When things do not happen the way we (my wife & I) plan it, I just pray for strength and acceptance of His will and just think of the truth behind the cliche that, “everything happens for a reason.”
My mind has been quietly restless for the past few days, thinking of so many things that I would like to do and achieve…I want need to :
1. Improve more as a person, as a family man, as a professional. Continuously share my worth to the ones I love and value. Be an inspiration and somehow motivate others to do positive things.
2. I want my family to be free of any sickness if possible. It weakens my entire being seeing my 4-year-old son with any illness especially his recent episodes of now-controlled mild fever and signs of Upper respiratory tract infection. With the daily news on the rising number of infected Filipinos with swine flu, and even those without history of travel get affected, I can’t help but to think of his condition. My wife and I get deeply affected when Gabby’s sick. He’s been healthy since he was born and for him to be healthier is always part of our nightly prayer.
3. Seek other means to attain stability. It’s my ultimate dream to become stable – emotionally and financially. It’s not that I am so disturbed with this but I just wish to wake up one morning without a single worry about anything. Don’t you wish it too? Financial stability means security. And that goal remains to be attained.
4. Think of options to achieve our goals. We want to work and eventually migrate overseas. My wife has successfully registered herself as a nurse in California and currently waiting for an employer via her agency to be deployed to the US even with a working/non-immigrant visa. Her dad in Missouri filed another petition under category of married sons/daughter of US citizen for the three of us through his lawyer but it would take years, I guess before it’ll be granted. It won’t impose any conflict since the petitions (from her soon-to-be-employer and my father-in-law) are of different categories.
On my part, while waiting for those petitions to be granted, I am seeking other opportunities to work abroad. My job here offers good pay but isn’t enough to sustain us long-term. I and my wife would like to maximize our potentials to earn and eventually save by working abroad. However, despite the fact that we’re so goal-oriented, we still need to wait for that perfect timing and chances.
5. Be patient. It is a virtue as I constantly hear it from my friends. And I need patience most of the time.
I WANT TO :
1. Be happier. I am not a dysphroric or gloomy person but I want myself and my family to be happier and to infect others with happiness too.
2. Build our dream house one day. I just hope it’ll be sooner than I think.
3. Help others by building a small foundation to help the less fortunate particularly street kids or the ones in orphanages or terminally-ill children in public hospitals. Also to extend help to those geriatrics in the rest homes without their families to remember them and to those who are in prisons. This is one of our aspirations once we established ourselves financially. We’re never greedy and it’s best to share God’s blessings whenever possible.
4. To travel and experience and enjoy the globe with my family. I have never been to Europe and I’d like to breathe air in Paris, Venice, Rome, Spain, London and the rest of that part of the world before I die (I’m only 32).
5. Aspire for more things….
Photo sourced from Almagnus
Life is what we make it.
But what if we lack the sources to make our goal of painting our lives with vivid colors possible?
I always seek guidance from our big Boss in Heaven.
Thy will be done. =)
What are your aspirations and wishes?
Ofcourse, I also wish for world peace, seriously.
It’s a photo contest wherein prizes include Air tickets for two to Tokyo, Japan (wow! we’ve never been there and it’s included in our must-visit place! …..sashimi, sushi, sashimi, sushi….LOL!) and a Sony Digital Camera (Silver Cyber-shot © T300 Digital Camera (DSC-T300). Promo runs June 01 to June 30, so if your from the Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, Oman, Singapore or Bahrain, you still have few days left to join and upload your photos (yes, multiple entries are allowed!) with any of the new “Japan Travel blog buns” (for the Philippines they are the Berry Blossom, Mt. Fuji, Konichikuwa, Meat at Harajuku, and Fried Chicken Pan).
It was a delight for me to see 
Although there’s a better version of Vigan empanada in Glorietta foodcourt and nothing beats the taste of the original Vigan empanada cooked and sold by the manangs in front of the church and plaza in Vigan, we found Mac’s deli Vigan empanada not that bad to satisfy one’s craving.
Gabby had his favorite Strawberry chiller which he generously shared with his mom, and ate Chocolate Custard Glazed doughnut.
This place has pure gold-24-hour-air-conditioned mosques. They have a water village where natives are living in air-conditioned-electricity-supplied houses on stilts in a river! Amazing! Trees are abundant in the city so despite the tropical weather, there are lots of sources of oxygen (and oil, and gold, and oil, and gold, LOL). Other than the mosques that we toured, we liked the Royal Regalia Museum where treasures of the sultanate of Brunei are enthralled including the golden (yes, another golden!) chariot that was used in Royal Parades. We’ve been to Empire Hotel in Brunei, but only as part of the city tour package we availed at the hotel, how I wished we can afford a room in the “golden” hotel. We flew via Royal Brunei Airlines where foods were overflowing for the rest of the flight from Manila-to-Brunei-(had an overnight and a half-day city tour there)-to Bisbane,Australia-to our final destination then here…
We’ve been to Auckland, New Zealand for 7 week-vacation back in 2005. We visited our relatives there who are now in Melbourne, Australia. It’s good that few of the friends and distant relatives we met stayed there met in NZ; it’s nice to keep in touch with someone living where New Year always comes earliest.
Hong Kong… Been there twice -1993 and 2006 and if I have the means, I’ll go back there, bring my family as soon as tomorrow, LOL. 
We spent our New Year of 2007 in HK Disneyland. It was whole lot of fun. That Donald Duck fridge magnet on the right was a pasalubong from my sister-in-law after they got back from HK recently. Talking about pasalubong, here are some….
Given by a friend of sixteen long years and counting, these are two wooden lady-fridge magnets in their national costumes from BAHRAIN. Our friend, 
They also have been to Vietnam for a job-related trip of 10 days but weren’t able to brought home some you know what..
And since we’re into this, my wife and I decided to have custom-made fridge magnets from 
The other slice we had was New York Style Cheese Pizza, PhP 79 a slice/ PhP 474 whole. It’s being plain with only generous cheese toppings made it a good match with any tomato-based pasta. I like it!
The plate had pieces of deep-fried pigskin, a.k.a. crunchy chicharon or pork cracklings, and few chunks of deep-fried pork knuckle and pork leg a.k.a. as crispy pata. She prepared it herself. I know it isn’t healthy, and to say that it’s fatty is such an understatement, but what can I do? Resistance is futile, LOL. I was weak to say no! It’s crunchy and cripsy and we don’t eat it daily anyway, LOL. We only eat it once in a blue moon (defensive!).
From its first season to its last, we usually spend weekends, or days-off to engage in DVD marathon. The story has tons of twists and turns. From getting into jail to jail break to being in jail again, a lot of scenarios happened in between the seemingly viscious cycle. It was never boring. There may be loopholes but excitement always builds up when a plan is busted or when they succeeded.
Its size was overwhelming!
I only saw its fraction as my wife and our housemaid already sliced it into half… Imagine its entirety!
Its sweet fruity scent emanated from its starchy and fibrous flesh.
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