happy birthday renzee!

October 11, 2006

Happy 12th Birthday to my lil big brother!

 

This is officially the last year before you reach your teenage year! There are so many things ate would like to tell you:

1. Respect daddy and mommy. Love them. I like you when you aren’t too shy to tell them I-love-you’s. Do it often and mean it. Follow them as long as you can. They know best! Reason out if necessary but so it with respect. Same goes to lolo and lola. We are so lucky to have grandparents like them.

2. Respect your kuya and ate! Ahem! You are lucky you have us both (less the constant utos and teasing).I love you so much and I promise that nothing will change! Your kuya loves you so much though he isn’t showy of it but you’ll see in the future you two, with your towering height, will be sparring partners! Also, respect your younger cousins. Age isn’t the prerequisite for respect.

3. Don’t forget your childhood kalye games. They are worth sharing in the future. They are better retold than those computer games.

4. Study your lessons and develop your study habit but don’t confine yourself with the lessons in the classroom. Explore! There are more to learn outside the classroom or the school. There are better teacher than your uniformed instructors and the best students know that! Learn more on arts! It can be more fun.

5. Choose your friends well. Friends can be the best teacher (refer to number 4) if you choose them well. I will try not to tell you not to befriend someone because even from the worst of friends you can learn lessons. As bad example, that is! But I am an advocate of the idea that all people are good by nature. You just got to know them. Find the goodness in people!

6. Be faithful! Always pray! There is a Supreme Being stronger than all forces combined. Be spontaneous in talking to Him as if talking to your alter ego. Practice your own spirituality.

7. Believe in karma! Whatever you do, it will come back to you three times. When somebody does good to you, pay back and pay it forward to someone else too. When somebody does bad things to you, try not to get even. Life is an endless cycle. Believe that what goes around comes around.

8. Don’t be afraid to fail. Who hasn’t been a failure once or twice. Just remember to learn from these failures.

9. Pay homage to the inner light in all things. Namaste! Signs are everywhere in this world. Most of the times it isn’t in the signs but in the recipient of signs. Trust your instincts! (Always refer to number 6) Believe that timing is everything or at least, that timing matters!

10. Read a lot dear! Be an omnivorous reader. You wouldn’t believe but your ate so much loves to read she even reads the back of the shampoo container when she was young. Don’t streotype wide readers as geeks. (When I say don’t stereotype widereaders to geek this goes without saying you should NEVER stereotype at all. Everyone is unique and a person has his own individuality that my be similar but still different from a group he belongs.<this can be another number>)

Hang in there. There are more to come. I am writing this because I may never have much time. Not time, but I mean moment. We are eleven years apart and either one of us might find it awkward talking about all these. hehe.. I love you Renzee! Happy Birthday!