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On House cooling and Being Far From Family

October 9th, 2008 · No Comments

We did not go to Den Haag last Tuesday to do my oath taking since MrC has a flu.  Also, we do not have all his papers yet for the immigration so it’s probably better to time it when we have all of them so we save on one trip to Den Haag.
I heard from [...]

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Tags: News · Personal

My changing point of view

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments

My husband likes it here! Even more than me. I feel confused still with how things work. Have you heard of reverse culture shock? I had my sort of “romantic” memories of Philippines of the past and some of the bad part as always has been forgotten and now I am seeing the [...]

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Tags: Discoveries · Personal · Rants · Relocation · Travel

I resigned

July 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Today, after months of rehearsing it over and over in my mind I finally have the guts to resign from my job. After all, it’s inevitable. I told first the HR and then my manager. We just interviewed someone yesterday and today after hearing from them that they are ready to hire [...]

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Tags: Announcements · Career · Discoveries · Milestones · Personal

Nothing personal — it’s only business

July 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

The past few days we have both been busy trying to research what structure is appropriate for our business and have been working on our business plan. Later, we ended up concluding that this will not be “our business” but it will only be his. The first reason is quite clear: [...]

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Tags: Musings · Personal · Planning

My not-so-boring Status Report

June 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’ve been quiet for the past days but so many interesting things have happened.  First of all, I FOUND BUBBLES!  Just a few days ago MrC and I were web browsing together and we thought of searching in Facebook and there I found a name that sounds familiar, it was the name of her little [...]

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Tags: Discoveries · Milestones · News · Nostalgia · Personal