MY FIRST TRIP TO PGH

It's been a long, tiring day but inspiring too... smile emoticon While waiting for my medical test, I talk with the patient seated next to me. She seems to be truly happy, always smiling and seems living a perfect life. And somewhere along the conversation, she told me she has LUPUS. She told me, if you have lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system and it attacks healthy cells and tissues. She had multiple episodes of vision loss. But, her strength and endurance impressed me deeply, as she shared about the many challenges and changes that lupus has brought into her life over the past three years. When I was on my way home, I reflected on my conversation with the truly amazing woman I had just met. I learned that treat each day as if its your last. Live in the moment and stop worrying about the future.

BE STRONG, JHA!

I love hearing these inspiring words. :) I will be blogging again to be able to convey what's on my mind. I will live my life one day at a time. God bless us all :)

I heart you, COLD STONE ICE CREAM! =)

I am sorry for the lack of posts lately. I have been very busy with work for the last few months... =)

Every once in a while, ice cream craving hits hard and I have to give up to the sudden urge. Cold stone's Strawberry-flavored ice cream caught my attention and taste as well...it's a delicious addictive cold treat! =)

I got this small-sized cup for Php119 (converted into peso)...it's quite expensive compared to Nestle and Selecta brand which cost roughly around Php25 for a small-sized cup... But in the end, Cold Stone Ice Cream serves up the most delicious and creamy ice cream I've ever had. This may not be good for diet but the taste is definitely heaven-sent! ^_^

Love Quotes

"Love is never about finding the hand that perfectly fits yours. It's about finding that one person who's willing to hold hands no matter how unfit it may be."

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."

So Cold...

It's so cold in here... I have to rely on my winter clothes, comforters and blankets! I wonder how much icebergs in Antartica is melting right now... waaaah =)

Opportunities DOESN'T knock twice =)

You can’t wait around for doors to open for you sometimes you have open those doors.Shape your destiny don’t wait around for the universe to hand you the tools you may just have to create your own.~ Terry McMillan

I'll take my chance even if... New Life. New Opportunities. New Beginnings. New Friends. New Environment. =)

LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES

Since Valentine's Day is fast approaching, I think it would be best to talk about love and love stories that knows no boundaries.♥

Source: mysweetkoreanlife
            forgetfulghee

Since I consider my blog as a journal of my life, I write things that I wish I wouldn't forget. And among hundreds of posts I wrote, I almost never mentioned about my bf. I'm actually saving our story for one 'special' post like this one.

He is a Korean and I'm a Filipina. His name is Chris and he's a year older than me...He was a senior engineering student at Hanyang University when we met. I call him my greatest love, my happiness, my everything. We've been together for more than a year now and been working on getting married in the future.

It all started when I'm still working as an English Teacher at a language school in Q.C. It was right after our lunch break when I first saw Chris. He was walking towards the travel agency nearby when some of my colleagues started calling his attention. He was carrying a big luggage at that time and he seemed lost. Out of goodwill, my friends offered help. I admit, he looked really cute that day, that's why my friends kept on talking to him. I was the only one who seemed distant and quiet. In my head, I hated all the attention my friends were giving him cause I didn't want him to think that we were so into him. He kept on glancing at me and asked a couple of things. I was surprised how well he speaks in English, probably the best I've ever heard (he didn't sound a typical korean at all!)... For some reason, my friends disappeared and we were left talking to each other.

When the bell rang, I said goodbye and I thought that was it. After the next break, my friends and I gathered to the same exact spot. I was surprised to see him again... He looked as if he's waiting for someone but I didn't know he was actually waiting for me. After I finished my work, he was still there and that's the time he asked if I could have dinner with him. I didn't think twice cause I secretly liked him a little bit so I said yes, provided that I get to bring along a friend. So all 3 of us went to the restaurant and ate. It was raining hard at that time and the air is a bit cold. I don't know why but he offered his hooded jacket. I politely said no but he kept on insisting. That night, I felt that he's really interested in me.

He was supposed to enter a boarding house before meeting me. But he ended up renting a unit in the same condominium where my sister and I are staying. We then became inseparable. He made each day special and then I slowly realized I'm falling hard for him. Each day I grew more and more nervous as his departure day gets closer. The night before his flight, I cried so much. I woke up the next day with swollen eyes from too much crying. Still, tears ran down my cheeks as we said our goodbyes at the airport. I thought, that was the end of it till I received a mail from him. In his letter, he mentioned how crazy in love he is and he can't wait to come back for me. True enough, 2 months later he's back but he stayed for only a week. Still, I cried so much when I took him to the airport. True to his word, he came back frequently (5 times in a year) to see me. The last time he visited Manila, he stayed for a month. After he entered Samsung, it became very difficult for him to visit me so he asked me to visit him instead. From then on, Korea has been my second home.

Being in an inter-racial relationship is not easy. There are so many things to think about. I spent so many sleepless nights thinking whether this relationship is worth the fight or not. Chris would always say yes... I hold on to his answer and would just brush this idea away from my head after all, love knows no boundary, nor culture, nationality, or even race.