Time alone.

‘’We need to be humble enough to accept our limitations, on shallowness, and wait for the grace to listen and accept His words. God’s word is not just to be sowed, but to be rooted on rich soil’’

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God. :'> 

Sweet forty winks! 

PAULLIE!

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Meet one of my cutest angels. Paul Anthony Muñoz. 

He's my nephew. And I looked exactly like Paullie back when I was that young. 

I love you, Paullie! 

So Young, So BackStreetBoys!

Back when I was   9 or 10.  I can visibly remember how crazy I was whenever I saw BSB on TV during my grade school days.  Ahh, I used to squeal my lungs out, literally.  My cousins and I used to jump, or maybe in awe. Dude,  that’s how crazy we were at BSB. To add on that, I even knew their profile. Like where and when they were born. For me during my grade school days, their songs served as my relief. Their songs made me always swing my head. When BSB, had their concert at Araneta early this year I wasn’t  there coz I really didn’t know at all. So I just kinda blubbered.

Just early this morning, July 21, 2010 I was in a hurry coz I was really late for school .As I was sitting in the van, and some sort of songs from the 90’s been playing, I was not really in the mood coz Im running late. And bang, the introduction song of EVERYBODY (BackStreet’s Back) was played. Ooh wow. It was like I grooved into it. And then the song switched to I Want It That Way, and I was humming. Ha-ha-ha. And I noticed the other passengers tapping their laps, and humming. How cute was that, right? The BackStreet fever.  So I kept humming until I thought of a very harebrained idea. ‘”That moment, it was okay to be late coz if  I wasn’t I’m not gonna be able to hear BSB’s music”. Ha-ha. Little did I know when Quit Playing Games was on, I was actually near school and about to step out of the van. HAHA! And then I used the shortcut to our room, which was indeed very rock-strewn. My heels got some sort of nicks. Ha-ha. Oh well, I got inside the classroom. And bang, I wasn’t late! Yahoooo.  During the break time, I shared my experience with Lindsay and Heather. And surprisingly, they used to be fans of Spice Girls. And Lindsay just told me that she liked BSB. Ahh, cute right?

The BackStreet’s fever isn’t over for me. I will always be a fan.  A Backstreet baby.

Ambushed.

Hello, Ambush!

As I stepped out of the van and walked two blocks away from the subdivision’s arc, I saw this Crosswind. I knew that the car belongs to the Magaling’s. but little did I know, those inside the car were Tine, Nico and Company.  They stopped the Xwind and forced me to come and have dinner with them. They insisted so hard that I can never say no. Ha-ha. So I got in. And headed to Shakey’s.  

L: Top to bottom: Tine, Me, Lawrence, Monica

R: Top to bottom: Nico, Tiny, Ratsy, Benedict

Btw: Lawrence, Monik, And Benedict are Tine's Siblings.

Ratsy, Nico's cuz and just very close to these two. 

Tiny, Tine's friend for years and just really close with these two also.

HAPPY 7 YEARS guys!  

I did have heaps of fun. Issues/Rumors  that we were laughing out loud. The food, lip smacking! I was really bloated. Nonstop shots with, CLR! Hahaha. Yeah. CLR! Tine’s disposable camera according to her.  Blah blah blah. 

Thank you guys for having ambushed me! Happy 7th Anniversary Tine and Nico! ☺

Btw. Just to share the Magazine that made for Nico. (One of her 7 gifts to him).

Isn't it cute and fabulous? 

My article. Imma proud contributor. :-))

Home by Past 9. :-) Had a blast! 

Lacklustre.

This is what I rarely do when I feel jaded. Playing with myself. Making face, which I am good at.  

Blub.

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. 

Whatever. Just Please. I hate it when a family member says a thing and.. He/She doesn't really know the root of any misunderstanding or whatsoever. Thing is, they just don'y understand what you feel sometimes. Thing is, they weren't treated like the way someone treats you. Thing is, they just say whatever they wanted to. Thing is, they doubt your ability. Thing is, you just blubber.. Thing is, sometimes there's nothing you can do about it but to SIGH.  

And the thing is, you just try to forgive.. and just forget.. And move on.. 'cause you are a family. 

*Sniff*

OhMy, Momay!

• We only got two nights before the Preliminary Exams. I don’t know how am I gonna start with topics. Hell yeah. I wish my brain can absorb everything at hand. This time, we are more challenged to pass and meet the standards. Our University has implemented a new Transmutation Table. And the new transmu is very shocking and to add on it, it’s wreckage.  It’s like were on a stumbling block.  Jeez. We all hate it though we know that it’s for our own sake. If somebody gets zero? That will be equivalent to 40%. Haha! Whatever you know. I just hope we’ll all do good on Saturday.

Personalized Tumbler.

Mosaic. 

This idea is so cool. Patten loves hot coffee a lot. Me? I loved hot coffee. But that was before. Haha. I only prefer iced coffee these days.  We’ve been thinking of what we can do with our PERSLAB icon. Haha. This is it. We made use of it, finally. Personalized Tumblers by us. Since we know how to cobble together pictures for a mosaic, we made it. Pictures were since 2008. And then we had it printed in a glossy moss green paper. 

Patten's cutting the edges for the picture to fit on the tumbler. 

Here it is. 

Personalized Tumbler. 

I am looking forward to more stuffs that we will be making use of our icon. =)

One More Time, Picnik.

Ooh. How I missed Picnik-ing. I have always loved to edit pictures.  I am not using CS4 or whatever cause I don’t have that installed. I just go Picnik-ing and play with pictures. But .. I haven’t done it for like 5, 897, 090 years. Ha-ha. My friends, Nico and Tine will be having their 7^th Anniversary on the 20^th of July.  Aside from the article I contributed to their magazine, in return to Tine’s favour that she needed a depiction with a little layout for a photo puzzle, I made this. It’s just a little blurred here.  He-he.  I copied the caption from the article I wrote for them.

Inch by inch, we celebrate and thank God because we end up being with and loving the same old person 

over and over again. 

  HAPPY ANNIVERSARY GUYS!! =)

Inseparable Buttcheeks: 7 Years of Nicotine.

(The article I made for the NICOTINE magazine. One of Tine’s 7 gifts to Nico. I was a contributor. It's entitled Inseparable buttcheeks. )

Inseparable buttcheeks. 

Seven exquisite years. Seven mind-boggling years. Seven tough years. Seven stirring years of friendship, trust, love and faith.

Just like any love story beautifully blessed by God.

The epitome of love is very ample. It takes a lot of courage to be the real you in this ever changing world. And it takes a lot guts to share yourself to someone different from who you are. Life is quite ironic and so does love. But God always has his own ways of writing our love story. Love has its own special way of finding us. And when love finds us, everything becomes breathtaking. Inch by inch, we celebrate and thank God because we end up being with and loving the same old person over and over again.  

Knowing these two, I knew they can make it this far. For merely seven years, I have been one of the onlookers of the NICOTINE. I was one of their living chronicles. I presume myself for not narrating every little thing that they have come across for 7 years. Everyone so close to them knows what they’ve been through anyway whether it’s a bliss or chaos.

They started as youngsters sharing an ever endearing puppy love. Days and months passed by and these two got more love-stoned just like all the fairy tales we knew. I can even remember the times when Tine will be approaching me, and she was very uneasy, mad, and jealous, feeling hacked off, etc. And before she says a thing, she’ll cry a river first. After all the whimpering, she’ll explain everything. Like what happened, what made her to be feeling that way. You know, every little school girl would want to tell her girl chum. Nico, on the other hand was a bit easy for me to handle cause he doesn’t cry that much. He isn’t that emotional but he is really obstinate. I know how stubborn he is and to add on that, how playful he sometimes can be. You know, all the things high school lovers wil bump into.  And those were the days. Those days, I can say MEMORIES. Really really cute. And I must say, those years were the good foundation why they never can’t stop loving each other. Mushy much. They made a really cute couple.

Lovestoned. I suppose this also adds up a lot to the the 7 years of Nicotine. I can never imagine these two not spending every single moment of forever. They’re like magnets like Tine’s all time favourite Bella and Edward. It may be a little gooey but it is true. I’m one of the lucky witnesses, remember?  

I have witnessed how their relationship got hit by a catastrophe for so many times. And those ghastly moments were never easy to handle. Again, they were never easy. There came some points were things caught them off guard. There were times that they needed to cut things off. Times when they get wounded so badly, times when they got broken, and times when things got miserable. Believe me, what they have gone through were really not a gag. But they’re like buttcheeks, shit separates them, but they always come back together. And that’s just love. And that’s just NicoTine. From those difficult times, they have grown.

NicoTine always has ‘’acceptance’’ as one of the main features in their long lasting blessed relationship. Tine is almost everything that Nico is not. Vice versa. It isn’t any magical romantic feeling that has made them fall madly in love with each other. The key is acceptance. Acceptance is not an easy thing. It is a forever ongoing process. I am sure, Nico is very thankful to those people who have been a part of what Kristine is. And so does Tine to him. Their little differences spice up what they have. And what makes each one of them a little different makes them more beautiful. I can vividly imagine how they love each other’s flaws.

Tine and Nico has been each other’s sounding board for 7 years. They’re the best of friends. Their arms have been one another’s sweet escape from this erratic world of ours. Their love has constantly been one another’s source of strength. And their Faith in God has continuously become their weapon in their world’s battlefield.

Seven Years. Some may praise them for having gone this far, some may say such things. But I am astoundingly very proud of them. Not just for having gone this far but for who they have become because the relationship that they have made them better. Way better. It takes grownups to make an ever adorable relationship work, and these two were really good. And they deserve all the admiration.

Words will never be enough to squeeze out how genuinely happy I am for the both of them. I may not be able to get to see them every day, I may miss all the stories and all. I may not be the one who happened to be one of those always-updated about them anymore. But in my heart, I know how happy and blessed they are.

These two aren’t perfect people. They have imperfect souls just like the rest of us. Two imperfect souls loving perfectly the way they know and they can.  Happy Seven Beautiful Years to my forever favourite love team. I love you forever, Nicotine. I will always be a fan of your never ending love story.

Lots of Love,

Your sidekick for years

Meann_taba

 

Me with NicoTine

SAME OLD.

``Friends through thick or thin’’. That’s one of my favourite friendship lines. Sitting next to each other, laughing our asses out to silliest stuffs, reminiscing the old times, dreaming big, and just being our old true selves the whole time. That’s just how we are.

Here we are again. I can barely remember the last time we got complete. But you know, when you have built a really good friendship even if you don’t get to see each other most of the time, the friendship remains intact. The same old people who knew you a lot by heart.

The kick ass times are endless.

The little reunion was held at Tine’s place. Where else? That’s like our home. It’s also good to see Tine’s sibs and parents too. It’s like we belong in the family. 

The chit-chatting was never ending. The bitch-each-other-part was always there. Just like the old times. The Photo-Ops was damn tiring but was a lot of fun. Why is it so hard to do a lot of posing and smiling in the camera? Ha-ha.  Kewl. Meanne aka Tangkad is really good at pictorials. How can’t she be? She’s a model and a beauty queen.  

The Jumpshot? Or better say, the BweloShot was really tiring. But every bit of the bonding was worth it and fun. And now I am home. Lying with a happy face. Thanking God for a one beautiful day.

There will always be next time. This friendship is forever. 

<3.