Our Great and Everlasting Journey

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Yesterday was my mom’s 55th birthday. Grahbe…5 more years, she and my father will be in their senior years already (since they were both born 1951). I love my Parents. They are the greatest parents that I am very proud of!!

Last night, when our neighbors suprised her with a birthday songs, she cant help but cry. I know that she was very happy.

My mother loves to sing but my father loves to listen only. I havent saw him grab the magic sing and sing. He will just sit at the couch and listen. He is a silent type of person but very responsible and caring father.

Ops! maybe you will ask why he did not let  his hair color for him to look younger. Take note! we tried it many times already, but he dont want. hehehe! Better respect the father.

I took my chance to take a pictures of them being happy together..So, here they are…

Oh..Im gonna miss this moment once Im in US already and for sure, I will bring copies of this one there so that I can look at them every now and then.

My pet koby have two lovely cats friends. The one in orange is his bestfriends. They share the foods together and drink in a same bowl. Koby always tease him whenever he is inside the house. See, how lazy he is whenever he is full. He loves to sleep on top of our refrigerator as if he is telling the two animals, "this is my place and nobody is allowed to sleep here". He is sweet. YOu will not worried if you left some food on the table because they are trained to respect  us..hehehehe!

This one, Koby is his great enemy. They always fight. He loves to sleep on the stairs and you better be careful when you go down and not to step on his tail. Everytime, I let him in inside, koby is there at the door and blocking his way to get inside or other way around. But he will check first if koby is around and they he will go straight to the one corner where koby’s food is. IF koby saw that he is eating his food, koby will bark at him and then eat as fast as he could so that his enemy cat cant eat his food. hehehehe!!!!!

Im so lucky that my parents really worked hard for us to finished college and have a degree. I still remember how much my "baon" was when I was still in Elementary. Take note! P2 peso a day way back 1980’s and have to walk very far everyday. Me and my older brother was in the same school so we went to school together with some other neighbors. He is one level ahead of me. But during those elementary days, there are time that I felt not going to school and learn. Sometimes, I took for granted those advices my parents told us everytime we felt not going and waking up early in the morning. For me, it was more play than studying  my lesson in the afternoon. At last I graduated Elementary and able to learned a lot of things. During my high school days. My life was really focus to my study because it was run by nun and religious organization, so no choice but to follow their rules, or else you will got some punishment. Im so grateful for these nun’s determination to impose us the importance of educations and it really gave directions with my life. And aside educations, they also taught us how to be a good citizens and to have good values that I will bring wherever I will go until I finished college.

Sometimes, I wonder what if I didnt able to go to school? What if my parents cant afford us to sent to school even public one? What will be my life then? How can I go with the ever changing world if I dont know nothing? Do I let other people step on my principles? How do I fulfill my dreams if I dont know how to read and write? How can I help my future kids gain knowledge from me since mother is the first teacher. How can I ask them to value educations and fulfill their dreams? How can I be proud of myself? How can I get decent job if I dont know nothing?

Now, I can say that Im so thankful with my parents because they know that education is the only thing they can give us until we get older and hope that all kids will value this as they value their material possession such as computer, gameboy, cellphone, and other material things.

Im so proud of those old people who went to school and have a degree. When I was in college, I had a classmate who was really old. I think he is on his 40’s. He was working in a government so he can only go to school in the evening. But he was always prepared for all the assignments and projects our professor gave us. He said that for him, education should not stop and anywhere and anytime, there is opportunity and just take those opportunity to gain knowledge. Yeah, he is right and I salute him for his great determination and his family and kids will be proud of him and follow his foot steps.

One time, when my younger sister and I went to my sister in law work ageny last week to catched the lady whom we will accompany to fetch my her at the airport  because they will take my sister in law straight to the hospital. Since we are late already and they left, we decided not to follow them and we were hungry and was raining. So we headed at nearby famous local fastfood chain of the Philippines (chickenjoy!). There were many customers since it was raining, most people came inside not to get wet. We sat at the far corner away from the A/C because was really cold inside. We noticed at one corner there are teenagers were very noisy, so I look back and see whats going on. I saw one guy explaining something to a street kids how to fill up their form, so I just listened  to them because they asked a lot of questions to that guy. I asked my sister who was facing them what they are doing. so she said that they are taking some lesson. So for my curiosity, I look back again and yes, they are taking their lesson inside the foodchain and these teenagers are no read and write, they are street kids. YOu can smell that they are and their clothing. But this guy who have a lot of determination to teach them. He was teaching them simple mathematics. I know that he dont have salary on what he is doing, but he is there, willing to reach out and share his knowledge to the needy. Even it is not material things but important things that have great value that they can use everyday. For sure that this guy will always there to help them. Im proud of him. Good thing that the management of that fastfood just let them stay their even did not order anything. I hope that the goverment will recognize his effort to help those street kids!

A good
relationship is not a game that we play or an ego trip we take.  It is
about love and two people.  Loving someone can give us the greatest joy we
can ever know but it can also hurt us more that we can ever believe.  If
we love someone we should be ready to experience not only happiness but
heartache as well.  That’s the reward and risk that it takes.  Unless
we are willing to experience it, we will never really know what it’s like to
love and be loved.

Sharing love is probably the most valuable and meaningful experience a person
can ever have.  And there is a difference between being in love with
someone and loving someone.  It’s the difference between a love that’s
fickle, wild and short-lived and a love that’s tender, passionate and lasting.
The first is easy.  The second, the one that really matters to us all,
takes work —- because it’s about keeping the relationship.

Loving someone takes efforts.  We have to be able to communicate with each
other.  Nobody can read anyone else’s mind.  We always presume that
our partner knows what we think and feel.  Maybe in time we might be able
to predict or sense each other’s thoughts but it’s never perfect and it takes
time to develop.

Getting the chance to love and be loved by someone is a great blessing.  Respect
him for who he is, and not what you want him to be   No one is
perfect.  It’s true love that closes the gap of imperfectness to form a
smooth surface of acceptance for each other.  True love sees and accepts a
person for who he is.  It is also true love that makes a person change
for the better.

Although the power of true love is undeniable, a relationship needs
commitment too.  What is love without commitment from each other
anyway?  It’s like principles and values.  Everyone has them but they
only mean as much as we are willing to stand for them.  The same goes for
our commitments to relationships and to the person we love.

Love is like an antique vase.  It’s hard to find, hard to get, yet
easy to break.

Everyday, everywhere…people fall in love.  But just how many of these
relationships are self-sacrificing love, and not just relationships which are
formed only for the intense feeling of falling in love?  I know hundreds
of friends who say the magical words "I love you"…but more often
that not, the truth is just — I am IN love with you.  There is a
difference between being in love with someone and loving someone.

If a person says he is in love with you, he means that he likes you
for who you are now and he fell in love with you because of the present
you.  This kind of love is temporary and will only lasts as long as the
fairytale lasts.  When fairy godmother comes in at night to whirl us back
in reality, we see the heartache of such a relationship.

But if a person says he loves you, he means that he loves you
unconditionally for who you are now, who you were you in the past and who you
might be in the future.  When he says he loves you and really
means it, you have to ask yourself if you love him too or if you are only
in love with the idea of being in love.  It is very hard to see the
difference through logical thinking. 

Im so lucky that the greatest man I have right now is love me for who and what I am and loving me unconditionally. He silent ways to say I love you proves it all!

I really like animals, ops, except snake and crocodile, lol!
When I was a kid, we had a family pet that we cared so much. We called him
"Browny". He was very intelligent dog. He behaved so well. Whenever
we went to our local church which is 1km from our house, he always want to come
with us eventhough. when we were inside the church, he will patiently waited
for us outside. He will just stayed there and he knows that the mass was over
already and was very attentive to look for us and when he saw us coming out,
his tail wiggled soo much and we were always touched by his gesture. He was
very friendly with other dogs. When someone arrived at home, he was always the
one great them. Oh.I miss him. He is so dearly and caring pet. When he died, my
father buried him at the back of our house and everyday, we visited his grave
and remember all those funny and happy moments he shared with us.

After a while, we dont have pet inside because we say that we cant have another
pet as so loving as he is. We missed him so dearly. How we wish that he was
stil alive.

But lately, I was motivated to buy another puppy, but this time a
"Shitzhu". I bought him when he was still 4 months old. At first he
was so sickly maybe because to his new environment. He was in and out from the
vet for his vaccines.  He is so dearly loved by my family and even my
nieces and nephews are so addicted to play with him. He loves to sleep with us
in our bed, mine and to my parents bed. When he is sleeping with my parents
bed, everyday at 6am, he will knock on my door and try to wake me up. If I did
not pay any attention with him, he will make a noise to catched my attention.
He is so jolly! He loves to play a lot. He is our baby here at home. He got
lots of animal toys.

I know that I cant bring him in the US once I move there early 2007. but I know
that my family will take care of him. For sure Im gonna miss him a lot that is
why I try to spend my free time playing with him and care for him.

Do you know what it is like to look up into the night sky, and
yet not see the stars? Do you know what it is like to see the birds sing their sweet music, and yet not hear their sound? Do you know
what it is like to feel your heart inside you, and yet not feel it
beat? Do you know what it is like to be in a crowd of people smiling,
laughing, sharing their love together, and yet be all alone with no one
around? Do you know what it is like when the light of your life has
been extinguished, and you are left in absolute and complete darkness,
frightened and alone? Do you know what it is like when the one you love
so deeply and dearly is so far away? Your heart cries out their name
and yet there is no reply.

All you want to do is hold him in your arms, and you cannot. All
you desire to do is to kiss his sweet lips, and you cannot. You long
to hear his soft sweet voice as he whisper words of love to you,
and you cannot. You just want him near, and he is not.

Their absence brings with it longing and sadness. You always aks God why you cannot be with the one you love now, and yet you thank HIM
completely for bringing that person into your life, all the while
knowing that no amount of dreams and hopes and prayers, can, at once,
change the situation.

So, what do you do in such times? How do you keep your wits about
you? How do you maintain some semblance of normal life, when all you
can do is think about is the person that you are so in love with and
that you would do or give anything just to be with? You feel lost
somewhere between the cruel reality of life, and the dream-like
fairytale that you wish to live in, and the only salvation is to be
found in the arms of your beloved and that cannot happen.

Friends cannot totally comfort your soul. Thoughts only make the pain in
your heart worse. What do you do? You think about them - oh my God, how
you think about them endlessly! You pray to God for the strength to see
it through this situation, knowing that someday you will be with that
person forever. But is that enough? No. Not always. Until you are in
their arms, nothing really helps.

And so, I wait. For how long? Only time and God can tell. And as I
wait it seems as though the hands of the clock move in reverse instead
of forward. Each second that passes seems as an eternity away from him.
Time takes him further away from you instead of bringing him closer, and
time is something that is beyond your control.

How is it that love can be so wonderful, and
yet hurt so badly being so far away from the one you love?  Such pleasure in knowing and feeling his love for you, the feeling that he make you feel loved and wanted and such mortal pain in being apart from the one that you love so
deeply, so dearly, so passionately.

Im one of the filipina who has been petitioning by her fiance. It never crossed to my mind that I will be one of those. One of my bestfriend was filed this kind of case before but I was not interested about it because I knew then that I will never met a foreign guy who will  marry me. Now she is in Australia already and happily married and Im still here in the Philippines.

Now, I will do the same thing that she did before. Filling of personal papers and  getting ready of our proof of relationship. I still have to get my NSO birth certificate, NBI, Police Clearance and so on. I really hate falling in line in some goverment agency to get these papers but I have to do it.

He filed our case last July 2006 and was received by USCIS July 21. Got approved September 21. Now our case was mailed to NVC. They said that the NVC will forward our case to US Embassy Manila and the embassy will send me a mail pertaining to my interview date and papers to be prepare during the interview.

We got the email from the NVC Oct, 13, 2006 and told us that they mailed the US Embassy Manila already and maybe one of this weeks I will be receiving a packet. But now, its been 3 weeks and I havent received that packet yet.

We were thinking that my interview date will be January. Hopefully that I get approved that date and able to get the visa one day after because we are planning to fly back together soon as we get the visa.

Our marriage date will be February 22 which is Mike’s birthday.
I wish you could pray for my visa ordeal.. hehehehe!
Thanks!

Everyone of us always remember what our life before and compare it now. Some people say that they prefer their life before than now. But for me, I have received so many blessings and my life is getting better and better each day.

Why I say this? First of all, I never imagined I will found someone who will make my life meaningful. I thought that I will be just stuck to search and search for someone most of the girl’s dream of (their knight and shining armor) and then after a few months of building that relationship for good, it will just fall apart.

To be honest, I am happy with those couples being blessed with a happy relationship and asking myself when I can have that kind of relationship? And why I have to cry overnight and hope for the better relationship.

I never thought that I will reach my age now being single, But I can say that Im not single anymore. hehehe! Im just taken. I can say that Im very happy with my life now compare before. It is no longer "I" but "us" with my husband. ( I say husband because we both consider that we are married and that will be in a few months from now)..just being excited here! Everyday, I thank God because he showers me with blessings. He really sent the best gift that Ive been dreaming of on the day of my 32nd birthday. Yes, I met my future husband on the day of my birthday 2006 with a bouquet of red roses in his hands at the lobby of the hotel were we were staying.

Now, I  know my journey to life will be full of excitement, fun and love!