Friday, December 24, 2004
my archive has grown. yipes.
one of the best things about japan is the food. and tv. looks like i'm going to get plump this break.
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Saturday, December 18, 2004
uhm... this blog is spazzing out.
yay for no more finals and yay for japan!
happy holidays, everyone!
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Friday, December 17, 2004
happy 17th birthday, owner!! i'm so blessed to have your friendship in my life. hope your day is filled with goodness :)
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
happy 20th birthday brutha [one]! for you have been my sanity... here's to another year of friendship.
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Sunday, December 12, 2004
i should be studying.
but then i read joseph's site and now i have something to say.
so change is inevitable and time keeps marching forward and yada-yada-yada. thaaaat's great. really. but seriously, people: change involves everything, not just you. it's not like everyone else stays the same and you go through this marvelous change. so as you change, do everyone else a favor and look around to see who/what else is/has changing/ed with you.
no one is left behind, because time doesn't care; it takes everything with it. so even if you think you haven't changed, the environment in which you involve youself has. thus, whether you like it or not, times bring change and you are carried along.
what you can be, is an "informed changer", one who realizes the potential for change and knows that with one change, so another will follow. and that this cycle will incessantly repeat itself and that is what takes us from today to tomorrow.
but don't ever leave the periphery behind. the moment you neglect it is the moment you will lose it. and you will wish you never had, because sooner or later, you're going to get to the end of that tunnel and find the light and wonder, "what happened to everything else?" and you will have no clue. and no one, nothing will tell you, because you were the one who negected them first.
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happiest birthday to matthew rementilla villacarillo! my son is growing up way too fast! ::sniff:: i'm so blessed to have you as a friend and son. enjoy your day! here's to another year of friendship...
-mai (mom)
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Sunday, December 05, 2004
i absolutely love and adore my friends. i am so lucky.
thank you for the (already) birthday greetings. it means so much to me. hugs for all of you :)
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Thursday, December 02, 2004
okay. way too many things to say.
first of all, thanks for sticking around, mo-jo. it's been such a great time with you. i only hope to keep them coming.
second of all, i had the greatest time at staff meeting tonight. i seriously love my ra staff members. they bring such great dynamics to the staff and i am so honored to be able to work with all eight of them. and thanks for the soup, sean! oh, it was so frikkin delicious.
thirdly, i want to thank mo-jo (again) for the classy (and slightly controversial) conversation that we had tonight. it was good, and i am glad that you will still respect me even after everything that i believe in. whether it be religion, politics, whatever. thanks for reassuring me that you respect me the same. because i can go on forever, let me tell you.
so... this is the extremely abridged version of the highlights of my day. and i am way glad it ended how it did. i will have a good night's sleep tonight. thanks again.
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