How to Save?

I am so sure that I am the wrong person to blog about this but maybe atleast when I get to read it I will be more inspired to - SAVE.

SAVE money - for the past 6 years that I have been working I never did this and am I regretful? Yes and No. 

Yes because I know I could have done it and NO because I know I was able to use my money on important things. Yes because I feel like I could have practically done a lot of things like travel in/out Cebu but NO because I know I was able to help my family for the past 6 years. Yes because I could have bought something useful and worth-keeping that is expensive but NO because I was able to do memories still eating out with friends and helped my brother finish school. But Yes because I could have done all the reasons when on NO's if I was able to save.

I was able to read some blogs and most of the successful people I know and known to other people always say they Save a lot. WHHHYYY CANT I DO IT?

Miss Gina my favorite trainer once told me that the secret is SAVE first and then spend. That's like her motto. She was able to travel a lot of places already because most of the time she save and enjoy her savings later on.

Miss Lizzie my manager once said she regretted that she did not save money at an early age. She could have done so much already. She started saving when she was 26 years old and was highly influenced by her then-boyfriend, now-husband. Before they got married last year they already have their own house and car and prior to getting married they have been to places here inside Philippines already.

Miss Shelley my other manager/friend said that she is really keen into saving. Eversince she never had expenditure that she was guilty of. She was able to develop their own house, letting her friends borrow money from her and able to support her younger brother to finish school. And now,she is still saving even if she's married.

An old friend told me before that I have to save and only let go of the money that you wont be regretful to spend or give or borrow. 

Okay, these people are like older than me and even being paid more than my wage. But still when will I ever start?

Recently I started reading Bianca Gonzales's blog and I saw a lot of people there - and mind you SUCCESSFUL people there who always say they are good at saving and look where they are now.. That also includes Bianca herself.

Karen Davila a very successful news anchor said : “I am a very big saver. For some time now, I’ve been saving 80 percent of what I earn.”

Ha Ji Won is also good in saving as a matter of fact she was awarded before for Prime Minister Award for Savings. 

Boy Abunda a successful celebrity as well is known for being a good saver and you can just imagine how much he invested. Even if he is getting a lot of money most of the time he saves it too. 

I know I have a lot of things to buy, a lot of places I wanted to go, and goals to achieve. And even if they say that money is not everything I wish I could also realize that money is almost everything. 

Right now, I am starting to save and hopefully I can keep this promise. I wanted to go places this year. As what they say go to one place that you have never been to once a year and that is my ultimate goal atleast before I could get married. You have to know and budget your expenses. But save first. 

Nega 101

What is more annoying from a friend who would ask for you advice and but then wont follow it?
It's funny how someone asks you for an advice but then would go the opposite from what was advised. Really funny. Not.
Like really? what was that for? after all cursing and crying you'd still go the other way from what was advised. argh! i cant.. hjshdjahe pft!

I'd rather you not say anything instead than making me feel stupid as if I was giving all the right things to advise and then..nada!

seriously!!??

I hate people who would just close the elevator even if they know someone is about to go inside pa! asarrr!!! lami kaayo sunugon!

Hard.

I couldn't pull my self up to be better for this whole week. I do not know if I have waken up in a wrong side of the bed because it seems to be impossible to be like this everyday. This week has been so stressful from the earthquake started on October 15th and then aftershocks every day, from the Account I am working with and the people. I cannot help but ask God if I did anything wrong for me to be punished like this.... think think think.. yes, I think I did. Until when will I bare it?

I really want to quit my job because of all these going on, I think everything is getting worse than they seem but still I asked my self if am I really that busy to complain? I am not sure. How busy can I get? Is this the worse? Definitely not.

I even thought of quitting before the year ends but I do not have the heart to leave like this, as an old friend said "If you must quit, do it for the right reasons". There are no guarantees even that I can be better on a different company, maybe the thought of it is exciting but who knows when the excitement would end? I know , I know, I think too much. But I have to think really hard. I AM NOT HAPPY.

Will I be happy when I transfer? I swear it is not the pay, I don't even think I can be paid the same as I am being paid now on a different company.

Why I am not happy? Everything is not the same as what they seem - again. The environment is not a home as it was, I feel uncomfortable in my own home. The people were not the same, the mentality is different. I don't think it's because we were busy lately because I have been from worse, but this feeling is different now.

NO, I AM NOT HAPPY ANYMORE.

Top 5: Songs of the Week

I have noticed that I have been constantly listening to music for the past few days, in whatever I do (except of course when I'm at work)  and wherever I am. Yes, it's like music is half of me lately. You know being alone most of the time, so when I put my earphones on, then baam! I am in my own world already :)

Below are my top 5 most played songs on my phone. Yes, just my phone, I am cheap like that. Just a quick explanation though, I am not really into gadgets - anymore. Although my brothers are asking me to get an ipod, itouch and etc., I prefer using my phone. It's like all-in-one right? Anyhow, so let me be like a "BJ" for the day. ( uh, that sounds awkward!) what I mean is Blog-jockey heheh 

Number#1 on my list  wherein I usually get stuck on replay button is the latest (not really) song from 2PM. A.D.T.O.Y. Weird right? But yeah it means - All Day I Think Of You . 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnV7Y6iwrA‎
Why I love the song? The chorus is very singable! (singable?) heheh I do not speak korean nor understand of course but the chorus is just so sexy, so easy, it gets stuck on my ear. Oh Junho is also my favorite 2PM member that's why and he sang the chorus part along with the equally hot Nickhun. I think Junho is the most talented though. Nevermind the rapping on the song because it's just meh. Have you seen the video? YOU-HAVE-TO-SEE-IT! Their dancing is just...! it was freakin.....!! I cant....! LOL yes, my reaction was like that and is when I hear this song :)

Number#2 on my playlist is Rihanna's Do Ya Thang - www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEL8SXgZ0KI‎
I think this kind of beat is ma thang! Ya knaw whatam sayin? LOL I just so love the melody and the lyrics of the song. Even if personally Rihanna is like..... but her music is just awesome! She's amazing singer actually and I like her like that, forget about those personal stuff going on with her life. So, if you read the lyrics it's about the girl who's madly in love with the chick boy guy. I am relating to the song in the sense that I am madly in love...but thank God not to a chick boy! hehehe

Number#3 is Im Out by Ciara ft. Nicki Minaj - www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-TTNdyIMAE‎
I am a fan of both. I love Ciara since Goodies days, she's awesome too right? Her voice is not that strong in Goodies and 1,2 step but this I'm out, I gotta say she's really heard! The rapping skills is not good as Nicki of course but love Ciara's voice in here. Of course Nicki Minaj, my favorite female rapper. Yes, I am a trying hard rapper! LOL I love Nicki's collaboration with artists even with Justin Beiber. Lovin this song because of the melody too and it's like ladies' empowerment, life after break up. I know it's a hommie song but I just love hitting on replay after hearing this. :)

Number#4 I don't know until when will I get tired of this song, but I just really love hearing this vocals from Kim Taeyeon of SNSD's Missing You Like Crazy- www.youtube.com/watch?v=DADCiK6VO6g‎/
The emotion is there, the sadness is there, the voice is there, what more? This song is an OST from King 2 Hearts, a Kdrama that starred Lee Seunggi and my girl crush Ha Ji Won. Actually, not being bias with Ha Ji Won but I liked the song before the drama, I listened to the song first before seeing the drama. But I loved the song even more after the drama :) . I have a lot of reasons of liking the song now LOL. 

Number#5. This is actually an old song, but I love the emotions and meaning of the song aside from being a Regine Velasquez fan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECOlaNH__IU‎
Sana'y Laging Ganito was originally sang by Karylle and RVA made her own rendition of the song on Fantasy album. I can totally, as in totally! can relate to the song. Even if Regine didn't sing this song, if maybe I get to hear it sang by someone else then I could still like the song. Of course it is dedicated to my boyfriend! waaah! cheeseballs! pardon me for being cheesy sometimes. LOL but yeah seriously, listen to the song, the lyrics and melody, it is such a lullaby for me and fall in love. :)


So that was my Top 5 Songs for this week. I do not really know if there will be new one's next week. LOL I know that you also have a different kind of tastes in music but I wish you could find time to hear those songs I have posted and let me know what you think. Till next time! :)

I have less friends in FB. So Wut?

I was supposed to blog about The Voice PH Live Battle but then I realized it will kinda be too long and the hype wont be that much anymore so I cannot pour out all the right things I wanna say. hehe

But while I was on a meal break I realized of a topic that can easily be related to and something short since there's nothing really happened that I can share. So, anyhow, a colleague ( CO ) told me that our former colleague (FC) is getting married this October. So I didn't get the cut for the invite, and I doubt I will, I don't think we were that close anyway. Speaking of not being close, FC's fiance' also added me on FB sometime in January and I didn't accept it because we're not close too. :) So CO told me that I am too mean for not accepting his friend request and now they are going to get married and I am not invited then the more I wouldn't accept it! (joke!) I mean the more I realized we are not really close. 

I also realized I only have a few friends in FB, I think it didn't go beyond 400 friends for the past six years that I have created the account. Does that make me unfriendly and snob? No. It is always my prerogative right? And yeah maybe I'm a little snob but to be honest, I don't really want to accept friend request that I do not know personally, the more if we are not connected. See what I mean? I bet you doing the same. 

When Facebook was not "in" the social media yet, we know Friendster was the super IN right? And that was all about a lot of friends, getting good and many testimonials, and pa-bonggahan nang page! LOL, I still remember those years and I cant help but smile. :)

But of course, Friendster got shut down (and I was not able to recover my pics) because I found it a hassle to do so, and I thought it was just a hoax until it got shut down for real! LOL. Well, actually, before Friendster got shut down I was already on Facebook. We were just a few who first had it, until it got a lot of people registered and our Internet Connection was still free inside the office. I know Facebook was way too boring from Friendster the fact that you can customize your page. But for some reason Facebook has this really "professional" look and "feel" that I really really like. It has also a good kind of security/privacy so I realized, what's the sense of having those if you will just be a friend to someone you do not know or really know?

That's when I realized I wont be accepting people requests if I do not know them, or if we do not have any connections. Though right now it varies on my judgment but most of the time I do not accept them. So there, I feel like I am being defensive for having less friends in Facebook...but nah! IDC.

Emotional Days 1.0

I wasn't with myself yesterday or..... I may be am with my real self yesterday.

Most of the people would describe as a happy-go-lucky, smiley girl, noisy, enthusiastic, comedian, and everything positive you can think of. I think it's true and that's what I usually project ( I think?!). That is because I get energized when I am with friends, I love poking jokes out of anybody and I just love to laugh and that;s what they see in me everyday. So for some other people they would say I am not in my usual self...

Because yesterday was so sentimental....so emotional. I could not even talk well, I don't know if I was saying the right thing, I get pissed easily, I wasn't smiling the whole time and I don't wanna talk to anybody. There's some kind of depression, sadness and stress from somewhere I do not know and I cannot figure out. I get teary-eyed when someone would ask me if I am okay? Silly? Yes? NO. Because I really am not okay and you cant expect me to say that I am okay when it's written all over my face that I am not. I had a bad time with my LDR-boyfriend as well that day ( yes, i have a boyfriend, and NO it's not because of him) so I couldn't help but cry. But then I realized, no one really knows the real me except my boyfriend I think. I asked God why am I like this? Why do I always  think ahead? Why do I always think too much? Why am I too hard on myself?

So that day passed and God allowed me to move on and not deal with that feeling for a long time. Just that after I cried. Though it's kind of a weird feeling you get when you do not know where it is coming from, it's also good to feel like that once in a while. I mean, that's for me, I don't know if it does for you. I am saying this because at that point in your life you get to know who the real people around you, who matters most, who cares about you and most importantly when you have no one to turn to, you get to be alone with God.

Disclaimer

If you have noticed the posts I have before this, you would notice that the dates were like the first half of the year. I actually created a Wordpress account and created a blog from there however I wasn't able to keep it up to date since 1.) I have a limitation on my laptop to create and modify using Wordpress like fonts, designs and posting media, 2.) it was kinda boring there, nakaka-walang gana. 3.) my busy sched (chos!)

There were so many things I wanted to blog about though and then lost my "gana" and then I ran over a blog account recently that made me realize that there was someone even worse than me. LOL. (Disclaimer: I'M NOT A BLOGGER ) However, she had a lot of nice pictures and her webpage is way over nicer than mine. (Okay?) LOL. 

Anyhow, so hopefully on this blog I would be able to keep up, otherwise, I am so gonna be a loser. Kidding. It's not like blogging is a necessity right? I really wanted to try blogging especially that I have so many things on my mind lately. Hopefully, I get to post images too but there are restrictions in the office so will edit and upload it when I am at home :) 

So yeah, wish me luck! :)

Engagement Plans

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Since the second quarter of 2012 I have been hearing different chatters about engagements, pre-nups and weddings. Last year I had like three people who are kinda close to me that told me they will get married this year. So yes it all ended – thank God! LOL

I really never thought about Weddings and such, I mean as a woman everyone wants to be wearing that bridal gowns right? But then again, I am too realistic of life that I’d rather be single for a long time or living-in with a partner. After these close people I am with at work told me they are going to get married I got a different kind of excitement..not for myself but for them. And on the preparation I realized it’s kinda hard thing to do and difficult to plan and achieve those but it was all worth it because when that big day came, all the definitions of HAPPINESS were actually written all over their faces and it made me so happy, touched and overwhelmed. I realized then, so that is the feeling and I have to have that feeling soon. Maybe not now, but soon!  

Engagement

Given that you are already in a relationship and wanted to settle with that person, the first step should be engagement. Most of my friends who got married really doesn’t have long engagement. Usually, after getting engaged for a few months they get married after all the preparations. And I feel like that fact is already given so I would like to change my course.

• Engagement Plan

So I was thinking of having a long term engagement. It doesn’t matter if I have been in a relationship with that guy for like less than a year or so but the engagement must be longer than a year. Say, 2-3 years of being engaged would be fine. Like I have mentioned I wouldn’t really mind that living-in stage as part of engagement plan. Why? This usually applies if you have been in a relationship with someone for a couple of months of less than 2years only. You know, it’s important to get to know who you’ll be marrying to, his habits, his attitude when you are together from the moment he wakes up and before he sleeps and everything in between. I want to know them before I settle and live in a house with them after the wedding.

Morality

Of course, not everyone would understand my excuse about living-in right? They would usually say that ” what’s the sense of getting married when you are already living-in?’ Because MARRIAGE/MATRIMONY is a Sacrament as a Catholic wherein you face God and ask permission to live with that partner for the rest of your life until death do you part. Of course I honor and respect that. But lemme ask you otherwise, would marriage really be a guarantee of everything? NO.

Although YES you get married because you love each other, you PROMISE to each other to be faithful and all but it’s not a guarantee that one of the parties would be LOYAL.

What if you do not like the habits of your partner after getting married and live with them in the same roof? Either you will bare it and get used to it OR you will keep on arguing about it.  For me, that is what engagement is for. That is why as much as possible it should be a long-term engagement.

Puhlease, do not ever tell me that you will ONLY get laid after marriage. For all I know even before engagement when you were still “In A Relationship” you have already did it  *cough* MORALITY *cough*.

Say you never did IT even before in a relationship, or during being engaged and you will do IT after marriage. Aside from the partner who would really want to do it with you before the wedding  unless if you would have a boyfriend like Edward Cullen or something, I think it would really be normal for a guy to ask you to do it together before marriage….and sooo much for that I don’t even wanna explain further. But anyway, say you want to do it AFTER the wedding, how will you know you are compatible? How will you know you will like it? How will you know that he would like it? What if one of you either is not satisfied with IT or doesn’t like IT? Would one of you be passive, or patient enough to accept it or bare with it? After-effects on that would either be boring marriage life, or one would look for someone else who can give them satisfaction. And so much for that.

So going back to living in, I am not closing my doors for that… We can travel together wherever, I can certainly do that already since I am engaged to marry him anyway. We would be able to discover each other flaws and all, learn to accept the difference and treasure the similarities. Should there be a problem along the way atleast we can either cool it off or break it up while we aren’t married yet. 

We have to have a house of our own while we are engaged. Certainly no babies while engaged since that will really dispute the purpose of marriage. I don’t even think engagement ring is necessary (though I’d like to have it) but then, if not then it’s fine still 

But again, this is MY Engagement Plan, and I cant do anything if you wont agree with it. You have to make your own and I promise I wouldn’t care what would it be. Next up would be Pre-nup! 

I'M NOT A BLOGGER

As I tried to post something to blog about I always end up not able to finish it. Before I created this new blogsite  I told my self I have to write it from notepad first and then read it again and again make sure there are no grammatical errors and spellings are correct and paste it here. But after I write a whole lot in a notepad I always..like ALWAYS lose my momentum and decide not to finish it at the time and will never get to finish it at all. I am lazy like that.

Why I lose my momentum?

I have this innate personality that I always think ahead or advance. I want to impress and yet I get insecure on some other’s blog posts. I am a fan of bloggers especially fashion blogs, and most of them are same ages as mine but they are already so good on what they are doing (salute them). In defense, I am still starting. But to be honest, I am not. I have been blogging..secretly. LOL. But I think I never improved.

My insecurities.

NO. 1 is always about the language. I am kinda confused if I have to blog in plain english, taglish, or perhaps add all the languages that I know (languages daw o?). My concern is that of course, I cannot really express myself and emotions would not get out from me if it’s not in my 1st language. And sometimes, it’s kinda cute to express it in bisaya or hangul. LOL. As if I really know Hangul? LOL. I have to consider those who are reading if they would be able to understand me. Otherwise, it would be less entertaining.

Entertaining. In line to that, as much as possible I want this blog to be entertaining. I aim to please my readers as much as I can, but how?  Readers now are really smart, they spot the wrongs right away. I admit I also do that but I couldn’t seem to correct my own mistakes. tsssh! You know, sighting something wrong especially grammatical errors are kinda major off when I am reading, so I assume some others are also the same. I admit on my old blogs when I read it and realize there were grammatical errors, I’d just close that window because I feel so ashamed.

Grammatical Errors and vocabulary. I lack at this. As much as I want to improve by reading someone else’s blogs, I am kinda slow-learner. I have to get help from Google, Merriam’s dictionary and someone else’s blogs. This is also one of the reasons why I wanted to go back to school and start basic. But that’s gonna take a long process right?

Oh well, I guess time is the answer for all. I will just keep on blogging and blogging. Even at this moment I have so many things in my mind that I wanted to blog, but I couldn’t let it out. They say, keep it short and simple. The shorter the lesser the mistakes. Is that right? LOL.