Bye 2011! Been a great year!

Today calls for a double celebration! Its December 31, 2011 and its the last day of the year… What better way than to wave goodbye to 2011 with great thoughts, cheers and smiles! Though far from home, its never an excuse to have a great time! Plus, I need to mention this… I’ve been here in Gibraltar for a month now! Wow! All those days gone! But there are more better days ahead! What do you think? Of course! It’s actually in people’s hands how to make their own better days! There are some things that are really out of our control but why bother focusing on them… You can’t do a thing about them anyway! Let’s focus on those things that we can change! And maybe we’ll all be better people after!

Looking back I still can’t believe that this is finally happening! It is always wise to trust HIM. In HIS time, everything will happen! It may not be as we want it to be but trust that it is way better! And worst is if you won’t realize it when you get there… Just take your sweet time and enjoy everything… Every second is an inch closer to where He wants us to be! His plans for us is way beyond ours! Sometimes even beyond our understanding! Just sit back and you will see things unfold!

Good cheers for 2012! Just take the back seat and let HIM lead the way! Its sure to be a great ride!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! May GOD bless us all!

Christmas!

It’s 1:58PM in the afternoon of December 24, 2011 here in Gibraltar… Whew… We’ll be a bit busy later preparing for Christmas so I better do some blogging before all the space gets crowded… Well, let’s take a walk down the memory lane.. Years ago, I’ve always loved christmas because of all the good food in the table… Plus, new clothes to wear… It’s easy to ask for things during christmas season unlike when its not… Maybe due to the spirit of giving… And note that in the Philippines, it’s actually christmas season, not christmas day since its beginning in September and would last until February… really festive… for as long as the chilly wind is there then its christmas still… When it comes to food, I’d always wait for the macaroni salad… been addicted to the elbows (is it a type of pasta?) hahahah! I’m not particular with the ingredients and the whole of process of making these dishes, I’m only after the finished products I missed those days when I would like to curl up in bed due to chilly breeze… And the long vacation from school! I missed that…

Then things slowly changed, I became a teenager and its not that I’ve lost my liking for gifts but rather, it took the backseat… Gifts are no longer that enticing… But my wanting of the macaroni salad? That never changed! And during that time, I think i began to like the idea of christmas parties at school and with friends… It’s the time when you realize that there’s a bigger world outside your home… And there’s a whole lot of people to share it with… And then there’s this liking for firecrackers growing… and i’d be saving for these things! Then just be wasting them after the noise and sparks!

Again, the wheel turned and I’m now an adult… Things unfold in a different way now… It’s no longer about the entire world but you begin thinking about yourself and then you look back just so you will know what you exactly want in the future… I just hope that this part do not come in late for most people just so to avoid the rush… What I meant is that you come to that point where you get to think of what you want for this christmas! Then suddenly you want a family of your own… your own kids… a good life for them and everything else follows… You take a full circle and then you’re back to how you’ve began… You would want to spend christmas with your parents again and draw them closer because you want to learn from them… from their past… It seems that we always come back home… Maybe its the way things are… Its human nature to be attached to where they’ve come from… It’s the feeling of knowing you belong to someone or that you have somewhere to go … Someone to go home to… And christmas simply reminds us that… This special occassion presses that thought that no matter how busy you were and no matter where you are… there’s this place… there are these people whom you should come home to and spend that special day… After all, it’s He where all of us come from that is born on that day! It may not be the exact day as according to history, but at least, its the thought that counts! And its in how we spend it that matters most… Not in the gifts! Not in the food! Not in the clothes! But rather being with those people that you love and just sharing the joyful spirit of love… Maybe its a cold christmas for me this time since I can’t be home… But that would only mean physical absence because in thought and spirti… I know I’m home!

Merry christmas!

Happy 3rd weeksary! :)

It’s our 3rd week here in Gibraltar! But it felt like months already… Why? Coz i’m trying to drag the days so one year will pass and I will be going home!!! There’s that wanting to go home and I no longer think that its because I’m homesick or what… But rather its because I actually have a home to go to… Unlike here, i’m the one who’s foreign… Not them… Ironic coz I’ve always been saying during my first few days here na andameng foreigners! hahahah!

Going back, It’s been a busy day… uhmmm… wait a normal busy day coz its only from 9am to 6pm with a one hour break at 1pm for lunch
Though busy, i find it cool! They always use that word here… Hahahaha! Might as well blog about it! Its nice though that after they give instructions, they always say “cool?”… How cool is that!?!

Well enough of the coolness! Let’s go to a day-ender! I’m about to sleep since its 10:36pm… I’m 36minutes past my bedtime ahem… Haaay… there really is nothing to write about… Maybe I’ve used up all my energy working… The most difficult part is my ability to comprehend since i’m not yet used to their accent…

It’s really running late! Gotta sleep! Still need to be at the office tomorrow for some christmas activities! Yahoo! I hope there ain’t much work to do! Just some cool stuff!

seconds…

Just a few more days and it will be christmas…  Suddenly its creeping in…  And I can’t help it…  That piece of reality grows more and more…  I’m away from home…  Its both a sacrifice and reward…  But, just to put it simply…  There are some days when you just wanted to go home…  Yeah, the place is undeniably a great one… everything is just amazing…  However, there are those 26 years that you just can’t leave behind all at once…  Maybe a few more days… or weeks maybe?  Months? After that, then maybe I can see clearer…  Once more, I can make future plans…  better ones even…  All i know then is that I had to take this plunge…  And I find it worth it… sure there are those people that really matters and who are hard to leave behind… that’s for sure…  but I just wanted to get rid of the ”what ifs” …  There’s work tomorrow… I better sleep…  It may be a long day!  just keep on smiling….   

Here and now….

Yellow mates! A new chapter unfolds… Not a new story nor a new beginning… Just a better turn of events… It’s 10:31PM here in Gibraltar… And it’s 5:31AM of the following day in the Philippines… I still can’t believe it… I am here… And to be honest, I really don’t know if I’d be happy or not… Well, I’ve just been here for 18 days to be exact so uhmmm… I better not trust my feelings for now… Yeah yeah… It gets a bit lonely at times but that’s cliche…. Isn’t it?

What am I say? What am I to write about really? Nah, just thought that maybe I’d sit down and post something… right, I almost forgot, we just got our wifi activated that is why… But changed? Back when I’m in the Philippines, I used to dream of going far… working overseas and gaining financial stability (I can’t use “financial freedom” yet as that is something that is really far-fetched as of now since I have this whole loads of bills to pay… hahahaha)! Aside from that, I thought that going overseas will give me a fresh start… But hey… noticed my first paragraph… I only took a better turn…Or maybe not the word “better” but rather “new”… Yeah, i think that’s more fitting… A new turn since there’s no way I can compare… At least for now… I can’t actually compare my 26 years in the Philippines to my 18 days (as of date) here in Gib… But hey, life is a lot easier here… Not much of rush going on… Just a slow phase of living giving way to a lot of thinking… But maybe in the coming days… right now, i’m all hooked up with adjusting and all the new things that i’m seeing and experiencing… everything is just new… Yeah, I shy away from thoughts of home and those people that I hold dear… Because, really, I can’t do anything now… I’m here… And if I’m to pull back, then, it will only be for the worst…

All I know is that He wanted me here… Maybe to teach me to be a better person… There’s a lot of realizations when you squeeze into your schedule some personal thinking… And in the conming days, after all the adjustments… Maybe i’d have more time… And what happens next? We’ll see after two years! But i know… It’s here and now…