30th Birthday Part 3

The last leg of my birthday celebration is my most awaited and previously postponed birthday lunch. 

Thank you my family and friends for your time. 

I wasn't able to eat well but I hope my guests enjoyed the food that my caterer served. 

Wew. It's so expensive to celebrate your birthday but what the heck. 

30 is a milestone and birthdays are actually fun. It's a special day all about you.

30th Birthday Part 2 #ACECAPADES

Summarizing the second leg of my birthday celebration.

CEBU!

Thank you Acela Travel & Tours for organizing our amazing trip! <3

The Blue Orchid Resort @ Moalboal, Cebu 

Panagsama Beach, Moalboal, Cebu

Canyoneering at Kawasan Falls!! 

Deep South, Oslob Cebu

Whaleshark Watching, Oslob Cebu
(pictures of the whales to follow on a next post)

Blessed Virgin Mary Shrine at Simala, Sibonga Cebu

MoveNPick, Mactan, Cebu

One of the best birthday trips ever. It's only been a 2 week vacation but I am already homesick. 

It's funny because a year ago I was away for 2 months. 

I wonder how I will celebrate my birthday next year. 

I am hoping it would be another out of the country trip, maybe.

Thank you friends for the good memories and the friendship that we've had throughout the years. 

Now it's about time for me to start working out and shed these extra fat bulging under my chin and on my tummy.

My 30th birthday celebration isn't over yet because I still have a birthday lunch party this Saturday! 

Thank you Lord! 

#DontPanicYoureOnly30 #30sTheNew20s

Before I go to sleep, I just want to summarize what I did on my 30th Birthday.

My 30th birthday celebration is not yet over but today (or few hours ago) was my actual birthday. 

Your "actual" birthday should be something special right? Everybody is reaching out to you for a greeting, even the people that you don't really talk to (just because Facebook reminds them that it's your birthday). I remember an experiment I did years ago when I changed my birthday in October and then everybody just started greeting me a "happy birthday". At some point, I almost believed it was my birthday. I guess the day starts feeling special because everybody's attention is on you!

So going back to my 30th birthday, I knew my friends wanted to rest because our previous day was very tiring. And aside from our JOKOY show, I didn't really have anything planned on my birthday. 

So I decided to visit our CEBU TEAM. Coincidentally, they had an event for a teacher's congress. They had a booth, as well as, the rest of the afternoon to give a presentation.

I always like attending my company's events and this really piqued my interest and I wanted to see our booth and watch my officemate conduct the presentation that we rehearsed 2 days ago. The event already kept me so busy the entire day! And weird as it sounds, I was actually enjoying my time with the CEBU Team and it was really something different to do on my birthday. 

My day began when my UBER driver dropped me at the WRONG School Campus.

30 years of trying to figure out where the hell i am and where is the way. UBER Driver dropped me at a wrong school campus which was 1.2KM away from the right campus I intended to go to.

I was walking around sketchy "downtown" on my birthday and told myself that I will just pretend to be touring around.

Fortunately for me, nothing unfortunate happened while I was walking around "downtown" because apparently that was really a sketchy place to be in. 

Eventually my officemate just picked me up.

All went well as soon as I arrived the venue. I caught up with my CEBU officemates. Bonded with them. And even spent the rest of the afternoon helping out my officemate conduct his presentation. The presentation turned out to have really good evaluation remarks! Good Job Diego!

CEBU TEAM

The event ended just in time because my friends were already waiting for me. 

Birthday Dinner at SUGBO MARKET

And after dinner, we were off to watch Filipino-American comedian JOKOY perform at the Waterfront hotel. Needless to say that the moment that I started spending time with my friends, my stomach was already aching as caused by the crazy laughter that I have with my friends. The shenanigans did not end up until JOKOY started showing up on stage.  

I swear that was a great night to cap of the night. I really had fun on my birthday today. 

We were laughing so crazy. That was a very good decision to grab the opportunity to watch JOKOY in CEBU because all the tickets in Manila sold-out pretty quick!

Pretty much ended my birthday with a happy heart and soul. 

However, if there's something really bothering me is the feeling that I am carrying a fanny pack the whole day. My tummy has started to bother me and I'm really sad that I feel like I gained more weight this year rather than lose some pounds. That gym membership I mentioned early this year was pretty much useless because I never went back to the gym. UGH.

This is why I therefore conclude, I think I need to hire a personal trainer and take this change of lifestyle seriously. I need to start putting discipline in my body. As much as I try to "self-learn" everything and not spending money on language teachers, psychologists, gym trainers.. I think it's about time that I do buy a package that will allow me to be monitored by a trainer. 

I'm already 30. 

I need to take this "taking good care of yourself", seriously. 

I challenge myself. 

I want the next birthday blog post that I write next year would have had a good result of me losing weight and not being too self-conscious of how muscular my biceps are. Heh. 

Thank you Lord for my birthday. I actually wanted for the night to be prolonged. I really enjoyed this day. I still can't believe my birthday is over!! But I am still in CEBU, so the celebration is not yet over. 

GOOD NIGHT

How did it get late so soon?

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? - Dr. Seuss

It's my birthday! December has arrived. I'm officially 30 years old. Thank you Lord for giving me 30 years of life. I am everyday grateful. Thank you for my family, friends, job and good health.

I know that you have plans for me beginning this life after 30... I will look forward to whatever you will bring me and face it with eagerness and excitement.

Hello 30!