my baby

yes..! i already have a baby :))

i am blessed by a boss, who is kind enough to finance for the construction of my 4-door apartment just behind our house…
he said, "i don't want you to go home and return to the philippines without any investment…"
he said it's a good investment which of course i agree.

and because of that, I'm living a frugal life now... more than half of my salary pays the loan…
but at the same time, I'm so excited to pay every cents I owe from him to be able to spend few dollars as a reward for having a life like this until 2 or 3 years more… and might as well cross some of my bucketlist ;)

my baby

away from home

first day in singapore with charry

feb 2009 was the first time i travel away from pinas… it was not my first time to be away from home though. when i was in college, i'm only home once or twice a month on the weekends… i also had worked in manila and cebu and went home for few times only. 


working and living abroad can kill you of longing for home... but as the time passed, i already like it here... i enjoyed the opportunities i encountered while working and earning some few dollars. those things i only long for when i was still working in pinas...
i've always wanted to work abroad to earn better but being in a relationship that time, i was always hesitant to go. things didn't work out fine for the two of us and it gave a chance for me to be here. 

jetlag

forever grateful to charry, a friend and neighbor, who helped me and accommodated me here in singapore. not only that, she also had recommend me to my present boss, mr puah. 


away from home always makes us long to go home… ofw's may have different experience from each other but let us be inspired by this verse from Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose."

feet's comfort

the pale yellow-ish shoes

the first time i came here in singapore i was wearing my pale yellow-ish shoes. i intentionally brought it so that i'll have something i can wear when i jog, as i like to jog almost every morning with my nanay and some friends back home. early this year, it's sole had become thin it shows its inner layer... and it's not even a running shoes. 


some of my friends are so much into running, they even join running events/marathon. i was inspired as well to run but with the shoes i have, it's not really that comfortable.


pushed by someone once special (#jlc) to me that i deserved to have a proper running shoes, i thought of having one. 


with my new blue-ish running shoes, i comfortably run 3-4 times a week as much as i can, when the weather favors me and when i'm not feeling lazy... i become lazy at times, i just want to lay down when i arrive home... yah, i usually run in the evening after a long, boring day at work... 

new blue-ish running shoes

now, i already registered for three running events this year :) 

• sundown marathon (10km), may 26 but i was in kl, malaysia :(
• pocari sweat run (10km), july 15
• safra singapore bay run and army half marathon (21km), september 9

will also join the famous standard chartered marathon (21km), registration closes like hot potato in few days...


looking forward for more running events. 
it feels good to run :)

my bucketlist

inspired by the movie The Bucketlist, i also made my own list...
things i've been wanting to do, things i want to have & places i want to go...


here's my list:

1. experience winter & snowflakes
2. visit ever at perth, australia
3. visit kristine on the orange country, the netherlands
4. be a maranatha volunteer
5. spend 3d2n at boracay island, philippines
6. have my nanay's simple dreamhouse
7. hold a steering wheel & drive a car of my own
8. be an inspiration and a light on other else's life
9. help in the improvement of my local church building improvement
10. live life righteously possible
11. forgive an ex-bf
12. beach outing at bali, indonesia
13. to have one luxurious bag (gucci, lv or prada)
14. 100mL chloe parfum
15. to have a macBook
16. board on a cruise
17. to conquer mt. kinabalu at kota kinabalu, malaysia
18. trip & island hop to coron & el nido at palawan, philippines
19. attend lau's graduation at sydney, australia

the above list might all possibly come true, some may not...

will just keep on dreaming and there'll be more to be added...

begins

i've always wanted to blog but being not so good in writing, that idea is always set aside...
but sometimes i'm bored and have nothing much to do here at work, ssshhh, don't tell them, might as well begin blogging...
it'll be about bits of me from past & present...
so, bear with me...