WINDOW SHOPPING NO MORE!

Finally, shopping is no longer through the glass walls of mall stores! Now, I just had a shopping spree at the most famous place. Oops, not Greenbelt, Ayala, Robinson or SM Malls, definitely not! The best place the budget can buy---DIVISORIA!!!

It was an unforgettable experience for me and my mum who enjoyed visiting every store looking for the best clothes yet the most affordable.

From 4pm to 9pm, we explored Tutuban Mall, 168 and nearby buildings. At the end of the day, we brought home pants, polo, long sleeves, shirts, bags, jeans and others. The prices are definitely worth it, these items would only equivalent to four formal polo or long sleeves in MEMO or ONESIMUS, and could even be lesser.

The good thing about Divisoria, apart from the obvious fact of affordable prices, the quality and designs are above expectations.

I did realise, I was happy seeing my mum buying her jeans and bags, it made me smile. I don't think I could be happy in case I buy myself an expensive touch screen phone or the like.

Happiness comes in small packages and surprises---that is a known fact.

Now, we'll make this a habit every month after payday.

Until our next trip to Divisoria! Yipee!

Fishballs, squidballs, etc.,

Affordable, delicious, yummy...

Three descriptions that could satisfy my food craving however I am not referring to expensive meals in restaurants but only to street foods---fish ball, kikiam, squid ball, chicken ball!
Whenever there’s a chance, I stop by the street vendor and eat this. Lucky for me, my stomach enjoys street food.

I remember when I was in senior year in high school, I was designated the page editor for our school paper for Livelihood Section on my first try out in writing. I sat in one of the benches in our town’s park. From there, I just drafted a story about Angono’s known products and it’s neighbouring town and the rest is history.

Among the articles I submitted and got published was about street foods (e.g., fish ball, squid ball, kikiam, chicken ball..etc), how profitable this small business is. The article was beautifully written out of a vendor in the town who started with very small capital and no permanent stall but later on grew and take note, with a big stall!

The article was well received by readers but what they never found out that remains a secret of the author to date-the article was just a product of imagination and creative thinking. Haha!

The page won the first prize in school writing for Livelihood stories, thanks to fish ball, kikiam, squidball and chicken ball!

...Goodbyes

The easiest thing to do is despise but the hardest is to set yourself free not of your enemies but of your friends...
The journey continues...true enough, you will walk with some people along the way. These people you will spend time with, laughing with and sometimes, crying with.
However, there will be a point when you will wake up that everything has limitations, realising that perhaps, it is better to walk alone in your journey than to be with a lot but none will be there to hold your hand when you needed it most.
To hate an enemy is easier than to forget who you treated as friends.
In our lives, we simply live by the fact: enjoy the company who you can share your pains.
Friendships do really come with a price tag and so, happy journey to everyone!

she will always be my mum...

...just the second day of the year and I woke up hearing arguments between my mum and my younger sister. suddenly, it dawned on me the realisation that my mum is more tired than she was before and tears started to flood my cheek.

I was never a good son, yet. I am still failing in terms of supporting mum and my siblings and it pains me to know that, not because I am giving up but because I always wanted seeing them all happy.

I loathed myself now that I sometimes feel wrong about the situation, that I feel I was trapped in a family I don't want to be in anymore. However, this same emotion is what driving me more to love my family especially my mum. She might not be the mum who stayed beside me every night finishing assignments, or being there on school occasions, but she was the one who raised us all, and that is enough for me to be thankful for, to have her as my mum.

I can forget problems into drinking but I never did, drinking for me is enjoying with your colleagues and friends not an escape route for your personal worries.

One thing I could be grateful for, I can function in the office as expected despite these family problems and I will always push myself to excellence in order to be a good provider. Problems stay in the house and in my mind, bringing it to office wouldn't lessen it.

Funny that I took the Accountancy course because right now, our lives all depends on numbers, and it is a cycle of numbers that keep us all breathing.

This Year 2010, I am happy because I am blessed to have some of my real and trusted friends, from old days (high school, college, previous companies) and the new ones too.

I learned my own lessons, not to expect of everyone to act how I want them to be. For that, I won't get disappointed.

As for my mum, I will never stop working hard and appreciating her as it will never be enough to repay her. Four months from now, it will be our birthday, just two days apart from each other, and I hope to give her the best birthday present a son could give to his mother...