The Day Birthday

Because it's my birthday, I was inspired by a friend of mine, ate aye (http://angelaye18.wordpress.com), to write about what happened today and post it on my blog.

1) I had a great discussion with my Sabbath School Small Group. Lots of friends were there and we talked about the importance of showing reverence to God in worship and how important it is to know the God we worship. I really enjoyed the presence of everyone there.

2) I attended the Second divine worship and really got captivated by the song "I AM" and "No More Nights" embedded in the message of the speaker. It was a clear reminder that God is I Am and all I have to do is to trust Him, know Him and acknowledge his plans for my life. I was also blessed to serve for the deaf ministry as the interpreter during the prayers. I seem to get the hang of it. I enjoyed it a lot.

3) Surprised to see no one from the Youth Ministry core group after the service. They were all in their small group room. I got several CDs and huge birthday greeting from all of them. I loved those people.

4) Spent lunch with my cousins who came over to have the latest addition in our growing clan dedicated in church. It's not really a baptismal, it was more like a dedication service to encourage the parents to lead their kids in church. We had a hearty meal.

5) Running to and fro the deaf ministry fulfilling last minute duties such as providing them with fare and lunch budget for the next Sabbath. All the while preparing to leave for Fort Andres Bonifacio Adventist Church where the Area 8 Fellowship was supposed to be held. The deaf ministry are supposed to go as well, but I opted to go with the Makati Project Grow people for some personal reasons not against any ministry. 

6) Experienced the heavy rains on our way to FABAC. I forgot that every time, at this exact date, it rains. Had a great talk with some friends while on the bus and had a hilarious moment while waiting in the rain and riding the jeepney that would take us to FABAC, which was already jam packed when we came.

7) Really didn't feel anything during the afternoon program. Missed the sermon and missed out on the commitment message. It was somewhat disappointing, but I was blessed when the deaf ministry sang. Got a lot of hilarious moments with my deaf brothers as well. 

8) Escaped the social nights because someone also wanted to go home. Instead of going home, went straight to Market Market and had dinner. It was great night with friends including that someone. 

9) On our way home, our group separated to our destinations. Said someone had no choice but to go with me since we live somewhat near each other. Made small talk. Enjoyed the time and even walked that said someone home to cap the night.

10) Something got into my friend, Mike Duco. He posted one of the legendary photos on FB and didn't even bother to hide it from others. So before the night ended I had a lot of people posting on my wall with greetings. I intentionally didn't put my birthday on my profile so only a select few would remember. However, something came into Mike Duco that made him do crazy stuff. 

11) Technically not counted as part of the day and also this should only be up to 10, but had time to watch the CD I received this morning. Almost moved to tears by the volume of people who greeted on that CD. Nagsabwatan ang buong Youth Ministries sinama pa ang parents ko. Hmp! hahaha...

Great! hahaha...

25

An uncle once told me that life and your view of life would definitely change once you turned 25. 

I was in college back then and my imagination wandered to what would happen if I turned 25. I imagined my self discovering that I had super powers that would only manifest when I turned 25. Or maybe I was already a rockstar enjoying the fame and fortune and the thousands of fans flocking to my concerts each day. Or maybe, I woke up on my 25th birthday sounding like Aristotle or Socrates and filling my head with philosophical thoughts and eccentric inventions. 

I wondered what would happen to me when I turned 25? What radical change would happen? What part of me would change? 

I kept my uncles word and tried to watch and wait for the change that would come to me when I turn 25. 

Apparently that's today. And I don't seem to find any change in me. Probably a little wiser or more inspired than before, but nothing else seemed new to me. 

Nonetheless, I'm 25. So that's that.

Looking forward

I have no work for the third day this week. It's another stretch of vacation when just a week ago I spent a weekend on top of a mountain, then the week after that, I spent the long weekend on a great venue called tagaytay.

Now I have another long weekend.

What's sad about our profession though is that if you cancelled sessions, it meant you cancelled your pay. No work, no pay. regardless of reasons, unlike in some businesses, wherein you are entitled to sick leaves with pay or absence with pay, our profession is really lenient enough to allow you to be absent but don't expect any payment.

Because of this, lots of questions popped on my head. How long would I live like this? What else can I do to have steady flow of income and still do what I want to do?

I am not business minded and most of the people who try to give suggestions offer multi-level network businesses which I don't really like (remember the PONZI scheme). Now I am at a loss as to what business or sustainable activity I would do...

If you're striving for petty things, how then could you reach higher, far better things?"

Whoever thought that sports fests are a good way to bring fellowship, then they are dead wrong. Sports fest with competitive sports breed animosity and anger among brethren.

Looking Back

I can't imagine that I've been posting write ups, since 2005. Looking back at where I've started, I can't imagine how I was still able to post on 3 blog sites (actually 4 but the 4th one is hidden) up to this time. I tried to look back at my first (and still somewhat updated) blog, BLOG-TA. I got a lot of laughs looking at the comments on most articles (someone seemed to have the most comment on many articles) However, I still couldn't bring myself back to those perky articles I wrote. Probably one of these days, I could set myself to full writing mood to write those twisted stories mostly about the events of the day. Right now, I've settled on recording each day by making one haiku a day (also inspired by that frequent commenter on my blog) on MMASR and the (almost) weekly inspirational updates. I also post here occasionally mostly to rant about how the day has gone for me.

I hope I could still maintain these blogs until such a time the webmasters decide to close down.

Fervently praying that you're just too busy and not what I really feared.