Questions for Me and You - Timeless Thursdays 13

I am the kind of person who loves sharing who I am and what I do to my friends and I thought aside from my trips and the food I have enjoyed in my posts, let me share some more things about me, to you all. Let me take you to memory lane on some of the answers on the questions below and hopefully they can make our Timeless Thursday something fun and sentimental at the same time. 

Pont d'Arcole, Paris - January 2020

**OPTIONAL: At the end of my Q&A, I set-up a short survey about my blog that I am hoping you can take some time to answer as well. I would love to keep myself updated with your thoughts so I can better provide my dear readers and blog friends with a good blog experience with every visit.

Let me thank Julie Wunder's Blog for her take on this and I thought it would be interesting for me to answer some of her questions as well.

Maybe you would care answering 2 or 3 questions that I answered below? I would love to know more about you too through your answers to it in the comments section. Let me proceed with my questions, let's go!

1. Where did you grow up?

I was born at a hospital in Manila but I was raised all my life in my hometown in the province of Cavite in the Philippine Islands. Though I did spend a couple of years of my childhood in California where we were once immigrants (I did not push through because I was so young that time and I chose to live in the Philippines. Would have been different if I was a little more grown up I think).

My dad carrying me, my two brothers in San Francisco - 1994

2. Do you have any nicknames?

Growing up, my uncle gave me the nickname Seven. It has been derived from taking out a few letters from my real name, Stevenson, to arrive with Seven and I stuck with that until I was in college. though some college friends called me Steve so I thought I'd move forward with it. But in the office, since I work in the North America bureau, they call me Stevenson as a whole.

3. Where did you go to college?

Been dubbed as a dark green school, De La Salle University - Dasmarinas. It's just beside our city but I had to travel an hour and a half going to and going home every single day through two jeepney rides. But it was a lot better than studying in the hustle and bustle of Manila, especially that my parents will not allow me since I was just 15 years old when I entered college.

We wore school uniforms at our University - Senior Year 2010

4. What did you study in college?

I majored in Computer Science. With my young age, I still did not know what I really want, or should I say I think I did but only chose a different course to major but thankfully I was able to finish it on time and with good grades.

5. What was your first job out of college?

I was invited by my professors to join the faculty so I applied as a College Instructor. I stayed at my University full-time for five years. It was one of the best years of my life, pay was not high but my students' love and respect are priceless.

Yup, that's me carried by my IT majors - 2012

6. What kind of music do you like?

I don't have just one style and it changes depending on my mood. Lately I am very much into Korean Pop Ballads but if we talk about timelessness, I would say Andrea Bocelli, Coldplay, ABBA, and Taylor Swift are my go-to's. they say I have a weird Spotify playlist with a lot of songs including Thai, Italian, and Spanish but hey, that's my music!

7. What’s one hobby that you’d like to take up?

I would love to do more trekking. I did enjoy some trails that I trekked, especially the Pinatubo Trek. It took us hours but there were no steep ascents which was good for me (I am week when it comes to steep climbs)

Mount Pinatubo Volcano Trek, January 2019

8. What did you think you wanted to be when you grew up?

A Doctor. Well every Filipino kindergarten student during my time wanted to be one. But being a doctor takes full responsibility of lives and I'm not something that is up for that to be honest, not to mention the years of study which was not for me at all before I went to college.

9. What’s the biggest project on your to-do list right now?

Be more active! this pandemic has worsen my sedentary lifestyle and it did produce not just a big series of aches and pains in my body but I also think most of my anxiety worsen from staying at the bed and the chair in my bedroom almost the whole time. Well I cannot go outside, too dangerous here in the Philippines right now but I know I should find ways to be more active like stationary exercises and aerobics.

10. Have you ever traveled outside the country? If so, where?

Yes! It is my pride and forever joy to have traveled. I have been to the United States, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea, Indonesia, Brunei, Taiwan, Guam, France, the Netherlands, Italy, the Vatican, Belgium, and Prague.

Me and my Sister Judy in Jeonju, South Korea - April 2017

11. When’s your next vacation and where are you going?

I had plane tickets planned out for trips to Dubai last march and laos and Myanmar this May but they all got cancelled because of you know, Corinna (how my dear friend Iris calls it) came and stayed until now. But if time allows, I will push through with Myanmar and Laos with my father since it's the last two countries of the ASEAN which I haven't been to yet. I would also love to go back to Paris and hopefully see Spain and Germany. Also starting to dream of visiting Iran and see more of Persia and it's history.

12. If you weren’t in your current job, what would you want to be doing?

Practically speaking, I would have been a Teacher. But if I had all the choice in the world, I really dreamed of being a journalist for the longest time, a Travel and Talk Show Host to be exact. Well, until now, I still dream of having my own talk show.

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