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What Have Changed on Me?

What makes life really amazing is when you happened to fulfill and achieve the goals you set. On the last few months of 2010, I had been really planning on getting a new job or shifting into a new career. This decision has been really so tough. First month, second and fifth month passed and my jobstreet applications have been all denied. I was once interviewed but the good luck never came in. If I am to assess myself on the way I performed on job haunting, I believe I did my best. However, I am a playing-safe kind of person. Specific to these goals, I still wanted to keep my current job while doing the haunting. And even up to today that I have my new job and new career with me, I am still working full time on this job where I had been for already three years.


On the Photo: My Wife and I at Baguio City, Philippines Five Years Ago




I love writing about the things that I experienced, events that I dealt with, problems that I had encountered and resolved and even anything that I used to think of. This passion of mine brought me just a couple of days ago into a new face of my life. I am now a writer. The compensation is not that big. In fact it is only a portion of my current full time job. But when you really love something, practically saying that the financial side is at least being taken good care of by other sources, you would not demand for a higher pay but just go ahead and do it from the heart. Imagine expressing yourself without the control of anyone else. Imagine sharing the world what you think of and the things you feel bad about. This is my present day life, a writer and at the same time an engineer. Two professions too far to compare but typically similar in many objectives, one of which is to earn success.


I want Blogger.com to be one of my window in telling the world what I need and what I want to say. Having said that, what you need is really different from what you want. Days ago, I happened to meet one of the things that I want, a new career. The same days old I happened to be granted with what I need, another job to be my other source of income. This is the amazing life for me.


On the entire course of my writing on this wonderful expression channel, I want to represent the Philippines nation. We are poor, we are bad and we are being left behind on so many good things already claimed by many people on this planet. Of course there are still other nations who are behind us and I hope both of us can someday be at least one of the recognized ones in terms of equality and success. I want to meet changes; big changes for my family, for my country, for me and for everyone else who has the same ambitions as me. Let us change everything today.


On the Photo: My Wife and I on a Wedding Occasion Held Last January 2012



Pictures, body size, life status and everything about my physical well-being may change. But my ambition to lift this country will not. Follow my blog and together let us change everything bad on this country.



About the Blogger
The blogger is currently maintaining his professional website - his way of bringing change to the nation. It's www.projectnoriel.com. Learn a lot from this blog. Learn so much more on his website. If you have questions or suggestions, you can email the blogger at norielpanganiba@gmail.com. Enjoy reading the post on this blog.


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  1. WennieMarch 6, 2011 at 11:55 PM

    you're one of the most persistent & gutsy people i know, & i'm pretty sure that the changes in your life, career-wise, will set better things in motion.. :)

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  2. WennieMarch 6, 2011 at 11:56 PM

    you're one of the most persistent & gutsy people i know, & i'm pretty sure that the changes in your life, career-wise, will set better & brighter things in motion.. :)

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  3. Dondon ReyesMarch 28, 2011 at 10:13 PM

    Great things comes to those who persistently and patiently wait. Change may not happen in a snap. But change will happen--be it for a long or short period of time. While waiting, delight yourself in God. He will surely grant your heart's desires (Psalm 37:4)And His promise is "...those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. they will soar on wings like eagles. they will run and not grow weary. they will walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)

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