Thoughts
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To you:
To all the good and kind friends, acquaintances, families, even those I just spoke to maybe once or twice, or even those who never liked me maybe— I am truly, genuinely happy seeing your posts or hearing about your children, soon to be children, careers, properties, accomplishments. I hope you, too, can release things that
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Choosing godparents in the Philippines
Filipino trait that needs to be addressed: Stop forcing people to be godparents, and stop pressuring parents/couples into choosing someone they barely know. Admit it or not— it’s a common reason in the Philippines to assign someone as a godparent with the assumption that they’d be giving money to said couple or child. And that’s
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“Are you going to stay there?”
It’s like having a balance (scale) in your head, rocking back and forth. You try to weigh both sides. On the one side… It feels really nice to be proud of your accomplishments without being called “mayabang.” A place where you get to tell people you love your job and be told “You deserve it
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How to budget your annual beer budget
Sharing my budgeting system that has worked for some of my friends, and may work for you, too. Disclaimer: I am not a finance expert. This system helps you stop yourself from spending money that you don’t have (it did for me, at least). Here are the three steps that I started with: – Do
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Smart Things My Parents Did
Lots of our peers are starting families and getting kids now. I’m not a parent, but here are smart things that my parents planted in us, or for us, since we were very young that helped our family through the years:
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I am in my late 20s and my mom still had to hold my hand with applying for a bank loan under my name.
There is no manual on how to be an adult. We were never formally taught how to do taxes, how to apply for loans, how to behave and answer questions in interviews, how to write attractive resumes, how to write formal letters like letters of interest, letter of authorization, how to function at work, management
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I love telling stories on Philippine-Catholic norms to people of other culture.
One story I love telling is “I don’t want to get married because we don’t have divorce in the Philippines,” and the shocks on their faces are just pure entertainment. “Why?” they ask. “Even if your spouse abuses you, cheats on you, or even simply if you fell out of love – you’re not allowed
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📌 Filipino Citizen to PR in Canada, all in my early 20s: Step-by-step process, timeline, and complete lists of expenses— all done without an agent
This is a step-by-step process from when I was working in the Philippines in December 2018 to when I got my PR in July 2022. Here’s a timeline summary: Age Time Activity 22 years old December 2018 Had my mind set to Canada January 2019 Started Canadian School & Study Permit application 23 years old
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Things happening for a reason
10 years ago, I never planned on going to University of Santo Tomas, or staying in Journalism, or becoming a Marketer, or going abroad, or moving to Calgary, or even working with apps and prototypes. They were all unstable ideas and rash decisions that all just happened at the heat of the moment. But today,
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