thoughts about going home

I do think I have to stay in our country for good. 

I’m so lucky to have the opportunity of visiting home (Philippines) as often as I want. I started to work here in Korea last 18th of March, 2005. Since then, I was in Pinas almost every year. My first vacation was December 24, 2005 - January 22, 2006. Then I decided to invite my parents and cousin and they stayed here from October 21, 2006 to January 3, 2007. On December 30, 2007, I went back to Pinas again and stayed until February 2, 2008.

It was emotionally difficult for me to leave the country ‘coz my mom suffered brain stroke during my vacation. Bedridden and has a world of her own. It’s so so painful to see her like that. She changed from a cheerful mom to what seemed to be an autistic bedridden child. Her sunny personality changed in just a snap. I can bear to have 100 heartaches than seeing any of my parents in this situation.

How will they survive each day if I will leave my parents? My sister has her own family na and residing quite far from our place. So parents ko lang who are both senior citizens will be living on their own. Wawa naman. At that time, I was trying to weigh which is important - being with my parents during those trying times and just when they physically need me most or financially provide for them which is crucial for my mom’s recovery?  

Waaaa that was so tough. Papano mamamalengke ang father ko kung bedridden ang mom ko? Nakakaawa naman kung silang 2 lang ng parents ko ang magkasama and hindi naman sanay sa gawaing bahay ang father ko. I had no choice. I really want to be with them but I need to provide money for my mom to recover fast, and so I left with a heavy load.

Such load affected me so much. I became loner at work ‘coz I don’t want to hear the “how are you” question. I know I’m not ok. My personal relationships suffered. My own health suffered. However, I was able to give my family the financial support for my mom’s medications and she gradually improved.

May 10 to 18, 2008, I was in Pinas again to personally see my parents and submit my self to some medications too. I’m so happy to see that my father is ok and my mom can walk and almost back to normal. I told my self that I made the right decision to leave them first in the hands of the doctors, nurses, therapists, relatives and friends. Not to mention my sister and her family who took time to regularly check my mom out of their busy and demanding schedule.

Now, I’m back to the question of whis is important between good opportunity abroad and my parents? I know the answer but I also work here for my parents. Tough huh.

Hours from now, I will be flying back to Philippines again. It’s heaven to personally see my parents in good condition.

I do think I have to stay in our country for good.

a father’s love

This is an email forwarded to me by Jan…

 A true story…..

A son asked his father,

‘Dad, will you take part

in a marathon with me?’.

The father who, despite

having a heart condition,

says ‘Yes’.

They went on to complete the marathon together. Father and son went on to join other marathons,

the father always saying ‘Yes’ to his son’s request of going through the race together.

One day, the son asked his father,

‘Dad, let’s join the Ironman together.’

To which, his father said ‘Yes’ too.

For those who don’t know,

Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever.

The race encompasses

three endurance events

of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer) ocean swim,

followed by a 112 mile

(180.2 kilometer) bike ride,

and ending with a

26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer)

marathon along the

coast of the Big Island.

Father and son went

on to complete the race together.

NOW get those tissues out and WATCH THIS VIDEO:

Humor II

Fine, eto pa… my Humor - Made in China post was so popular that my page got more than a hundred hits in few hours plus comments sent to me thru YM (hello pwedeng mag comment sa baba ng blog hehe) kaya as requested, I came up with other humorous pics… just for laughs!

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Humor - Made in China

Nowadays, a lot of products originated from China. If you’ll check the label of every merchandize, it’s usually made in China. Below are humorous pictures taken in China and circulating thru emails. Obviously, the credit goes to the original source of the pic (engrish.com), I just took the liberty of reuploading it for blogging purposes. No offense meant, just for laughs!

hmmnnn, yun pala yun… very well said di ba…

no more worries pag nanakaw ka!

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forwarded jokes

Aanhin pa ang damo… kabayo ba ako?!

We usually receive forwarded emails of different topics, chain letters that will make you feel guilty of forwarding it, hoax that will trigger your emotions to again forward it, and others which are all spammer’s delight! I really don’t like these forwarded messages (hope it’ll ring a bell!) ‘coz I dont want to get spam mails. Those viagra & etc. spammers got my valid email because of these forwarded messages circulating around the net. Eventhough I will not send it to my friends, other people on the same list will send it to their friends hence my email is still forwarded grrr.

However, there are some forwarded email that I really like - street jokes. It’s nice to read these jokes specially when you’re bored or pissed off. These are some of my favorites (oh yeah I compiled it!):

‘ So why did you leave your previous job?’

                          ‘ The company relocated and they did not tell me where!’

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