CHANGE

they say there is nothing permanent in this world... everything is bound to change sooner or later... this is what i keep hearing from everyone i know.. i do agree with them as well, for our life, the country or the world in general, there are things that we need to change.... but that change should come without compromising others, and without disregard to the environment and the community...

it is easier said than done, i do know that for a fact.. but it is nice to know that there are options that we can take.. and i firmly believe that we need to do our own share.... i know that there's plenty of things that i need to change within me... and hopefully i can do my share as well... all in due time

quote to live by:
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw

ROLE MODELS

each and every one of us grew up with a role model... some look up to politicians and some to movie personalities or famous person like businessman or philanthropist... for me i always look up to my parents.... though i admire some political figures as well.....

i but for me i would rather be a role model to my son... i want him to see me as a person that he can rely on and someone that is worthy of his admiration... though living up to someone else's expectation is not that easy... it is worth a try.... especially if it is for my loved ones....

quotes to live by:
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Burke

VISUALIZATION

day by day i see myself in the future, i always dream of the days that i will finally spend it with my family at all times... the days that i don't need to go overseas and work alone away from all my loved ones....

people say that we are more fortunate than people who stay back home because we are better off because we are more financially secured.... I'd say there are some advantages and there are some disadvantages... for i myself has not seen how my son has grown to what he is now... has never been part of all his accomplishments....

nevertheless, i believe that soon enough we will be spending more time together..... and i can see that coming soon enough... it is much clearer in the horizon, now that i started my preparation to do so...

quote to live by:
We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. - Konrad Adenauer

HOPE

one of the thing that keeps me afloat most of the time... people has a tendency to be depressed at time, simply because they start loosing hope, starting to loose their interest in things...

for me i always keep my hope in the highest level in everything that i do... and make sure that it never dies... for i firmly believe that by hoping, you will keep aiming for your dreams... and that you will always be striving, aiming and working hard to get to your goal...

quote to live by:
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. - Anonymous

ENTHUSIASM

for me it is always easier to do things when you have the right level of enthusiasm.... aside from enticing your interest and curiosity, it helps you concentrate on the task at hand...

life for me has been been wonderful and worth living for... simply because i always try to be enthusiastic in everything that i do... may it it be at work, at play or in my day to day life...

quotes to live by:
Give me a man who sings at his work. - Thomas Carlyle

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

it always help me through each day and basically through my whole life... i always tell everyone that ask me what is my secret, why do i always have a smile in my face, that it is first my faith, then it is positive thoughts...... when you begin to be optimistic and only think of positive thoughts rather than the negative, things start to brighten up... this is how i live my life...

and this is how, i also manages to stay overseas... work in the multi cultural environment and manages to stay away from all my loved ones...

quotes to live by:
Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. - Madeline Bridges

DIFFICULT DAYS

i have been through thick and thin. in my almost two decade of working, of which most of them was spent overseas, i would say that there are days that are simply too difficult to pass by.... there was a time when i received a message from my wife that she had a miscarriage and she is currently in the hospital.. this actually happened twice... the first one was in February of 2006 and the last one was just last year, December to be exact, right before Christmas.....

i would say that those two days are some of the most difficult days in my life and that are simply too difficult to live by and forget... i still remember that i was supposed to be with my friends then, i was planning to go out fishing with them but decided against and would rather spend the day with my wife chatting on the computer, but having learned of the situation, i opted to stay with my friends instead, at least to have someone with, to busy myself and make the day more bearable... and i remember that i have made at least 20 overseas call over the course of forty eight hours...

but luckily. we all managed to survive the ordeal... and lived to tell the tale so to speak...


quotes to live by:
The secret of patience … to do something else in the meantime. - Anonymous