Working without saving

There are lots of people who are spending more than what they are earning. And to tell you honestly I was once one of them.

It is very difficult to live having the salary that is just enough to support yourself or your family for the whole month. It means that you have no freedom to buy another thing.

Then those people who have more salary are sometimes do not have controls with their spending. They are telling that they cannot please themselves but to buy new stuffs.

In my case, now that I have those things I think that are essential, I started to save and I feel good about it. When I started to work abroad it gives me freedom to buy the things that I want. Laptop, smartphone,guitar, electronic keyboard, etc. now that I have those, I have nothing else to buy therefore my salary are now going directly to the bank.

Best place to go on 2012

Tripadvisor is said to be one of the most reliable source for every informations we need when we wants to travel. A lot of people are giving, sharing their experience about the place, the accommodations and the service they had in a place they've been.

Maybe you would like to consider the survey they just have about the worlds best: Beaches, Hotels, Restaurants and destinations. Acording to tripadvisor.com these are among the best.

Best Destinations.

1. Cape Town Central, South Africa.
2. Sydney, Australia
3. Machu Picchu, Peru
4. Paris, France
5. Rio de Janiero

Beast Beaches

1. Providenciales, Turks and Caicus island.
2. Boracay, Philippines
3. Palm/Eagle Beach, Aruba
4. Negril, Jamaica
5. Tulum, Mexico

Best Hotels

1. Waldorf Astoria, Chicago illinois USA.
2. The Grand Del Mar, San Diego California USA.
3. Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, Hawaii
4. Old edwards Inn and Spa, North Carolina USA
5. Heatman Hotel, Kirkland Washington USA.

Filipino Talent

I love music,  more than that I love talents and the most I like the people who are not afraid to show their talents. To be honest, because I am a shy person I am envy of those people who are not so good looking but are beleieving with their talents.

Me, being Filipino makes me feel good that there are so many Filipino's I mean Half Filipinos are making it big to the International music, movies, sports scene. I know there are lot's of Filipinos who feel the same. If you notice to see a competetion like american Idol and we found that there is a contestant that is looks like asian or hispanic, Filipino people will try to check if he or she is a Filipino, and if they found that its a Filipino or has Filpino blood for sure they're  going  to share a link on their facebook for example.

Today I was watching american Idol, I learned that Jessica Sanchez one of the final 24 for this season of American Idol is half Filipino.

Here is the talents.

How are you? (do you really mean it when you say it?)

When I was in the Philippines I rarely hear the english word "how are you?" not because its not our languages. I mean "hi or hello" are most common in greeting people we see or met on the day,  We normally say hi or hello on the people we met anywhere for the first time, and for the first time of the day normally the people we are working with, like office mates etc.

We have " kamusta ka? " from the spanish word (como esta) the Tagalog or Filipino translation of "How ar you?"  We normally ask "kumusta " to our friend and or to people we did not see for a couple of times or for the people we met for the first time and we are interested to have a conversation with them. I mean kumusta is really a sincere word of asking How are you in my country. The answer is mabuti which is "good" in english. or sometimes they will answer "okay lang, in english "just okay" and if not good ussually they tell directly the story, the same as good they directly thell the story.

For most english speaking people "how are you is the best way of greeting people". I do not know the real explanation, I didn't check. Based on my observation english speaking people normally say "how are you" when they greet people, doesn't matter if they are sincere or concern or no or what. And of course the answer is normally good, I'm fine, no good, so so. etc. For some people just to have something to say they say I'm good but for those people who have to express more they will say "no" and you will be lucky if  they are interested to listen.

We have to understand that "how are you" is a greeting in general. But depends on the person who say it, we can say that they are sincere when they ask how are you? You can see it on the expression of their face when they say it.

Mc Donald's Quarter Pounder "my first time"

To be honest, this is my first time to eat a quarter pounder meal of Mc Donalds. I am not a big fan of burger so its not a big deal for me.

When I was in the Philippines I always eat in a fastfood like Mc Donalds, Jollibee and Chowking but i never give a chance to eat those popular Burger because for me those are very expensive, I only eat the value meal which are  80% cheap than those burger, when I do  not have budget I eat in a Carenderia or Turo-turo.

I was working before in a restaurant as a service crew. My salary is just enough to pay for my space, for my daily food and for my transportation going to work and to school because I was also studying that time.

Here in Dubai, well I can afford now to eat those food that I cannot in the Philippines like this Quarter Pounder. In Dubai quarter pounder meal is only 17 AED, around 4 to 5 US dollar and around 200Php  in the Philippines. If i convert it, its still expensive.

Straciatella Cheese

At first it's looks like a buko salad, because it's looks like a segments of baby coconut covered of milk but then when I tasted it I learned that it's a kind of soft cheese called stracciatella.

Stracciatella cheese is soft cheese made from cows and buffalo milk. The same proccess like buffalo mozzarella only the texture are different as buffalo mozzarella is round and has shape while straciatella is like a creamy and soft segments.

Straciatella normally found inside the Burrata, Burrata is a mozzarella cheese with starciatella filling.
All these cheeses are best served with slice tomato and rocket salad.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be greatful you did.

 Sarah Caldwell


When we achieved something we always reward or cheer our self for what we have done. Its a feeling that is very good, like we telling a big " WOW! I did it" to our self, and at this moment we will remember those things in the fast that we've learned,

We should give importance to everything, to everyone because for sure we can learn even a small thing from them.