i speak...
i'm an open type of person. i speak out my emotions
usually pero i can be very private at times. i love to
dance and to sing
and i love the company of my friends and my family.
i'm an overly talkative, compassionate dreamer, a
romantic at heart.
i'm a writer too.
words i'd love to live by/tara-inspired
i will create my day
i will create my reality, moment to moment
i will change my mind
i will open myself to the infinite realm of possibility
i will leave room for auspicious coincidence
i will not decide what is next
i will not decide what is real
i will not expect
i will have confidence
i will boycott self-doubt
i will have confidence to go beyond hesitation
i will not be afraid to be afraid
i will remember who I am
oh, yeah. i will also have fun...
i love...
GOD
my family
net-surfing
reading young adult books
music
movies and tv
yesterday was another good, yes, very tiring, but amazingly satisfying good day for me. also for all us who have been very devoted into making the yfc east-b sector sportsfest a god-blessed success. let's just say there were hang-ups but i'm glad they didn't get to me. i'm a little bit patient about things now. also, my body doesn't even hurt that much today, even though i was all exhausted yesterday and that i got to sleep i think the earliest last night since time immemorial. 9pm, i think. could you believe it?
anyways, part of the reason too, that i enjoyed myself too much is that i witnessed the incredible dedication of my co-core group members and other yfc friends to the event and especially to their clusters. it was such a great sight and i was overwhelmed with all the effort.
last saturday, the preparations for the physical set-up needs of the event started. they all gathered here at our house and prepared for a sleep-over just because we know we can't finish all of it that quick. we had to make banners, t-shirts and prepare all the sports stuff we need for the day after. i came home from the board exam review at about 9pm. yep, the review finished at 5:30 pm but i traveled and was on the bus that long. i think there was accident at the highway that night, but i sure don't hope so. i came home mentally and physically battered by the all day chemistry review (which i didn't sleep on, thank you God!!!) and all of the commuting. when i finally reached tanauan, there he was, my hero, wehehe, kel waiting for me to unboard. he was there with our friend jay waiting for me. my mom thought he could pick me up because it was raining and he had a jeep with him. but we ended up walking anyways which was not bad at all. a group of almost 15 busy bees welcomed me when i got home. my dedicated brothers and friends, along with a few new, cheerful and playful faces were busy printing shirts, making the stage backdrop and having a good time. my mom already fed them with a scrumptious dinner (which was just what i needed, plus a bathroom wehehe). it was very touching that my parents and grandmother have always been supportive of what me and my brothers chose to do, if it's good for us. and then i joined in the force and finally slept at 2am, because my body can't take it anymore. my brother earl and the others stayed up until much later, and then got up at 4-5am i think, to prepare the venue for the participants that will be coming at 7:30am. i, on the other hand, a slow poke and a sleepyhead got to the place a little before 7:30am. i figured out at the end of the day that maybe God planned that i get a lot of rest and sleep to prepare me and the others in the team for the tiring and energy-draining day ahead.
as i have said, i was overwhelmed by all the hard work our service team had put through the sports fest. some of us even played for our respective clusters. i especially salute my brother earl and kel, who had their leg-numbing/breaking, no-substitutions, winning basketball game amidst all the refereeing, and being the committee heads on badminton and basketball respectively. i was the committee head for volleyball and the impromptu coach for our cluster's team too. yep, multi-tasking at it's finest. i also salute dave, my shout partner for the 100-ish united members of his cluster who came and inspired me. the bond he shares with his members was inspiring. with that, i also spent the day catching up and laughing out with my cluster's members, who, generally, were younger than i am. i enjoyed that part, really, it takes off all the tiredness. oh and the part when i saw kel play basketball again, the first time in two years, i think. he really plays some mean basketball, makes me remember how i fell (hard) in love with him again. hehe.
earl didn't get to stay til end due to tiredness and the leg aftershock that he earned while playing. the others also went home early leaving me, mykel and mae to clean up. so it's really God's plan that i had that long sleep. mykel, too. he didn't stay too late at our house nor slept over due to obvious reasons but it just shows that God wanted us to be there to help mae til the end of the event. i really admire those two, especially kel, who were so god-driven, motivated and helpful that exhaustion couldn't sway him. he did more multi-tasking than i did the whole day and that makes me so proud of him.
and the end, after cleaning some of the mess up and closing the gym, kel and i finally got to spend some quality time at KFC, eating chips, fries, fun shots and drinking coke (we were broke already). we were waiting for my parents to come pick me up to attend mass that time too. i ended my day with the mass and with thanking God for giving me such wonderful opportunities to reach out to people and to get touched by people. i also thanked Him because although i hoped, yet did not expect to our cluster to win the competitions we did. and at three games at that (junior basketball, chess and badminton), with two of the players, we just requested to play right there and then. and our senior basketball team (the one which earl and kel played for) will be waiting for the cultural fest this june 19 to play for the finals (we didn't get to finish the games and awarding yesterday because it was kind of gettiing late already).
god is really so good. eventhough some things might not have gone as we planned, things definitely went the way He did. and beautifully at that. :)
P.S. our service team shirts were pink and i loved it. plus it had a nice 'bringing out the best in YOUth' print in front that makes it extra lovable for me.:)
the angel rocked @ 7:23 AM
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