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Thursday, November 13, 2008
I just found out that a typical writer in New York earns ten times as much as we do here in the office. (I found this calculator in the yahoo hot jobs website. Sadly, no data on Asia.) Granted, the cost of living there is way higher than here. But it just shows me the value they put on creative thinking as opposed to here in this country. Sometimes I feel like I’m in the wrong country. No, I love being Filipino, there’s no country I’d rather call home. But most of the time, I wish things here in the Philippines were different, better different. Some of our values are skewed and I wonder if it’s just really because we were under foreign rule for so long or if we’re perhaps the only country with an icon for laziness and resist changing our behavior and way of thinking. On another note: I have promised to post Leala’s pictures here but my computer broke down and it’s either I have to replace the memory chip which was scorched or the entire motherboard (which is a bitch) before I can access the hard drive that contains the pictures. I just hope I can rescue the PC before it’s too late. |
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