Breakthrough (Rising Again)

                At one point in our life, we will experience something that we would consider as one of the most memorable thing in our time here on earth and we would put it in our list as the most dreadful situation in our human existence. It’s as if there is no bright tomorrow that will come our way because all of the important things around us are destructed. Well, it happened to me at the age of 24.

                For the past 24 years of my life, everything was perfect… I have a wonderful family, a luxurious lifestyle, an opportunity for a higher education and profitable businesses… I have the ideal life that many would dream of…

                And now that I’m 27? For the last 3 years of my life, My Faith to our Almighty Creator has been tested… In a glimpse, just like a wheel, everything turned upside down, I was on top before and now I’m at the bottom… Because I was living “The Life”, I took everything around me for granted, I forgot all the important things in my life. I was so focused on how to enjoy myself everytime. But sometimes, life is not always like that, I forgot to balance it. Those 3 years were the hardest 3 years I have ever experienced in my entire life, problems in every aspect were arising, no matter how far I ran and hid from these agonies, it still followed and haunted me. I really lost all of Life’s battles in these 3 years.

                But you know what? Even if my Life was destroyed, I am still thankful that GOD gave me these horrible situations because I have learned a lot, a lot about how life really works. I discovered more of myself, my potentials and abilities. I am proud to say that for those 3 years, I never lost my Faith to GOD, I really had a strong grip to our Creator. I always ran and prayed to him. I still became optimistic that my old life would return but with a better ME.

                So one day, an opportunity came, my old time friend Shandy Lim called and asked me to attend a business presentation. I told him that I was busy and I might not attend but he really urged me to give it a try, he told me to just listen. So I decided to go because I can’t say no to shandy coz’ when I was included in the Philippine’s 100 Most Eligible Bachelors of 2010, He was the one who talked to this famous designer Shanon Pamaong to lend me his designs which I used for the photoshoot of the said event. So I went to the venue of the meeting and listened, I met this couple Mrs. Anne Marie and Mr. Ingo Hansen who are the speakers of this said presentation. After listening, without thinking twice, I decided to be their business partner. Thanks to my family who are mostly in the business industry, I inherited their “Business Instincts” and saw that this business has a great potential to be super successful. And numerous opportunities followed too, I was nominated for the Philippine Blog Awards 2011, the most prestigious Award giving body in Philippine Blogging. Also, many availed my very Cheap Travel Packages & My Pharmacist License was rented by another Pharmacy aside from the current one. And many more blessings came…

                So by this time, I have already realized that God’s test in my Faith to him is nearly done and he has proven that I will always be a thankful son to our Almighty Creator. I admit that my struggles are still there but my Faith to God is also getting stronger and deeper as those trials try to battle me. Plus, I already learned my lesson and I really learned it the hard way. And now, I can feel that my old life is slowly coming back but this time, with a better and mature ME.

                So after 3 months with my Friend and Business partner Shandy Lim, our Goal has been met. Thanked God we have reached and achieved it. When I started to join this business, I just dreamed of wanting to have my old life again but this time, I will be wiser and more mature in handling every portion of my life. And thank you so much to our Almighty GOD because he answered all of my heart’s wishes & prayers and he even added plenty of bonuses to it. So now, it’s my time to RISE AGAIN and this time I will use everything that I have learned and put it to good use…

                I would like to Thank our Almighty GOD first and I would like to Thank next is my Friend Shandy Lim for giving me the opportunity to RISE AGAIN and believing in my potentials that I could turn this business into a success story…

                Along the way I also met Ms. Lea Bayubay who guided and advised me in how to turn this business into a triumphant outcome. And I would also like to thank most importantly my Leaders who became my Friends, each and everyone of you are the very reason why our Team has been a success in VMOBILE Industry…


- The Prodigal Learner

Happy Loner Traveller’s 27th Birthday (A Simple Ordinary Guy Who Lived Life Extraordinarily)

              Most of the people think that what I am referring to as an “Extraordinary Life” is a life lived luxuriously, eating pleasurable foods and travelling lavishly in many parts of the Philippines. But they are all wrong… Because what I mean by an “Extraordinary Life” is deeper than what many people think, it is filled with more purpose and meaning, it is a life lived significantly with the discovery of true inner joy and faith formed within oneself… All people has this but only few realize that they have this gift given by our God to influence and change all the people in the world to have a better view about their lives and the world as how they see it… So now, I can finally say that Armie “Happy Loner Traveller” Yuson, a simple ordinary guy has lived his 27 years of existence extraordinarily by using what he has which is his love for writing, photography and video documentary in inspiring and touching people’s lives to make our world a better and wonderful place to live in…

            I have a lot of advocacies in life but these 3 main things sum up all of my passion… The First one is to promote Philippine Tourism, we have wonderful natural resources, one of the best in the world, I would want to promote what we have to the world because I am so proud of my country, the Philippines… The Second one is I help and train people to be tour guides in local places that I visit in order for them to see the possibility of a fantastic work in our tourism industry, thereby allowing the increase of job opportunities and eradicating poverty in the Philippines… The third one is I’m teaching everyone to protect and preserve our mother nature, I am against to those people who try to change the natural architecture of our earth, I am against to those who try to commercialize a fascinating place by building steel structures that would destroy the innate magnificence of a place’s natural wonder...

And another calling of mine is for the past 11 years, every Christmas, I try to help one family who has nothing at all to build their own business, a “Sari-Sari Store” where they could start to make it grow and become their source for bread & butter. I teach them on how to run their business because I realized that if you will just feed them, after that, it’s gone, they will be hungry again. Well as, if you teach them on how to handle their own business, the flow of help would be continuous and they could also pass to others the help you have given them, it also trains them to be more productive rather than letting them wait for another feeding program. Recently, I visited the 11 families that I’ve helped and Thanked God I’m so happy because their business are still existing and it has helped them a lot, their children graduated from high school and even college because of the money that came from the “Sari-Sari Store”.

With the current technology like social networking sites and the arising of new forms of businesses, I also use these tools to my advantage, I created a page named “Filipino Pharmacist”, which in its 2 years, has helped 59 Pharmacist find their jobs that they love and have helped their families as well. Also, with the new business I’m in right now, “VMobile”, It has allowed me to expand my views regarding businesses, that I could help other people by letting them see the opportunity that this business can offer, not only that, I am also helping them maximize their potentials by developing their personalities in a more optimistic and approachable way. And I’m given the chance to help those who want to have their own simple livelihood. Also, opening their connections in gaining more friends…

            And all the greatest gifts that I have received in my entire life are when people come and talk to me and they’re saying that their lives have been changed by my articles, that I have inspired them to live a positive and better one. That they have discovered that there are amazing and astonishing places here in the Philippines that they know nothing about, that whenever they read my articles, see my photos and watch my videos, it’s as if they were also there in that particular place. And that they can also see the goodness of the heart and the depth of passion of the author to his writings. As a writer, it is the best compliment that could ever be given by someone to me coz’ it inspires me more to work harder for greater articles so that I could change more lives that needed encouragement and that I could motivate people to open their mind and heart, that there is a greater purpose for each one of us out there, just waiting to be uncovered…

            So now, on October 9, 2011, a 27 year old simple and ordinary guy has lived an Extraordinary Life… And he may not have contributed that much in trying to change the world, it may be a small personal offering, but the important thing is he started to lit the fire in other’s eyes and one day he believes that this little act will make a big difference in sheltering the values left in us humans and preserving a better world for future generations to live in. And doing something that truly gives a fulfillment in his heart, is more than enough and it is the greatest birthday wish he has ever had… Happy Birthday to ME!!!


- Happy Loner Traveller