10 years

10 years ago…

2001

I’m an idealistic 15 year old teenager in Senior High School, looking forward to college. I’m still thinking about what course to take but I’m leaning towards taking up BS Accountancy since I am enjoying my Accounting subject very much and I believe I excel on the subject. I’ve got good friends, we laugh all the time, we talk about the future and sometimes bully the younger ones. There are times when I feel like my parents are too strict, getting so mad at me ’cause of the bulk of phone calls that I receive, oh well I’m gettin’ kinda’ used to it. My love life? Nothing serious, still having a crush on the same guy since elementary days. Well, I’m pretty much contented with my life right now, so much to look forward.

At present, 2011

I’m a 25-year old CPA working in an MNC. This is the only concrete thing that I can think of that could connect to what I wanted 10 years ago. As for the others, let me just rate the aspects of my life in the scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest.

Family- 9

Happy and contented 🙂

Physical Health- 8

I need to lose weight.

Psychological Health- 7

Hmm…I think I need some dose of optimism lately

Friends- 7

Keeping the old ones, trying to expand my circle

Career- 7

I need some definite direction with my career

Love Life- 5

No comment on this one

10 years from now

2021

I’m 35-years old, married with 2 kids, giving my best to balance my family and career life. I’m a senior manager now at a multi-national company. Currently thinking of starting my own business to have more time for my growing kids and my husband. A happy family is what I hope to continue to have.

I can’t put that much detail yet for 2021 but I know what I want, it sounds simple but I know it’s not easy. I’m not so sure how to begin working for it but right now, I’m hoping and praying for the best.

Timelines

Time will never wait for anyone, it ticks, it doesn’t stop. We have no choice but to get along with it. Some spend their time haphazardly while others have their so-called personal timeline but life happens, no matter how detailed our plans are, unexpected things will come along our way, sometimes leaving us with no choice but to abandon our plans.

To graduate and be gainfully employed in SGV before reaching the legal age of 21, explore the auditing career for two years, start graduate school right after audit and build a career in an MNC, get promoted upon completion of MBA, buy a car as my 25th birthday gift to myself, get married at the age of 28, buy a house at 30, this was my timeline. I had it all planned but as I said life happens. Graduated and gainfully employed in SGV before reaching the age of 21, explored audit for two years, transferred to an MNC, had my CIA certification at 24, transferred to a bigger MNC after one and a half year, went to Korea as my 25th birthday gift to self, thinking of buying a car at present before I turn 26, planning to go start on my MBA this year, hopefully by September, still single with kinda complicated heart situation, this is my reality. Writing it down just now made me realize that it wasn’t so bad, audit experience was bittersweet, 1st MNC was like being in a dark forest, my current MNC? so-so, CIA made me feel great but unfortunately I haven’t used it yet, the car and the MBA, I don’t want to talk about it yet. My complicated love life? I think I’ve written too much about it.

Life happens and people change as they go through life. Five years ago, I never thought of going abroad to work, I wasn’t addicted to travelling, I was hopeful to bump into Mr. Right but that was five years ago, life is harder than I thought it is, and it never failed to surprise me. Guess I have to do some revision on my timeline and focus on the things that I can control, define the direction where I wanted to go and assess my present situation. As for Mr. Right..oh well, that’s a complicated part  of my life, not so sure if I have control over it right now. Timelines, plans, goals sometimes they guide us while sometimes it pressures us but no matter what we have to continue moving, ’cause time won’t wait.

Anonymous

My blog has reached 29,ooo plus hits after two years of existence, I don’t know if I have any avid followers but thanks to those who spent their time reading my entries. My friends know that I have a blog but none of them knows its name, I never revealed it to anyone, I chose to write under a pseudonym, I chose to write anonymously. But why? Maybe because there is some pressure when you are aware that the people who know you personally reads your writings, they’ll discover a side of you, good or bad, that you don’t want to reveal, emotions that you don’t want to share with them, things that you want to keep to yourself but you want to immortalize through the modern way of writing in cyberspace. I cannot think of any exact reason why but I’m keeping it this way.

I don’t want to…

I don’t want to write anymore about my analogy on whether I am broken hearted or not.

I don’t want to write anymore if I fell in love with you or just with the concept of love.

I don’t want to write anymore how I remember you.

I don’t want to write anymore my hopes and frustrations about you.

Ok fine, I am broken hearted but  is still holding on to a fighting chance that one day you’ll be knocking at my door.

There’s no denying, I am in love with you and I miss you even if you keep on hurting me and frustrating me 😦

Crazy Little Thing called Love (Part 2)

In a country like the Philippines wherein a lot of people from all ages are hooked on asianovelas, it is no surprise that Crazy Little Thing called Love, a Thai movie that is constantly gaining popularity over cyberspace will be a hit. The movie was shown on Philippine TV last Sunday and was dubbed in Filipino. Being a fan of the movie I watched it again, ‘though there were some cuts made due to a limited time slot, I’m sure that a lot of viewers enjoyed watching the film especially those who watched it the first time. But for me, who watched the movie in its full length version I must admit that the movie’s entertainment value was diminished especially the parts of Teacher In. The movie surely created curiosity from its audience actually, before it was shown blog hits on my article about the movie were steadily rising and yesterday, I received 500 hits.

Most of us are probably asking if there is a part 2 since the ending seems to be hinting some sequel. Honestly, I’ve been googling about it after I watched it and so far here is the most credible piece of information I managed to get from Wikipedia:

Sequel

There are rumors that this film will have a sequel with the working title of First Love: The Sequel 9 Years Gone. This was confirmed by the director but still on the draft process and there is no official release date yet. Also, another rumor states that another sequel, First Love: The Proposal, is on plans and would follow that events after First Love: The Sequel 9 Years Gone. Hearsays also states that Mario Maurer and Fern Pimchanok Leuwisedpaiboon will reprise their roles.These rumors only proves that this film have a high impact on the pop culture not only in Thailand but also to other countries like Philippines.

Quite funny to note that our country was specifically mentioned, as I said Thailand’s culture as shown is the movie is very much similar to ours, so I guess most of us could truly relate to it not to mention that Filipinos are really into Asianovelas.

Going back to the possibility of a part 2, most movies with sequels fell short of people’s expectation because of the standards set by the 1st part but I’m hoping that the second part of this story will give justice to the first since they’ve already transcended from young love to 9 years after. So I guess, the sequel will be focused on a real relationship, how are they going to deal with its challenges.

Let’s just all hope that a sequel will materialize and that it will be worth the wait. For sure we all want to see Mario Maurer and Baifern be together again 🙂

Jellybeans- My Own version

Because of an unknown mishap I lost my ticket somewhere inside Madame Tussauds, I had no choice but to wait for my friend as she experience the view of Hong Kong atop the Sky Terrace. It was so foggy that day, even the girl at the cashier forbid me to buy another ticket to gain access at Hong Kong’s highest viewing deck. While I was waiting for her, I checked on some shops and stumbled upon a store selling jellybeans. It was quite costly for a candy, especially for someone like me who’s not fond of candies but I didn’t hesitate, I bought one bag with all the 42 assorted flavors.

I was curious on how each flavor tastes but more than that it was the memory of an internet article I read some time ago. The article was written by Noringai, I don’t know her personally but I really liked her articles, I could relate to some and learn from some. To give you a gist of her article entitled “Kwentong Jellybeans” (it actually has parts 1 and 2), it’s about how obsessed she was on a certain guy that she failed to appreciate the other guys in her life, she used her obssession on finding the elusive chocolate pudding flavored jellybeans as a metaphor to tell her story.

Let me borrow Noringai’s metaphor in this article, let me write my own version of the jellybean story.

Chocolate pudding jellybeans, everyone loves chocolates, right? Everyone likes him for me, I used to like him as well, “used” to like him,  just like the chocolate pudding flavor, he’s simple and in my own opinion he’s a safe choice. But just like Noringai’s jellybean story, it’s elusive and when I found it, it’s disappointing, nothing so special, just like chocolate pudding he’s someone I grew up with, nothing more than that.

I got over chocoloate pudding when I realized that toasted marshmallow is better. But Toasted Marshmallow didn’t last that long, it’s easy to get over something when there’s not that much to remember.

But as it turns out Chocolate pudding and Toasted Marshmallow were not my favorites, surprisingly, it’s Strawberry Cheesecake. I am not fond of strawberries so I was really surprised when I liked it’s taste, it was unique. Just like someone, he’s unique, different from all the guys I’ve ever met and I never expected that I will like him, he’s a surprise.

Then, on my recent trip to Cebu, I found out that the brand of jellybeans I bought in Hong Kong is also available here in the Philippines but there are only 20 flavors, Chocolate pudding and Toasted Marshmallow were among them. Strawberry Cheesecake is not available, not available here in the Philippines…just like him, he’s not here..he’s somewhere else.