Making memories with him

John and I have been married for 2 years and 8 months today. Wala lang. Hahaha!

Early this evening when he played spotify, the first song that played was "The Way You Look tonight" by Michael Buble. And if you know that song, you know how romantic it is to dance it away with someone you love. Hahaha! And so inaya ko sya sumayaw kami (sway sway ba while hugging each other). Ayaw pa nya kunwari but he obliged din naman ng konti. And that I find really cute and sweet of him. Silly things that we do (or should I say, I do to him. Haha) when we're together. I love it and I will forever cherish having those kind of sweet moments with him.

Before he left for work, I shared to him my quiet time this morning in Psalm 18:25 where David said "To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless,..." and how I realized that indeed it's true that when God's children are aligned to God's heart and will and when we obey Him faithfully, kitang kita natin ang pagiging faithful Nya. But when we go against Him and resist and disobey, ang feeling natin kay Lord unfair Sya. And then John said in reply: "May sasabihin ako tungkol dyan bukas."  To which I answered: "Ano iyo?" sumagot uli sya: "Bukas na ba ngayon?"  And then we both laughed! It's just sweet. I find it really sweet!

I love making memories with him. I really am thankful to the Lord He led me to John.

(Que music: ♫ How sweet it is to be loved by you! ♥ )

Looking forward for more and more memories with my hubby dear! 

On the 21st...

On the 21st of this month, John and I will marry each other. Less than 3 weeks na lang! Oh my gosh! Hahaha! :)

And yes, that's the main reason why I've neglected this blog so much and even my wedding blog... Totoo pala na busy ang mag prepare! Hehe!

Ayun lang. Napadaan lang ako. Hope may nagbabasa pa dito. Until next!

Blessings! :) ♥

Gusto ko ito!

I like it when John and I wear similar clothes. Just like nung Sunday, we both wore stripes and almost the same shoes! Haha! Ang cute lang. Love team na love team! :p

Saan tayo nakatingin?

Are you sleepy my love?

Why am I hiding? lol

Pardon if this is me and him again... I can't think of anything to post as of the moment. :)

Until next time... God bless our week!

♥ Love ♥

I really thank God for this man... for his love and concern to me and for everything else!
Thank God because He is the one who fuels us to love one another... like it's always a miracle! Hehe!
Indeed, we love because He loved us first!
Happy 41st and counting my love! :-*

An addition to the one I'm wearing

I've been meaning to post this here but I always forget to take pictures until today... Yey!

Ladies and gentlemen, my wedding ring:

Engagement ring's made of silver while the wedding ring is of white gold!

So love it! As in!

More of them in my photo-blog, check: Silver, White Gold and Diamonds and I will also feature this in my wedding blog of course! So watch out... :)

Hope you're all having a great Monday... Happy Chinese New Year!

Forty



*taken on our first day as a couple... seems like yesterday! *



Guess what?

It's our 40th month today!

Yay!

I love you more and more my love! :)

And thank You, Lord for showering us with your love and grace...

♥

My breakfast for today and some thoughts

My breakfast for today—Whole Wheat cereals, banana, coffee, Matthew 6:25-27 (in preparation for tomorrow night. I’ll teach in our GG), Luke 10:40-41 and then Genesis chapters 39 and 40. Talk about physical and spiritual feeding… Oh yeah! Burp!

Realization—I’m a Martha! Oh my, napa-ngiti ako when I studied that passage (Luke 10:40-41) about her earlier… I really am a Martha! And all along I thought I was a Peter. Hehe. Well siguro, may Peter side din ako. Wala lang. Na-realize ko lang and ngayon ko lang inadmit... My discipler told me that already pero dineny ko. Haha! :D

Sweet thought—I said to myself on my way to our office: "I miss John… But yeah, we’ll have a life time to spend together very soon so that’s okay! I can miss him now but I shouldn’t have to be so emo about it."

Bow. Thank God it’s Friday! :)

To my best friend... ♥

♫ I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend

Lucky to have been where I have been

Lucky to be coming home again

I'm lucky we're in love in every way

Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed

Lucky to be coming home someday♪

Wala lang, that song is playing and I automatically thought of you... Hehe! Miss you! Love you! Mwuah! ♥

Awww... yihee!

Super love this pic!
thanks to Jonas Acorda for taking our "pre-nup kuno" pic. hehe!
*taken during Connect Christmas party this morning*

In everything, give thanks!



my signature in my outlook email at work :)

 Yesterday was just awesome!

I really felt God’s favor upon me… it was overflowing and I really thank Him for everything!

Thank You Lord, BIG time!!!

Let me start off with yesterday morning. I went over to John’s place before going to work for an errand I needed to finish for Connect. I left their place late than I should have. My travel time from their place requires a lot of allowance due to heavy traffic. (Anyone familiar in Caint-Ortigas Extension-C5 route? You know what I mean. Hehe).

Anyway, it was funny because I didn’t panicked. If you know me—alam mo kung gaano ako ka-panikera :). And that I think was God at work in me.

I left at around 8am; my work starts at 10am. I was praying that God would provide a way for me to make it on time at work because I know for sure that based on the normal traffic situation in that route, it is most probable that I’m going to be late.

I had two routes to choose from—either I ride a bus going to Ortigas and then from there ride another bus going to Ayala so I can drop off somewhere in EDSA and then walk to our office OR ride an FX going to Ayala and drop off somewhere in Kalayaan avenue and then walk going to our office. The later was much easier, less hassle and less stress on my part but the thing is, during rush hours it is sooooo difficult to get to an FX because it is always full, jampacked with fellow commuters...

But hey, I did mention that I prayed right? And God answered it! Just a few minutes of waiting and I got into an FX and I was so happy! Was really rejoicing! I thanked God because He knew I needed that FX ride. Wohoo! I was at peace with this thought in mind: the Lord provided an FX for me, I’m sure that He will not let me be late for work. Though I knew there would be another "obstacle course" that I would had to go through and that is no other than—TRAFFIC! But miraculously, it wasn’t that heavy and when the FX was in C5, it was smooth flowing! How good is our Lord? He is so good!

So I arrived at work 15 minutes prior to my schedule! Yehey! Praise Him, super duper blessed and favored! He knew how I hate being late at work. :)

And wait there is more; while I was walking I got a text from my beloved sharing his good news (that I couldn’t share yet) which made me rejoice more! Lord, You are so good to us, Your children!

And wait again there is more! Yesterday was our scheduled bidding for 2012 VL (vacation leave). It was a first come-first serve basis and only one analyst per day is allowed to go on a VL. I had my VL requests for the whole 2012 saved on my draft folder since last week (hehe. Yeah, I am that O.C.). Bidding starts at exactly 2pm. Four minutes prior to 2pm I was already in front of my outlook. I hit the clock in my pc so I could see how many seconds left for the time and then when it hit two o'clock—BOOM! I clicked on SEND button... and then few seconds after my Supervisor announced that my email was the first one to arrive in her inbox! Yehey!

When I received the reply of my Supervisor, everything got approved (well not everything actually, with the exception of December 25 because we can’t file a VL for any Philippine holiday as of yet since our function is volume driven). Anyway, the highlight of this particular favor from the Lord is this—my wedding and honeymoon VL was approved! Since I was the very first one to send the request I got every VL dates that I want! Super yahoo!

I thank Him for allowing me to make it as the first one to send because majority of my team mates also desired to plot VL on the same date as our honeymoon date. I also thank God that He enabled my team mates to understand why I needed those dates… Yihee!!! I’m just so excited for next year!!! Super happy!!!

Lord You are good and Your mercy endures forever… Super thank You dear God for these blessings!

Now today was not the same as yesterday. I came in late at work because I lost track of time, and then it was raining and because of that traffic in EDSA was heavier than the usual. But thank God that it didn’t ruin my day…

When I arrived at work, God had a surprise for me. When opened my email I saw another answered prayer, a BIG blessing and another favor from the Lord… Grabe! Until now, I couldn’t help but just rejoice and thank Him because He never fail to show Himself to be faithful to me. He knows that that “answered prayer” is going to be one BIG help for John and I as we prepare for our wedding… As in! But pardon me if I couldn’t share it here… Just please thank God for me and with me.

HE IS GOOD! GOD IS SO GOOD! I couldn’t ask for more…

How about you? What’s your thanksgiving item this week? How did God show You His faithfulness these past few days?

Happy Friday everyone! :)

What's up?

Just thought I'd post some random thoughts and photos...

I'm prayerfully excited for next year!

Basag trip lang yung sugat ko eh ano?! Ahahaha!

Excited kasi next year madadagdagan ang suot ko na ring... Yihee! ♥

Check my photo-blog, I posted there other engagement ring pics. :)

Saw and grabbed these in facebook and I'm glad I did...

thank God hindi naman daw nabawasan ang face value ko even w/ my injury. wahehe. :p

few of my GCF-Connect family

mga babae tlaga oh! ay teka kasama pala ako dito! lol

more of our kakikayan with behind the scenes pa!

Photo credits to Julie Galela. Thanks sis sa mga pics! Adik ka lang! :p

By the way, tuloy-tuloy naman po ang pag-recuperate ko from my injury... Eto po ako as of yesterday:

hindi naman halata yung cut ko di ba? or blurred lang talaga tong pic? lol

Thanks po sa lahat ng nag-pray for me!

Ayun lang naman so far. Randomness na ramdomness lang talaga...

Happy lazy Monday! :)

Namimiss at mamimiss

The last time I saw you was two weeks ago...
But the last time we had our discpleship was more than a month ago...
I miss you so much T.Carol!

After today, we will see each other again on Friday...
I will miss you my super loving, caring, and super gwapong love! :)

Because HE is faithful!



11.21.11
Happy 38 months of God's faithfulness to us my love! ♥
I love you and You more and more each day, forever and always! ♥
(our picture was actually taken last week. i just love this pic & that's why i used it for today. hehe)

Tumakbo ako papunta ng locker area...

It's Thursday again! And I'm kind of feeling so emo (again) because whenever Thursday comes I am missing John so much!!! :(

The last time that we saw each other was Tuesday... And antagal pa ng Saturday night, where we will see each other in our Bible study group! Waaah!!!

I miss you love, sooooo much!

At dahil nami-miss ko sya, tumakbo ako sa may locker area namin dito sa office at tinawagan ko sya! That also explains the title of this post. Hehe.

Sorry love ha ginising kita! Miss you eh! Hahaha!

Napabasa din tuloy ako ng mga old emails nya habang ang background song ko dito sa opisina ay kanta ni Gary V na...

"It's not everyday that someone like you comes my way

No words can express how much I love you..."

Yihee! May ganun?!?! lol

Eto yung isa sa maraming old emails nya sa akin na sobrang nagpaluha sa akin ngayon (nakakatouch kasi at sobra pang nagpa-instense pa nung pagka-miss ko sa kanya)

john velasquez

08/07/2008 11:10 PM

but please rajsh..at least try to smile. don't you know that you have the most beautiful smile?

Awww... Di ba? San ka pa? Sino ba naman hindi makaka-miss sa lalakeng yan?!?!

Ahehehe. Ayun lang. Lunch break muna ako!

News for today! ;-)

Happy 37th months of God's Faithfulness to John and Rajsh (that's me) ♥

I love You and you... more and more each day!

We love You, Lord!

How time flies!

September 21, 2011 marked our 3rd anniversary as a couple! We indeed praise God for His faithfulness because if it weren't for Him we wouldn't survive together... And because "we love because He first loved us." :)

Special shout out and thanks to our Connect family, to our mentors Pastor Raul Caguin, Tita Vivian Lacanilao and Teacher Carol Felipe, the people who always pray for us and with us.

Allow me to share highlights of our two part celebration...

John got sick on the day itself. He woke up with fever and colds. When I arrived in their house he was still in bed. I woke him up with a cake surprise and good thing he was able to get up and we ate dinner together.  Wala syang gana na kumain ng meal so he requested for champorado instead.

Here's pictures of our very simple anniv dinner date:




delicious leche flan cake roll from Red Ribbon

 


sick...




but still smiling!




we love our cake!





special thanks to John-liit for taking our picture!
Happy 3yrs indeed! :)

 
And then come Sunday, September 25, 2011 we went to Manila Ocean Park for a post-anniv-celebration.  We arrived there few minutes before 7pm which was just in time for the light show. Kakatuwa! I really felt like a kid that night. And I told myself babalik ako dito with my pamangkins! Hehe. Here are the pictures:



Once Upon An Ocean 




We kind of got wet after the show but it was fun!




This fish... este, giant fish! The one who greeted us when we entered the Oceanarium




Sabi pa namin ni John nung una: "Hindi yan totoo!" We were'nt convinced until it moved! Haha!





Eto sya... grabe, super huge talaga nya!

 



Its Gil of "Finding Nemo!" Hello there! :)




I was so taken aback when I saw this seahorse... grabe, nakatuwa!




It's Dory!!!!! And she smiled at me when I took her picture! So cuuuute! :)




Long horn cowhead fish a.k.a Baka-baka




Isa sa pinaka-aabangan kong makita...




Nemo!!!!!




I found you! Haha! Hello there li'l fella!





Finding Nemo is my favorite cartoon!

 


And so I wouldn't leave the place without a picture with them!
Kahit di naman ako kita. Ehehe. Bawal ang flash eh. 




Lobster... big one! at ang mga nakaka-pekeng isda...




Akala mo mga bato but no, isda sila! isda!




Stone fish!




Napa-"Whoa!" kami dito ni John!




Anlaki ano?




Giant grouper eh, malamang live by their name! Hehe




I love this shot... Pang profile pic! LOL




Resting sword fish




One of the most breath-taking view...




Nawala ako sa focus nito, grabe!




Maiksi lang sya pero worth it naman yung makikita. Sarap ng tumambay oh!




I look haggard here but heck, I was enjoying so I didn't bother to fix my hair.. Ahahaha!




Hirap magkuha ng sarili. :)




Para silang hamster-- wala silang ginawa kundi magpa-ikot-ikot!




Scary ones but still enjoyed looking at them...




Yes, sharks!




Hi Mr. Shark! I'm not a food, I'm a friend! :)




Before exiting the... Sakay muna!




Now my turn (with flash)




John encountered a dinosaur. Ehehe.





Happy couple!

 Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Cheers for the 3 years and counting!

We love You, Lord! :)

See also:

"Marking our..." and "Faithfulness of a Third Party"