Mary Jane's Niche

Antique is my father’s hometown. I have always looked forward to our vacations there. Not only do I enjoy spending time with my relatives especially my cousins but I also love the beach! In my opinion, Antique has the best beaches. And Antique also has the most beautiful sunset view. Below are the photos I took to prove that.

Here are my long overdue Dinagyang photos. We had fun watching the different tribe performances. Dinagyang really is an Ilonggo pride. Tim and I will surely dagyang again next year! Viva Senor Santo Nino!

This is what I’ve been listening to in the past few days. So what do you think am I feeling?

And what do you know I remembered my blog!

How are you my niche? It has been a while since the last time that I poured my heart out to you. Maybe I was just afraid that someone might be reading what I’m writing here. Someone who I don’t really want to know what I’m really feeling because I am not used to sharing my feelings with him or her. But I guess I don’t have to worry about that now right? You have come a long way my blog. You are a part of a community now. You don’t belong to only me anymore. This might be the last blog post that I’m going to share with you how I’m really feeling these days.

So many things has happened last year. I thought it was going to be the best year of my life. But it was not. Year 2009 started really great actually. I was having the best time of my life. I finally had the freedom that I have always dreamed of. I was having fun with Tim. I felt so loved by him, my family and my few close friends. I was traveling to places I have never been. I had (and still have) the best job and the best boss ever. I work on my own time. I had (and still have) the financial freedom that I have always wanted. Everything was going so well. But the year 2009 left a devastatingly huge black hole of emptiness in my life.

I have learned so many things last year. One of them is to value time. Especially the time that you have with your loved ones, your family. I don’t have to explain why right? Now I believe that life is definitely too short. To those who don’t know this yet, don’t wait for your very own wake up call.

I have always tried to live my life to the fullest without stepping on someone else’s life. And I will continue to do so. I just want to get something out of my system. I just want the whole world to know that even though I am laughing, smiling and acting like everything’s doing great right now, it’s because I have accepted the fact that my father is gone. I know and feel that he is in a better place right now watching over us. And I also know that if I will be a really good girl, I will be with him too when the time is right.

God I miss Papang.

You will remain in our hearts forever Pang. We love you very much. We will miss you. I know and feel that you are happy wherever you are. I know you’re watching over us.

Dinagyang is the biggest religious and cultural festival in Iloilo. The Off-Price Store Iloilo is happy to announce that they will be joining the Dinagyang festivities by marking down selected items up to 30% OFF from January 22-25, 2010.

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Before the advent of the internet, it was so hard to communicate with relatives, friends and loved ones who are living or working abroad. Then, we had to use the “snail mail” or send telegrams which takes weeks or even months to reach the recipients. But now because of the advancement of technology and the internet, its so easy to get in touch with the people that we love. There’s instant messaging, emailing, social networks, SMSing and now I have also discovered Gloo which is a new and super fun way to share information with my friends and family with Globe Broadband. Gloo is a web application that allows us users to collaborate on virtual spaces by embedding and manipulating images, notes, videos and even creating doodles in real-time. And another great thing about Gloo is that users that share a space have the ability to chat with other users who are also online as well as send SMS or MMS.

By the way if you’re thinking that Gloo is a reply to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Sandbox then you’re wrong because let me note that Gloo is not a social media site, it is more of a real-time online collaboration tool. By creating a space, me and my friends are able to share photos, post videos, chat and doodle all at the same time and in real time. Isn’t that awesome? It has really cool features and possible uses too like scrapbooking, and you may also use it as a business page and make it a place for online group meetings, planning events, collaboration tool for business meetings and collaboration board for school meetings. It can also be a place for parents to interact with their kids and of course your family from abroad and for teenagers it can be your barkada’s message board!

So you guys should really start checking out this cool new web application and use it and have fun with it at the same time. Inquire about Gloo now so you can start having fun!