birthday blog

and i turned 24.

i planned about writing a birthday blog days before my actual birthday. and normally i do a countdown. but now, several hours past midnight, i still haven't composed well my thoughts. i even forgot to do a 10-day countdown. time flies so fast, really, especially when you go home tired and sleepy.

what am i supposed to say?

i step back a little and look at my life on bird's eyeview, to see clearly where i am now and where else i am heading. i contemplate on what i have acquired and what i still want to achieve in life.

well, to begin with, i don't have much. yet. if i am to think of material things, that is. but i'm confident that on that aspect, i'm on a good start and i'm heading to a good end.

what i want to focus on, rather, is the more important aspect. the most, actually.

more than the 24 awesome years, i'm richly blessed to have spent those 24 years with equally awesome people.

i'm thankful for my siblings. they are my favorite people in the world. they are my lifelines.

i'm thankful for nanay, for loving me even on the days that i am not lovable.

i'm thankful for the friends who stayed with me, made me feel loved, wanted and cared for even after they've seen my worst. i'm thankful, even, for the ones i lost along the way, for having shared some of their time and life stories with me. i'm thankful for the new ones i just met--for marva and ate monette, for sticking around even when i prove to be not an easy person to live with.

i'm thankful for my housemates, for being the family i share food, inspiration, laughs, and heinneken with.

i'm thankful for alvin, for the kind of love he gives, for his unbelievable patience (which i wish he'll never run out of), and for the good madness he brings.

except for a house, car and business of my own, there is nothing much i ask for in life.

seriously, i only wish for more birthdays to come...

so i'll be able to see more of my dreams and my siblings' dreams and prayers come true.

so i'll be able to find my future kids and joicee's and tets' and jona's and all of my friends' kids get along well too.

so i can celebrate more monthsaries and anniversaries with alvin.❤


so i'll have more stories to share, things to be thankful for and birthday blogs to post. 😃