A Blessed Christmas To Everyone

Christmas Eve '05 finds me thinking about my past Christmases. I have a lot of things to be grateful for - my immediate family is still complete and both sets of grandparents are still alive (Thank you Lord.) I don't know why, but this Christmas will probably the most meaningful yet so far. It is not just marked with gifts, with many noisy get togethers (because it is) but this time I feel and know that there's an underlying happiness in me that runs so deep, and no words would do it justice. I feel and know I am loved by the people who I love most, and even if there's just one person missing in my life, it's okay. He's just gonna be the icing if ever.

Here's a song that I always, always sing every Christmas starting from my freshman year in college. And it pretty much says what I really want for Christmas, so if you can do at least one of the things mentioned in the song, please tell me, ok? =)

Law! I want, no, command you to demand my Christmas gift to you in the soonest possible time! Alam mo na yun, hahahah! I'm so happy!

If anyone wants some information on Gawad Kalinga, please contact me and I'll gladly bring you to its best coordinator/team leader, Lawrence! See you one Saturday!


My Grown Up Christmas List

Do you remember me
I sat upon your knee
I wrote to you
With childhood fantasies

Well, I'm all grown up now
And still need help somehow
I'm not a child
But my heart still can dream

So here's my lifelong wish
My grown up christmas list
Not for myself
But for a world in need

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown up christmas list

May kindness rule our lives
Not just the strong survive
Sweet tears for all the thousand years gone by
This is the world I pray
We will all share someday
Help me begin by reaching out my hand

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(This part is from Kelly Clarkson's version)
As children we believed
The grandest sight to see
Was something lovely
Wrapped beneath our tree

Well heaven only knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal
A hurting human soul
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No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown up christmas list

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth
Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth
(there'd be)

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end, oh
This is my grown up christmas list

This is my grown up christmas list


Have a very blessed and meaningful Christmas everyone!