45 Lessons life taught me

45 Lessons life taught me

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio

(if it's in bold, then it means its something that i, myself have learned in life too :))

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it..

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you, really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone, everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

How to have an amazing day in 25 easy steps

1. Go to work.
2. Have a cup of cafe mocha extra hot.
3. Do some of your tasks. Answer emails.
4. Tweet like hell.
5. Listen to owl city on your phone.
6. Wait for 5pm and then logged out.
7. Walk till you pass by the mall.
8. Call boyfriend and tell him how you miss him.
9. Buy small things for boyfriend.
10. Ride the MRT.
11. Call boyfriend again and tell him you're on your way to his place. Ask if he wants to fetch you in SM.
12. Smoke while waiting for him.
13. Greet him with a smile plus a sweet kiss on the lips.
14. Ride his motor all the way to his crib.
15. Greet his cousins, nieces, nephnew and sister.
16. Hand him your present and see his big smile. Hear him say THANKS BABE. :)
17. Had sinigang na salmon for dinner with the rest of his fam.
18. Smoke with his friends outside.
19. Make small conversation.
20. Follow him to his room.
21. Cuddle all night.
22. Hear him say how much he misses you and how much he loves you.
23. Kiss and thank him.
24. Go home.
25. Answer phone as he calls and say goodnight.

Rest daysssssss

I had a long long weekend with R. Wednesday after shift, I went to his crib to sleep over. The next day we headed to Batangas. I had my Holy Week in his province with the rest of his cousins. Guess what? We went there riding his motor. I KNOW!!!!! I can't believe I just did that, I almost faint after 2.5 long hours. Bilang maarte pano ko nagawang makarating dun ng ganon? Ewan ko nalang. haha!

Day 1:
Had brekky and lunch. Sarap! Lutong probinsya. Tinola at fried tilapia. Those tilapia, hinuli nila sa ilog. Astig!

We went to beach then. Nasugbu beach. It wasn't a nice place. Crowded actually. But yea, I still gone swimming with R and the rest of his crew. I had a lil fun though.

At night. R tried askin me to swim in the river. I'm not sure at first, but yea, I still oblidged. :) The river was so calm. It wasn't that scary. He was so lambing that night. We were swimming afar from his cousins. Some of the boys, were making bonfire and others were preparing the dinner. We are about to get drunk that night.

Adobo. Our dinner was divine! Aiza (may kapangalan, Akang's wife) was our dear chef and she did a great job!

The drinking session has started. I was the only girl at first. Aiza and Jai were busy with their kids. They were trying to get the babies go to sleep. So I joined the boys. :) It was getting late and I found myself calling Angel, R's ex. I asked her to join us outside. R was a bit upset. Why do I need to call her daw? E bakit ba? LOL Suddenly, 3 people arrived. Ang lalakas uminom. Di ko na ata kayang sumabay. LOL YES! I got drunk. super drunk. R accompanied me while I was vommiting like hell! LOL yea, it didn't stop there, I puked for like 4 times! I messed up. hahahaha! Luckily, R didn't gave up on me. He managed to brought me in our room and let me fall asleep. Thanks babe. It was a crazy night. I was totally high and feeling blah! LOL

Day 2:
I got up early, I wasn't feeling really well. I'm still dizzy to death. I went outside to feel some fresh air. Sat on the duyan and tried to fall asleep again. The boys woke up then together with R. He handed me a cup of coffee and a cigar. We chilled out. We had brekky. R wanted to swim again in the river. I didn't join them. Instead, I played plants vs. zombies and suddenly I fell asleep. Later afternoon everyone agreed on going to the beach. So we went there til night. R didn't join swimming. He made a lil sand bench so we could rest there and enjoy looking at the stars. We had a nice conversation. He was so sweet and I got a lil kilig. He keep on saying i love yous and i miss yous while he cuddles me. We enjoyed the fishballs, kikiam and other streetfoods. We played with the kids, his pamangkins, and then we headed home.

We had dinner, fried chicken and sinigang na baboy. Burppp! Busog lang. Walang humpay na kwentuhan, basagan, laftrip and we watched movies as well. We called it a night. R and I slept so well. He woke me up at 4am with a kiss. We're heading Manila na! YEEEY for me!

Day 3:
Ang haba ng biyahe. It took us 3 hours I guess. I was too exhausted. I think I got tanned. NAKS! pota ayoko nga neto e. When we arrived home, we went to bed right away and slept all day. Afternoon I have to wake up, I have a hungry stomach. I was staring at him and I was thinking if I'll wake him up. I decided not to for he's really into deep sleeping. I ate lunch with his sis. Then R woke up. We were trying to decide if we're goin to watch Babe, I love you. It was so hot here in Manila that time that's why we wanted to hit the mall. It's black Saturday and I thought malls were still close. Finally we decided to just go to the near wet market and buy stuffs for dinner. R cooked puchero and inihaw na tilapia. SARAP NG BUHAY! Sana laging ganun. We had dinner with his entire fam. I didn't experience this when I was with O before. Prolly that's why I can't leave him this soon. :(

I still enjoyed the night with R. We slept and he promised to drop me home at 4am. So he did.

I'm not gonna lie. It wasn't that fun fun loong weekend for me, because It'll gonna be super fun if and only if I am with O. But surely I can say, I felt the love and the care for 4 days while I was with him. Thanks R, I don't have much words to say to you, but thank you for always being there. :) hugggs

How are you Aizeee?

It's been a while since I blogged here. I miss blogging. I don't know why did I stop writing about rants and all. Prolly I'm just not in the mood. Just that.

I've been in a bad mood lately. I'm just so pissed everytime I'm around other people. No one in particular actually. It just suck to death everytime she nags about taking meds and eating right stuffs to eat. Also, trying to act like she's concern about me when all I know is that she was all concern about when is payday and when she would get her money from me. OK. I am talking about her. Yea, I could be the most rude daughter on earth but seriously you'll understand where I am coming from once you get to know her.

Where in the hell you could possibly imagine a sick person would visit a lame guy just to feel she is being loved and cared? OK. Yea, I've done the most stupid thing in the world. Even I know I am chillin' because of fever and having a freagin' dry cough and running nose, I still manage to go there just to see him and let him know what is up with me.. Well honestly, I went there for a fight. Since I am not feeling well and I want to scream like hell because of annoyance, I'd rather go there and argue even he's clueless what's my point. Sorry I have to do it. I just wanna see you, that's the truth.

After seeing tons of messages and missed calls, I replied and he was tottally pissed. He screamed and called it quits. Fine with me. I am all done. (AS IF?)

So, all in all, life's been screwed up. March is about to finish. When could I see beach? Or probably, when could I hear the wedding bells? BOOOOOOOOO!

Love Calculator

Lumipas na ang paglaro natin sa Flames nung elementary at high school. Dati pa nga, every time na may magiging crush ako, sinusubukan kong gumuwa na ng signature na gamit gamit ang surname nya. Hanep e no? Ako na ang advance ang utak. Bakit ba? Practice kumbaga! haha! Ngayon, alam kong alam nyo na lahat tong site nato, pero pag naiisipan kong mapadaan, naaaliw ako sa tuwing gagamitin ko sya.. Napapaisip din ako. Tama nga rin siguro tong site nato, abangan nyo kung bakit...

explain ko pa ba kung bakit? E nagbreak na sila? Kayo na humusga..


O di nagkatuluyan nga sila.. Dapat siguro i-love calculator muna talaga bago humantong sa kung ano ang isang relationship e. haha


I KNEW IT PAPA P! walang duda! LOL


Sorry na sa mga umaasa, kame talaga ni JLC ♥


Hindi kelangan maging 90+% pa ang isang relasyon tancha ko.. Tamang 86% sakto na to! Yan ang perfect match! yan ang di matitibag! Subok na subok na ata to! ;)

Changes

A lot of things have changed lately, and I'm pretty not use to it. Knowing me, changes--it makes me a lil sick. Remember my blog about "the cafe mocha thing"? Yea, things in my life are actually steady, in so many ways. When it comes to work--almost 5 years baby! Talking about love life--man, I gave all the 9 years of my life! Yea, I'm that stupid, or probably I should say again, I'm afraid of constant changes. I'm longing for comfort zone that I'm use to, and now I learned it's all bullshit. I should've done this before. I should've stop being afraid of what might have been. I'm not an organized kind of person, I actually don't plan ahead of time. I don't have this bucket list I should experience before I die. I am just a simple girl who live in my simple world that actually wanted a simple yet lovely life. I only need a real happiness. Been battling for it for the longest time. Been waiting for it to happen. Been seeking for it for almost everyday. It has been a rough and cool 26 years of ride, now I decided to stop and think of changes..

7 days from now, I'll step out of this building bringing all my stuffs with me. Yes, I resigned from BR@Nd3rs. And it happened so quickly. The process was 3 days only! Can you imagine that? Aisa, my dear friend here decided to move on and she did it when I was out of the office. I was all stressed out when I heard about the news, the next thing I knew, I was giving out my resume to an ex-officemate. I was a kind of nervous doing that. Yes, I know I planned of leaving this company for quite some time now, but not this soon. I got tons of pending things to do at that time but my mind was telling me then, oh screw it! Leave and let it go! There's so much life out there! So yea, I made a decision. I'm leaving.

Lucky me, same day I gave my resume to an ex-officemate I got a call from the HR inviting me for an interview for the next day. I obliged. To make the long story short, I got the job! And it's waaay better than what I have here. Thank good God! Goodbye graveyard, goodbye team, goodbye boss, I WAS NICE, working with you! LOL No, seriously, it was nice working with all of you here! I'm glad I was part of the team and thank you for that almost 5 long years. I learned tons of shits and stuffs! Indeed, THANK YOU!

On the other hand, love life's been so-so. We had this kind of what-the-fuck-are-you-trying-to-break-up-with-me-again issue. HAH! I am feeling so young when I'm with him. We're like highschoolers ya know. I got to experience tons of first times with him. But for some reasons, I'm again feeling afraid of letting him go. I told ya before, he's similar to ex. But this guy, I think, is getting worse than ex. We've been dating for only a month now and I must say, I need to ask for his secretary's permission to talk to him so I could have his full time with me. LOL yea, this guy is busy knowing he's still not working full time. Last week, he went to work once. DAMN! isang beses lang sa isang linggo! He's drunk last Monday, Thursday and last night. OK. I should have drive him to rehab i guess. I have so many issues why the fuck I can't stand him at times. I am trying to control my feelings because I don't want to fall in love but I guess I am. And this sucks! I can't seem to find a replacement for On!e's position now. I know this new dude is not the one. He isn't. He will not be. ever. :( and I'm sad he can't be. sana sya nalang, kung pwede lang.

Life's too unfair, why do we need to bump into each other and see a potential in this relationship if we all knew this might not work in the future. why the fuck? it's getting confusing and desperate again.

Now, I'm all back to the thought of seeing On!e nalang.. Babe, you come home, be here as fast as you could. please.. :(

Farewell Aisa

OK, this is it. It's Aisa's last day today. She even logged in early so she could exit early as well. :( I'm half sad and half happy because of this. This isle wouldn't be complete now that she's leaving. This isle that is surrounded by row 4 peeps will definitely be dull and boring. Aisa's the clown here, without her, we'll be completely lost (wow! e may ganon? NAMAN!) and miserable. On the other hand, I'm very happy for her because she has decided to leave and follow her heart of working from home. She wants to do different things and oh, please visit her online store at ebay and archiveclothing.multiply.com.

Happy Shopping! ;)

Andito na si Chito, si Chito Miranda....

Edi ako na tamang papansin kay PAROKYA! I love you sir! You really made my day! wooohooo!

1.5 Weeks and I'm done... [eom]

A simple wish, yet I failed to get...

People think I got 2 boyfriends at the same time. That's not true. I don't even have one right now. I celebrated Valentine's Day with my fam (oh I never celebrate vday even I got a boyf before) by day and had a few drinks at night with some friends whom I'm not close with. No one gave me something that day. This some dude told me, he should've given me roses if I kept my promise of being with him that night. He planned of going to MOA and watch the fireworks display shit there. The flowers were ready but I didn't show up. It's all good. I'm not a flower fan but yea, just like all girls, I have this smile whenever a guy gave me a flower for some sort of reasons. I don't know what's with flowers but yea, it's sweet. Only thing I hate about it--the price! Too expensive!

So yea, my only wish that day is to receive something from Krispy Kreme. I love it so much. I still remember, M*rtin used to bring 2 boxes of Krispy Kreme everytime he visits me in my house. :) You know, I could finish 3 original glazed doughnuts in one sitting. The smell, and oohh... the soft bread.. I'm craving now!

Look at those, YUM!

And how bout these? Who would say no with these? BOX OF MINIS, 20's for 299!

The most sinful Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Chocolate Kreme Cakes made with Oreo cookies! Ohh lala! *CRAVING*

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Ok, scrap that! I changed my mind... I should've celebrated my Valentine's day with...

...while having a good laugh with Barney Stinson of How I Met Your Mother.