XhianJohn Valenzuela's WoRd Of FaNtAsY and DrEaMs

Life @ Work

After 5 Months since I started to work I't didn't comes to my mind to open my blog, and i realized that many things happened during that period in particular, happy moments, sorrows ups and down, conflict and miss-understanding with my colleagues and office mates. it comes in my mind that on this stage of life sometimes you don't have time to share in public what's going on in your life. You based only on your daily routine such as; after 9hours of answering telephone such as: questions, inquiry and complaints it's really depressing and make me stress but that's part of life however if I have nothing to do at the accommodation I'm always thinking that its better to be on duty rather than to sleep for a long period of time. but It's better to be on this, even though i get bored and thinking nothing to happen in my life, but I'm earning and I can buy what I Want.

“The Journey of a thousand miles”

Dubai Marina

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“Journey of a Thousand Miles”

In every journey in our life we started with a single step. Who knows a simple man travel alone to unknown place? This is my travel story to a thousand miles. After along sacrifice from school, having hard time dealing numerous problem solving and hectic schedule, who knows that I will travel alone and it’s my first time to ride in an airplane it’s truly challenging, you really don’t have an idea where to go and where you are, specially traveling to a foreign country. There’s a fear, doubt and excitement as well its mixed emotion actually. I realized later on, that education is truly a tools or you personal weapon to face to other people, it really test your eagerness to concur all those feelings that might be a reason for you to surrender. But I will never do that one. I know that before I can reach my final destination it begins with single steps.

My Journey going to dubai

It's quite difficult to travel plane from General Santos Airport setting for almost two hours! its a long period of time to a beginners like me, after an hour and 45 minutes i landed manila terminal III, without an idea where to go. . . but still I'm following where some of the passenger go, after i get my small luggage i really dont know whats the next step to make. . . and i said to my self if i will not ask somebody i will be lost in middle of my journey, i continuing walking and the only thing that in my mind that I'm going to transfer at terminal 1 for my international flight going to hongkong however my departure time will be 11am and as i check the time it's pass 7 in the evening so i need to find a place where can i relax for bit, but not a hotel accommodation I can't imagine for 16hours of waiting doing nothing, looking for some passenger pass by is a waste of time. when the time come i prepare my self and my things to check in all set and done, i already pay my travel tax etc. but there's more for the immigration. I ask to my self why they are asking Filipino travelers to go abroad? specially those who have tourist visa! it's not obvious why they have that reasonable papers? they kept asking, asking and asking gathering personal documents what they are looking for? what they want to know? I was disappointed with their system. instead they should be happy because their fellow Filipino even though its too expensive to be in their love ones but still they find ways, i can't get what they want to show. but thanks for those who have good intention and good heart who are working not for their personal sake but for their co-Filipino's. As the continuation when i already in the plane going to Hongkong it's quite unusual but when we landed it's too cold and there's more i lost in Hongkong International, I'm thinking why i didn't know that I'm connecting flight going to Dubai however i rode their Shuttle train under the airport it's amazing and fast! and in the middle of its i don't where I am! it's too many people talking different languages, and heart bit pump fast is't a sign that I'm lost? or I'm in an island with no neighboring place? as what many people said that in every darkness their is always light to see! yes it's true someone helps me a Cathay Pacific Filipina stewardess she took me to the screen were you can see your next flight and the gate where it is located, and imagine i went to gate 805 but my flight going to Dubai is on gate 30 only! when remember that i was laughing it's ridiculous. and i finally met my co-Filipino sitting and waiting for the gate to open they kept asking me where did i go? and i said i was lost and this airport is so big and wide but i discover something that there's a lot shopping store inside one of my favorite is the Disneyland booth! wow its wonderful seeing my favorite cartoon character and the next expensive jewelry and perfume. but the time come it was announced that in a few minute we will boarding to Dubai! and the inside story is that we really enjoy eating food and beverages playing and watching games in the plane because all passengers are Filipino. and we finally landed in Dubai after 5 hours and 30 minutes and i see my cousin and her friend who's waiting for me! and it's only the beginning of my journey here in DUBAI UAE.

Youngblood: The Badjao's of R10

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death". Many Filipinos today are educated having their degree of profession they still believe that it's only way to raise from poverty and their poor of living. they still striving for success to attain their goals and ambition in life, however many of the Filipino tribe are not, they are contented when they graduate in high school and they think it is a greatest accomplished in their life.In their culture and tradition most special to a woman the only thing that they do is to give birth and to take care of their children they didn't asking for wealthy life they only want is to payback to their parents expenses during their single days who gave their wants and needs, and now that they grown up even though it's not the right age to get married because its part of their culture and tradition, as a result many Indigenous People lived at the swaps and they become beggars asking for alms along side the road without thinking the danger to their health and live's.

Youngblood: The Badjao's of R10 issue March 01 2011

for Mayette. . . .
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it because what the world needs is people who come alive". We can't deny the fact that poverty is still existing now a days, there are many factors for that, one of those is uneducated. in our country we have different tribes and we called them as IP's or Indigenous People some of them didn't go to school due to they lived at the mountain's and it's too far from school. but there are striving IP's who want's to be educated, in fact the Badjao tribes the parent's send their children to school not for learnings but for higher payback when their daughter get married once their daughter are high school graduate they ask for higher amount, that's why many IP's lived at the squaters area because they don't care what way of living is, the only thing that is important to them is to survive. In City's many IP's who are asking for alms, wearing their native costume while performing their native dance and instruments, many street children are IP's they already immune to the pollutions, noise and danger because their parents taught them how to earn money for their survival

Farewell my dearest friends . . .

I believe that all things in this world are temporary. In my short staying and studying here in STI College Koronadal, I learned a lot one of those is how to understand and listen to others problem and to be open to them, I’m glad that I met a lot of good friends despite our differences.

Every single day, they make me laugh and smile that let me feel I’m belong, they encourage me to do something, that makes me enjoy because they said life is too short, we go somewhere else that is not familiar to me, and I can’t hide my feelings that I’m so blessed that God given me good and precious friends helping one another to rich out and sometimes in financial matter, which is good to know. They don’t know that my days are counted I was diagnose that I have a colon cancer and I want to cry when they hug me saying their words of good luck, but I lied to them, I told them that I need to take an examination to study abroad, but not.

Every night before I sleep, I reminisce all the happy memories, I imagine their smiles, I hear their laughter’s and their tears of happiness even though I go for awhile I hope and I pray, that he will guide you all, and I always bear in my mind that I have friends like you!

Farewell my dearest friends . . .