I love to travel! I'm excited to share my experience with recent escapade with my closest friends. It's a new experience because I usually travel with my family. Now I realize I should be thankful for my parents and siblings because I realize it's never easy it's physically and financially draining.

We have planned this vacation last March 2013. Can you feel our excitement? hahahaha So because we're just starting to earn money, We decided to save for 11 months. And since we have limited budget we have to settle for discounted airplane tickets, cheap but decent place to stay for Baguio, and even staying in my Uncle's house in Manila for us to really maximized our budget. And I guess goal met! Congratulations to us.
We have tons of pictures so I decided to collage them. This is not complete since I decided to post other pictures separately.

Smiling though we're worried if our bags will weigh more than 60 kg (accumulated baggage allowance).

Hello eye bags! Haven't sleep yet because of last minute packing
and early check - in rule. 

Obligatory picture when you're traveling. :p

Now boarding! At last. It's Kath's first time so we switched seat instead of
having the window seat, I end up in the sitting in middle.

Ladies and Gentlemen we just landed at Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
We waited for IDK minutes for our baggage's. Thanks to jet lag we still managed
to smile while waiting. 

Another obligatory picture for travelers. :)

On our way to Baguio. 6 hours travel time didn't bother us because we just slept.
And took pictures in between. :p  

Our view on our way to Baguio. It's worth it, you'll forget the numbness of your
extremities due to prolong sitting.

Baguio!  I don't know what's the temperature at that time but I tell you it's like the vent
of the aircon is on your face.  We decided to walk because we have read that our place to stay
was walking distance with the help of a map (Thanks to Kath for buying).

Hopeless Romantic

I'm I really ready to talk about love life? Seriously, I get to have comments from my friends about how hopeless romantic I am. I just love the feeling, who doesn't anyways? The feeling you get when you love and being loved. And for those who had their hearts broken might say I don't want to be hurt, and I always end up broken hearted. Well maybe It's time to evaluate your standards and what is really the definition for love.

This is the perfect definition of love. 

Being hopeless romantic had led me to tons of books, rom - com movies, and tons of  "I wish I could find someone like him" (my friends heard that a million times. hahaha). When you asked me what are my standards, You might be thinking I'm kidding but mind you I'm happy with it and some are non negotiable because it's not merely on the physical side it's more on attitude and how is his relationship with God.  :) Here are some bible verses that keep me going and why I should not lower it.

Humbly ask God and believe in the power of prayer!
The next thing you know, the answer is just around the corner.

Then you might be asking if I'm sure that I'm bound for marriage, Well because I can't see myself being single or a nun. You can count on this verse.

And I got these ideas of having those standards and this mindset with the help of  these books.

This was the first book I've read that I admit I have shed tears. Too much realization with this book. The main message of this book was "are you willing to give up the pen to God and let him write your love story?". It takes a lot of strength and courage to finally give up the pen, but I believe it's really worth it.

I kissed Dating Goodbye. This is not the cover of the book but I picked this because it contains my favorite line. A lot of insights can be found in this book, you might find this as boring because Joshua Harris wrote this in a deep way (my opinion though) but you can find here what are the pitfalls of relationships.

  

So after you kissed dating goodbye, here's a book when you finally met the one.

You might like this book, sort of an assessment. There is a checklist where you can evaluate yourself if your stupid when it comes to love.  

Those are the books that changed my life. You might say I'm bookish or idealistic but you can't persuade me to change my preferences because I know I'm on the right track and I want to do things in a way that it pleases God. 

And I would like to end this post with a note.

Grounding your Faith

Lately, every time I'm online I always find time to visit this website twentyone. It was shared by my closest friend Jasper (Hi Jas!). 10 out of 21, since it's a commitment for 21 days. It contains videos and a day to day journal where you are ask to answer some questions which is really helpful. It can really change your life.

so here's a glimpse how twentyone look like. :) 

I forgot to tell you that through out your journey, you will have a coach. You can ask questions, just hit the messages tab(whatever you call that) then you can type any questions you have. And if you want another point of view, you could hit the chat tab if you want and somebody will answer the question for you, Isn't it great?

It's for free and I'm not asked to promote this website for anything, but I wanted to share this for you to know how amazing God is and for those who are thinking that knowing God is boring, well you think again because twentyone will change that perspective. :) So if you are interested, feel free to click the link above. Enjoy. 

Sorry High School Friends

As part of starting my year right, I would like to say sorry to my friends whom I've hurt the most.

It's been years 3 years and "i-don't-know" months now since I graduated high school. And more or less 7 years I was carrying the burden in my heart, the wounds that was not healed because I was too stubborn and full of pride to ask for your forgiveness for the the things I've done, for the words I've uttered and for the causing you pain. Now, It hit me I guess it's time for me to face this, or by chance to face you.

I'm Sorry. Sorry for everything that I've done that lead you to do things that hurt me. Sorry for being strict, for thinking that I know more, for saying things behind your back and for being full of pride. Sorry if you happen to hear that I said high school is not fun, happy and enjoyable, I was just soo bitter back then. I can't have a time machine to correct those things but I can start saying sorry and eventually hoping to be friends with you. Just forget the old me though, I know It's hard and maybe the wound that I've caused was not healed but I'm hoping for the time that you can accept my apology and forgive me.

Sorry if I can't say this in personal, I'm just too coward to face you. It takes a lot of courage for me to do that knowing what I've done, I have no confidence to face you anymore and be sorry but honestly, I'm hoping that one day when I'll see you somewhere, I can say sorry.

And of course I want to say thank you! Though rejecting me as your friend cause a deep scar, I'm still thankful because I'm more aware in what area I should change and that incident made me more closer to God. 

Starting my year right!

That's my goal for this month. So more or less my blog will be full of drama for January. I started this blog for me to have an outlet of my drama, rants and my whereabouts this year.

Actually I started a blog(tumblr) when I was in college but the posts was childish in a way because somehow the posts were all about love life, love quotes, a bit of nursing school and my whereabouts. So for a change I decided to just leave it behind and start a new blog for a new me.

I'm excited for this! This is a leap of faith for me, Actually I was hesitant to make a blog due to my grammar skills. hahaha Seriously, that's why I'm reviewing on grammar lessons. So pardon me if my blog has grammatical errors, If anyone can come across my blog. May you enjoy reading my blog and hopefully this blog can inspire you.. ;)