Category: Story of my Life

When I came here I already knew that there are several nice places to visit not just in this country but also to the neighboring countries of the UK. However, I wasn't expecting I could do travelling without my travel buddies, my Mon and my Akyn. We all love unwinding ourselves from stress by going to places we've never been to and we prefer to do it as a family together with Mama and Papa. Now that I'm away, I never thought it is still going to be part of my bucket list to do it. I'm super thankful to... Read More

Last weekend while having a discussion with Mon via online, a reminder suddenly popped into my head about our plan to send Akyn to school for this June's opening of classes. Right, we totally forgot how fast time flies and it's almost May but we haven't had contacted the school regarding the requirements for enrollment. Dear me! Thank you God for reminding our busy heads making sure our Akyn's needs aren't taken for granted. The following day, Monday, Mon called the Holy Infant School Montessori as the nearest school to our subdivision inquiring about our intention to enrol Akyn. The... Read More

It's been a while since I've written a blog post about my Akyn. Our time together has been temporarily interrupted while I'm working overseas. Crossing fingers to be together again in God's perfect time. It's a challenge to be away but as what the priest here had shared this morning's station of the cross stating, "Today's grief is necessary for Tomorrow's joy." This too shall pass! I greatly believe on that. I've talked to one of the overseas worker who had spent working here for almost two decades about his experience of moving away from his family. Can you imagine... Read More

If we have what we call as Divisoria in Manila or Carbon in Cebu, we also got what we call as Carbooth in Hull. I'm so happy when I knew about it pretty mommas who also love shopping. Yey! Carbooth is just a parking space where people selling different kinds of merchandise would meet during Wednesdays and Sundays to display their items. Some of the products were brand new and others were used items. It's like they are doing a garage sale to clear up their houses with unused things. Decluttering project would best describe it. I'll let you see... Read More

A sunny morning came to welcome my Saturday but I would prefer to stay at home even if it's sunny here. Why? Because it is still freezing. Looks can be deceiving guys. I can attest to that now upon experiencing the moody weather of Hull. A minute you can see Mr. Sun then before you noticed it, the coldness will shiver every hidden fat muscle I have here. (Lol) Bet some of you are enjoying the beautiful summer in another part of the world. I miss that! Instead of going out this morning, I better update my Akynfullhouse blog with... Read More

UK celebrates Mothers' Day today, the 31st of March. It's entirely different as to the date of the Philippines special day for mums. Happy Mother's day to me. Yey! As I walk towards the church earlier today, I had a lot of emotions carried with me on my way to attend the fourth Sunday of Lent. I felt happy because God gave me a chance to experience the way England celebrates this special day for us mums. More than ever grateful for this opportunity to get exposed to a different culture of warm and kindhearted people. How amazing is that?... Read More

"Take a deep breath, hold it for two to three seconds then exhale." It's how I relax my tense self in facing pressures. Well, most of the time it works for me. Thanks Lord! I'm not sure what shall I do if that only technique I have would fail. Lol. Today is a weekend.( Happy dance) It means a free day for me, rest day, a RELAX time, whatever you call it. It's my favorite day. No work to think about. No English speaking day except for writing this post in English. My mouth is only dedicated to speak my... Read More

One of the first questions I asked when I arrived here was the location of any Catholic churches nearby. Thankfully, in our first week of stay with our hospital accommodation provided by our employer, the St Anthony and Our Lady of Mercy's Catholic Church is situated next to our flat. How accessible is it to celebrate the holy mass! There's only one mass schedule during Sundays here in Hull unlike in the Philippines' hourly mass from five in the morning to as late as seven in the evening. You can still catch to attend the mass if you missed your... Read More

It took me weeks before I can finally afford to write my own experience on how I managed to take a step away from my family on the day I was scheduled to leave my home country. It wasn't easy honestly. I would say it was one of the most terrible feeling of sadness I've ever felt in my entire life. It crushed my heart into pieces I got comments from people saying I must be part of the determined soul mothers who can leave their kids for the sake of my career development. I'm not even sure on how... Read More

I felt a bit blue earlier today while doing nothing at home. Have you gone through such down moment too? Maybe because I'm far from my family. ALONE for the very first time in my life. I'm having an adjustment crisis. It's not an easy road indeed to be an overseas worker. My schedule was free this morning. Hooray! The negative side of being idle is you don't have anything to make you busy. It became an opportunity then for me to realize I have nobody in my family to spend my free time with. Awful, isn't it? Reality sinked... Read More

Before moving to a another place to start a new job, I spent my remaining free days with my family. Who wouldn't want to do that especially if you know it is going to take quite a few months or even a year to be together. God bless my heart to endure it. Last Monday was my scheduled flight and a day before that, while waiting for my airline ticket confirmation, we decided all to visit SM City. It's rare for me to visit a mall without having a concrete plan on what exactly am I going to do there.... Read More

It took me an hour to convince my toddler to let me borrow Dellia (my laptop) so I can start blogging again. That’s the life of a mom, most of the time, you need to adjust your planned schedules when your child is requesting you to stop doing anything and just focus your attention to him. Who can say no to your cutest source of joy? How did you all spent your Valentine’s Day? One thing I love about the Valentine’s Day is the fact that we can express our love to someone without the fear of getting labeled as... Read More

Sundays never failed to make me happy in enjoying an uninterrupted family time. Apart from no traffic congestion, everybody is in the house because it’s their rest day. Yey! What’s your favorite day of the week? Is it Saturday, Friday or depending on your scheduled time off from work? For sure everyone wants a relax time away from the everyday pressure in the work place. You deserve it. Please remember not to hesitate in splurging yourself with what they call as your “ME TIME.” So, how was the first Sunday for this love month spent? We aren’t certain whether we... Read More

After almost eight years of service as a Chase employee, I never expected this day would come to finally say goodbye to my usual routine.(tears)Today is the last day of my shift as a banker of one of the world’s most renowned bank. I felt both happy because finally, I can get to practice what I really wanted to do and at the same time, sad for leaving the company closest to my heart. I don’t know but perhaps most of you can relate to this weird ambivalent feeling when resigning from your work for how many years. Reminiscing back... Read More

I received Akyn’s photos on his third birthday celebration weeks ago and still haven’t posted them all in my Facebook account. Since I started creating this blog, I prefer to post those memorable photos here than in my social media. Why? Because I just don’t feel like sharing it. Duh! Lol.☺ Seriously, the main reason why I love posting them in Akynfullhouse for the fact that I can express more details about the pictures here. I can go detail by detail on what’s the story behind the shots. Isn’t that a better way of letting the viewers know a little... Read More

Our typical day turned out to give us full of unexpected planned trips for today. A week before, we’ve already planned to celebrate Mama’s birthday by going to a family movie trip. Excited to choose which of the Metro Manila Film Fest for 2018 should we watch. They got plenty of options to choose from with nice online reviews. Wohoo! Another relaxing adventure for us plus I didn’t need to spend more because I got two free movie tickets sponsored by my employer for being a diligent employee of the month(wink). So, how did our day start? The original plan... Read More