Earth Run Manila - my first 10k run experience :)

I did it!!! I finished a 10-km run in 1 hour and 22 minutes! Who cares about the 22 minutes? Think,  it's not even half an hour!  22 minutes equals parang wala lang. It's just several blinks of an eye - mga 2000 blinks! hehe.  No bearing diba? ;p  To Justin Timberlake and Madonna who got 4 minutes to save the world, it's like saving the world 5  1/2 times, but they're JT and Madonna naman, for Pete's sake! I'm just ME, the girl from Barangay Tambo Kulit.  So maybe no one will care if I edit my story, just a teeny little bit. Hihi

Take 2!

 I did it!!! I finished a 10-km run in 1 hour and a FEW minutes! Hurrah!! (Note to self:  'and a few minutes' part should be said in a fading murmur.)

Now,that's better.. Haha. This rounded-off version definitely goes to my 'Mga Kwento at Chorvas ni Lola Sha'.  Apiiiir! 

It was my first time joining a 10k race,  and I wasn't really sure I was ready for it. My mind just concluded that I can at naipagkalat na rin ng tatay ko sa angkan namin na tatakbo ako ng 10k, you see how there's no backing out now.  Dangal na ng pamilya ang nakataya dito!

I am not a professional runner at lalo naman na wala akong kapaki-pakinabang na tips to share for everyone who wants to make a career out of it. I probably survived this race by being one crazy girl, inventing every amusing thought my brain could come up with. 

You know how sometimes there's a voice inside you that's so loud, and so unbelievably epal to ignore? All throughout the race, these were what that voice (a mean version of that konsensya in the Safeguard commercial) was telling me.

"You wanna faint now? Go ahead! That's if You really wanna be headlines that way! ;p" 

"You feel like peeing? You are imagining things! You left your pantog at home, remember?!"

"Are you and your lola, batchmates?"

"Why would you want to be the 1000th finisher, when you can be the 998th? Go run past that sweet-sweetan couple in front of ya! Ruuuuuun!"

So I run, and run, and run, pretending like my legs don't hurt and like the dogs of hell are running after me! I also imagined all sorts of things waiting for me in the finish line:

And this next photo, nagdedeliryo na yata ko sa pagod kaya eto na naiisip ko: 

And holy yummy ravioli, it actually worked! It was  so fun and exhilarating that upon nearing the finish line, I felt like I can do 3km more. EXTRA CHOSS ;p

Here's a photo of me after the race, with all that pawis at ngiting-tagumpay! ;p

for an angel named Brielle

Fly high, angel.

mom, you're amazing.

Mama is amazing. I know I said this so many times and I will still say it over and over and over again, because her 'amazing-ness' is like that, never ending! Just recently, I added something to my what-makes-mama-so-amazing list which may have topped all the awesome things she is and all the wonders she has done for me, so far.

Something that has been upsetting me for weeks made me broke down in front of mama. I cried my eyes out with matching singhot-sigok-singhot, in between rants. I can't even remember the last time I cried like that with her seeing me. You see, most of the things that worry me, I try to not let mom know. I think I'm such a big girl now, I'd deal with them like a katipunera would. I had thought there's no point worrying her when I could face them on my own. I thought mom was a softie, the 'you cry, I cry' kind of mom. I was so wrong to think of all those things. That was underestimating her. tsk tsk.

Because that night she patiently listened and stayed by my side while I cried a river, it just hit me how strong she actually is and how she's always been my rock. :) So God, this post is to thank You for my out-of-this-world-amazing trouper mama. =*

28 years and counting :)

Mama and Papa celebrated their 28th year of marriage yesterday. Ika nga sa Cavite, "kay tam-is!" :)

May long and lasting love talaga guys!!! Wuhoooo!

lezzgo north!

Just got home from my Ilocos adventure with baliw-baliwan friends. Always so fun with the baklitas. :) Kwento later! Nyt!