Birthmonth: The Finale

Today marks the last day of my birthmonth!  To further celebrate, I had a movie date with my big girls!  Oh, how time flies so fast again that my darling second years had already grown up!  And what did we watch?  It is none other than the latest hit of Star Cinema, She's The One which stars Bea Alonzo, Dingdong Dantes, and Enrique Gil!

The movie is such a feel good one!  It is a romantic comedy that tells about the story of best friends who deniably hid that they had already fallen in love with each other.  Not until a carefree guy came into the scene who fell in love with the girl "friend" which made the boy "friend" realize that he should not let her go!

Contrary to what happened to me this month, the love interest was not a bestfie but in the same way, the love interest was again, AGES younger than me!  As Kat told David in the first place, "20 ka, 28 ako.  'Pano magwo-work 'yun?"  But David was so persistent and Kat was peer-pressured so she tried!  In her pursuit to give it a chance, she indeed became happy but the happiness was only temporal.  

Surely, good things never last.  Just like what happened to me last two years ago, it was only temporal.  And just like what happened to me these past two months, it was also only temporal.  Just why is it that only "boys" approach me and not "men"?!  

Anyway, I finally did let "the guy" go today!  (because he texted again after I said "God, close the door.")  It was only months so it is not that painful compared with the previous one which lasted for about two years.  So as my birthmonth ends today, I'm finally closing the door for my Mr. "Engr!".  Despite the very sad feeling I had days ago, I do have a light heart now.  There is no use crying over spilled milk!  I know deep down that I should still have to wait for the right person for me.  So from now on, I won't grumble about being single again.  I have to believe that God is still planning and writing my beautiful love story.  I have to believe that all this waiting won't come in vain!

So as for today, I am OK!  I feel good for letting him go!  This is my gift to myself so I won't have to bring this load anymore.  Good thing is, we are still in friend zone and this is the finale!  Thanks to my girls who became instruments to my first step in healing today (though they didn't have any idea of what I am going through right now)!  

P.S.  And regarding with falling in love again, though it would be temporal, appreciate what you have, before it becomes what you had.....Therefore, still savor each moment, enjoy while it lasts, indulge, but still know your limit! :)

   

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Another Birthday Celebration: Feeling Artista! ;>

I woke up with a light heart today!  I slightly overslept for there was no school and no early balloon order to attend to for the day.  So when I took a bath, I suddenly thought of celebrating my birthday again!  As you might know, I celebrated my exact birthday in Iloilo with the Red Roses and also had a post birthday celebration with my LSU family in Baliangao.  I haven't celebrated my birthday with my family yet so in a spur of the moment, I decided to have a birthday again today!  

Auntie Bebot Said a Blessing

In the first place, I wouldn't want my birthmonth to end without a celebration with my family.  For whoever I meet and wherever I go, it is my family that I go home to.

Then I also invited some friends who are always there for me in times of need.  Who else are these people but my MUHS gang!  Through these years, they are my hotline and are always in my speed dial for they always come rushing to my call.  I feel so loved by these people!  Wehe!

After eating, the kids enjoyed playing and dancing with the Lola's while the big kids enjoyed Kinect!

Moreover, Auntie Lourding, Taweng, and Tata caught up and we had dinner together!

Thanks to my Auntie Bebot's host of maids for making my birthday party in an instant!  

With Yaya Imelda and Cook Nanay Esther 

So here I go blowing my second cake for my birthmonth!

And what did I wish for?  The same wish I've been saying for years!  Thank you, Lord for today! :)

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Closing Doors.....

As you might notice in my blog posts these past months, I've been grumbling over being SINGLE!  So if you’re following me, my deepest apologies.  But God has been doing something these past months!  I just don’t know if it is still good to me or not ‘coz all I have now is an aching heart.  And it all started when I came to know that the last bachelor high school crush I have had already been married!

Looking back, I was so disheartened knowing about it!  Imagine that?  All my crushes had gone out getting married yet I happened to end up as a no-boyfriend-since-birth-old-maid-teacher!!!!!  Now who says that that doesn't suck big time, huh???!!!!!  Additionally, God has been making more fun of things by sending someone to me who enabled me to divert my attention instantly and inspired me to take an effort to believe.

So there I went efforting to believe again!  I tried to wish, I tried to dream, and I tried to hope.  I was even casting to the universe my desperate call which I thought would work.  Sad to say, nothing happened!  In as early as "in the first place", I knew that it was not meant to be.  So I tried to let it go.....

In my effort of letting it go, I decided to just live life to the fullest with a very big tampo to God.  Then I went to JCI Natcon 2013 in Iloilo to make myself realize that there is still a very big world out there and I should not limit myself in settling for what/who is less.  I could say that because I know deep down that I am more than what he is worth.  But God was such a joker god!  As soon as I arrived in Ozamis, I got news of him asking my number.

Then he got my number and we started texting.  It was just friendly texting but trust me, I hoped!  I even thanked God for the most wonderful birthday gift He had given me!  After two and a half years, I finally got a textmate again and I finally got a reason to smile again.  

Albeit the "good mornings", "have you eaten?", "be safe", and "good nights" (in pure vernacular), I knew that he was only riding on me.  He was not hitting on me but riding on me for I know that he had detected that I like him.  He was just only fishing......

But still, I got kilig and it was only to him whom I agreed to jog with or go out with but never did happen!  It was only to him that I was open to possibilities.  Of all my crushes, it was only to him that I was game!  Maybe I got too atat which scared him away.  Of course, I felt that!  And I knew all along that again, he was only fishing.....

After a week of texting, I had come across this IG post reminding me not to take matters in my own hands.  As what has God been telling me these days to WAIT, this post became my wake up call.  So I prayed to God to close what he had opened.  Could you see what happened?  I was already OK in letting go of him after Iloilo but God made a way for me not to let go of him by giving me quiet a chance to be closer to him.  Isn't that sooooo unfair???!!!  

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I'm sorry for these grumblings again but after a week of living my life in limbo, God had indeed closed the door.  In a snap, he stopped texting me!  So now I'm back into not lowering down myself.  My life is now back to normal, back to standard, back to myself, back to an unattended phone, and back to candy crushing!  I know it is boring and I've been bored and tired and tired and bored!  But at least, God had spared me from a future fatality by closing the door as early as now!  So despite the heavy heart, I am still thankful to "the guy" for the cheap experience I had with him and for making me realize that he is just until there and that his mission in my life has been accomplished!        

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Feature Friday: Buto't Balat Native Dishes and Seafood Restaurant

Feature Friday highlights businesses, people, fashion, and basically anything under the sun!

What I like best about travelling is not just exploring the place I am in but also exploring the food each place has to offer!  So in every place I visit, I see to it that I'm also gonna try out its best restos.  Though I've already been visiting Iloilo, my latest visit was also a memorable one for the food trippings I had with the Red Roses.  And my best bet was Buto't Balat Native Dishes and Seafood Restaurant.

The name itself is very intriguing for it literally means bone and skin in English.  Meaning, you're gonna take down all their dishes to the last bite with only bones and skin left in the plate!  Hmmm, sounds good.  So let's gonna test this one!  Now here's only a few of Buto't Balat's sumptuous home-cooked meals:

Adobong Pusit

Chicharong Bulaklak

Kansi

Lechon Kawali

Breaded Talong

Indeed, we took everything down!  Aside from Buto't Balat's delicious dishes, its ambiance is also top-ranked among the rest.  Its native interior suggests a homey experience plus the humming of background music playing a symphony of jazz, reggae, acoustic or bossa.  Moreover, their prices are all so reasonable that any Juan could afford!  So if you're planning a trip to Iloilo, don't miss dining at Buto't Balat.  There are 3 branches around the city namely Jaro Plaza, Diversion Road, and along Solis St. 

For queries, LIKE Buto't Balat here!  

Thank you to the kind staff of Buto't Balat!  :)       

(for giving sick MM hot water with ginger without us even asking.....) 

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A Birthday Celebration With a Cause

Birthdays are designed for us to thank God for giving us the gift of life.....

JIL Church in Brgy. Montol, Ozamis City

Birthdays are for sharing our blessings to our brethren.....

Birthdays are giving joy to yourself by giving joy to others.....

JIL Kids Ministry

Birthdays are best celebrated with people who love us so dearly.....

(c) Anwyl Sy

Happy happy birthday, anak Lowell!  May you continue to be a blessing to us and to others!  Stay jolly, kulit, charming, caring, and loving!  More birthdays to come to you, to Dosy, and to me!  Hehehe....Luvs much all of you! :) <3 - Ma'amy

Dli na daw "Ma'am" ila tawag sa ako ron.  "Chix" na daw! 

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Celebrating My Birthmonth with the LSU MatSci Department

One of the things that I am super thankful of this year is my employment at La Salle University-Ozamis.  I never thought I could be employed in this big institution for I've been so hesitant in submitting an application for years!  Before, people always ask me why am I being such a mediocre in teaching high school studes in MUHS and college studes in Medina College.  I didn't mind them for I already loved working there and with best intentions at heart, I had also loved all my anaks and students there.  

But time just came when I realized that I have to move onward.  I knew all along that I've been passive.  I knew all along that I'm just chillaxing.  It just happened one day that I was prompted to apply in a big university.  Thank God I got in!

Looking back, one of my hesitations was the adjustment of having new colleagues again.  I was already at ease with my MUHS and Medina family and it was hard letting go of them.  So I got cold feet during the first days I spent in LSU Math-Science faculty.  But my new colleagues are all so friendly!  They always extend their help in times of need.  They are so approachable and even give advices!  Actually, I easily felt that there, I belong!

Now let me introduce to you, my LSU MatSci family:

Jam, Gina, and She - my fellow newbies who are Math majors.  Ma'am Jam is the silent type whose eyes are always smiling, Ma'am Gina is the hilarious type whose jokes are all so funny, and Ma'am She is the loquacious type whose tales are always entertaining.

Ma'am Tina, Ma'am Merlinda, and Ma'am Jo - the admin officers.  Apart from being MatSci faculty, this trio also holds office administration.  Ma'am Tina is in-charge of the working students affairs, Ma'am Merlinda is the principal of Bro. Martin Night High School, and Ma'am Jo is the president of La Salle-Ozamis employees' association.

Sir Lito and Sir Jaymar -  speaking of admin officers, Sir Lito is the Science coordinator and Sir Jaymar is the Math coordinator.  These two work hand in hand in managing our department effectively.

Mickey, Juvi, and Jade - the best of friends.  These three are inseparable!  Sir Mickey is under the IT department while Sir Jade is under the language department.  But they are considered as the adopted children of the MatSci department because of their best friend, Ma'am Juvi who is a master of Biology.

Sir Aldrich, Ma'am Beth, and Allison - the lovely family.  Since the first time I've come to meet them, I already adore them!  They are more than a father, a mother, and a daughter because they are just like barkadas.  They joke with each other and laugh together!  It's always great eating lunch with them at school for they inspire me to also aspire having a family of my own someday.

Sir Ernie - the Mr. Suave.  Sir Capz is the most kulit person in the office!  He always cracks humorous jokes and makes kulit on you that would lighten up your day.  In his younger years, I know he's the type of person who can capture any girl's heart through his suave moves.

Cyrus - the vain mister!  Sir Cyrus is the crush ng bayan, campus idol, and the yummyness of the federasyon!  Hahahaha!  You know what I mean!  It so so shows naman, dba?

So there goes my new ka-bonding, kapamilya, kapuso, and kapatid!  It is just so great to know more people and to have a circle of friends that keeps on growing!  I am super happy to have had celebrated my birthmonth with them at Oklahoma, Baliangao.  Now I'm gonna bombard you with our pics!

Ngarag pa nga galing byahe, byahe naman ulit....

Birthday Celebration with Ma'am Jam and Ma'am Merlinda

Prepping Up Our Lunch

Lunchy!

Each year, God has been so good and so generous for all the blessings He had showered and still continues to shower on me!  I am just so filled with love that I can just forget the lacking part of me!

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Too Old To Be Sentimental About The Passing Of A Year

Hey there, blog readers!  It has been a long long while since my last post!  Pardon me for I've been super busy these past days.  To start with, I had been busy preparing test questions for the final exams and brainstorming class activities and problem sets which I left before JCI Natcon 2013 in Iloilo City.

Yes, you heard right!  I've been to Iloilo for a Jayceeing duty.  Jayceeing?  Well, not really!  For I did not register for the said Natcon.  I am still "heartaching" for what was done on me!  So I just went there for a short staycation at Centennial Resort Hotel and Convention Center!  Mayaman!  Yes, I paid for all my expenses as what I had been doing ever since I entered the organization (unlike other people there who are just relying on freebies by doing too much politicking!).  You know what, it really just sucks!

Well anyway, I celebrated  my birthday with the Red Roses again just like last year.  I chose to celebrate my birthday away from home again so I couldn't remember that it was my birthday!  I tried it last year and it worked!  So for this year, I did it again because I am already too old to be sentimental about the passing of a year!  And I think you already know what I mean.

So these were the things I did on my birthday last Saturday:

Red Roses All Fresh From Bed!

I may not be a Catholic but I paid visit to a Catholic church on my birthday!  I guess it is really human instinct to look for a place to solemnly say a prayer.  So aside from sightseeing and picture-taking which I am really fond of, I paused for a while and quieted my soul.  There I thanked God for my life's extension again!  I am beyond blessed to have reached this age for who would have thought that a sickly frail little baby could have survived and be as healthy as I am today!

Jaro Cathedral

After church, I went food-tripping and this is the must-eat in Iloilo!  If my noodle first love is Laksa, this could be my second!  Nissin cup noodles is incomparable to Iloilo's original La Paz Batchoy!

To top my birthday celebration by myself, I had Japanese Maki for dinner!  There ain't no Japanese resto in Ozamis and I had my last Maki experience for ages already!  So, I grabbed the opportunity of having one again with the very strong kick of wasabe to awaken my senses!

And what's a birthday celebration without a birthday cake?  Of course, my Atsi Ansha bought me one via Red Ribbon Dedication Cakes!  I blew it on Sunday already for the Red Roses partied all night so I had my birthday extended.      

Thank you so much, Red Roses for the love you have for me! :)  However, there is one thing that I had realized when we got home in Ozamis.  

My Jayceeing days were the most exciting days in my life!  As I look back to it, I miss it and regret why I suddenly threw it away.  I need not explain myself and I accept that I'm being misunderstood.  For what's the use?  What was lost has already been lost.  Just don't put the blame on me!  Couldn't you consider that I am also a person who is entitled to get hurt?  Then I gave it another try only to realize that there are things which are not meant for us.  But I am still glad to have found beautiful friendship.  I'm still happy to have had experienced a walk to remember with all of you.  Thanks for the Natcon experience, girls!  I may have left but in my heart, you are still treasured! :)

Letting Go of Things Can Be, But Letting Go of People Can Never Be!

P.S.  This would be my last year to celebrate a birthday alone!

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Live While Waiting

Hi!  I'm Mary Rosalie T. Olandesca, chemical engineer, businesswoman, writer, turned old maid teacher!  What an introduction that is!  It is as if I'm already cursing myself to oldmaidoom!  Yeah, right!  I am doomed!  Doomed to be an effin' fuckin' old maid!  So that's it!  Pardon me for such disgrace in using such shitty words but love life for me has been so shitty!

Well, I had already told my story here, here, and here!  So what's it to be told again?  A recent crush who just ignored me?  Like I had gone down to a lower level just to reach him but still nothing happened?  Shame on me!  But that is all so true!

So what the hell is so wrong in me that I've never been courted since birth???!!!  Like, hello!!!!  Universe, do you still hear me???   Then I've got the answer.  One night on my Podcast, God reprimanded me and shouted at me, "WAIT!"  It was repeated over and over again, "WAIT ON GOD!"  "WAIT ON GOD!"  "WAIT ON GOD!"

Of course, I didn't like the answer!  How long shall I still wait?  Another month?  Another year?  Another five years?  Or another decade?  What's the logic?  I'm too old for that already!  How could I ever bear a child then?  Do I make any sense?  It is just so GRRRRR!!!!!!  

But then again, I was reminded of PY Nakar's words on her book, The Single Journey - "Live while waiting....."  So I realized, if God will not still give me a boyfriend, so be it!  Why should I force Him to give me something which is not heartily given?  Like, do I have the right to demand?  But I've been good all my life!  Why couldn't He just reward me a boyfriend?!!!!

However, with all these rants I could say that I still have to accept His answer.  If He wants me to wait, then I'll wait!  I will live while waiting!  I will start partying all night, I will go on vacations on impulse, and I will splurge on material things every stable single lady should have!  If boys don't want me, then I don't want them too!  It's their fuckin' loss not to have me because I AM OH SO DAMN PRETTY, OVERLY SMART, AND FREAKIN' SEXY!  And from now on, I will

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