Holy crap! Thank you guys so much for all the birthday wishes. My facebook, twitter and cell phone were going crazy the whole freakin' day!

Not gonna lie, I've had some miserable birthdays in the past...so I've learned to appreciate the simplest birthdays of facebook/myspace comments, twitters, text messages and just being around people that I love. Yesterday was all about that and I loved it.

A few days ago, I was thinking of doing something like, "for every person that wishes me happy birthday, I'll do a body roll for one second." Damn, if I actually did that, it'd be a video of me doing body rolls for over 2.5 minute!! :laugh: Maybe next year. Maybe.

Anyways, lotsa love to the people that wished me happy birthday (in chronological order):

• Wush
• Michael
• Hazel
• Melissa G
• Michelle T
• Hammy
• Kris Mark
• Joanne
• Paolo L
• Mom & Dad
• Sheena
• Ernie
• Sierra
• Phatts
• Tracie
• Tops
• Chany
• Roth
• BM-Mike
• Loval
• Loris
• RJ
• Raelynne
• Crissy
• Mquerol
• Nessa
• Naythen
• Jackielyn
• Jae -- omg pole dancing video??! :rofl:
• Nikki
• Kina Grannis -- :biggrin:
• Drew -- loved the body roll video :bangin:
• Roy
• Van
• Marlo
• Confi
• Cristina Blake
• Tillmann
• Stefan
• Hollykinns
• Slimbeats
• Courtney
• Nicole P
• Japstaboi
• DesoMatt
• Fred
• Nam
• Stephanie C
• Michelle
• Meliss
• Dru
• Jimbo
• Amanda H
• Ulysses
• Jon G
• Tam
• Abel
• Dee
• Rochi
• Julie
• Lorraine
• Kulay Mike -- awww yehhh :hehe:
• Adriee
• Melissa V
• Ashley
• Angel
• Justine
• Renabette
• Sara
• Renato
• Mike E
• Vicki
• Pete
• Erin
• Amy T
• Samir
• Paolo
• Ariana
• Jasper
• Justin H
• Kim T
• April
• Nadin
• Rachel
• Pat
• Jason C
• Deland
• Ernie
• Phil
• Kishan
• Richard J
• Mary
• Dae
• Noa
• Wing
• James
• Chris P
• Dimples
• Preston
• Jennie
• Allie
• Erleen
• Chain
• Erin
• Lisa J
• JR
• Joanne
• Ashley S
• Norm
• NJ
• Stephanie R
• Elisa
• Bobby Lee, I mean, Cathy Nguyen -- :chill:
• Thomas Yu
• Gayle
• Devin
• Jon Chan
• Katzy -- <3 video mail
• Alex John -- all the way from Chicago?!! :noway:
• Jec -- zomg, awesome drawing skillz!! :coold:
• Josh S
• Darwin
• Daniel
• Chris P
• Brianne
• Goldy
• Nirav
• AJ -- thanks for dedicating a song to me with Cathy. :cheers:
• Janice
• Jessica M
• Kathleen B
• random people at AJ's show that apparently recognized me from blogtv (whoa!?!)
• Ronan
• Bryan Keith
• Angel
• Rex
• Amy
• Megan
• Ray
• Mark M
• Kim
• Tiff
• Dana
• Heather
• Stan
• Adoboy
• Laila
• Sara T
• Elwood
• Khaing
• Ron P
• Audrey P
• Cynthia

And on a random note...

This Ralph Emerson quote popped into my head yesterday. I've posted this before but I just love this quote so much I wanted to share it with you guys again:

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

To laugh often and much.
To win the respect of intelligent people,
and the affection of children.
To earn the appreciation of honest critics,
and endure the betrayal of false friends.
To appreciate beauty.
To find the best in others.
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition.
To know even one life has breathed easier,
because you have lived.
That is to have succeeded.

Love you guys. <3

AuroraEmpire: mel you did that 3 hotdog video right?
melmyfinger: yeah
melmyfinger: hahaha
AuroraEmpire: I was looking up kobayashi [on YouTube] and your vid came up haha
HuskyboyDrew: lololol
melmyfinger: hahahahaahah
melmyfinger: whaaaaaat

And just when I thought BlogTV was too addicting.

We've been on this thing forover a month now...and it's been fuuuuun! We started on BlogTV with one or two people broadcasting at a time...but with Tokbox, you can see everyone broadcasting. Up to 30ish people.

I never really broadcasted on BlogTV because I didn't want to deal with the pressure of entertaining people. But with Tokbox, you're really just hangin' out.

It's easy to forget that at any given moment I could be talking to people from SoCal, NorCal, Chicago, Texas, New York, Toronto, Ontario, Sweden, etc.

We've been doing this so much, it's no surprise when we all end up passing out.

So we all get to know each other online. And then we all meet up offline in real life.

Good times. :biggrin:

Add me: https://www.tokbox.com/melmyfinger

I've done this annual blog post 6 times already but I have to say, this one has been the toughest. I feel like all the 2008 memories began in summer; everything between January and June are just a big fat blur. After June, it is just a rush of memories and significant moments. Anyways, here we go...

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I have a ton of things to be thankful for these past few months. Lemme start from the beginning...I'm thankful that:

• a couple years ago, Meliss showed me some random vids of Gabe Bondoc, her YouTube Idol.
• back in July, I did a spontaneous weekend trip to San Diego after our plans for a beach day in Huntington fell through.
• back in August, Meliss showed me her favorite rendition of Getting Stronger performed by Cathy Nguyen and Randolph Permejo.
• Meliss flaked on some guy last minute one Saturday night in September so we could eat at The Boat instead.
• Meliss recognized Cathy and I recognized Gabe eating a few tables down from us that same night.
• I added Cathy on Myspace on couple days later.
• Cathy posted a bulletin on Myspace about broadcasting live on this new thing called BlogTV.com.
• a few days later, Jeremy "Passion" Manongdo was in Gabe's channel and took over when Gabe stopped broadcasting.
• That same night, Jeremy co-hosted Nessa, who is an amazing & beautiful talent. She invited everyone to see her perform at an It's A Grind coffee shop (IAG) in my area.
• I logged onto BlogTV during a slow day at the office and started chatting with bkeeeezy (Bryan Keith).
• Chris P. rolled with me to the USC Mabuhay performances where I bumped into and chilled with Bryan Keith & Cathy. If Chris hadn't rolled with me, I wouldn't have gone.
• I met a bunch of BlogTV people at IAG and In-N-Out the Friday after, including Adoboy, Janice, JecJec, Katzy, Kinh, Nessa, Nicole, Nina, Richard.
• I met even more people at Oktoberfest the next night and I got to introduce Meliss to BK and everyone.

The thing I'm most thankful for is how all the stuff mentioned above is just the beginning. Since Oktoberfest, there's been a bunch more things to be thankful for like:

• Halloween at Adoboy's
• Watching Emily Rose at BK's
• BK's Birthday Surprise at The Getty Museum
• the Expressions of Faith show
• the FAMS show...and how people came in from NorCal, SD, Chicago and even Alaska!
• Barkada Got Talent at Cal Poly
• Jam Sessions at In-N-Out
• Korean BBQ runs
• "Skype Orgies"
• everyone saying "goodnight" and then 30 mins later everyone is back online again. :rofl:

This list keeps going on and on...

And just to think, all this madness just started at the end of September! I've met more people in the past 2-3 months than I met all of last year. Just this morning I was rewatching that video of Jeremy co-hosting Nessa and it trips me out seeing all these names in there that I didn't know back then but I know so well now.

So much has happened since that recording, it feels like that was several month ago! It just goes to show how much can happen in just 30 days, and how even the smallest, most trivial things -- like Meliss flaking out on that one guy that one night -- can have such a profound affect on a person's life later on.

I'm lovin' every bit of it.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Much love to my BTVfam: (in order of when I added them as friends)

• gabebondoc
• lilcdawg
• ron_palustre
• nessarica
• listen2passion
• tl2eesa
• 0summerbreeze0
• randolphpermejo
• ajRAF
• yourstruly_melissa
• raelynnerosales
• johnsy204
• elwoodespiritu
• UrbanGermany
• krismark
• Reii
• bkeeeezy
• Adoboy
• HuskyboyDrew
• JaniceXP
• heyyclifford
• gotkatzy
• hazelb
• cynthiaroseyoung
• FranklinGervacio
• itstoofragile
• Mquerol
• TPM_Music
• dj_keeno
• RTran
• thatsajudy
• adrieee
• Jackielyn
• genethis
• heyitsloris
• iknowrenato
• kl0v3
• ajiiizzzle
• Kinh4theNguyen
• akachrisTOPS
• 9natran
• alerissasasa
• elyag
• lOrangutan
• Infamiz
• fallenxANGEL
• jecjec
• JPElchico
• ChristineL
• Nivette
• Jonjcp
• JayMarquez
• r0ckingreen
• n1kk117
• stanisms
• Marlo_T
• Moinz
• jaypwnsyou
• japstaboi
• whatevalex
• Genix
• LovAL
• MACHUCLORES
• natlielatanuy
• filpgal77
• JanelleDoes
• GummyBearsGalore
• chaaaany
• itsjamilerr
• janne
• Jaqqtmolina
• blinktwice4y
• JstNDuN
• mr_lalepa
• anthorny
• philchao
• stephbaloy
• njthepenguin

:grouphug:

// Originally recorded for Reii's birthday.