Finally! I was able to go to a real vacation! Thanks to one of my best friends… Zarah Almodar…

I went to Puerto Gallera, an island in the Philippines. My cousin and I went to Coco Beach which is I could say one of the nicest places I have ever been too. Alvin (my cousin) thinks so too.

I haven’t uploaded the pictures yet, but believe me… it is heaven on earth!

You guys should really try it. Most of their patrons are from Europe but during the time we went there, there are not so much people so we were really able to relax, and enjoy the place. We got everything free. Transportation, and accommodations…. Everything!

Out hosts are very gracious and they gave us a private tour of the island. We even went to a secluded water falls (okay probably not THAT exclusive) and it was sooo much fun!

Even though I don’t know how to swim (I think) I was still able to have loads of fun. The food was great since they have their own chef, and my cousin and I have a large cottage which we didn’t have to share with anybody else. Everything was really first class. I’ll probably talk a lot more about the adventure I went to with my cousin but that would have to wait for the pictures.

Oh oh…. I also got a very nice and even tan! And to think I don’t like being tan. Hahaha!

To anybody who remembers the internet crime that has been committed to me a few months back… I found the culprit.

See… because I thought it’s one of my friends who is doing it, I pursued the matter. I refuse to have a snake amongst the people that I value and love dearly.

Turned out, it’s not one of my friends. I don’t know how to actually make you feel how relieved I was when I found out that it’s not a friend doing it. It was like waking up from a very bad dream.

Want to know who did it? Well, hard evidence pointed out to the girlfriend of my ex-boyfriend. I don’t know if my ex-boyfriend was in it too, but I couldn’t care less. They don’t matter to me anyway. But the case is still on its way, and that’s why I’m not divulging their names.

My last post, why did it sound as if I’m being defensive? Hmmmm…. Oh now I remember!

It’s because my stupid cousin (alvin saha) kept on making me regret my decisions. I remember one time, he kept on drilling me about he-who-must-not-be-named (yes, sometimes I still remember him) because I told him about IT.

My cousin said he knew about those kinds of guys and that I should be ashamed of myself because I’ve been duped. That he knows because he also does the same thing whenever he goes to a different country. You know, pursue a girl, and lead her on.

He kept ranting about that and I got really pissed off. Nobody has been duped!!! I knew where I stood, and I’m perfectly fine with it. Nobody should be blamed for anything because nobody got hurt. Geez!!!

Can’t I be happy to have met someone who I could actually talk to and be contented with just that? Without asking for anything, and without making any promises.

My cousin also kept on telling me that I just don’t know it but that guy probably has a girlfriend in his own country. Who the hell cares??!!! Truth is, I don’t know if he has a girlfriend (he said he doesn’t) and I don’t have any intention of finding out the truth. I have made up my mind on the role he’s going to play in my life and he did exactly that. He gave me good memories and I’m grateful. That’s it end of story.

I love my cousin and all, but sometimes… he can be a real PAIN IN THE ASS!!!

I forgot to mention that my favorite cousin, Alvin Saha came here to visit. He was supposed to stay for two months, but as usual, he messed up. Something about not being able to enlist in his subjects so he had to leave earlier than expected. If I’m not mistaken, he should be in Washington DC now, talking to the Dean of Admissions in Georgetown University.

Sometimes I envy him, because he is living a much more comfortable life. But really, I’m just happy for him and for me as well, because I just am. Whatever wrong decisions I made in the past, those just added up to the person that I am now. There will be no regrets for me. Everything I did, I did for my own reasons and during that time, they made sense. There’s no point to wallow and stop being happy. All my life I have always been happy.

Whether alone, with friends, with a loved one, with my family or by myself, I have always felt light and thankful for being alive. For having a tomorrow to look forward to, a now to enjoy and a past to reminisce.

Let me tell you about my work.

Well, I am now a financial planner. Doing mainly medium to long term investments. Trying to give advice to rich and very rich people on what to do with their money. It’s not a hard job, and to be honest, I find joy in doing it. Maybe because it’s financial in nature yet I get to talk to a lot of different people.

I got myself new friends at work (as usual) and I feel honored and touched that they accepted me very easily. Not everybody could be counted as lucky as me I guess. That makes it more meaningful to me. Although I’m satisfied with how my life is moving here, that doesn’t mean that I’ve forgotten all the friends that I left in Singapore. I still think of them very often and quite fondly. That is why I’ve invited most of my best friends here to join me when I take a vacation there before this year ends. I still miss Singapore and I’ll keep on coming back for sure!

When people say investment here in the Philippines, most often than not insurance will not come up to their mind. Why? Because for some reason, in our culture insurance is something that is not very much welcome.

For most people here in the Philippines, buying insurance of any kind would be like wishing something bad would happen to you. That’s why you’re buying the insurance. What they don’t understand is that it is merely preparing for the probability that something bad would happen.

Because let’s face it. Bad things happen. They do. We just don’t know when, where and to who it would happen. It’s just a matter of probabilities and likelihoods and maybe some would call it luck. But one thing I’m sure of - YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO SURE THAT IT WILL NOT HAPPEN TO YOU.

It’s reality. So might as well prepare for it right? Or should I say… prepare for the unexpected, while hoping for the best.

I have been quiet for a very long time, and I think it is time for me to put an end to my vacation in this little (yeah right) place that people call the internet. Time to add more words to this little space of mine that I call my blog.

The reason why I haven’t been writing much is because I got a new job here in the Philippines and I was still trying to adapt. Now that I have gotten used to it, there’s no reason for me not to write. After all, writing is one of my most favorite things to do. You can say I like to blabber. And I can say… A LOT!!!

Before, I hardly considered myself a blogger. I just thought that I want to be a blogger, and was just starting to be one. Thanks to Princessa of course.

Now, I don’t feel that I’m any closer to being a blogger at all. I rarely update, and when I do, I don’t think I’m contributing much. When I first started this, I thought it would be just writing whatever I want to write. But eventually, especially after reading other blogs, I realized that casual writing wouldn’t be enough.

There’s a lot of bloggers out there who are actually making a difference. Sharing not just their experiences, but knowledge as well. That’s what I am aiming to do. It’s just that I have a lot of things in my head right now, and it’s very inconvenient to write with my slow internet connections and all those seemingly shallow reasons, but everything piles up to me updating just every now and then.

I’m not giving up though. This is just a minor setback. I will resume to my usual daily updates, and by then I’ll make sure that I would be writing something of consequence more often. Until then, I’ll be grateful to the few people who still manages to visit my blog with their busy schedules.

I hope that time comes soon. I miss blogging!

Something utterly depressing and infuriating happened to me lately. Someone was messing up with my email, and using (after a lot of machinations) my own words against me.

I don’t want to divulge everything yet, because I still need to know who’s doing it, but I’ll tell you this much. Someone opened my email account, went through my emails, and created a vicious story about me to ruin my name in front of a best friend of mine.

Thing is, the intention was not just to ruin my reputation, but to turn me against my other best friend at the same time. I was shocked and I felt so wronged when I found out about it. Here I am, trying my best to keep my friends then someone, will just butt in and create trouble for me. I’m just living my life. Actually, I’m trying to fix it. Somebody please, give me a break!

I still don’t know who’s doing it. But my friends are all doing their part to find out who it is. I think it can be done by locating the IP address of the email account that this person used. There’s no way I’m gonna let this pass. Because until I find out who’s doing this, I will continue to have doubts about my friends and the people close to me.

This is a deceit I will never ever be able to tolerate. Definitely, when I find out who’s doing this, I will file a lawsuit against that person.

I don’t know if I’m just being bratty, but I think my sentiments are all well justified. The peso is continuously gaining strength against foreign currency, yet I don’t see any difference.

Traffic is still impossible, public transpo is so jammed, you’ll keep on asking yourself why you even left your house to begin with, the air in the city seems to be giving me a hard time to breath, and the dust keeps on dirtying my feet! Ugh!

There’s still a lot of issues in the Government, public seems to be preoccupied on trying to live every single day that it doesn’t have the gal to protest anymore. There are some protesters, but I myself are doubting their intentions.

I don’t even know what I’m still doing here. If not for my family, I have bailed a long time ago I think. Although, if I think of it, I really like the culture here. Except for the foul realities that constantly nags at me every waking day.