I totally forgot to upload this but Monday was fantastic! A beautiful day with the love of my life!!! <3

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Today, I'm grateful for the Petron win (and the amazing MOA arena!) !!

Wee! Let's have a good week, everyone! 🙂

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Today, I'm grateful for sunshine in unexpected places 🙂

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Today, I'm grateful for my good friend, Angelie! 🙂

We've been friends for awhile now and I'm so glad that I have someone to share all my big and small moments with! It's the kind of friendship that makes me feel comfortable and leaves me often unedited.

Real friendships are so rare that when i do come across it, it's very much appreciated!

Love ya, Ange 🙂

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Today I'm grateful for opportunities.

Ever since I left the corporate world in 2010, I have spent more of my days in the classroom than the board room but today I've been given the chance to return to it.

Amazed! God is spectacular! 🙂

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“one of the greatest ways to honor God (to demonstrate your trust in who He is and how He works) is to relinquish your dreams to Him. Instead of asking Him to fulfill you according to your hopes and dreams, ask Him to fulfill you according to His hopes and dreams. It’s a pretty sure bet that His plan for your life exceeds yours and in the end it will be more satisfying than you ever dreamed. Trust Him with your heart. He knows exactly what it needs.”

– Chris Tiegreen

Earlier today, I tweeted this:

"Everything is an experience. Bask in it. Don't allow anyone or any experience leave you bitter. All with a purpose. Love, love, love."

Children, in general, love to play the blame game.

They NEVER admit their faults and are often resolved to pointing fingers. Children constantly look to others to justify their mistakes.

However as we grow older, we are taught to own up to our mistakes and slowly, we learn to admit that it was us who "accidentally" broke mom's favorite vase or who finished all the cake at 12 MN.

It starts with admitting the little mistakes then our parents expect us to own up to bigger, more complicated mistakes once we leave the playground.

But in reality, owning up to our faults get more difficult in time.

Our bad behavior and our lives' bad decisions are often the result of what someone else did to use. We blame our churches, our government, our parents, the friends who hurt us and the boy who cheated on us.

We scream that we are left so broken by others that we don't have any other choice but be sullen, angry and destructive all at the same time.

We choose to deliberately become depressed or take pride in our brokenness and yet choose to blame others for it.

The truth is, we can choose to be sullen forever or we can choose to move forward. We can choose to play the poor me game or we can choose to say "yes, I did make a mistake, let's see how I can improve myself."

And this is especially true for people who have hurt us.

We can drone on and on about how we don't deserve to be treated that way — yada yada yada OR we can choose to step out and say, "It's okay, I forgive him (lagi na lang him?!). There's a lesson to be learned. I'm better because of it."

Because seriously, this dude (or dudette) already broke your heart and you've already wasted your time, will you continue to give that person power by always being depressed over something that obviously was not meant to be?

Yes, you are still being controlled by that person if you continue to make choices based on how sad you feel. STOP IT!

Yes! Cry all you want but darling, there's a beautiful life ahead of you!

Your family, friends or special someone may have hurt you in the past but God wants to redeem you and restore what has been lost! He wants to heal your heart to make you better, not bitter.

If you would only take the moment to let go of the broken pieces in your life, you would see God's hand cleaning your wounds and healing you into an entirely new being with no more baggages and no more false hopes or expectations.

Believe me when I say that once you experience that goodness and that joy, you wouldn't want to blame anyone for anything but actually thank them for the experience.

You would also praise God because He did have your back after all and everything was going the way that it should.

So just in case you find yourself nursing a broken heart today, cry and release it Him who can take better care of it.

Remember that when God takes something or someone away, it was never His intention to hurt you but actually save you from more pain.

God loves you deliriously and one day, He will entrust your heart to someone who can take the best care of it.

And unlike our past choices, His choices will never leave us scarred.

Just trust Him and remember that, "All things work together for the good of those who love the Lord!" (Romans 8:28)

It's all good! 🙂

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Today I'm grateful for this particular promise.

I've had this hanging in my office cubicle for about a year now and it still gives me hope every time I chance upon it.

God has been so good to me and my family and there are so many things in my life that I didn't even dream of when I was younger that God has blessed me with.

I feel bad for the days that I tend to microscopically (yes, I made this word up) focused on one area that I forget about the other, good parts.

So today, I'm thanking God for blessing me in ways that I didn't even imagine and I wish the same for you and your life.

Yes, there are parts of our lives that are not yet the way we wish it to be but God has blessed us with more than enough so we can enjoy the life that we have now and be able to share it with others.

The best is yet to come, my dear friend.

So cheer up! 🙂

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Okay staying at home means more time to think and blog! So here goes another one for today.

In the past few days, I may or may have not spoken to a few girls who always felt that they were not “good enough” and it broke my heart because these girls were beautiful, smart and witty. I have also come across stories about bullying and whatnot and it made me realize that it only has one root: insecurity.

I believe it’s really normal for one to have insecurities, we don’t want to be prideful and think we have it all together but did we ever realize that being extremely critical of ourselves is a form of pride too? I have read somewhere that self-pity is on the opposite spectrum of pride and the effects are quite as harmful.

In a weepy, PMS state over the weekend, my baby brother kindly(?) reminded me that nobody can take away the security that I have about myself.

My baby brother is no longer a baby! He gives the best advice in the world!

So it doesn’t matter that if I am not:

a) instagram pretty
b) chinita
c) 5 foot 3

As long as I think I’m beautiful then I would always be.

Ever since I was a little child I have been told that beauty comes from a beautiful and kind heart. I’ve always doubted this simply because nice girls are always treated like doormats then that’s when I realized that there should be a different kind of balance and this only comes from knowing your worth. If you’re confident and secure in who you are, nobody can walk all over you simply because you won’t allow them to.

It is such a cliche, but it is safe to say that in order to weather a lot of things in this life, you have to be your own personal cheerleader!

Confidence is the magical pixie dust that each of us carry but hardly use.

People often confuse arrogance with confidence which isn’t really true because in order for us to serve others, we have to be humble enough to know that even if we serve, our worth does not diminish. True confidence is knowing who we belong to and not insulting ourselves because it may seem like a cliche but that means we’re insulting the Father who created us!

Yes, we may not be skinny, small, instagramgenic (hey! i heard truly beautiful people are NOT photogenic- HAHA!) chinita or attracting a lot of guys to our doorstep but hey that doesn’t mean that YOU ARE NOT BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE YOU ARE!

Your laughter makes your beautiful. Your kindness makes you beautiful. Your ability to still be able to smile after a hectic day at work or in school makes you beautiful. Your love for God makes you beautiful and worth admiring! 

You see beauty DOES fade in time and no matter what you do, you cannot hold on to it, but what I’ve learned is that beauty that comes from a heart that serves God lasts a lifetime and it may or may not be easy to believe now but trust me when I say that life is going to be so much better when you become your own personal cheerleader instead of your own worst critic.

It’s also important to surround yourself with people who love you for who you are. If you are with someone who constantly brings you down or constantly tells you to lose weight then lose that jerk and NOT YOURSELF. God will always send you people who would love you for you who are and your energy will be better spent being with them rather than standing on the weighing scale.

God has blessed me with people who love me, but believe me when I say that there was a time when my life  that I was surrounded by negative people who only brought me down so now I know the difference between being with people who want you to be someone else and being people who love you regardless! (ten thousand points for my ability to rhyme, take that, eminem!)

There is so much freedom in loving the person that you are!

It’s like when a butterfly emerges from the cocoon– it’s natural and there’s no struggle at all. It just feels like you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be and you’re not constantly looking over your shoulder wondering if people would leave if you’re no longer the smartest, the prettiest or the richest. You just know that they would stay, no matter what and you know that these are the relationships God has intended for you from the beginning.

So if you’re reading this via the link I sent: I would personally like to thank you for loving me for me! It’s a great blessing to be loved by you! 🙂


When you learn to correlate beauty with the things of the heart, love takes on an entirely different level. It’s no longer about what someone can do for me or my popularity (if someone’s pretty, I get plus points or more likes on Instagram — sorry may galit lang talaga sa Instagram!! HAHAHA!) or what I can get, beauty becomes something that is well celebrated because people have been good to you and you just want to bask in that celebration of goodness for a really long time.

And in the midst of this kind of beauty, you thank God for making it all possible and you get that tingly feeling at the bottom of your spine because God has been faithful to you and will continue to be so and you see this every time you’re with the people you love.

Once you get to experience that beauty and that kind of love, you no longer see and judge people based on what they look like on an instagram picture (last na, promise!) instead you see them the way God intends you to see them: beautiful because they (like you) are His and because of their kind hearts.

The kind of beauty that lasts.

So just in case you felt a bit ho-de-da today about the way you look, please know that the God who created you is a God of beauty and nothing and I do mean nothing He made is ugly and that includes you!

So what else are we waiting for? Let’s get our cheer on! We are worth celebrating!!

My favorite Audrey Hepburn quote! So true so girls stay happy and stay pretty!