Open letter to mom (ebb and flow)

July 3rd, 2006 by aasisstores

Hi mom, how are you doing there? I hope everything is going well. I hope you get your visa/green card or whatever it is soon.

Over here, there isn’t much to say. Except maybe everything’s fine. The good news is, there’s nothing to worry about. Of course there’s the occasional downtime but otherwise, like I said, everything is A-OK! Yogy’s been studying like crazy for the med boards and Audrey’s fitting well into all out schedules. She really adjusting well with everything. I never noticed before how good she is at multi-tasking. She kind of reminds me of you. Like you, she’s got everything’s stocked. Along with Yogy, the two of them handle all the maid stuff real nice. Albert and Marc are doing fine.. And the kids, they’re getting bigger everyday…

…Time flies so fast.

As for me, well the money you’re giving me is really helping. I’ve been applying for almost two weeks now and there seem to be a lot of positive responses. The great news is I might get a job soon. I was so surprised how quick companies respond. One time, I emailed one company in the morning to receive a call-back that same afternoon. Imagine that!

…I never knew.

In the past, I made a mistake of just staying in the corner and letting the whole world pass me by. Maybe I was depressed. At the time, I felt like I had done so much more than my peers. Starting a company, making it grow by the millions and doing business with all the bigshots in the country. I was extremely proud of how I (for-my-part) made that business grow. But the instant the business collapsed I lost everything. And the funny thing is, I really felt like I felt like I lost everything. As in it literally felt like I lost everything. It saddened me that no one took notice of what I lost. What made it worse was how the whole world went on… continued… like nothing happened…

Today, nine months after the whole affair, everything is just a distant memory. But sometimes I forget it’s been nine months. It still echoes in my head and there are days where it seems like I’m reliving the events. Even today, I wake up like it’s just happening. Then it dawns on me that this is how real life is. It moves. It doesn’t stay still. It doesn’t wait for you to savor the moment. It just goes on and on.

- This is the ebb and flow of life …and I’m just beginning to master it.

A New (Renewed?!?) Journey…

November 23rd, 2005 by aasisstores

It’s something new and unexplored…

It’s been a while since I’ve been like this. The last time was over three years ago, and yet, I find this oddly familiar.

Execpt now…, this feels more REAL!

I used to think that people who wrote on personal blogs were pitiable. Now, I find myself being one of "them." And I’ve changed my mind. - Irony always brings out the humility in me. Sadly, it always comes at some expense.

So here it is… The first steps of my new journey…

Join me… =)