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  I don't want to let this blog just die so I'll just post an update on stuff. We no longer live at my parents house. They failed to pay for the mortgage so we got kicked out. We moved to my own house around late September 2014. It was a good thing that my mom pushed me to buy (mortgage?) my own house more than 10 years ago, or we would have nowhere to go. I've been buying lots of books since, and my to-read pile is now more than 500. I just need the time to read them all. TV shows and Netflix are taking a lot of my free time away from books, unfortunately. The list of countries I have visited has now expanded to include those that require pre-approved visas: Australia and Japan. I have been to Australia twice, and thrice to Japan. I resigned from my previous work in January 2020. I was there for 10 years, longer than when I was in my job before that, where I lasted for 6 years. I think having the ability to travel made me able to stay at my previous job. We

It's been almost 6 months since last I posted on my blog, and a lot has happened. This is probably the worst year of my life. When I made my post in January, I didn't know that my life will be changed so much. My mom died. There's a superstition that how you started the year will determine your fortune for the rest of the year. New Year's Day 2013 wasn't exactly a bad one, but it wasn't as exciting as it was before. My mom wasn't feeling too well then. She felt nauseated a lot of times, puking in the bathroom at least once a day. At this point she's lost some weight. I don't know why we never considered it a serious illness. We thought she was just having her usual ulcer attacks. It didn't help that my client was delayed in paying my salary, so I couldn't ask her to go to the hospital to have herself checked. She knew my money situation too, and since I supported my parents since I started working 9 years ago, she probably felt that it wo

So we're halfway past the first month of 2013, and so far I've been busy with work. At least I am able to squeeze in this blog post. I just want to record here that this has been so far the COLDEST month I remember experiencing. I don't know the official temperature right now, but according to my app it's 23 degrees Celsius. It's 7:35 am, so that temperature is understandable. But it's unusual for us living in a tropical country. It's so cold especially in the early mornings when I work, that I have to wear a jacket inside the house. And when I sleep in the afternoon I don't even have to turn on the fan. I probably would have enjoyed the cold weather more if I don't have a trip coming up this Sunday (January 20). I will be going to Hong Kong to sight see, the second country I will be visiting after my trip in Singapore last September. From my weather app, I am seeing that Hong Kong will be VERY COLD, with temperatures dropping to as low as 12 degrees

This 4-day Christmas weekend flew by so fast! If it were just a regular 2-day weekend then I would seriously be pissed off. It's like I lost some memory of what happened the past 4 days. Good thing I have my Facebook to check on what I did. Saturday, December 22: I watched - Season 5 Episode 10 of Fringe, The Queen of Versailles (Documentary), and Frankenweenie. I pinned some images to my Dream Home board in Pinterest. Sunday, December 23: I watched - Season 7 of CSI, Upside Down (movie), some YouTube videos. Monday, December 24: Continued watching Season 7 of CSI up to Season 8, then watched the movie "What's Your Number?" while waiting for Noche Buena. Tuesday, December 25: Christmas! Noche Buena, then slept for a few hours, then lunch with relatives while watching an episode of CSI, and episodes 7 and 8 of The Walking Dead, which my cousin hasn't seen yet. Then I was so full that I felt sleepy and I took a nap. The nap turned into a full 8-hour sleep

I am usually a positive person, and I want to live an optimistic life with all that positive thinking stuff, but it's hard to do it if a lot of things don't go your way. So yeah, this is one depressing blog post. I don't want to do this, but I am so depressed right now and I want to write it all up and hope that it helps me a bit. I've been sad before, and I know this is just temporary, but thinking about the sadness being temporary doesn't really help at all. I know I am risking that my family see this, but hopefully when they do read this it will be a few months or years into the future and we're all ok and I can just shrug this one off as a temporary thing. My family aren't that tech savvy, and I don't think anyone knows about this blog, so that's a plus point that goes toward to "them not seeing this blog post until a few years later" column. Plus, I've been raised in a family where crying is a big no-no. I can't even talk to

I started this as a Facebook status, but then realized I have a lot to say, so I just made this blog post instead. I checked my Goodreads account and found out that I finished 7 books in the last 3 months. It's probably the fastest I've read since a long time ago, but somehow my to-read pile is still growing. I'm now at 46 books, and 2 more are coming. I blame James Patterson and his insanely fast book releases. I think he has a new book every month now. I still remember when I first discovered him when I was still a college student (11 years ago!). I vowed to buy all his books and collect them. Back then he releases once a year. When I graduated and found a job, my salary wasn't that much but I started saving up money to be able to buy his books. It was probably around this time (2004?) that he started to release 2 books in a year. I think I was able to catch up to him, having almost all his books. But then around 2010 he became crazy and started releasing books like