i was thinking about my previous post. i was planning to relate my dfa-clark experience with something and this afternoon it all came back. you see, i was lined up to pay for a kilo of sugar and a pack of batteries at the grocery when this man cut off the line since, according to him, he was only buying a pad of paper. it was really no big deal to me. i was not in a hurry anyway but i just thought that a lot of people just don't have consideration for others. it sucks!
...and going back to the dfa-clark experience...while lined up for the last step, i thought experiences like that one is one major reason why i'm not keen on migrating anywhere abroad. i'm just not an "immigration" person. i mean, when you're applying for a visa, you go to the immigration office of the country you're planning to go to. there's really not much problem with that. my problem is when people from the immigration asks you questions which you ought to answer not honestly as you can, but as consistent as possible with what they want to hear. this may be the reason why many people apply for tourist visas when their plan is to look for jobs there (in whatever country they'll go to). what if you told those immigration people honestly that you are planning to look for a job there, would they approve your visa application? i don't think so.
that thing is not for me. when i see people who go through that, i think to myself that i don't want to be put in that situation. it seems like you beg those immigration people to allow you to go their country.
to each his own so that for me, i don't want to beg just to be granted a visa to a particular country. maybe i have some plans of visiting some countries but i don't have any plans of migrating to another country. think about this: even if you become a citizen of that country, they will still look at you as second class citizen, not their equal because you are basically that! come on, you already are a filipino so why search for another citizenship. i don't have anything against anybody. these are just my thoughts.
p.s.
haven't you noticed that it's the first after a long time that i am using black font instead of the colored ones? i had bleak thoughts so maybe it's appropriate to just use plain black, hehehe.
and i am a bit sad for 2 reasons: 1)a friend of mine who got back from korea for the holiday season gave me the music and movie files that i posted about before. that was something to be happy for. what is sad is that we weren't able to see and talk again before she went back. 2) another friend who also came back for the holidays, but this time from australia, and i were not able to meet during the time that she was here. i thought she was back for good. i just learned that she is back to australia. isn't that bad?
man, that sucks...but i'm not that sad. i learned to not worry and waste my energy on unimportant things or things i can't do anything about. the two situations above are sad but i still have lots of things to be thankful for. HAKUNA MATATA right?
...and going back to the dfa-clark experience...while lined up for the last step, i thought experiences like that one is one major reason why i'm not keen on migrating anywhere abroad. i'm just not an "immigration" person. i mean, when you're applying for a visa, you go to the immigration office of the country you're planning to go to. there's really not much problem with that. my problem is when people from the immigration asks you questions which you ought to answer not honestly as you can, but as consistent as possible with what they want to hear. this may be the reason why many people apply for tourist visas when their plan is to look for jobs there (in whatever country they'll go to). what if you told those immigration people honestly that you are planning to look for a job there, would they approve your visa application? i don't think so.
that thing is not for me. when i see people who go through that, i think to myself that i don't want to be put in that situation. it seems like you beg those immigration people to allow you to go their country.
to each his own so that for me, i don't want to beg just to be granted a visa to a particular country. maybe i have some plans of visiting some countries but i don't have any plans of migrating to another country. think about this: even if you become a citizen of that country, they will still look at you as second class citizen, not their equal because you are basically that! come on, you already are a filipino so why search for another citizenship. i don't have anything against anybody. these are just my thoughts.
p.s.
haven't you noticed that it's the first after a long time that i am using black font instead of the colored ones? i had bleak thoughts so maybe it's appropriate to just use plain black, hehehe.
and i am a bit sad for 2 reasons: 1)a friend of mine who got back from korea for the holiday season gave me the music and movie files that i posted about before. that was something to be happy for. what is sad is that we weren't able to see and talk again before she went back. 2) another friend who also came back for the holidays, but this time from australia, and i were not able to meet during the time that she was here. i thought she was back for good. i just learned that she is back to australia. isn't that bad?
man, that sucks...but i'm not that sad. i learned to not worry and waste my energy on unimportant things or things i can't do anything about. the two situations above are sad but i still have lots of things to be thankful for. HAKUNA MATATA right?
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