As said on my previous post, my family and I plan to have a getaway this year. Well if budget and time permits of course. But if ever the plan pushes thru we hope that we could go to Brazil and maybe in Spain to see what these country are made of.  Most of my friends have been telling me to visits these countries for they are one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

Yup! I think I’ve read an article about that before and I think they are also considered as one of the most historical place ever. My friend Lilian has been to Spain actually and she was boasting me about the beautiful villas in Spain. They went there to spend their honeymoon and they stayed about a month and God they really enjoyed everything about the country.

Since then, I kept a note to myself that whenever I’ll have a chance to travel - Spain will be the first on my list.   After that, I‘ll travel to Europe then go to Rome and visit the Pope! Lol!

Oh! I just wish all my travel hopes and wishes will come true this year or until next year maybe. Cross-fingers!

Going to the movies is one of my favorite things to do. I usually go every weekend with my fiancé and we try to see whatever is new. Whenever my fiancé picks the movie, it’s usually a romantic comedy or a drama, but I personally have a different taste. I really enjoy seeing a good action movie or a thriller. Going to the movies with someone really adds to the experience, it really feels nice to have someone to discuss the plot or certain scenes with someone. At times, when a movie is really good, me and my fiancé we would go back and see another time. One of the most recent times that we have done this was with Inception. Another awesome thing about the movies is the concession stands. Nothing really completes the movie going experience than having a nice tub of popcorn and a slushee on the side. Going to the movies is truly a great past time, I love the fact that I can set my home security monitoring alarm just before leaving and then I can go an watch my movie and leave all of my problems at the door.

As a kid my favorite part of going on vacation was checking out whichever hotel we were staying in. Despite all the sites we saw and all the fun things we did there was just some mystique about sleeping in a bed that isn’t yours in a huge building that wasn’t your house. That’s part of the reason that I got into the hospitality industry after graduation.

I worked my way up the ranks in hotel management and now I manage a three-star resort in a coastal town. There are of course it’s downfalls like angry sunburnt tourists but as an employee I have access to the huge pool area and I take my kids there a lot.

One thing though that’s tough about dealing with guests is that a lot of them come from different places with accents that are hard to get through if you’re not used to them. By now I can understand almost anyone’s accent because I’m so use to adapting to that but sometimes I just have trouble hearing them period. My wife forced me into going to miricle ear, where I got some hearing aids.

It ends up that they have helped out a lot. No one’s noticed them at work because they’re so small and blend in with my skin. I’m more attentive now to customers and I think that they appreciate me and my hotel more as a result.

When I was young, I’ve always dream of wearing a doctor uniform. I remember then whenever my brothers and I play pretend, I always wear a kids scrub that my mother purchased for me and pretend that I am a surgeon. One time in my childhood, I had an impromptu speech in one preschool program, I admiringly said to the audience, “When I grow up I want to be doctor someday! I thank you, bow!” lol!

But unfortunately, I was unsuccessful on fulfilling that dream not because I didn’t persue it but because of financial constraint. Apparently, when I was about to enter college, my parents experienced a financially problematic stage, so I had no choice then but to give up my dream and forget about getting a premed course. I already had a dickies scrub pants then that my aunt gave me as a gift for she thought I will take up nursing as my pre-med. Well, maybe that’s how life is and maybe it wasn’t really my destiny to be a doctor.

Today, I finally realized that I wasn’t really fit to be a doctor. One fact that I discovered is that I get weak when I see blood and gross bruises. lol! God knows since then that I wouldn’t make it that’s why He just lead me to taking a course that concerns no blood or health issues. That’s how I became an accountant!

Time for a Christmas countdown!

A couple of years ago my friend Robert and his wife bought a restaurant near downtown. Since then, they have been catering to many clients and have been established a name for their good food and quality service.

One time, I thought of paying them a visit and see for myself if they were doing well. When I arrived I saw how nice the place was, I was so amazed on how well he managed it and I praised him for that.

He accompanied me to one of his favorite spot and asks me what else I can say about his cool restaurant. I told him that his place is almost complete except for the entertainment parse. I suggested that he should inquire on some dish business where a commercial satellite tv is being offered. I actually saw about this cool package at a direct sat commercial direct tv that my SIL was using. I thought that by adding some tv entertainment on his restaurant, his customers would surely be staying longer and will be coming back for more. Fortunately, he is considering my idea. He asked his assistant to canvass and purchase a good television and sound system to go well with the new satellite tv package he will avail. He also called the phone number I gave him to inquire about the whole system and the other packages that he might also be interested in.

Having your own business these days requires lots of hard work and dedication. It also needs lots of studying and applying those without minding the risks.

I work in HR, which means that I interview a lot of potential employees in my company.

I mostly handle phone interviews to screen out candidates early in the hiring process and I set aside at least two or three days a week just to do that. There are definitely a lot of horror stories about crazy things that people have said over the phone in these interviews, which makes the work a little more interesting that most would assume.

So when I noticed that it was getting a little harder to hear over the phone, I knew that I had to do something about it quickly. I found some miracle ear reviews online and asked around with my friends who had hearing aids by them. These reviews seemed to be pretty accurate and along the lines of what my friends and acquaintances told me. I booked an appointment and got fitted with some invisible hearing aids.

I noticed a difference after a few phone interviews and think as a result that I’ve been a little more fair to the interviewees.

We kind of fell into professional house flipping. About a decade ago we bought a run-down fixer upper and fixed it up within a matter of a few months. I really didn’t have reselling it so soon in mind, I just wanted to get the repairs done so we could start enjoying the house a lot sooner. But then we got an offer to buy that we couldn’t in our right minds refuse so we sold it and moved onto another.

We always stay in our same city, but there are plenty of homes that are left unkempt and up for sale that are easy to buy in this housing market. The first thing that we did with the one that we’re currently living in is fixing up the outside. It’s in downtown, so the siding wasn’t a little more worn for all the people walking by it and bumping into it on a daily basis. So I looked at Sears vinyl siding colors and picked out a bright gray that would look nice but hide a lot of dirt.

We have just a few rooms left to redo inside the house and then put on fresh coats of paint in before it’s ready to be sold and for us to move onto the next one.

Time for another meme again! This time it’s all about being ruby red.

So as a breather here’s my first ever entry!

Very lovely isn’t? The color is so stunning!

I hope I could see more of these gorgeous photos in our backyard on the days to come.