for being how you are. Thanks for taking care of my brother and making it easy for him to fit into your family especially when you guys were newly married.

Thanks for being kind to the family. For being accepting. I dunno if you're passive or accepting but whatever it is, thank you for being how you are.

Thank you for your effort to reach out to us.

Thanks, Jom. Today is for you ;)

Norman Morales

Norman is one of my village friends, a busmate, classmate and schoolmate.

I remember being in your house everyday every summer. Thank you for welcoming me into your home. At that time, parang 2nd family ko na yung family niyo. I also got close with your 2 sisters, Arianne and Yel.

So there, thank you for also making my childhood normal. Haha!

I have spoken to you recently and just found out that you are assigned in Clark already and that you work as an engineer with an airline. Intense! Imagine mo, we used to just play with pellet guns and bikes before and then now engineer ka na?!! Haha! Proud of you, Norms!

See you around! Today is for you ;)

Dashteen.

Konsehal Dustin de Guzman. Haha kainis, konsehal!

Anyway, thanks for being there. Especially during college. You had your issues but you were still a friend. Haha! Hay nako Dustin! You're like a brother to me. A really bad brother. Haha! I'm thankful though that you're my friend because at least I have an idea of how guys really are. Alam na!

Thanks for being the friend and brother that you are! :)

Inked again. 01/22/11

In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.

The Weekend for a Couple

Missed blogging again yesterday. Anyway, this weekend is for the couple that is the reason why I have my best friend, Tita Judy Anne and Tito Dioey. Bianca's parents.

Bianca became my best friend in grade 6. At that time, it would be impossible to become Bianca's friend and not be friends with her mom, Tita Judy.

Thank you, Tita, for everything. For the laughter and the joy that you brought to me and to the barkada. For always being so cool and hip. To this day, I must admit, you are the coolest mom that I have ever known. Thank you for the forgiveness. I was not always the best friend that a mom would want for her daughter but thank you nonetheless for the love and the acceptance.

It may be a little too late for this because you are in a better place now, but I want everyone to know how you were. And though I cannot sum everything up in this blog entry, at least I can give whoever a little idea about how great you were as a mom and a friend to all of us.

Thank you, Tito Dioey, for the few but significant talks that we've had. I appreciate your inputs on the options that I have for myself. Like studying and working in the U.K. and stuff like that.

Thank you guys, because if it were not for you two, I would not have a best friend :)

Nana

Nana was like a mother to me. Not just me actually, my mom, maybe even my dad, my mom's siblings, my siblings, my siblings' kids. Lahat na.

She was a one-man team at home -doing everything from babysitting to cooking to supervising the other helpers to grocery shopping and everything else that was needed to be done to run the house.

Thank you Nana for the guidance and the love that you have given all of us. For offering your life to look out for the family. For always seeing to it that everything that we needed, especially while we were young, was in place.

Thanks for making it possible for Mom and Dad to work as hard as they did. For making it possible for them to stay in the office to work for money to feed us, school us and provide for all our needs. If it were not for you, Mom will most likely be forced to stay at home to take care of us. If that happened, Mom and Dad will not be able to save and invest as much as they did to be able to give us a comfortable life until now.

I understand that you will never get to read this anymore since you are up there in a happier place. But I just want to thank you, for whatever it is worth. If it is worth anything at all. I just want the world to know, if the world cares at all, that for the first 14 years of my life, I had a Nana that cared for me and loved me. A Nana that looked out for me while my parents were working hard for the family.

I will see you again, Nana. After I make you proud of me. I know you want me to be Ms. Universe but looking at how things are with me now and how I am.. Well, that seems to be out of this world. But I know I will still make you proud. Wait and see ;)

Thank you, Nana. Today is for you :)

Mica Singson

I think Mica was my first ever best friend. I'm not so sure. They lived right in front of our house. I can surely remember though that I always crossed the street to play with her, her brother JL and sister, Tara.

Thanks, Mica. I think I had a normal childhood partly because of you and your family. You see, I grew up like a semi only child. My sister is 13 years older than I am and my brother, 10 years. So I was the only kid at home.

It was cool that I had playmates almost the entire day but did not have to suffer sibling rivalries. Very steady diba?

So there, thanks Mica :)

P.S. I do not have an idea where you are now but maybe 1 of these days, you'll see this.

P.S.P.S. Let me know in case you do! ;)

His name is Radium.

Pang Ieong is his complete name. His English name is Radium. Radium is my classmate at the graduate school in DLSU. He is Chinese (pure, I think) and he came here to the Philippines to study. He has a hard time speaking English but I love how he tries his best to still reach out to me and our other classmates.

Thank you Radium for being so helpful and kind. For sharing with me the information about our lessons that you know. For sharing with me whatever materials you have available. I never felt that you hesitated to share whatever it is that you think you can help me with.

I really appreciate that you told me you really want to help me because you think that of all the people you got to know here in the Philippines, you thought I was one of the good people. It's not everyday that people say that to me.

We'll go through these review days for WCE and I am positive that if we help each other, we'll get through this.

Thanks again, Radium. Today is for you :)

Thanks, Deboy.

Deboypalaboy ;)

Thank you for keeping me sane during our Practicum days. Wild, that was 6 terms with TOD Corp.! Haha! Thanks for saving my ass whenever I fell through in terms of my responsibilities. I have always felt that we were looking out for each other.

Thanks for listening to me. SHOCKS! I remember how I loved to talk to you because you were so interested to find out what was happening to me. Haha conceited ko lang pala. But yeah, super thanks for everything, man!

And gawd, thanks for still being okay with me when half the block was dissing me. Haha. Nakatawa nalang remembering it now.

College would not be the same without you so thank you! :)

Question:

What is it that makes a happy life?

3 Boys/Brothers/Loves

I was not able to blog last Saturday and Sunday so today, I will thank 3 people. Just so there will be sort of a theme, I'll thank my 3 guy friends whom I could consider my brothers: Marc, Ben and Inno.

Marc --

Thanks for the infinite number of rides that I hitched with you. For all the times that you listened to me rant and rant about the same things. For all the interesting conversations. Interesting daw :p Thanks for all the comfort that you always offer. Comfort when I was down, when I'm unsure, comfort whenever I am not confident enough. You were the one who had little to say but always gave the most comfort. Yung temang, "Mong is here, everything will be okay". Thank you Marc Ong! For being the friend that you are to me and to everyone :)

Ben --

Thanks for being a reminder that life can always be lived with humor. Maybe you don't know and I am sure that I haven't told you this but you are someone that knows how to have fun and still be able to attend to your responsibilities. I mean we all do that but I think that you are able to do it more gracefully. Parang never ka na-stress. Haha. Thank you too for being honest to me and to all of us. Thank you for being real, so real as to admit that you are lost. So real as to admit everything to all of us. You remind me that there will always be real people in the world. And of course, thanks for all the crazy moments. Haha, nothing beats! ;)

Inno --

Thanks for always being there. For sharing with me the things that you have shared in the few years that we have known each other. I appreciate your insights when it comes to business and investments. It's funny how our conversations changed through the years. Thank you for always being truthful. You were never the type to just say what you think I want to hear. That means a lot :)


Thank you Loves! :)

Thanks, J!

Janina became one of my closest friends in college beginning our 2nd year at DLSU. I dunno how it all happened but what matters now is that she is one of the people that I consider the closest to me. Today is for her.

First off, thanks for lending me your laptop while we are here in Cebu right now. Haha, I would not be able to work on some work-related stuff and blog if it weren't for you.

Thanks for being mothergoose in almost all of our trips. Thanks for always taking care of booking flights, hotel rooms and everything else. I dunno how our trips will be if it were not for your planning skills. Yehess!

Thanks for always being okay with whatever I want to do. I mean I know we were never the type to actually stop each other from doing stuff but I never felt that you were against anything. You were just there, ever willing to talk. Thanks for making me feel that I never have to be anyone but myself around you.

Thanks for the laughs and the crazy times. Things would be really different if you're not around. Medyo mas tahimik ng konti, haha!

Thank you for being how you are because if it were not for that, then I would not find the friend that I found in you.

Today's for you :)

Life is Like Coffee

Thank you for the person who sent this to me :)

http://www.flickspire.com/m/MrPositive/LifeIsLikeCoffee

Little Big Guy

Today is for a 5-year old little big guy. His name is Drew. Drew is the youngest kid of my sister.

I would like to thank you for being the kid that you are. Your presence at home has colored my life in many different ways. You are very different from any kid I ever knew. Well I have not known a lot of kids in my life but you know what I mean. You are witty and intelligent beyond your age. That makes me a really proud aunt. Thank you for they joy that you bring to the family, like Andy and Dion.

We have a long life to live together and I know I will get to see you grow into a drummer, singer, guitarist, boxer and whatever else you want to become. Whatever it is you want to become, I will just be here for you.

Thanks again!

I dunno when you will be able to read this but I want to thank you nonetheless. January 12's thank yous are for you Drew :)

Toes, NIECE, Shoulders, Head.

Today is 01.11.11. Random!

Today is for my niece, Andy.

Ands, thank you for the joy that you give to us at home. Thank you for the simple gifts that you make for all of us. Your thoughtfulness always reminds me that more often than not, it's the simple things that matter the most.

You may not know it, but you ease my tiredness or frustration whenever you give me your little notes that have thank yous and I love yous in them.

Thank you for your simple gestures that can complete my day sometimes :)

Thank you for your sweetness and innocence that you share to us.

Today is yours ;)

My First Ever Nephew

Dion was born when I was in Grade 4 I think.. That was 1997.
I was not aware of a lot of things back then but I know I learned a lot when Dion came along and I suddenly became the sort of big sister that I never was.

January 10 is yours Dion. Although I dunno if you will care now or at all. I will thank you anyway.

Thanks for coming into our lives on that 2nd day of July 1997. Things were different after you came. We all adjusted to you, the youngest human being at home. I myself have adjusted, too. I stopped watching TV late because you were sleeping. I learned to change diapers, feed a baby and make milk (I was Grade 4, would you believe it?). I know though that the things I learned will never be useful because as far as I know, I won't have kids anyway. But I am thankful for you nonetheless because it is the little things that get us ready for bigger things. I would want to believe that I am responsible enough to be given real responsibilities now. And I think I can say that having you in my life has somehow taught me to be responsible.

Hey Dion, today is for you ;)

Grateful to Have a Brother-in-Law

Almost everyone gets to have a brother-in-law. Not all may be living with their brother-in-laws though. And that's why I think I'm sort of different. I live in the same house with my sister's entire family. It's chaotic but still fun. It'll be dead silent here at home without kids but that is a different story altogether.

Today, I will thank my brother-in-law, Kuya Dino.

Thank you for the favors you've done for me especially when I was not driving yet. There were a couple of times that you brought me to school, to a gimmick, a friends house and whatnot.

Thanks for cooking for the family. I mean, I think you are the only 1 in the 9 people here at home that has the patience to cook. Well, you and Mom ;)

Thanks for taking care of my sister and for providing for her needs and even wants. Thank you for trying your best to provide my sister, niece and nephews the life that you think they deserve.

Thanks for your willingness to help me with directions, tech stuff or whatever.

Thanks for accepting Kd and I. I honestly don't know if you accepted us just because you have no choice or because you just really do but whatever it is, thank you.

Today's for you ;)

8s!

Thank you for your open-mindedness.

Thank you for always telling me that it's alright to be real. That actually, being real is the only acceptable thing. That it is the only option that we have so that we could be really happy. You did not say these things to me but I know I learned these from you.

Thank you for always guiding me.. For always trying to look out for me in terms of the people that I let into my life. For being straightforward with me about the people who you think are good friends and those that are not.

Thanks for saving my ass a thousand and one times.

I know that there may be things that I will never understand but I will always be grateful that I have an Ate like you.

Today is for you ;)

Dear Kuy.

Kuy, thanks for being such an inspiration.

As far as I can remember, I have always wanted to be like you.
I saw that you were always so good at what you do. Especially your job.
I remember that I sort of decided that I wanted to be in sales primarily because of you. Heard from your stories and saw with what you were doing that hard work will always, always payoff one way or another.

I learned from you too that relationships with people in and outside of work matters because we will never know when we will have to work with them.

You taught me the importance of patience and understanding. You were patient with teaching me how to be patient especially with issues about Mom and Dad before. I was a kid who did not understand what our parents wanted for me and you were there to try to explain.

Thanks for teaching me whatever there is that you could teach me about business, work, investments and life in general.

Thank you, Kuy, for being the big brother that you are to me. Today's for you :)

Pillows are Hard to Find

Pillow a.k.a. Miggy Dizon

I have known you forever. You have been my bus mate since I was in grade 1.. I think.
But I never really got to talk to you and get to know you.
Not until about 2 years ago.

Thank you for not minding that I shared my whole life to you in an hour. Considering that that was our first real conversation. EVER.

Thank you for listening to me even if for about 2 or 3 weeks I was just saying the same things over and over and over again.

Thank you for always being available. I'd call, text or chat you up and you were always there.

Thank you for seeing the real person in me despite my being so wasted during those times.

Thank you for the words that you said that really helped me to keep myself together.

Now, I am perfectly okay. You made me believe that when God takes someone away and it hurts so much, He makes sure that a friend will be there to help with the hurt.

Thank you, Pillow! :)

Best Friend Love

Thanks, Biancs.

For always being there for me.
Even if I'm not the most supportive person all the time.
Thanks for always listening to me and understanding me.
Thanks for always answering my calls and replying when I text.
For coping with my moods and my issues.
I hope that I could always make you happy and be the friend that you deserve.
Thanks for taking care of the kids here at home if nobody cannot babysit them. That's really something.
Thanks for adopting Bruno :( I'm still sad that he cannot live with me anymore.
I am beyond grateful that you are how you are with me.

I will always be here for you as you have been there for me ;)

Kilo Delta.

"We belong together
like the open seas and shores
wedded by the planet's force
we've all been spoken for"

Thank you, K.D.

For choosing to share the past 26 months of your life with me.
For choosing to stay with me even if you may have had all the reasons to leave.
For waiting for me to get home every night.
For never minding if I sleep with my back facing you.
For all the eating sessions that we've enjoyed and will continue to enjoy so much.
For our movie "dates" ;)
For using a Blackberry just because I want us to BBM.
For reaching out to me and to my family.
For still being okay with me even if I spend so much I get broke sometimes.
For going to the beach with me even if you don't really like going to the beach.
For always considering me when you decide about something.
For all the comfort and assurance that you always give me.

Thank you Babe, for making life easier and bearable for me.

You make me want to be better.

Today's thank you is for you :)

Hey, Dad.

Thank yous are all for you today.

Thank you for the endless hatid-sundo. Even if I have a car now, you always ask me if I want to ride with you going to wherever or if I want to be picked up somewhere. It is always good to have someone always willing to get me or bring me to wherever.. For as long as there are directions ;)

Thank you for always trying to understand me even if I am not the easiest human being to understand.

Thank you for always injecting humor into all the conversations that we have.

Thank you for always being so bubbly and happy. You are contagious, believe me.

Thank you for loving Mom as much as you do. Through your love for her, we saw how it is to love and we learned how to love.

Thank you for your service to everyone of us at home. You are supposed to be the one we are serving but until now, you are the one who does most of the serving in the house.

Thanks for not giving up on me. Like Mom, you loved me at my worst.

Thank you for believing in me so much Dad. During the times that I doubt myself, you believed in me and the things that I can do.

I am thankful that I have a Dad like you.

January 2 is yours, Mom.

You are always there to love me unconditionally.

For the thousand times that I hurt you because of the things that I do and yet you still manage to tell me, "please stop, you might hurt yourself, I don't want that because I love you."

For the endless reminders you give me and I sometimes think are useless but always end up finding out that they are all true.

For always praying for me and assuring me that everything will eventually fall into place.

For teaching me the value of always choosing to do what is right and and standing by my principles.

For showing us that it is not in what you do but in how well you do what you are supposed to do. That no matter how small the task, if we just try our best to do it perfectly, that will spell a lot of difference already.

For accepting me. I know you are hurting somehow but because you love me, you accept me. You want me to be happy and you know that if you accept me, that will mean a lot to me.

For loving those I love. For accepting my friends and the people I let into my life.

I know you feel that you have not done enough and that there is more that you could have done, but Mom, look at us, your family. We are here, alive and happy. And it is mainly because of you.

Thank you for preparing my food, keeping my documents for me, helping me in whatever way you can. For gassing up my car sometimes, paying for my toll, treating me for breakfast, lunch or dinner. For our one-on-one talks when I drive you to and from work. For the secrets that you share with me about your work and whatnot.

Thanks for always answering all my calls and talking to me when I call you because I feel bad about something at work or school or whatever.

Thank you for understanding and loving me and being patient with me, for never giving up on me. Thank you that at my worst, you loved me.

I see and feel God's love in you.

January 2 is yours, Mom, thank you.

Thank you, Lord.

First off, thank you, Lord.

Thank you that I am even here to be thankful.

Thank you for the people that you have sent to my life for me to even think of doing this project. I am doing this project, thanking 365 people, because I know that there are at least 365 people that you sent to my life to make a difference.

Thank you for ---
*the gift of life
*the gift of family and love
*the gift of friendship, patience, understanding and acceptance
*the gift of peace --that I am able to sleep well at night
*Your providence and protection for my family and I
*good health
*my job and my education
*the love of my life, KD
*giving me a heart of kindness and compassion
*making me as human as possible --with pain, hurt and sorrow
*keeping my feet on the ground
*saving me from myself
*calling me by name

January 1 is Yours, Lord. I will begin this project by thanking You.

Thank you for giving me a grateful heart.

2011 Project

For 2011, I will thank 1 person everyday the entire year.
That's 365 people that I will thank 1 at a time in each entry.
I just want the attitude of gratitude on record.
I guess I can never go wrong with a long or short thank you note.

It will include God, family, friends, current and past office mates, loves, ex-loves.. Anyone!
I know I have a reason to be thankful for each and every person that came and left or stayed in my life.
And so do you! :)