battle of the brainless night

last saturday night, i had an impromptu gimmick with my long-time friends. i just asked billie to come with kokoy & i at starbucks temple drive since kokoy will be finishing a report there & i will be left sipping a cup of coffee alone. we fetched billie in their condo & i had a glimpse of my very cute inaanak, her daughter, andie. pero honestly billie, may angle talaga na kamukha mo si andie although very prominent sa kanya yung features ni din. anyway, i didn't know that billie invited our other friends to come. while waiting for her, gigi gave me a call asking us where we are na & asked us to just come to their place to have a choco fundue night. well, it didn't push through. we still went to temple drive & goodness gracious aj & alen were already there waiting for us (bihirang mangyari yun ha, they are always late!!!). anyway, aj wants to eat a heavy meal so we left temple drive & headed towards tapa king in libis. this tapa king is different since they serve ice cream, tacos, nachos, beer, etc. so all that we're looking for is there. when alen & aj are around, you can bet that we'll have another battle of the brainless night as we talked non-sense the whole night! i wouldn't go into details but we laughed so hard that night that our stomachs hurt, haha. i could really count on these guys, we've been through thick & thin already esp. billie. those laugh trip & battle of the brainless nights just proves to show how comfortable we are with each other. we do not care if we talked non-sense as long as we have each other's company, it is enough (yuck drama but it's true though). hopefully gigi & liezel can join us next time:)

b-day greetings...
it seems that a lot of people are celebrating their bdays this november:

nov. 1 - kuya fed (our household head)...i had a blast singing the night away at your home...tnx:)
nov. 5 - papa...even though you are not around anymore, rest assured that a lot of people
remembered you on this day...we miss you:(
jm ...happy bday bro! i was so full when we went out of tiananmen...more success in life!
lola willie...my godmother, even though we seldom see each other...i always consider you
as the coolest & funniest (& of course youngest) lola in the paningbatan clan
paula... my cuz , who's becoming a good girl now, hehe

nov. 6 tita susan... paula's look-alike:)
tito kiko...the wackiest tito in town,bwahaha!

nov. 8 yemen...happy birthday mare!

dreams

In psychology, dreams (i'm talking about dreams at night here) are often linked to one's subconscious. Your aspirations, frustrations, fears, etc. are usually the theme of one's night dream/s. Way back in college, I got really interested with dream analysis primarily because i often have weird or unusual dreams. Yes, dreams have been a source of stress & anxiety for me then. There was even a time in my life that I dreaded going to sleep for fear that I might have another one of those weird & bad dreams. People I know who have passed away usually appear in my dreams, they usually have a message they want me to convey. Can you imagine a high school friend of mine who passed away appeared in my dream & told me she's looking for "M", she said she badly needs to talk to her & asked me about her whereabouts. I asked her who "M" was but she did not answer me. Late that year, I found out that one of our batchmates committed suicide & her name starts with a letter "M", who was also close to her. My father appears in my dream every now & then to tell me something, that's ok for me though. I welcome it since it is my only way to connect to him, I still am such a Papa's girl. Mama Mary appears in my dreams too, the latest was early this year when she told me that there would be a big earthquake in the middle of the year. I asked everyone to pray that this thing would not happen because apparently it was not only me who had this dream. A sister of one of our chaptermate's in SFC had the same dream. I guess, Mama Mary just called our attention to pray, as you can see, prayer can indeed move mountains. Dreams like these are bearable but the ones I could not bear are those that depict that someone close to me will soon suffer or worst is about to die. I had this dream very recently & I cried when I woke up. I prayed so hard that this will not happen as I could not really take it.

I thought that the period of my stressful dreams are over but I was wrong. They are haunting me again. During our very recent household, I shared this and they told me that probably God really gave me this responsibility to convey messages & to pray for those people. I would be a hypocrite if I would say it's an honor because these dreams usually leave me restless. But who am I to question God's will, I am His servant and if that's one of my missions here on earth, so be it.

I guess, I really need to pray fervently for the coming days.