I'm Eternally Grateful

Before this year ends and the new year start with the bang, allow me to extend my deepest gratitude to the people and groups of people that touched my life in one way or another. I don’t want to be too sentimental, but I don’t want to take for granted the people who touched my life in one way or another directly or indirectly, big or small. I’m not committing suicide or planning to leave planet Earth anytime soon. I just feel like thanking people, anyways this is the season to be thankful, and not be sarcastic. I’m blessed for meeting you, and I’m eternally grateful.

TO MY PARENTS:

For giving me freedom. For giving support on my exploits yet still holding me with the guiding and protective love. For the never-ending love and care. For the protection and understanding. For understanding me, and encouraging me. For the allowance, for the food and pasalubongs. For the movies and the hang-outs. For being Godly. For loving each other truly and faithfully, and giving me a conducive environment to grow and learn. Without you, I won’t exist. Without you, I won’t know God. Without you, I won’t be like this. For the people whose my life touched, don’t thank me, thank my parents, for they molded me to be vice-free, Godly, caring, and understanding.

TO MY HIGH SCHOOL BARKADA:

My prendsheep Pat who is only an internet away. To Jan, Allain and Ryan James, for occasionally dropping by at our house to hang out and do random trippings. For my angels, Joedee, Marian and Ange, who are the ladies dearest to my heart, who are always there to share, and to listen, and be there. To the friends I frequently meet, you know who you are, thanks for being always there when I need someone to talk to, visit, comfort, and hang out, window shop, and eat. To Anj, for the occasional chats and talks. To Jess, who I can’t see anymore yet still a part of our Trimurti with Pat. To Pamkins, for being able to chat and talk once in a while though she’s far away, for lending an ear, for encouraging, for giving advice, and for the cards she sent. To Trine, for being a bestfriend, and sharing your anime trippings and stories. To JL, for being a kapatid with Marian and Trine, for the talks and Godly stories. To my tropa, Lyle, Annalisa and Jeck, for the eating and commuting moments, and for the longest walk stretching 7 LRT stations. For my Tropantog, Boss Danes, Martin, Vlady, Brian, Arthur and Jodan, for the tropa moments, for the phototrips and for the witty conversations. To Lala, for being a good friend, for considering me as gentleman and funny, for hanging out before, for being appreciative. To Khrisna, for being an epitomy of kindness and goodness. To those I missed out, I still thank you, for the high school memories which won’t be forgotten.

TO MY COLLEGE FRIENDS:

To my Block L friends, for still being there to talk to, hangout with, have conversations, and listen to my rants, and wacky stories. To Perry, for being the first one in the block I talked to and became my friend. To Angelo, Justin, Caloy, and Chris, for the basketball games, and some hangout sessions. To JC, for sharing the music. For Miyay, for the witty conversations and chats, for the friendly and thoughtful nags, for the stories exchanged, for putting up with my rants, and for the 3 years of working with her. To Ica and Concha, for sharing the Korean fun of drama series, showbiz and music. To Ris, for sharing the passion in Korean movies. To Raissa, for the anime and convention talks. To Arthur and Rox, for sharing not only your witty side, but also the playful side. To Dianne and Nins, for the walks and talks, and occasional commuting, and listening to my rants, and believing in my skills. To Jinielle and Mich, for being seatmates and groupmates, for listening and giving advice, and for believing in what I can do, and putting up with my tardiness.

To my SCL friends:

To Karla, for being a loving bestfriend, for opening a new dimension in me, for giving me a broader perspective of life, for inspiring, encouraging and motivating me, for the text messages, the emails and the long phone calls, for the coffee conversations, for hanging out, for the movies, for touching my heart and mind with sweet, inspiring, and sometimes hurting words which are nevertheless true, for being true, for staying as a friend, for still allowing me to hangout with you, for the long waits after class, for the walks and talks, for the commuting, for the arcade games, for the letters, for waking my dormant side allowing me to connect more to others by being a bridge allowing me to have more friends, for breaking the torpe spell cast on me, for the helping hand, for the concern, for the painting, for the stories, for trusting me, for allowing me to know you and enter your life, for believing on what I did, do, can do, for showing me that I to some extent I touch lives, and for many more reasons words won’t give justice. To my forever groupmates, Jinielle, Sam, Mich, Kate and Aspe, for being so patient and not banishing me for being always tardy in the group meetings, for the anger which turned into concern when I was not waking up, for believing in my capabilities, for supporting my exploits, for the ideas, for the accomplishments our group did, and for listening to my stories. To Chii, for being an ate, for being my forever seatmate with MM, for sharing the stories, for listening to my rants and stories, for being a confidant, for being a good friend, for the chats, for the advice, and for the company. To Rish, for being a PR manager, for being a loyal supporter, for believing in what I do and can do, for appreciating my benevolent acts, for the encouragements, for the occasional push, for understanding, for the advice, for the talks, for putting up with my rants, and for the occasional libre. To Macy, Doti, Ideza, Liz and Grace along with Rish, for being good friends, for being good friends to Karla, for listening, for understanding, for hanging out, for eating out, for the encouragements, and for helping me with my short but sweet exploit. To Tippy, for the chats, the conversations, the anime talks, the Bioman movie she lent, also for believing in my skills, for the text messages, the jokes, and for listening and talking to me to lighten up my mood.To Tami, for the heart to heart conversations in our chats, for the jokes, for the advice, for giving a different perspective, for listening, for being a good new found friend, and for believing and supporting my exploits. To Mau and Myrrh, for the witty yet fun casual talks, for listening to my stories and giving some points to consider, for the jokes, and for the cinnamon with whipped cream shot. To the instant campaign group, Jonathan, Kiko, Pat, Ria, Liz, Rish, and Sam, for the instant winning ideas concocted, for the wacky insights, for the funny moments and pictorials, and for the teamwork. To those I haven’t mentioned, you may not be in the evoke set or top-of-mind, yet I still thank you, for SCL won’t be complete without you, thanks for the IMC experience, the ideas, the talks, the jokes, the teamwork, the fun, the losses, and the victories.

TO MY FAMILY, FRIENDS AND CHURCHMATES:

These people sometimes overlap. These people may be too many too mention. But nevertheless, they are still part of what I consider family. To my family members on the mother’s and father’s side, to my extended family in University Baptist Church, to my friends back in my old communities, to my friends back in nursery, kinder and elementary in Philippine Christian University, to the friends I have in chatrooms, to the friends I have in blogs, to the friends I have in Deviantart, and to my old friends, and new found friends, thank you, thank you. Thank you for touching my life directly, or indirectly by touching the lives of my parents and friends.

And most importantly, thank you GOD. I’m eternally grateful for giving me life, intelligence, love, character, gifts, talents, skills, and most importantly for blessing me with a loving family, and the best set of friends.