WEDDING JITTERS..so it's TRUE?

TICK TOCK TICK TOCK..

2 MONTHS AWAY...*HAPPY JITTERS*

Wedding Invitation Front cover handpainted by Abba Mendoza of The Goldfish pool

SIGNED,SEALED, DELIVERED

Alvin and I are very happy! My application finally arrived at  the Citizenship and Immigration of Canada office in Mississauga, Ontario this morning ( in Canada). Whew, one step closer. I'm a bit nervous and excited at the same time. It's like applying for a "new life" away from the dearest people I've known for the past 30 years.

We spent countless days making sure we covered all our bases, Alvin  and I engaged in some petty, sweet fights along the way, laughing in between because of the mind blowing details we needed to accomplish. I say everything will be worth it in God's perfect time. We hope to get my application approved in the shortest possible time without any problems! ( calling all the angels and saints in heaven)

I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you my love...Kahit saan pa tayo dalhin ng tadhana..*wapak!*

Oh happy day : First Anniversary

February 11, 2011
 - I said yes to forever *fade in romantik musik*  hehe :)

You are an answered prayer, Happy Anniversary love!

Forever,
Sweet

My little gift for you this day :

Ready to roll : what's in my 2012 suitcase

Hello world.

This is my second blog post this 2012. Wow, so much for 2011! Many great things happened, I got busier and yes my 30 before 30 project was put on hold. I tried a couple of times to start a post but for no apparent reason I delay some immediate but not important things. I am happy now I know how to prioritize! 

So why am I writing again? I terribly miss it as much as I miss traveling, even with my grammatical errors and non sense post, writing liberates me. 

What’s up? I wasn’t able to travel much last year except for two Boracay trips and countless Tagaytay getaways. But 2011 was very significant. 

I turned 29, my last year on my twenties *squint*, I lost a pretty big amount of weight and I finally met the greatest gift God got me so far.  I found myself engaged to an amazing man (I’d love to share the story behind that next time) and started to get busy preparing for the big day.

Now, January 2012 is almost over and I’m welcoming my favorite month in a few days. It’s my birth month and yes I’m turning “three-zero”!  I was not disappointed that my project was put on the back burner, I am still happy for the mere fact that I’m breathing, Im in love , dreaming big dreams ( and acting on it!) and growing as a person. 

I finished reading Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin this January, I expected to learn new techniques to be happy but I was amazed that it is still the simple things that matter the most and can make you happy such as being kind and being tidy and did I mention being in love already? :p

This 2012 will be a transition phase for me.  There are a couple of important events that will happen in the duration of 12 months and I pray that I  keep my sanity until the year ends. 

Here goes :

1.       My 30^th birthday – which I will be welcoming in Thunderbird Resort in La Union ( it just so happened I have a hosting gig there on the 11^th of February haha)

2.       Alvin’s birthday on April 9 and he is turning 30 too! It’s his first birthday to celebrate in the Philippines after 15 years of being away  

3.       I will submit my requirements at the Canadian Embassy

4.       Oh happy day! May is the big month for me and Alvin!

5.       Singapore trip with my mom and my beloved partners in the business

6.       My passage in earning a “VP” income by second quarter of 2012

7.       My move to Canada *keeping my fingers crossed*

These are just 7 of the most important highlights 2012 has in store for me, making no. 4 and no. 7 the two toughest of them all. Perhaps I will just share my deeper thoughts on each one of these in the coming days.

It’s going to be one heck of an awesome ride this year! I will make things happen and Thank you God for it is done!

Stay in love,

Sweet 

we need all the powers to make things happen this 2012 :)

A New Beginning

"He has made everything beautiful in its time"- Ecclesiastes 3:11
I could have been somewhere else… but one evening, 27th of January, I was at the perfect place at the perfect time...and my gift from God was waiting.

 

DECEMBER 2011

ganito ang december ko, lalo na pag walang oras gumawa ng blog ^_^

our CHARISMA

I cant help but feel sad and happy at the same time. We will miss you Ate Donna!

All I want for Christmas!

Love, All I want for Christmas is You ^_^ 

Cocktail #1

I need a break.

It’s November and I am overwhelmed. I miss those days when I’m just happy with the simple things that are going on around me like capturing a beautiful sunrise with Peaches, waking up in the morning  from  a Yoga session ( I overslept on my mat) or devouring on a cup of blueberry yogurt, damn I miss yogurts!

There are so many things happening at the same time  and I can’t catch up, been busy earning my first million I guess..Congratulations, I am still P999,999 away from it.

I even neglected this small haven of mine, I haven’t been writing much. Believe me, I sat down countless times these past few months trying to compose something in my head  but I always end up pressing the cancel button.

What’s wrong blueberry girl?

Oh, I have been meaning to write down one of my accomplished 30 before 30 activities – Wedding hosting in Boracay, but  I’ll have that on another article instead. I just remembered , since I have this 30 b4 30 project, I might be appealing for an extension.  I have to be honest with myself, I wanted to be all positive and stuff but I am an inch away from changing  this project to 30 during 30 list *big,fat sigh*. With the hectic schedule ( I have no intentions of expounding) I am afraid I have to postpone some things on the list..like eating okra and talong ( dude, this is  serious)

Actually I made up my mind, the decision is final ( F! I have to change my logo too! L )  As a mature individual ( just for the moment) there are things I need to give up for the sake of some imperative milestones in my life. Every penny counts, every activity matters so much that I don’t have the luxury of time ( damn it, I normally have that!) to have fun fun fun.  Realizing this makes me wanna drop on the floor and cry. Something just pricked the happy bubble again, but this is to pave way to bigger and greater rainbow colored bubbles.

I think my blog entry doesn’t make sense. I just wanna end this blog with few things that filled up my simple bucket of joy this week:

I  can wear medium sized clothes again

I was able to go on a solo back packing trip for 5 days, it was not Siquijor but then again it’s worth it

I witnessed a ray of sunshine in a happy place, Boracay :)

    

Thank You Steve!

Farewell Steve, you will be missed.

I cant help but create a simple post for Steve Jobs. He is truly one crazy innovator and always challenging the status quo. He is a genius. A man who thinks differently. 

He disrupted this era with his world changing contributions.

Indeed by year 3000 you will still be remembered as the Thomas Edison of the 21st century. 

Thank you for the inspiration to be different, to be unique.

I will stay hungry, I will stay foolish.

Cheers Steve. We are celebrating your life.

Inspired

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Sweet 

*click on the inspired word to read/ watch Steve Jobs' complete commencement address at 2005 Stanford graduates

excerpt : No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."