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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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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Valentine’s Day is one of the days most single people hate. Why? Well, simply because they can’t relate.

While many would agree with that, I’m lucky that here in the Philippines, Valentine’s Day is not intrinsically exclusive for lovers and committed couples. Valentine’s Day is for everyone who is loved and knows how to love. Pretty much I can say, it’s for everyone. Of course, those who belong in mutual relationships are proud to express their love during the day. My mother joked that in the break of dawn of February 15th, there will be new unborn kids that will have no parents. Well, that’s quite agreeable.

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Every day is a working day for me including weekends and holidays. It is good in one way because I’m very productive of spending a lot of time with work. However, part of me is also screaming that I need to pause sometimes and break the ice of constant work — the intensity of pressure being alone gets stronger especially when you feel like your heart is thrown to a far off place to your dearest someone.  So what I did was that on January 30, during my pay/bills day, I went to SM City Mall of Davao, dragged my 2 female cousins with me and my brother, and they helped me break the monotony in the World of Fun.

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As a year-ender post and before I can start to be productive in 2009, I want to look back the top events and changes of my personal and professional life in 2008.

Reviewing it will give me hint where the direction of my life will point this year and I will be able to find out necessary ways to continue my pursuit of happiness and success for myself, for my family, and for the top people directly connected to me (top 10 of them were listed in my previous post). It has been noted that the year has been pleasant in 2007, let’s find out if this was the case in 2008.

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I still can’t believe that I’ve been home doing computer work everyday for a year now. Imagine: on average, I worked 18 hours a day and seven days a week, sitting in front of my laptop working on websites. I go out only once a month during pay day to buy necessities and to change my mind a little bit. So, if you calculate it, I’ve only went outside (not doing work) for at most 20 days out of 365 days of the year — quite a record for me! I did work, work, and mostly work… very productive for good. To share to you my experience, I find it appropriate if we roll back and recall what happened 365 days ago, so here it is.

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Last month’s fourth Sunday (May 25) was a big day for me: I turned 21 years old! Like what people around me said, it was my debut of being an adult. Well literally, since I was in tertiary school and been facing computers everyday I observed slowly that gray hairs start spawning on my head. My classmates have teased me that I am already an adult — in thinking, yes — but I have strongly denied it. This year’s birthday event made it official, however. My online friend Mihaela Lica, told me on chat that my new age will bring “more milk” for me. Whatever she meant, just use your imagination. I just hope because I have milk and I want more.
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