BIRTHDAY FOODTRIP SA LILAC ST. MARIKINA

Bilang mahilig akong kumain. Bilang kaarawan ko at ng dalawa ko pang kaibigan na si Kevin at Gelo, Bilang bumisita dito sa Maynila ang kapatid ng super friend kong si Nissa na si Eric, naisipan kong yayain sila na mag foodtrip sa Marikina. Nag simula agad kaming mag research at mag plano. Akala ko hindi ulit matutuloy kasi medyo mahilig kami mag drawing  tipong taking Master's in Fine Arts haha! buti na lang naging mabait at masipag kaming lahat isang Sabado.. :)


Sabado ang napagkasunduan namin na araw at eto ang mga naplanong puntahan; PANDE AMERIKANA, FORGET ME NOT, COOKIE MUG AT CAFE LIDIA.  Apat na kainan sa loob lamang ng anim na oras. imagine. haha!

First stop: FORGET ME NOT

Cozy place, very vibrant aura, modern, malamig, nakaka-feel at home tsaka merong malakas na wifi. Iba-iba ang inorder namin para matikman as much as we can, ang nakakatawa lang eh walang nagawang tikiman kasi hindi namin namalayan ubos na pala yung nasa kanya-kanya naming plato, lalo yung kay Kevin (bully mode on :p )... pasta lang kasi..hehe. Satisfied kami sa lasa kagaya ng place, it taste cozy as well. They offer buffet set-up whenever nag po-promo sila.. May mga available na parking space para sa mga tsikot. It's a place for couple's date, barkada trip at family bonding. Budget: Php180. Next stop.

Buffalo Wings.

4 THINGS TO AVOID REGRET

This blog was written with one thing in mind; that other people might learn from these things and avoid doing the same.






1. Do not hurry getting a job just to please people or just to say that you are not job less after graduating. THINK CAREFULLY. Your first job most likely dictate the future of your career. It will affect your career growth, your growth as a person, your intellect, your financial freedom and your self-esteem. In most cases, career shifting is very tedious.

2. Do not fall in love with someone who is already in love with someone else. It is like banging your self on a wall. It will drain all your energy and happiness. It will change you as a person; bitter or better, your choice.

3. Do not force yourself to be in sync with your friends/colleagues lifestyle if your income cannot sustain it yet. This will only leave you broke and struggling with your finances.

4. Do not force yourself to maturity because time and circumstances will bring you there whether you like it or not. If given the chance, maximize your youth but NOT in expense of your health... :). Enjoy as much as you can. Because when quarter life crisis sink-in to your soul that's the time you will search for deeper meaning about everything.

It is true that regrets are inevitable but what important is that we enjoy the experience we had and learned from it.


Word of God that we can fonder in times of regret:


"...I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead" - Phil 3:13

WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID?

This entry has been inspired by what I've heard in the teaching series: "When Question Are Answers."-- Why Are You So Afraid?. The word was so timely that it gives light to my current struggle. I have been in fear about so many things in life lately; career, plans, finances and relationships.






At the beginning of mankind, We are in perfect harmony with God. We do not know fear. We are in full confidence of our existence until sin came into picture. We got separated from God's holiness so fear started to cultivate in our hearts.

The Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” .

He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” - Genesis 3:9-10

When Jesus came, He thought us to fear no more. I went to church with my heart so preoccupied with so much thoughts of compromise. Thoughts of the things that I am willing to adjust and share for someone I really love. There I realized the reason why I am so fearful is because my heart was already quite in distance with the love of Christ. I'm trying to figure things out on my own way again. Trust and confidence lost its compass. Therefore, I need to go back to Him in prayer, in worship and in reading His word.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. 

For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. -1 John 4:18

Whenever God asked questions in the bible, He is actually revealing Himself through it -- by His questions He stirs up our hearts.


God is love and love never fails.

ONE-SIDED FIGHT

Some part of this were from Emily Rella. We have almost the same things to say.


Sometimes, letting go of someone means putting an end to a one-sided fight. And when you can recognize it as that, everything becomes much easier.....(though it's still not easy for real..)




I got to a point where I realized that no matter what grandeur and good the future may have held for us, it could never take back the cowardice and apathy that I had seen before. I would never be able to erase that; I could forgive but not forget, and in not being able to forget, I would always see a different person.


I have accepted the fact that the love he has for that other woman is something I cannot change. He dream for her, long for her, so I decided to exclude myself from that equation. He cannot be with me while his heart is towards her. Day after day while we were together I felt his hesitation. I felt his heart wishing to be the man who's sitting next to her. Wishing that it's the both of them who has the picture of being a happy couple. I saw it all in his eyes. I felt it in the way he treated me. It cuts my soul and broke my heart. It's too painful. "So what's the sense of staying? " I told myself.

For the good of both of us a decision has been made. I had loved him, but I didn’t like him anymore.