risk

We all know everything is undecided until it really happens. You wouldn't know how things will turn out the next day, a week after or maybe after a month. Would you bet your life on pure luck without giving in any efforts at all? Wouldn't that sound too lazy? or too boring?

Risk, the biggest and most controversial adventure in life. It is an act people are mostly scared of doing, hesitant and always gives it a second thought before acting. Sensible people don't look at risk as a possibility but rather a waste of time. Others, like me look at risk as a mystery in itself.

I look at risk as an activity that is just within the realms of "the possible"... It always has the 50/50 state of possibility. Spice up your life and take risks so you wouldn't spend the rest of your life wondering "what could have been"...

FAD

"Sometimes I want to be out of this world and be myself for a while." A lot of people are trying their best to have a job in the call center industry or take up nursing because their parents (OH! I meant they) want something better.- a better life, a better environment, a better currency. The latter is most obvious and true to all.

I don't understand how it is possible to send out an approximate of 77,000 nurses to less than 10 countries needing them? Everybody, everywhere, there's a nurse...there's a call center agent. To me, the words: Nursing, call center agent and Fad sounds synonymous already. I bet there is a big proportion of these people who would have wanted to be something else rather than what they are now. But because of unlimited aspirations, they choose to join the FAD in exchange for what makes them trully happy.

A fad is a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time (m-w.com) which proves me right to agents and nurses. By the time USA doesn't need nurses and Americans wouldn't wanna trust outsourcing anymore, what's next for them? Come to think of it.

Just be yourself and don't try so hard to be in the FAD, if you really can't do it. No one really pushes you to the limit except yourself. There's always an option.

So stop changing and becoming into a FAD freak and be someone you really want to be.

P.S: I am not trying to say its wrong or I'm against it; This is my opinion and this is how I see things. T_T

YKS

"When you love, things make even more sense." -the alchemist

Loving someone secretly can be weird yet no matter how weird the feeling becomes, the more interesting it gets.

I have been loving someone for almost five years now but it never came to my mind to stop loving her. So many years have passed ever since the last time I saw her and the feeling never faded.

It never changed degrees. It remained beautiful... just like a daydream.

To me, it doesn't matter if I see her again or not.. because no matter what happens, her face will be engraved in my heart, mind and soul and no one can take that away from me. Not even her.

Love is still love even if I choose to keep it in secret. Love will always stay as what is has always been... silent; yet so profound.

Heart-breaking truth

Shake off the dust and move on.
It sounds so simple but its very difficult to do.

It is a choice one has to make to move on.

It is an acceptance of either defeat or victory.

It is a sign that you want to prove other people that you can be better,

better off without that other person you consider your "life".

What had happened in the past will be engraved in the hearts of people.

Everything will pass by but never memories with people.

No matter how hard we try, it still remains impossible to do.
We all know life is like a game of cards.

Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.

No one played knowing they will eventually win in the end.

Life is always a surprise and no matter how hard we tend to control our lives,

it just always slips away and makes things happen on its own.

Maybe that's where the forces of nature comes in..
It's bitter when we carefully plan out the future with the people we love

and without you knowing it,

you'll find yourself realizing your dreams and plans...ALONE.
Nothing could be more painful than being alone-

Being rejected and having your heart broken.

Think of it for a while and don't dwell on them so much.

Listening to music that reminds you of the people you once loved,

watching happy pictures of you together are just giving you false hopes

and you just don't realize that it is only poisoning you, that's all.

For you know and everybody knows that nothing is more dangerous

than understanding your own emotions.

Look at your past as something that no longer fits your life...

You need to move out of it.

There is no such thing as going back to the past.

You cannot make people forget what you did

and neither can you wish for time to turn back.

Move on, close the past chapter of your life

because the new one has to start..

Open new doors, open your heart again..

There are some things worth remembering,

people worth making memories with

and moments worth reminiscing...

Korean Dramas

Full House, Princess Hours, Jumong, Love Story in Harvard, My Sassy Girl, Endless Love 1-3, Stairway to Heaven, A Rosy Life... are a few of my favorite Korean dramas...

"I love them, I admit." I have been a huge fan of Korean dramas ever since I formally went out with one. Yeah, their stories seem to be all the same. A love story with a third party (more often a more beautiful girl), a character dying in the end, someone loses a loved one, or they end up happily together. Whichever way, it is very typical. Anyone would know what would happen next and yet I still find myself watching every episode of my favorite dramas.

One reason why I keep on watching these dramas because it makes me understand their language more. I like they way they say things and how their tone simply express the message they want to convey. I have to say, learning the Korean language (Han-gul) is not easy at all. It's difficult plus the complicated pronunciation which is not any close to english.But I tell you, it's fun and challenging.

I have watched "Full House" a lot of times yet I still cry in the most "touching" episodes. My mother often tells me "watching those again and again will make you memorize those..".. and I thought "I'm glad if I will." My sister is annoyed at me thinking I just watch without understanding the drama. Of course, if I don't understand, I wouldn't want to waste my time on that.

Korean dramas have been widely accepted and "loved" especially in Asian countries... and plus,a growing population from other parts of the world are eager to learn translation for Korean words they commonly hear in dramas/ songs.

Huge thanks to subtitles~! For without them, the world would be in chaos. LOL

Happiness

" The search for happiness

is purely personal

and not a model we can give to others."

- the pilgrimage

"The Road to Happiness", "The Happiness Project", "Self-Help on achieving True Happiness", "Can you buy Happiness?" "Pursuit of Happiness"-- a few of the millions of books on how to achieve Happiness...

Does anyone really know how to make people happy?... Who has the power to do so? Does being happy with dreams fulfilled give you a right to author books on Happiness or Success? What exactly is the point of these type of books? Is it to make the people envy on their stories and challenge the readers to work on their own lives? Or is it just a better and more polite way of saying to other people "Hey, my life's so good. How's yours?" or "Hey I am on the top of the corporate ladder, will you ever reach my stage?"

I may never give myself answers and neither would I search for them. To see my family happy, find the person who I can share my life with, travel with her to every carribean destination and become a world-class chef and eventually be cooking every meal for the person I love the most completes my numerous meaning of the word happiness and the list goes on... but those I've mentioned are on top of my list.

For other people, it is becoming "Somebody", marriage, having a baby, celebrating holidays together, going on escapades, experiencing your first kiss... and just like my list, it never stops there. People are never contented with what they have and always seek for more.. More thrill, more challenges, more adenture, more of life. I guess it's a good sign; a sign of a thrive for improvement and success...

Every individual has his or her own way of defining it. People would know if they are happy and when they are, they express it and share it for the hopes of "enlightening" the gloomy ones.

The guidance of other people towards the road to happiness is reasonable, if you ask me.. BUT happiness will never be defined by books and no one could have the power to define it FOR other people.

PDAs vs CULTURE

"Due to tradition in Korean culture, it is not customary for individuals of any sexual orientation to engage in public displays of affection."



- Korea's public statement

Now that's why they're doing it here in the Philippines!...

Why do you deprive people of pulic display of affection (PDA) when I think its a natural activity? Don't you think it's a bit too unfair compared to those allowed? Its something everyone needs to do for self expression and expression to your loved one... Why not do it?

Before you think I am an overly-liberated type of person; Let me distinguish what I consider myths of PDAs, then you be the judge.

• MYTH 1: PDAs are FOUL

Hey... I do approve of PDAs but not to the extremest level, okay?... There is a limit that we have to consider especially if the crowd includes children but whether or not there are people around, you have the right to express affections in anyways!

• MYTH 2: PDAs are to be done somewhere private
  

True... but PDAs doesn't always mean something dirty. It is just an expression of feelings. You can always hold and kiss her hand, smell her hair and hug your love one before going to work- simple yet it is a form of PDA which I consider acceptable.

• MYTH 3: PDAs are CHEAP
  

Depending on the person who defines PDA, it can mean a lot if things. OH YES! Let us break down PDA: Public means exposed to general view, Display means to put or spread before the view and affection means a moderate feeling or emotion... Put it all together and if you ask me, it has a decent meaning.

There... I have made my point clear enough and if you ask me, there is a thin line separating PDA from being obscene and disgusting to the senses. (m-w.com) How one defines PDAs always depend on how tainted their mind is.

So to our fast-growing population of Korean visitors,
to the illegal-staying koreans,
to the ones who are studying English courses & drinking sessions

PDAs are okay...just don't OVERdo things.

After all, this is Philippines and not Korea. ^^,