The Day she said "YES"...

In the early morning of Oct 26 2009, i slept at her house, just got a little sleep and woke up exactly at 5am, i texted my friends to come in her house like we planned, i told them to come as early as 5:30am because they have this tendency of getting late at times... but i was shocked to see them all with their motorcycles in front of the house... i got out and told them to wait...

I called home, my tita doyie picked-up the phone and said that they are ready... and i told them to come... i immediately woke up joy(her sister), her mama and papa, and also her aunts,uncles and her tatay and nanay(her grandparents) who happens to lived along side their house...

here are some of the photos...

originally, the plan is to gather them all up outside the gate, and i will go wake her up to go outside... but its harder than i expected it to be... she refuses to wake up... its almost 6:30am, and yes, she was not used in waking up early in the morning unless she has work to do... i tried and so her mama but we failed several times... but then, i told to all of them to go inside the house (of course, as with the approval of her mama) and wait outside the door to her room... then i go inside her room... and finally, after so many reasonings, lullabies and allibies, i convinced her to go out off her room (with her familiar angry lion face of course)... hehe...


and shocked like she'd ever been in her life (in her natural post-sleep aura) when she saw everybody on their living room ...
with a tear in her eye, i guess at this moment she knew what was coming... then i start to speak... and everybody stood still and listened...
then wholeheartedly, i spoke
"sabi nga nila, sa hinaba-haba man ng pursisyon... tayo din naman pla... "
at this point, i saw her mama and my mom crying...
"alam mo, sa tinagal tagal natin magkasama, marami na tayong pinagdaanan... halos nasabi ko na sa'yo lahat ng dapat mong malaman sa akin pero ngayon ko lang sasabihin sa'yo 'to...
Sa pagsikat ng araw, sa harap ng mga mahal natin sa buhay,
i... am... asking you... "
i knelt and pulled a ring and said...
"Will you marry me??..."
and after she said sarcastically, "Nakakainis ka talaga!!!"... while she was crying, she looked at me and said... "Yes... Yes... Yes..." then she bear-hugged me... and end it with a kiss...

Everyone went crazy... some of them shed a tear... while some shed more... and later that she realized she didn't brush her teeth yet, comb her hair and even wore a bra... she rushed to the wash room and go to her room to fixed herself up... well, funny as it is... but that's what this is all about... i plan it to be so natural, maybe not as formal as it supposed to be... but in a natural way in our natural real self in front of all the people that we loved over the years... and for me, that is the most important thing...

At Wedding Expo

Last Sept. 3, We are having a hard time surfing the net finding some details about wedding photographers and videographers, then we bumped into this link called wedding expo, we found out that this "thing" is the biggest gathering of wedding paraphernalia, i mean, all you want to know about weddings is all there... from wedding planners, venues to cakes, invitations and bridal cars... and we found out that the event will took place on Sept. 5-6 at PICC complex, and immediately, we pre-register to their site and we both got a free pass, nice... hehe...

At Sept. 5, we went to PICC complex, thank god are there's no traffic, we went off early in the morning, and we are just in time for the opening remarks... first off i try to take pictures on one of the catering booths, but the lady there forbids me to take pictures, maybe she though i will going to copy their table setting... LoL... then we bump into a couple of wedding photography booths, first was Ariel Javelosa, the shots are great, album was fine and reasonably priced and then there's East Digital, we fell in love the first time we saw their booth, the shots are magnificent with a stunningly designed pack of albums with a style macthing briefcase, a nice package (with a 40% discount, yeah...) and a bunch of freebies... but we told Nolie (from east digital) that we will going to roam around first, but at that time we knew we picked the right one for photography on our wedding... next stop is the cake, there are so many cake booths to choose from but there's one that stood up, Sugarbox, we were bedazzled when we saw their cake design, it was 50 pcs of cute and tasty minicakes perfectly placed from top to bottom in a revolving layered glass... the reason we picked minicakes instead of the traditional layered cake is that, we want to make it as a giveaway to our important guests, we want to share our cake in a cute way as a token for attending our wedding, actually,besides the bride and groom, who eats cakes on a wedding in the first place... hehe... that day we reserved East digital and SugarBox for our wedding... thanks to the Internet and the Wedding Expo...

Trip to Caleruega

This would be my second time to visit caleruega, this is where our college retreat(2002) took place and the first time i saw it, i was "Whoa!!!", it was nature and beauty put together. At that time, i'm with my girlfriend, Arlene, who happens to be my bride to be (whew), and we bowed that when the time came for us to tie the knot, caleruega will be that place, and seven years have passed and we came back... but there's a downside, our planned date which is December 18, 2010 was no longer available (LoL), jackie told us that our date was reserved last year(2008), since december was the peek for weddings (aside from june) and the caleruega church was so indemand for weddings, there's no question why our date was taken from us that early... huhu... we are planning to move the date, a day in january 2011 would be likely the date...

My First Blog on Facebook...

i miss my friendster blog... but no one is on friendster... so its time to move... damn... hehe...

I miss...

I miss this blog... i miss writing... i miss those wild friendster days... most of my friends are out of friendster... they moved to facebook... well, its sad that friendster can't keep up the pace... so i'm moving to blogger... i just hope that friendster do not die in vain... weh...

My Fear

about the changes that had been...

and those  that i have no knowledge of...

in the last few years of my absence...

i hope i can absorb all that have changed...

Wanting... Different...

a weird thing happened today... hayz... well, still craving for different things to happen this week... and hoping for a good one... dat's all...

There's this movie...

It's been a while since I last saw this one, but I will always remember this as one of the saddest movies I ever saw, in a good way of course...

well, its a story of love and doing everything you can to fight for it, even after life... but apart from its unusual and unrealistic setting, its has a simple and very human plot... It's a movie that wants you to find real love, see beyond beliefs and grasp the idea of soul mate. And it's all presented in a stunningly gorgeous montage of exquisite color and symmetry...

a line from the movie...

Sometimes, when you win, you lose....  when you lose, you win...

It doesn't matter if you don't believe in a Heaven or a Hell. What Dreams May Come will make you believe in something even more powerful than that. Love, and what one man will do because of it...

Little Wonders...

Little things makes little wonders... those sweet little nothings... those terms of endearments... those things and people we just don't mind sometimes we take for granted, unknowingly...

Our lives are made
in these small hours
these little wonders,
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away,
but these small hours,
these small hours still remain...
-Rob Thomas

Its the magic of life... It's those things that happens over and over again... or Those times that rarely happens in our lives... those simple things... sometimes, the things we usually underestimate are the things that mostly matters...


There's these phrase "...too little, too late..." for we can't hold time... we cannot turn it back...  every chance is a wonder for us... a wonder to cherish... we should be thankful for that chance,  its like those pictures, for every moment counts... every moment matters...

Missing...

It was never easy missing someone so dear to you... so hard to those who left behind... and harder to those who had to leave... sometimes its hard to see that life is fair, just and so damn easy... but we have to accept the fact that it had to be like that... even though it hurts us...

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." -Charles DuBois

Hey Just look at the bright side... Missing someone gets easier every day...Because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other... It's one day closer to the next time you will... =)

I Hate... You

I Hate You...

- coz you're Stubborn...

- coz you have a thin line of patience...

- coz you're hard-headed, bossy, mean and cruel at times...

- when you said that "I'm so corny" when i am curious finding out my gay name on facebook (lol)

- when you lie...

- when we broke up... eventhough i say its ok but really, its not...

- when you broke my heart...

I hate it when you do that simple quiet glance saying " I Love You and I'm Willing to spend all my lifetime with you"...   and all my hate disappears...

Despite all the negative things...

There's this positive side that i will never find anywhere in the world...

This side that makes me willing to share all my life with...

and it is YOU...

and simply being YOU...

YOU maybe the person i hated the most... but what the hell...

it just so happen to be the same person who will complete me...

Being one...

Never been one...  A short experienced having one... Want to be one someday... A good one... A better one... The one that's always there... There to give love and care...

Happy Father's Day...

Ironic...

Life is too Ironic to understand...

It takes sadness to know what happiness is...

noise to appreciate silence...

and absence to value presence...

Better Half

The Woman I Adore and Inspires me...
The Woman I Cherish and Love...
The Woman soon I will Marry...
The Future Mom of my child...
The Woman I Want to share my whole life with...
My Better Half...

Wondering... (part 1)

There are times in our lives that we just wish that things will never go to an end... how we badly wanted the world to stop spinning even just for that moment... That precious moment that can keep you awake for hours coz of that eerily quiet feeling of happiness inside you... its like that feeling of joy staring at the moon that lightens up the darkest part in you without having to worry of the things that holds you back...

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Simple Truth...

"one very hard thing in this life is when you know inside your heart that you love the person but you have already ran out of reasons to  fight for what you feel... "

Just Letting Go...

"Letting go doesn't mean giving up... it means moving on. It is one of the hardest things a person can do. Starting at birth, we grasp on to anything we can get our hands on, and hold on as if we will cease to exist when we let go. We feel that letting go is giving up, quitting, and that as we all know is cowardly. But as we grow older we are forced to change our way of thinking. We are forced to realize that letting go means accepting things that cannot be. It means maturing and moving on, no matter how hard you have to fight yourself to do so..."

Enough...

Sometimes, its better to do the wrong thing for the right reasons... I'm tired of hanging and being complicated... its time to rise from the ashes... its time for change...

Right or Wrong...

Is doing the right thing makes sense for the wrong reasons? or is doing the wrong thing makes sense for the right reasons?

well basically i don't know what to do... confused and all, maybe i'll just keep on hanging... but i don't know how long can i hold on to this... maybe i can't... oh well...

just a simple thought...

To succeed, we must first believe that we can...

- Michael Korda

Keep Moving...

"Around Here, However, We Don't Look Backwards Very Long,
We Keep Moving Forward, Opening Up New Doors And
Doing New Things, Because We're Curious...
And Curiosity Keeps Leading Us Down New Paths..."

- Walt Disney

Desperately wanting...

Being with someone doesn't guarantee happiness, Finding your other half does... It doesn't matter how long you've been alone, How long you've hoped or how long you've waited... There's no such thing as perfect love story... Heartaches will always be a part of loving, but remember, though not perfect, if that love is meant for you, it will stick with you 'till the end...

No matter how tough it gets...

No matter how long...

Far from perfect...

but REAL...