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I pray with all my heart that my chingu @Sejabin is alive and safe after that devastating earthquake and tsunami hit her city last Friday...

Thank you for being my Mom... 

Although there is a certain uniquely magical feel to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, every single day can still be like Christmas. If today, inside my heart, and as outwardly expressed by my actions, I am kind, joyful, generous, and forgiving, then even if today is not December 25, it is Christmas.

Just days before Christmas, a severe tropical storm hit some places in my country, leaving a death toll of 200+ persons. Several of my countrymen in Mindanao, Philippines, spent Christmas in unimaginable pain and sorrow, having lost their loved ones, homes, properties, and businesses.

I dedicate this song, written in my native language, with it's heart wrenching melody, to them... It's a song telling of both sorrow and hope: sorrow, because of losing a loved one, yet, hope's certainty of seeing them again and being reunited with them.

TITLE: IKAW LANG ANG MAMAHALIN (ONLY YOU...I WILL LOVE ONLY YOU)

Music: Louie Ocampo

Lyrics: Joey Albert (who originally sang this song)

This Cover, by: Faith Cuneta (Her version is the one I love most, along with the original version)

ENGLISH TRANSLATION (by me..., not verbatim, but just drawing out the meaning of the words )

In every circle of life

There always, must be...a time to part ways

While the heart may fight against it...

Still, nothing...it is helpless... it can't do anything.

Where...? When...? Will I ever kiss you again?

While this moment may never be enough for us 

I just know...somehow...we will see each other once again

As long as there are tomorrows I can still face

Only you... I will love...only you.

While the heart may fight against it...

Still, nothing...it is helpless...it can't do anything 

Where...? When...? Will I ever kiss you again?

While this moment may never be enough for us 

I just know...somehow...we will see each other once again 

As long as there are tomorrows I can still face

Only you... I will love...only you.

Credit : Run Garcest, original uploader

Best heard with earphones...

My prayer for myself for this New Year: A clean slate...

Credit: source

@ebullient Good day, sir/ma'am! Kindly please help my chingu @Sejabini whose account, along with her pm messages, disappeared. I pray that your good office can help restore her account. May you be blessed a hundredfold for your kindness!!