All in My Past
Gladys, an AIESEC Alumna, posted this cute thing online last week. It's not a game or anything but it goes like this, someone asks her to answer 5 questions then she answers them, posts it and when someone comments "Interview Me", it's her turn to ask that person 5 different questions (fun to do with to people you actually know, haha) and I tried it on thinking it would be quite a trip and answering her questions really proved to be a trip. Haha. Read on.
1. What do you miss most about the Philippines?
- I've only been here for 3 months but I've realized that.... nothing beats Filipino Food!!! Hands down nothing here substitutes to Sinigang, Kare-Kare, Adobo and all those signiture food can only be cooked the Filipino way (as they call it) as they do back home. I mean sure, we cook those here and there's a Filipino store here to provide us with all the ingredients it's still so different. There's that psyche in you reminding you that you're eating it in a place very different from its "home". I don't know if that makes sense it's just different. Hard as I, we, try nothing is quite like a true home-cooked Pinoy meal..
-Then there's the fact that the Philippines is such a melting pot of every great thing be it variety in food, restaurant, places to go and all those shallow stuff. Everything here closes early so there really isn't much to do for someone who doesn't drink or smoke or party and happens to be used to starting her day well into the afternoon.(hint, hint, hint: ME!).
-Then the people (in general). Siggghhh. Filipinos are just different. English people are relatively warm it's taking a while to get used to their norms here. I'm still not comfortable calling older people by their first names. Haha. My classmates all look at me funny whenever I address my teachers Sir blah blah or Miss so and so. Hahaha. Pretty shallow, I know but I swear, it's the littlest things that I notice.
And end of the day, no matter how cool it is to be independent overseas (as my friend likes to say, No Parental Supervision but then again when did I ever have that, haha), nothing beats Family. And all this family-missing-emotion is annoying cause you remember the time you'd do anything to stay away from them and just hang out with your oh-so-cool-friends?! But nah, it really hits you home when you realize you actually are fending for yourself. You're all alone and that is an eerie, eerie feeling. I mean it was one thing to live alone back home (my mom was always away) but at least then within a car ride, my grandmother was there, my sister was there, my aunts and uncles but here? Nada. I mean there's only 3 of us in my immediate family and we're in different continents, my gosh. Haha. There's no point denying, on top of my list is really, Family. (Hello Family!)
2. Hows the love life goin'? *ehem*
- Let's just put it this way, there's nothing (about that) worth talking about.. anymore.
3. Who's your favorite AIESECer? (JP not included!)
- It'd have to be a toss between Coni and Hal but I guess you already saw that one coming. No surprise there. Haha. The thing is, I really got to know them as individuals and it was really them who made me see what kind of person should lie behind the term AIESECer and that has always meant the most to me. But the more I think about the impact both of them had on me, it's becoming clear that it really does go beyond AIESEC.. How until now, given the miles, it's still them I end up pestering for my every little query, and that has got to mean something, right?
4. Why is ESA the School of Today?
- It's always relative, I think especially if we're talking about something as controversial (haha) as ESA and I mean it's not a Type A school or anything of that league but for me, it really was instrumental to whatever it is that I am now (no matter how trivial "I am" is, haha). I don't really know, maybe it's kinda like AIESEC, it'll take one a long time (and sometimes, never) to decipher and unless you really decide to get into the thick of the action to uncover its almost impenetrable exterior, you'll never really get it. I can't really discuss what it did to me but I can tell you, it zaps you where it counts but only if you'll allow it to. Some takes a chance on it, enrolls and because of such and such, leaves it frustrated but, I actually think it's weird for the tagline to be the "School for Today" because as far as I'm concerned, ESA somehow (in its own unconventional way) made me realize what I wanted out of my future.
5. Doe Joel have bad hair days?
- More days than he'd like to admit. Hahahaha.
**ESA or the Entrepreneurs School of Asia, is the school I attended and represented AIESEC for since September 2005. Mr. Joel Santos is a co-founder of ESA who happens to be an AIESEC Alumnus.
So then after giving me my 5 questions, Gladys asked me to Interview her so I commented back with 5 questions which I'm trying to answer myself. Hahaha. So stay tuned!
1. What do you miss most about the Philippines?
- I've only been here for 3 months but I've realized that.... nothing beats Filipino Food!!! Hands down nothing here substitutes to Sinigang, Kare-Kare, Adobo and all those signiture food can only be cooked the Filipino way (as they call it) as they do back home. I mean sure, we cook those here and there's a Filipino store here to provide us with all the ingredients it's still so different. There's that psyche in you reminding you that you're eating it in a place very different from its "home". I don't know if that makes sense it's just different. Hard as I, we, try nothing is quite like a true home-cooked Pinoy meal..
-Then there's the fact that the Philippines is such a melting pot of every great thing be it variety in food, restaurant, places to go and all those shallow stuff. Everything here closes early so there really isn't much to do for someone who doesn't drink or smoke or party and happens to be used to starting her day well into the afternoon.(hint, hint, hint: ME!).
-Then the people (in general). Siggghhh. Filipinos are just different. English people are relatively warm it's taking a while to get used to their norms here. I'm still not comfortable calling older people by their first names. Haha. My classmates all look at me funny whenever I address my teachers Sir blah blah or Miss so and so. Hahaha. Pretty shallow, I know but I swear, it's the littlest things that I notice.
And end of the day, no matter how cool it is to be independent overseas (as my friend likes to say, No Parental Supervision but then again when did I ever have that, haha), nothing beats Family. And all this family-missing-emotion is annoying cause you remember the time you'd do anything to stay away from them and just hang out with your oh-so-cool-friends?! But nah, it really hits you home when you realize you actually are fending for yourself. You're all alone and that is an eerie, eerie feeling. I mean it was one thing to live alone back home (my mom was always away) but at least then within a car ride, my grandmother was there, my sister was there, my aunts and uncles but here? Nada. I mean there's only 3 of us in my immediate family and we're in different continents, my gosh. Haha. There's no point denying, on top of my list is really, Family. (Hello Family!)
2. Hows the love life goin'? *ehem*
- Let's just put it this way, there's nothing (about that) worth talking about.. anymore.
3. Who's your favorite AIESECer? (JP not included!)
- It'd have to be a toss between Coni and Hal but I guess you already saw that one coming. No surprise there. Haha. The thing is, I really got to know them as individuals and it was really them who made me see what kind of person should lie behind the term AIESECer and that has always meant the most to me. But the more I think about the impact both of them had on me, it's becoming clear that it really does go beyond AIESEC.. How until now, given the miles, it's still them I end up pestering for my every little query, and that has got to mean something, right?
4. Why is ESA the School of Today?
- It's always relative, I think especially if we're talking about something as controversial (haha) as ESA and I mean it's not a Type A school or anything of that league but for me, it really was instrumental to whatever it is that I am now (no matter how trivial "I am" is, haha). I don't really know, maybe it's kinda like AIESEC, it'll take one a long time (and sometimes, never) to decipher and unless you really decide to get into the thick of the action to uncover its almost impenetrable exterior, you'll never really get it. I can't really discuss what it did to me but I can tell you, it zaps you where it counts but only if you'll allow it to. Some takes a chance on it, enrolls and because of such and such, leaves it frustrated but, I actually think it's weird for the tagline to be the "School for Today" because as far as I'm concerned, ESA somehow (in its own unconventional way) made me realize what I wanted out of my future.
5. Doe Joel have bad hair days?
- More days than he'd like to admit. Hahahaha.
**ESA or the Entrepreneurs School of Asia, is the school I attended and represented AIESEC for since September 2005. Mr. Joel Santos is a co-founder of ESA who happens to be an AIESEC Alumnus.
So then after giving me my 5 questions, Gladys asked me to Interview her so I commented back with 5 questions which I'm trying to answer myself. Hahaha. So stay tuned!
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