Baby Trick 101

       After the church mass, the pastor announced the children's recital scheduled 7pm today. Seeing the said activity twice for the last two years, which i pretty much enjoyed,  i decided to fetch my 2 year old niece so i can bring her tonight to watch the presentation. After succesfully convincing her that i will let her watch as many Dora Dora the Explorer dvd's  she wants if she would only come with me, i tuck her at the backseat and put around her the safety strap, and oh i gave her milkies to eat so she would behave as i  drive. Then we got home. We were already watching movies and eating when she suddenly remembered her dad whom she is fond calling as "pappie or puppy", whatever. So to  divert the topic and make her forget about it, i told her so many lies.. ( white lies ) hahaha, i did that just to make her stop whining about her dad, or else i will be stressed!!!. So here are the tricks i said and made:

1. i told her we will go to Jollibee when she wakes up ( no filipino kid will refuse to this offer)

2. i will carry her on my bike basket ( which she likes so much)

3. i will le her play with stupidoo ( our dog)

4. i made her iced tea, and lastly

4. i will take her to the mall...

       I am not so sure how effective my tricks are for other babies, but these are effective on my niece, as a matter of fact she is in deep sleep right now...zzzzzzzzzz...i took a pic of her sleeping.. so cute

      And this is how she looks when not sleeping...this pic was taken at the back of MOA last May 20, 2010.

       Cute, isn't it?





Done: May 30, 2010

She is missed!

       Its been a week since i came back from Manila with my younger brother and his family. From that time we have been doing family bonding every night at my parent's house and have dinner there. Our eldest sibling and his family are also there which leave us with one missing person - my sister. Hmmm,  where is she? She has been terribly missed. Family talks over dinner makes the simple foods turn into  a food for the Gods. Its lovely indeed to have your family around sharing and feasting on the blessings. Yes we have been doing that same activity every night without my sister. She is in Manila right now, working her ass and preparing for her future too. And how i wish she could be here with us right now, or even one night out of 7 nights a week...uhhmm so missed her..

       I am so proud of my sis because she had attained so much in life, she is industrious as an ant, soft as a dove and strong as an iron. Earlier this year, she again had her second surgery on her ovaries - this time the doctor took awa y the remaining ovary that was left from her first cut. It must be terrible for her because the things that incapacitates a woman to bear a child is no longer within her. I feel so sorry for her and i pity her. But then I always trust the Master dessigner of our lives and i cannot question why this and that happened to her. My faith tells  me that everything has  a reason, those reasons may not be revealed now but surely they will be in the near future and you can't say anothing but "now i know".

       Needless to say, we are having a good quality time with the whole family. My sis may be phyically absent but she is always in our hearts, and when she comes home for a vacation we will surely make it worthwhile. May our family be blessed until the end of our lives!

Done: May 29, 2010

Word War in Blog-go-sphere

       So yesterday was a rainy day, but the rain did not stop us ( Lainy, Lira and me ) from seeing each other for the first time. Lainy is a schoolmate back in college and Lira who now lives in the US is taking a short vacation here with her husband and kid. We accidentally met at the hotel where they stayed earlier that afternoon so meeting her at JB highway was not really an "off thing" feeling like that of  meeting somebody for the first time. Oh before i forget, Lira is such a nice and simple woman-- bloody filipina! ( Hooray to that!)

       Since the three of us were so called "generals" we got along pretty well. We sat, ate, chatted about a lot of things, you know what happened when all "tirangs" meet, whewww! its going to be a blast - like never ending conversations, one topic connecting to one another  to another and another and another. There were quite a few topics that we have discussed aside from some personal stuff, but  one of the topics that particulary catched my interest is the word war that happened in the world of blogging between a good friend of mine and another woman ( will not mention their names). I was a little confused and lost in the conversation so i just asked Lainy to send me the links so i can review them when i get home.

       An hour after we said goodbyes, i find myself reading terrible, horrible, deplorable and hell i dont know how else i would describe the  comments  posted  by a visitor in my friend's blogsite.  After reading all of those exchange of comments ( nice, rude, calm, religious, arrogant, legal, etc ) i came up with two words to describe it - HOLY CRAP! I can't believe ( but i guess now i am starting to believe) how big wars arise from small misunderstandings.Really. It just turned out into a big battle. We fight our own battle - everyday. But what i learmed from this is  to fight your own battle and to keep in mind how to win or loose such battle. Winning a battle, if you have the right strategy is easy, but i also learned that loosing one is easier. Why? because you are doomed to lose and always in the pitfall if you fight like a whore...

       Good thing my friend did not stooped down to her level and stood by the essence of the word "professional". And the winner is .......................

Done: May 29, 2010