ONE: Life as We Know It
Events, both in life and at work, have piled up incredibly since September. Since we got formally engaged in August 28. (see the amazing collage below) :-) Which is, admittedly, a shame, coz in-between our manic schedules, responsibilities, and endeavors, we haven’t had the luxury of being able to sit down to properly commemorate, communicate and commit the momentous importance of these Brrr-months onto our 13” Intel-powered screens. It’s a shame, not only because of our desire to maintain this wed-site/blog through regular and relevant recollections and reflections; but, more so, because as our wedding ideas and program for 2011 are already thrust upon us, and are moving forward with briskness and well-placed energy, the other items we’ve abstracted in the meantime have dramatically come to view as well.
Items that concern our lives beyond D-day. Items that will underscore and condition with vibrancy and dynamism our lifelong transition as husband and wife: Arrangements. Investments. Properties. Logistics. Finance/Money. Traditions. Sexuality. Family.
Tangible and intangible items that are emerging and evolving to be our foremost, enduring priorities sooner, not later. :-)
And, with God and faith keeping our cores stable, we’re feeling mightily excited of how our life will be planned out, lived out, and shared with the rest of the community. (This, despite the weariness, worldliness and incertitude that clouds even the most harmonious relations out there)
This: Life as we know it. And the only way we’d ever want to celebrate living day-in, day-out – in the completing, comprehending, complementing comfort either one of us provides.
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| our amazing Engagement Collage |
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| @ Josephines, Tagaytay : a splendid send-off, for the father of the bride (will see you in 2011) |
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| ..this goes into Chocfrappes' Tagaytay collection (Sonya's Garden) |
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| Life. Love. repeat... |
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TWO: ChocFrappe Celebrates 1ST ANNIVERSARY as if it were a Cool Evening in 2009 all Over Again…
12 months ago, hardly "fresh" from an arduous trip back in Colombo/Sri Lanka and Singapore, Manila was where and when I got my sweetest, happiest reprieve, reward and retribution. Post-Ondoy Manila was a much-needed dose of home and urbane respite; Manila was driving the black Benz obliviously and deliriously, amid ominous rain on a Saturday... Manila was an elegantly planned 'surprise' 5-course dinner...Manila was the first time we'd meet again; the first time I'd hold her hand and kiss along those lines, neither one of us braving to alight the car just yet; the first time I saw her angel of a face sparkle and glimmer like an evening's current, as she wore on a topaz-studded necklace like a star burning bright...
It was, as if just yesterday [or last weekend], in which that 365th day ago took place. And, barring a few facelifts here and there, it could've very well been that.
Like we'd never left that blissful memory.
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| the 5-course menu at the very same place, 365 days later. :) |
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| in our element: love and its affiliate pleasantries (for both stomach/heart) |
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| formerly Le Souffle, but just as memorable |
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| 12 months later, we finally get our picture here at the Rockwell lobby |
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| THIS. SAYS. IT. ALL. :-) |
Happy Anniversary Baby; I love you!
-gabby- (lifted from Facebook)
