To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded.

— inaccurately attributed to
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I also had a good time with my team mates Gibelle and Jeru and happy to meet a friend from Cebu, Raymond.

Congrats to the PHPUG especially to the volunteers for making the event a success.

Why am I doing this? Here are few  of the reasons:

• Just needed some answers from God on what he wants me to do on some personal things in my life.
• I need physical and inner healing.
• I need to ask Him some favors on my plans and dreams.
• I am also praying for strength and wisdom to be able to handle the responsibilities left to me.

I won’t be very specific here. I reserve some things just between me and the Lord. If there are also things that you’ve been hoping and prayer for, please join me not maybe in fasting but in prayer. Let us claim that this year, greater things are yet to come and this year will be a good year for all of us.

Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do AMAZING things among you. –Joshua 3:5

• January
  • The most bountiful New Year celebration at home
  • Last New Year celebration with Daddy
  • My role at work becomes Team Lead
  • Started to attend Sunday Worship @VCF Greenhills
• February
  • Love was in the air
  • The first time Sir Jorge asked me, “What if he’ll leave the company in 15 days? in 30 days? Kaya ko na ba?”
  • Kuya Ghoy’s 30th birthday
• March
  • Mom’s 61st birthday
  • Ate Gina turned 36
  • Jonathan (my nephew) graduated elementary
  • Daddy was diagnosed with heart problem
• April
  • Vin left ITG
  • First Cardaño Family Reunion
  • Daddy’s 63rd birthday
• May
  • Sir Jorge officially left ITG
  • I assume as Project Manager
  • First day of being a PM, our Dad passed away
• June
  • Signed JC2 promotion
  • Remembered our Dad, 40 days after his death
  • Jamz 20th birthday
• July
  • First project sign off as PM
  • Ate Ruth’s 26th birthday
  • Started to be friend with Dennis
• August
  • Kuya Tony at 33
  • Tried to inspire IIT graduating class through  a Career Talk
  • Two Project Sign off
• September
  • Fallin’
  • Team Synetix grows to 8
  • Learned how to play billiards — thanks to Jen and Ms. Aly!
  • Typhoon Ondoy flooded Metro Manila and the nearby provinces
• October
  • Vin’s Papa undergone, Valve replacement in his heart
  • Pepeng washed out Northern Luzon and other regions
  • Attended For Richer and For Poorer seminar by Chinkee Tan – the call for action
  • Mommy undergone Laparoscopic surgery due to gallstone
  • My 23rd birthday- had my first birthday cake
  • Rubie, Shen, Risc, Lean – together again
• November
  • Remembered our family members who passed – Lola Onang, Uncle Roman, Auntie Lorna and Daddy
  • Met with Johan Jansenns and the AsiaSource 3 peps and really had a great time
  • Tita Lydia and Tito Danny and Family house blessing
• December
  • Completed my favorite project
  • First Christmas Day celebration without Daddy
  • Probationary period as PM is over.   More projects to sign off. More projects to start. More challenges success are coming ahead.

2009 has been a tough year. One of the hardest family trials ever came. Typhoons killed lives and destroyed properties.

On the other hand, blessing from above overflowed.  Good things happen in my career.  I believe, the company got a better health.

Interesting things happened that gave more color to a stressful life.  I had chance to meet several business-minded people and had a meaningful and inspiring conversation with them. Relationships started. Friendship were built. People and things changed. Now, I have more time for myself, got a better life direction, I grew and learned a lot, and people around helped me bring out the best in me.

It was indeed a great year. More reasons to celebrate than to mourn. More blessings to be thanked of.

So what’s the connection of this thought in our life’s choices? I was just delighted with the discussion with my boss and just realized that what happens in our life is always a matter of choice. Either we choose to be the BEST, to be MEDIOCRE or to be the WORST.

If we choose to be the best, we live a life with positive outlook and produce good results. We can inspire other people to also bring out the best in them. We can influence them to think positively as we do. We excel in our endeavors, we grow, we SUCCEED.

In our pursuit to be the best we, we face big challenges. We have to leave our comfort zones and think bigger. We have to face every trials with braveness and perseverance.

If we choose to be mediocre, we’ll just be one of the boys or girls next door.

If we choose to be the worst, some times we achieve, some times not.

…to be continued

Conversation with these kind of people really disturbs my mind and inspires me to do something. It urges me to start making those plans and dreams a reality. I really learn a lot from their experiences on how they started, how they failed, how they moved forward and how they grew their business. It makes me believe that my ambition to be a “businesswoman” that I’ve written in our year book “The Rising Sun” during high school will soon come true; not so long from now.  It gives me the confidence that one of these days, I too, can be one of them.

• One Minute Goal Setting
• One Minute Praising
• One Minute Reprimand

To apply the concept of one-minute goal setting, we were asked to write our goals in less than 250 words. Three things first popped in my mind.

1. To achieve
2. To be rich
3. To be happy

‘Though the three things above are not the one I’ve written in the form that they gave (because my fellow managers were saying that what we need to write are company goals and not personal goals), I still want to share the reasons behind the three.

To Achieve. Achievement spells Accomplishment. And being able to accomplish every single task means achieving a goal or fulfilling a plan. Wherein every employee should achieve every goal being set by the company and by himself. If a person feels accomplished or he feels he’s an achiever, he’ll keep doing things and improving.

To Be Rich. When a company hits its target revenue, this would mean bonus, salary increase, party, celebration and the like.  Continuously hitting target revenue makes the company a rich. When the company is rich, then the employees should follow.

To Be Happy. Achieving and being rich isn’t enough. No matter how rich you are and how much you if you’re not happy, it doesn’t make any sense. This means that it is also important to ensure that employees are happy about their work, about their lives.

Simple goals, isn’t it? (oh, I’ve exceeded 250 words )

Star ng Pasko
Performed by: ABS-CBN Artists

Kung kailan pinakamadilim
Ang mga tala ay mas nagniningning
Gaano man kakapal ang ulap
Sa likod nito ay may liwanag

Ang liwanag na ito
Nasa ‘ting lahat
Mas sinag ang bawat pusong bukas
Sa init ng mga yakap
Maghihilom ang lahat ng sugat

Ang nagsindi nitong ilaw
Walang iba kundi ikaw
Salamat sa liwanag mo
Muling magkakakulay ang pasko
Salamat sa liwanag mo
Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Tayo ang ilaw sa madilim na daan
Pagkakapit bisig ngayon higpitan
Dumaan man sa malakas na alon
Lahat tayo’y makakaahon

Ang liwanag na ito
Nasa ‘ting lahat
May sinag ang bawat pusong bukas
Sa init ng mga yakap
Maghihilom ang lahat ng sugat

Ang nagsindi nitong ilaw
Walang iba kundi ikaw
Salamat sa liwanag mo
Muling magkakakulay ang pasko
Salamat sa liwanag mo
Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Kikislap ang pag-asa
Kahit kanino man
Dahil ikaw Bro, dahil ikaw Bro
Dahil ikaw Bro
Ang star ng pasko

Salamat sa liwanag mo
Muling magkakakulay ang pasko
Salamat sa liwanag mo
Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Ang nagsindi nitong ilaw
Walang iba kundi ikaw
Salamat sa liwanag mo
Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Ang nagsindi nitong ilaw
Walang iba kundi ikaw
Salamat sa liwanag mo
Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Ang nagsindi nitong ilaw
Walang iba kundi ikaw
Salamat sa liwanag mo
Muling magkakakulay ang pasko

Dahil ikaw Bro, dahil ikaw Bro
Dahil ikaw Bro
Ang star ng pasko!

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Thanks Sir Jorge! This means so much to me.  :)

‘Though recent days are tough, I still have more reasons to celebrate, grow and move up. Thank you Lord for the good life.