- "More to come for you and me. :)"
- Knowing how another nationality celebrates the new year
- Attending a Sinulog Novena Mass with your college gang complete
- Attending a christening party of your high school classmate's daughter, feeling like the event was a high school reunion, feeling the years that have gone by
- 24th of January
- IEC 2016 in Cebu -- meeting fun people, sleeping in a foster home, sleeping while sitting overnight, free food for almost the entire week, appreciating the value of going to Church
- 1st of February -- going on an adventure first thing in the morning
- Him asking me to let him listen to my favorite band
- Miriam's letter during her birthday
- Joining a (comical) beauty pageant
- Batch 2017 winning ComE Week for the first time!!!
- 14th of February
- 15th of February -- going on an adventure again first thing in the morning
- Eating vegetable salad
- My favorite student of all time booking a class with me on my last day at work
- Getting my Friday and Saturday nights back
- Leonardo DiCaprio finally winning an Oscar after many failed nominations
- A happy February 29
- Realizing the wonders of Spotify
- Winning in a raffle draw for the first time
- Getting a spa massage for the first time
- "We're saying all of this as your friends"
- Visita Iglesia for the first time since early childhood -- Pajac Parish, Fatima Parish, church in Air Base, Birhen sa Regla Parish, Babag Parish, Cordova Parish, Marigondon Parish, Mactan Parish
- In the middle of the night, us below the skywalk and aboard a bus going to an unfamiliar place, waving cheeky goodbyes
- The Spectrum Fellowship 2016 -- going to Bacolod City, attending the best workshops in my life, gaining friends from other places of the country, more inside jokes from TC, surviving excruciating travels, winning an award with shaking hands
- "Kumusta man ka?"
- PICTURES OF CONVERGYS MR. MACHOGAY
- Today's Carolinian summer team building preceding the most emotional week of my life filled with separation anxiety and ugly crying
- Having a planner for the first time
- Having people who believe in you when you don't believe in yourself
- Surigao del Sur -- riding the airplane for the third and fourth time (and seeing the city lights from above for the first time), going back to the island I fell in love with eight years ago, poking fun around my father, saying what I've always wanted to say to my parents during their silver wedding anniversary
- Bullying him with his cousin over the phone
- Camotes -- feeling the thrill of not getting caught, playing with puns in various songs, appreciating sisig for the first time, paying less than 25 pesos to experience beautiful beaches and caves, laughing at senseless jokes again with an editorial board turned budding travel barkada
- Eating out with girl workmates from my internship company
- "Gusto ko buhok mo. It suits you. Para kang strong woman, ganun."
- "Ma-imagine nimo akong nawng ron?" "Oo, imagine-non man nako siya pirmi."
- Goofing around in a home-and-appliance center
- Wearing your dream attire, "Nasaag man ka diri sa Engineering. Naa man ta ka SAFAD dapat"
- A very collaborative editorial board
- Getting to know people over pancit canton and rice
- "I love you guys... Scripted ra ni"
- 18th of June -- making puns out of store names, headbanging over Franco, Vispop 4.0, Rico Blanco and the subtle yet impactful effect of music, shouting while aboard a motorcycle in the middle of the night
- Receiving feedback from my internship company -- "Focus on your strengths"
- Walking from Aboitiz to Talamban with a stranger, talking about religion, family, politics and other stuff, and realizing you can talk to strangers sometimes
- First CSC session with this year's edboard and knowing you can overcome anything together
- "PWEDE RA LAGI KA MAG-ASSUME"
- Carrying a baby with my own arms!
- SURVIVING USC DAYS 2016
- Thesis adviser approving our manuscript without major issues
- Revealing my buried past to someone who accepted it
- Going to Tops and seeing the city sprinkled with glitter
- Seeing the candidness of his family with my own eyes
- "You're the definition of a leader. You're not like a boss."
- TC Semestral Workshop / Team Building -- a beautiful venue, an owner you almost called Tita, "Nag-work ang Team Building"
- PASSING OUR THESIS PROPOSAL
- Reaching one year wow
- Slow dancing on the sidewalk, not minding if people are watching
- The second 26th of November -- the ferry boat ride, the chocolanay, the chicken wings and the walk along the longest road he's ever seen
- Friends -- Monica and Chandler, particularly
- Listening to him sleep over the phone
- Turning 22, eating ice cream while listening to the sea, sleeping very good naps
- Those long phone calls in the middle of the night
- Meeting his nephew! And seeing that cute little guy reach out to hold the hand of his uncle
- MMFF 2016 -- a fresh start for MMFF and the experience of watching two films in a row in the cinema
- Surviving our first big fight
dec 31 2015 ∞
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