MY BIRTHDAY

This special day only happens once a year. Yes, it's my birthday and I'm happy that I still have my family. My wishes are continuous good health for me and my family, happiness, peace, love and understanding. And if God permits, it would really be wonderful if I finally find my significant other.

Maya

Finally, I'm taking initial steps at achieving my childhood dream of learning to play the guitar. Yes, I can play a few songs already. That's after several hours of practicing inside my room. It also helps that I have an officemate who teaches and inspires me to play better every time. I can already play a few tunes, although my strumming still sucks. Ah but I will learn it. I promise to be better. Here are the songs I can play:

Let it Be
I Want to Grow Old with You
Honestly
Hawak Kamay
Always Be My Baby


I own a Maya acoustic guitar. Tried to search for info on it but I couldn't find any except that it's a Japanese brand. Oh well, I still love it whatever is written about it. It sounds great even if sometimes the one playing it doesn't. Haha.

My new best friend of course is my guitar. I love my Maya. Para akong nag-promote ah. Nyahaha!!!!

Our trip

After several attempts at saving our planned Potipot trip, I guess it all comes down to unconditional surrender. Yes, it's true. This will be the first time in three years that the family won't have a summer outing but maybe...maybe there's a reason behind it.

Last week, just when everything else has been planned and worked out for our trip, a typhoon struck the very place we were supposed to be directed to. I'm not trying to be a fatalist but it was probably not meant to happen. So, we had to reschedule the trip and move it to a later week which is supposed to be today. Anyway, people from the resort we booked texted us as early as Thursday afternoon informing us that still they had no power supply. My brother actually didn't mind. He was willing to continue with trip with or without electricity. The resort owners on the other hand wouldn't allow us.

Well, it turns out that till last night, the resort still had no power supply so there...The trip was canceled again. Allan was extremely pissed of course. He truly wanted this trip. He wined about the typhoon, the power interruption, the unwillingness of the resort people to let us in. He even blamed God for the weather. Oh, God forgive him please.

At the beginning of the planning of this trip, I had as much enthusiasm as Allan did. I've been to Potipot with him a year ago. Thanks to a company outing they had for which I was allowed to tag along. Last week, I got a little frustrated. I felt the same way Allan felt. It was like, this was all we wanted for the family and here comes one typhoon to ruin it.

But then, looking at the brighter side of it...Maybe God didn't really want us to have this trip. Maybe, there's a big plan for all this and all we see now are the minute frustrations we're having. Maybe, God is testing us how much faith we have even in times when He doesn't grant us our wishes. What if in not allowing us to go, God is actually sparing us our lives? I really wouldn't know. Right now, I do not wish to question God's will. I accept it with all my heart because I know God is always fair and just.