Mark and I drove to Tagaytay to meet our bestfriend, Keith, who is on vacation from the US. The last time we had this great portrait of reunion was during Keith’s wedding a few years back.We had a-bit hard time looking for the spa place where Keith and his family checked in but it was fun roaming around Tagaytay looking for that place. It’s great to have a friend with a still-brand-new car. Haha! I personally missed having a very heartwarming conversation with Mark and I am overwhelmed with the affirmations I got from Mark and affirmations I shared to Mark. We talked about our service lives and our SFC lives (Mark is now serving SFC Makati and I’m serving in SFC Singapore) and had some exchanges of thoughts about leading the Music Ministries of the both since both of us are heads of Music Ministries as well.After finding Keith’s place, we picked him up and started to roadtrip while thinking what to do. So we decided to have some bulalo. We almost reached Nasugbu just to find a still-opened bulalo restaurant. After taking the same highway twice, we found one. We had a great chat, catching up, what’s life in US and in SG, no other topics but us and laughing on the things we did in our own lives so far. We shared our struggles, oppressions and trials. We then shared our victories, how Keith and his family survived US and how I managed to live in SG.Making use of our bonding time, we went to Starbucks Tagaytay. We talked about college life, the bloopers, the trials and struggles we faced during college life and the things we missed when we were all in college (oo kasama dyan ung ultimate refillable Hepa-B lugaw sa Teresa, tapsilogan, pansit canton sa JJS, mga kalokohan nung PUPILS days). Sarap tumawa and it was also good laughing on the things we did during our college life. Mark also shared how God blessed him after he came back to Manila from Singapore.It’s almost dawn when we sent Keith to his place. We took some photos and the best moment of the bonding time is when Keith gave me and Mark a shoulder embrace and did the closing prayer, praising God for the brotherhood that we have after so many years and asking the Lord to be our beacon of light in our friendship. Very overwhelming bonding experience.Indeed, my best Christmas vacation so far. Thank You, Lord!

Mark and I drove to Tagaytay to meet our bestfriend, Keith, who is on vacation from the US. The last time we had this great portrait of reunion was during Keith’s wedding a few years back.

We had a-bit hard time looking for the spa place where Keith and his family checked in but it was fun roaming around Tagaytay looking for that place. It’s great to have a friend with a still-brand-new car. Haha! I personally missed having a very heartwarming conversation with Mark and I am overwhelmed with the affirmations I got from Mark and affirmations I shared to Mark. We talked about our service lives and our SFC lives (Mark is now serving SFC Makati and I’m serving in SFC Singapore) and had some exchanges of thoughts about leading the Music Ministries of the both since both of us are heads of Music Ministries as well.

After finding Keith’s place, we picked him up and started to roadtrip while thinking what to do. So we decided to have some bulalo. We almost reached Nasugbu just to find a still-opened bulalo restaurant. After taking the same highway twice, we found one. We had a great chat, catching up, what’s life in US and in SG, no other topics but us and laughing on the things we did in our own lives so far. We shared our struggles, oppressions and trials. We then shared our victories, how Keith and his family survived US and how I managed to live in SG.

Making use of our bonding time, we went to Starbucks Tagaytay. We talked about college life, the bloopers, the trials and struggles we faced during college life and the things we missed when we were all in college (oo kasama dyan ung ultimate refillable Hepa-B lugaw sa Teresa, tapsilogan, pansit canton sa JJS, mga kalokohan nung PUPILS days). Sarap tumawa and it was also good laughing on the things we did during our college life. Mark also shared how God blessed him after he came back to Manila from Singapore.

It’s almost dawn when we sent Keith to his place. We took some photos and the best moment of the bonding time is when Keith gave me and Mark a shoulder embrace and did the closing prayer, praising God for the brotherhood that we have after so many years and asking the Lord to be our beacon of light in our friendship. Very overwhelming bonding experience.

Indeed, my best Christmas vacation so far. Thank You, Lord!

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