One More Week Left

01 May 2010 No Comments

by angkuletin Uncategorized

Some days, I sit around thinking about and waiting for something, anything to blog about. On the days that there can be so much to blog about, I do not have the time. That is my irony.

In the middle of many projects, profitable or not (though hopefully if not profitable now, may be profitable in the future), I find myself in a whirlwind of so many events.

Jobs, though welcomely surprising, are pouring in left and right. Something I definitely did not expect though certainly hoped for! I had a feeling 2010 was going to be a good year and it seems like my feeling is going to be right – and hoorah for that! (I am this ecstatic that I find myself writing run-on sentences or passing off phrases as a real and acceptable sentence.) I will be busy week after week after week.

Ryan was supposed to leave for Ireland for their second quarter team meeting, and although I would have rather not blogged about this event, I find myself doing so only because I want to share one little woe (yet again) about being Filipino. Ryan and his two other team mates are supposed to be flying to Ireland tomorrow morning, but today, he called the travel agency to ask them to cancel their flights. They are not going for the simple reason that they did not get visas. Ireland does not have an embassy in the Philippines – the closest being in Singapore. Visa application was done as early as March and today, almost two months later, their passports have still not been processed and returned. My information on the main reasons is a bit foggy as it has been obtained second-hand but from my understanding, it had something to do with these:

One of the many disadvantages of being a Filipino is this inability to go to almost any other country, other than members of the ASEAN, due to the absence of or failure of obtaining a visa. I will not go about mentioning the many other disadvantages because that is not what I am blogging about, but I am just mentioning this little turn of events because…
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