It’s my day off again. And I’m spending a few hours of it browsing some online pics of my friends who are now living abroad. Loneliness started to seep it… "What ifs" started to occupy my mind…
1998.
I was only 17. My aunt, who was having a vacation at home, talked to me and offered to get me to Italy and live with her and her family. I knew she could do it. She has allot of ways and resources to do it. And I knew she was serious. Yet, I declined it. I was… forget it! Oh well! Sigh!
2000
After a long time, I met again my cousin and her family from Spain. She asked me if I wanted to go with them back to Spain. She would take care of everything… She even pushed me to get a passport. I didn’t bother at all to get a passport. I told her I was busy… Alibis! The truth was… the same reason I had in 1998… Stupid love!
2003
There was a job opening in Seattle, Washington as a caregiver. I was qualified. I was chosen. I didn’t follow it up. And even ignored it. I thought I wasn’t for the health industry. Well, I still feel the same now… no matter how much the salary is, I’m not for the health care! The job was then given to the other applicant. She’s now working there while I’m still here…
2006
Barclay Singapore started looking for their helpdesk support personnel here in the Philippines. Most of my friends sent their resumes. They even told me to do the same. The company offers almost 8x as much as what we earn here. I knew that it is something to consider. WIth that salary, I could earn more than a million in a year. My lifestyle isn’t that expensive so I knew I could save a million in less than 2 years. I could even bring my son with me if I wanted to. My youngest sister is already there so it would be easy for me to adjust. Then I thought of my college education… I wanted and still want to have a Bachelor’s degree soon. I declined the offer… Some, specifically my family, say it was a stupid decision. For me, it wasn’t…
Was it?
2007
I was sent to New York to represent the company I am working for. My first ever travel outside the country. They say it was frightening to be in a foreign land alone without anybody you know with you. But I never felt scared at all. For me, it was an adventure! Details of that in my other blog! My trip to Minnesota is another story…
Now, back here in the Philippines. I feel strange looking at my friends’ pics taken abroad. I miss them allot! Yet, I don’t feel like I missed half of my life not being with them in working abroad. I know I will be with them in whatever country… I won’t be a worker though… but just a tourist!
I’m starting to plan my next adventure… Singapore! I’ll be leaving on December and probably stay there for a week… whoever wants to join… contact me!
Singapore… here I come!
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From my Friendster Account published on November 16, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
My Online Profiles
It’s exactly 2:53 AM… and it’s still dark outside, yet I’m already fully awake! I tried getting some more sleep but I just couldn’t. That’s the problem when you’re used to working at night and sleeping at day. During rest days, you just can’t enjoy a nice long sleep at night. You become "restless" on your supposed to be "rest" days! Sigh!
Anyway, looking at the bright side (well, that’s what I am always good at), I could actually enjoy the stillness of the night by catching up on my reading. I have a big pile of books I just bought recently that I haven’t read yet… not to mention a 5-inches thick book that I have to finish reading before taking my exam on November! Geez! It reminds me of my college days in UP… what others read for a month, we "have to" read for only a few days, not even a week! Oh well, that is life for Philosophy major students!
Reading would be a very productive way of spending sleepless nights… that is if you’re on the mood for it. However, at this moment I’m just not in a mood to read at all… I’m thinking of doing it… but it stops there… just "thinking"… haha! Writing would be the next best thing to do… and that’s exactly what I am doing right now. Obviously! For goodness sake! Haha!
I just started another profile again. This time in Yahoo 360. My first ever profile online was in http://www.Friendster.com (http://profiles.friendster.com/dhita18), Second was in http://www.Multiply.com (http://marius2autumn.multiply.com). This isn’t really my 1st profile in multiply but it is the only one active. Third was in http://www.MySpace,com (http://www.myspace.com/dhita98) and lastly, as I just said, in http://360.Yahoo.com (http://360.yahoo.com/dhita98). Some of you might wonder why am I creating profiles in different sites. Well, very simple! To be connected with most, if not all, of my friends. Not all of them has friendster profile. Some of them created one as soon as I invited them but some just shrugged their shoulder, deleted the invite and told me that they don’t have friendster profile and has no intention of creating one in the said site. They do have profiles in other sites anyway.
I used to have only 1 profile: my friendster profile which has been on since May 2003. Most of my friends are connected with me through that site. I guess it is the most famous networking site here in the Philippines. Then an officemate introduced me to multiply. It is a great site for storing and sharing media such as music, pictures, etc. That is where I usually search and download a song. My MySpace account was created just this October. I had received several invites before (way back in college days) from some of my friends. I believe I created an account before but I never updated it. Moreover, I don’t remember anymore my username, password nor email that I used to create it. And it would be a big inconvenience for me to try figuring out the details to log in it again! Haha! So… I just created a new one… and now, I am looking for those friends who used to invite me… I am starting to like MySpace than Friendster. It is faster to load… or maybe because I only have a few media in myspace than in the latter.
Now, why Yahoo 360? No reason at all. As I said in the beginning of this blog, I just woke up in the middle of the night. Couldn’t sleep and didn’t feel like reading so I turned on my PC and started browsing. While checking my yahoo email, I saw a line about Yahoo 360 and clicked the link. Walla! I just created my 4th online profile! All my profiles contain the same information and updates about me. So no need to jump browsing from one of my profiles to another.
My sweetheart will definitely "question" me again why do I need these profiles. So to end this blog and before my sweetheart asks, let me state a short answer. First of all, I feel glad that I am still connected with my friends in spite of the distance. Most of them are now working and living abroad (most are in Singapore and US). To correct some misconception, these aren’t dating sites but are sites made with a concept of being able to connect with just anyone specially with friends. Second, I guess it’s a cultural thing. Filipinos love to chat about anything under the sun without needing to have a special bond. Etcera.
Connecting with friends is the main reason why people creates online profile/s. Sometimes, profile gives reason and topic to talk about. Isn’t it weird sometimes when someone, a neighbor or a friend whom you seldom exchange words with, would suddenly call, email and/or even approach you and tell you… "Hey, I’ve seen your profile!", "Have you really read those books?", "Where and when those pics were taken?", "I couldn’t believe what I read!", "I didn’t know you went there!", etcetera.
To all my friends out there reading this that I missed to invite, just add me… But for those whom I don’t personally know and just want to be added to my network, I’m sorry but I don’t just add anyone…
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Published in my Friendster Account on October 27, 2007
Anyway, looking at the bright side (well, that’s what I am always good at), I could actually enjoy the stillness of the night by catching up on my reading. I have a big pile of books I just bought recently that I haven’t read yet… not to mention a 5-inches thick book that I have to finish reading before taking my exam on November! Geez! It reminds me of my college days in UP… what others read for a month, we "have to" read for only a few days, not even a week! Oh well, that is life for Philosophy major students!
Reading would be a very productive way of spending sleepless nights… that is if you’re on the mood for it. However, at this moment I’m just not in a mood to read at all… I’m thinking of doing it… but it stops there… just "thinking"… haha! Writing would be the next best thing to do… and that’s exactly what I am doing right now. Obviously! For goodness sake! Haha!
I just started another profile again. This time in Yahoo 360. My first ever profile online was in http://www.Friendster.com (http://profiles.friendster.com/dhita18), Second was in http://www.Multiply.com (http://marius2autumn.multiply.com). This isn’t really my 1st profile in multiply but it is the only one active. Third was in http://www.MySpace,com (http://www.myspace.com/dhita98) and lastly, as I just said, in http://360.Yahoo.com (http://360.yahoo.com/dhita98). Some of you might wonder why am I creating profiles in different sites. Well, very simple! To be connected with most, if not all, of my friends. Not all of them has friendster profile. Some of them created one as soon as I invited them but some just shrugged their shoulder, deleted the invite and told me that they don’t have friendster profile and has no intention of creating one in the said site. They do have profiles in other sites anyway.
I used to have only 1 profile: my friendster profile which has been on since May 2003. Most of my friends are connected with me through that site. I guess it is the most famous networking site here in the Philippines. Then an officemate introduced me to multiply. It is a great site for storing and sharing media such as music, pictures, etc. That is where I usually search and download a song. My MySpace account was created just this October. I had received several invites before (way back in college days) from some of my friends. I believe I created an account before but I never updated it. Moreover, I don’t remember anymore my username, password nor email that I used to create it. And it would be a big inconvenience for me to try figuring out the details to log in it again! Haha! So… I just created a new one… and now, I am looking for those friends who used to invite me… I am starting to like MySpace than Friendster. It is faster to load… or maybe because I only have a few media in myspace than in the latter.
Now, why Yahoo 360? No reason at all. As I said in the beginning of this blog, I just woke up in the middle of the night. Couldn’t sleep and didn’t feel like reading so I turned on my PC and started browsing. While checking my yahoo email, I saw a line about Yahoo 360 and clicked the link. Walla! I just created my 4th online profile! All my profiles contain the same information and updates about me. So no need to jump browsing from one of my profiles to another.
My sweetheart will definitely "question" me again why do I need these profiles. So to end this blog and before my sweetheart asks, let me state a short answer. First of all, I feel glad that I am still connected with my friends in spite of the distance. Most of them are now working and living abroad (most are in Singapore and US). To correct some misconception, these aren’t dating sites but are sites made with a concept of being able to connect with just anyone specially with friends. Second, I guess it’s a cultural thing. Filipinos love to chat about anything under the sun without needing to have a special bond. Etcera.
Connecting with friends is the main reason why people creates online profile/s. Sometimes, profile gives reason and topic to talk about. Isn’t it weird sometimes when someone, a neighbor or a friend whom you seldom exchange words with, would suddenly call, email and/or even approach you and tell you… "Hey, I’ve seen your profile!", "Have you really read those books?", "Where and when those pics were taken?", "I couldn’t believe what I read!", "I didn’t know you went there!", etcetera.
To all my friends out there reading this that I missed to invite, just add me… But for those whom I don’t personally know and just want to be added to my network, I’m sorry but I don’t just add anyone…
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Published in my Friendster Account on October 27, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
D in NYC: Taking Bite of the Big Apple!!!
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Blank Item Published in my Friendster Account on July 21, 2007
Blank Item Published in my Friendster Account on July 21, 2007
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