Born On the Days of July

My hubby and I were born on July. I, on July 9 and he on the 15th. I was born three years ahead of him so even if we’re both Cancerians, I am a Rat and he is a Rabbit.

We celebrated on different weekends this year. My family came over two weekends ago and we went to Clark on Saturday for some shopping and to make pasyal the kids. Too bad, I didn’t have my digicam yet. The hubby can’t come as he was busy manning our rice store. On Sunday, we had some spaghetti, soup, softdrinks and lots of stories. The spaghetti was cooked by my youngest brother. While we were in Puregold in Clark, he told me he’ll cook some for my birthday as long as I buy all the ingredients. Shoot! (meaning: agreed). It wasn’t everyday that he offers his culinary skills. I bought the curly pasta and some tube macaroni. Not all of my kids like spaghetti. Raia, my middle child, doesn’t like ‘em. Everytime there’s a birthday party in her class, she gives her spaghetti to friends or classmates. This is why I asked the yaya to cook some chicken macaroni soup too. I am culinary-challenged so I had to ask the yaya to cook a simple food like a macaroni soup,

 

My Konica Minolta Has Been Brought Back To Life

Hooray!! I want to dance the dance of Joy! My old digicam has been given a second chance at life and with this is the revival of my photography career minus the thousands of pesos needed to buy a Nikon D40.

Morning VS Afternoon Session

We’re on the third week of school and my kids are both in the afternoon session. Classes start at 12:30 pm. For my eldest, classes end at 5:00 pm while for the second, it ends at 3:00 pm. When I learned of this schedule, I thought it’s better because I’ll have the time to at least check on their homeworks and tutor them a bit before I go to work. There won’t be any rush hours in the morning. Three school years ago, my eldest daughter and I suffered too much stress because I enrolled her in the city where I work and the trip takes about an hour by bus. Her classes start at 10:00 and I have to be at work at 9:00am. She was 4 years old then and since we had to leave at 8:00 am I had to wake her up at 6:00 or 7:00. Poor girl, she had regular bouts of respiratory illnesses because of that. The following year, I transferred her to our town’s Montessori school. It was far modest by the city’s standard but more child-friendly and caring than them. Most all, my daughter wouldn’t have to wake up at 6:00 am.

PMN FamPics: Heavy

Now this is HEAVY. This is my entry to the Pinoy Moms Network FamPics for April.

Of Grad Pics and Yearbooks

I just received my daughter’s kindergarten yearbook last month.

Too early you say? Too quick? Of course not!

She was in kinder two years ago! Yep that’s right. It was fully paid TWO YEARS ago and the school released it only last month. Paying the full yearbook fee was required two years ago or else they won’t sign my daughter’s clearance. They made us wait for two years and when we had the yearbook, we found out that my husband’s name was misspelled!

Tell me, all you guys in the publishing business, isn’t it jurassic to release a yearbook after two years even if the school has students from the pre-elementary to college levels? With all these digital camera and state-of-the-art color separation technologies and camera ready publishing, isn’t it medieval to have parents wait for two years before getting hold of a yearbook that contains their children’s baby faces?

PMN FamPics for March: Learning

I was late for this but I’d still like to share some photos for the Pinoy Moms FamPics

1. That’s me (left) during an interview with a farmworker’s wife. LEARNING with the PEOPLE is one of the better ways of LEARNING ABOUT LIFE.

2. My baby boy LEARNING how to walk @ over a year-old. Quite late they say… I don’t mind and I don’t care as long as he learned to..

3.  My second daughter shows LEARNING to put on her sandals @ 2 years old … take 1… take 2!

Quoting Jun Lozada

Jun Lozada has said a lot and I salute him for that. In this age of SMS and internet, no one should be allowed to keep one’s mouth shut especially if it is for a greater good, if it was for the TRUTH. As Filipinos, I believe there’s a Jun Lozada in all of us: a tinge of corruption, a number of mistakes, a dose of wit. But most importantly, like the Filipino in him, we have a conscience, the courage and the heroism to end the forces that is keeping us in the dark.

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If there is one good output from the weeks of senate hearing on the ZTE-NBN deal, it would be a publication of quotable quotes from the man himself, Jun Lozada. At least it’s not another book of text jokes and definitely not a compilation of terrible English statements. As I told my colleague, “The headlines rolling underneath one’s TV screen can be changed frequently to quote him. Everything he says is pang-headline.” A Book of Quotes by Jun Lozada? Why not and I am serious.