I saw this post on facebook saying how do you measure a year. In daylights? In sunsets? In midnights? In inches? In laughters? Or in strife? I guess it's a collective experiences of everything within the three hundred and sixty-five days of the year that had ended.
It's the third day of the year 2020.
I'm at home, on leave, no work (YET), and on the best time to look back on every ups and downs that had transpired on the last year. I can't say that 2019 is my best year but it was the year of collecting myself from the super down 2017 and 2018, so it was a happy year. A year of new experiences and a year of happiness, so I look forward to 2020 with a smiling heart and ready to take on new planned and unplanned adventures and experiences.
A LOOK BACK ON THE YEAR THAT WAS
YEAR MEASURED WITH FRIENDS
Small or big gatherings are immeasurable with the seven constants of my present and future. It doesn't matter where or how we spend our time together, for it will always be a day well spent if I spend it with them (ICHIWITI: wow kung mababasa nyo to, wag kayo umiyak hahahaha).
2019 is the year where we were all called for in the work force, thus making it impossible for all of us to be in the same place at the same time at once. Thankfully the start of our 2019 made it possible for us to do just that (well, except for Pau who is in Korea), and since it's Amir's birthday month, it should be a well known fact that we should visit him in his turf, and so for the first episode of the year, we went to Pampanga and visited the Air Force, Nayong Pilipino, and Picnic Grove.
Come March onwards, except for August, we had the movie theaters to go to and MOA (and other malls) to roam around in. Here's an outline of the simple mall things that I did in the past year:
MARCH 23: GIRLS' DAY OUT with Dane and Kaykay a day before my birthday. We watched Five Feet Apart.
MARCH 29: AFTER-WORK MOVIE DATE with Dane and Jobie. We watched Eerie. SOOOO EERIEE!!
APRIL 9: SAMBOKOJIN and MALL HOPPING (MOA - SM Southmall - Evia)
MAY 1: AVENGERS cinema hunting last labor day holidayyy! Dane, Kay, Jobie, Amir, and I ended up finding available seats at Resorts World. It was my first time in a Casino. Bad Influ talaga mga friends ko. char.
JUNE 12: ALADDIN with Dane, Kay, Jobie, Amir and Ken. Samgyup samgyup at Sumo Niku and Bingsu at..... I forgot where, but somewhere in MOA.
JULY 7: ANOTHER GIRLS DATE in MOA again.
NOVEMBER 30: LAST MOVIE OF THE YEAR. Watched FROZEN 2 at SM San Lazaro.
The following are not movie dates...
OCTOBER 13: We had a house blessing but we are incomplete... because, duh? hahahhaa.
AUGUST 17-19: Lastly.... The highlight of the year with ICHIWITI was the first time in 2019 that WE.ARE.COMPLETE! All eight of us, can you believe that?? Oh well, since it's Pau's vacation, we had to plan something, so we went to Tanay Rizal and had the best adventure we never thought we would ever do! We were in a freaking cave and trekked and crossed rivers and those kind of stuff. I was telling my parents what we did that day and told me that if they knew that that was what we did, they would have never allowed me. HAHAHA
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Other things that happened this year with other friends:
FEBRUARY 2-3: La Union with the dormie friends. La-la-love surfing! When can I come back to LU?
MARCH 5: Joyce's Wedding.
YEAR MEASURED WITH FAMILY
By mid-year, I started planning trips with my family. My father only wants to go outing in Batangas so most of this trips are only around the area, but mind you, the first trip we had is not in Batangas but at the edge of the North! (These are also notable things that happened this year)
APRIL 18-20: We went to Palaui in Sta. Ana, Cagayan! Hello road trip, and hello sunburn!
AUGUST 9-10: We went to Club Balai Isabel on a stormy day, but despite that, we had a beautiful loft and we enjoyed swimming on the big swimming pools.
AUGUST 7, we bought a new house because the environment in our old one is getting more and more toxic by the day. We were officially at home on OCTOBER 6, and had our house blessing on the 13th.
DECEMBER 1: We went to watch a polo game in Batangas. It was my first time watching polo that I was researching on that day as to how the game works. All I know is that there are horses and they need to "hockey" while on a horse. Guys, it looks like a hockey game with horses! Oh, and there's the prince of Brunei too.
DECEMBER 24: Christmas Eve with the extended fambam.
DECEMBER 26-27: Went to Anilao Awari Bay. Pricey but instagrammable. Food's not worth the money. We enjoyed the scenery nonetheless.
DECEMBER 31: New Year's Eve, again, with the extended fambam!
YEAR MEASURED WITH MY LOVE
This was the year that we spent both birthdays apart. Spent the 9th year anniversary apart. Spent valentines miles and miles apart, and other things apart. Despite all that, we each spent fun times together that would amount to a year even if it's just for a few days.
MAY 26-JUNE 1: Week well spent in Tokyo, Japan. Tiring but fun. It was my first out of the country with Revan. We have chaperones, though. I was with my cousin and sister. IT.WAS.MY.YEAR'S.HIGHLIGHT!
OCTOBER 27: Since, Revan's just here for a week and we weren't able to plan anything and the Van Gogh Alive was already sold out, we just went ahead to Dessert and Lakbay Museo. It was a great place to wander around in a day. Lakbay Museo was my favorite. Dessert Museum is just okay for me.
OCTOBER 29 and 30: Ate at Ningnangan with Revan's family then the next day, with my family.
OCTOBER 31: Visited Baby Aqui and Joyce.
Those were everything that I did in the last year, maybe I forgot the minor details but these were surely the best ones that I will be forgetting for the next days that's why I noted them down. I hope 2020 will be filled with more of these notable feats worth writing about.
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