Warning: Explicit Nagging and Ranting may be found in this posting.
I would be a hypocrite to admit that I am all happy happy joy joy during these days.  But the truth is, I may be experiencing some sort of reverse culture shock.  In a way, I am quite shocked to realize that I have not [...]

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We did not go to Den Haag last Tuesday to do my oath taking since MrC has a flu.  Also, we do not have all his papers yet for the immigration so it’s probably better to time it when we have all of them so we save on one trip to Den Haag.
I heard from [...]

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My husband likes it here! Even more than me. I feel confused still with how things work. Have you heard of reverse culture shock? I had my sort of “romantic” memories of Philippines of the past and some of the bad part as always has been forgotten and now I am seeing the [...]

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Today, after months of rehearsing it over and over in my mind I finally have the guts to resign from my job. After all, it’s inevitable. I told first the HR and then my manager. We just interviewed someone yesterday and today after hearing from them that they are ready to hire [...]

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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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I’ve been quiet for the past days but so many interesting things have happened.  First of all, I FOUND BUBBLES!  Just a few days ago MrC and I were web browsing together and we thought of searching in Facebook and there I found a name that sounds familiar, it was the name of her little [...]

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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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This posting is an experiment in the power of blogging. I will find out if it is possible to find someone you’ve lost touch with using a blog posting. For her own privacy, I will only use her nickname here, which is Bubbles and hope that through the story I [...]

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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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