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My blog is all about anything under the sun. I am a frustrated writer, so by having my own blog, I can express what I am exactly thinking. Please bear with me if you think my writing doesn’t make any sense. I just hope I can touch your life by means of my simple words. I want to talk about life to show how wonderful it is, about travel to share the beauty of the world, about food to make us healthy and about love to keep us happy. I hope you will enjoy reading my blogs! It is simple but comes within my heart! 

Long distance relationship or LDR can be very difficult. It either makes your relationship or it breaks it. My husband and I go way back. We’ve been dating since 2003 and got married in 2012. Since we started, almost half of our time were spent separately, because of our career. It was not easy part of our relationship when we were used to be always together most of the time then suddenly because of our careers we decided to live separately. It was difficult especially for me and for my husband, boyfriend back then seemed happy with the situation (lol). Distance disconnects bonds. It is prone to miscommunication that leads to misunderstanding in turn breaks trust. So to make this work out, you need to beat the situation. Do not be discouraged when somebody tells you that LDR won’t work. Yes, it is true, only few relationships survive this. It’s difficult but possible and rest assured, it won’t be easy. Things will be complicated. There will be situations that you cannot contr...

Let me start by saying that I am not a medical expert to explain what depression really means. But what I do know is that depression is a serious medical illness that negatively affects how we feel, think and act. It is a mood disorder that causes sadness, feeling down or loss of interest in activities. To be honest, I did have a phase in my life that I experienced depression. That was a phase in my past that sometimes until now I still can remember, so I also felt the pain of someone who is currently struggling to fight his inner demons. Most of the people around us don’t understand what a person with depression has been or is currently into. Some will say it’s just nothing, “ arte lang (just acting) ”, “ kulang sa pansin (seeking attention) ” or just want to rebel. Well, at least that’s what my heartless husband says so. No, depression is real. It is also not rare but far more common to everyone. True friends will stay by your side but most of them will leave you. Even good peo...

Relationship & Travelling - Why couples who travel together stay together? I still remember the first out of town trip my then boyfriend now my husband went to. It was 2005, a few weeks after my college graduation. My boyfriend and I went on a trip to Puerto Galera.   I was a fresh graduate and still unemployed and my bf has just started working. We had very limited funds and just managed to rent a room in the house of a local resident who sublets their rooms to tourists. We just had enough funds to have three decent meals per day for three days and enough for a back and forth transportation fare. Even though the budget was tight and the trip was simple, our time spent together was more important. The simplicity of the trip made it perfect! After that trip, we decided to have a trip together every year. We started to travel locally to places like Boracay, Bohol, Pagudpod, Palawan to name a few and when I was assigned abroad for work, we started taking trips outside th...

The words we say... “Speak out in anger and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” One of my friends posted this statement from Tara Brach. I found it very interesting because every one of us at least once (many for me) has this experience of saying things that we don’t mean and ended up regretting every word we said. When we are angry do you think the truth comes out or we just said things that we don’t mean? Both can be true, but in most cases it is the latter. Sometimes, when we are angry, our emotions get the best of us and our mouth becomes an open gate to say everything that we’ve been keeping for so long. These are the “painful truths” that only come out when we are angry. Our anger fuels our courage to say what has been bottled up inside. However, after bursting out all our anger, it is impossible to erase those words and feelings that have been revealed. Everybody say stupid things when angry. Most of the times when we are angry we say things that...

Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood I love them. I hate them. I love them. I hate them. These are thoughts only a person with a sister understands, or in my case a bunch of sisters! Do you have a sister? Me, I have five! Let me tell you something about me. I am the youngest of 7 siblings. We are 6 girls and a boy. Being the youngest of the siblings I can tell you that the youngest is not always the spoiled and favourite one. Flash back 30 years ago, circa 1980s during my childhood days, I was the one who was always ask to buy this and to do that. In short, I was the default errand boy or in my case errand girl. I was obedient to my elder sisters (for sure my sisters will object and say “Really?”), they may disagree, but I did what I knew was right. It’s true that you can choose your friends but not your family. My sisters are my true friends and my worst enemies I have ever had but I love them so much despite our differences and I won’t trade them for anything in this ...

A relationship without arguments is not a real relationship. Argument often happens because of misunderstandings. This is very true in our relationship and I’m sure ours is not the only one. The toughest part of every argument is what happens after. How do we reconcile? Who to talk first? What to say? Before getting married, we attended our pre-cana. For those who don’t know what a pre-cana is, it is a course or consultation for couples preparing to be married in a Catholic church. Our wedding priest told us that instead of saying “I’m sorry”, tell your spouse “please forgive me”. What is the difference between “I’m sorry” and “please forgive me”? The easier way to ask for forgiveness is saying “I’m sorry”. But are you really asking for forgiveness or you’re just saying it to get the apology over with? Saying “I’m sorry” has no feel of sincerity on it. Actually, it asks for nothing and there is no feeling of atonement or acceptance of fault. On the other hand, saying ...