Janina San Miguel - Bb. Pilipinas 2008 Q&A

Dont let your heart run your life....

Be sensible and let your mind speak for itself...

Listen not only to your feelings but to reason as well..

Always remember that if you lose someone today it means that someone better is coming tomorrow....

Its true that love can wait forever but its crazy to stubbornly hope for someone who doesnt care or understand how you feel...

You deserve to be happy... not in the arms of someone who keeps you waiting but in the arms of someone who will take you now and love you forever.

A woman has strength to amaze men. She can handle trouble and carry heavy burdens. She holds happiness, love, and opinions. She smiles when she feels like screaming. She sings when she feels like crying, cries when she’s happy and laughs when she’s afraid. Her love is unconditional! There’s only one thing wrong with her, she sometimes forgets what she worth.

Happy Valentines everyone... To all women... don't forget how much you worth.... To all men... this is your time to make the one you love special.. and to me? I'll just sleep... this is my time to make my body feel how much I love her.. because this past few days i only sleep 3 hours a day because of the many requirements and exams..

My Childhood Memories

Every one of us has a childhood memories. Sometimes it is good and sometimes it is bad, but one thing for sure whatever memories that we have when we were a child we cannot forget it until we go older.

Being a child is the most wonderful stage of our life that we can’t forget. Even me I can’t forget who was I am when I was a child. Sometimes when I tend to recall my childhood life, it made me smile or even cry. “Smile” for a reason that I had wonderful memories when I was a child. I can’t forget the first time I learn to swim. My Father taught me how to swim when I was 3 years old, but it took me so long to learn it, how many times I experience to sink to the seawater and drink saltwater but I never tend to surrender until I get it right when I was five years old. I’m so very happy when I learned it, that’s made me find courage to go to seawater alone or sometimes together with my childhood peers without any permission with my parents. I used to love the sea very much. On my weekend days, every morning I went to the sea since our home near from it. I went there to swim and climbed to the big boat went on top and jump from there to the deep sea. It makes me feel I can fly or I’m in heaven, even though, I always drink salt water upon doing it. When around 8:30 am when the sun shines and I feel the heat of it that’s the time I need to go home and sleep. But when 12:00pm arrives and I already finished my lunch. That’s the time, I’ll go to the sea again not to swim because there’s no enough water in it to make me swim, but to find some seashells,goso,sawaki,lukot2x and a lot more seafood’s. I always find difficulties of winning my parents permission to go to the seashore, I need to beg to our maid to come with me, so that my parents would allow me. When I went to the seashore together with our maid, I can help but smile upon looking to my maid mad face, I know she always used some beauty cream to make her whiter and beautiful but because of me it wouldn’t effect to her, but sad to say, instead of getting her whiter that she was longing for, it made her darker and darker every time we went to the seashore. Around 2:30pm that’s the time we went home bringing the seafood’s that we found in the sea. My mother was so happy, when she saw the seafood’s that we bring but feel unhappy upon looking to my face, “ I looked like an “igorot" ( black native Filipino)” she said but I just ignore it and take a bath, eat the seafood’s that we bring and sleep. When I woke up it’s around 4:30 pm that’s the time for me to play, but I find hard time upon looking some friends to play with me. They always say bad words to me and tease me negra, igorot, witch, owl and soon…, that made me cry. No one wants to play with me or be friends with me. They only call me as friends when they need a witch in their play. That is the sad memory of my childhood but I used to learn on it, I had found true friends who accept me on who I am and what my appearance is, they call me as friend not because they want me as witch in their games but a friend whom they care.

And now for many years that past, still fresh to my mind the memories that I have done in my childhood life. I can’t imagine, I’ve done that thing and that was I am when I was a child. Every time I saw children’s swimming in the sea or even the badjao, I used to see my self to them “that was I am when I was a child, and Im proud of it.” Many things have change to me, my childhood had passed but my memory of it is still there. I am now a simple lady taking up a college degree course here in MSU-IIT, hoping for a brighter future, this is not anymore my childhood life, this is the new stage or chapter of my life.