Nobody Wants To Be The Last One There

Honestly my mind is really blank right now of what to write but I decided to write a new entry since the last one is getting quite old already and I'll be out for practically a whole week. I wanted to share a piece of wisdom or just something that would help you guys look at life at a better perspective. I hope it helps you guys.

I spent my last weekend trying to learn new things about life and most especially myself. I was part of the Search-In Family of Zobel which for me was a great achievement. Search-In cannot really be described since it really means lots of things to the people who've experienced it. I believe that this organization is very unique and it really helped me become a better person. Maybe I can say that Search In is LIFE CHANGING.

Another thing I like about the retreats of this org is that the seriousness is very well kept all through out. Yes, there are also happy times as well but the main essence of the activities never gets away. There weren't any cameras present during the whole retreat which makes it even more different from all the "orgs" I know from Zobel.

One lesson I learned from the whole experience is that God will always be with us. If we don't feel Him around, He'd let other people represent Him so that we would feel loved and He'd tell us that He's still there with us. Jesus loves us very much and we wouldn't be here if not for Him.

When we sin and we regret our sins and when we want to make up for our sins, there wouldn't be any other way that can take it away. Our good deeds which we think that would erase all the bad things we've done wouldn't work. What you could do or what we could do is to offer God our sins and make Him forgive them. Once we do that with our pure hearts, we will be simply 100% forgiven. God is a loving God and He would do anything for us. He even died for us.

If you really love a person, you would trust him or her. If you love a person, you would be faithful to him or her. When you are apart from one another, you shouldn't be worried of that person finding a new person and falling in love with that somebody new. These kinds of things are tests on true love because true love is not common and true love is priceless. If you really love someone and somebody loves you back as much, you 2 must have a solid bond that no matter what happens, it wouldn't break. If it does, it's not true love.

"I love you not because of, but inspite of."

"WE are the reason why He suffered and died."

"Kung kailangan mo ako sa oras ng iyong pag-iisa...Asahan mong ako ay darating."

Until the next time.

Phim

How Can I Move On If I Am Still In Love With You

Life really is unfair.

At 16 it really is an unusual thing to say. I can even see myself laughing at it at times because I ask myself, "What have really been through already?" But still at a young age, I can somehow say that I've seen even just a glimpse of what the real world really is.

At times, Life wouldn't care if you give more than yourself into something that really matters to you because you want your life to become happy. Maybe I've been already giving so much emphasis on this thing throughout my blog but that's maybe because it is the best thing that could apply to my life right now. You give your whole self into something that really matters to you and it would just come to waste if destiny did not want it to be a part of you. If you wouldn't be able to see it coming, it would really hit you in the back hard and it sure gives so much pain.

After you got struck by that pain, it really just becomes a test of how strong of a person you are. The best thing to do is to keep on STANDING UP and never give up. Stand up to whatever else there is which gives you troubles. Never give up on anything that may seem very impossible to defeat because once your mind gives up, you'd just find yourself lying down again because of the excruciating pain.

"Just stand up no matter what."

Until the next time.

Phim

Still Not Getting Over

Since I really couldn't sleep because I basically slept the whole half of the afternoon, I just thought of creating a new post since the last one was getting old already. But despite this, I never really know what to write about right now. My mind right now just have lots of thoughts which I really don't know what to do and how to organize the things I want to share that are going through my head. But it's all good I hope and I can sense that this is going to be the most informal entry that I wrote ever since I opened up this blog.

It's actually surprising to me that the count has reached up to 70 and above when I last checked the number of times my profile got viewed because I never really expected that many people would be checking out my site after all. So I want to say thank you for the people who check out this blog of mine from time to time and I really hope that I get to share some good lessons to you guys. One thing I really want to do right now is just to make other people happy. There's so much stress going on around us and I just want to be a difference that would somehow light up other people to remind them of how lovely the world we live in really is.

Advanced Happy Birthday greetings to Gabby Cantos, Kevin Shaw, Denise Chan, Natalie Cruz, Joey Gutierrez, and Boks Sun!

"Di na bale na ako yung malungkot basta yung mga tao sa paligid ko gusto ko masaya."

Until the next time.

Phim

Nico's Surprise Party-October 4, 2008

Yesterday we celebrated Nico's 17th birthday. We planned to have a surprise party for him to make it more exciting and that we're getting used to it already. The whole day was very fun and there were lots and lots of food presented by tita Liza. It was a great experience since we celebrated in a condominium or a hotel room which tita Liza rented (I'm not really sure but it was a totally different way to celebrate your birthday at this age). If I'd be given a chance to describe the whole day in one word, I'd say, Blessing.

What I like most about the Elorde family is that no matter how well known they already are, no matter how blessed they are, and no matter how many good things they receive from God everyday, they never get selfish or proud. They always remain down to earth and even become more generous. It is an honor for me to be known or to have this family close to me because they really are great disciples of God and I have experienced their generosity all through out my life. They show people how to be good, and disciplined and these are the kinds of people that our country and the whole world need.

Once again it was a great day for my barkada to just bond and enjoy each other's company and for us just to relax and get away from all the stress we get from school. We enjoyed the whole day through eating, swimming, watching TV, and laughing our hearts out whenever someone shares a joke. I wish and I know that we will have more times like these. "ALAB Forever"

"Blessing", I say for the nth time already is because that that time we had together was full of joy. God gave us each other to realize that we are not alone in this world and there are people who really care for us. This clan we have has already turned into a family. I remember at one point during the day that we were all in one room squeezing each other in and I told myself that these are also my brothers and sisters. For those moments we lived together, I really felt us, ALAB really being a family.

There's no new lesson that I can share from the whole experience but there still is something of course and I've said all over through my previous entries. "Be thankful to the Lord." That's basically it. After a day of ups and downs, you should always say a thanksigiving prayer because it's one way of returning and recognizing God's love.

Until the next time.

Phim