I'M OUTTA HERE
Whew! What a week.
Due to our slated trip this weekend, I've been cleaning every corner of the house to rid it of the dust it has accumulated during our 3-week absence. Now we're leaving it again, so I had to make room for new dust... heh. I don't know, some things can and will change but that's one thing that will not, ever. I can't live harmoniously with dust.
Speaking of changes, a lot of it's coming up.
When we get back from our trip, I'll be outta this lay-out. This has been the look of my site ever since I started blogging, all for 4 months short of two years. I have no real need to change my lay-out, but when I saw this design (gotcha! what, you think I'd post a link to my site's new look and rob it of it's grand entrance?... hehehe) that my dear sister friend, Ate Sienna, made, I simply fell in love with it. It's just so me... the color, the design, the concept. Btw, if you're looking for new lay-outs for your sites, she'll be coming up with a design site soon, aptly called Manilena. Believe me, she's got really nice designs, some pensive and soothing, some clever and amusing, but all of them beautifully done and well-thought of.
I'd like to thank fafa Jay for all the work he's done on this old lay-out. I love everything about it, especially the banner he made, and I know I will most probably miss it for a long while. If you've been visiting my site since a long while back, you know how much improvement has come to it over the year. He's the one who started and set-up this site for me and he has never stopped putting in bits of this and that to make it more attractive. I've loved it and I still do. Alas, it's time to move on, and I'm shedding this skin for a new one.
Another change that's happening is, I am now going to have a host... uhm, let me correct that. I am now going to have a home, cause that's what it really feels like, in more ways than one. I am now going to be part of the pansitan community! Woohoo!!! Again, through the remarkable, amazing, one-of-a-kind. exemplary and all-out generosity of Ate Sienna, my site now has a niche to be cozy in. The next time I blog, it will be at http://jetdavid.pansitan.net. So friends, please update your links. Don't go losing me now... heh.
I have been friends with her for almost 2 years now, and although we have constantly kept in touch all these time, we have never met face to face. This weekend though, through the loving generosity of my husband, I will see her in person, finally. It's really come a long way, this friendship we have, and I would just like to say how overwhelmed I am with the brand of friendship she has given me.
I've known how it feels to be loved by family, as anybody else normally would. I've known how it feels to be truly loved by a man, with all the other extras that come with it, like respect, and kindness, and tenderness, and adoration, and generosity. But I have never known how it feels to be loved by a friend so much, it closely compares with all the love I've ever felt in my lifetime. I can tell you everything we've talked about, and shared and everything we've helped each other through, if only to make you see what I mean. Probably, words have never held such strength, such fervor, as those we've exchanged, in concretely cementing our hearts and our lives together. But the same words would fail me, in making you understand all the nuances that come into it. I am not capable of defining it. I can only savor the many sweet graces it brings to my being. Ate Sienna, the miles I am going to cover pale in the enormity of joy I have in my heart at the prospect of being in your space, of seeing you before my eyes, of holding you close. Please, wait for me.
And yes, as many of you know by now, it was my birthday yesterday. Not only did I gain a year, I've also ended another decade, on the road to a new one. I have no expectations, I've always thought my life has brought me more than I ever thought I deserved, more than I've ever exerted any effort for, more than I ever thought I wanted.
I, too, have been young once, many years back. I have also aspired for greatness, garbed in all the gargantuan views a juvenile holds of it. But somewhere along the road, one finds that one will have to choose between greatness... and where one's heart belongs. I have chosen where my heart found its home. I have chosen my marriage. Looking back at the way things have fallen in place over the years, I think to myself that somehow I must have done something right. Let me just say that in general, I am happy and in particular, I feel loved. So I guess I could sit back and enjoy it all, this happy consequence of my life's major quid pro quo. And yet, it makes me think, who is to say that greatness only has one set of wardrobe? The way my life has evolved comes to mind whenever I think of these words by William Makepeace Thackeray:
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
These are the flowers that fafa Jay greeted me with.
This is the cake he surprised me with.
These are the friends who helped us celebrate.
And this is me... all aglow.
I'd like to thank all who left birthday greetings and wishes for me on my site and fafa Jay's, your words have been too kind and I relish each one of them... I would name you all but you are too many to mention...
All those who sent me emails to greet me... Ate Sienna, Renee, Belle, Mec, Donna, Ate Sharon and Hanilyn...
All those who sent me a greeting through sms... Ate Lani, Diko Jun, Lolet, Belle and Mec...
All those who called me up... my mom, Darlene, my in-laws, Ayeza and Kengkeng...
Kengkeng, who dedicated an entry in his blog for me...
My guests last night... Helen, Dengcoy Miel, his wife Angie and their son Jose Miguel, and even those who I'm sure would have come had they been able to... Antonia who got tied up with work, Rico who couldn't leave a critical patient in Manila, and Leah who is in Hanoi...
God... the rock of my being, the source of my peace, who gifted me with my heart and all that it can hold...
And fafa Jay, whose gift of love is the best gift I've ever had in my life, a gift I receive... every single day.
Whew! What a week.
Due to our slated trip this weekend, I've been cleaning every corner of the house to rid it of the dust it has accumulated during our 3-week absence. Now we're leaving it again, so I had to make room for new dust... heh. I don't know, some things can and will change but that's one thing that will not, ever. I can't live harmoniously with dust.
Speaking of changes, a lot of it's coming up.
When we get back from our trip, I'll be outta this lay-out. This has been the look of my site ever since I started blogging, all for 4 months short of two years. I have no real need to change my lay-out, but when I saw this design (gotcha! what, you think I'd post a link to my site's new look and rob it of it's grand entrance?... hehehe) that my dear sister friend, Ate Sienna, made, I simply fell in love with it. It's just so me... the color, the design, the concept. Btw, if you're looking for new lay-outs for your sites, she'll be coming up with a design site soon, aptly called Manilena. Believe me, she's got really nice designs, some pensive and soothing, some clever and amusing, but all of them beautifully done and well-thought of.
I'd like to thank fafa Jay for all the work he's done on this old lay-out. I love everything about it, especially the banner he made, and I know I will most probably miss it for a long while. If you've been visiting my site since a long while back, you know how much improvement has come to it over the year. He's the one who started and set-up this site for me and he has never stopped putting in bits of this and that to make it more attractive. I've loved it and I still do. Alas, it's time to move on, and I'm shedding this skin for a new one.
Another change that's happening is, I am now going to have a host... uhm, let me correct that. I am now going to have a home, cause that's what it really feels like, in more ways than one. I am now going to be part of the pansitan community! Woohoo!!! Again, through the remarkable, amazing, one-of-a-kind. exemplary and all-out generosity of Ate Sienna, my site now has a niche to be cozy in. The next time I blog, it will be at http://jetdavid.pansitan.net. So friends, please update your links. Don't go losing me now... heh.
I have been friends with her for almost 2 years now, and although we have constantly kept in touch all these time, we have never met face to face. This weekend though, through the loving generosity of my husband, I will see her in person, finally. It's really come a long way, this friendship we have, and I would just like to say how overwhelmed I am with the brand of friendship she has given me.
I've known how it feels to be loved by family, as anybody else normally would. I've known how it feels to be truly loved by a man, with all the other extras that come with it, like respect, and kindness, and tenderness, and adoration, and generosity. But I have never known how it feels to be loved by a friend so much, it closely compares with all the love I've ever felt in my lifetime. I can tell you everything we've talked about, and shared and everything we've helped each other through, if only to make you see what I mean. Probably, words have never held such strength, such fervor, as those we've exchanged, in concretely cementing our hearts and our lives together. But the same words would fail me, in making you understand all the nuances that come into it. I am not capable of defining it. I can only savor the many sweet graces it brings to my being. Ate Sienna, the miles I am going to cover pale in the enormity of joy I have in my heart at the prospect of being in your space, of seeing you before my eyes, of holding you close. Please, wait for me.
And yes, as many of you know by now, it was my birthday yesterday. Not only did I gain a year, I've also ended another decade, on the road to a new one. I have no expectations, I've always thought my life has brought me more than I ever thought I deserved, more than I've ever exerted any effort for, more than I ever thought I wanted.
I, too, have been young once, many years back. I have also aspired for greatness, garbed in all the gargantuan views a juvenile holds of it. But somewhere along the road, one finds that one will have to choose between greatness... and where one's heart belongs. I have chosen where my heart found its home. I have chosen my marriage. Looking back at the way things have fallen in place over the years, I think to myself that somehow I must have done something right. Let me just say that in general, I am happy and in particular, I feel loved. So I guess I could sit back and enjoy it all, this happy consequence of my life's major quid pro quo. And yet, it makes me think, who is to say that greatness only has one set of wardrobe? The way my life has evolved comes to mind whenever I think of these words by William Makepeace Thackeray:
I'd like to thank all who left birthday greetings and wishes for me on my site and fafa Jay's, your words have been too kind and I relish each one of them... I would name you all but you are too many to mention...
All those who sent me emails to greet me... Ate Sienna, Renee, Belle, Mec, Donna, Ate Sharon and Hanilyn...
All those who sent me a greeting through sms... Ate Lani, Diko Jun, Lolet, Belle and Mec...
All those who called me up... my mom, Darlene, my in-laws, Ayeza and Kengkeng...
Kengkeng, who dedicated an entry in his blog for me...
My guests last night... Helen, Dengcoy Miel, his wife Angie and their son Jose Miguel, and even those who I'm sure would have come had they been able to... Antonia who got tied up with work, Rico who couldn't leave a critical patient in Manila, and Leah who is in Hanoi...
God... the rock of my being, the source of my peace, who gifted me with my heart and all that it can hold...
And fafa Jay, whose gift of love is the best gift I've ever had in my life, a gift I receive... every single day.
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