one sunday with ate joie

A year ago today i know that me and my brother have found a best friend for life and that's pretty invaluable. every time we are together only kind words exist and we talked and laughed and had fun. its a great bond that has always stayed true. we can talk everything and tell her everything we wishes to say. we laugh until all our stomachs hurt and that's a rare and special connection and i think that's pure magic.

we have always pray to god for the friendship we started with ate joie to gorgeously grow and i guess our prayers have been long answered and jesus is always keeping it. i got a lot of friends and i have a different bonds between them but with her is everything. we're aint related but i thank god for the love and the friendship she had given us.

ate joie is the greatest gift god has given us to look up to. only kind words comes out of her mouth and wish everyone happiness and better life. ive never heard her talk bad to someone. she is awesomely amazing! incredibly strong personality you wouldn't know it was that late but we love to hear everything she said.

when talking to her, you can move from personal conversations, to discussing nail polish colors, how to help people, to shoes, to clothes, to coffee, to debating the best cellphone brand in under ten minutes or so and it's not weird at all. we've even shared our craziest secrets with her and laughed the loudest.

often i send her i so love you gudnyt messages with funny emoticons each time i sleep at night and i know that's annoying but i really love sending her those. and i m not even shy to say i so love you ate joie! because i really do! she is just a special and so dear to me. 

my brother and i greatly admire her generosity and the love she gave to her family and other people. we watched her pray and how she lighted candles in the church. shes so nice to talk too. and we really love her hug and she really smells good. we regard her as one of the greatest thing since peanut butter for us!

we never know that the feeling of having a gorgeous big sister could be like this. shes just that normal. were not shy in front of her not even afraid or whatsoever were just us and she even let us meet some of her family members and that's special.

the best thing is she's that funny and witty and have a very kind heart. she wouldn't let us pay for the food and coffee and all. the joy it brings every time she said i am home in ocampo makes our heart hopes that she would surprise visit us. she loves surprises and we love her surprises. 

I wouldn't trade anything for the special times that we are together. for it will take forever to have that special time again. all the things we are to do and the things we've done are all that special and having you as our real big sister means more to us, more than you'll ever know. thank you for this wonderful day and we went home happy and my brother and i will always treasure this day for the rest of our lives. mom was just happy for us that we have someone to share the joy of our great days. 

today i think god had have given me the love and care and trust i needed for my life and i was so lucky that it came from the love my ate joie of whom i called my very gorgeous big sister had given me and i am grateful.

lao and i will continue to love you more and we were just pretty darn lucky to have you as our gorgeous big time ate!  and oh and btw you look pretty gorgeous even at your back! 

keep safe always.

lovin the feelin on week three of twenty sixteen!

my week three starts with an early monday ride with eonita to the school and office. lao patiently wait for us to get things done and drop us all. i spend the day that busy, happy and bubbly. this is my third week and i am loving the feeling.

all the deadlines has come to their end. we just nailed them by doing our job that perfect and helping each other with joyful heart. i really love working in our office since i have the best of officemates and trusted friends. we got no dull moments and was productive the whole week. our papers for  our AC has just arrived and hopefully by next week we are going to enjoy the bloody cold working environment. and yah we miss it so much!

things are getting better for ate iyang and kuya marcial's business. i have to arrange all and pay for all the taxes and permits due from the government. it is in this business where we get all the things we have and i am so lucky that they love our family. good enough that our government is implementing the business one stop shop in our office lobby and they are all accomodating. i didnt find it hard to renew the permits.

i have filled my leave of absence in the office for two days. i have to fix my passport since it was already expired and i need to get one. my nephews too are in dire need to secure it since they are on their final year in the academy. i went to legazpi with marcel jesse, mama loida, emman and kuya ricky because we all need to secure the very important documents.

my renewal went that smooth and so with the application of my nephews and were so lucky enough to finish everything in ninety minutes. DFA Legazpi doesnt implement online appointment system all you have to do is to be there on time. 

the staff are all kind since i have to ask them to edit my mother's maiden name of which i write wrong and so with the replacement of my electronic signature since my hand handwriting is that bad. it took me three try's to finish the signature.

i have finally renewed my passport of which  should have done last year. it will be delivered in our doorstep on the tenth of february this year and i already bought the passport cover of which i am holding in that pics. 

i bought some fruits on our way back home since that is good for our health and mama needs them. mama loida and marcel buy some boxes of orange and mangos and couples of watermelons. i feel terrified going to this side since there buses and big trucks are passing through the streets. it take some bones to make it through the other side of the busy road.

 just in time for papa's sixth year's in heaven i bought him boque of flowers and asked the saleslady to arrange them for me. i know that papa went home this week and visit us so i prepared some goodies and lighted a candle for him. i love papa more than anything in the world and he will always be the best thing since peanut butter for me.

we offer mass and prayers for papa so that he may live in peace. 

and cooked some noodles for the oldies.

my friends in the office are missing me. i found this in my wall when i come and visit them.

it was already seven in the evening when i get the chance to visit papa's grave but lao had already visit him n the 21st. i was damn busy the whole day and didnt got the chance to skip and visit him. i may be late but i did pray and visit him.

i have always love wearing this sneakers i have bought some years ago. this is so comfy and it suits me pretty well.

 mama loida and i had fix ourselves earlier than the rest of our clan.

 we join everyone for this parting day.

it was sad to say goodbye to the person we used to make laugh with for we wave our last goodbye to our beloved kuya inggo.

i wake up at four am and join my cousins with our daily healthy living. we run and ride a bike and the feeling is awesome.

lao and i were so lucky enough to have this extended family. ate joie went home and ask for a surprise treat to all of us. she is really kind and mommy and daddy love her pretty much. we spend our day eating and we talk a lot of things and we just love being with her. she is so pretty and nice. my tummy did hurt while laughing and the message mommy isit and daddy ben had sent for us really made my day!

we all went to church and pray and luckily spend the whole of sunday full of true love and happiness. mommy isit and daddy ben are all looking great and healthy and that's what really matter for the three of us. i was just lucky to have been love and cared and trusted with this so called extended family of mine and i am happy that i have a family everywhere. we may not be in the same bloodline but for me they are truly my own family. 

we went home happy and my brother and i will always treasure this day for the rest of our lives. my own mom was just happy for us that we have someone to look up to. we just cant trade them for anything because we are family and we love them pretty much. the third week have given me the love and care and trust i needed for my life and i was so lucky that it came from the love my ate joie of whom i called my very gorgeous big sister, mommy isit and daddy ben had given me and with that i am grateful.

my wonderful extended family

this happens once in a year and we were lucky enough to have that special time.

so lucky to have spend this beautiful day with the love of my wonderful extended family and in each visit in this so called another home we found unconditional love. i so love you mommy isit, daddy ben, Lao and the gorgeous ate Joie!

ate joie visit me and lao (as in joie noga)

Kind words, heart leaping surprises, extraordinary conversation that makes your tummy hurts while laughing and you feel good, amazing life tips, a series of sincere, graceful, rich extreme conversation drawn from the oldest, secretes experiences that inspires me the most, honestly you can’t just have them just like that but I did with ate joie.

I never thought that she will come and visit me and lao and mom yesterday because Christmas is long over and I told mom that I guess she’s not coming anymore but she did and my heart leap and my face turns red super red and hot. I feel the sudden burst of emotions and I really can’t say anything seeing her setting in our dining table with all the gifts she have for us. When ate janet came in and of which I am used too she told me that she is with father choi and another priest. Since I am that busy preparing our food for New Year’s Eve I told her to please come in the door is open and I just have to wash my hands. I never look back of which I don’t know why I just proceed to the washroom. Washing off the dirt and knowing that it is father choi I have to keep my hands clean and put on lotions because it is impolite if I wont bless his hands. Ate janet then asked me when is ate joie going to visit us I told her it is surprise and I continue to wash my hands and dry them off then I move to the kitchen and that’s how shock I was and I scream!  I really love the way she laugh back at me that I almost die laughing too much! I love surprises and I told her about that and long ago I asked her when is she going to visit me and lao she told me that its all up to me. I did tell her she can come anytime she wants, our home is open up to twelve midnight and she can come by surprise and she said I see you then. Not knowing she will do it yesterday this surprise visit is the coolest and great ever and now I know how does ate joie surprise visit feels like. Demoralized and heart leaping but good thing she never captured that extraordinary moment!

I even instructed ate bunso in details all the things she has to prepare if ever were not home for the surprise visit from the brand of bread we will serve her up to the tissue and soda and she laugh when she reads it for it is still posted on the fridge door. Mom asked me to print her photos to have the idea how she looks like and I made this.

Although we’ve been friends for a year now yesterday was the very first time lao and mom met her and just like me lao first meet mariae her car long before she meet her for real but my brother sometimes says hi’s and hellos, often read all my viber messages for her, sometimes like her post on facebook using my account and was really used to her name. He knows ate joie by name but he got no idea how she looks like.

I have been praying for this friendship to grow more each day since I meet her for real and often wishes in the church during Sundays and lao often laugh too much about it that he and mom will love ate joie the way they love dudoi and I hope that if she will visit us one day she will love our home too and she told me she did!

The smile lao did could tell he love all the cakes she brought for us.

and we love too all the things inside this bag.

Today we went with her to Iriga to visit dudoi’s mom and dad of which we love dearly. I also asked her to pick us up at the mall. She drives carefully and now I know how it is like to ride with mariae. It was a great adventure I ever believed would happen today for she shares with us her true life experiences that I listen very carefully even though I didn’t behave like that but in my mind and in my heart I did listen and if she doesn’t stop I will tell her to stop because it was so heart and eye sniffing and a two hundred percent different of what I presume about her life. All I know is that she loves mama mary and she is far richer than anybody and I never ever thought about that and learning so I admire and love her more.

God heavens I think yesterday and today I have all the love in the world from a very dear friend who is so pure, wonderful, gorgeous and generous. Thank you Jesus for the blessings of an extended family, for letting me befriends with her and that I say thank you too I have the best New Year!

Thank you po for all the love ate joie. 

May you always live gorgeously!

joie noga .... I am happy to see you in real!

Ate joie is very pretty, so funny, so sweet, very kind and so generous (clapping the ears gorgeous) but no kidding I love her because of her perspective, she loves mommy and daddy and most of all because she is witty and had great sense of humor. I only met her once last year for about ten minutes or lesser than that. It was just a simple hi and hello im glad to meet you thing. It was just quick in the hotel room she booked for us. We exchange a couple of text like hi’s and hello’s and merry christmas and happy new year and take care and goodnights after that. Just recently I had too much conversation on viber with her too. Then during those times when I feel like I am mad to the world I share it with her and she always listen to me .I love it when she listen and laugh with me. I can tell her everything. I am not shy telling whats in my head. And when I tell her about it she used to give me pieces advice as what she fondly calls sign of wisdom. Funny side is I first met her car long before I met her in real. But I used to see her on facebook and if it weren’t for that social site I guess I will not even memorize her face. Dudoi my handsome big brother told me once that she is a great friend. I used to call her gorgeous although it seems that she doesn’t approve on that and had laughed too much when I told her but I won’t change it because for me she is.

Today I get the chance to meet and see her for real. Not in ten minutes but a couple of hours too and that is something to be treasure for. I went to see her with one of her friend who happened to be my neighbor and friend too. I was so excited when she told me a couple of weeks ago that she is going home and we can see each other and push through with the surprise visit to the two people we love the most. She is very refine and girly…That I think all the girls her age wanted to be.  She is so cool that she didn’t get mad on us when we told her that the bus we are riding is already in pili because her home is a bit far but to our surprise she rode the same bus with us. She treats us for lunch and shared a lot of light conversation about life.  And I learned that like me she loves to drink coffee.

If there are things like forever I will keep her with me. I really want to grow old and be friends with her forever even if we both settled on the other side of the earth. For even though our first meeting is lesser than ten minutes I feel her being sincere and she really wins my heart. Dudoi said that its ok to be friends with her since she is so kind and seems very happy about it. Lao is still shy to meet her but do promise me to meet her too.

She is currently working in one of the cellphone giant and although she is so busy she makes time to send back on my text even if I was just trying to destruct her most of the time and when I am bored to death and that makes her one of the best thing since peanut butter for me. I seldom tell that word to a friend but because I feel something in my heart about her I consider her one.  Everything about her is real. She sees things clearly than I do. Maybe because she uses an eye glasses for that (lol) or I think she uses more pixie dust and do some magic for me that makes me love her just like that. But i guess we have the same heart or maybe because i just feel her love for me. There’s no secrets no anything and I love her that way. The love I gave to ate joie is the same love I gave to lao and mom and dudoi and mommy and daddy. I love her like my own sister. And I thank god for giving me a very wonderful person to make friends with.

One of the best things she said to me is to give lot patience. That I think sometimes yes I do lack of it. Now I am still learning to give more of my time with that and I prayed that the soonest I will be able to master it. Ate joie gave me a sakroot’s planner as a birthday gift and i really love it. It’s far different and above cool than the planner I am currently using.  I told her that I will write anything on it and I do start to write one tonight. Maybe she is thinking when she bought it that I am a quick temper and had not look clearly on the other side of things so I can write down all that happened to me everyday even if it’s good or not pretty good for me to reflect and learn from it.

I wish to see her again pretty soon and she promised to visit us too. And I prayed that the love she gave me and to daddy and to mommy and to dudoi won’t fade even a little or vanished for no reason because we love her very much. I wish that the next time she went home I will have the chance to drink coffee and laugh with her. Take care of yourself ate joie and always live a great life. Thank you for all the love. I love you very much.(i do hope that you wont squeeze me to death until my eyes pop out for posting this)