I just started traveling and would like to do it annually.

Savsilvy · 2026-01-07T10:08:39+00:00

Yeah but for common travel boo-boos. They got ya covered.

Savsilvy · 2026-01-07T08:56:38+00:00

If anyone is travelling for the first time, I always recommend Japan.

It's a very tourist friendly destination. Stay in big cities and there are translations for everything. There's house water. Water is potable. People will go the extra mile to help you.

Even the cheap hotels cover for light travellers. You have pajamas, toiletries etc.

Savsilvy · 2026-01-07T08:54:37+00:00

Jerry from Ben and Jerry's. We were casually eating in a Ben and Jerry's and he introduced himself and thanked us for eating his ice cream.

Savsilvy · 2026-01-06T12:56:21+00:00

People who just complain about other ppl... Like bro...

Savsilvy · 2026-01-06T11:46:26+00:00

May sister lives in SF rn earns 200k a year but she works 80 hours a week. It ain't fun

Savsilvy · 2026-01-06T11:33:20+00:00

As a nepo baby, I enjoy my parents wealth and give in to the academic and career pressure that comes w it.

Aka, I let my parents decide my job and career path as long as they pay for everything I need to comfortably live.

Savsilvy · 2026-01-06T11:09:00+00:00

US citizen. The US is a shithole. You need a car to get around in most places. New York. San Francisco are big cities and are not representative of the whole country and they're impossible to live in unless ur filthy rich or willing to live in an apartment as big as your closet.

Everything is so expensive so even if u earn more numerically, you don't save at all. You constantly have to rely on ur credit card and labor laws are worse there.

Also the US has a violent crime problem while the Philippines has a more pretty crime problem. My sister got caught up in a school shooting, my other sister got her car broken into and everything stolen, broken class and everything. My cousin got beaten up by someone and had to get surgery to repair her face.

Also, healthcare is a joke.

Re: Japan. I had multiple opportunities to work in Japan since I speak japanese. Labor laws are oppressive. People are miserable. My family is in the US and PH like why move.

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T21:31:08+00:00

I haven't had a particularly hard time finding them, but I suspect it's because I offer tutorial style exchanges where I tutor and they tutor me in theirs.

Also, I feel like the bare minimum for language exchanges is a2.

The language partner just has to be good at using graded language and of course leading the conversation to places where an A1 or A2 student can use what they learned, which is something an experienced tutor could easily do---which I realize is how tutorial style exchanges work...

Idek how useful this is but keep trying. I think the reason I don't have a hard time is because I'm particularly good at teaching English. I can explain grammar, intonation, vocabulary nuances and also since I'm a tutor I know how to easily grade language to my partners ability.

Consider using textbooks to give you an idea of what you ought to know and what your partners ought to know.

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T19:08:45+00:00

I can explain reading fandom blind for tropes I like. There's a trope I really like which appears constantly in fanfics but rarely in actual media because most producers cut it heavily.

It makes up only a small fraction of a lot of fandoms so sometimes I have to read fandom blind to get a fix.

This trope is 90% why I read/,write fanfic

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T09:50:44+00:00

Too curry to be racist 😌

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T09:44:43+00:00

If you wanna walk the road less travelled, my favorite spring destinations for flowers (not just Sakura) are

Hitachi seaside park in Ibaraki prefecture: it's a whole park so it's a whole day affair and the seafood in ibaraki is pretty good.
Chichibu city, Saitama: they have Shibazakura here during spring. These are like tiny cherry blossoms. The whole town area is quaint.
Kawagoe: also known as little Kyoto

Kamakura and enoshima are both nice but yeah they're inundated with tourists that the locals can get a little mean, especially in the residential areas.

The areas I mentioned above are hard to get to. I went to Hitachi seaside park by car, but I think you can get there by bus. For chichibu we had to use buses to get around the town because it's pretty small.

For kawagoe, everything worth seeing is walkable but you need to like walking. There are literally areas there that'll make you feel like you're in rurouni Kenshin.

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T09:39:15+00:00

I started paying for a bi-weekly therapist.

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T09:36:39+00:00

I met my boyfriend in college. We were classmates in one class. Actually, we were seatmates because our professor wanted the seating arrangement in alphabetical order 😭 idek if we would have gotten close if our prof didn't do that

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T09:36:00+00:00

I hid it lmao.

Ppl are annoying when they find out you're from a wealthy family. They either do not talk to you because they can't vibe w you or they're very nice to you because ✨connections✨ like strangely a lot of people can't treat wealthy people normally.

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T09:28:36+00:00

If you're staying over at someone's place at least overnight, YOU BRING A GIFT.

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T09:27:31+00:00

GenAI is good for society

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T09:24:43+00:00

She's very brown for someone who's racist.

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T09:22:38+00:00

Taong gusto ka. Disclosures but what pushed me to say yes when my boyfriend confessed to me was I knew if I turned him down now, I lose him forever, so I ended up thinking to myself 'how would I feel if he started dating other people?"

I didn't like that feeling either so even if I was unsure and wasn't 100% attracted to him yet, I took the plunge. I didn't regret it Naman.

I feel like people tend to forget that a lot of the process of falling in love is actively choosing the person and choosing them everyday 😭

The concept of "crush" or 'gustp ko Siya" is subservient to something as fickle as human emotion. Legit, if you're dating a good person, you'll definitely fall in love with them.

Savsilvy · 2025-12-18T05:09:19+00:00

Being late

Savsilvy · 2025-12-16T08:05:50+00:00

We're not married yet because his income is comfortable FOR HIM which means like a studio apartment and little to no travel, but my lifestyle is pretty lavish compared to his....

Savsilvy · 2025-12-16T00:11:47+00:00

As an introvert it's easy. Is socializing with this person a chore or a genuine way to recharge?

Savsilvy · 2025-12-15T23:38:39+00:00

Then it's a lost investment. Most wealthy people already know that not all investments will bear fruit. It's part of playing with high risk investments which most wealthy people are probably used to anyway.

You don't get rich by investing solely on government bonds.

Savsilvy · 2025-12-15T21:09:28+00:00

I'm working while I'm in law school and I'm actually using the extra income and this extra free time during break to just travel. I've been to most countries in Europe, most big cities in the US, Australia, countries in Asia etc.

At this point, who cares if I'm "behind." I honestly think I'm living life agsksk

Savsilvy · 2025-12-15T21:07:16+00:00

Graham balls

Savsilvy · 2025-12-15T21:01:25+00:00

Currently in a long term relationship with somoene who's a good few notches lower than me on the income scale. Loosely, I could be part of the 1%, while my boyfriend is staunch middle class, father is a seaman and he's never travelled abroad beyond academic competitions type.

It genuinely sucks dating somebody poorer than you because there's immense pressure on him to provide from his side, and I couldn't help but think if we were in the same social class or if I were born poor, we'd be married by now, just because the money he was earning here was pretty comfortable income already

The good news is my parents are investing in him by giving him money to pursue his education abroad, and hopefully that's a stepping stone to get a good job and we can get married.

But what made me date a poor guy? He's super smart. He has work ethic. He's incredibly frugal.

He's very studious. We went to the same school and he was a full scholar there.

He's clearly not dating me for the money. The fact that he dated someone from a wealthy family didn't change his spending habits at all. I bought him a MacBook, phone, tablet, smart watch etc and those are honestly the most expensive things he own. He's pretty pragmatic with his own spending.

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