The Power of Prayer

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

The power of prayer is subtle and unassuming.
It can calm a restless soul, even when you’re fuming.

Just this week, something I had been praying for the last few months actually happened.
Thank You Lord!

I'm sorry but I had been so busy this week. I will find time to blog within the next 48 hours.
Have a blessed weekend everyone!

PioKay

This is a late post, but I just really want to pay tribute to the queens!!!

Cheers to Carmina and Rustom, este Piolo and KC...

PioKay for short!!!

A decade from now they will become:

My Birthday Weekend

They say that age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

But maybe it does;  the years of my life show what I have been through, how much laughter I’ve had, tears I have cried, successes I have celebrated, failures I have recovered from, friends I have made, enemies I hope to make peace with, people whose lives I have touched, feelings I have offended, mistakes I have made, lessons I have learned and the list goes on and on…

While I have booked a ticket to Cagayan de Oro where I was supposed to celebrate my birthday, I decided to cancel the trip a few days before the date. I found out weather in CDO wasn’t too friendly for some whitewater rafting and Camiguin which was part of the plan also had the same thing.

Fast-forward, I found myself booking a ticket to Zamboanga to visit one of my bestfriends,  Donald Green Lim, now a established fashion designer, who I haven’t seen for five years now. Don’t get me wrong, but I wanted to stay away from everyone. Having been a people person all my life, I have always celebrated my birthday with my friends.

Donald : Thank you for being a friend and everything I needed be in this trip...

This year, I wanted a change, I didn’t want to blow candles in front of everyone. I didn’t want no party music, friends telling me to drink since it’s my birthday, and all the things I have been doing for the last few years.

Believe me, those were fun and I will probably do it , again next year, but February 7, 2011 is a day I wanted to do things differently. And yes, instead of preparing for a party, I am here in Donald’s place updating my blog.



All set for an unplanned; spontaneous birthday eve with Donald...

 I did go out last night and had half a bottle of beer and was greeted by my bestfriend  at  the strike of midnight, but there were no plans, no guests, no cake, just him and me and whoever is around in the place we’d find ourselves on my birthday’s eve…

But the alone time did make me realize how much I love and appreciate the people around me. It allowed to be thankful to all my friends; they who understand the difficult person in me, who endure my occasional tantrums and who share their lives with me. And if you are one of them, you would know I am thankful for you. J

I will try to be a better person this coming year, but one thing for sure I still want my friends around for the rest of the 364 days before I age another year.

The 3rd beer is for the missing link in the TRINITY: Giselle Alano

Special thanks to Donald Green Lim, for allowing my birthday weekend to happen  just how I wanted it to be… And yes, Giselle Alano, we would have been happier if you were around.

See you in a few hours Zamboanga...

Lantaka Bay, Pasonanca, and the Fort Pilar... Excited to celebrate my birthday with Donald Lim in their city... It has been five years since the last time we saw each other and about ten years since my last visit to Zamboanga... See you in a few hours!!!

Talisay Bar at Lantaka Bay Resort

The Violence must STOP!

It is bad coincidence that the two recent acts of violence in the country (September Bar Exam/De La Salle Bombing and the most recent Edsa Bus Bombing) involved two of my friends. They were even listed in the official press statements as victims of the incident.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/09/26/10/10-hurt-blast-rocks-final-day-bar-exams

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20110126-316608/Official-list-of-casualties-in-EDSA-bus-bombingpolice

Cheers to my little sister Kay who will soon be my future lawyer for getting better and bolder and lovelier legs... :)



Fe An Sy, Karen O., me and John during Thanksgiving Break... See you in Dumsville soon Fe! You and your sister Fleur An get well soon!!!



I must stay that my two girls are blessed to have survived the incident but some other's werent...

The violence needs to stop... maybe it is time that PNoy steps up... rather than criticizing the Arroyo administration. It is time he delivers results... and that can start with some peace in this nation...

or should I start to think that Yellow is the new color of Violence???

Is Juan Tamad Pinoy?

I didn't want this first blog entry to be a MEMA post... "Mema" short for memasabilang (Thanks to Bekimon for his tweet on this new term)... But Im not promising a mema-free blog, Im sure some entry in the future will be one.

This blog is my personal birthday gift to myself and to the universe. Chos. I will be a year older in a few days and having lived for more than a quarter of a century, I think it is time to share my wisdom to everyone (chos! that's mema!). Wala I wanted to start blogging as I turn a year older, PERIOD.

Why the blog title? The hardworking nurses, the sleepless callcenter agents, the 24/7 utility person, the very courteous security personnel; everyone around me for the last seven years in my work life seem to prove than Juan Tamad is not Pinoy... or maybe he was and is now an OFW somewhere who has abandoned his Filipino citizenship.