Aside from the premium quality education I got from UPLB, I also got the the perfect college buddies and experience one could ever have.
I will never forget what it is like to be a part of YFC-UPLB. This family taught me a lot of things. It guided me, kept me in shape, and held me close to the Lord. It is where I found guidance especially during times of confusion, immaturity, and weakness. It contributed a lot to the growth of my faith. I am grateful of the ate’s who welcomed me in the community and served as my ate’s and still are. Thank you for the endless patience, guidance, and girl talks. I have learned and still learning a lot from you. I look up to all of you and thank you for allowing me to be a forever YFC baby.
To the YFC’s who are babies to me, thank you for allowing me to be an Ate. I don’t have much of the experience and wisdom, but I thank you for the love and trust. For all the encouragement during my thesis days and for all the smiles that warmed my heart.
To Sexy Loves, YFC-UPLB ’14-’15 Execom, I salute you! You have taught me a lot of things. As I venture through my thoughts on what I’ve learned, most of them were things I learned from our one year journey. I will miss how we never run out of reasons for a group picture: Exec, batch, committees, com base, hs base, campus base, cheer leader smile, etc. I will miss the thursday GA, the ID’s, The reg questions, the videoke nights, the long hours of discerning where to eat, ang paghahatid ng mga brods na may kasamang kwentuhan, the dinner and lunch dates, and the worships!
MM, thank you for all the spiritual enlightenment, dinner dates after mass and ice cream celebrations around campus. Thank you for the being the greatest reminder that God loves me because you were always there to understand, friendship despite the time constraint, and for being there to correct and clarify cloudy things on my mind. I will miss those lunch and dinners at Ellen’s (we should still do that), and our late night Insight bonding and our kwentuhan as we walk home.
I also won’t forget living at Roy’s apartment. I will miss how Karen and I set our phones to alarm for our morning classes and snooze it each time. How we struggled to get up that bed. When one of us wins, she’ll be the first one to take a bath and wake the other one up ones she’s done. When we lose, Ming will go to the room at around 9 or 10 am and exclaim, “Anak ng!” She never finished that statement, ever. And Ming will convince us to get up. Sometimes, she even has to bribe us with “PC” just to get us moving. Sometimes, she joins us in the room and we will talk of not so necessary things until we cannot bare the heat in the room which also means that it is already lunch time. At times, Trishia will ask where we are then Karen and I will both reply, “nakahiga pa sa kama.” Minutes later, she will ask us to open the gate for her and we will all be upstairs talking about, just anything. We don’t just do this in the morning, we also do this at night. Usually we talk till 3 am. Just talking about random stuff. With all the time we spent talking, it is as if we do not see each other everyday.
I will miss these guys! How Ming, in her own ways, looked after us. She didn’t want me stressed and she watched over my service as YFC. She also gave me some pointers regarding my lovelife and the “real word”.I won’t forget how Karen served as our nanay. Our “pinaka matinong bantay”. She never showed us her weak side and she became our source of strength. I am thankful for Trishia’s sweetness and thoughtfulness in a quiet way. Her random texts that always makes me smile and makes me look weird each time I read them in a public place. For always reminding me to love my parents by showing me how great her love is for her mama and papa. For Vans’ party tips. For Pritz’s sisterhood in kapatiran and yfc. For Job’s fair, charot! For Job’s pizza and jokes that only Job can tell. For Pammy’s constant invitation to visit Pagsanjan and for being the only one left “matino” in Kapatiran. Thank you for “The Chronicles of the buboy hunters”, at sa sketch book natin na sobrang makulay. I will always remember how we started as review-mates and smile on how we turned out! That piece of paper that lead me to the greatest people i want to share the rest of my life with! I pray that our college life was just the beginning, the foundation of our friendship that could never be found elsewhere and we will share for the rest of our lives. I pray that we never grow up!
As I journey to the next stages of my life and let go of the things that served as my life for four years, I will bring all the things I’ve learned from all these people. Sometimes, it frightens me to get out of that comfort zone. But I was afraid, too, before I entered college. But the Lord provided these people. And it all went well. Those 20 years of my life, I have always felt loved. God never grew tired of sending people to allow me to feel His love. So I won’t be afraid of this next stage. That 20 years and those awesome people were a pretty great assurance of the love of the Lord.
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