There is No Place Like Home

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Dorothy was right, there is no place like home. It seems that it has only been a couple of hours since I left Iloilo…and I’m miss it already. I dunno if I am OA or what but its just…well I’m a bit emotional whenever I go home. I miss the simplicity of life that I love. I miss the laid back days and nights. I miss those sumptuous and fresh foods coming from the nature’s bounty. I miss the people whom I’ve grew up with. I miss my barkada and my friends and family.

There are no 2 hour traffic jams, no big coffins running on streets, no EDSA, no big skyscrapers, no need to rush things over which includes your life as well. Almost everything is placid with a bit frenzy. 

Sadly, I have to take one step further. I have dreams to fulfill, and these are all for my hometown and myself as well. In order for me to achieve it, I have to leave home and face the challenges that is Manila.

Yes, I grew up in Manila (or Cavite)…know about its culture and busy city life…but after that I left her in 2002, my perspectives in life changed. I tend to lean more on the simplicity yet progressive environment of my father’s hometown, which I consider my own hometown as well. I learned to respect different cultures and peoples and enjoyed life at its fullest. The change of place has really made a revolutionary stance within me…and the history hidden in the grand old houses and churches fuelled up my passion that this place indeed needs some revamp.

 But for now, I’ll go…and someday I’ll come back with a better “Berniemack.” Respected and heard of…biskan indi ko pulitiko.

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Visayans are Laidback, but not Lazy!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Someone asked me why Visayans are so laid back, always not on a rush and celebrate fiestas in a way that the whole downtown streets close. And why is it that we tend not to rush things…rush things like there is no tomorrow and instead would go on to fiestas and celebrate. Are we that lazy and that’s why we celebrate things too often?

At first, I have my eyebrows raised…What? Lazy? WTF! But again, if I went emotional I couldn’t explain rationally… eh di sumemplang pa ako lalo!  So..first I becalmed myself and faced that guy and gave him some frank answers…

At first I said, we’re not lazy. We just love life to the fullest. We tend not to rush things as if we’re on caffeine steroids.

Second, if we are indeed lazy, how can we manage to have created empires and cities out of sugar, shipping and so much more. Haven’t he forgotten where the Aboitizes, Lopezes and the once powerful political entity called the “sugar bloc” came from? Where did Cebu’s, Iloilo’s, Bacolod’s, Tacloban’s, Bohol’s progress came from? Di ba, from the people’s own blood, sweat and tears? Culture and the environment we’re living are different as his.

Yes we may be laidback, but hey…we’re not lazy either! Enjoy the life to the fullest extent!

As what Mahatma Gandhi say “Live as you are to die tomorrow, Lean as if you have to live forever!”

My dos pesos worth…

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Back Online!

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Dang, it’s been a long time since I last wrote here. I was too focused on my HabagatCentral.com blog. But anyway, I’m back and I’ll be posting, ranting, commenting, writing anything here…after all, this is my personal blog! Hehehe! So bawal muna ang proof-reading dito kasi English-Filipino at minsan konting Espanyol! 

Its nice to be back…and this 2010, we’ll be adding a new blog in the HabagatCentral family. Just wish me luck that it pushes through. 

Happy New Year to everyone

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