In March 2017, I decided to fly back to Singapore and propose to my longtime girlfriend. Actually, we bought my plane ticket back in December of 2016. But she didn’t know my plans of proposing to her. Fast forward to March of 2017, I went with her family to church on Sunday, just 3 days before I fly to Singapore. My intention was to ask for their blessing before I pop the big question. Her family picked me up in our house on the way to church and we dropped their dad at the hospital to attend to an emergency call. I drove their car to church and we attended mass. After which we ate snacks at a pizza place together with Val’s two younger sisters and their mom. Her mom has always been talking and asking us about our future plans, specifically about marriage. This topic was on from the time we sat and ate our snack up until we reached the car on our way back home (what a coincidence right? Lol). While I was driving I told them, “Actually, tita, that’s why I intentionally joined you gu...

I met my girlfriend through Friendster around July of 2005. But our communication was cut-off November later that year. Although we were able to connect again thru YM(Yahoo messenger) around March of 2006. I told myself not to let this opportunity pass by again and I will try to court her. We became official on the 16th of May, 2006. There were a lot of restrictions when we became a couple. It was also because of our age- her parents were kind of the traditional type. I was 16 and she was turning 18 that year. In our first 3 months together we made a huge mistake that made her dad very disappointed. It made her dad decide to ground her and never see or talk to me again. What's worse? He thought of ending her studies. But, with her mom’s help, her dad mellowed down but still prohibited her in seeing and talking to me. Even though she was grounded we still found ways to talk to each other (don’t judge us. It was just because of puppy love! LOL). I can still remember that we pl...

I started playing poker in 2007. I always watched it on TV but I didn’t really understand how it was played so I made my research to understand the game better. As I was learning, my dad bought me poker chips and I played it with my siblings and cousins. My older brother’s friend also brought me to a poker club here in our city. But I was really a very bad player as I was still learning the game. Around 2008, I was searching on the internet on how to improve my game. Then I saw this online poker school who had a promo saying that if you sign up with them they will give you a starting bankroll of $30 with a poker room of your choice. I signed up but, in just a couple of hours my bankroll went south. While I was in that poker school I was active in the forums because there were a lot of students and I knew I can learn a lot from them. I can still remember that I made a topic saying that if someone would lend me a dollar I will challenge myself to make that money go a long ...