2024 Roundup

2024 was one hell of a ride! It's one for the books and I would be remiss if I don't recall some of the poignant events that happened to me this year.  

Please indulge me in sharing some of my most memorable 2024 hops. 

2024 was really me stepping into my fangirl era. There are way too many amazing things that happened to me in this era: 

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  Met some wonderful online friends that turned into offline friends. I love sharing my madness in this community, I don't feel judged because of my choices and my delusions are very much welcomed. 

• Ive also met and formed friendships with friends of friends because of our mutual love of kPOP. Growing my Kpop friends circle! 

• The Choi Seungcheol Vortex. This is a phenomenon, wherein, you’ll find yourself simping hard for the man that you forgot all your other biases and groups. You start mad collecting his PCs and spend thousands upon thousands just to have the same clothes, accessories etc. This is also when you enter your “jeongcheol religion”, you go hard for the two and even get excited for a simple news of them together. 

• In my case, I not only did all these things, I had 3 noise complaints from our condo office because of my high pitched screams mostly done at night from watching fancams after fancams - specifically that HHU SPELL performance from 2024 caratland. 

• The AU Obsession, nah, i'm just a voracious reader, (which is technically true), I've consumed hundreds of different AUs of my favorite kpop duos in different genres and I dont think Ill be stopping anytime soon. Case in point, ive created a sheet of some of the AUs that ive read and its on 120+ with my twitter account still have bookmarks of 300+ and counting. 

• This is also the start of my befriending these amazing authors, trying to live vicariously through them. This is also my way of supporting the written word and story telling artform that is slowly dying due to AI. Continue writing my loves!

• Concerts and Fan Meets and other Kpop Shenanigans. I've been to a lot of cons and fan meets this year, it may not be as many as I had in 2023, but this year has been the funnest! This year was started by The Rose and ended with a fanmeet with Do Kyungsoo during my birthday! 

Downtime. Art Shows, Comedy Shows and Dragshows!

I enjoy my time alone and during these times, I do a lot of thinking and walking. One of the things I love to do during my alone time is visiting museums. I've visited a few museums around the metro. I went to the Banksy exhibit, Chances of Contact, SIBOL and Dream States at The Met (BGC), visited the Philippine National Museum in MNL, and the art installations exhibited at the 4th. This gives me time to appreciate art and just be in deep thought about their processes and emotions creating their artworks. 

Hopefully in the future, I get to visit the American Museum of Natural History and the Louvre.  

Apart from visiting museums, I also love musicals and finally saw my favorite musical - SIX! I think I manifested them to come to Manila. I'm still in awe and just mesmerized from watching them, mind you I bought my ticket in April for their show in October! That's how I love this musical. BTW - SIX is a musical about the 6 wives of Henry the VIII. 

Personal life: Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears… just kidding! 

My lovelife - let's not talk about it. I wanna put it all behind me. 

This year gave me the ups and downs in friendships that I never thought I'd experience. Because I like to keep friends, and when you’re my friend, guarantee you have a friend for life.  It's true what they said, a friendship break up is harder than a couple break up. This is the first friendship break up i've experienced and i gotta tell you, it's the shits. Literally the shit. Because this friendship breakup was unexpected, sudden, and involved too many players. Worst off - I was blindsided about this whole thing. I'm not gonna go into detail but I hope everyone involved heals from this. I've worked through it with my therapist and yeah, I've let go of the pain and the anger and have forgiven everyone. 

My birthday! This year was one of the happiest birthdays ive celebrated, mainly because it was quiet and I was alone. I cooked for myself and just spent the day lounging buried in books in my own bubble.

The next day, I went back to my alma mater, UST. Ive missed UST so much, heard my first mass of my new year of life and went around just sight seeing. Also had my dinner in my favorite resto, A Mano, with my oldest friend Nicole (literally known each other since pre-K) and her partner Doc Shayne! Thanks to these 2, the whole resto sang me happy birthday (I do not like that btw, please! All for a free chocolate cake! HAHAHHHA)

Lastly, this year gave us our greatest source of happiness. Our two answered prayers, Penny and Paige. These babies saved us and they didn't even know it. When we lost our Sky, we felt the sun had left our family, our grief was far greater than any happiness 2023 gave. We were close to questioning life and God our whys. But as He said, in God’s perfect time, our miracle came. It's ok, if my back hurts all the time, I get milk stains on my clothes or lose the feeling in my arms, just as long as I get to hold these wonderful human beings, I'm alright. We are all right.  

So, 2024, you have been great, but I'm hoping 2025 will be better! 

Happy New Year and Goodnight!