Greetings, earthlings.
Disclaimer
I'd like to apologize in advance because I suck at introducing myself. I've had like five blogs in the past - multiply that by ten, then you'll have the number of times I've tried to come up with a decent introductory post. It always seemed like it doesn't really define me - everything's basically just a collection of random thoughts put together badly. The funny thing is with a mind this disorganized, you wouldn't think that I'd be a developer and writing codes for a living. Huh.
Okay, so here goes...
Hi, my name is Gizelle, a Computer Engineering graduate from MIT (now MU), 26 years of age. I was born and raised in the Philippines, but I'm currently working in Malaysia as an EDI Consultant for DHL. I've been here for 6 months now, and I'm very excited to share my journey with you guys.
2012 me with no worries in lifeWhy did you have like five blogs in the past?
I've always had the heart for writing. It started way back 2005 in grade school when I first took journalism classes and became part of the school paper. I got that going for 6 years until high school. It sounds geeky but the experience was awesome. I joined a whole bunch of contests (and won), met a lot of people, rode the plane for the first time, and ate a lot of free food. I was the official "photo journalist" (sarcastic air quotes). But that didn't work out well for me because I didn't have the resource to continue learning photography. Anyway, most of my interests were drawn because of that point in my life. So I have (frustrated) writing, (frustrated) photography, (frustrated) layout and photo editing -- hence the number of blogs.
Cyberjaya, Malaysia. You can feel the frustration here, right? Taken by my phone.What are you up to now?
Oh you now, being a modern hero of my generation and all. JOKE. I'm still trying to settle in, mentally. It's one of my dreams to work abroad because I've always wanted to travel. When I first had that idea, it was all very exciting and scary to be out of my comfort zone - and now I know why. It's not always easy, most of the times I feel like flying back home - but I can't quit that easily. As of now I'm trying to focus on my career development and finding things to do on weekends. On my list - buy a camera and plane tickets.
Petronas Twin Towers, KL. 2017 me went a wee bit crazy and cut my hair short, thrice.Where do you intend to go?
All over the world, literally. It's a fun, ambitious thing to say. But growing up in a beautiful country where you can't run out of amazing places to go and thrilling things to do - you will really fall in love with traveling. These past few years, you will almost never see me at home on a weekend. Mountains, rivers, caves, waterfalls, beaches, canyons - name it, I will be there. It's one of the things I wanted to share you with you. I am very lucky to have been born in the Philippines. And when you come to think of it, it's only like a dot in the globe. So I can't stress enough how excited I am to see more of what the world has to offer.
Mt. Ulap, Benguet. My favorite mountain.
Twin lagoon, Coron, Palawan. With my jowaers.
Now that you've mentioned him, tell us about your boyfriend
I'm in a long term relationship with my bestfriend. It may sound cliche but we really started as bestfriends. A friend of mine can atest to that, @carloniere HI FRIEND!!! And're is an ECE graduate, we met in college when we joined the same organization. He's currently in the PH. We're trying to work the LDR thing but we also have plans on settling down somewhere together. We're going 8 years this coming May. Yay! He recently visited me here in MY just last Valentine's day. Hihi ❤.
Tanjung Rhu Beach, Langkawi. The far most island is Thailand.
And oh, shoutouts!
Before I end this post, I just want to say hi again to the one who encouraged me to join steemit, @carloniere. He's an okay person, with not much impact on my life. Loljk, I LOVE THIS GUY. As aforementioned, he's also my bestfriend, and my boyfriend's bestfriend, and our other bestfriend's bestfriend. We have like a small cult where we do our rituals like drink ourselves to death any day of the week, then call in sick the next morning. KIDDING. That was before, now we're just matured adults who travel together.
Flotsam Jetsam, La Union. Marshall, Lily, Ranjit, Ted/BarneySo you guys, that's me. I hope I didn't disappoint too much. You'll be reading more of my past and future adventures and non-adventures (boring things I do in between awesome) like the movies I like, series I binge-watch, and my deepest life realizations as a result of living alone. And I also wish to know more about the cool people in this community.
Great intro Gizelle :) Resteemed it so you will get a little more attention! Greets
Lovely introduction post. Feel na feel ko yung mga frustrations mo hahaha we're in the same boat 🤣With all these things that you shared with us, I know for sure that you'll excel here and you'll be able to share a lot of your amazing experiences. We'll wait for it. Welcome to steemit girl! ❤
Hi Jie, thanks again! Oh diba ang isarap iblog yung mga frustrations hahaha feeling writer/photographer talaga ang dating :D I'll be reading your posts too!
Welcome to Steemit. Naaalala ko yung first time na na meet kita sa beer pong haha dahil kay @carloniere. Well, we had a fun time there, hope you also had a good time here.
Ay wow hello 😊 Already having a good time here, thanks!
Friend!!! Finally!!!! Hahahahha! I'm really happy that you finally got your account!! You're going to enjoy your stay here. FOR SURE!! At least now you've got something to do when you're bored in malaysia. Hahaha!! I MISS YOU SO MUCH!! :D MUAH!!
Ayy true hahaha. Miss u too 😭
Uwi ka na ng pinas!! miss ka na namin!!! hahahaha =))
Welcome best of luck
Thank you! 😊
Welcome to steemit, best of luck!
I love this "I have an insane calling to be where I'm not " I feel the same way most of the time!
It's an inevitable feeling right? Cheers!
Welcome. Time to shine in newer ways. Coding is awesome for steem. It is a blockchain upon which you can code apps and you can earn doing that as well.
I'll read more about that. Thanks for the info!
This is my entry for Proof or tears
https://steemit.com/teardrops/@dtwo/proof-of-tears-my-drawing
thankyou so much for supporting our newbies Terry. much love ❤
This is such a very nice introduction.. And I salute to all the OFW working abroad.. Looking forward to your future posts :)
Love,
@micch
That's nice to hear. Thank you!
Keep it up =)
Welcome to steemit!
Can’t remember I’ve ever read a better introduction post. That all makes me very curious to read more. Sounds like a lot of fun :)
Cheers
Wow thanks for that. Hope to read from you too! 😊
This post doesn't totally suck at all! All those journalism classes paid off. :-) Welcome to steemit! I'm a travel enthusiast like yourself but never been outside the Philippines....yet. Hihi. I admire your dream of traveling the world AND MAKING IT A REALITY. Keep it up! I will be looking forward to your upcoming (not to mention, amazing I'm sure) travel posts. You have a great cult of friends by the way. (Been there. Done that. Hihi). Cheers!!
That is most kind :) Before I moved to Malaysia, I only traveled around the Philippines too. So this is my first time to explore overseas. And it's good to know a fellow traveler here! I'm sure I'll also read about your adventures. Cheers!
Welcome to our community mam... here all people are really helpful... sir @surpassinggoogle is really helpful to all new users...👍
And everyone's very friendly too! :)
Welcome to steemit hope you enjoy it here
Will sure do. Thanks!!
nice! and welcome, can't wait your next post!
Hi!! Thank you!
Welcome to steemit @ zeltuason
Welcome to share about yourself so that everyone knows about you ..
Cheers !!m
Hi @adson! Cheers!
Welcome to steemit
Thanks @mr-taleb :)
Don't apologize! This is a wonderful article, and now I'm one of your followers :)
Wow thanks for that, and I followed you as well :)
Welcome to steemit! Enjoy the ride :)
Thank you @kimmy95!
A warm welcome to you
Hi Giselle, welcome to steemit. You have a great life going on. I'd also love to visit Philippines to visit all those lovely places you mentioned.
I hope you enjoy your time here in steemit. Enjoy!
Hi! That's good to hear. You should visit soon, I'm sure you'll have a good time specially if you love going to the beach :)
I do; I love the scenery at beached and certainly hope I can get a vacation soon. 😀 Thanks
Wow! That was a witty introduction. Welcome :)
Glad you liked it! Thanks!
No problem :)
Welcome to steemit!
welcome to steemit, join to share your creative knowledge and ideas here
Woman with substance! Love your post! Lets keep steeming! Cheers!
Hi Jerica! Thank you, I'll be following your blog too :)
are you kidding me? your writing is excelent! Now I'm shy about my writing coz I'm a bit sucky in it lol. welcome to steemit! @gizelle
gonna look up to your future posts. 😉 followed and upvoted
Hi Laurence, I looove your name! And I'm sure I'll also enjoy your posts, followed you back! Thanks!
Welcome to this new and weird world of Steem!
I love weird! Thank you!
Hi. Welcome to Steemit! Former Mapuan here too!
Hi! Nice to meet a fellow Mapuan here!
congratulations to join your friend steemit good luck, and we become friends always @zeltuason
welcome to steemit, since you love blogging you will love it here.
Hi, I already do. Thanks!
I'm feeling the frustration myself, and quite envious even, for I am currently struggling with the programming course that I'm taking up, and yet, here you are, already done and over with all of that.
What's good about us being here is that we get to share with everyone all our frustrations and earn $$$ for doing so.
Anyway, see you around. Welcome to Steemit!
Jeanne
Hi Jeanne, what kind of programming are you taking? I'm sure you'll survive it, and all the struggles and frustrations will be over once you get a good IT career! Good luck and see you around here! :)
Superb writing :) Hello Ma'am!
Hi Gen, thank you! :)
Such a lovely introductory post. Raw and Personal. Good luck in all your endeavors ♥
Thank you! :)
Such a lovely introductory post. Raw and Personal. Good luck in all your endeavors ♥
Welcome on board @zeltuason, doing @surpassinggoogle 's bidding . He resteemed you
Lol, this is cute. You sure got a way with words, hoping to read more of your adventures soonest.
Hi Fego, glad you liked it, thanks! :)
Welcome to steemit miss @zeltuason. Hope you enjoy your stay here. Happy steeming while learning!
Hi @rave1086, thank you! :)
You're a joker, aren't you?
You KILL your intro, girl!
I feel you being part of journalism days.. photo journ like yours! :) ( di lang halata:))
Anyhow, WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME KABABAYAN!!
Nagtagumpay muli ang Steemit sa pagpaparami ng kanyang mga anak. :)
@smafey
Hahaha thank you!!!
You're welcome!! :)
Enjoy your Steeming here. :)
@smafey
Welcome to Steem! Many fellow Filipinos are here to guide you. Nice introduce yourself by the way. It is not just you, we all have our own frustrations just do it. Better done than perfect!
Nice introducing, welcome to this platform..I'd like to travel too..
Welcome to Steemit!
I wish you luck in your quest to buy a camera and a plane ticket. I'm on the same quest myself.
Hi! I thought you're flying 😅
With your title I was expecting to see photos of you in a cockpit 😂
I was mistaken as a pilot many times because I worked and blogged about #aviation and used to "play" while aircraft is on ground :-D
Hahah I wish! That would be fun. I love watching series, and the first episodes are usually called the Pilot episode :D
Its not late for another chance :D good introductory! Keep steeming :)
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Wow thank you! 🎉
Very nice intro, I love how you and your friends are very close to each other. Same as you, I am also a frustrated writer and I want to do photography. Just keep on doing the things that you like even tho were not good at it because eventually we will be. Hope to hear more travel stories from you soon and welcome to steemit!
Hi thank you! Yes it's never too late to learn and it's nice to have this platform as a vent to our frustrations 😊
Welcome!