MY 2013 SPEECH

I don't know how to start this speech really. I don't even have plans like my 2012's. I have even thought of not making this now and just make this sometime next year. But hey, time has presented itself to me. So I should not waste it. TIME is GOLD. LOVE is ETERNITY. Hmm. This will just be spontaneous. Whatever thoughts that will come out of my mind, so be it. :)

JANUARY

• To Ron - Thanks for the birthday treat at Seafoods Island Northshore Grill. One of the best moments with ECE 13. As I can see in our pictures, we are all so happy. So yeah. Happy happy. Hopefully, on your next birthday treat, we are still happy like what we felt that time. :)
• To Drei - Thank you for the chance that I met your dad and siblings and the rest of your family on your dad's side. Thanks for the new orlean's cafe after. Sorry about my gift though. But I know you like it. I hope so. Thanks too for your birthday gift to me. :)
• To Naden - Thank you for the pack of yema gift! You're the first who gave me a gift for my birthday! :)
• To Papa - Thank you for throwing a party on my 21st birthday. I had lechon again after how many years. The last time was I think when I was 7 years old? Hihi. Thank you for sponsoring black label to my classmates. Hihi again. :)
• To my ECE 13 classmates - Sorry that my birthday had a rainy night. Everybody got wet and yeah, Adrian was the most wet one. But I thank you all for coming to my party. And thank you for your newsprint and correction tape gifts. :)
• To all JIECEP-SMS members who attended the summit at UIC bonifacio - Thank you for singing me a happy birthday song. :)
• To Yabee - Yey! Congrats Miss RPh! I knew you would pass. If you had no toothache that time, I think you would top the boards. Haha.

FEBRUARY

• To the people I was with during the cheerdance competition at Almendra's Gym and after, THANK YOU. Memories indeed. :)
• To Drei - Thanks for the post valentines date at Mandarin and for the The Fault in our Stars book and correction tape and paper flower. :)
• To Jinky - 8th placer on the nursing boards! Wow! Proud friend here! Hihi. Thanks for the invite at your thanksgiving party. Happy night that was. :)
• To Hazel - After Jinky's thanksgiving party, we went straight to your thanksgiving party. Hihi. Congrats too Ms. Pharma! Hoping to call you Doc soon. :)

MARCH

• Thanks Meg, my forever partner. Logic and Android projects. :)
• Thank you teachers for the grades. I was 0.75 short somehow. Hihi.
• Thank you Drei for inviting me to your younger sister's graduation party. I got to see lolabels that night. :)
• To  Lolabels - Congrats for graduating! Archi in the making! Thank you for inviting me to your thanksgiving party! :)
• To Dash - Congratulations for finally graduating! A degree in Mass Communications indeeeeed! Haha. Couldn't be prouder. Wait for me on the finish line. I am hoping to see you and yabee by the time I reached the finish line. :)

APRIL - MAY

• Thank you SMART for accepting us to have our OJT in your company. Live More! :)
• New found friends during OJT - Des, Ting, Franch, Jazz, April, Master Cedie, and to the rest of the Field Operations guys, and to my co-school trainees, Eldon, Kat, Harlita, Butch - BEST TIMES!!! Hahaha! The Beatriz karinderya and the Teresita sugbahan and the graduation. What happens in smart, stays in smart? Haha!
• All my supervisors and bosses in Smart, thank you for the opportunity and for patiently sharing your knowledge to us; for teaching us and for letting us apply the things that we have learned. :)

(APRIL) JUNE (JULY) (AUGUST)

• Thank you Maam Banluta for accepting our thesis proposal. :)
• Thank you Sir Marloue for constantly and patiently checking our thesis works and for teaching us how to become businessmen/women. :)
• To my SEA women's basketball teammates and Coach Freddie Roach - I never thought that first practice would mean so much to me. I just went for that practice thinking that it would be my last and even used my favorite socks and cyclings. But hey, no lasts I think. Instead, that practice was the beginning of a stronger bond that, what i can see, is forming into a family-like bond now. :)

JULY

• To the whoooooole ECE gang! From first year to fifth or more year! BEST ACQUAINTANCE PARTY OF MY ECE LIFE EVER! Thanks to everyone who came! Thanks most to the SELECOMES officers who made it possible! :)
• To Niknik - Thank you for asking help to Nads about tutoring you. If not for it, we would not know each other this much now. We would not become what we are now. :)
• To Nads - Thank you for inviting me to tutor Niknik. I really didn't have any idea. I just said yes. Good thing I said yes. :)

AUGUST

• To everyone I was with during the EA Liga, the beeeeest agaaaaiiiiiin!!! Hahaha! Thank you! ECE Champions! Whoooooo!!! Basketball Girls champion, Basketball Boys champion! Aaaaaahahaha! Thanks to all ECE peeps I played with. Sorry if I am only a flower flower to the volleyball team. And to Tasha and Noreen, continue our basketball supremacy guys. Char. Hihi. To ECE as a whole, continue our dynasty! Go for the gold again next year! :)
• To Naden, Niknik and to Faith who came with us that keepsakes dinner, THANK YOU. That night was soooo memorable. Faith was a revelation indeed. I haven't expected that that would start a very hashtag korni bonding. Hahaha. But yeah, thank you. Let's eat again at keepsakes soon. :)
• Thank you to Naden and Niknik for everything that had happened last Aug 15. I never thought arcade could be so much fun. One of the happiest days of my 2013 ever. Happier because we saw Faith unexpectedly. Haha! Destiny! :)
• To Niknik - Thank you for sending me that cute Sister Song from Barney. I really didn't know that song all my life. It was just you who introduced it to me. You really are a kid. Hihi. That song made me realize how broken I am and that I need to be fixed and that I am just waiting for someone who will fix me (chars) and that I can't be fixed if I don't fix myself first. So full of fix. Haha. I think you are Fix-It Felix. And I am Wreck-It Ralph? Hahaha! Thank you for the love, care, concern and support. Thank you for being so thoughtful about my knee, for being a sweet younger sister to me (though sometimes naughty. haha), and for making me believe in my dreams again. Thank you for believing in me that I CAN. Thank you for letting me realize that I am capable of loving and that I am capable of being loved. I have never expected that I will find solace in a kid like you. Thank you for the happy pills. Thank you for the Happy Lemons. Thank you for the little notes. Thank you for every little thing you have given me including the 6k churbaloo. Haha! Thank you for calling me Ache. Thank you for the happiness. Thank you for breaking my big strong walls. Thank you for changing me. Thank you for bringing back the old ache, the old me. :)
• To Marj! Thanks for inviting me on your wedding. Happy to have met Joey. I wish you a happy and fruitful married life ahead!
• To my high school friends whom I was with last Marj's wedding - HAHAHAHAHA! Forever laughtrip with you guys! I miss you all so much! Let's get back again together on the next one who will get married. :)

SEPTEMBER

• Thank you panel of judges for considering our thesis project. It's still kind of hard somehow, but yeah,  we'll get through this. :)
• To Niknik - Thank you for being there after my thesis title defense. :)
• To Faith - Thank you for calling me and Nik that night (and not anybody else? hihi). Thank you for going away from your world and coming back to the real world just in time. I know you can remember all the things I said that night and I hope you won't forget them and I hope you will truly apply them. I felt I was really an ATE that night. Hihi. Thank you for inspiring me to do well on my exams the day after. :)
• To Mommy - THANK YOU for sponsoring my hair and make up for my yearbook pictorials and for accompanying me and being a stage mom at the studio. :)
• Thank you to Sheila Magpale Salon (J.P. Laurel Branch) for my hair and make up. Hihi.
• To the Campus Ministry and to Sir Ryan - Thank you for the opportunity of having a silent retreat. I needed that so much and I just would like to thank you all for the help you have given. I think I will attend again a silent retreat. Soon. :)

OCTOBER

• Thank you for the grades, teachers. I made it to the cut. :)
• Thank you Drei for understanding. :)
• Thank you Bonj for the birthday invite. :)
• To all ECE/CpE/ChE in Singapore - Aaaaaahhhhhh!!! BEST!!!!! Hahaha! A picture paints a thousand words, so I think my pictures of us on my Facebook account are enough to express all my emotions/thoughts during those 5-day trip. THANK YOU! :)
• Thank you to the CpE Blacksheeps and Sir Descalsota (our Tatay) for being with us, ECE babies, guiding us during our Orchard, Marina Bay Sands, Bay View, Merlion, Universal Studios, Sentosa Island tour. Best amazing race slash survivor trip ever! Hahahahahahahaha!
• Thank you most to Papa and to Mommy for sponsoring my Singapore trip. :)
• Thank you to Harlan Sanchez for accomodating me when we arrived in Davao because the water is so high and it was flood everywhere and there was no chance I could go home to our house. :)
• Thank you Stephen Maybanting too for cooking food for us. Hahaha!

NOVEMBER (DECEMBER)

• To my basketball teammates and coach purr - thank you for trusting me and for understanding me and for letting me play. :)
• Thank you Auntie Carol and Ate Cheche for coming here in Davao and spending time with us during the holidays. It was good to be back at Samal. :)
• To Sir Opep - Thank you for helping me with my BPI applications. Sorry sir if I did not make it. But those times when you were helping me made me see that you are a passionate teacher. I hope you won't stop teaching and continue helping students (like me). :)
• Thank you to my forever thesis partner Meg for being so supportive and understanding and just simply being responsible enough in all our works. You know already what I am saying. Hihi. :)

DECEMBER

• ECE 13!!! Thank you for participating on our annual exchange gift giving! Thank you that we all gave somethings even though we leveled up to 500 pesos or more. Thank you that despite of our busy schedules and no money and no proper venue, we were still able to celebrate this annual tradition. :)
• To my basketball teammates and coach purr (again) - best practices here at our subdivision I can say. Hihi. Naaaaah. Just thank you for the bonding --- the stronger bonding that we have --- even stronger than before. Hihi. Just unfortunate that we fell short on our last game. Even I wanted to win it and I wanted that we will reach the championships. But yeah, life's like that. Let's just make sure that we "equal" this year what we have achieved last year. Go for the bronze! Hopefully, we can spend more time together even if the season has already finished. :)
• Thank you Niknik and Faith for accepting my crazy idea of exchanging gifts, and for the go with the flow trip (ktv, bowling, dinner, mcdo dessert) during the longest night of the year. Thank you Faith for the Timex watch. Thank you Niknik for the engineer teddy bear and for the numerous amount of letters. Thank you for making granny happy that longest night. :)
• Thank you again Niknik and Faith and this time with Fiona for a invading our house and for the bowling part 2. Just sad that we haven't had the chance to go to the cinema but next time, there's always a next time. :)
• To TRIPOD - for the unending support and love and understanding and words of encouragement, THANK YOU! I miss you both so much. I want to be in your arms now. Charlaloo noh? Hihi. But really, I am hoping to spend MORE time with you this 2014. I AM REALLY HOPING SO. :)
• Again, thank you Meg. Forever thesis partner. We can do this. We will. :)

THANK YOU

• Jintot
• Benben
• Agosto
• Mommy
• Papa
• Arvin
• Nanay
• Yaya
• Jesus
• Mama Mary
• God

But I gotta say, the best part of my day is when I get thrown off the roof. Because when the Nicelanders lift me up, I get a perfect view of "Sugar Rush", and I can see Vanellope racing. The kid's a natural. And the players love her, glitch and all, just like I knew they would. TURNS OUT I DON'T NEED A MEDAL TO TELL ME I'M A GOOD GUY. BECAUSE IF THAT LITTLE KID LIKES ME, HOW BAD CAN I BE?

- Wreck-It Ralph

:)