whole lotta love!

Friends from a Distance...

When i arrived here, last June, I could barely count the people i know, it was not a good at all.. Imagine having no one to talk to, no one to be with.... Certainly i have a good friend, she's nice and all, but what i want is to make more friends of course...

I had a plan, it was full proof, I entered a review school, Global Nursing Review, with 3 objectives... To make friends, to add a wee bit of info to my memory warehouse, and to just get out of the house for a reason..

I've achieved all, and i'm pleased with the results.. I did make good friends.. I can say, now I'm lucky to have known them.. Just for the fact that I can call them my friends... With these friends of mine, I managed to know the lives of Pinoys here in USA, it was quite different from the one I've thought of before, but it certainly changed my point of view...

My friends, even though we've not met occasionally or even often, maybe just in our class, its always my pleasure to have known you and to have that time spent well and good with you... I couldn't ask for more.. So i wanna say, thanks for being there and welcoming me, even though i'm kinda odd at times..  hahahaha... Well, maybe in time we'll get together again.. Hope it's soon... Just want you all to know, that Ali will always be here, waiting to get out of his house and spend time with you... i'll help if i can just tell me whatever it is... :P

4 months in disturbia...

Life here in America, really quite stands out from my life back in the Philippines..... why?

It's not because life is easy, not because i'm happier here, not even because living is better here... It's simply because George Bush will be replaced soon while GMA will go on in the Philippines... Hell, do i care about that...

Anyway, life in America, is not what I imagined, especially here in Los Angeles, California, where i'm staying right now.. Definitely is a melting pot of different cultures.. There's towns named after Koreans, Armenians, Thais, Pinoys, etc.. Different people with different way of life, different vision of life, crossing paths every single day, every hour... It's like a Zoo but humans as specimens...

I thought it'd be nice, even better to live here than in Philippines, I know i'm both right and wrong, I'm wrong because I can't get over the fact that my friends nor my relatives are not just a block away, or a text away, I wake up every morning, there's no one to wake me up, nor to disturb me while i'm sleeping, nor to hang out with very late at night, thinking what i'd do, who i'd be with... but I know i'm also right because, I can't live and not face who I am, and what I'm supposed to do... I studied, I lived, I passed to work and carry the load of my mom, and that's what's been keeping me here, I feel happy knowing that i'm getting closer to my goal... I won't let the huge sacrifice of my mom go to a waste, and coz I'm her only child, I'd be the one to make her proud, and make her happy...

4 months, nothing much has happened, all my habits good or bad, i've left in the Philippines... I've made good friends, we're not exactly that close, but close enough to make me comfortable here... Coz for me its enough to know that there are Pinoys here who yearns to have Pinoy friends... We always go back to our roots no matter what.. Birds of the same feather will always flock together.. I guess...

Also, the good reason why I decided to go and live here in America, is to grow, to know who I am, what I really want, I'm full of thoughts, full of goals, full of mysteries.. I know that I had to go, to get stronger... I may look simple, my hobbies are simple, my clothes are just right, i live just right, but I don't want to be just somebody, I want to be someone, the one, who can make a difference, I don't know how or what I'll do, but I'm gonna do my best to stand out...

Foods in America, no trans fat they say? Yeah so what, I'm still getting heavier by the minute, hell what's all with these super sized servings... And I have no job, no school, no outdoor hobby right now, so I'm getting pretty lazy.. and I can see the results, oooh I hope I won't reach the contender for the Biggest Loser...

Anyhow, the cost of living here is 10 times of that in the Philippines... I don't know how I'm gonna survive but I still have my sponsor right now, so that wouldn't be my problem yet...

My addictions, well, haven't played computer games for 4 months, haven't taken alcohol for 4 months, haven't gone out with a girl for 4 months, haven't even been to a bar for too long, haven't slept for forever for too long, haven't seen my friendly pets, rats (hate them) thank God.. haha so I've been living clean right now except for the fact that i'm gaining pounds...

Homesickness??? Not my thing, why??? Well, coz this is my calling, this is my sacrifice, this is my choice, there should be no second thought... I'm always home as long as I'm happy and i know i make people happy...

Enough for now... sorry, next time my faithful readers.. joke!! hahaha... see yah when i see yah... :P

WHO AM I??

First of All, welcome peeps!

Well, this is my blog you're looking at after all.. so you must get to know me...

I'm ali, im 21 right now, i live in Los Angeles, in the Golden State.. I've only been here for 4 months, so i'm still crap right now, although it won't be long, well, i'm gonna be a nurse, this wasn't my plan, but it sorta is my present life.. blah blah blah..

I'm a very very very nice person.. The Figures I compare myself would be the Thinker, since I think too too much, not green stuff, great ideas... The Hunchback of Notre Dame, coz I don't fancy my looks, I'm not a very superficial person, and I think most people will misjudge me, the first few meetings.... I'm a nomad, not because I keep on moving but because I'm always changing, I'm not afraid of change, I'm always adapting, evolving, innovation... I'm the person who loves to rock, noise is my medicine, black is my color, but i don't dress like wannabes, i don't want to look stupid... I'm not a religious person, not the go to church every Sunday kinda person, not the pray before doing everything, but i'm not antichrist, its just that i have my beliefs and I respect what others believe in....

I'm incomparable, not that i'm superior to anyone, its just that I'm me, and i'm not trying to be anyone, I don't have an idol, I don't need one.... I don't want to act like someone I like... I'm a laidback kinda person, you know, I get things done but I don't hurry, I don't think of problems too much, I don't want sadness or loneliness to corrupt my thoughts and my life.... "Chill is the word" Just be cool and stay cool....

Hobbies??? Well, Rock music, Movies (Thriller, Suspense, Movies where someone gets brutally murdered), Reading, Learning Japanese (right now), I love the extreme.... Adapting to America as we know it... Making friends in the way... Getting closer to my goal...

I'm sorta single right now, not that i'm in a hurry to look for my someone but, we can never really tell when or how.. it just happens i guess.. That's all that you need to now about me right now.. but if you have questions, you know how to let me know.. peace!