Weird evening

I spent an evening drinking, listening to a friend's wasted story.. something I occasionally do. We talked about many things. Many evil things, many good things, and many useless things.

A tribute to being Filipino *sic* (part 1)

Don't get the wrong idea. I didn't mean to appraise the Filipino people. It's just that, looking back at how I got my Korean visa, it was even more difficult than a camel passing through the eye of a needle. I've seen many nationals from other countries pass by me in the consulate office, some American, some Canadian, some Japanese, heck some even African, and some even Singaporean. There is a separate line for Filipinos, furthermore there is a separate line for Filipinos applying for a visa for the first time (the line I was in).

It's really a sad thought. How could the whole Filipino nation be thought of as dishonest, when it's a certain number that do TNT (tago-ng-tago) when they get a tourist visa?

I stand corrected. The "certain number" is a really BIG number.

I arrest my case. It sometimes makes me wish that God gave you a choice of your citizenship before you were born.

But hey, you have to play the hand you've been dealt. So I can complain all I want..


..or I can rise up.

Lessons

[ I just need a quick break before writing a real post so yeah this is the theme for this post ]

Just shut up

I love how the year is turning out. So far the 1st half of the year has been a season of reunions and lessons. One of the valuable lessons I have learned is silence.

Most of the time, whenever I think of something I want and brag about it or brag about working on it - it usually never manages to leave the drawing board. Trust me, TRY shutting up whenever you dream of a thought. At most tell it to one of your best friends, and leave it at that. Fate has a lot of ears.

Whenever there's this thing you want.. like say.. to work on your industry certification, study a foreign language, or have a girlfriend. Better keep quiet than talk about it. And just work on it. Start blabbering about it when it's there already. Believe me, it has a much higher probability of becoming true.

History repeats itself, but..

This age old saying is very true - it's scary. It's scary to the point that even the mistakes made in history will be repeated as well. There's nothing you can really do, but embrace and accept it.

When you have a friend that always picks what's not right over what is right (then picks the right choice eventually at the cost of hurting many people ) - how do you prevent that from happening? I used to think that I need to do something about it - but after the wisdom of experience beseeched me to listen, I decided that I would not do anything anymore but let people concerned deal with their own problems.

Don't think about the future (too much)

I love my friends for this. They make me realize that you should only plan for what you know is really going to happen. We shouldn't plan for anything more than next week. It never happens exactly how you plan it, so don't bother.