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
i came, i saw, i ate durian... uhh don't want to remember that part anymore. hehe.
i'm back from davao. actually last sunday pa. :) funny now i realize it was a week ago na and i haven't posted about it yet.
it was a lot of fun since it was my first time to visit a philippine island outside luzon. i have been to the states five years ago but i've been dying to tour the rest of the phils. mostly this was because of what one of my history classmates in college told me four years ago, almost accusingly: 'nakarating ka na sa ibang bansa pero yung visayas at mindanao hinde mo pa napupuntahan.'
it was a refreshing experience being out of luzon (away from home, from work, and all my routines and duties). davao is not entirely different but it does give me a foreign feel. imagine that for an 'urban' place the roads were so wide though they are not really main streets (almost 4-laned), that surroundings were clean, the people were so friendly; during my whole stay i never got declined for a ride to wherever i wanted be it tricycle, jeep or taxi... except on some intances where the drivers find the places a tad bit too far. which they are, actually. ahaha.
it was great spending the trip with 100+ other batangueno yfcs and coordinators. the checking in and flights were crazy and riotous. it was also nice to see a large number people wearing our bright yellow-green batangas ganda/pogi shirts scattered on the International Leaders' Conference venue grounds.
as reported there were 7000+ participants in this year's ILC, most of them coming from the first time host island in 8 years, mindanao, some coming from as far as nothern luzon. this is smaller than 10-15K participants in the past years but for a place as far as davao, this is big enough for me... plus, imagine this number dancing in the rain. yep. it RAINED. as the ILC veterans attested, it was the first time it rained on an ILC (kaya nga summer ginaganap para walang ulan) and to see the participants and organizers doing the 'rain dance' for two nights (yep, the two nights of the conference), despite impending colds and having to sit on wet grass and clothes later, was an awesome sight. to quote kuya jq during the first session after the rain, 'walang fireworks for the first time (dahil banned sa davao), pero may water works!'. the experience was truly inspiring.
kel and i had our share of banters while in davao. hehe. actually pinagtulungan ata nila ko ni TJG. hmmp. (hello TJG! *wave*). i remember us getting on a fight because we can't find each other on the gaisano shopping mall. it turns out there were 3 gaisano malls on the city and we're on 2 different ones. if that's not crazy, i don't know what else to call it.
i have pictures pero partial palang yun ng captured moments. i uploaded them on my multiply account: *click here!*. i decided i needed to use multiply because it has better photo album functionalities than friendster. (i realized that i haven't been taking good care of my friendster account too.) click on the pictures there to know more of the story behind the my davao espcapade.
it's ironic that i'm kinda missing the smell of durian. it seems that you can smell it all over davao e. i'm also craving for durian candies (not the real fruit please), suha, kinilaw, and tada! shopping. i miss my yfc friends na, too. oh well, there's always BOHOL next year. yipee...
the angel rocked @ 9:46 AM
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