Sasha says…

Keeping in touch

I love keeping in touch with friends and relatives abroad. I have a lot of friends in the US, specifically in California and New York. I am closest to Lynn, my friend who works in New York City at one of the big audit firms in the whole USA. I use calling cards whenever I call Lynn and it saves me a lot of money rather than using the local landline or my local mobile line to call her up. She goes to clients most of the time so chatting is out of the question.

Thank goodness there are Philippine calling cards available at GetMeCallingCards.com that we here in the Philippines can use to call someone abroad. There are so many overseas Filipino workers in various parts of the world and I am sure, just like me, the persons they left behind here be it family or friend will be happy to be able to say hi to them there.

If you are looking for calling cards to call someone abroad, just go to GetMeCallingCards.com now.

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A surprise visit

I was pleasantly surprised when my close friend of almost 20 years now visited me last weekend. It was a fun visit. We reminisced about the old times. You know, we grew up together in the same neighborhood. Got separated when they temporarily lived abroad and rekindled our friendship when her family came back to live permanently in the Philippines. They did not come back to their old house across the street. But the friendship that started when we were little kids became stronger through daily phone calls. And we saw each other in special occasions when they come visit.

I just missed her a lot. She is still single like me and is currently working for a big pharmaceutical company as an executive. Next time, I will be the one to visit her at her new condo unit.

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First link loving in 2008

Some link love for you guys…

Cut and paste the following starting here.

I have randomly selected 5 of you below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes we hope it will be a long list!)

It’s real easy! Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially! The benefits of Viral Linking:

• - One of the fastest ways to see your technorati authority explode!
• - Increase your Google PageRank fast
• - Attract large volume of new traffic to your site
• - Build your community
• - Make new friends!

The Strategist Notebook | Link Addiction | Ardour of the Heart | When Life Becomes a Book | The Malaysian Life | Yogatta.com | What goes under the sun | Roshidan’s Cyber Station | Sasha says | Arts of Physics | And the legend lives | My View, My Life!

Then add/tag 5 blogs of your friends…

GBEx | Tita Liza | Rachel | Ate Thess | Pam

I hope you will do this tag so it will benefit all of us hehe…

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Thank you to my new blogger-friends who have given me a start of the year awards…

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On friendship…

You could potentially be friends with anyone, even someone you may dislike intensely right now.

I saw this question when I was answering an online test. My answer is a YES. What’s funny about my friendship history is that I normally get close to someone I dislike originally. For example, I really didn’t like my friend Joshua the first time I met her. She seemed too timid and too intelligent. I generally didn’t like persons who were too shy to begin with. But do you know that right now, she’s one of the closest friends I have?

So yeah, my answer is a big YES. I can potentially become friends with just about anybody

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To inay…

Happy Birthday dearest inay, my friend
To me you are heavens end
I’ve never known a brighter spirit
With all good thoughts and deeds of merit

 A kinder person I’ve rarely known
Your friendship true and love you’ve shown
So today my special friend
With all my love I do send

special bouquets of all God flowers
Filled with prayers with all His powers
To keep you safe throughout your days
and strength no matter what comes your way

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Blog Award Part 1

My dear sis Rebecca of Skippy Heart and my dearest kuya Dom Lawrence gave me this award:

You’ve got a friend in me

Thank you, sis! This means a lot to me! I treasure friendships made with real people, be it online or offline, and I just know I found a friend in you.

I am passing on this award to the following people:

Maiylah > for being a kindred spirit. I can so relate to your being a “zombie” hehehe… and for being sweet and caring.
Pam > for being a sweet person who always visits me here even though I cannot return the favor most of the time.
Joni > for easily saying yes when I asked for a link exchange. Naku there are a lot of really great bloggers like this girl who can be snobs. I can name a few pero wag na lang… Joni, on the other hand, is a popular blogger who creates beautiful themes that is NOT a snob at all!
tita Liza > a new blogger friend who also visits a lot and writes great posts.
ate Vicky > for always visiting and catching up with missed posts kahit minsan sponsored sige pa rin siya at may comment hehe… I love ate VK talaga!
Xixi > a new found friend, a single mom who struggled with a lot of things in her life but still coping up and keeping the faith.
WS of Weekend Snapshots > for being a really great meme host!

These bloggers are all new found friends (not so new for some hehe) and I really would like to tell them that they have a friend in me.

*For the other awards, I will post it after this one… there will be a few more
Have a happy day everyone!

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Monday Tidbits :)

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What would you do?

What will you do if you have a best friend, already married, and is having marital problems? He insists in making you a pillar of strength even if you are in doubt whether you want to take on that role. Whenever you talk to him, he opens up and pours out his weaknesses and how he ought to just kill himself because he cannot act like a father should. And you are all tired of negating whatever harmful things he thinks he ought to do.

What will you do?

I am a good friend. Not because I am kind and all. It’s just that I believe in karma, that’s why. I am a good friend because I want to have good friends in return. And I can say that I do have some really good friends. Especially those from high school… and two from college.

I do not want to be a bad friend, most especially to a really close bud. But I am tired of everything. Don’t get me wrong, I love my best buds. The other one does not bother me with marital problems yet. He’s getting married soon. While the other one…

I just realized that maybe because I am used to seeing men like my dad, I am uncomfortable with the kind of setup I currently have with best bud no. 2. I don’t like it at all. I don’t like to always remind him to be strong for the kids, to not give up on the wife, to just hold on to the family and not harm himself. I particularly hate stopping him from leaving his family. I really hate it! It’s a sign of weakness and I hate it that a father can think of abandoning his family for whatever reason.

Now I am resorting to going invisible whenever he’s online. I hardly reply to his text messages.

And this afternoon, I cringed at a message I received from him. He’s asking if I am mad at him and if so, he does not want it to happen because I am the only one left that he can lean on.

I really don’t like it at all.

If you are in my position, what would you do?

Makes you want to see a Chicago cosmetic surgeon to have your face replaced by someone else’s, right?

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September 17 is her day…

Rare that you can find a friend like her. Shen is a “palitaw”… sometimes she’s there, sometimes she’s not. What is amazing with this friend of mine is that she has a knack for calling/texting when you feel like talking to/seeing her; when you need her. I remember there was a time when we hadn’t seen each other for a year or so. No calls, text messages, emails… this was the time that she had a “helmet” on and was crazy in love with a no-good guy. I kept on thinking that I want to see her but I didn’t know how to reach her because she dropped out of circulation. When out of nowhere, she called me up and we hooked up again.

It is already 15 years that we’ve been friends. She became my friend back in second year high school. It was not always a smooth ride for us. There was a time that a common friend tried to break our friendship. I am glad that I did not listen to her.

She was there during the good and bad times. She was there when I badly needed someone who wouldn’t judge me. She was there when I just needed mind-numbing monologues from someone. She has done so many things and the one I will never forget is when she was with me during that tumultuous TWA time. I will not grow tired of saying thank you for that time, pare! It was difficult to look back and see myself alone during that time. It would’ve been truly unbearable without you.

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I Met The Monk!

Aha! I already met the monk! The monk is Dom Lawrence, OSB, a monk-blogger I met a few weeks ago. Wow kuya, it WAS just a few weeks ago nga ano? And yet, it felt like we’ve been friends for so long…

So he went home for some family matters and have emailed and texted us that we ought to see each other nga raw. It was supposed to be last August 26, a Sunday, because the next day was a holiday. Unfortunately, I forgot about it. Hahahah… Di ko raw kasi hawak ang buhay ko… hawak daw ng blog ko buhay ko! Hahahah… Si kuya talaga! He met with ironnie and jeprocks. Sayang, met them na rin sana.

So we re-set our EB and saw each other last September 4 at The Block. We were supposed to see each other by 11am. We were texting and he said that he’s already at the MRT. 12nn, I was wondering what happened to him na. Duda ko naligaw… naligaw nga! Hahaha… I was laughing so hard when I got his text message… naligaw nga sya. Kasi naman sabi ko SM North Edsa, ang sinabi sa babae sa MRT SM West!!! Hahahah katawa talaga. And he was not even telling me that he didn’t know how to go to the place. Saka I didn’t know he’ll be coming from Cavite pa hehe.

Sabi ni kuya… It’s embarrassing to get lost in your own native land.

I still laugh whenever I remember that. So ang 11am namin naging 1pm. You’re probably thinking bakit naman kasi 11am, too early… kasi I got forewarned that kuya is makwento. So I figured, kulang 1 araw sa aming dalawa kung ganon! Hahaha… And I am right! Goodness, ang ingay namin sa Burgoo! We were laughing and mas nabusog ako sa tawa kesa sa kinain namin hahahah…

Si kuya, texting lang ang pahinga! As in promise! Hahahaha

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