I don't expect you guys to read all of this...but I hope you take the time to answer this survey yourselves just to reflect on the past year. If you do this, answer truthfully and with meaningful answers that you can look back on several years from now; it's amazing to look back on how you've grown.

This is my 8th straight year of doing this, and it's an absolute TRIP looking back and my old posts. Anyways, here it is.

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Thank you, everyone, for all the birthday wishes! I feel so young turning 21 again for the 7th straight year! My phone would NOT stop buzzing all day cuz of all the @replies, facebook notifications, tumblr posts and text messages...birthdays like yesterday remind me how blessed I am.

• _melistar
• 9natran
• adrian
• adrieee
• ajiiizzzle
• akachrisTOPS
• akbdc
• alexjohn
• aline-m
• and0n
• andykim84
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• anthong
• ari
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• ashish patel
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• chaaaany
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• christinieweenie
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• confidential
• cookiemunstarr
• cristie suzukawa
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• da1flipguy
• dad
• dailo
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• dee-celera
• dessiegirl
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• DoctorRico
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• dreamingoutloud
• droidoid
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• fizzi
• flipgal77
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• FTWSammie
• FUNK_CHINK
• gabeezy
• genix
• goldylox
• goshNicole
• gotkatzy
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• halfsensed
• hayleigh
• hayley watson
• hazeldb
• henry-s
• heyitsthatgirl
• heylisajue
• hollisterloser
• hollykins
• hsustyle
• huskyboydrew
• hypnoticasia
• iiamjelly
• iknowrenato
• imjenni
• ImVeryActive
• ira-dg
• itsCHELLAbaby
• itsjonsense
• itstoofragile
• j0anne
• jackielyn
• jacraig34
• janicexp
• janiise
• janne
• janNYC
• jaypwnsyou
• Jdiep08
• jenny-suk
• jer0meskee
• jgibs
• jimb0
• jimmychenpiano
• JJANGNAH
• joeescobar
• jonchaniscool
• jonjcp
• joseph-diaz
• josephvincent
• JSQUARED
• jtam7992603
• julianna_amerie
• juliannemariee
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• kame88
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• kat-blanco
• kathleen-santiago
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• kishan
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• krismark
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• Kuya
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• ladykitay
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• loval
• lpina
• marichris1
• marinakamel
• markque
• marlo_t
• marnz
• maykimagination
• meganfromTC
• meggggan
• melissa-v
• melvinsings
• micahmarie
• michael-tajon
• michellepark
• mirtheous
• misschanto
• mizzamanda
• mom
• mquerol
• mrfuijikicker
• msclumsiee
• mynameisroth
• nadsmustafa
• nannerzz
• natlielatunay
• neegahson
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• neil_84
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• NeroRamos
• nessarica
• noa-martinsen
• not_june
• nykko_x3
• olee
• omgitsrobb
• ooobbyitsloveooo
• paka79
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• peteeee
• phatts
• philchao
• pinktea6
• r0ckingreen
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• raelynnerosales
• ram_ree
• randolph-permejo
• raineezy
• raycel98
• reggiesee
• reii
• renC
• rhezamae
• rina-dakanay
• rjay23
• rock-star
• ron_palustre
• rosemary bales
• rosmel-ramos
• rowdysaudi1
• rtran
• ryan-shin
• ryanhurley
• safaricat
• samchy
• scarlett
• scikotik
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• sean-doyle
• shazadsk
• shireen-h
• shraddha
• sinxjae
• slackerSC
• slimbeats
• sogooey
• spideyudh
• stefansinging
• stephanie-chiang
• stephbaloy
• sun_tzu
• thatsajudy
• theapradioshow
• thisGIRLis_
• tiffany-o
• tl2eesa
• toekneekay
• tpm_music
• udh7
• uhmberr
• uhohitsari
• ulysses
• usarmymich
• vankho
• vinimack
• vjayyy
• vobot
• whattheda
• xxflipxpryd3xx
• youlikepoo
• zeephunk

Hopefully I got everyone in here that gave me a shoutout (over 240!?!). Love you all! <33

-Mel

So this is how it feels. The greatest feeling of accomplishment in my life. I've never done ANYTHING like this before...but after months of driving to San Diego, TokBox meetings, promoting, hair-pulling hair-receding stress...everything fell into place.

And it was EPIC.

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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

ham99994: HAHAHA
9natran: makeout: cp
9natran: murder: kris
9natran: LOL
n1kk117: lol
9natran: hahahaha
ham99994: awww 9na ur so cute
ham99994: HAHAHAHAHa
janne: haha mel
ham99994: thats so awesome
janne: im an idiot
9natran: i <3 kris
9natran: but i'd kill him anyday
melmyfinger: hahahaahah jesss
terarc: m/m/m: vankho, krismark, gummybearsgalore
9natran: uhhh...
9natran: marry: van
jecjec_: JUDY DO THAT
9natran: makeout: andy
9natran: murder: kris
9natran: LOL
terarc: poor kris
ham99994: eoe
ham99994: wow*
9natran: hahahaha
terarc: hahaha
ham99994: i know eh?
9natran: anymore names?
9natran: LOL
9natran: hahah
terarc: hahaha
terarc: 9na's all like, "bring it!"
9natran: LOL
vankho: terarc: m/m/m... judy w/ no hair... 9na with no hair.... jess w/ no hair
terarc: jynx, judy
vankho: DO IT.
melmyfinger: ooooooh
thatsajudy: loool
terarc: hahaha
jecjec_: ooooooooooo
mauryrules: no hair?
9natran: whaat?
9natran: LOL
terarc: ok
9natran: no hair?
terarc: but after that, i gotta go man
9natran: hahahah
jecjec_: 9na with no hair, judy with no teeth, jessica with no boobs
9natran: ahahhahah
bored44-2: lol
terarc: lol jecjec
melmyfinger: HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAA
9natran: LOL
janne: HAHAHAHA
mauryrules: haha
ham99994: AHAHHAHAHAHa
ham99994: WOW
janne: fucking jec!
ham99994: LNMAO!!!!
jecjec_: DO IT

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

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