Aimeeee, YEY!

7,776,000 seconds ---  that's how long I've been waiting (and still waiting) till my loving wife comes back from maternity leave! 

A painstaking 129,600 minutes of going through work and living in the absence of my wife.  Each minute ticking away like a snail pacing a large stadium.

2,160 hours of staying sane, unmindful of the fact that I am alone and oftentimes making my self numb to the point of ignoring my emotions.

3 months of easy-to-cook meals (fried, microwave, freebies, take-outs or eat-ins, init-init food).

A quarter of a year that felt like ETERNITY!

But hey, my time of agony is soon coming to a halt --- Aimee is coming, YEY :)  And this is actually the last week of waiting.  Come Thursday, at 1300H Abu Dhabi time, my wife is back again! 

Oh Be, I so terribly, overly, exaggeratingly miss you so, so, so much, hehe!

So in preparation, it also means that I still have time to do the following while I still have time to spare:

1.  Major, Major Clean-up - Don't get me wrong.  I do a weekly tidying up routine.  You know the usual basang-basahan, punas-punas-the-alikabok thing, walis-walis the alikabok after punas-punas, throwing away the garbage accumulated within the week, etc.  But of course this week will be a double, make it triple, clean up project! 

2.  A Full Fridge - Need to find time to buy food and stock up.  I miss my wife's cooking and I know she misses cooking for her hubby too!  I am so glad that I will get to savour different viands soon.  (A far cry from pritong itlog, pritong hotdog, pritong maling or tocino everyday!)

3.  Running shoes, you will be running again! - we were not able to even jog when she got pregnant (of course), so we plan to exercise again (and it is an approximately 9+3 months of just munching and loading up fats down our waist). 

4.  Clothes Inventory - need to fold-up and tuck-away (for now, **wink**) those maternity dresses that she left in our cabinet.  I also have this nasty habit of pulling clothes from beneath, leaving the ones on top dangling.  Kailangan ayusin baka mapalo hehe :D

5.  and a SURPRISE!

Aimee, my Be, I honor you for being so strong all throughout our journey.  Having us apart made me realize that --- I might have done something good, to deserve someone so great as YOU!

I love you Be :)

For TRAVEL FACTOR --- I WILL!

I am not really a blogger...  because I am not good with words.  I would rather read someone else's blog, then share a piece of my thoughts, than create and re-read my own.

I am more of a poser (though the result may not be always satisfactory)...  sometimes a jester (if one single joke clicks then you're up for more)...  a motivator (i love seeing others triumph over their fears)...  a go-getter (hence, my battlecry: I refuse to just exist---i live)...  but it never occured to me that this day would come where I'd finally squeeze my balls, and spark some brain activities, to come up with something interesting and worth reading. 

But I realized that I am not doing this to impress.  I am starting to blog to GIVE BACK.  This is going to be my simple gesture of thanking Him, thanking new found friends and acquaintances, appreciating my family more, and showing my gratitude to Life for all the experiences I gained. 

Folks I may not be a blogger, but for Travel Factor --- I will!

I could still remember the time while I was watching Sports Unlimited (that was when I'm like 2 or 3 shades lighter and some few bucks richer; but awfully bored), I got enticed by two young ladies delivering a monologue about Travel Factor and travel and stuff about travel and all about PASSION ( Haha, Tix!)... 

Though this is an extremely overused line, I'd like to abuse it some more --- and the rest they say is History!

Thank you Travel Factor for the merriment of experiencing some of the 7,107 ways of enjoying life! 

...  for accommodating me in El Nido though there is only a day left!

...  for letting me partyyyyy (where people are more interested to pose than to dance, haha)! 

...  for getting me STOKED and craving to be stoked again!

...  for letting me do what I dread most, like to Trek, and be happy that I did such.

...  for preparing me on my next trip through Pinatubo, in finding the very elusive lighthouse of Ca-pagod Island and later on be mesmerized by the Very PINE Beach and even later, to satisfy my yearning for STOKE!

...  and lastly, for letting me take care of others, more than my Life, to the point of bloodloss :D

Chinese

English

Filipino

Pakistani

Beautiful places.  Amazing people.  Inextinguishable spirit. 

And that was, my TF experience!