October 24, 2008 at 2:57 am
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Trying to make a living here in the Philippines is tought. Being the 12th most populous country in the world (I was reading some facts in the newspaper) and about 40% of the population lives on less than $2.00 a day it is a difficult task to find decent paying work in this world my parents, grandparents and my ancestors have lived. My attempt to live here in the Philippines like I was living back in Canada is a privileged one. I am very very very grateful at the opportunities living in a world where i dont have to look for a place to sleep or when my next meal is going to come from. I was lucky enough to have a group of people who let me do my thing. I was given a salary to live on for the very few months that I have been here. I was to provide some graphic material for an events and promotional company who was well connected in the entertainment industry. There are no handouts in this country. You have to find each and every peso you earn, even on the corporate level. I even found it difficult finding the work i have grown a career into. Technology that have been widely available for the masses in the 1st world is only in its infantile stages. The numerous amount of agencies that I have talked to ALL of interest in a skill that i posses but dont know what to do with. Imagine this scenario….. pretend you a person who is active in all kind of sport, baseball, tennis, cricket, whatever. And you want to go find a competitive match to join. And all you can find is a basketball court playing with a deflating basketball. You go and find this game and ask if you can join. And they ask you if you have an extra ball you they can play with, you say “yeah of course, i have an extraball”… but the kind of ball you have is an american football. What do you do? what do you with game you want to join in but really can’t paly to your full potential? Do you continue playing with the deflating basketball or do you show them how to use an american football? Or do you use the american football as a basketball?
October 7, 2008 at 8:52 am
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am i that naive to think to live and work here in the Philippines? I understand making the equivalent that I would make in a 1st world country would damn nearly be impossible. I know there is money circulating around, but its a closer-knit circle. but its there…..
One thing i’ve learned here in the third-world, in asia, particularly…. they are relatively close-minded in general. …”they just wanna follow the white formula… even though they have all the resources in this area to be self sufficient… the west depends more on the 3rd world than the other way around… but if u tell ppl that they look at u like ur talking crazy” -Tahric. A canadian living in Taiwan.
maybe its my pride but I do not want to be only ‘known’ as a call-center agent, a nurse, a caregiver, doctor, dentist, pharmacist…… we are much more than that. Why can’t we be ’successful’ in other professions? .. then again its what ‘you’ deem successful…. I am not successful in many things, I do things to the best of my abilities.
October 4, 2008 at 8:30 am
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I was recently looking online to get tickets for the one of the most memorable boxing matches in recent history on December 6, 2008 in Las Vegas . I am by no means a boxing aficionado however I do know, he is currently the best pound 4 pound fighter and is one of the greatest Filipino sport icon Manny ‘Pac-Man’ Pacquiao will step into the boxing ring against a mexican boxing icon namely, the ‘Golden Boy’ Oscar dela Hoya. When the fight was first announced in the Philippines there is a great buzz in the country, a $100 Million dollar fight and an unofficial holiday for everybody in the country and its country-men around the world.
This announcement is not-so-new news but I just realized this….. they both recorded albums… now picture this. Magic Mic contest! Pick 5 songs, when the score is tallied get throwout the highest and lowest score then average the 3 songs. The highest score wins!…. LOL!
