{"id":76,"date":"2008-01-12T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/wordpress\/20080112\/forty-five-today"},"modified":"2008-01-12T04:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T18:55:00","slug":"forty-five-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/20080112\/forty-five-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty-Five Today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"BirthdayPhoto\"<\/a> Sometime today – I would have gone around the sun for 4 1\/2 decades! Let me just take stock of it so far. Twenty-One years of this was spent growing up in the best city in the Philippines – Baguio City. There was always work in the fish market. I also attended Boys High School where I met my friends-for-life classmates. My Baguio days also brought me to Saint Louis University where I met Jeanne, my wife and partner.<\/p>\n

The next 8 years was spent in Manila as I started my working life. I hated everyday I was in Manila. If not for the occasional trip overseas – life there is unbearable. I took comfort on the fact that Uncle Dave – my idol , has been working in Manila and commuting back to Baguio on weekends. I did the same and quickly learned how to sleep in bus trips.<\/p>\n

At least a year was spent in Kuala Lumpur and although it was a lot better than Manila – being away from my family on extended periods is just not my idea of revolving around the sun.<\/p>\n

Am I glad that the last 15 years was spent with my family in Sydney? You bet! But no matter where we are – we’re still spinning around the same big sky and every now and then I look up in awe on how big and wonderful the rest of the space is – thankful to witness and realize what is happening around us. We are indeed greater than the rocks, gasses and any other form of matter that have ever existed. I hope you’re all having fun in our very own cosmic ride. It is indeed the greatest ride of all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometime today – I would have gone around the sun for 4 1\/2 decades! Let me just take stock of it so far. Twenty-One years of this was spent growing up in the best city in the Philippines – Baguio City. There was always work in the fish market. I also attended Boys High School… Read More ›<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}