birthday weekend

yesterday, i went to moa (mall of asia) with daniel. just the two of us. : ) was supposed to meet up with jen for dinner, but when i called her, i learned that her grandma just passed away yesterday morning. : ( it was so sudden. her grandma was even healthy when that happened. hay. : ( francine was out of town too so maybe we'll just meet this weekend. if you know me well enough, you'd know that i don't want to be with a lot of people. hehe. not that im a loner, but i just think that having a big group of people around will just make me uncomfortable. and feel ko you won't have enough time to entertain all of them. so im happy with spending my special day with my special one. : ) we had merienda at tempura then watched a movie - tropic thunder. while walking around, we saw a siberian husky. it was so cute. : ) we had dinner at italianni's then watched the fireworks. : ) i always loved fireworks. and stars. : ) we came home right after the fireworks display and i even had time to attend church that night. late nga lang hehe.

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tonight, i had dinner with my family with aunties, uncles and cousins at korean village in malate. the food was good. i love their beef stew. : ) then everyone sang a happy birthday to me. : ) came home early because the kids still have exams tomorrow. not me.. sem break ko na. yey! :)

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thank you to everyone who texted, pm'd, and called to greet me. : ) thank you for the lotions, cakes, pizza, and ang paos (red money envelope). ; )

the older i get, i realize that gifts aren't so important anymore. what's more important is the relationships you have with people around you. with people you love. because these are priceless. : ) and these are the things that matters most. sadly, most of the time we forget that. everyone is in such a hurry. people haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. the next car, the next house, the next job.. then they find those things are empty too, and they keep running again. once you start running, its hard to slow yourself down.

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it's not the years in your life that counts. it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln