I have shared my life with a lot of people and had a fair share with them. Looking back in what happened in my life in the past decade, so far, these are the most important things that had happened in my fabulous life.
2000. The year I met my first girlfriend and experienced how love was great and pure. PERIOD!
2001. My heart was broken for the first time. I managed to be in the top of the class at the end of my third year in high school. My High School Senior life started.
2002. I met my second girlfriend but it only lasted for a short time. I graduated in high school although I wasn't able to give my mom a medal and I was frustrated and came to the point I blamed myself why I had to join the volleyball varsity team. Still, I was happy because I started my college life being a TOMASINO.
2003. Ended a one –year relationship with a guy. Yes, my first boyfriend and had my second boyfriend who happened to my schoolmate but with a different course. Had my second out of the country vacation and it was in US. It was a family vacation and we spent our summer with the Arellano Family in Tinley Park, IL. We had side trips in Chicago, IL, New York City, NY, Orlando, FL and San Francisco, CA. It was a blast.
2004. For the first time, I flunked a subject because of a bad break-up. It affected me so much. At the same time, I was accidentally become OUT to my family. Although, I admitted it to my aunt, my father’s youngest sister, and to my aunt’s best friend and later on, the best friend told it to my mom. My parents didn’t talk to me for a month because of what happened. In the middle of the year, I was introduced to Pinoy Pride, an LGBT Forum Site.
2005. Celebrated my 2nd decade of existence. Pinoy Pride had their 1st GEB party in Club Government, Makati City with its theme, Pride & Power. I was part of it and was their Logistics Officer at that time. It was fun celebrating PRIDE with your friends.
2006. Started my senior year in UST-Faculty of Engineering and I handled two organizations which were Engineering COMELEC and EnTER CoDe (Engineering Team for Emergency Response and Community Development) and became the Chairman and Vice-President for Logistics respectively. I was so busy with studies, organizations, and other stuffs like thesis and projects. I still managed to have a social life.
2007. First month of the year, the Civil Engineering Class of 2007 had a 5-day field trip Baguio with a side trip in La Union. It was a blast and had fun enjoying our vacation and not thinking about studies, thesis and projects at that time. I am part of the UST-Engineering Centennial Batch and I was proud of it because graduated on time. At the end of the year, PRC (Professional Regulation Commission) released a memorandum for all Civil Engineering examinees who took the Board Exam on November that the two subjects should have a retake exam.
2008. January came for the Retake exam for the Civil Engineering examinees; I was one of the boycotters of the batch. For the second time, my parents didn’t talk to me and they immediately said that I should have a job as soon as possible because they wouldn’t give me any allowances anymore. I was forced to look for work and ended up being a call center agent for Sykes Asia, Inc. I never regret that I ended up working in a BPO Industry but thanking God for what He had gave me. I gain new friends again. Tiffany Gurls was born in this year and thanks to my fabulous friends, you know who you are.
2009. I resigned from Sykes Asia, Inc. last February to take the Civil Engineering May Board Exams and luckily, I passed after a two-month refresher course. Whew! I can now call myself as a licensed Civil Engineer and easily got a job at EIFS, Inc. were I was a Project Engineer but didn't stay that long. Then, I got bored. I applied again in BPO Industry and finally had my 3rd job. I gain new friends. Then a bad news struck our family, my maternal grandfather died at the age of 87 last July. Everybody was shocked including my relatives in US and Canada. Lastly, my Berks never failed to have a monthly bonding.
2010. My life is still unwritten.
I was reading my past 5 Starbucks planner dated back 2005 and looking for a quotes that I had written when my friends sent me a text message and ended up with a quote that really struck me and what I can say to my life right now.
You are what you repeatedly do. It starts with INTELLIGENCE, then a HABIT, then your CHARACTERISTIC and finally your DESTINY.
