Me?
I totally love being in a crowd but I'm claustrophobic. I also think I'm paranoid but in a good way. I hate stealing the limelight from someone especially if I don't deserve the credit. I want to write and be a novelist someday. I want to be able to travel around the world because of work. I want to be loved . I suddenly have this obsession for shoes . I want chocolates all the time --- especially if I'm depressed which is often. I'm bothered with my weight though people say I'm not obese. I love fastfood, Chinese dishes and Japanese. I'm trying to like Thai food, Vietnamese and Exotic food.
These Rock My World Right Now
Maroon 5
Twista Feat. Faith Hill's Hope (fr. the movie 'Coach Carter'
Spongecola's version of 'Crazy for You'
MYMP's Waiting in Vain
The Calling (ALL-TIME FAVE)
Do I Read?
Safe Harbour by Danielle Steel
Which Side of the Brain Are You?
What Kind of A Person Am I?
How Many People Cared? play texas holdem
This is ME!
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Saturday, April 23, 2005
The Advantages and disAdvantages of Living Abroad
I have been living my 2 years here in Dubai and I can safely say that I can now come up with my advantages and disadvantages of living away from everything, your security blanket (though I still have my hubby) and everything familiar.
Now, I've learned to embrace the familiarity of the place I've been living in (well, actually this is the 4th house I've been and it is kinda hard to be sentimental about places because you leave them as soon as you've managed to finally 'move in' all your stuff - actually we hope this 4th house would be with us for about 2-3 yrs and counting) and have made an artificial security blanket (my hubby and my friends).
Lemme start with the disadvantages of living abroad:-
1) You make a lot of long distance calls which eats up your budget for the month. Even if you vow not to call, you will always call to check on them or if your sibling or mom called you up to tell you this and their line went dead so you call them and they bombard you with a lot of 'kwentos' until you hear 'sorry...please reload'.
2) A lot of the 'usual' dishes cannot be seen on your dining table. Yes, we try our best to still cook Filipino cuisine but you see our ingredients are very hard to find like for example, Calamansi (a fave for sinigang and bistek) is substituted for lemon which for me doesn't match the taste.
3) The 'happy-go-luck' attitude we have towards work. Yes, I've noticed that even if we spend almost the same amount of working hours, it's still not the same... I tried explaining it to myself but I can't find the reason why we feel ok. we whine, yes but still enjoy work.
4) Our energetic lifestyle and late-night coffee sessions. Even on a weekends, I still have that energy to loiter at SM malls, watch a movie or just go somewhere but here, I sleep most of the time as if I'm not given the chance to sleep during other days. I, too, miss my late-night coffee sessions... because Starbucks is to damn expensive here!
5) My family. No words can describe the loss...being that far from them.
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The advantages of living abroad:-
1) Independence.
2) Shopping a lot!!! heheh... can't do that back home because it's very expensive... Though living here is too but you can't feel it that much as long as you don't convert often.
3) Experience.
4) A less from the 'What if' list that I've come up with.
5) Did I say shopping??? hihihihi
Posted at Saturday, April 23, 2005 by bitchy_me
 | | | Ivailo
September 27, 2005 01:33 PM PDT
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| | | Marry
September 16, 2005 01:30 PM PDT
Hi there
I have been given the task of getting links for our websites that have good page rank on the links directories. In addition we have many categories so your site will be place on an appropriate page.
If you would like to trade links please send me your website details.
P.S.: I got your e-mail publicly listed on your webpage . Our apologies if you do not wish to take part in a link exchange.
Best Regards,
Marry Tailor | |
| | | pazette
May 20, 2005 12:19 PM PDT
my brother in law, paul, is stationed in dubai now and he's so amazed at how clean and beautiful the city is. have you been to the hotel that looks like a sail? i forgot what it's called, there's a helipad at the side. it was featured in one amazing race season. | |
| | | yel
April 25, 2005 11:27 AM PDT
i am glad that you still have independence while living abroad, as for me, i always end up looking for help from my dad and mom which i totally hate cuz I rweally would like to live by myself. pano na kapag may asawa na ako? diba. hehe.. and if we live abroad pa.. hayy. tc po | |
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