Update: To all other people who made something significant that I failed to mention on the list, please know that I remember you. You don’t have to be on the list to know that you’re special to me especially when you’re a friend. The numbering system below represents the level of influence or significance of the people in my 2009 life. Finally, I want to make it clear that this was not a competition. I came up with the list personally after assessing what happened to me this year.

This post is one of my year-ender posts for 2009. This is about the top ten people outside my direct biological family that brought happiness, helped me, or significantly influenced or contributed changes to the perspectives and ways of my life as a dignified human individual. It was difficult to come up with this list because there were many good people whom my life engaged with this year, but the people below are the creams of the crop and the roses among thorns.

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I was recently interviewed and featured by the people behind B10WH.com because of my tech news show, Tech Conclave. B10WH.com is a web hosting news, reviews, and directory website that features a plethora of web hosting related topics and exclusive interviews of some known web hosting executives across Europe. B10WH indicated that it was their first time to interview someone different and someone very young. I’m flattered!

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On August 6, 2009, I marked my official second year (unofficially, it’s more than 2 years LOL) anniversary of my work here at home as a freelance web developer. Well, I’m more than just web developer. Time flies, as they say, and it really just flew in my case. My 48 months were not bad at all and it wasn’t bliss to work at home everyday either. There were lots of interesting and dramatic changes in my personal and professional life as witnessed by this blog.

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As I write this I’m listening to Adam Lambert’s rendition of Gary Jules’ Mad World on YouTube. The song is nice, soothing and sad – and if my good friend Tom would listen to it, he might add it on his "Freezer Tunes" playlist.

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In the past two years working at home as web developer, there have been so many changes in my life and simple things that either I strongly needed or wanted to have in my childhood. To cite some, I used to be sleeping and working on the floor now I have my own half a bed to sleep comfortably at night; I used to be working outside my house now I have a cool room to maximize my productivity. Last year, someone told me I’d be somewhere in Canada this year but the recession hammered that. However, it didn’t stop my life and I’m still hopeful of going somewhere and meeting the special persons in my life.

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On April 28, 2009, I went to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) or the legislative building of my city to fulfill an invitation to become a guest speaker to give a success testimony for this year’s induction of Davao City’s Pag-asa Youth Association (PYA) city-wide officers. PYA, as it is popularly known, is an out-of-school youth program spearheaded by the City Social Services and Development Office.  

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As I write this post, my brother is currently in Osaka, Japan, participating a student cultural exchange program that aims to strengthen the relationship of Japan and its neighboring nations. He is very lucky to be chosen as one of ten participants sent to Japan to attend the program. And hey, it’s an all-expense paid program with allowance! Well, personally I must say that it wasn’t out of luck, he’s a smart person and deserves what he is experiencing now. Just like me, he also experienced a good part of his life sleeping on the floor. Both of us are strongly motivated to succeed through our cultivated minds and grateful for our parents who honed us to be creative and strong-willed.

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Since January I was informed by a representative from one of the Canadian companies I’m temporarily affiliated with that they have sent a “christmas gift” to me without disclosure about it.  Since then, I patiently waited for it until nearly two months later, I got a parcel notice. Two days later, I went to the post office and successfully claimed the gift in a small packet.

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