First Step

Day 1

Meal 1

For Jackie

For Jackie

How do you thank someone who gives everything she has and does not expect anything in return?
Do you buy her gifts and sing her song's favorite refrain?
Some people think it's clever to throw a party -
but this person I know is not into all those things fancy.

She is humble
She is kind
She will let you know and tell you what's on her mind

She inspired me to be who I am today
She molded me into the lady who fits my shoe
She is my cousin
and her namesake's Jackylyn

I've always looked up to her from day one
She's always looked out for me since I too was young
I know I gave her trouble when I was little
I know this because some were just epic battles

Though now that I am older I came to find
that the friendship we have is unique and one of a kind
She continues to inspire me
She is my favorite, my Jackie

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Dear Ate,




Paano ba kita papasalamatan sa lahat lahat? Ikaw na hindi sumuko saming lahat at patuloy paring sumusuporta na walang hinihintay na kapalit. I know this isn't much and it's a little too late but this is a small token of my appreciation for the world you gave us in return. I know that Mama is looking down on you from heaven everyday saying she is proud of you and everything you have accomplished. One day ate magkakasama sama din tayong lahat, sila Mama, Daddy, Nanay at Tatay habang nagtotongits sila at tayo naman naglalaro ng MAD na board game. Hindi naging madali para sating lahat pero kinaya at kinakaya natin. I wish you all the happiness in the world, you deserve it and more. I wish you the love you deserve and the person who deserves you.  I pray for you every night to find that. I love you Ate Len ko, peyborit. 

Fondly,
Geline

My own personal Damulag

ang mahal kong asawa at ang kanyang pista of a brekky <3 p="">

makita ko lang yang ngiti mo sa umaga - busog na ko!

Home coming

It's been a while since my last blog post.

A lot has changed since then, I checked my last entry;

Sunday, May 31, 2015 entitled Heartbroken 

Honestly, I let myself be engulfed with the flames of adulthood and just embraced that FCK IT attitude. 

Too many relationshits too count and too many irrelevant people later.. and now I'm engaged.

HAHAHA!

I can't believe it myself, I actually found someone who accepted me for me. 

Walang halong keme, walang halong bullshit.

Standing here now, in the middle of a long road ahead still -- with my worn out armor but oh I welcome the blood now, I welcome the carnage because I overcame so much and I can say I have conquered it everything that came my way.

I feel more confident now, far from the child I was when I decided to quit school just because of a skinny little bitch who laughed at me for being fat. Hey! I'm still fat oh but I've learned to embrace all my slabs. I am unappologetic for who I am now, all my flaws, all my drama. I am content with who I am now.

Writing or the thought of writing has been haunting me for months now.

Maybe because it has always been my truth and I'm afraid of what I will come to face on this blank sheet of paper -- but I'm glad I did write tonight because what I came to realize is that I did good. 

And all is well.