buhay isla

Time flies really fast, can’t imagine that I’ve been here in Palau for almost 4 years now yikes!  katagal na pala talaga. So much had happened, so many lessons learned and so many people I’ve met that have touched my life and my heart (whehehe). All are to be treasured of and all have greatly contributed to who I am now.  Here are the top 3’s worth remembering (I hope my memory won’t fail me J

3 know hows

• I can cook now (hooray),  though I’m so mabagal as in super (as per buds) but still I can cook and can satisfy the hungry stomachs and the taste buds of my friendly friends

• I’m a licensed driver, ooops a licensed-kaskasera-driver–sometimes pag bad mood lang naman . I’ve been stopped by the police twice because of unregistered car (hehehe the company forgot to renew the license) and the headlight of the car that I’m driving is not working.

• I know how to swim na (a little). With the help of the magic fins I can enjoy snorkeling without vest and can have pictures underwater whehehe though I’m still in the process of learning how to dive to have better underwater pics. Need more time to go swimming kahit super neggie na ko keri pa din…for the love of water nga naman hmmm wawang skin it’s good may whitening soap and lotion

3 lessons learned

• Mahirap na masarap ang buhay-independent, lalo na if you’re living abroad, away from the comfort of home, away from your family and friends. You’ll learn to be responsible, from the simplest task of attending to your daily needs (like pagluluto at paglalaba) to making big decisions/choices in life. Along the path of I’m-in-charge-of-my-life-now, you’ll bump into various experiences from making bad choices to being ecstatic of the new found freedom, there’ll be angst, disappointments, love, pain, memories, name it you’ll got it.  Whatever it is, it will be a tool in molding you to become a mature and better person *big grin.

• Matters of the heart naman*wink *wink. Lovers can’t be friends (after break-up that is), gasgas na lesson hehehe. Anyways, simple rule, you can’t be friendly friends to someone you are emotionally attached with, after deciding to let them go. Why? You’ll end up getting hurt the more and you tend to hope that there might be a possibility of second chance. Second lesson on love, most of the time, it’s hard to know if you really love a person you’ve learned to cherished during your living-abroad-and-alone-saga. Why? Because the person that you’ve become so close to tend to receive and give the affection, attention and TLC that you’re supposed to give and receive from your loved one/s back home. Mahirap if tamang homesick lang yan, you’ll end-up hurting each other, especially if you know deep inside you na somebody’s waiting for you and you know you’ll come back no matter what.

• Never be afraid to trust, to love unconditionally and to do what is right and good no matter what, for in doing so you might find a precious thing called one true best friend. All of us need someone we can call our bestfriend, someone who’ll be there during our drama mode or kilig mode or kahit pa warfreak mode at kung minsan e silent mode pa.   Someone who’ll accept you (kahit alien daw!), someone who’ll understand you (may lucid interval daw!) or someone who’ll stand by you *wink. In short, ang bestfwend mo ang tanging tao na pwedeng bumatok sa ‘yo pag medu jejengers jengers ka and vice versa at ang magbibigay sau ng sandamakmak na tissue if ever feel mong magemote. Cya ang taong you want to be with when you want to be alone-ironic isn’t, but that’s what best buds is.

Hay! Buhay isla nga naman-so much had happened and is happening, more kwento next time.  I’ll be staying here for another year, so my island-living is not yet done hmmm ano kaya ang mga mangyayari pa *think *smile.