Forever Grateful: June 2014

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Good oldies!

Last night, I recharged my old phone to check old photos, messages which would tell how we were before as a couple. By reading back those old messages, I can say whether we fell more in love with each other or if we were better before, if things have changed and/or if the feelings are still here.

Guess what. We've been occupied by a lot of things now. Before, we used to send goodnight song lyrics and goodnight cheesy messages. Now, we can rarely do that anymore. Time spent with each other are lesser now but hey, we are now a little more mature compared to our 2013 selves.

I am happy, because even though a year passed, our feelings are still here. The petty problems before that are no more, our present that's never been this good - it's always good, and to the future that only the One can tell.

Well anyway, here's a shameless 2011 photo of us I found on my old phone. Don't judge our smiles, we were happy that time, really. Hahaha!

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Throwback

Throwback, our 3rd anniversary photo. Hihi. Oh, I'm now missing my long hair!

With all the strands of my short hair,

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

TFIOS Date

June 6, 2014, the boyfriend and I decided to watch a film titled, "The Fault in Our Stars". It's a film adoptation of John Green's book. (a little spoiler alert!) I've read the book just weeks before watching the movie and I must say that the book is better, of course I know that not alll scenes in the book should be also done in the movie, but I just feel that the movie lack some "feels". And the ending, why did they change the ending. The last 2 words are the most important! ANYWAY, this isn't supposed to be a movie review post, so moving on...

After office, we decided to meet at Robinson's Galleria, then ate at Sushi-Ya because I was craving for sushi that time. Happily, the boyfriend agreed to eat there even though he's never a fan of Japanese food.

We had our usual kulitan, lambingan, asaran of course! Then after eating, we went to Starbucks to have some coffee for the movies. This day is also remarkable for me because I found my favorite Starbucks branch evar! Haha! The one near the Cinemas of Robinson's Galleria! The baristas are extra friendly, not that annoying friendly type of Baristas, but the friendly type which makes you stay longer at the coffee claiming area because of the awesomeness of the people there! One barista asked if the boyfriend is a rocker because of his shirt, he said that he wants to be a rocker too but he was a dancer, his group dances tribal dance and he even did a sample! Haha! Isn't Mr. Barista nice? He handed us our coffee then me and the boyfriend kept on talking about how nice that branch is and I told him that that branch is now "our" I mean "my" favorite branch. After getting the coffee, we went to movies, then I cried then we went home.

Simple date, movies, food coma, coffee, laughters and endless stories. I just love spending days with my man. I hope we still do this until we're old. <3

P.S.

Sorry for the lack of photos

Much love,

Monday, June 9, 2014

Community Service: Mangyan Tribe

June 1, 2014. Our club (well, consists of 3 person, including me! haha!) Went to Mamburao, Mindoro to extend some help to our fellow countrymen. Hehe. Echos. Kidding aside, we went there to bring some stuffs to the Mangyan children.

Ola!

The boyfriend's gorgeous feet!

Heh, Hi lavv

Their only classroom! Here is where the elementary kids study! The population is 80 students, from 1st to 6th grade.

The only teacher who molds the students. She's the only one teaching the 1st to 6th grade. Yup. Hero!

Their home.

The kiddos!

Giving them their pair of slippers. Not just for the kids, for the adults also. They don't really wear slippers. Just barefoot, while going to school, playing outside, etc. It's the first time for some of them to have their pair of slippers.

Excited for their first pair of slippers! ;) Its just so heartbreaking to know that after we gave them slippers, some of them removed if from their feet and kept it. They don't want their slippers to be worn out fast because they're saving it for the rainy season.

Another thing that they need the most are clothes! We only brought one bag of used (but not abused) clothes, but the clothes were a hit! It's like we brought a Forever21 loot, they super loved the items! Their eyes were sparkling by just seeing the bag full of garments.

Look at this cutie, so excited to wear her new dress! ;)

My favorite bb girl. Maurice. Trying her full #ootd heehee

Here she is! Isn't she lovelyy?

Healthy Teeth Campaign 3.0!! :D

Maurice!!!

Such beauty.

First time I saw Maurice smile.

We felt like we're the one who helped, but it was us who was aided. Helped in a way that they made us realize the petty things that are regularly around us, matters a lot. That, living a simple and happy life in this world of technology and era of selfies is still, possible.

They showed us the true meaning of humility, we never felt that they have insecurities, they do not envy people having these awesomesauce gadgets because they never compare. Maybe because they don't have anyone else to compare what they have or do not have. They always give and share, food, laughter, care, and most especially, love.

Do something good for others, start now. :)

Mamburao, Mindoro

One of the things that we love to do together is do community service. Luckily, our dear Club had this project at Mamburao, Mindoro and we got the chance to see the province's majestic beauty! :)

This isn't really a travel post because we just did this post-community service dip at the nearest beach (which I don't even know what the name is!) because we still have 3 hours before our trip back to Batangas / Manila.

I'll just insert some photos during our swimming, then on a separate post, will talk about the community service that I am talking about. ;)