This is the Thank You entry

THANK YOU! Sa lahat ng bumati noong birthday ko. :)

Sa biological family ko na love na love na love ako no matter what.
Sa family ko sa Pathways na nagbigay sa akin ng payong na peenk.
Sa mga kasama ko sa ISEW nung 11-12.
Sa OMIOD para sa keyk.
Sa PVolt para sa surprise! Sa cake na ube na muntik na palang madisgrasya, at sa banners! :)
Sa lahat ng nag-text.
Sa lahat ng mga nag-email ng E-card.
Sa lahat ng mga nag-iwan ng offline messages at bumati thru IM.
Sa lahat ng mga nag-iwan ng message sa Friendster, Multiply, at Facebook.

At sa lahat ng aking mga kaibigan, kapamilya, at iba pa, na patuloy akong minamahal, ginagabayan, at pinagdarasal... :)


Maraming salamat sa inyong lahat! :)
Mahal ko kayong lahat. ♥.

This is the Birthday Entry

Dahil nawalan kami ng internet sa bahay, ngayon palang ako makakapagsulat ng "birthday entry" haha, ang sabaw ng tawag. Hayaan niyo na. Walang aangal, blog ko ito.

Anyway.

Gusto ko lang ikuwento ang ISEW, ang TA play, ang birthday day, Convocation, etc.

Hm.

Noong Biyernes hanggang Sabado, nasa ISEW for new non-teaching staff kami ni partner King. Sa Pollock lamang ginawa kasi kaunti lamang naman kami eh. Kaya yun. Maganda naman. Natuwa ako. Para siyang InTACT na para sa bagong non-teaching staff. I was refreshed on the different Jesuit and Ignatian matters. I was reminded of "the Ateneo way," and yun. Parang mahihirapan na ako umalis sa sistema ng Ateneo kung sakaling ma-permanent ako doon. Exagge ang pag-brainwash sa amin. Hahaha. Pero yun, sobrang galing, napabilib talaga ako. Noong ikalawang araw, tinapos namin ang araw with a Mass. Ayun. Sobrang ganda ng Misa. :) Hehe, ako pa nagbasa. :) Ay, at tsaka the group grilled me in front of Fr. Ben. Hahaha. Haynaku. They gave me a cake din pala. Ang saya ng birthday ko no? Dami ko nga raw pakain eh. Hehe.

Pagkatapos ng ISEW, bumalik kami ni King sa office. Nagmakaawa kasi eh. Ayun. Palpak naman siya magsinungaling. Pero yun. Pagdating sa office, sinorpresa ako ng Pathways Volunteers ko. :) Yey. They gave me a cake! And they had "banners" hehehe. :) Ang cute nila. Ang sweet. Biruin mo, I think they've only known me for a little less than two months, pero they did that for me! Nobody ever gave me a surprise before. Kaya yun, sobrang na-touch ako sa efforts nila. Yey for PVolt. Super Love ko sila! :) Ang hardworkers pa talaga nila. Kita mo ang commitment nila eh. Biruin mo, they give up their Saturdays?! Wow talaga. That's what you call commitment. :)

Yung play naman ng TA, nanood ako nung Friday. Kasama ko si Lilac kasi di ako pwede nung nanood ang officemates ko the night before. Ayun. I promised my alaga MonQue kasi that I'll watch (alam naman ng lahat na sobrang spoiled sa akin ng aking mga DS kiddies.. kita mo nga ang DevSoc GA this year! :P pero sikret ko nalang yun with the EB :P). :) Ang galing nung play. :) Yey. Hehe, bagong hobby ko na ito eh. Manood ng play. Tho matagal naman na akong ganto (last year I watched Tanikalang Guinto kahit na di required--well, dahil din naman kasi sa mga alaga kong sina Cam at Princess pala) this year kakaririn ko na. Next week Tarong naman. Haha, Enta play naman! (oo, kailangan sabihin ang "Enta")

Yung birthday, masasabi ko lang na maraming fuud. Haha. At marami ring cake. Haha. Kasi nga diba, may leftover from the cake from OMIOD, then the cake from PVolt, then pag-uwi ko may Goldilocks, Red Ribbon, at syempre, Estrel's cake pa. Haha. Cake galore.

Can I just say, na ang sabaw na nito..

Which brings me to the next point. Ang sabaw ng speech ng grand-aunt ko sa Convocation kahapon. Hahaha. Nuff said. Ayun. Pero naaliw ako. :) Proud apo. Sobrang inspired ako maging tulad niya. :) At na-inspire din ako kay Doc Hof. :) Yey. Ang galing galing galing nilang lahat.


Well, yun lang.

Ayoko na, inaantok na ako. :)

Silong

Napaka-significant pala ng payong sa akin ngayon. Kasi, "when it rains, it pours" pala talaga. Nais ko lamang manahimik sa silong ng aking payong ngayon...
 

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Surprise

I never had anyone do a surprise thing for me. I've always wondered how it felt, and I've also always wondered if someone would ever do something like that for me. But nevertheless, surprise or no surprise, I'm happy. I'm loved.

When we Love

The world does not need to know. Just let them feel how much you love them. Do everything for them. You don't need to be acknowledged for loving them, seeing them happy is enough.

They don't need to know that you did that for them. They don't even have to say "thank you." What I just hope is that they would recognize that someone loved them first, and I hope that they would be moved to love others also.






You don't need to know that it was I who loved you...

umbrella

Now I won't need to bring Matthew's EK umbrella. :) My Pathways family gave me a pink payong for my birthday. Ang aga magbigay ng regalo ano? I'm happy. Super happy.



JenTan, may sariling payong na ako ulit! :P Buhay pa ba yung sa iyo? :)

Phone Book

Dahil halos puno na ang memory ng aking dear celphone, at dahil hindi pa ako bibili ng bago anytime soon (haha, wala eh, kuripot talaga ako maski na pwede ko na talaga bilhin yung gusto kong telepono talaga), tinatayp ko sa isang MS Excel file ang mga contacts ko. Kapag natapos ko na ito, pwede na ako magbura ng mga numbers sa phone ko na hindi ko naman na masyadong natetext.

At tsaka precautionary measure na rin para may back-up ako.


Yun lang. Kwento lang. :P

Jesus sent out these twelve

Vatican Council II
Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, «Lumen Gentium», 20

"Jesus sent out these twelve "

The divine mission, entrusted by Christ to the apostles, will last until the end of the world,(Mt 28,20) since the Gospel they are to teach is for all time the source of all life for the Church. And for this reason the apostles, appointed as rulers in this society, took care to appoint successors. For they not only had helpers in their ministry,(Acts 6,2-6; 11,30) but also, in order that the mission assigned to them might continue after their death, they passed on to their immediate co-operators, as it were, in the form of a testament, the duty of confirming and finishing the work begun by themselves, recommending to them that they attend to the whole flock in which the Holy Spirit placed them to shepherd the Church of God.(Acts 20,28) They therefore appointed such men, and gave them the order that, when they should have died, other approved men would take up their ministry.

Among those various ministries which, according to tradition, were exercised in the Church from the earliest times, the chief place belongs to the office of those who, appointed to the episcopate, by a succession running from the beginning, are passers-on of the apostolic seed. Thus, as St. Irenaeus testifies, through those who were appointed bishops by the apostles, and through their successors down in our own time, the apostolic tradition is manifested and preserved.

Bishops, therefore, with their helpers, the priests and deacons, have taken up the service of the community, presiding in place of God over the flock, whose shepherds they are, as teachers for doctrine, priests for sacred worship, and ministers for governing. And just as the office granted individually to Peter, the first among the apostles, is permanent and is to be transmitted to his successors, so also the apostles' office of nurturing the Church is permanent, and is to be exercised without interruption by the sacred order of bishops.

Pilgrim's Theme

- Johnny Go, SJ

Tired of weaving dreams too loose for me to wear
Tired of watching clouds repeat their dance on air
Tired of getting tired of doing what's required
Is life a mere routine in the greater scheme of things

Through with taking roads someone else designed
Through with chasing stars that soon forget to shine
Through with going through one more day - what's new
Does my life still mean a thing in the greater scheme of things

REFRAIN 1:
I think I'll follow the voice that calls within
Dance to the silent song it sings
I hope to find my place
So my life can fall in place
I know in time I'll find my place
In the greater scheme of things

Each must go his way, but how can I decide
Which path I should take, who will be my guide
I need some kind of star to lead me somewhere far
To find a higher dream in the greater scheme of things

The road before me bends, I don't know what I'll find
Will I meet a friend or ghosts I left behind
Should I even be surprised that You're with me in disguise
For it's Your hand I have seen in the greater scheme of things (REFRAIN 1)

BRIDGE:
For Yours is the voice in my deepest dreams
You are the heart, the very heart
Of the greater scheme of things (REFRAIN 1)

REFRAIN 2:
Why don't we follow the voice that calls within
Dance to the silent song it sings
One day we'll find our place
For all things fall in place
For all things have a place
In the greater scheme of things





Panahon na naman ng Discernment sa ANI.

There.

Sabi ng isang malapit na kaibigan na gumabay sa akin sa kolehiyo:

"Welcome to the student formation world! :)"






This is it.

You who trample upon

Book of Amos 8,4-6.9-12.

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land! "When will the new moon be over," you ask, "that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating! We will buy the lowly man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of sandals; even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!" On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the sun set at midday and cover the earth with darkness in broad daylight. I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentations. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make them mourn as for an only son, and bring their day to a bitter end. Yes, days are coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send famine upon the land: Not a famine of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the LORD. Then shall they wander from sea to sea and rove from the north to the east In search of the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.

Daanan

Kagabi sabay kami ni Reg sa tren sapagkat nanggaling kami sa isang meeting. May programa ang Instituto Cervantes kung saan naglagay sila ng mga tula na nakasulat sa Español at Filipino sa loob ng tren. Para raw ipalaganap ang love for reading. Parang ganoon.

Ang tula na nasa harap namin ay tungkol sa mga dumaraan at dumaan na iniwan tayo. Sinasabi rin doon na sa pagdaan natin, gumagawa tayo ng mga daanan. Sa kaunting panahon na naroon kami sa loob ng tren, ipinaliwanag ko kay Reg ang aking pagkakaintindi sa tulang iyon.

Ang lahat ay dumaraan at gumagawa ng daanan. Daanan na maaaring daanan ng iba.

Kinakailangan kong bumitaw. At sa aking pagkahiwalay, doon lamang ako makakagawa ng sarili kong mga daanan.