#Wonderful: Unexpected Friendships

The word "wonderful" may have hundreds of meanings, still, it can't be denied that this word is a positive word because even when it is paired with a negative word, it remains positive. (e.g Wonderful Disaster, Wonderful Misadventure, etc.) This word has even a better meaning when paired with a negative word. A disaster may be very wonderful when something good happened because of it. Still positive, right? Isn't it wonderful? :)

Just like how my Top Friend (as determined by the Wonder App) and My Bestfriend forever, Shai, and I have a wonderfully unexpected friendship. We have been best of friends since High School and that was eight years ago. Yes, this kind of friendship exists and we're going to prove that Forever exist in the F of BFF. 

(Our 3rd country trip together! It was wonderful visiting Korea, the root of our friendship!)

Our Wonderfully unexpected friendship started because of a single question "Mahilig ka ba sa kdrama/kpop?" The rest is history. Just kidding! See, how an addiction to Korean Entertainment build strong foundations of friendships? It was that question she asked that led to our now "eight years and forever" friendship. Isn't it wonderful how one question can change an entire life? My life would have been completely different if she did not ask me anything about kpop. We might even be strangers until now if that question was not asked. 

However, we will not consider our friendship to be "wonderful" if it were not for the means that we took to preserve our friendship despite the distance (after hs grad), the bad days and even calamities. The secret to our long-lasting friendship is "we stay connected". Even when we took different paths to college (and graduated the same day in two different schools! hahaha wonderful!) Globe paved the way for our friendship to continue even when we're far apart. Through calls and unlimited texting, we stay connected. Facebook does wonders, too, especially when we are using our globe data to tag each other on funny friendship-related posts. 

There are many wonderful people and things ins this world. I'm glad I've met those kind of people. My family is wonderful, my bestfriend is wonderful, every friend that I have is wonderful in their own ways. I'm sure, it would be wonderful to start investing on being connected to your loved ones at all times and that is only wonderfully possible through globe! Dahil sa Globe, Wonderfully Abot mo ang Mundo! Globe loves to Create a Wonderful world and we are a part of the wonderful word that they are continuously creating. 

Anywhere you go, you are connected if you use Globe! Even when we travel overseas, we get welcome messages through text messages from the partners of Globe abroad. Isn't it wonderful? 

I hope your friendship wonderfully stays connected through Globe because our friendship did and is still going strong because of it. 

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#GlobeProjectWonderful2014 : Something Blue ;D

If there is one thing you can give to the Philippines, what is that gift?

     Thinking about Philippines as a whole country despite its "archipelagic" form, I find it difficult to come up with an idea of a gift that will fully embrace everyone, every citizen, every person or even every child living in it regardless of social status and financial capabilities. It is a challenge I am not very good with but I felt compelled to try because it gives me hope that a country, a place like Philippines is worthy of growing into a better, stronger, and a happier country.

     I could wish for world peace, eradication of poverty and corruption, equality or even millions of training and workshops or job fairs for the people but no I won’t. I could wish for many things to be given to the Philippines but I believe that even if we have all that we need if we don’t know how to value or use it wisely, we can’t possibly be happy as a person or as a country.

So what do I really want to give to the Philippines as a gift?

A blue clock ;)

Why on earth do I want to give the Philippines a blue clock?

    It’s simple…it’s because even if I don’t have the capacity to give the Philippines some TIME I could give a clock to remind all of us that we all have the same number of hours in a day and the time is ticking which means we need to move forward, to do something right this time because we can’t turn back time and undo the past. We need to think ahead and not look behind where all the bad times went. We need to know that every minute counts and every second is an opportunity to make even the tiniest change that will sooner or later be a huge change.

Why blue of all the colors?

     Aside from the fact that it’s my favorite color, it is a color of trust, responsibility and freedom (empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com) which is a good quality for Philippines to have. We all deserve to be worthy of trust, to be responsible and to be free. We all have the capacity to be better, to be stronger to be happier...we just need to remind ourselves everyday that we can do it! Oh and let me add in the fact that “GLOBE”, its dominating color is blue as well. Isn't that serendipity?

Let us color the Philippines blue this year! And join the #GLOBEprojectWonderful2014 because you wouldn't want to miss such project that could make a change in our country.

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