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Small things or moments in our lives are often unnoticed or not appreciated. They are undervalued because we are deeply focused on the major or significant happenings in our life. But this holiday season, for a change, why don’t we try to celebrate the small feats that happened to us. We are always dreaming or waiting for the big things to arrive for us to be contented, but the truth is, it is the small things that matter most. Now Christmas is approaching, and everyone is busy buying gifts and preparing for the celebration. We buy presents for our friends and families expecting it to be appreciated but ironically, we ourselves are unappreciative in what we receive, and expecting something else better. We are trying to look for something expensive or something worthy of recognition because of our thinking that gifts should be high priced for others to appreciate. I don’t disapprove anyone for this action or beliefs because many of us would think that the value of that special p...

Let’s take a minute and ask ourselves, “Do we build walls or do we build bridges?” Let’s be honest and admit that most of the times we build more walls than bridges. We believe that when we are hurt, it is best to build walls or to isolate ourselves with others. We make the walls so high that people around us can’t enter our lives. Let’s take a more positive approach and build bridges to connect with other people. Granted that there is a risk, but let’s give a chance for people who deserve it. There was a time in my life that I had to put walls to most of the people in my life. I got hurt and the first thing that I wanted to do was to isolate myself from others. I felt safe but alone. Then a friend advised me that I have to give it another try. She told me that I will never find happiness if I don’t risk it. So I tried to remove the walls I put up and repair the bridges I destroyed. To my astonishment, the results were positive. I found happiness, unconditional love and peace of mi...

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...