I AM AN EXPAT

One day, a good friend of mine ask me for a favor, "Ate, I have an assignment in my English class, can you make a speech for me? What you think will be the topic?" then I looked to her deeply, this girl takes her pictures and everything all the time.. So I replied, put OFW SELFIES.. LOL!!! And so I taught, why don't I write also about this? It is trending worldwide, taking your own pictures which the social media calls it as "SELFIE",even celebrities make songs out of it, getting the right angle of your face, in different places, situations, scenarios and even emotions. In fact I am one of the guilty person here.  We often post our pictures like this on our own social networking sites like facebooks, Instagram, twitter, wechat and so on.  And hundreds or thousands of our friends see these, take a look, click like, post comments, etc.  We, as an OFW, oftentimes or most of the times actually post the places we've been visited, posts good looking pict...

I am not that techie type of person, But honestly I love gadgets. Before, I am always updated with all the latest mobiles coming out from the market (updated in a sense that I am doing research about their features, their looks and so on) colleagues will usually ask me how or what's better before they decide to buy their own, and somehow I used to have my "expensive one".  Until that became less priority, when you started your family and the budget is so tight. :b When I was still staying and working in the Philippines, I am contented with my old model of "Blackberry", the important thing for me there are, at least you can send SMS, phone calls, and some IM.  Frankly, I still have that "fondness" when I see new devices in TV commercials and malls, but (sigh) I just ignored that. :)  When I arrived here in U.A.E., the only gadget that I have with me are my blackberry and an Apple iPod touch.  For a year that I am using that, even most of ...