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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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“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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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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📌 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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Food for thought of the week.
If there is one thing I can mention that makes me sad about Canada, and even while I was in the States before, is the amount of food that gets wasted. This goes for all countries, really. I have met so many people here who would directly say no to food because they don’t like…
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Joseph is a very private guy. He sometimes even finds discomfort when stangers ask him random questions. We were in Vancouver and we were on the train when an adorable, elderly man asked us where the train was headed. He was quick to dismiss him, and I found his behavior extremely rude. We sat down.…
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