I got my UK Visa approval today! Yey!

Scotland here I come! =)

I think I should start offering eggs to St. Claire to give us good weather during our tour! haha.

I'm not feeling good..

My friend Aya always say, "Look good and feel good!"

Damn! How can I look good right now? I'm having pimple break out (thanks to my genes!grrr!). My contact lens are already outdated and giving me headache so I have to wear those nerdy eyeglasses. My hair badly needs a treatment or at least a haircut. And the worst, I feel I'm gaining weight again.

Waaaaaaahhhh! I want to go home to Philippines! I miss Belo. My friend who tried to consult a dermatologist here just told me to wait until I go home instead of just wasting hundred of euros for a bad facial. That means I have no choice. Sigh! I just hope these are just due to stress. I hope to be ready for my close up once I cleared my thoughts with all these stress.

For the mean time, I think I'll just hide on my cocoon before I go out again as a beautiful butterfly. haha!

Jetset Ready!

Finally, i got my work permit! Yey! That means I'll be legal alien now, I'll have visa and I can have my out of country holidays! Yey!

Im so excited that I dont know now on which country should I go on holidays.

The cheap flight fare back home is very tempting. But Nah! I'll just miss home more if I go home for just a while. Save myself and my money for December.

So where will I go now? France? Spain? Scotland? Chicago?

I want to go somewhere that has bit of sun to experience summer this year. Spain or France might be a good destination for that but my friends here have no travel plans anymore for this year so if I have to go there, I'll just be alone. That's not fun, no one will take my pictures then.

So maybe I'll just go visit my friends in Edinburgh, or in London or in Chicago. I just have to apply for a visa (which is soooo expensive right now) for those countries.

Sigh! Visa! Visa! As much as I want to be proud of being Pinoy, i can't help to hate it having a passport that is 'not trusted' by any immigration port.

Anyway, whatever glitches or expenses, I think I much deserve a relaxing break! :)

Oh! If only I have mates to come with me on my tour. Everything would be easier. :P

I'm tired

…of working too hard
…of thinking
… of caring about what other people think of me
…of breaking the silence
…of being a stranger to my own house
…of pleasing and understanding people

But I don’t want to concede, to stop because this is life. This is adulthood. It isn’t just a game I play when I was still a child where I can just say “Ayawan na!”. These are not just Math problems that have answer keys. These are real life trials. And I know this will not be given to me if He knows I can’t solve it.

Is this my life now?

I feel these four walls closing in
Face up against the glass
I'm looking out
Is this my life
I'm wondering
It happened so fast
How do I turn this thing around
Is this the bed I chose to make
It's greener pastures
I'm thinking about wide open spaces far away

All I want is the wind in my hair
To face the fear but not feel scared
Wish I could recklessly love like I'm longing to

I see the girl I wanna be
Riding bare-back, care-free
Along the shore
If only that someone was me
Jumping head-first, head-long
Without a thought
To act and damn the consequence
How I wish it could be that easy
But fear surrounds me like a fence
I wanna break free

1st Anniversary - June 28, 2007

I've been drafting a post about my first year anniversary here in Ireland but obviously, and as usual, I wasn't able to do it. Blame it to my busy schedules and to an unforeseen circumstance that happened to me which I am thinking of discussing on another blog. :)

Anyway, time flies so fast. I didn't realize i've been here for a year. It feels like it was only yesterday when I was in the airport with the most special people in my life and now I am counting the days to go home and be with them again.

For all of these, I thank God. I know He was always with me for the past year. Never did i get sick since I came here which is so unusual for me being so sickly since childhood. He also gave me emotional strength to overcome the sadness of being away from my family.

I can say this is the best year in my life so far. And I am looking forward for what other experiences, lessons, people to meet, places to go that I will encounter during my stay here in Ireland.

(I still hope to post a more detailed blog about my stay here soon!)

Why???

Why there are questions that are left unanswered?

Why there are answers that are questioned?

Why things happen for a reason?

Why do we find reason for things that happen?

Proud to be in KPMG!

+ KPMG Ireland: The Irish Times "Graduate Employer of the Year" 2007. http://www.kpmg.ie/graduatesurvey07.htm

+ KPMG has been recognised as one of the "50 Best Companies to Work for in Ireland" 2007
http://www.kpmg.ie/bestcompanies.htm

+ KPMG is Ireland's first professional services firm to become Carbon Neutral. (kahoy ang kubyertos namin dahil jan hehe)

Bliss

I’m blissful!

I have a lot of reasons to be.

Life is beautiful! Life is very good to me!

I am showered with love, with blessings, with luck!

Thank God for everything!

A Decade

I was supposed to post a blog about our 10th anniversary last May 30th but obviously I wasn’t able to. Aside from the fact that I was busy during the past few days, I was thinking... What do I have to write?

Should I tell our love story? But it will take much of my time to write since a lot of things happened for the past decade and unfortunately though I have it written years ago, I can’t open the file. I forgot the password – stupid me! It might also be ‘kilig’ for me but boring for the readers (as if I have any haha). But maybe one of these days, I will still post our story – if I figured out already what will be a ‘good ending(?)’ for that.

Should I tell how we celebrated it? Obviously, with the miles between us there is nothing exciting about that, right? And truly, nothing unusual happened that day. We just texted and called each other and that’s it - our 10th Anniversary celebration!

But why, suddenly, am I doing this post? Why I am wasting my office hours writing this blog? (That’s the nice thing when you’re manager is on holidays and you’ve finished all your clients!). Well, it’s all because of this….



As the cliche goes - better late than never! I received this card a week after our anniversary. Promise, kinilig talaga ako ng natanggap ko yan! haha. Babaw no? Though late, it came on the day that i really need something to cheer me up. I just realized that at the end of the day it's still and will always be Alvin who can really make me smile. And the more that I realized that he's the one.





So, Happy 10th Anniversary to us! I love you very much, my baby!