Caramel Speaks

I never baked or cooked anything special until the moment that someone really close to my heart requested for it. I should have written a blog for my first attempt to cook adobo for our first picnic date, but this one is more special, more effortful and made with more love (not saying that love could be quantified, but yes, more love). He requested for an oreo nutella cheesecake. I made one. Ingredients. Buying and preparing the right amount of ingredients are very vital. The ingredients would determine the output taste. Unlike cooking and baking where you have the perfect recipe to make the best dish, in life, there is no specific recipe, maybe, there is just the right mix of everything and you’ll learn that in the life’s rigorous, exciting and happy challenges. Every part of a person’s life bears a particular value in the person’s being. Ask me what the best ingredient of all is, and I’ll tell you, it is love. Life’s challenges can never be surpassed without love. A person...

Love is an investment, in fact, it is the greatest investment. No one can underestimate the power of love and the wonderful things wrapped around every second of loving. Love can surpass anything, a person just have to believe in it. Various people experience love uniquely from time to time and what is more amazing is that, even in the most extraordinary and unexpected moments, love is always present and it never fails. Thousand heartbeats kept on making my chest ache too much, and it beats even faster when I am coming closer to the reality of love. It is not a fairy tale nor an easy-happy-ever-after. It is an effortful encounter with the other person, both exciting and scary. It is in simple encounters that two people become more aware of who they are and to what extent of themselves are they willing to share to the other. Each moment, whether big or small, is always treasured as if it is one of the best memories of a lifetime. The happiest moment in love is when the other pers...

Eighteen days to go before we can call it a whole year of crazy and unexpected adventure of friendship and love. It feels like we have known each other for so long already. I could not even remember all of the details of our adventure but my heart will always relive the feeling of yesterday’s happy moments. There are still times when we don’t know how to compromise but I guess that is already part of what we now call, love. My heart is full of gratitude that I met him and I will be forever grateful for the rest of my days. When times are tough, all I can think of are happy thoughts, how we met, how we got closer, how we have been better. When times are tougher, I am just choosing to love. I don’t really know how I fell in love with him but I think, it’s something that I cannot fully comprehend. I fell in love and that was it, I guess, I am still falling in love with him every waking day. 

  And it was surreal, dreamy and magical. 49 days ago, it never occurred to me that I would be able to recognize a special person and have him to be part of my every day until the end of my days. It was back then that I was quite a different person, that when memories return to me, I would simply smile and let go of my old self, and it was amazing how I switched from one pole to the opposite pole. Last February 4, 2014, I wrote this: Dear Universe, I had my doubts that this day would still come. Closing doesn’t really mean surrounding yourself within the walls of the past, rather just being numb with things that would permit pain and suffering. Until one day that one man took a step forward and had the perfect keys to open the doors without breaking it completely. Perhaps I haven’t found that man yet, or better, I haven’t realized that he already came and he is the one. Lately I’ve been thinking of a person, who I know does not even reach my standards for a boy...