Comments on: I feel like an Oddball http://www.backtothephilippines.com/i-feel-like-an-oddball/ An Overseas Filipino Returns Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:26:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: rob http://www.backtothephilippines.com/i-feel-like-an-oddball/comment-page-1/#comment-177 rob Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:48:52 +0000 http://backtothephilippines.com/?p=252#comment-177 Don't worry, that's just a normal part of coming back home after many years of being away. Right now, your eyes are wide open and you are observing and absorbing everything t the fullest, which partly explains that 'oddball' feeling. After almost a year of being back, it feels quite normal again. The only thing that hasn't changed in me is my gratitude and joy of being back home. Don’t worry, that’s just a normal part of coming back home after many years of being away. Right now, your eyes are wide open and you are observing and absorbing everything t the fullest, which partly explains that ‘oddball’ feeling.

After almost a year of being back, it feels quite normal again. The only thing that hasn’t changed in me is my gratitude and joy of being back home.

]]> By: zylla http://www.backtothephilippines.com/i-feel-like-an-oddball/comment-page-1/#comment-176 zylla Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:17:18 +0000 http://backtothephilippines.com/?p=252#comment-176 Ha, ha, ha...I exactly understand how you feel. As for your family treating him too nicely...be glad! With people's perception, nothing you can do about it...take it with a grain of salt. Last summer I decided to have my haircut at the parlor while my niece took my husband and my brother-in-law to the college's museum. To make the long story short, I was laughing when they finally picked me up as I could only tell they (at the parlor) thought I'm the mother 'selling' my daughter to a dirty old foreigner. That's life--enjoy your Christmas. This is one season I'm still hoping my husband could celebrate in the Philippines. It's been a long time I had Christmas in the Philipppines. Have a wonderful New Year, too. Ha, ha, ha…I exactly understand how you feel. As for your family treating him too nicely…be glad! With people’s perception, nothing you can do about it…take it with a grain of salt.

Last summer I decided to have my haircut at the parlor while my niece took my husband and my brother-in-law to the college’s museum. To make the long story short, I was laughing when they finally picked me up as I could only tell they (at the parlor) thought I’m the mother ‘selling’ my daughter to a dirty old foreigner. That’s life–enjoy your Christmas. This is one season I’m still hoping my husband could celebrate in the Philippines. It’s been a long time I had Christmas in the Philipppines.
Have a wonderful New Year, too.

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