Living in the Philippines this 2009

I can't wait to get out and yet there are so many baggages I refuse to leave behind. This is my feeling towards my scheduled departure from Pinas just three months from now. I miss traveling and the sense of adventure I only get to feel when I am in foreign land. Then again, I shall also miss the things that I will leave behind.

I am ready for a new chapter in my life and I feel I can only do this when I leave Pinas. I am so lucky to be given this opportunity and I don't want to waste it nor take it for granted. While I respect those who would like to stay behind, this is simply not a choice for me because I am yearning for growth that is beyond that which can be offered by my motherland.

I am grateful though, because I am proud to be what I am and I am confident of my roots. I know that I will meet new people who will appreciate me and all that is a reflection of my culture. While I will learn and adapt to someone else's culture, I see it as a blessing to merge that of mine with the beauty of another's. Afterall, I do appreciate the beauty of globalization and I definitely want to take part of it.

Living in Pinas this 2009 means goodye to me. I recognize the need to say goodbye to my comfort zone and brave new shores. We only need to have the courage to lose sight of the shore to discover new islands. I also believe in the movie ender of The Nanny Diaries, that we need to immerse ourselves in new and unfamilar worlds in order to discover our own world.

Life as a Pinay

I've been blogging for the past two years and then I decided to stop. I no longer wanted to maintain my personal blog and decided that I should blog about something other than my vulnerabilities as an individual. Then I thought, "What could I possibly blog about then?". I felt that for me to be able to blog about something well then I should know a lot about it.

I was thinking then, that the reason why people complimented me on my personal blogs was because no one is at a better position to blog about my life but me, and the sincere emotions in my blog made it all that special. It came from the heart, and it was that simple.

Thus, as a product of that thought, here I am starting a blog that will promise to be both personal, informative, and interesting---well, at least I hope it will be. I decided not to blog about the vulnerable side of my life [as I leave that for another blog] and reserve this blog for my discoveries about day-to-day life that I may think worthy to be shared to my readers.

Having said this, I hope you will visit this blog from time to time and maybe drop a few comments if you wish to. I hope you will enjoy reading this in as much as I will enjoy writing this blog for all of you.

See you around!