FLASHLIGHT Lyrics

I fall in love with this song the moment I heard it at Pitch Perfect 2. And to learn that it's a Jessie J song made it more special!

When tomorrow comes
I'll be on my own
Feeling frightened of
The things that I don't know
When tomorrow comes
Tomorrow comes
Tomorrow comes

And though the road is long
I look up to the sky
And In the dark I found, I stop and I won’t fly
And I sing along, I sing along, then I sing along

I got all I need when I got you and I
I look around me, and see sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're gettin’ me, gettin’ me through the night
Can’t stop my heart when you shinin’ in my eyes
I can’t lie, it’s a sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're gettin’ me, gettin’ me through the night
Cause you're my flash light
You're my flash light, you're my flash light

I see the shadows long beneath the mountain top
I'm not the afraid when the rain won't stop
Cause you light the way
You light the way, you light the way

I got all I need when I got you and I
I look around me, and see sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're gettin’ me, gettin’ me through the night
Can’t stop my heart when you shinin’ in my eyes
Can’t lie, it’s a sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight

You're gettin’ me, gettin’ me through the night
Cause you're my flash light
You're my flash light light light, you're my flash light light light 

You're my flash light light light light light ohhh
I got all I need when I got you and I
I look around me, and see sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're gettin’ me, gettin’ me through the night
Can’t stop my heart when you shinin’ in my eyes (shinin in my eyes)
Can’t lie, it’s a sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight (you're my flashlight)
You're gettin’ me, gettin’ me through the night
Cause you're my flash light
You're my flash light, you're my flashlight
You're my flash light light light
You're my flash light light light
You're my flashlight

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Movie Night at 29

Because my second life starts at 29. I decided to celebrate it the way I had always wanted my birthday celebrated -- that is in a simple way and with my family.

And since I am into crafts, I had made sure that everything I would use are DIY's. I first researched on birthday themes, since that was always a dream of mine. I searched and googled my way around it, until I settled on a Movie Night themed-birthday party. Good thing, we now have pinterest so it didn't took me long to find free printables for my buntings, cupcake liners,  toppers etc..

My husband was extra sweet that day that it didn't take a lot of prodding on my part, for  him to assist me on everything, from preparing the foods to lending me a hand on cutting and pasting my Movie-Night decors. ( i loveyou, bai!)

His brother and cousin helped too! Happy crafting, guys!

I really had fun doing all the decors and the end result made me so giddy it felt like Christmas! Ha-ha!

For the food, I really just want to have a candy and chips buffet with cupcakes here and there.. so I was so surprised when my husband cooked some birthday favorites like  spaghetti,  hotdogs,  and bought a cake and a wine.

candies, chocolates and cupcakes

popcorn

wine

hotdogs with cheese and mallows

My menu was all so Movie Night but I think it kind of moved away from it when my Mom arrived and brought some foods and another cake from my sorority sis, Karen.

Bday cake from xi Karen

a gift from my husband

Humba

As I live the last year of my 20's, I am thankful for  the realization that life may be short but when you spend each day loving everything you have and everything that surrounds you, you make each day COUNT.

my better half

with our nephew Kean

with God's greatest blessing..

Hubby, Me, Nanay, Moneth, Kelvin with Kean

Yanyan with Mommy..

Lady...

Husband with his cousin, Moneth

a thoughtful gift from Xi Karen

... and we named him Vicvic

I am extra thankful for believing in God's Wisdom. His timing is always perfect. He may had given me the greatest setback in my short journey, but He gave me everything I need to get up and continue walking. The redirection was all I need to remember that He is my sustenance. He is the Greatest Provider of all. And He alone is worthy to be seek.

Had I not known Him. Had I not found my Faith. Had I not meet Him before I went through my ailment, I do not know how I could have survived. But as I have said, His Wisdom and His Mercy is so deep that He made me take the journey with Him by my side.

I am so loving my life.  All Glory goes to Daddy God!



-makelina

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Examples of Oxymoron (pl. Oxymora)

OXYMORON

          n. pl. ox·y·mo·rons or ox·y·mo·ra (-môr′ə)

A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined.

A.

alone together

Awfully pretty

Amazingly awful

Alone together

Act naturally

Appear invisible

Awfully lucky

Awfully good

Awfully delicious

Aggressive Defense

All Alone

Alone in a crowd

Altogether Separate

Amicable Divorce

Arrogant Humility

B.

bitter sweet

Beautifully painful

Big baby

Bad Sport

Blank expression

Blind date

Blind eye

C.

civil war

clearly misunderstood

Complete separation

Confessional truth

Constructive criticism

comfortable misery

conspicuous absence

cool passion

Cool sex

crash landing

cruel kindness

cheerful pessimist

Clearly confused

Casual sex

D.

deafening silence

deceptively honest

definite maybe

Delicious torment

deliberate speed

devout atheist

dull roar

Deafening silence

Dark snow

Dark light

Definitely maybe

Disgustingly delicious

Divided unity

Drawing a blank

E.

eloquent silence

Expressive silence

even odds

exact estimate

extinct life

Eyes wide shut

F.

Fairly biased

Fan fatale

Fatal attraction

Foolish wisdom

festive tranquillity

found missing

freezer burn

friendly takeover

Friendly argument

Friendly confrontation

Friendly fights

G.

Ground pilot

genuine imitation

good grief

Good loser

growing smaller

guest host

Goodbye reception

Growing smaller

Great depression

Great tragedy

H.

historical present

humane slaughter

Heavy diet

Happy sad

I.

icy hot

idiot savant

ill health

impossible solution

intense apathy

Indirect communication

Innocent seduction

J.

jumbo shrimp

joyful sadness

Just friends

L.

Liquid gas

larger half

lead balloon

living dead

living end

living sacrifices

loosely sealed

loud whisper

Loud silence

loyal opposition

Liquid food

Light darkness

Least favorite

Ladies man

Lifeless relationship

Love crime

Love hate relationship

Lover's quarrel

M.

Mean smile

Mild enthusiasm

Misanthropic Philanthropist

mournful optimist

magic realism

militant pacifist

minor miracle

Mutual difference

N.

negative growth

negative income

Noticeable absence

Naturally strange

No comment

Numb feeling

O.

old news

one-man band

only choice

openly deceptive

open secret

original copy

overbearingly modest

Objective opinion

P.

Political Honesty

paper tablecloth

paper towel

peaceful conquest

Peaceful conflict

Peaceful fight

Perfect mismatch

Physical  chemistry

plastic glasses

plastic silverware

Pleasing pain

poor health

pretty ugly

properly ridiculous

Painfully beautiful

Pretty ugly

Pretty fierce

Pretty cruel

Pain for pleasure

Passive aggression

Passive resistance

Proud humility

Public opinion

Q.

Quiet presence

Questionable answer

R.

random order

recorded live

resident alien

Run slowly

Roaring silence

Romance crime

S.

Sad smile

Seriously funny

Small crowd

Sweet agony

Sweet pain

Sweet sorrow

Short wait

Sad joy

Saying nothing

same difference

seriously funny

shrewd dumbness

silent scream

Silent speech

Sincere liar

Singles club

small crowd

soft rock

Sound of Silence

static flow

steel wool

student teacher

sweet sorrow

Selfish lover

She's the Man

Shout in a whisper

Spoken thought

T.

Tragic Comedy

True myth

True lies

Typically weird

terribly good

Terribly nice

Terribly pleased

theoretical experience

transparent night

Tiny elephant

Typically odd

true fiction

True gossip

Tears of joy

Thinking out

Tough love

Troubled paradise

 U.

unbiased opinion

unconscious awareness

upward fall

Unpopular celebrity

V.

Visible darkness

Virtual reality

Virtual participant

Violently peaceful

W.

Weirdly normal

Worthless gold

Walking dead

Wake up dead

wise fool

working vacation

Warm as ice

We're Alone

White lie

Wicked good

Worst enemy

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Whiskey & Wine Lyrics

[Verse 1]: Christian Burghardt & Cady Groves]
We're like whiskey and wine
You're a delicacy sweet off the vine
With just a little kick, you don't have to try
To get me tipsy tonight
I'm like wine in your whiskey
You're hard to swallow, but you know how to get me
I might be wound up tight, but you make me crazy
And you make your way down

[Pre-Chorus: Christian Burghardt & Cady Groves]
And you remove every doubt, you figured me out
And you, you cut off my chains when you say

[Chorus: Christian Burghardt & Cady Groves]
Let's take off our clothes, shut the windows
Lying on our backs talking shit about our exes and our high school friends
And places we've been
I'm waking next to you, but I can't remember a thing
Cause I was drunk off you
And baby, you were drunk off me

[Verse 2: Christian Burghardt & Cady Groves]
We're like the birds and the bees
You're sweet like honey, but you know how to sting
Right where it gets me, babe, and you give me wings
You keep me up in the sky

[Pre-Chorus: Christian Burghardt & Cady Groves]
And you remove every doubt, you figured me out
And you, you cut off my chains when you say

[Chorus: Christian Burghardt & Cady Groves]
Let's do it again; it's 3 AM
Lying on our backs talking shit about our exes and our high school friends
And places we've been
I'm waking next to you, but I can't remember a thing
Cause I was drunk off you

[Verse 3: Christian Burghardt]
We're like whiskey and wine
You're a delicacy sweet off the vine

[Chorus: Christian Burghardt & Cady Groves]
So let's take off our clothes
Shut the windows
Play our music loud and dance like it's 3 AM
Let's do it again
Lying on our backs talking shit about our exes and our high school friends
The places we've been
Tell you that I love you when you know I've been holding it in
It's where we begin
I'm waking next to you, but I can't remember a thing
Cause I was falling you
And baby, you were falling for me
Cause I was drunk off you
And baby, you were drunk off me

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EVERMORE Lyrics ( Gao and Liu's AGT Audition Music)

Walk through my memory
see all that we have done
in my dreams
in my dreams

Touch is reality
Feel you're so close
I believe
I believe

The moment
has finally arrived
I knew right away
I could finally say

You can always have hope that
I will be waiting through miles
and loving through days
Yet to come and to go evermore

chorus:

You can take every
word that hasn't been spoken
As proof that we'll never be broken
We've made it somehow to evermore

Trust is the remedy
something you can see
for miles and
for miles

As much as you give to me
I will return to you
All the while
All the while

The moment
we two did collide
I knew right away
that I'd someday say

Repeat Refrain & Chorus

So if it's alright with you
I will be along together
Through everything
We will be strong
WE build our own lifetime
and never know any regrets

Let time still weigh
every moment
Right upto the last
Evermore
Evermore


You can always have hope
that I will be waiting through miles
Loving through days yet to come
Evermore

Repeat Refrain and Chorus

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Cagbolo Barrio Fiesta 2015

 Celebrated my first ever Barrio Fiesta at Marvin and I's Munting Kubo..

There are a lot of things to be grateful, and I'm happy that the people who loves and supports us  100% were there to celebrate life, friendship and a festive buffet with me and my family. 

My parents were there...

Nanay Menyang

Tatay Edroy

my father-in-law 

and my husbands' grandparents

and his brother's extended family were present too...

Kelvin & his son Kean.. ,

My sister-in-law's family

 Even my friends and former co-teachers from ACC came..

Sir Rakz aka Tyo Imban

ACC Family

My special "visitors" were my Kappans siblings who stayed overnight to help me set-up the kubo and prepare the foods. They came not as visitors but as family who even took the role of buffet servers just to make sure that I don't stress out on details before, during and even after the fiesta...

gkp siblings helping Tiyo Billy, the cook,

Extra grateful to xi Anne for being patient with me..

Bor Rico did the table skirting

My Kappans Family

They had assisted Nanay bigtime! Superrr Thank you!!

sorority power!!

On my part, I made sure they would have a fun day and would never regret coming to our Barrio to help and visit me. Luckily, they are not a difficult bunch to handle., so with a little booze and lots of karaoke music, my kubo was filled with laughters and karaoke-kalokohan courtesy of my snappak family. :D

Given a chance, I would love to host another Barrio Fiesta a year from today. God willing...
For God's Glory..



-makelina

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Basking in A Perfectly Imperfect Life

Last February 3, 2015, I was admitted to Leyte Provincial Hospital after a month of irregular bleeding. After two years or so, I finally decided to follow my Ob-gyne's advice to go through Dilation & Curretage.

For a week, I thought everything is well already, until the lab results were out and I got diagnosed with the life-threatening illness. I have Endometrial Cancer (Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma)

Darn! Yes, on that moment I thought the world is conspiring against me... I never felt so helpless and down,

For two weeks my husband and I decided to keep it from both our parents. We wallowed and cried in bed...  night after night. During those times, I wished for a quick and easy death.

What changed my attitude?

Well, the news of somebody I barely knew dying in a motor vehicle accident.

The shocked it caused to her family and friends; the suddenness of her death- brought me back to my senses. I remembered my parents - those two gray-haired, gentlest of souls individual who gave me the best of everything they can possibly provide. And my husband- the one man who stood by me and held my hand through this raging storm...

Then I remembered, someone once told me, "When you're tired of standing up, you can always kneel." 

And from that day on, kneeling made me regain strength. The Lord works in mysterious ways. I may still have not-so-good days, but now I know how to look forward to a better tomorrow. 

These days, I use most of my times being around the people who loves me the most. I learned to appreciate mornings and the hope they promise. I learned to stop and take in everything I feel, I see, I hear... 

Life is short but it is beautiful. 

My Greatest Provider, teaches me a lesson on life everyday. And I had never been a more patient and obedient student. 

From friends, to classmates to people I haven't meet in person yet- Jesus taught me the value of Charity and True Fellowship..He sent to my way people who He made Instruments for the gradual healing of my Soul and body. I had never felt so blessed! 

I am on a new journey... and just as how I start my day, I pray that my Lord, Jesus Christ, continue to use me for Thy Glory.

May He Bless you today and everyday, as He continuously Bless me with His Graces and Mercy. 

-makelina

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