Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:26 PM

gino and mary grace are...

LOST.

Just kidding. i haven't even seen that show yet, but i think we were on it last week. gino and i took 2 days out of our five weeks in Costa Rica to finally see the sights. Manuel Antonio is beautiful. Too bad it's rainy season, we had to wear those blue garbage bag things...man, woulda looked a lot cooler....HA! but it was cool though cuz the rain turned the trek into a jungle adventure. click to see a few more pictures of us swinging in the trees. Moral of the story: Life with God is always exciting. "Pura vida may!"

Saturday, October 21, 2005 1:14 AM

jmotive.com presents...

THE "My friends are talented" TRACKLIST.

PS. Did you guys notice a little something new on your mozilla tab or internet explorer browser/navigation bar? hehe

PPS. If you'd like to help donate money to the upcoming Panama camp, please let me know. Some left me comments before but not their email address. Your help means a lot!! Thanks! God bless :)

Saturday, October 15, 2005 1:49 PM

Praying for the Handmaids conference this weekend and for those participating in the GK Hero's Run in Cali and for healing of sore muscles for those who ran in Chicago's Run last week :)

i love you guys. You inspire me. :)

Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:40 PM

randoms... (this was a xanga thing...i finally decided to do it after i read maricris' hahaha)

• i don't know why but when i'm away from home i really really miss eating simple things. like ramen and warm vienna sausage or spam...with cold rice....sigh.
• i don't brag about much but i without shame will say that i could kick your butt in tetris. (or super mario one.)
• i'm part of a gang. sss + s .
• i want to redesign the site soon. that's all.
• i wanted to be a boy when i was in gradeschool. such a tomboy...probably cuz i wanted to be like my brothers.
• one of my biggest biggest pet peeves is when people use online journals in stupid ways. this was an entry i wrote over 2 years ago...
• i miss older shows like "Wings," "Mad About You," and "Perfect Strangers." Who watched those? That was good comedy! Haha
• oh lastly this wasn't from me but i thought this was funny random - i was talking to ray online today and then his little bro ryan came over to him

ryan: "oh..is that mary grrr..oh wait...ate mary grace"
ray: "ya"
ryan: "u know what....there's vampire bats in south america
...but they only come out at night time."

Wednesday, October 5, 2005 7:48 PM

i have two words for you:

MUD FUTBOL.

The Cost Rica camp was an awesome success, all glory and thanks to our Lord! One of the highlights was definitely MUD FUTBOL. it's rainy season here so it started to rain during the break but everyone wanted to play anyway. i was like no way...but the crazy costaricences had a different plan. haha ya...just watch the video, you'll see! Click on the picture below to watch! (& keep janet playing in the backround hehe)

it was one of those moments, where after...i just stood covered in mud from head to toe...the rain drizzling on my head, and i just smile as i'm filled with this giddyness inside. like..what just happened?! God you are too funny! I felt like He gave me that moment, to show me He is God. Grace, you are in Costa Rica because I love you, you want to live it up...i'll show you what a life is like with Me! Serve Me and Iwill show you life! embrace it, you only live once. smile and savor my beauty, my humor, my love! This is a gift from Me!

The rest of the day I just had this giddy feeling inside me from that moment, as i washed leaves, twigs out of my hair and dirt out of my ears. i was just laughing and happy! I almost felt like Jesus was right there with me playing in the mud. it's something i will always remember for the rest of my life. We don't deserve it, but He gives us things like that to show us his personal love. Thanks God...you're just awesome. :)

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:52 AM

i miss you beathan. you have a new playmate along with isaiah and matthew. her name is kyrene, her picture's below. pls don't forget me. i'm tita grace, the one who's you're favorite. remember? btw... is your second favorite, ninong mike, back from europe yet? :P

Monday, September 26, 2005 8:15 PM

talk about bundle of joy. cutie cutie beautiful healthy chubby cutie baby kyrene pingoy lacson. congratulations kathy and vj!!! i love u! the Lord is so good!!! i'm gonna cry! just beautiful his miracles. truly, we have a lot to be thankful for in this life.

Sunday, September 25, 2005 11:21 PM

pls say a prayer for my lola. thanks. :)

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:03 PM

i miss my mom and dad. come back. Praise God!!! it was a great weekend. the best part was that my parents were able to come. after almost 2 years of being on International mission, this was the first time my parents were actually able to come see what i've been doing and experiencing in far out lands. it was weird (a good weird) them being here. at mass on sunday, i remember kneeling down to pray, like i always do when i'm in another country, far away from home, i kneel down and pray for my heart to be one with Jesus, for it to bear my homesickness and crosses in mission,, to offer them up to God, for the people in that country..then i pray for my family and friends, picturing each of their faces as i go through the list of them in my head. usually at each thought, missing them so much. i pray for each one, but when it came to my mom and dad i realized at that moment, my parents were actually here with me. i looked up and they were there! Ha it was weird (like i said, a good weird :)). and i couldn't do anything else but thank the Lord for bringing them there. it meant a lot, because on mission you feel and experience so much, so much goodness from the Lord, that you wish that the ones you love were there experiencing the same thing with you. i know one day it will happen. and God's preparing my future for it. and so as i go on to 4 more countries before the end of December, i ask for your prayers that i'm always reminded of that....and that God uses me and makes my heart with HIS always. for "If you and me are always with the Lord, even if we are other sides of the world, in reality we are never apart." i miss you. :) pictures for you below. click!

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:45 PM

after a great conference season, a summer full of work, fun and surprises, i'm back on mission again to Latin America. We're in Nicaragua now and the CFC Latin Am Conference is this weekend. Please pray for us (We are launching 100% PURE!). It really has been a great summer. So much so that it seems like a big change to be back in Latin America again, although i should be used to it by now. From the plush FTW house in Orlando to the poor country of Nicaragua which is now experiencing a power shortage throughout the entire country. it reminds me why i never should take anything for granted. Everyday the power goes out for about 5 hours in order to conserve energy. it's very similar here to the Philippines. But in everything, we are very well taken care of, so don't worry. Especially in terms of food. They feed us a lot (told you gelo!), and they are very beautiful loving people :)

I wish you guys could be here to see really what i'm having a hard time describing in this entry. The youth here are great. and are excited for their first conference in their country. But they experience different kinds of problems we don't have to really think of. A lot of them are having trouble going to the conference because they don't have any money. They have eager hearts but money is the obstacle. For me personally that always makes me frustrated. i wish it didn't have to be this way. The world's wealth is just so not...equally distributed (to put it nicely). Please if you feel you want to donate any amount to your brothers and sisters here in Latin America, please let me know. Anything would seriously help them. i have so much more i wanna say and i´m sorry this entry is choppy, but dont have time to write it. we are here for the next 3 months though so ill write more after the conf. pray for us! thanks, i love you. God bless.

Thursday, September 8, 2005 2:00 AM

captions somewhat tell a story. play Track #2 (Holy is the Lord) on my Track List while you view :) click!

Friday, August 26, 2005 3:44 PM

Please pray for us. The SFC conference is gonna be awesome! i'm excited.If you're over 21, you should come. haha plus it's in Orlando! So nice here...I'm getting a tan and serving God, savoring this time with some of my closest friends...i praise God for great and true friends. sigh...i love you guys. i can tell this conference is gonna be a sentimental one...for more reasons than one.

Saturday, August 20, 2005 1:03 AM

aww mann...i'm getting bored of these bullet point entries...sigh..

What's the news!?
• the track list is bizzackkk!
• i finally cut my hair and donated 10 inches to locks of love!!
• family portrait. (no more long hair. yipes!)
• oh no!! why john, why? john mayer has a new look and i don't likes. he looks like a girl. :(
• my brother is going to sfc conf! yay!
• wish i was in germany, world youth day going on right now.
• wallace and gromit finally on the big screen! this is clay animation at it's best. i've loved them since their beginning back in the early 90's. so much so that i own 3 of the orignal movies haha. i've waited for this!
• i have a feeling better entries will come once i go back to south america (sept10 after SFC conf). i won't be back til christmas time...this is it. i'm ready to go back full force and end this year right. (i'll say my farewells later.)
• playing Taboo at Loyola is a fun time! (I love you guys)
• my lola is beautiful. future entry on her soon.
• Thank you God! A couple pictures of happy days. i'll post more later.:

Sunday, July 17, 2005 2:06 AM

"Makes My Heart Happy" Items of the Month

wow! look it! it's been a month since i last updated. how boring this site is. i'm sorry. it's just that life is busy...but that's a good thing. it's conf season. the cfc youth conference just passed and was beautiful. 1200 youth gathered in a stadium arena! No pictures though. :( i wasn't even able to hang out with anyone because of Visual stuff. i only got to say hi and bye to people...like jules gueco or marie fae or twinkle or mae ona or coco or andrea & aldrin or jeska rosal or dennis stoll...or just about everyone else.i wish i coulda had more time to catch up with peeps. Praise God though i am not complaining...i love being on the Visuals Team. what a gift to serve in this way! and with none other than the geek squiz-zad! i miss you guys. everytime i see kettle corn, smores pop tarts, or arizona green tea i think of you. haha or hear the song 'Sugar'i think of lenes. sarah workshps what! lisa was grafix girl, and wendell is the overall superman.

Anyways so as we all know, the work never ends and now i'm in new jersey preparing for the next conference - CFC Conf New York City. which will be held in the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. amazing venue where the likes of alicia keys, britney spears, etc have performed. don't ask me how we got this place. i still don't know. but i know that there is a reason God is giving us such amazing venues this year. i believe He is taking us to new levels/heights that we never dreamed we'd reach. and the awesome thing is that there's still only more to come...

that's definitely an item on my "makes make my heart happy" list for the month. :) and here are a couple more:

• spending time with (beautiful pregnant) kathy and vj in their new house
• staying up all night with cheryl to hear and cry to her love story and how jimmy proposed.
• coming up with a yummy recipe with ray which involves easy mac and sour cream and onion potato chips.
• pajama pants
• my new laptop's capabilities but esp the way it looks :). my fave part is still my brown post-it note.
• willy wonka is back! just watched it and i was smiling the whole way through! what makes it better was that me and gee watched the original beforehand to hype ourselves up. i think gene wilder and roald dahl would be happy, even with the twists. good job johnny depp and tim burton!
• My mommy, daddy, and lola arrive back from Europe tomorrow! and my brother from sri lanka! :) ...(i miss them.)

Wednesday, June 19, 2005 2:24 AM

Visuals are fun. especially when you have a great team. You guys inspire me. Geek Squad fool! Bless my Ride! please pray for the conference this weekend.

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Thursday, May 12, 2005 4:28 PM

Saludos de Mexico! Hii... this keyboard doesnt have apostrophes. why would it, no such thing here.. haha funny...ok...pray for us. from mex, well be going to nicaragua and an overnight stop in costa rica. i like mexico...i just miss peoples. sigh. so far ive been eating a lot of beans beans the musical fruit. and tortillas. but u know i never liked mexican food...until i came to mexico. thats the honest truth. theres a difference, believe me. anyway ill be back for ohio conference preps...not too far away. everyone keep praying. stories later...love you.

Thursday, May 5, 2005 3:33 AM

Baby Ethan Picture time! (sigh..i am one proud tita!)

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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:33 AM

Still need to put pix up of Peru, Panama and Costa Rica. But here are pix are from the past month...since we came home for Easter. Now we're doing hispanic missions for North Central USA. By May we'll have hit Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. Please pray for us. and enjoy some cake (pix)!

Saturday, April 9, 2005 11:29 PM

Happy Birthday El! Eleanor Chichioco is fun, intelligent, a dork, a girly girl yet down with the guys, crazy, beautiful, inspiring, a big sister, a charmer, a homie, chill, a woman of God, hot... yea haha it's obvious why ..i'm your biggest fan! (she's gonna kill me! hahah sorry el!! i had to...this stuff is just too good haha) HAPPY BIRTHDAY! HAHAHA i love u!

Sunday, April 2, 2005 4:55 PM

All throughout his life he made sure he was hidden behind the cross. For me that was how he touched my life the most. And with such a humble heart...that is how he was able to move this world. Because of that it was God working through him and not himself. Right now, my heart is sad. but i know he is now smiling his cute grin at us right now from heaven. Thank you, beloved Pope John Paul, pray for us...i love you.

(Good)Friday, March 25, 2005 9:28 PM

i love you! yes...today is my 24th birthday, and today is the feast of the Annunciation of Mary, and today is Good Friday.

i feel a special hug from Jesus as i give thanks to Him for my life...on the day we remember how He was conceived AND how He was put to death...all on the same day.

so...in light of all that, all i ask is for you to check out virtualrosary.org and pray the Sorrowful mysteries today. in honor, praise and thanksgiving of Mary's 'YES' and, most importantly the deep love of Jesus' passion and death...

thank you my friends, it would be a great gift :)

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:27 PM

thanks to those who shared their own takes on the quote. i love it cuz i hear God speaking through you. My take on the last entry: the reason why it hits me so hard is i guess because of the fact i feel God trying to re-awaken me as he always does...right now. it's true, the natural life is NOT spiritual. the world has no real meaning. we live in it and take part in it...but it really has no meaning unless we make it spiritual. and sacrifice is the only way to do that.

the word resolutely is key. it means...yes, sacrifice...but resolutely...for good. take a stand. make a decision. i sacrifice...but to what extent? i always put conditions on my sacrifices...i have esp this lenten season. i could have given up more. but i was lazy. one small example is i said i would pray the rosary everyday. i fell short. and i didn't make an effort to get back those missed days.

and...we all love God. we all serve Him. we all know talks and the mission and vision...but do we really strive to reach true holiness...and be totally separated from the world? i do say i never want to be part of this world. i never want to do anything just because it's normal or expected. but what is normal?..what is natural to me in my life? i'll tell you...it's natural to fall in love. or be attracted to someone. it's natural to want a nice house, nice clothes, nice things. it's natural to get angry when someone's a jerk. it's natural to feel tired after a long day of service or work. it's natural to miss someone so much it hurts. it's natural to seek attention because it feels good. it's natural to want to plan out your life...

yes...it's perfectly natural...as janet sings, "that's the way life goes." it's expected. it's normal! don't worry about it.

but why does it have to be that way? who said so? tell me. because...i don't want to be like the rest. if that's the case i'd actually wanna be something ab-normal. when someone's a jerk to me...i'd wanna be the freak who smiles and takes it lightly cuz it shouldn't affect me. i'd like to be the abnormal person who doesn't want attention for anything i do because for me God is enough. i wanna be someone who doesn't define myself by the clothes or latest possessions i have. i wanna be a person who never let's my tiredness be a reason for impatience. and, i'm already planning out my future...but if it changes, i'd like to be someone who is willing to accept the different outcome God has planned out for me.

so...can we actually reach that supernatural/spirtual level that Chambers is talking about? I believe...Yes...we can. if we give up...once and for all...our natural lives. all the things from the last paragraph are hard for me to do. to give up our natural lives in every way is very difficult. but Jesus calls us to something more. i am called to something more than i am right now. i know that. and everyday we can get closer to obtaining that spiritual life. the point is...to live each day trying to do so...until we reach heaven.

and...sigh...the rewards will be beautiful. :)

Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:56 PM

I have my own take on this... i think this is very deep actually, and it hits me in different ways. but i was curious as to what other people take it as...what's this mean to u?:

"The natural life is not spiritual, and it can only be made spiritual by sacrifice...

...if we do not resolutely sacrifice the natural, the supernatural can never become natural in us."

- Oswald Chambers "My Utmost for His Highest."

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:58 AM

current location: san jose, costa rica.

hmm...from my laptop, that shade of green for the site seemed fresh at first...but now i've decided it's too loud. so imma try this duller shaded color scheme which i like a little better. cuz it's easier on the eyes to read the text. which is very important in design. although still not quite where i want it to be...but eh. and also, you may have noticed i do not have music yet...there's a reason for that. wanna hear why? ok! well, i was in bed in Panama reading peacefully, when all of a sudden i looked up and saw a big abnormal looking spider about to attack me. i jumped out of bed and asked(screamed for) gino to save me, leaving my laptop on my bed. gino, not knowing, flipped over my mattress to scare the creature away, thus throwing my laptop into the air and finally ending up on the cement floor. and so ya...my speakers don't work now. but gino caught the monster!!! we have pictures to prove. haha...so the site music will come as soon as i fix it when i get home...in a couple weeks or so! yay! anyway, so ya...now we're in Costa Rica. upon arriving here i realized i'd be staying with a cool Brazilian couple and they don't do the force feeding thing! it was the greatest news. another big change from the house we were in Panama, cuz it's a rich house and they have a maid who cooks their meals, very healthy meals like Seattle Suttons type haha. so i've pretty much lost all the weight i gained from the last two countries. when i get home i'm gonna pig out on whatever and whenever and how ever much...just because i can. can't wait! i want spam, eggs, and rice. mmm. what else...oh! happy birthday last Sunday to my beloved kuya father francis. and in 3 days, to my beautiful italian homie/cousin monica dinglasan. it'll be my birthday soon too. i'm getting old. "GOSH!!" (Napolean Dynamite). but...i do like the sound of 24. and i'm glad i'll be home to celebrate it. thank you Lord...that means a lot. :)

Thursday, March 10, 2005 5:44 PM

Teehee.

Tuesday, March 8, 2005 1:43 PM

I was randomly looking through my journal reading my old entries. And I went back to last year. Almost exactly a year ago from today - it was dated March 6, 2004. That was in the middle of my training in the Philippines to become a fulltime missionary. And I read it, and I recalled all the feelings I had at that time that I wrote it. it still brings me to tears. It was one of many very personal entries to myself and is a bit long. But nonetheless I thought I'd share it with you, if you are at interested…

this is when i started taking it personal. [Read on].

Saturday, March 5, 2005 1:51 PM

>>Dear friends,

Please include our fellow YFC Fulltime Workers Jessie Barcelona and Candy Subang in your prayers. They encountered a vehicular accident this morning on their way to Manila from Mindoro. They were airlifted to the UST Hospital this afternoon.

Both are presently under observation showing good vital signs. No immediate surgery was needed to be done.

Candy suffered fractures on her face. Her entire face is still swelling and we will have to wait for it to subside before any reconstructive surgery can be done. But she is conscious and able to talk. She is presently in a private room.Jessie is still unconscious but the good thing is no blood clots were found in the CAT scans. She still remains in the ICU.

Please continue to pray for their continuous and speedy recovery.Pray for their families and all those affected by the accident. And pray for God's mantle of protection upon all of His servants.

Let's storm the heavens with our prayers!

God bless us all!
ate chinky

Lord, please especially bring Jessie back to conciousness and hold them both in your loving arms. You are our true and only comfort. We love you Lord. Thank you. Amen.

Wednesday, March 2, 2005 7:36 PM

Picture a skinny Panamanean girl, innocent looking, quiet and timid, likes to play soccer. She was about my 6th of 11 one-on-ones in the Panama camp last weekend. And God reminded me again of his love through her. This girl is one of 8 children. She is the oldest and only 14 years old. Her mom had her at the age of 13. so that makes the mom right now 27 years old with 8 children. She was sharing with me how she takes care of her smallest brother, and how he calls her 'mom'. Because even though she is his sister, she's the one who takes care of him. Crying, she shared to me about her mother, "He never has called her 'mommy' once, that's what he calls me. He thinks I'm his mom." you could just feel the hurt she had as she said those words. This innocent young girl has to face things I never would have dreamed of at her age. Then she went on sharing with me how she gets neglected because she is the oldest. "Sometimes I don't even get any food when it's meal time." She started crying even more, "Since I'm the oldest I'm always neglected..."

I realized she had lost her childhood, her mother didn't treat her like a daughter, but only as an extra hand to watch over the children. Her father is out of the picture. As she talked to me, with her little voice, just a little girl…who felt alone...who felt like no one loved her. Who had to face tremendous things she shouldn't have to face at her age. But that is the case. And it is the case for so many youth in latin america. Familes are broken and it has become the norm. we prayed. and then that night, the Spirit was so present during the pray over and she had her heart open to Him. i will continue praying for girls like these, i know their lives are a lot harder than most people. but the beautiful thing is that God doesn't reserve his love for only certain people, but in fact pours it upon everyone in abundance. it is only up to us to open our hearts to receive it. this girl was a perfect example of this. no matter how hard our situation is, we have to always be open to receive God's spirit into our hearts...for him to bless us...for him to change us...for him to work through us. i'll always remember her.

Monday, February 28, 2005 9:08 AM

FLASHY FUN!

• Happy Birthday to my handsome older brother, Mikey [tomorrow]! i love you.
• Panama camp a success...so much to tell...but in short, i am humbled once again at the hand of our good God. most of the camp we were outdoors under a tent made of bamboo and leaves made by the CFC just for the camp! amazing. more later. but just know YFC Panama is on it's way!
• New site design. still a lot i would like to add. but can't cuz of time restraints. so here's the base, changes and add-ins will be made...later :)
• melissa's in india. monie's in italy. gino and i are in panama. ray's in california. el's back in the States. other homies still in the Phils. donna has a round tummy... hahhah man...God is TOO funny.
• i miss you.

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3 - "We Could Be" Unplugged: Erik Valdez & Jurdalene Zarate
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