Good News and Bad News

Two days of not eating is too much for my suffering, just trying to survive with water and lots of it. I could only imagine what Josh and Jehu had to suffer earlier when they got their mumps. Got it from them. It was too timely for me as I am on leave from work. Ahhh.... I am suppose to go to Singapore on Thursday but I am not going anymore.

Much more, I am 5 weeks on the way. This is the good news. However, both Jehu and I don't know what to feel. We're happy yet so worried because of my present situation. I had taken several medications of ibuprofen and antihistamine the past few days for my mumps. To add to my suffering, I cannot eat anything. Even if my doctor said that I should not worry about it, I still am. That is the bad news.

When we told Josh that he is going to have a baby brother/sister, he did not show too much interest. Especially when he asked me when is the baby coming and told him, in December. In his mind, that's still way too far. But when I told him that the baby is already in mom's tummy, he jumped for joy. He became too excited. That's all he wanted to hear. I never realized it earlier.

He can't wait to give the baby it's name. When I told him that I want it biblical like his, he gave me a weird look. "Mom", he said, "It's not gonna be Moses or Noah, right?"

Hmnn... why not?

A Surge of Depression

cWhile reading the posts at the my Yahoogroup, I felt a surge of depression inside. I am depressed at the thought of having our EOI rejected because they might not recognize our qualifications from our school. Here I go again with this same thoughts about our alma mater. Bakit ba naman kasi ang pangit ng name ng school namin at ikinahiya ko pa ata to. Yong initials pa nya ABC, parang XYZ school, yong mga kadalasang ginagamit sa mga examples pag me kwento na nangungutya about school. Arrgghh... kakainis di ba? Pero sana naman, NZ would not be that discriminating as I thought when it comes to choosing their migrants.

Hay, graduate nga ako ng ABC, e ano ngayon? I'm not mediocre. I have to pick up myself and think positively. NZ will not deny us just because of that. Go parin Tekla, kahit anong mangyari... hehehe! (Sira ulo na talaga ako.)

Investment

I am trying to compute how much we will be spending for our NZ immigration pala.

Here they are (para sa mga willing na mag-aksaya ng panahon at pera):

PAR (Pre-Assessment Result) - NZ$75 (x2) = Php 5000.00
EOI (Expression of Interest) - 300 9600.00
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Initial while waiting for ITA (paid na to) 14600.00

Eto nalang ang wala pa kami:

ITA Application Fees US$1050 54000.00
IELTS 9000.00
Medical Php7500x3 22500.00
NZQA 10000.00
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more or less 96000.00


Waaaaaa.... over 100K pala magastos din... hay... san kaya ako makahanap ng pambayad no? Maybe I can shoulder NZQA and IELTS pero I bet I would be on bended knees again hihingi ng assistance sa father ko... sa laki ba naman.. di carry ng powers ko to.

Continue to have faith.... if it is for us, God will give it to us in its proper time.

Tatamad-Tamad sa Trabaho

Pag ganito ang mode sa trabaho, syimpre ang ginagawa ay busy-busyhan lang. Kunwari busy ang mga kamay sa pagta-type. Kala mo naman work yong ginagawa, blog pala. Hay, ano ba at parang napakatamad ko ata lately. Or shall we say di lang tama yong mga priorities ko. Kasi ba naman busy busy sa ibang mga bagay tulad ng pagbabasa ng mga post sa Pinoys2NZ digest. Nahibang na ata ako masyado sa planong to. Panu kasi malapit na kaming mag lodge ng EOI namin. Hay, after 8 years.. sana tuloy tuloy na itich... at wala nang masyadong hadlang pa.

Although, honestly sobrang kinakabahan pa rin ako sa mga plans na to kasi ba naman, feeling ko I did not ask for signs from above kung ito na ba talaga ang tamang oras na maglodge ng EOI. Umiiral na naman tong pagka impulsive ko. One year narin pala ang nakalipas since nag attend kami ng seminar sa Sampang. Si Roa nakapag EOI na nung May last year pa, samantalang ako ay inabot pa ng isa pang taon. See? Bagalicious ko talaga.

Buti nalang at guminhawa kunti ang life ngayon, bumaba ang dollar exchange at bumaba ang EOI fee. Siguro eto ang tinatawag na timing? Hmmmpp.. sana. At least mas mababa ang investment namin ngayon. Okay lang sa kin ang mag-antay ng ilang months para sa ITA sakaling ma select. Tama pa habang pakiusapan ko pa ang mabait kong ama para makautang naman.. hehehe.

Excited na kami. Yipee!!!!

First Steps

Ayun sa masyadong bugbog na atang salawikain, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Indeed, New Zealand is literally thousands and thousands of miles away from where we are right now. A single step is what we need to start that journey, they say. However, in 1998, we had already taken that single step. The only problem was - we were taking more steps backwards than forwards. That's why after almost 10 years of dreaming about the place, we are still here.

Last year, when Mom went to the states to, you know, work (what else, we can't afford to go there simply on tour), I was so much hopeful that she could lend us a small amount to re-start our journey (for the nth time). Fifteen thousand bucks was all we need then. I just ended up getting very frustrated when not a single penny was loaned to us. I could not blame her (me utang pa kasi ako sa kanya, well).

That was September of last year when the point system was at its lowest. Then my dear papa took his turn in going to the states. Yes, my very generous father. He was willing to lend us money then but it was us who refused as the points went up to 140. Thought it would be difficult for us to pass then.

Four months later, I got across the NZIS site again and tried to review the policies and changes. I tried to get in touch with NewjobZ but they do charge a lot for their service. When I learned from Debbie Go that Kate Go did not really get the service from them, I took a step back and tried to check our points again. Wow, we're at the 140 threshold. That gives us little hope then...

... starting the same journey again.

After 35 Days

I'm back after over 30 days of not posting anything in here. It was either I was too busy (of course, that's a bluff) or just did not want to spare time for it. Of course, I was busy with something else.. more important ones, I hope.

I guess I should be finding time to post here more often to document the 'old' new journey will be taking in.

Hopefully this time, this will be for real.