It's never too late

One of my best friends left for Australia recently. She's 30, married with a kid. She finally did it - i'm talking about being able to migrate. Years before, she decided to stop making excuses and go on with that plan, and it finally happened.

I look back at our pictures during the last gathering we had before she left. I am running out of excuses to stay in Manila. Honeslty speaking, I feel sad that what we come to love is hurting us (I'm referring to our country).

In my speck in the world: my thinking was - how in the hell are you going to get a job in Japan when all the job openings in japan I've seen have the fine-print "applicant must be residing in japan"? Never mind the "must be fluent in japanese". You can always work on that. But the prospect of a foreign employer hiring multinationals for IT work? They must be crazy if they did... there happens to be a lot of jobless people in japan with programming skillz too.. not to mention the philippine government isn't helping. Instead, they recently implemented laws that make it more difficult for foreign employers to hire pinoys abroad for work (and possible permanent residency). As if we're so highly valued to the point that they won't look towards India or Sinagpore for potential foreign workforce. It is indeed sad. I can only keep on studying Nihonggo and programming so when the opportunity comes, you can grab it firmly.

Going back to the idea I wanted to point -- you still have to keep on working towards what you dream about. No matter how futile or high the odds are - it is what keeps us motivated. Keep on doing this, and you will reach your heaven one day.
For a person without a dream is half-dead already.