Tuesday, September 16, 2008

My Top Ten Christmas Wish List

10. Good health for my family.
My mom’s diabetic and she has noticed that her FBS results are recently increasing despite her double-dosing her meds. We all know that Diabetes is a chronic illness that progressively gets worse over time, despite how compliant one is with your meds… My Dad, who like the rest of my family is obese, needs no blood tests to confirm that he has high cholesterol. And he never listens to me whenever I tell him that "NO! Drinking softdrinks will NOT lower your high blood pressure!"… My sister doesn’t seem to have any drive to lose weight and like the rest of my family, I am constantly fighting that battle with the bulge… To make things worse, my gym membership has expired and I have spent my money gimiking with friends these past few nights that I can no longer afford to enroll at the gym again. Huhuhu… sponsor naman diyan, oh…

9. Contentment for my bestfriend in Manila.
He deserves to be happy with the right person, one who will make him feel secured, who will listen to him and whom his mother will adore. I hope he finds that person who will give him that long-sought contentment he truly needs.

8. A successful research.
I hope to God that I finally get the chance to meet up with the Medical Health Officer of the PNP, that he will be able to help me with my research, that my respondents will be willing to give me the information I need despite the consequences, that I will make my Research adviser proud and finally, that the Research Panel will accept my research and give me my degree as a Master in Public Health.

7. Happiness for an ex-boyfriend.
I am one of those persons who will never see getting married as a solution to getting one’s girlfriend accidentally pregnant, especially if you don’t really see that person as one who will make you contented enough for the rest of your life. Why make a bigger mistake when the pregnancy was already a mistake by itself? I know very well that he is not happy, because if he was, he would never make so many attempts to see me again, even when I no longer wished to do so. I no longer love him but I hope that he learns to fix his life finally… Maybe the marriage was a good thing for him, maybe it will make him change his ways in the long run, but for now, I still believe he made a mistake, tying himself forever to someone that wasn’t enough for him.

6. Peace for my bestfriend.
Being an officer and an active member of his fraternity, he has been previously involved in many brawls in his time, if not for himself, but to help out his brods. This is actually the reason why he wants to work outside Zamboanga City, so that he can stay away from trouble, since trouble seems to follow him all the time. I, on the other hand, could not condone violence. I do admit that I have my own selfish reasons why I don’t want him to leave Zamboanga City but I ceratinly hope that he will learn to develop a peaceful side and be able to stop himself from getting into brawls again. So that he wouldn’t have to leave. Hehehe…

5. Less fifteen pounds.
I need to lose weight. Dammit… I love to eat but I am one of those unfortunate women who have very low metabolism. I am grateful that I still fit into my clothes and I get nice appreciative looks because of the curves but I still hope to be able to make more men salivate. Hahaha, joke… Maybe the men in my life will learn to appreciate me more (aka, admit that they were jealous of other men) if I was fifteen pounds lighter. Hahaha…

4. Food for the hungry people in Zamboanga CIty.
Oh, ha? I am not really as selfish as other people may think. One thing my current bestfriend taught me is that one should always share what you have to those who don’t. He does this by organizing food drives with his fraternity and giving out groceries to the streetchildren and beggars in the downtown area… Once I start working, I plan to do the same. Mahirap pa kasi ngayon, I’m jobless and I’m still dependent on my parents’ allowance. But if I had the money, I would like to have the opportunity to do that. And once I’m stable, I would also like to come up with a scholarship foundation for future aspiring doctors like me. Mga medskul classmates, let’s do this in the future, okay?

3. Braces.
Seriously, I’m tired of having crooked teeth. Hahaha…

2. A laptop. Or a new cellphone. Or an Ipod.
So, I’m materialistic. Sue me.

1. A guy who loves me.
I’ve been boyfriendless for sometime now and I have to admit that I missed it. Of course, my friends are always there to make me forget about that loneliness that consumes me whenever I see couples in their most affectionate moments, but we all know that nothing can replace that happiness and security that one feels being with someone who tells you that he’s lucky he found you. Th one who gets jealous over other guys showing interest, the one who likes you to meet his friends or wants to meet your friends, the one who brings you home to meet his family. I think I do have that but I think he’s not inlove with me, at least, not in the way I hope he would, so that doesn’t really count… Hahaha…

It’s different when you hear that guy introduce you to his friends as "MY girlfriend", or when he texts you first thing in the morning, even before he gets up in bed, just to say "Good morning," or "Good night" before he goes to sleep at night. It’s a different feeling when he’s the one who kisses you when he brings you home, and not the other way around. It’s a totally different feeling when you lose yourself to someone you really love and not just someone whom you think is hot.

I don’t really need a guy who will tell me he loves me every hour of the day. I actually hate that. And I am not really aiming for perfection - since perfect guys don’t exist - but I guess I just need someone who will tell me that he loves me, in Bridget Jones’ style, just the way I am.

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