I’m back after two months hiatus and surprised to see that my pageview stats growing rapidly the past few months. And yes — another year has passed for my blog. My blog is now 2 years old. I can’t believe I stayed this long! I feel so loyal.. But to be [...]

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It’s hard to believe that yesterday was our One Year anniversary here in the Philippines.  How time flies!
Here’s a month by month rundown of what happened to us.
December:  We arrived at the airport in the morning and was picked up by my Mom and uncle.  Since we had an apartment ready for us we were [...]

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This week, I saw Filipino Talent showcased right before me. I want to admit that I am quite late catching on the Pacquiao fever so what I did was to orient myself a bit on his background. I went online and read and found videos. There I witnessed the 4-part documentary of [...]

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Eventually our goods arrived on Friday.  We just had to accept that we had no choice but to pay the “damages” the brokers imposed on us.  Besides all the goods arrived in good condition.
Right now, with all our important stuff with us it is not hard to admit that it adds to the feeling of [...]

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It’s been days since I posted anything. This post is more of a summary of 2008 (I had 60 posts and 93 approved comments!) and what plans I have for 2009.
Posting this right here in our place in Mandaluyong gives me a sense of accomplishment that we were able to come out a plan [...]

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The past few days we have both been busy trying to research what structure is appropriate for our business and have been working on our business plan. Later, we ended up concluding that this will not be “our business” but it will only be his. The first reason is quite clear: [...]

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This week, I had experienced a mixture of emotions about my life here in the Netherlands and our plans to go back to the Philippines. The past few weeks I have realized that I have been fortunate or blessed to have such a remarkable group of colleagues at work. The company responded well [...]

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From the beginning, I have talked about our business plans here as one of the main purpose for going back to the Philippines.
Starting a business is complicated enough, and being in business with a family member such as a spouse could make things a bit more sensitive. We need to clearly define the division [...]

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There are things that I am still undecided whether I should pursue or just leave hanging. First of all, there is the Integration Program which I have not completed because my level of Dutch has not reached the minimum yet. I passed reading, writing, speaking but was quite unfortunate not to pass [...]

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Yesterday afternoon, my in-laws visited and as expected, while having cup of tea our plans to go to the Philippines became one of the topics. One thing that somehow I ended up saying is that sometimes I thought I should finally have a stable place where I can call home not thinking that I will [...]

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