Travel in Stages

Travel when you're still young. It is most enjoyed when young...exploring the hidden secrets of a place with friends, losing your way, making mistakes, getting bruises...simply having fun. Enjoy being young and enjoy life with friends.


Travel when you have a family of your own. It should be an obligation by the parents to their kids. It is not necessarily be an overseas travel. It doesn't matter where it is. It could be out of town, to the mall, to a park, a zoo. It's a good way to bond with your kids and your kids will appreciate it. Keep in mind that you might get to enjoy them probably only 16 years then they would like to travel on their own or with their friends.

[Mike: this is life mommy]

Traveling when you get a little older has some serious tone and you'll probably look at it with a different point of view. Probably more businesslike and the conversation would be more like hmmmm....reminiscing the younger days?

We'll see.

Cebu-Bohol Trip

While planning this trip they said: Orayty! If things work out for you it will be a celebration otherwise we're going to console you in your depress-depress-an mode. Either way it will be just the right venue.

And it became a celebration thing. Halleluia! We explored Cebu and Bohol. So far Cebu got the coolest airport and seaport. Having been immune to the inefficiency and unpleasantness of Batangas port, I was amazed by the Cebu port, at least the port where we took the supercat. There are x-rays for luggage, K9 dogs, and where manifesto is automated. Instead of writing your name, address and telephone number, someone will just scan your ticket and a computer will take your picture.

Bohol on the other hand is the cleanest island so far. There are 7,107 islands in the Philippines and I have been in just a few so don't take my word for it but here's one you can take: Don't go high with expectations..be ready to be surprised.

Break-even Point

Break-even Point. In accounting, it is the point where you reach a certain level of sales where there is no loss and there is no gain. A point where total sales equal the total expenses thus, profit is equal to zero. But the computation is far more complicated than summarizing or adding total expenses then subtracting it from total sales. You have to understand the behavior of your costs which is affected by a variety of factors: capacity, price, volume etc. To simplify there are assumptions regarding their relationships that assumed valid over the relevant range of activity and at a specified period of time. When you exceeded the break-even point, you gain-- therefore, you win.

In life sometimes you love someone but that someone doesn't love you back. And sometimes someone loves you but you don't love them in the same way. Quits lang. Even. (hmmm.. or isn't odd?)

When two people break-up they try to get even, resorting to revenge, inflicting pain. When someone scores a point he/she wins and the other loses. Then there's a point where they'll reach the break-even and realized.... Nobody wins.

My law professor once said that love and trust are two different things. You may love someone but you may not trust him or her because love is for you to give and it is given freely but trust is up to the other person if he/she deserves to earn it.

But it is important to note that like the factors in computing the break-even point, truth is only true within the relevant range, within the relevant period of time. It is the point where truth and honesty matter. After such point everything to be said doesn't matter anymore. It becomes insignificant or worse tainted. As time passes a new version of truth exist as this may already have been influenced by new information that changes or affirms prejudice, previous assumptions and then there's a thing called justification.

Personally and in business it has been said that you must learn to see and grab the opportunity otherwise you'll miss it and you lose. The same with truth, we were given limited time and opportunity. Grab it, otherwise you may never earn the trust and lose (it, him or her)

Break-even. Got that point? Exceeded it? Or missed it?

"Suppressio veri expressio falsi"

The Year that Was

It ends here. You received enough shit. Too many second chances. Looking back, you realized how pathetic it is, how ironic it is....

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If they don't see you in their future, why bother? This is something they should realize on their own.
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If that's the way they treat people, who is she to be treated differently?
But still.....
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Dr. Cuddy: Men are stupid
Dr. House: I'm with you so far

Disclaimer: The opinion expressed here are the views of the writer (of House) and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinion of pet's pensieve. :)

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In just one click of a camera, just a second of a moment everything changes. And you'll be surprised of how someone, of how a moment can change your life.

You decided long ago that this is what you love to do, that these are the people you want to be with, that this is the place you want to be. But one person, one huge emotion can change your life forever.

You love them but you have to leave them. This is the life you've been dreaming but you have to forget it. You try to forget someone. And in order to succeed you have to give up everything else. Quit your job, left some friends, and you have to bury a hobby you found. A hobby you were excited to learn so much about until you let someone in. You have to leave because it reminds you so much of the pain.

Then, you try to start a new life.

Wilson: You're saying the pain don't go away?
Cameron: It gets easier, not in two months, not in two years, but no, never really goes away"

- House, season 5

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Every once in a while, a person needs to be alone
Every once in a while, a person should find time to be alone
To reflect, to meditate, to understand and realize if all is you, if everything else is what they seem, if you're on the right track and not blinded by the life's trap.

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She was asked, " Can we still be friends?"
And she said: You were asking me this now? I will not be a hypocrite that after all you said and done, we're okay, that I'm okay. I cannot even wish you happiness but I cannot wish you pain either. All I can hope is for you to get whatever it is you deserve. In my lowest of times, in times when I needed a friend most you weren't there but instead you inflict more pain and further push me down. And it hurts even deeper that I want to work things out and you don't. And as long as it is a joke to you, no, we can't be friends.

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If you only have asked me what you really wanted to know then you would have gotten your answer. Then you would have known that there's nothing to be jealous of and learned that there's no need to inflict pain. But you love the mystery and the idea that "you know"..

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"Is it worth it?", she was asked.
It should have been.