You served well 21st year, thank you.

New age, new year, new me.

Ten more days to go and I'll say goodbye to my 21st age I'll get to be 22 on Dec. 7 and since the Catholic liturgical year has ended last Sunday, I want to share my gratitude as I recall the year. It's merely an early New year's day reflection.
Over the past 12 months I have received so much blessings, gone through some extraordinary experiences and life changing decisions and learning. I am glad to highlight here my most loved moments. I bind down some important areas to serve as a reminder of how God graced me with a not so wonderful but a gorgeous simple life to be always thankful for.

1. Travelled around Ilocos sur/norte
2. Baked cakes for my friends and family
3. Travelled to Bantayan and Virgin islands of Cebu
4. Helped my parents in my own capabilities
5. Has been a regular employee as an intuit web advisor in Sutherland global services from Aug 1 2011 till June 2012
6. Was able to brought joy to my customers over the phone technically or emotionally with the problems of their business.
7. Owned domain name www.thingsunderthesun.net
8. I'd packed my bags last minute of my flight to conquer Cebu for a sole (soul) retreat for 3 days. Success.
9. Able to love someone dearly
10. More honest to myself and to other's around me
11. Gifted my father and grandma a comeback vacation to their province.
12. Went abroad, travelled alone across to Europe via Qatar for the first time
13. Was able to make my friends, brothers, sisters in church to really feel my love for them  by genuinely sharing of my own gifts
14. Was able to celebrate my first boyfriend's birthday in my most sweetest surprise
15. I was able to help or at least comfort a needy friend
16. I was able to help my grandma and mama
17. Has been one of the judges on Sto Domingo parish's annual event called ''kantahan" whereas my teenage years, I was just one of the event staffs. It is a way to celebrate the feast of Sto Domingo  De Guzman, showcasing singing talents around the vicinity of SDP, QC.
18. Been part of some sessions of Mukhaad, and i think or i hope i was able to somehow inspire some of the batch 23 participants
19. A first kiss from my boyfriend
20. Done with my most feared thrilling and crazy rides in Tivoli amusement park
21. Driven by sacrifice which defines love, I had first break up, first heart break. But it ended peacefully and divinely.
22. I'm now more concerned with my personal life and happiness not depending on other people's opinion.
23. Learned to select and trust only the people who deserved it
24. Was able to teach as a voice teacher in Yamaha Valenzuela to few kids during last summer
25. Was able to talk with my brother and cousins about my idea, visions and plans for the betterment of our condition
26. Collected most precious memories and pictures of my family-mad-moj-collegues-co-workers-special friends
27. I'm now more concerned and determined to achieve my personal growth for the better me
28. Reconciled and re-bonded with some old friends
29. More healthier, fit and courageous
30. Reclaimed myself by the help of the arts of music, painting, online live-journal, photography, and other interests.

Instead of thinking about those things I didn't have, I have lost, and what I won't have, I focused on the positive things I consider as important as they occur to me everyday. I acknowledge myself for the things I've accomplished, things I am grateful for and proud of, the positive changes I made in my life, Including some ways that I've grown as a person. 

For you who might fear that this exercise is a tad self-indulgent, remember this:  

SEEING THE GOOD IN OTHERS STARTS WITH SEEING THE GOOD IN OURSELVES.  

Have a prosperous New Year! :)