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This is my crazy World!

April 2015

The Tortured Souls of the City
April 23, 2015

Tortured Souls of a City

Manila is pretty much a voracious giant. If you get sucked into it, this city will eat you and spit you out unchewed and repeat. It’s a bustling city with highs and lows and a lot of things to see … positively and negatively.

Just to give you an idea …

The region around Manila (15 cities) holds a total population of estimated 22M, with a growth rate of 2.5% per year for this metropolitan area.

Being a Pinoy, a German with Filipino roots, I have grown up outside of my home country most of my life, and nowhere else have I seen the difference between the rich and the poor being more noticeable than in Manila.
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Making conscious Decisions
April 21, 2015

Making conscious Decisions

There is nothing more saddening than being chronically unhappy or angry. This is because it leads to an unbalanced life, with no appreciation of what exists or even a life with too much expectations. Without appreciation or gratitude to what you have already accomplished, you will never understand true fulfillment. As a matter of fact, achievement doesn’t make sense if there is absolutely no balance in your life.

In life, you’ll make a few decisions which tell the quality of your living. If you make these decisions unconsciously, you’ll end up like most people who are out of shape physically, financially stressed and also exhausted emotionally. But if you make it a priority of making these decisions consciously, you’ll absolutely change the course of life as from today.
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About being a Father
April 14, 2015

About being a Father

My mother raised me alone while working full time in order to provide for the both of us. I didn’t have a father in my life, and she didn’t have her husband at her side. They broke up and got a divorce, when I was very young.

I now know that life was tough for her, since she always had to work hard to make ends meet. For her this began very early. First, as the oldest child of her mom, my grandmother, she helped to raise her six brothers, while pursuing her own goals and her education in the Philippines. Then she met my father and left her country to live abroad, away from her family and friends, and in a totally different culture.
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