On the left is Maribina Falls(Gushing with breath-taking rapids of crystal-clear waters, the gushing falls are located in the middle of rural surroundings and lush-green vegetation. ) located in San Vicente, Virac, Catanduanes. It was the place where our love story begun by the simple Q & A "Kailan ba?" "Gusto mo ngaun na!" And so that's how it started.

On the right is the view from Virac Boulevard - Breakwater. This place served as our hangout before. We used to parked his tricycle to this place right after the mass or the the night before his departure, stayed here till dawn. It's the place we had our first kiss... that was a year after i said "Gusto mo ngaun na!"

Today is our first wedding anniversary together, in 3 long years of distance marriage...

Dear God, Thank You for this very day as we celebrate our togetherness as husband and wife. Thank you for the resources that you have given us to bring us together here in Dubai. Thank you for the loving heart of each one of us that despite all the things happened in the past which might be the reason to break the promises we made during our wedding still we are trying to rekindle the lost feelings we have to each other. Bless Us Oh God:)

The celebration is not as romantic as everyone might expect (though i tried to booked for a dhow cruise dinner). We just had our dinner in Japenggo - Burjuman.

And bought a present for each other...jejeje

I was brought up to be a God fearing, virtues oriented and almost convent like lady. I was innocent and naive, childlike and kikay, lady like but not flirty and demure yet not innocent bordering gullible. However, when put to test, would all this positive qualities hold up? What if the test was about boyz and sex, would i still deemed as i was brought up to be?

Who would ever think that i would let it happen to me. Where does my cathechism lesson's goes? What happen to all those reminders that the Sisters have told me... Virtue (Chastity, modesty, purity????)

It's becoz of love i know, whatever would be the consequences i don't care (but not of course getting preggy) My family, friends and the people around me expect so much on me. Explore & enjoy. Yeah i have no regret ... but sometimes there is guilt in me. I still remember the Sisters of SOM have taught me. It's over besides I've enjoyed it also knowing the fact that i've done it with the guy i love so much. But during those moments, we weren't really thinking of being sensible. This was our relationship. People have gone throught the same thing too. So why couldn't we? as he say! I really don't like it to happen coz i'm afraid he might dump me like potato afterwards.

It was up to us to decide on what was right and what was not for us. Out of curiosity. The more important thing was that nothing else seemed more right than what we're doing. It was adventurous, racy and just great. It was memorable for both of us because we did it with the person we love and that we were able to satisfy each other.

The 1st to 3rd time entering a...... we just rubbed each other. It wasn't really sex as in intercourse. But it was sweet communication of flesh touching flesh that for me wasn't any need for anything else. What more could there be? Naked flesh to naked flesh. But i know how he wanted it. On the 2nd time it was almost........ but i cried coz i really don't like it to happen on us and i'm not prepared for it. On his vacation to bicol he demanded for it again but still nothing happened.

October 19, 2003 (12MN) SH RM 725... I have given him everything i have........

January 1, 2002, officially we become lovers. His siblings and cousins decided to have an excursion at Maribina Falls. He requested me to come with them together with my other siblings.

When we reached the place he asked me to go up on top of the falls. We sat there for a while. Both of us are serious as if each of us wanted to say something. Then after a long seconds of not saying anything...he said "Napapagod na ako sa ganitong sitwasyon, ikaw nde ka pa ba napapagod?" No reply... Then another question "kelan ko ba malalaman?" Then i replied "Gusto mo ngaun na!" Our story started that way! Others may expect of "Do you love me?" question and "yes or no" answer. But it was not what had happened. After saying "gusto mo ngaun na?" i motioned of going down then he followed me.

That's it! We went home that day without saying any other words. It was a sad moment for me. I was hoping for a good reply and even a happy and sweet smile the moment i said "gusto mo ngaun na" but i didn't saw it on him. I even told him about it.

Then that night he spent it to our house till early morning. Gave me a present (a perfume) which till now is still in our house and was not used. I want to display it on our future home as the first gift i received from him.

Marami nagtaka kung bkit daw napapadalas ang uwi ni pangit. He was in Bicol sometime in June or July to arrange for his credentials, then back again in August for the barrio fiesta, November for the All Souls Day and Christmas.

His relatives told me that before he used to go home only once or twice a year but when he started to court me that year he went home almost 5 times. Six months after we met in Mla he sends me a letter which says about his feelings. So then i don't know of all the suitors i had after receiving that letter i started to think of him before i sleep and even when i wake up in the morning (totoo pala un). Don't know if it was the start of loving him. I've read that letter in front of my mom and sibling. Like me, my mom could not believe that he wrote that letter so well. I'm not that good in grammar but i can say it was good enough. So then i replied to that letter and followed by another letter.

For that year everytime he had his vacation he would always come to visit me in our house. We used to talk of all the nonsense things about our past as a child and even talk about our families, relatives & friends. I don't know...never in my past suitor that i would spend time talking nonsense but with him...i love and like it...maybe because we're talking about our past as a naughty kid.

Like most of the woman i have set of standards for Mr. Right.

1. God Fearing - I was not raised religious but i was brought up being aware of all the teachings about God. Spent my secondary education in a convent like school that helps me live a Christian life. So above all other traits i want my husband to be God Fearing. I believe that when he posses this trait he is a kind and noble man with respect to God and fellow men.
2. Intelligent - I dreamed of having a husband on his coat and tie, an executive. I want him to be more intelligent than I. His ideas should be better than I and that he should outstand me in all things.
3. With a great love for his family - I believe that if a man has a great love to his family he will be a good husband and father to his own family. (Later this standard will give me so much trouble.)

In SFC we we're taught that not all prayers are answered or sometimes it is answered in a ways that we never know coz it's not the same thing we have prayed for.

Pangit may not possessed all the qualities i was wishing for still i have love him more than he knows and i know he loves me so much also.

It was in May 2001, while i was arranging for my credentials for the coming school year, i saw him in his cousin's house who is my childhood bestfriend, Nhang. I stayed w/ nhang for a days and she told me that during weekends all her cousins visit them. Then he mentioned about pangit regarding the picture i have given her. She told me that she saw my picture to pangit's wallet. Telling me that she asked why he had my picture. And that pangit answered her that he saw it scattered on the floor. She wondered why did he has to kept it on his wallet... not unless he is interested or he likes the owner of the picture... that was what she thought.

We went to the market that time then when we arrive pangit and her sister was already there. He was i think playing with his cellphone and he did not even care who came. Then Ate Ting2 said that "Boy uya baga si bhing2" .

From then on, her cousins started to tease him why he has to kept my picture. I don't remember anymore what was his reply. He never spoke to me, he was still the typical demure guy i know 10 years back. The teasing continued but i never considered it serious coz i was used to it since i was young.

For the couple of days that i was there, he comes almost every other day which his cousins has wondered why coz they told me before he comes only during weekends. With that they we're given another reason to tease him about me but he never replied anything serious.

The day before i left they we're teasing him "na dapat ihatid niya ako". Actually sa lahat ng biruan nila nakikisakay na lang ako and i never thought that he was already serious about it. One night as i was washing my clothers he talked to me, asking whenam i leaving?

Halleur!!! All of the sudden he talked to me, is it becasue i was leaving as what Nhang has told me? Hehehe

I remember he really did come that day i left... hinatid niya ako hanggang labasan..hehehe

I left my family to stay with my granny in the neighboring barrio. There i spent my remaining years in elementary. Seldom i got the chance to visit my mom and my siblings. Given then, still the people around and our relatives continued to tease us.

Had my secondary education in Manila which allows us to go home only for two weeks in a year. I don't know if there was a time that the people tried to make fun of us still. Saw him passing our house but never had the chance to even say hi!

After highschool, I've worked in Laguna for almost 3 1/2 years. While he continued his studies in Catanduanes State Colleges. One time we had the chance to see each other on our way to bicol. Me and my sis shifted to another bus going to Virac where he and his bro has taken from Pasay.

Sino ba naman ang mag aakalang hahantong sa isang pag iibigan ang minsay naging tuksuhan nung mga bata pa kami?

Magkapitbahay kami ni pangit, magkababata, magkaklase at dpat magkalaro din pero sa kadahilanang mga bata pa lang kami tinutukso na kami ng aming mga magulang sa isa't isa kaya ni minsan hindi nangyari un.

Malinaw pa sa alaala ko kung paano kami tuksuhin ng mga magulang namin noon. Tuwing napapadaan ako sa kanila sasabihin ng Tatay nia "Bhing, si boboy uya" at kapag siya naman ang napapadaan sa amin sasabihin naman ng Papa ko "Boy, si bhing2". Kinalakihan na namin ang ganung biruan at kahit mga kamag anak at kapitbahay nakisunod na rin sa biruang un.

Sadyang bata pa nga kami at hindi kami marunong sumakay sa mga biruang katulad nun. Napipikon kami tuwing tutuksuhin kami ng ganun kaya iniiwasan namin ang magkasama sa isang lugar na kung saan mabibigyan ng pagkakataon ang mga tao na tuksuhin kami. Dahil doon ni minsan hindi kami naging magkalaro man lang.

Naging magkaklase kami hanggang grade 4 pero ganun pa rin hindi man lang kami naging mag kaibigan.

As we celebrate our 3rd year wedding anniversary together (April 28, 2008), i'd like to start sharing to you how our love begun.