Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Government Relief And Rehab Program According to My OFW Friend #PersonalStory

Last November 8, 2014, my OFW friend came over in my place just to tell me about the killer typhoon Yolanda that damaged the Visayas region especially Tacloban. His personal version why it happened and the way the government treated such emergency situation. He told me that the Pinoy Administration...

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Pnoy Administration: In The Eyes Of My Canadian Friend #PersonalStory

The other day, my friend coming from Canada called me up to have a bonding time for the two of us. We're doing this for a decade now, when both of us, are actually at the Philippine soil. Before, when I was working in Dubai City, I called him up regularly to extend some news that he passionately love,...

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Pnoy's Term Extension, What About My Dreams? #PersonalStory

I’ve been working as Overseas Filipino Worker, OFW for short. I stayed for almost 20 years abroad, dreaming to sustain my family back home. At present, I’m staying here in the Philippines for good besides my family. And here’s the story told by the media people. Because of President Aquino’s outspoken...

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

World Cup 2014: Ramblings Of My Football Fanatic Friend #PersonalStory

"Football comes with a craziness inside of you," my friend told me when I suddenly bumped him at the mall. We dined inside the restaurant and still, he's uneasy that he wanted to tell me. Again, he looked at me and opened his pouting,kissable lips. "It’s as simple as that. Nothing is as life-affirming...

Saturday, March 15, 2014

So, This is Young at Heart? #PersonalStory

Young Love Story “He always seems to have a bone to pick when it comes to me?” thought Marie Ivy, while relishing the soft touch of breeze under a tree. She’s there for almost one hour, waiting for Jack Ramirez – her true love since childhood. She looks around and focuses her sight to a knife-carved-heart-shaped-image...

Saturday, February 15, 2014

You Can’t Lose Weight by Talking about It, You Have to Keep Your Mouth Shut! #PersonalStory

You Can’t Lose Weight by Talking about It, You Have to Keep Your Mouth Shut As told by my “never-ending-fatty-guy” friend who loves to eat food and enrolled at famous fitness gym. If you nod one chin and a couple more second the motion, you know it’s time to go on a diet. Unfortunately there’s...

Monster Under The Bed Story #PersonalStory

Monster Under The Bed Story As told by my “macho friend” who has courage to turn upside-down the best fighter on our planet called Earth. He told me at: 7:00 am Sunday: I woke up with a feeling of discomfort, knowing, that my bad dream last night bothered me a lot. I knew that somehow, dream...

Just Another Day of My Life as An OFW #PersonalStory

Just Another Day of My Life as An OFW In Dubai City I complained to the personnel manager about the irregularities of the job procedures and the discrimination that loomed within the operations department that I was managing, but ironically, it was me, was branded as troublemaker. They couldn’t...

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Summertime, Who Cares? #PersonalStory

Summertime, Who Cares? As told by my “homebody-friend” who loved to stay indoors and promised not to spend his valuable time at the beach. Summer time is difficult time. Sweat glands work overtime. Things get under the collar. The heat is unbearable. The dryness in the air is uncomfortable. And,...

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Please Forgive My Ignorance #PersonalStory

It's my day off that I went to Golden Fork, a Filipino Restaurant at Al Riqqa Street, Dubai City. I met my friend who joined me and we ordered Bulalo and bread. While waiting for our food, he told an amusing story, is it really amusing? #### My experienced before the onset of this computer age....

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

How to Survive When You're Sacked #PersonalStory

When my friend got sacked from his job, he approached me and we talked about it. While telling his "not-so-interested-story," I really had to show that I care, listening to him means a favor returned. His first sentence was: "Getting the sack is far from being the end of the world." I felt guilty...

Strategies in Getting Rich #PersonalStory

A suggestion from my OFW friend who happened to be the most extravagant person in the world, negatively, a "nothing-to-prove" person but with guts to talk really big. It isn’t easy to make a fortune the old-fashioned way, no matter what you’ve heard. It means learning a trade, then slogging your...

Remembering Fashion Show Models #PersonalStory

I remembered my best friend the other day. She’s the most beautiful lady I’ve ever mingled with during my college days. She told me about what she felt while attending a fashion show – in a ringside seat. Read her musing, by way of “pouting your lips while reading.” My trying-hard female friend’s...