Love in the Time of Acute Gastroenteritis
Posted by: mamie ami on: February 14, 2009
Fans of Nobel Prize winner, Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez might lynch me for giving a new and personal twist to his novel “Love in the Time of Cholera” but I can not help it. It’s February, the month of love and for eight days in a row, my two beloved daughters had a bout with acute gastroenteritis. One of them had to be taken to the hospital because she was near dehydration while the other is still recovering as of this writing. I wanted to title this as “Love in the Time of Amoebiasis” because the lab test of my first daughter’s poo sample showed amoeba. However, official diagnosis says acute gastroenteritis, so “Love in the Time of Acute Gastroenteritis”.
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Love # 1
It all started last Saturday morning, February 6. The kids and I have just gone out of bed and our yaya was preparing our breakfast. I noticed RY, my 5-year old daughter, frequenting the bathroom. When asked she said, she was having poo poo. I thought it was just natural. No one has eaten breakfast yet when I heard her throwing up in the bathroom. I rushed to her side and asked why. She said her tummy aches. I investigated and found out from her later that she finished off her bottled milk which was prepared the night before. So I concluded that it was spoiled milk that’s done her.
I Support Gary Granada Against GMA-7 (Kapuso Network)
Posted by: mamie ami on: February 6, 2009
I am not a musician. I am tone-deaf even but I know Gary Granada. I listen to his music. I love his songs. I buy his albums. I watched him sing at concerts for human rights day and yes, I watched his obra “Lean” twice. I am not exactly a fan, but I have great respects for the man!
When I heard about his case against GMA-7, I chose to support him even if I am more Kapuso than Kapamilya. Click here and listen well so you’ll understand why. Like I said, I am no musician but by simply listening to his composition and to the jingle of 3Pid pack, I believed him more than ever and learned a lot about music too.
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Passing the UPCAT 20 Years Ago
Posted by: mamie ami on: February 4, 2009
I heard that results of the University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT) has been released and I recalled my own UPCAT summer, 20 years ago. This post is actually part of my memoirs in celebration of UP’s centennial but I have not finished it until now. Not worry though, I am confident (UP graduates always are…) that I will finish it, chapter by chapter. As we say back in in campus, when we’re on an extended stay, “Ga-graduate din ako, maghintay lang kayo…!”.
Chapter One
The year before UP: “Lusot na lusot sa UPCAT”
I graduated from UP Diliman, but not from the course that I was admitted to when I passed the UPCAT.
Feels Good To Blog Back!
Posted by: mamie ami on: January 31, 2009
“Make hay while the sun shines.”
With this idiom in mind, I decided to blog back. It’s been half a year since I last posted and it really felt good to be blogging again. My 2008 has been quite busy since it has been filled with office tasks and family duties. It had its challenges and rewards, frustrations and triumphs. Many of them are stuff which most blogs are made of but I just didn’t have the time to write about them.
Anyway, now that annual report writing in the office is over and the results of the super, extra loooonnnngggg achievement tests of my kids were released, I find myself a bit relaxed. The office has wrapped up a three year community development project and we’re taking life a little bit easy before we embark on a new one. At the home front, it’s the fourth quarter and my daughters have earned enough high grades to secure a position among the top pupils, so I am taking it easy on them as well (hahaha).
Angsts and Answered Prayers at the U.P. Chapel
Posted by: mamie ami on: July 25, 2008
I attended mass at the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice in UP Diliman last Sunday. In my kumpare’s blog Shooting Churches, Eating Noodles I commented that this was where I once prayed fervently and God/ Jesus gave me exactly what I asked Him too. This was, however not the reason why I was in Metro Manila last Sunday. I made luwas because I had to pick-up my Konica Minolta digicam from the repair shop in Hidalgo St. I hitched a ride with my nephews who were attending their sister’s rice store blessing in Laguna. My husband went with them but I decided not to join them. I told them I’ll wander off a bit and smell the air of Quezon City.
Since it was too early to go to SM North EDSA (TRINOMA wasn’t there yet in 2003, my last year in QC before deciding to resettle in the province), I decided to take the FX to PHILCOA and visit my Alma Mater. I also remembered that it was Sunday so I texted my husband and told him I’m attending Mass at UP.
Born On the Days of July
Posted by: mamie ami on: July 13, 2008
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
Posted by: mamie ami on: July 8, 2008
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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.
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