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Home-sinki
Two weeks in Spain made me realize that I love living in Helsinki. Sure, the city can be dark, cold and oh so depressing, but it is home. My life seems to be planted here. I am not sure how that happened. I know that I have been resisting the ide...
Personal Recap
Since the year 2009 will be closing and a new chapter in my life is starting in a few hours, I was thinking of putting together a list of my personal highlights for the year. I am not going to make a super extensive list because, well, I am in an int...
Regular Programming?
I am now back to regular programming or that is what I am trying to do. The whole flood situation in the Philippines felt like a bad disaster movie. I have heard stories of water rising up so fast that people died immediately. We never believe stori...
Offline and Online Lives
I have deleted my personal Twitter account because I was plagued by corporate spammers. However, I still wanted to micro-blog so I signed on to Plurk. I have kept my micro-blog private because I think one publicly-accessible blog is enough for yours...
Jumps and Clothes
I have been jumping from day to day the last few weeks. Yesterday, I felt a familiar sense of personal disapproval. I wanted to seek validation from people. I wanted to hear I was a good, smart and a wonderful person. However, I decided against d...
Not Waiting for Godot
When I was a freshman, I was required to watch a play called Waiting for Godot. The play is about two boys waiting for a guy named Godot which, until the very end, does not come. In the process of waiting, these two guys just chit-chat and philosop...
Spell Advice
I am very flattered that people have been asking for advice lately. I am not wise but I guess, my colorful life has some sort of bearing to others. I don´t think mine was the hardest of lives but it did have its moments of defeat and unexplainable...
There is No Formula
Many people tell me that things will change when I start having babies. Sometimes, though not often, there is a hint of bitterness in the tone as if having kids is not a very good thing.I remember, before I got married, a lot advised to enjoy life b...
Bawlfest
Last Monday, as an act of self-torture, I watched "Terms of Endearment." The movie is about a mother and daughter tandem going through everything from weddings, affairs, marriages and eventually death. I cried as the movie was ongoing and cried eve...
Click!
Jerks cannot get ahead in this world. I promised myself a few minutes ago, that I will do my very best in the most moral and ethical way possible to not allow any jerk get ahead of me. By getting ahead, I mean, peer recognition. Money is not the un...
Asian Power!
This is such a cute song! I needed to post it here, hehe. Nobody is an English song sung by a Korean girl group. Watch the official music video and see how much cuter the song becomes. Anyway, yesterday, we came back from the Philippines. We showed...
Thoughts from the Beach
It is currently the rainy season in my home land so even our current trip to the beach has been plagued with rains. But no complaints from us because for us, the temperature is just right. :)Anyway, I am realizing more and more how I love being Fili...
Freedom from Gossip and Oprah
Recently, I have had this nagging feeling that I do not know enough. For example, I just realized I know very little about Stephen Hawking updates, World War II or even the Old Testament. There are so many things to read and to discover that it bec...
Parents and Kids
Michael Jackson is a dead proof why parents should learn to love their children unconditionally. Actually, I take that back. It is not enough that parents love their children, it is also imperative that they show that love to their children. This ...
Being There for You
We had a picnic with some friends yesterday. We gourged on hot dog buns, salad, eggplants, zucchini and wine. It was a fun time talking about random topics like movies, dancing and diseases (haha). I just realized how great my friends are (includi...
Transformed to Me
Because virtually everyone on my Facebook account has been commenting about Transformers 2, I decided it was time to watch the first one.It was fun in the beginning but I started getting confused. All the machines looked alike and well, kind of rust...
2010 - The Plan that Was
One of my email addresses has 2010 at the end of it. I made that email address in 2003 when I was still in my first job, was single and had an unhealthy mix of ambition, confusion and frustration. The reason why I had 2010 in the end was because I ...
Great but Appreciated Anymore
We watched two movies yesterday: Revolutionary Road and Synechdoche, New York. Both movies were well very good. Fortunately though, I did not find the theme deep. Haha. It felt like both were over-complicated, philosophical and well, dramatic. Rev...
One Man
Heikki and I watched Valkyrie last night. In spite of Tom Cruise´s weird acting, I liked the movie. It tells of a group of men´s attempt to kill Hitler and end the world war. It is such an amazement to realize that one man (with the help of his ...
Plus 12 Equals Questions
It is June. The temperature outside reads +12. Our planet is going beserk. Just the other day, I have been thinking of my poor buying habits. I still buy a lot of canned stuff or things wrapped in plastic. Sometimes, they are really convenient to...
Geometric Living
Whoa! It is June already! It has been six months since I made my resolutions. Since then I have prayed everyday. I have been walking everyday as well but sometimes I do not walk that extra meters to stay fit. I really should start working on that....
Yearning for Learning
I have been in a weird zone for a while. My thoughts have been incoherent. I felt unable to fully concentrate. Maybe because I thought there were too many things to do at a given time or maybe I was just overacting. Either way, both scenarios can...
Things I Learned So Far
What I learned about being an entrepreneur:Plans should be clearly written in pencil - I read a Jon Bon Jovi quote somewhere stating that when you make plans, make sure it is written in pencil. That way, you can erase it. The same goes for having ...
Monday Funday?
I have been really busy since I came back from Sweden. I have had my share of work to do. But I feel like I have expended too much energy that I spent the last two days slacking. I realized once again that I must remain conscious of my work-life b...
Concepts and Realities
We watched Mammoth last Thursday. I wanted to watch the movie because of two reasons: (1) I have liked Michelle Williams ever since I saw her play Jen of Dawson´s Creek; and (2) The movie was partly shot in Filipino.I will not comment on the movieÂ...
Blue and Blonde
I want our kids to have blue eyes and blonde hair.My friend told me that in Bio class they read of an African family who had one blonde kid with blue eyes. She said it was possible because the parents have an eighth of the recessive genes (which I g...
Acting Humbly
I chanced upon this story of Lucio Tan (owner of Philippine Airlines) giving up his seat for a passenger. It is such a cute, nice story, that I had to post it here. :)While studying in Ateneo, I became friends with many heirs and heiresses to variou...
The Five!
Happy anniversary to me! Today marks my fifth year in the land of the midnight sun. :)How do you reckon I should celebrate? With loads of food like the Filipinos do? Or with quality coffee and cake like the Finns do? Or maybe, I should have loads ...
Conspiracy
Positive psychology says that all men are intrinsically good. Some say that all men are intrinsically bad.In the last few weeks, I have come up with my own philosophical stand: All men are born conspiracy theorists. Eat my dust, Gabriel Marcel, hah...
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter! :) I think it is the first time in my life where I genuinely believed that Easter is an important holiday. My heart, mind and soul finally understands what this day is about. I can blabber on how I came about this moment but I cannot ...
