A Birthday Treat

Perhaps, one might think that I’d be spending bucks to shoulder his birthday expenses. I cannot do that – not even close to what I think of. It’s impossible given the current location we each have. Plus, I think he has more money than I do - haha.

But for a person who finds creativity an always engaging thing to do, there’s always a great way to make ones birthday a much happier one. 

I need to dig my online files if I'd be specific of how long our friendship has been now.It's kind of a tall order to do. But as far back as I can remember, our friendship started two years ago.
 
It was our online exposure that had brought our attention to each other until we decided to meet up when we went back home last February 2013. He even fetched me at the airport - how sweet di ba haha. No wonder, he's the panganay of all my online sons - marami kasi sila! lols. He'd pioneered calling me "Daddy Jay" the thing which I can't refuse since it went viral to our blogger-friends that I cannot even do anything but accept haha. (bitter?) haha. 

Arvin is a very nice friend online. A very thoughtful kind of person - cheerful at that. But in reality, when I first had encountered him - Wow! he wouldn't talk that much. You have to have the ability to break the silence so that a conversation will flow. He's that shy of a guy. 

Perhaps, he had done that because he had always considered me as his daddy. He owns the blog "CHATEAU DE ARCHIEVINER - a kind of personal slash humor blog na din. Like what we had formed, he also established friendships with so many bloggers he had met. 

The kind of person who is so generous - always thinking he's too shy to not shell-out the big part when blogger's eyeball is up. But like any other father-son (naks! kala mo tunay) relationship, we have had our share of misunderstanding - there is no heated arguments though. But ours is like a misunderstanding rooted from jealousy - parang mag kasintahan lang ang dating haha. Arvin kasi is a jealous kind of friend - when he befriend someone, he wanted that person to be his friend only. Ok , let me put this in a different perspective - it's like he should always get a bigger and undivided attention from you than anyone in your circle of friends - tama ba etong sinasabi ko? (batukan mo ako pag mali ha - haha!). 

But through time, with my paternal skills in advising, he gradually learned to let go that kind of attitude. Siyempre, kaya nga may birthday, para siya tumanda at magtanda di ba? hahahaha. 

Anyway, fast forward to my birthday message and here it goes: 

Dear Arvs, 

You're still my online son, you know that. Remaining to be one is up to your decision. 

I will always be a guiding online father to you every time you need my opinion and wisdom. It's nice to see and realize how our friendship has grown - though ours had to endure some rough roads because of certain misgivings from us. There are some indecisiveness on your part on some of our dealings but I charged it to your being a younger person. 

Yet, at the end of those  friendly shake-up and tremors, we remained connected. That's the part we should be thankful for. 

What I wanted to say as well is for you to be careful in dealing with strangers, give yourself the benefit of the doubt always. Learn the lessons from your past shortcomings. Capitalize from those lessons and I'm sure you'll be smoothly sailing. 

Continue to learn to be closer to the Lord because it is proven that when things go wrong, you can always rest your case to him. Focus on loving God more than loving people - it is because people fails. When you learn the way God loves, you're on the right track.

Have a blast on your birthday and I wish you all the best. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :) :)

Daddy Jay

P.S. I won't inform him about this, it's up to him to discover it in my blog - haha