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thoughts and visual accounts of my misadventures.

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Long time!

I’m am writing a new book (actually, it’s a “we”). There are lots of preparations to even start where we wanted to but we are excited and hopeful for that one day to come.

There are tons of struggles but somehow both of us make each other’s load light. I am thankful for him. Leaving this all time favourite piece here. Enjoy!

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Quarantine Day 1 of 21♡

June o8, 2021 | Tuesday

We left Ho Chi Minh City (Sai Gon) urgently yesterday. We have been planning for awhile now but because of recent events and community outbreak of Covid-19 in HCMC, we flew out here in this place yesterday. It was exhausting and my packing things in boxes came in handy. There's a lot of things going on, we are safe and not showing symptoms and hopefully we stay that at the end of quarantine.

We moved here because of Luke's new job that was more in line with his profession, which is Music and teaching Music (+ Drama). Anyway, hopefully we'd be able to have peaceful, joyful, and wonderful life here.

We had Covid Swab Tests early in the morning today, it was an experience to remember. Check out our new place and my so called office.

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Already 10? Whoah! 😘

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January 7, 2019 | Monday

A lot has happened since the first of January and there are still worries that are yet to be solved. I just want to live by my three L’s + T, which is Live, Love, Laugh, and Travel. The beginning of the year was way surprising and yet I hope that one day all of it will come true. Sooner the better though.

Happy Birthday to my friend @kjane07 Have a great one and enjoy your new year filled with adventures and love.

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As promised. Our Taiwan trip in 3 minutes. One of the things I am thankful for this year.😘 I love you for keeps.

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December 29, 2018 | Saturday

This is what happened on the 25th of December, we celebrated with style. You are a blessing to me even when sometimes I worry about a lot of things which consumes me and made me so moody but then you are always there to understand, to not be let me be in the world that I created in my mind, instead, you want me to let you in and make you understand the little things that is bothering me.

Thank you! You are my 2017 Christmas wish and spending Christmas 2018 with you is surreal. I love you my person.

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December 14, 2018 | Friday

Chill while waiting. There’s not so much to do just waiting for the translation company to open so we met up for lunch and chill out at a cafe nearby. Actually, forgot to bring my helmet so yeee forgetful.

Sometimes I hate it when bike drivers don’t know where to go and get you lost and then it takes time for them to navigate to another easier way and then it’s inconvenient on my part. I am under the heat of the sun, sweating a lot, and just praying not to die because sometimes even if the driver you hired is being cautious and safe... well, there are lots of drivers bike and cars who feels like they own the road and there’s no one else there but them.

The rest of the day, I slept and just watching reruns of kdramas I’ve already watched. Anyway, that was it really. And oh, Luke’s fam bam is gonna come over soon so meet the family soon. Hopefully, it’ll turn out good.

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13 December 2018 | Thursday

This happened today. Batch 2 of Christmas photo sesh. So I worked in CSSD and life is good but I need to work 2 jobs soon like February so I can earn enough for me and family. I haven’t enjoyed my 1 and 1/2 months of salary because I needed to pay for the processing of my documents. I haven’t felt this poor before and as a result of my travel from Thailand and the weather in HCMC is humid and a lot of sun, I just don’t like how my skin looks like now.

Anyway, such problems that is only from the surface but it makes me feel so small. My colleagues are so thin unlike the previous country I was in, I’m just average.:) Well, sometimes at work eventhough I can’t understand them, there is a tension between 2 workmates. I have this new female workmate that my male workmate (my batchmate) finds a little bit arrogant because maybe she knows a lot because she works in infection control or cssd also BUT my batchmate knows a lot more too. He works in the same field for like 10years. I can’t believe it because I spent my last 10 years having fun, be frustrated, earn a living that is not related any at all in the field of nursing, except maybe 2-5 years ago. 3 years for first aid reliever and 2 years for dermatology nurse. I can’t complain because life has been so good.

I know what I am going through right now is just a phase. Money helps me get what I want and be able to send money home but sometimes it’s exhausting becauseI don’t have the same sources as I had before.

I ended the day watching Aquaman with mi babes.❤️

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December 11, 2018 | Tuesday

I decided to get back on writing so today forward I’ll challenge myself to do the 365 day challenge again. I have lots of pent up emotions of frustration, sadness, and also happiness, all rolled into one. So here I am again.

Anyway, I am now a year older and celebrated my birthday in Taiwan, flew a paper lantern that has our wishes on it. Visited the place where Spirited Away was inspired and it was a very pretty sight. And a plus that I was with my favorite person in the whole wide world. Photos will be posted soon.

Hmm. I also have a new job as a nurse here in Ho Chi Minh, I am assigned in CSSD where instruments used in the whole departments will be cleaned, washed, packed, or sterilized, then send it back to them. It was kind of easy and at the same time difficult to work because the job is pretty easy, the how's are easy to do thus actions are are easy to mimic but the theory of why we do it, I can only guess. 1-4 of my many colleagues can only speak English, the rest little to none. Sometimes, I wonder what they were talking about and it makes me feel like I’m still not part of the team. Some days, I don’t care but then when they are talking about how to do things, I feel frustrated not being able to understand their language and also it makes me wonder if I speak it, will I be able to make friends, real friends?

Those are what lingers on my thoughts plus the three things that I say to myself, negative thoughts! ☹︎

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Dreams not be just dreams.

July 24, 2018 | Tuesday

With this relationship, I realized something that’s missing.. don’t get me wrong! I am a person that is whole but somehow cracked and some cracks just needed some time to be glued up to be sturdy again. When I was asked, what is your dream? I have lots of dreams for myself and for my family BUT I was given one chance to give one answer (now!), and I can only give silence. Ask me my favorite movie, the one that sticks out but I can think of everything all at once but growing up, I kind of I don’t wanna watch it again and again no matter how great the story is, I just don’t wanna watch it again, unless I miss it or something reminds me of it.

I need to find myself, I need to build who I want to be in the future, dreams that don’t stop at being just dreams but my reality as well. I have to have plans for my future but somehow living in the moment seems plausible now. There’s something in me I need to see, to discover... and I know there’s something in there, something greater than everything I imagined.

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Life is all about taking chances and making choices. “Choice is an Illusion,” that if from an episode of Lucifer but I disagree, we may feel sometimes we don’t have a choice but we do, we always do. Maybe only one thing that will make this argument invalid and that is we don’t get to choose what family we get to belong the moment we are born. After that, we are filled with choices, simple things or bigger things, we consider them everyday and sometimes we are consumed by it. Sometimes we may feel like it’s dead end, but it’s really not. We haven’t dug deeper enough maybe. Life continues as well as the choices we have to make. I made the choice to work a million miles away from my family and then after some time transferred to another country. This choice may fail but good thing is I tried and will not look back and think “what if’s and what might have been.”

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HCMC, Vietnam

June 28, 2018 | Thursday

This is my 22nd day in HCM and I haven’t gotten serious about applying to anything but I’ve been sending CV’s to hospitals. I’ve been interviewed yesterday and it was alright, as I expected I just blabber away some of my stored knowledge that is already obsolete. I don’t like to be interviewed or be examined (though I know I have to undergo such things), I’d rather be doing the action, of doing the skills but how can I do all the sorts if I don’t have the knowledge. I remember about SKA---Skills, Knowledge, Attitude, so they have to go together to have a sound judgment of what is at hand. 

What happened in the interview was that they have to hire people that knows and has experience about the area that they were assigned to, that they’ll contact me if I’ll be needing newly graduates or neophytes (because I understand that my experience is not enough for the job description) that they’ll train in the process of hiring them. In short, I wasn’t hired. BUT as the day progresses and some time in the afternoon, the one who interviewed me, called me again and they wanted another position for me (that is what I understood from our conversation), she’s talking about instruments or something, maybe CSR. Well, she said she’ll e-mail me (but I doubt that) about what it is going to be. I had a hunch that she likes me (my persona) or the one who received my CV (she said I think the director???) forwarded my CV to the HR to interview me, and until now honestly, I am baffled with all of it not because I don’t believe in me but I don’t have enough to offer them. Well, we’ll see if they really want me with them in their hospital.

Today, Luke and I just went out to District 5 where we shop for a little bit. It is like a shopping district where you can see in a long street, alley, avenue, shops for dresses (for women and men), tea and coffee shops, and also restaurants. It’s not that cheap but it’s not that too expensive. BUT I need to restrain myself from spending too much. :( The designs were fab but then if you are not Asian or if you are but if you horizontally challenged like me, you would maybe feel annoyed or disappointed because they will only have SMALL or MEDIUM as sizes. Normally, I am Medium sized woman but their Medium is Small in Middle East. :)) I worked in Kuwait where there were lots of choices for fashion clothing, name the brand and they mostly have it. That is what I love about the country and sale items. haha I am not complaining because Vietnam has a lot of milk teas and food to offer that would be hard to resist. haha Regulation so I won’t get fatter than I usually am. I’ll talk about the places I’ve been to so far next time and food that I’ve tasted. See you soon. 

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10122017— you reminded me that it is okay not to be perfect, say beautiful when I’m putting myself down, for letting me express my mind without judgments, for noticing I use a lot of periods 😂 instead of one or a comma.. xxx

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02122017— Hiding behind smiles and laughs not knowing where and when heart rests.

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13112017— I can’t say anything to your face, ‘coz look at your face.. I’m so furious at you for making me feel this way, but what can I say? You’re gorgeous. -Gorgeous, Taylor Swift

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10112017— Yesterday’s happening.. excuse my annoying voice.🤣 #misadventures

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10112017— I know places we won’t be found.🏃🏽‍♀️