525, 600 Minutes

few days from now 2oo7 will be officially over, another five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes will pass by...

the year is generally good...

from thesis to PICC, from PICC to the roads of Makati and Pasig, from those roads to the malls, from Fish and co. to TOSH, from Taguig to Sucat, from St. Paul to PSA, from Piolo Pascual to Cho Shin Sung (SUNGJE!!!)

this had been my journey....

yes, the road is not as smooth as i wished it to be.... wounds in every battles becomes scars.... i forgave but i never forget....

often i told myself that life depends on how I look at it... I drown every uncertainty, doubt and fear with optimism but it does not work every time. i am also human. i am weak.


there were times that i almost wanted to give up... i seek fantasy, never facing the painful truth...

but I know that I must go on....face life, Live every experience as it will pass only once...

plus i have my family and friends to back me up....

during the lowest part of my life, to the most elated ones... they never leave me behind...

i know that they too have their own troubles but they never hesitate to help me out...

often, i don't need to ask... they volunteered.

My Family and Friends were the real Treasures that i keep... and i wish to share

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i made choices.... choices that affect my life... not all were perfect

but i never wanted to regret any.

i have my own faults but in the end i wished to think that i did things my way.... that i had no one to blame but myself.

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some 525, 600 minutes

1 Thesis, 2 thesis mates, 3 Lovable Panelists, 1 thesis Adviser, 1 ousted chairperson turned Dean, 1 unwanted chairperson, 30 psychology major graduates, 1 hated classmate, 1 PICC, 1 St. Paul, 3 co-KDs, 10++ Life Wreckers, Gazillion Wrecked lives, Hundreds of Resume/CV printed submitted to hundreds of Companies, 1 year older, 10 books , 1 broadway show, 1 concert, 7.50 fare, 2 Movies, 2 DVD's, 6 VCD's, 1 PSA, 1 account, some Hundreds richer, 1 resigned boss...2 replacements, 1 PES Team, 14 co-workers, 1 office, 2 LCD monitors, 1 Laptop, 1 chair, 1 wounded finger....

hundreds of funny moments, sleepless nights, over night at the office, traffic jam, bus tickets, coca-cola bottles/cans, new found friends, lates, unofficial phonecalls, visit at You Tube, new wardrobe, reunions, gimiks...

few true friends...


one paroled corrupt ex-president, One attention seeking elected senator, one Manila Peninsula, one bombed Batasan, 1 Curfewed night, 1 Glorietta incident, numerous bomb threats, numerous extra-judicial killings....

the best and worst of times....

one life.

one country.

one family.

(one ABS-CBN)

another year ahead.

366 days to welcome.

2007 will never be forgotten.