i guess this is how i am made. i love making plans. i HAVE to make plans, or else, i can’t move. i can’t get out of the house without a destination in my mind, even if it is a vague one. and i always have to know what i’ll be doing when i get [...]
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“I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even [...]
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(written yesterday)
it’s 5AM, monday, and i just got back from a whirlwind weekend in baguio. thank God for hindsight, because i never would have planned spending a weekend like that all by myself. and it was blessedawesomefun. i wouldn’t have had it any other way– except maybe, i would’ve had time to go to Good [...]
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walked the fish around town.
drove at 80-90 km/h (not really sure how fast because the speedometer was broken) on macapagal avenue with my eyes closed and hands off the wheel for a whole 10 seconds (at around 1AM)
cried my heart out with my head on the wheel of my car at every intersection [...]
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this has to do for now because we’re off to explore DC:
sunday highlights:
1. attended the early service at Covenant Life church, message by Senior Pastor Joshua Harris on baptism and witnessed a baptism in a new light. cried with joy several times. met up with dear old friend Rhea.
2. attended Grace Filipino Church. sang with [...]
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ok, so i’ve been here in the west coast for over a month now. next month, we’ll be flying off the east coast for a whole new set of adventures, albeit only for a week. here, in a suite at the mirage (courtesy of my cousin jon), i sit at the dining room table, with [...]
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I got ugly legs. They weren’t like this before. I used to wear short shorts before they were even fashionable (albeit with big shirts so I look like I was walking around with just a shirt on). Now my calves are too muscular, my thighs—um… I don’t even want to talk about them. What happened?!
A [...]
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dear friends,
i’m discovering that california seems to have a shortage of postcards… i have been looking into bookstores, library bookstores, groceries, the mall, gas station shops, etc., but so far, i’ve only found san diego postcards in starbucks, and they’re not even nice. but if worse comes to worst, i guess i’ll get those [...]
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so there i was at 6:30 PM, monday– the sun setting behind the horizon, ailene waving me off– i showed my ticket to the guard who smiled and let me through, lugged my huge-ass suitcase on to the baggage x-ray machine and let the woman frisk me. i found the business class check-in counter, smiled [...]
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something nice happened on the way here. i wrote about it on the plane… but i don’t feel like posting it yet. maybe tomorrow.
this just to let you guys know i’m alive and well over in this side of the world.
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