lucky you if you never experience the harness of life, never seen or experience the corrupt government….

syempre, may pag asapa… sino ba naman ang pag asa ng Pilipinas?….

kabataang pinoy! pinoy ako, pinoy tayo!

Haha…the only thing people do today is either corrupt the government more, join fame contests or somewhere in between. Well, I, too, am not losing hope but more people are. Guess they have nothing more to do anyway…

I’m no longer there, but it wasn’t my choice to leave. I love the Philippines! I plan to return and raise my children there. I love the people..the Filipinos. Idiosyncrasies and all.

and here i am, torn between the lure of the overseas and the comfort in staying in dear ol’ RP. XD

i mean, i love the philippines but there’s just more out there. i do eventually plan to come back. someday. lol:)

thanks for dropping by my blog!

Opportunities to immigrate had come and gone, but I’m still here.

i guess if you go indie you’ll find out what the teacher said. it’s hard. very. but yes, there’s still hope. if only the people with brains act. most don’t. me included (as if i had brains~ LOL)

Glad to hear that from you, btw you’re in my link section under “Great Reads”

Actually, for some odd reason, the newer generation of Filipinos seem to be more optimistic than the older ones. As you can see in my blog that I’m with this generation. But when I talk older filipinos, my parents, etc. They seem to lose any hope for PI. I’m not sure what has caused this mentality, maybe because they have lived through tough times under the Marcos Administration.

In a sense this can be likened to the Great Depression of America during the 20’s-30’s.

I have created my blog for that sole purpose, so if you have any ideas please post them, and it be a privilege to have you as a guest blogger too.

hey, thanks for dropping by my cupcake blog.

Don’t worry, you aren’t alone in remaining positive about the Philippines–and I’ve managed to remain so even after being in the so-called “real world” and working in development on the ground. I make no claims, though, to having been exposed to all the social realities in the Philippines.
Anyway, all I wanted to say was this is a topic that I feel strongly about, too.

oh, and by the way, about the action part–there are so many ways to do something, if you look hard enough. i know a few things that you can do, but I dunno if you’d be interested. just drop me a line, if ever.

i’m glad to hear that i’m not the only one with the same frame of thought. maybe my age has nothing to do with it, eh?

Filipinos are the most astig in the world!!!

Hey liz! Nice entry in time for the month of Independece.

It is not new that everytime any one of us have casual conversations among peers, the topic of living outside the coutry will always pop-up. It has become a trend. And from those conversations, we know that “most” of the flips would always take the opportunity to live abroad if given the chance. As the cliche goes, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fense. This thinking I guess i but human nature. For instance, on a local setting, I’d hear people say, “I wish I’m connected with this company”, or having an officemate who came from another company, would utter, “nah, i wish i didn’t leave my previous job - it was better there”.

See, I too used to think this way. And maybe perhaps I still think the same. I took the risk to work abroad even though I’ve been earning enough comparative to the average wage earners in our country. While part of it was to attain a better living condition, most of it can be attributed to my adventurous nature. Going to other places gives you the opportunity to acquire certain learnings - a knowledge that is attainable beyond reading. From the short period that I worked abroad, I learnt so much about things. I discovered my own weaknesses as well as my strong spots. And of course, the interaction with a highly muliticultural country gave me a different perspective of how some side of the world thinks.

Yes, I also strongly believe that there is a great HOPE for our country. However, as with my immersion with most filipinos in Dubai, people whose status and background I didn’t give myself a chance to interact with here in pinas but I was able to commune with outside our country, I found out that a lot of these people were better off working abroad. While I lived there maximizing my time to appreciate the places - enjoying the tourist spots while working. A lot of these people are actually just spending time at home, trying to save as much as they could to send money to their family. One flatmate I witnessed actually cried saying “nagtxt nanaman si mama, wala man lang pasabi -anak kumusta ka na dyan? Bungad kaagad anak kelangan ng pera ng kapatid mo, etc etc.” I was saying, they’re better off working abroad given that they have slimmer chance of getting a job here. At first I was wondering, how come some of these people are only earning around roughly PhP20K abroad and yet they were able to survive for the longest time that they were there. That’s because they were given the equal opportunity. Despite being just a high school graduate, or I even met one who hasn’t even graduated high school, they were given equal opportunities by these countries to fairly earn a decent amount and provide their family as much as they can.

I guess, until our country can provide more jobs and better living condition for our people, I don’t see why not go abroad for those who feel miserable living here? But then again, this is just me, lost in the labyrinth behind the shrubberies.

as to why i came back, that’s another story. guess this is too much of a comment already. cheers!

i was making my commets kahapon, kaso kulang yung field nung mag-submit ako. tapos ubos na ang internet hour ko sa office that day.

kaya eto, rants na lang he he he

cheers pa rin!

Hi - first visit ko dito. I like this article and so true. Often people talk about the evil things in life and often we don’t stop to think of the flipside.

Right On…

larrybored: thanks. your post is good supplementary reading. it’s pretty self-explanatory too so i won’t add anything na.

mon: indeed. optimism is a cool thing.

lol i guess i’m one of those people who overlook the good side of the country.
i love the Philippines.
i don’t find fault at the country but at the flips. most of the people whom i met aren’t really a boost of the good side of the country. there are a few, probably but not significant enought for me to draw my attention to the good side of it.
aside from that you can’t stop, well i for one, can’t stop myself from thinking about the evil side of life. in one point in my life, i had a spoiled life, but when life hits you fast and hard (lol registered to visa/mastercard) you grab the opportunity that would give you a good life or a better one for some.
though yes probably for me there is still hope of the flips, if the new generation aren’t going to be like their predecesors… =/

i think liking something is more important than loving it.

Maski saan parte ka ng mundo pinoy pa rin tayo. Lahat ng bansa may problema.Kabutihan sa pinoy maski na may problema lagi pa ring nakatawa!