asmph volleyball team bonding

call me grateful, ecstatic, exhilarated, joyous, or whatever else all that may amount to. but i've never been so glad to have been part of Palarong Med this year. :)

i found myself friends and colleagues who shared the same passion as i do towards the profession we are going into, the love for the game that seemingly loves us in different levels. :)) heehee! i, for one, have not been loved that much yet by this sport; but this is JUST the beginning and i am not going anywhere. ;p

Cheers! <3

Team S gets the hot seat! :)

it literally took a lot of everything to get me--especially us--here, and i'm real glad it did. the heart that led us to this happy place cannot be contained at all. :) i am so proud of my teammates and how far we've gone. i admire each and every one of them because there's always something new they bring to the table. and it's equally--if not even more--amazing than what they've been doing already. *much respect*

Good times <3

it's that fire inside us all that made us want to go the distance. it's who we'll eventually become. it's how bad we want it and how willing we are to fight for it. but alas, some things just aren't meant to be. YET. because our fighting spirit will never have an expiration date and that's what matters. we will own the next round and will not settle until we do. :)

give it back to me and i'll make it work. i'll never learn if i don't try. bring it on. ;)

it may have been exhausting and it may not have worked as well as i had hoped for my case, but it's all for the love of the game and the commitment to it. :) all i know is that it's never too late and miracles can happen. so if we work hard enough, we will get what we deserve. :)

Team Pepi :)
ASMPH Women's Volleyball Team 2011
Second Place, Palarong Med 2011 :)

Team AJ :)
ASMPH Men's Volleyball Team 2011
Palarong Med 2011 Champions! :)

i may not have been with these guys for a long time, but i know i have them beside me in this journey. i promise, every tomorrow will be better. i will not settle and will keep charging on. not only for myself, but for the team i have grown to love [cheesy! LOL]. :) really, some things never fail to remind me that i'm not alone. and this is one of them. <3

invictus

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

- William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

dream come true ♥

i was not at all hopeless. i knew, in my heart, that it would happen. no matter how long it took, no matter what the stakes. i believed, since i was young. i still do. :)


when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. ♥

i started being what i envisioned myself to be on april 7th. :) although it's officially only been 11 days, my heart has been captured by my dream since day one. i would marvel at the hectares of land i saw on mornings when i was brought to school last, and walked your halls when both my brothers graduated. i screamed my lungs out in every game, jumped for joy and squirmed whenever we would be up against our biggest rivals. you literally got my heart pounding, even if it's just on tv. family days, sportsfests and those milo best summer camps were no exception. prep, grade school, high school, college. yes, you may have broken my heart once, but my blood has always been blue. :) and you gave me something better now. :)

monday will be the commencement of one of the best and worst years of my life. and i am prepared to start my life anew.

I BELIEVE.

always have, always will. :)

the past

i must admit, in the most non-bitchy of all the bitchiness that i am, i miss you.

since facebook has been revamping most of its interface, i get to see something new everyday. the new layout, perhaps, or the new links and such that randomly pop up.

which brings me to my newest discovery: that sidebar of memories. :) it annoyed me, at first, to see something seemingly nonsensical flash before my eyes AGAIN, but as i saw some statuses of mine with actual substance posted there, i caved and went on clicking almost everything heartstrings-tugging that i saw.

and yes, i miss my old life, too. my old, even-more-flawed self, my escapades, my feelings, my crazy friends. and it actually hurts to think that some of them have been lost. somewhere, i don't know.

i wish everything would reach its conclusion, so that most things can go back to normal. yes, that's right, i WISH.

*sigh*

so, cheers to new beginnings, and i shall continue to pray for miracles to unfold. :)

2:58 am

that effing phone wouldn't stop ringing at 2:58 am. and when i finally got up to answer it, IT STOPPED.

somebody gag me now please.

and i've been up since. enough to [1] finally get sooooo bored with tapfish, tapzoo, coin frenzy and all the other games on my mom's iPad; [2] toss and turn in bed, while turning the fan off and then on and then off and then on again because it would be chilly and then i'd feel warm and then it gets chilly again and then i feel warm again *sheesh!!!,* and; [3] enough to find out that my parents aren't home yet.

wow. nightouts. :) heehee. though it's my brother's thing they were supervising, i would think they'd just go home and have the crew take over. but no. oh well. at least now they're home, sound asleep and getting the rest they very much deserve.

i had a rollercoaster day today. i was initially ecstatic because i had finally attended at least one simbang gabi for this year--though anticipated--and the added bonus of a fruteez hour and a half instantly made my evening. :) i didn't care it was raining--nothing could ruin my day. and then i knew i thought wrong. a slight twist of fate dampened my elated spirits and kicked my happy place's sorry ass.

of course, the discontinued sojourn cleared my nimbus mood, primarily because i was allowed to breathe and let the bad vibes go. but, of course, what helped the most was the extensive walking and my kiddie treat for myself-- mcdonald's chicken and spaghetti :)

i seriously forgot about that when i was too concerned about growing up. and now that i randomly return to it, i re-appreciate the simple joys i had as a kid. which is exactly what i did last night. :)

and it's half past 6 now. i need to recharge before later's shift--and fast.

bad vibes, begone! :)