It’s so hard to see your friend hurt over an indiscretion on the part of her boyfriend. He cheated once and said sorry. She forgave him after a while. He cheated again and they almost broke up over it. But my friend who really loves her boyfriend so much forgave him again. And now he almost did it again… all those times and this with the same woman he had something in the past!

You wanted to tell your friend to break up with the guy once and for all because he cheated in the past and he will find a way to cheat again especially as he knows she is ready to forgive him again and again. But you can’t tell her to break up with him because you know her situation in life. You know how she’s so dependent on him on so many things. You are torn on what advice to give her! You are hurting over your friend’s predicament and you don’t know what to do.

So what to do in this kind of situation? I say, pray. Pray for your friend. Pray that whatever happens she will emerge as a stronger and better person. Pray that everything will fall into place for her and soon.

Some men ought to be ashamed of themselves! When wooing a woman, they do all their best to win the woman’s heart. During the relationship, they will take pleasure on making love to the woman, not caring whether he might get her pregnant in the process. And when the inevitable happens, he’ll run as fast as he could!

I know someone who was so undecided on what to do with her pregnant girlfriend. Whenever he’s asked about her and their baby, he would turn catatonic. He didn’t want to do anything with the pregnancy. But he was forced to marry the girl by both their parents. He could have said no and just be man enough to tell every one concerned that he will support the woman and his child but he’s not going to marry her. It would have been more honorable to do that.

Than what he’s doing right now. He’s telling their common friends that he was forced to marry and that because of that he is entitled to his pleasures. He is seeing someone behind his wife’s back. He doesn’t want to share in taking care of their child. He hardly ever looks into the welfare of his wife and kid.

Shameful behavior! I hope he will be man enough to own up to his responsibilities. And love the woman who stood by him when he was down.

I wish I can tell my friend what the photo above says… just because your lips touched doesn’t mean your hearts joined. I’m afraid she’s living in a make-believe world where the guy is extremely in love with her. They’ve been together for just a few months and yet she’s already planning on marrying him. She’s even planning a life in his hometown already and what she’ll say to win the hearts of his bosom buddies. It’s totally pathetic to see and hear but I can’t just burst her bubble. She’s too damn happy about it!

I know one of these days the guy himself will be the one to burst her bubble of happiness. I wish it won’t happen. I wish I’m wrong. She deserves to be happy after all the heartaches she’s been through.

People Alone by Randy Crawford is very special to me. This song is a reminder of my high school life and how carefree I was then.

We used to hang out at my friend’s house. SH is a good pianist and this song was always requested to be played. It was a witness to many “open forums” we had back then.

Hay…

Good, isn’t it?

I love Ellen Degeneres! I was just watching the Teen Choice Awards 2009 where she won the Choice Twit and she is sooo funny! And so cool!

Seriously, Portia de Rossi is really lucky to have her!

I love this theme that I found at SimplyWP! I was checking out different themes when I found out that there is a new release in SimplyWP. Since this blog is all about Solitude, I figured the theme suits

What do you think?

Hey, if you want great themes, hop on over to SimplyWP and check out their other free themes!

My previous theme got corrupted. You might have noticed my two-day absence. That was caused by a WordPress exploit that apparently happened to most blogs using the versions lower than 2.6.5. I like that theme a lot. I think I will just try to revive it. And I do hope I could.

This one that I am using right now will only be a temporary one. I don’t like how light the colors are. But this will do for now. Beggars can’t be choosers, right?

Happy blogging!

Endowment Policies is the topic of the recent gathering that I went to last Sunday. I was surprised to hear about it considering the event was a children’s party. My goddaughter, Gab, turned two and her parents chose to celebrate it by inviting their friends and their friends’ kids. And because of the state of the economy nowadays, as well as the incoming presidential elections in the US… well, you can just imagine the discussion between the adults. It all centered on the economy and the state of living here in the country.

Anyway, I went to the table reserved for me and three of my friends. But since I was introduced as an accountant to the other guests, they thought they should ask me about finances while the kids were partying their hearts out. So we talked about exchanged rates, the bankruptcy news on Lehman brothers, interest rates soaring as well as the inflation rate here in the country, life, health, home insurances and even endowment policies! The discussion was quite invigorating because I never had one of those in years!

Well, it sure made attending the party worthwhile. Aside from the fact that I love seeing my godchildren, and Gab I haven’t seen in a while, I just love meeting and conversing with sensible people.

Is your company in need of a third party Vehicle reimbursement company? Mine does. You know, for quite some time now, the company I am currently employed part time is always complaining about the excessive reimbursements of its executives. I am doing consultancy work for them. And I was asked to reconcile of the allowances of its Chief Executive Officer. It was messy, to say the least. One executive has several allowances. Some of it are taxable, some are not. The most messy of all the allowances is the vehicle reimbursement. So instead of laboring over it again and again, the company is now thinking of getting the services of a third party company to help them with this allowance. Seven executives of the company are entitled to the allowance so you can just imagine the amount of work being poured over by three staff over these allowances every month.

Personally, a third party company to handle the vehicle reimbursement is a good idea. It will be impartial and given a clear cut criteria over what constitutes a legal vehicle expense, the third party company will be a better ‘guardian’ of the expense allowance. I am all for it! And as their consultant, I am pushing for the immediate implementation of this policy.

Two of my cousins who are in their 20s will be moving out of their respective parents’ homes to start living on their own. It is a big decision for both of them because both grew up being pampered by their parents. When we were together about two months ago, we got to talk about being independent. An older cousin of ours who grew up pampered just like them is already married now, has four kids and still relies and depends on her parents for almost everything. We all do not want another occurrence of this in our family. Being one of the older cousins, I was adamant that the younger ones will not end up like our Ate Espie.

I am helping them move out. I am calling boston moving companies to help them out with the actual move. I am proud of these kids because they have stepped up. They are already working and they figured out it is high time for the both of them to get out of their comfort zones and start being independent. Both are boys and I told them they don’t want to end up depending forever on their parents. They should start practicing being man of the house.