Delved into 2012

     I love the feeling of writing down the highlights of your year after re-reading your 2011year-ender blog. You'll get to see how it answers your questions, wishes, promises and anxieties you posted towards a new year ahead of you. You'll get to realize how stupid or how better you have been, how big or how little you have changed, or how has 2012 treated you. It always amaze me how time flies since I have written my last year-ender post, that I already have to raise again new wishes and promises for a new year ahead which will soon be answered by my fate and choices in life.

    Before 2012 started, I have marked this year as the most challenging and life changing year, hence more anxieties and petty fears of unknown have born. It is my graduation year and the end of my teenage years as well, a new phase of life has started. And no one couldn't that transition stages have always been tough for everyone. But truly, God is the best storyteller/writer in the whole world. He makes our stories good and well-written by making sure that He supplies good and enough conflicts to our lives before transitioning to climax. Hence, we have to be thankful for our problems. It simply means we have a good story!

 

     This has probably been the top highlight of my year. I graduated - with honors! After the sleepless nights, litter-ful of tears, and the inscrutable butterflies in the stomach were all paid off. And I thank God for blessing the first quarter of my year with a powerful blast!

     I spent my YOLO days during the summer. I had to get all the time I missed in the past just because I just couldn't leave one school dead or else I would be dead.

Camped out at Nagsasa Cove, a very peaceful and virgin
haven!

Savored the beauty of Island Garden City of Samal!

Dipped myself into the longest infinity pool!
Marina Bay Sands Singapore

      Perhaps I should also bid goodbye to my 25-inch waistline and 80-lb beauty! I am now twice as my shape before. :(

      It was also a great honor for us to be recognized by the International Labour Organization as one of the best 15 video entries for youth and employment issues!

      Six months after graduation being offered different job opportunities, I finally chose the best job for me! I have been hired as the Information Education Communication Assistant for Climate Change and Clean Energy Project under United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

     I learned new thoughts, acquired new experiences, and accomplished a lot of opportunities. I thank God for giving me a workplace that can be a haven for learning as well. And the best part of it is I tend to meet new people, new found friends and a clearer vision of my career path in life.

   This year has gone very short and sweet. And I will never stop thanking the Lord for guiding me in coping with my transition phase up to now. It's nice to realize that a lot has been changed: earning my own money, overcoming my fears of unknown, and enjoying a small part of my independence. Thus, I may say it will be an extra anxious year ahead of me. 2013 must be a year of stability for me, end of transition phase, and it will be all up to me on how I am going to manage my choices that will draw my new chapter in life. YOLO days are now over, young, wild and free moments already went by, and though I can't still accept the fact that I got to embrace my adulthood now, I can do nothing but to move on, and carefully make the best choice on how you'll spend the rest of your life. With the guidance of God, I will never go wrong!

Cheers to 2013!

Always,