What I’ve Learned About Friendship

What I’ve Learned About Friendship                                                                                                                                                      

“Hello. My name is Jayson de Lemon and I am sending this to you because i want to share with you what i’ve learned about friendship. This is not a poem really, but I think it’s nice and nearly anyone can ralate to it, especially youth like myself.

What I’ve Learned About Friendship

• I’ve learned that there are many good friends
• around, but true best friends are hard to come by.
• I’ve learned that sometimes you love a best friend
• more than a girlfriend.
• I’ve learned that a best friend is more important than a girlfriend.
• I’ve learned that you can do something or nothing
• with a best friend and still have the best time. 
• I’ve learned that a true friendship has many memories, both good and bad, but all important.
• I’ve learned that sometimes the most used part of a best friend is the shoulder you cry on, and the
• shoulder you are willing to lend.
• I’ve learned that when a best friend is happy, you find yourself happy too, even when it has nothing to do with you.
• I’ve learned that a best friend’s family soon feels like your own.
• I’ve learned that the only one who truly understands is a true friend.
• I’ve learned that nothing ever sounds stupid, funny, or unbelievable to a best friend, and you never feel stupid saying whatever it is.
• I’ve learned that sometimes it feels like a best friend is the only one who will ever care about you and think you are beautiful in your own way.
• I’ve learned that you always have that something extra to give to a best friend in need, and can count on that in return.
• I’ve learned that your heart is forever touched by a true friend, no matter how things end up.
• I’ve learned that when your heart has been broken, a best friend is the best band-aid for it.
• I’ve learned that a best friend will call you in the middle of the night to talk without thinking, and it’s OK.
•   I’ve learned that in many cases, a hug and a kind word from a best friend is the only thing that helps get you through the day.
• I’ve learned that a best friend would stick up for you no matter what the consequences are.
• I’ve learned that best friends can sing at the top of their lungs and not worry about singing the wrong words or being out of tune.
• I’ve learned that best friends stay up all night and on the phone for hours talking without even realizing it.
• I’ve learned that a best friend can tell the difference between a silly crush, and more than that.
• I’ve learned that sometimes a best friend is all you have.
• I’ve learned that sometimes you wonder how she knew, but then you realize that’s just how close you are.
• I’ve learned that when you are true best friends, everyone else knows it.
• I’ve learned that, most importantly of all, best friends will always be best friends, no matter what is happening in their lives, where they are, or what they are doing. A best friend is irreplaceable. This is the most important thing I could have ever been taught by a best friend.
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Jayson de Lemon’s Autobiography

I once asked myself, how history was written. I said, “I have to invent it.”  
When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical,
all of the people influenced me, everything that  happened and that
is still happening influences me.

It’s very hard for me to describe myself but this, I guess, is difficult for everybody. I think I’m a relatively thoughtful and quiet person, especially towards people I don’t know very well. However, people who I call my friends, know me as a very lively and talkative person.

Basically, I think I’m a positive and life-affirming person. In my mind, everybody can reach nearly every goal, in case he/she really believes in it. You just need a great portion of staying power, motivation, and enthusiasm - and I think, I do fulfill these “requirements”.  

At least till now, I was able to turn most of my dreams into reality - and some are still waiting to become reality. I also believe that I’m patient and relatively calm - in the past, this wasn’t necessarily the case but certain events in my life changed this behavior. Even so, sometimes I still can be very quick-tempered.

Furthermore, I think that I’m quite quick-witted - I often come up with an answer like that and moreover, I do not just sit down and take things (especially those that bother me) like that. Unfortunately, that’s not always favorable - sometimes I have the feeling that people get a wrong impression of me - the impression that I always have to have the last word.

Apart from that, I’m curious and therefore I get relatively easy enthusiastic about certain ideas, things, etc. I also do not shrink back from challenges - on the contrary, most of the time I love to accept challenges.

Although I’m able to be spontaneous, I rather prefer to think over certain things in advance. Therefore, I sometimes have the problem of racking my brain over things, which do not occur in the end. But meanwhile, I’m working on this “problem”.

Moreover, I’m very reliable - if I promise something I’ll keep it. That’s why I can’t stand unreliable persons - if he/she is not able to hold onto things promised, then he/she should not promise anything.

I was born on July 24th, 1984, in the province of Daet, Camarines Norte in   that part of Bicol-Philippines.

My father was a printing press operator and my mother was a fish vendor. We led a hard life, almost like peasants. During my childhood I had a long, actively spell of enjoyment and my happiness has always been present.

When I was six and already able to read and write, my parents motivated me to go to Elementary since I already finished primary school and Kindergarten. At that time I discovered very interesting education in Bagasbas Elementary School. I plunged into the lesson and classics of the knowledge. Reading became a passion with me as well as writing. I carried books and pen hidden under my clothes and read and write wherever I could. My education in Elementary was maintained throughout six years with honors and awards each year.

I was quickly preparing to enter the secondary. But unfortunately every year in that level except in fourth year was always transferring into other school; from Moreno Integrated School to Lady of Peñafrancia College and to Camarines Norte National High School.

Apart from my secondary education I had to help my mother at the market to sell fresh Fishes to support our family in our everyday living.

I loved these diverse occupations since nobody checked my spare time, which I was able to devote entirely to business. By the age of seventeen I started to work at Jollibee-Daet as my part time job while I was studying at AMA Computer Learning Center of the same place. I was very proud to myself that time for the reason that it was very impossible for me to be able to work since I was just seventeen with a height of four feet and nine inches. A ” Service Crew of the Month” for six consecutive month for being an industrious Pantry man.

During this period my family had encountered a serious problem, made me systematically to make me pursue an independent life. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through my own decisions weather to do bad or whatever I wanted. Within myself I felt vague enchantments, dull restlessness, and uncertain desires. I had hallucinations when I was awake. What wings carried me to unknown worlds!

Already I felt sick and confined at home and later at the hospital; daily life was a burden. I dreamed of great actions, of voyages - rovings across the oceans of a free and independent life.

For entire weeks I would keep away from the house and try to live in the woods like a savage. I formed monstrous shapes in potter’s clay, or cut them in trees; I filled my notebooks and the margins of my books with rough sketches, and I spent more than one night crying without reason.

Such was my life until the age of twenty. I shall skip the following years until the age of twenty-two.

I lived in Baguio City and - being twenty-three years old - I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart. Misery was my inseparable companion; I was a socialist and the punishment was inevitable. I worked as a Marketing Officer at NELCARD Marketing accredited by Citibank, then after a few months I resigned.

The Korean Guy hired me from his English School after reading my page at the internet entitled ” Life’s Existence”. Considering me a responsible one, He trusted me to manage his Korean English School ( The Units Engl;ish Tutorial Institute). After a year I had enough of the managing school life with its miseries and lack of a future since I’m not yet a graduate in college; besides, my ability for managing was nonexistent.

I was able to find my life in schooling at University of Baguio. I lived near market in a small house. Our income was pitiable, our life hard and tedious, my surroundings primitive. I had hit rock bottom. I was lucky to make the acquaintance of a Born Again Christian Pastor, a convinced and practising christianity. He dazzled and conquered me. A world of fantastic dreams and possibilities opened before my eyes. He had constant and close contact with christianity circles at Chatedral of Praise in Baguio City, corresponded regularly with Mommy Fennie, wrote in spiritualist journals, and was always giving an spiritual advices. For them, God is the King. They were kind and very much concerned about our family.

Way back from my sad experience, I suffered from illness for six years-from 1998-2004 ( didn’t include at the beginning). My right ankle was infected that took me to bed for almost a year with a half year of state of deep and prolonged unconscious or coma. As a result I had learned a lot of leanings in life. My whole being was filled with unspeakable happiness: at last I had found my way. But this good fortune was not without results for my adventurous life.

I began a new Odyssey of misery, roving and struggling with destiny.

With the help of a surprised somebody from anywhere! It was there, too, that I continue living, as I remember when the earth was already opening under my feet. An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.

The more profound my faith became, the more violent my fascination with annihilation, and then incessant hunger pushed me toward the abyss.

As I believed, life is a continues learning that I have to discover each day. Being a responsible person is not about avoiding things that will lead into disgrace sometimes it helps me to realized things that happening around me.

At present, I am still seeking for my real life; a life that there will be no sadness that everything must be happiness; Enjoying beyond my control but aware with my doings; Continuing to look for many friends to be a part of my mysterious life and most of all trying to look for my destiny.I could go on but I do not want to waste my time. I will Open my life and all the doors wherever I find them. There is no end to life. And this life proves that everything in this world is part of it.

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Based from WIKIPEDIA 2009

Chinese New Year
Animal Branch Dates 鼠 Rat 子 Zi February 19, 1996 February 7, 2008 牛 Ox 丑 Chou February 7, 1997 January 26, 2009 虎 Tiger 寅 Yin January 28, 1998 February 14, 2010 兔 Rabbit 卯 Mao February 16, 1999 February 3, 2011 龍 Dragon 辰 Chen February 5, 2000 January 23, 2012 蛇 Snake 巳 Si January 24, 2001 February 10, 2013 馬 Horse 午 Wu February 12, 2002 January 31, 2014 羊 Sheep 未 Wei February 1, 2003 February 19, 2015 猴 Monkey 申 Shen January 22, 2004 February 8, 2016 雞 Rooster 酉 You February 9, 2005 January 28, 2017 狗 Dog 戌 Xu January 29, 2006 February 16, 2018 豬 Pig 亥 Hai February 18, 2007 February 5, 2019 Chinese New Year’s Eve in Meizhou, China
Also called	Lunar New Year, Spring Festival
Observed by	Chinese communities worldwide[1]
Type	Cultural, Religious (Buddhist and Taoist)
Significance	The first day of the Chinese calendar (lunar calendar)
2008 date	February 7
2009 date	January 26
2010 date	February 15
Celebrations	Dragon dances/Lion dances, fireworks, family gathering, family meal, visiting friends and relatives (拜年), giving red envelopes, decorating with duilian (對联).
Related to	Lantern Festival, which concludes the celebration of the New Year

Chinese New Year or Spring Festival

Is one of the most important traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the Lunar New Year, especially by people outside China. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year’s Eve is known as Chúxī. It literally means “Year-pass Eve”.

Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Aboriginal Taiwanese people, Koreans, Mongolians, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Vietnamese, and formerly the Japanese before 1873. In Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, ThailandCanada, although Chinese New Year is not an official holiday, many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Canada Post issues New Year’s themed stamps in domestic and international rates. and other countries or regions with significant Han Chinese populations, Chinese New Year is also celebrated, and has, to varying degrees, become part of the traditional culture of these countries.

Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years, its years are often numbered from the reign of Huangdi outside China. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars, making the year 2008 “Chinese Year” 4706, 4705, or 4645

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Wherever You Are…

Are you standing at a crossroads wondering which road you should take?
And you are reading a decisions and a possible mistake
But the will of God won’t lead you where the grace of God can keep you
And you will never be out of his care, remember that the Lords already there.

-Being a good person is not that easy to perform without believing
 that there is God who will guide me in every decision that I make. Looking to my inner feelings and my thoughts. Thinking positive thoughts, trusting those that offer me friendship, and dismissing both anger and hateful feelings, will result in a change from my within. i have to  think good thoughts, thus I  will become good. I will do good, thus my entire persona will change. I will trust, instead of distrusting. I will care instead of being uncaring. I will help others in their time of need, instead of sitting back and waiting for someone else to help me. I will be in essence become a good person and God will care for me throughout my life with my good decisions.

Wherever you are, wherever you’re going,
God is right there beside you seeing and knowing
Wherever you go, He already knows what lies ahead and what’s behind
You’ll always find He’s never too far from wherever you are.

-In order to apply being a good person in reality, I have to start each day with a plan as my goal.
Thinking of what I would like to see and do. Then thinking of someone who is lonely. Someone who, perhaps lives alone, and has no family. Asking this person to join me, in my plan for the day. Sharing my time with him and build a friendship that could ever be. Finally, my goal is to make others happy with the help of God not to far from wherever I am. With this goal, I can never go back and make a brand new start but I can start from now and make a brand new ending.

You are waiting to hear thunder and see lightning in the sky
Oh but God can work his wonders through a still, small voice inside
So keep listening and learning and continue on a journey
Just following the one who is on way, Oh He’s the only road you need to take.

-Real Happiness is through the path of our God. As a happy being, In my life, I had learned of five rules to be happy, First, To free my heart of hatred - I learned that hatred makes our lives miserable that leads to many kinds of bad things that people might think or do. Secondly, free my mind from worries – Worries is one way of releasing of ones faith in God. Third is living in a simple life, a simple life which doesn’t have to seek for impossible things that may lead me to do bad things just to get it. Just live simply. Fourthly, giving more to others such as love, caring and all things that I can share. “It’s better to give than to receive.” Lastly,  Expecting less for all of these will give me an ultimate fulfillment which is equal to happiness, and I believed that as a happy being these rules to be happy is a way of God that I only need to take.

Wherever you are, wherever you’re going,
God is right there beside you seeing and knowing
Wherever you go, He already knows what lies ahead and what’s behind
You’ll always find He’s never too far from wherever you are.

-Whatever I do is directly to my conscience, conscience that tells me weather it is right or wrong, conscience that helps me to analyze things from good to bad.  Whenever I am doing something, I ask myself the question “Am I hurting myself or others”. If I answer is no, then I am not doing harm and that’s my conscience always says.

Generally, wherever we are going God is always there not too far from us, He knows everything what we do and guide in everything what we decide. A good person must have his goals how to do it, must live with it and must have a conscience that will help him to grow with living with the Lord.

Happy New Year!