2007 was a BLAST!!!

is it so small a thing
to have enjoy'd the sun,
to have lived light in the spring,
to have loved, to have thought, to have done;
to have advanced true friends, and beat
down baffling foes....?

-Matthew Arnold-

i lead a wonderfully beautiful and blessed life and for 2007 it was no different. here's a recap:

January: got a promotion in XBOX. which started the year right. my sweetie and i spent quality time together. talked alot over the phone and over YM. was pretty sad too because Dodie (my super cutie bessy.. one of the four bessies) changed companies and he is so far far away in HSBC alabang. this is when i kinda got talking to an old PExer (and yes, when i say old i mean OLD OLD and old na matagal nang kasama) maxie!!!

February : not much happened on this month. except that Drey (darnstuff, a co-PExer) kept making kulit that we should meet up since it had been ages since we last saw each other. at the end of the month i finally relented and met up with them on the first day of March.

March: met up with the Drey and NSGickers. had super fun. first time in a long while that i was able to go out with friends because of work and studies. got introduced to other PExers. (march 9: met aileen... yihee!!) march 30: graduated from law school/masters and met up with Maxie at Starbucks ELJCC. (syempre monologue mode ako kasi nag d-drama si maxie... hahahah!! yihee maxie.. hahahahaha!!!) 300 was also released (March 11) and it was such a kickass movie.

April: the usual. hahahaha ever since drey got me out of my hiding place, it was kinda hard to stop meeting new people. so april 13 (a friday the 13th) went to Starbucks People Support to meet up with some PExers. met Huck, Aileen, Ally and Andy. we hung out at Croc Grille and kinda drank ourselves into a stupor. hahahaha almost fell down the escalator at Greenbelt 3 too! hahahaha... the 17th of april was my anniversary. well.. it was mine and Dodie's anniversary. One year as bessies!! weeee~ this month also was the catalyst for gimmicks with my PEx family. Andy, Juriele, Mimi, Jesse and I spent the night at Laiya, Batangas. (kila Lola Tecla) hahahaha!!! (april 24) on our way home we even got sooo lost. on our way to tagaytay we ended up in Quezon. hahahaha!! golly gee...
May: moseys along with me obsessing. hahahaha! at this point my sweetie John kinda got eaten alive by work so we werent talking much.rediscovered a few things.. like my love for rilke...

You, darkness, that I come from
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone
and then no one outside learns of you.

But the darkness pulls in everything-
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! -
powers and people-

and it is possible a great presence is moving near me.

I have faith in nights.

this month also came in with bad tidings. two of my dearest, most loved friends passed away in a vehicular accident.

our beloved friend from the U.S came back home for his school vacation. Tsak! uber Tsak! we spent the evenings at Starbucks People Support. waiting for aileen and andy to come out and play. had tons of fun drinking and singing too!!

June: Time does fly when you're having too much fun. after spending most of May either drunk or hyped up with caffeine here at the Metro, we the kaladkarins decided to take it out of town... so once more we hauled our nice smelling and very very cute bodies over to Laiya, Batangas (Coco Grove naman) was also waxing a lot of poetics during this time... at para kanino naman aber? edi para sa kanya. hahahahaha... this was also the time where i left XBOX. it was sad for me since Microsoft was a fun company to work with. however if management doesnt actually know how to value their people, i might as well leave the company and look for one that does. so June 22 came and from this point, i was a rich jobless bum.


July: my favorite month!!! why? its because its my birthmonth! this year was utterly fab fab fab because it was 07.07.07.

spent my 25th birthday with the beautiful people. we went to antipolo and sung, drank and swum to our hearts content.

as an added treat, i vacationed in singapore for a month. arrived July 21. spent it with cool cool friends. this was also the time where i was able to catch up some reading. read lots and lots of books by various authors, Vikram Chandra, Carlo Luis Zafon, Milan Kundera, Ben Hills and Paolo Coelho.

i felt very loved by friends because even if i was in another country we never failed to "meet up" from 10am - 1pm. we had our daily video conference... or vonfe.

August: found a new job in Cubao. made some new friends...

Japeth pops back up in my life... since there was a disturbance in the force. we kinda mucked about with friendship and the thin grey lines that surround it.

this month held two of my saddest goodbyes. the first one was to the Harry Potter series. i finished reading the last book in the 7 part series. the second saddest goodbye was to a friend. he never saw me as one. so it was sad for me since... well... since. hahahaha.. hanggang dun na lang.

wonders of all wonders. when a door closes, a window opens. when i said goodbye to a friend, i said hello to a familiar face. John resurfaced from the muck that he calls his life (workaholic animal this John...hahahaha) so we just picked up where we left off.

September: this was one of the weirdest months in my year. flew to Sg to do nothing. had a fight with japeth. saw the Green Archers take the 2007 Men's Basketball Championship away from the then undefeated UE Warriors. met up with PExers. met Dale and Glen. spent my days with japeth. spin. rinse. repeat.

October/November: spent half of it locked up in my tower. was really really pissed off at humanity in general and friends to be specific. got into a vehicular accident too. cracked a couple of ribs. went out with my prettyful friends. and generally was focused on my work.


December: my second favorite time of the year! i love the Holidays. spent more time with my friends (yihee~ alabyu aileen!) and family. John visited Manila with his Mom. I got to meet his mom and he got to meet my parents (in a mall take note.. :lol:) we had a super time together. he is one of the most charming men that i know. a true gentleman. (it didnt hurt either that he had this delightful British accent... think Rupert Everett) Spent Christmas with my family and then New Year's Eve with my two best buddies. Howie and Jp. We drank old people alcohol... hahahaha Johnnie Walker Blue Label and lots and lots of brandy. We three also watched the sky lit up with beautiful fireworks. i think we spent one hour on the rooftop of Howie's building awe struck with the lights that decorated the clear night sky.

wow... pretty busy year for me... later on tonight its going to be my first day at my new office. New Job. New Year. New blessings.

like i said. i am living a beautiful and blessed life. for that i am thankful. praying that 2008 will be the same or much more beautiful than the last year. thank you friends and family for being a wonderful and important part of my life for 2007. looking forward to sharing more and more memories with y'all.

Happy 2008 to all of us.

much love,
Jeanne