Helena's Promise

I was able to watch an episode of Helena's Promise in ABS-CBN yesterday. And since the first time I watched it, I got hooked.

According to WikiPedia, it's real title is Scent of a Woman. Here is a synopsis of the story from WikiPedia:

"As a single, unmarried woman in her mid-thirties, Lee Yeon Jae (Kim Sun Ah) is meek and timid, considered a spinster by society. After spending ten years working for the same travel company owned by Kang Chul Man, she is falsely accused of stealing from a client. In addition to enduring the accusations of her superiors, she is diagnosed with gallbladder cancer with approximately six months left to live. Mustering up her courage, Yeon Jae resigns and embraces her remaining six months of life.

Embarking on her first vacation alone, she splurges on clothes and flies first-class to Okinawa, Japan, where she runs into her dream man, Kang Ji Wook (Lee Dong Wook), the son of her former boss. Ji Wook is a young rich man, cynical and lifeless, until he falls in love with Yeon Jae. Together they live out a series of misadventures, both comical and bittersweet, as Yeon Jae completes each dream in her Bucket List."

Source: HERE

I decided to watch how the story unfolds because I like the idea of living each day as if it is your last. Personally, I would love to do that. Our time on this world is limited anyway, so it is imperative that we enjoy each and every day given to us.

I have my own version of a bucket list where I have 100 things to do. But recently I tried not reading my list anymore after talking to a friend. He said that we can never be sure how long we will be able to live so his advice is, plan and visualize only for the next day or next week or the next 3 months at the longest.

While that advice is sound. I still keep my long term dreams; the decision to stick with a 3 month plan and keep everything simple makes the journey less uptight. It is still best to enjoy whatever comes up. And surrender that everything that happens is according to God's plan.

As with Helena's promise, I know and predict, that just like other Korean novelas on TV, the heroine will die. But it is not the end that matters, what should matter is how she lived her last 6 months.

Like Helena, I promise to try to live my life and enjoy this gift each day. Money and the lack of it sometimes get in the way of doing things I want to do. But I have faith that someday, I will be able to do them too.

Cheers to a Happy Life.

betrayal

Someone betrayed me. Took all the money and ran off.

Lessons:

Even if he is your friend, put all money agreements on paper.

Have a lawyer see it for you.

Keep record of all clients.

Keep record of all your partners activities - where he goes, what he does, his office and home address, so you can easily get him when he steals from you.

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Blogging is just like shooting. you need to write often to be able to use words, exercise your vocabulary to make a good emphasis on strong points. Someone told me that shooting must be a regular thing, it must be practiced always. Trying is not an option if you are to take advantage of the shooting skills and the bullets you'll be spending on. Hitting the bull's eye is not a license to stop practicing. To write well, one must write often. And review more often.

I stopped blogging when I realized that I am more prone to blogging on a personal-negative level. By personal-negative, it means that the last blog contains more of the teenage angst and the pains of transition from being a dependent young adult to an independent YOUNG adult. The last time I blogged was in 2007 when I experienced great pain. By 2008, I stopped blogging in the meantime. 2009 saw me writing about love and lost; and the confusion of which path to take.

2010. I resolved to write about houses more than my own concerns and preferences.

Now I am trying to return to blogging on a personal-positive level. So far so good.

Looking back to the old blog (which I have decided to put offline), I realized that it kept me sane while in Law school, it contained the happiness of the first love, the pain of first heartbreak, the anger that followed, the confusion and pain of growing up. It's all good.

I wonder if this one will contain another love story. =D excited.