Dance like no one’s watching.
Sing like no one’s listening.
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt before.
Live like there’s no tomorrow.

Winter 2001. I was in Kagoshima and all I was “allowed” to experience was about an hour of wet flurries. Winter 2002, I was back in the Philippines, then Kagoshima experienced a very white winter, which is a very rare occurrence.
Last New Year’s day, I went to Gifu-ken with hopes of experiencing snow fights but […]

These past few years have been a great struggle for me. I’ve been bombarded with difficult situations, some of which are just results of wrong decisions, and most are beyond my control. I have fallen so hard and I am still groping in the dark. Well, when every thing else fails, there […]

I turned a year older yesterday. If I were working in Manila, I would have took the day off, go to the movies and have a huge meal in a favorite restaurant. Even so, I would have fabricated a story of being extremely sick, just to be off from work but I’m sure I would […]

It’s been 5 years since I last seen my twis (twin sister). Yes, I do have a twin sister… we were so close that she was like a twin sister to me. Being of Japanese descent, she and her siblings were able to work here in Japan years ago. She got married on March 2001 […]