what would you do?

if you hear something that confirms an awful thought that would be detrimental to some lives? would you tell and meddle? or hold your peace with a heavy heart and let things be?

cual es nuevo?

NEW BLOG AT FRIENDSTER

well, first of all, I finally started a blog with Friendster just to avail of their photo albums (hehehe) and also they have been nagging members countless of times. they even have this new "grouper" to share photos and videos and have to be a member again and download whatever, etc., etc. Honestly, after all the usernames and passwords, I'm lost and could not even log-on to Hi-5 for example. So please no more offers for memberships et al... but if you wanna see the blog, click here.
warning: top entry is a sad one...

HABLO ESPAÑOL

as I mentioned on my past entry, I started taking spanish lessons, hence the title, and I'm enjoying it so far although I try not confound things with other languages, what with tagalog, bisaya, english, french and german as reference. but its kinda cool coz there's always a word to translate it although my notebook looks like a fruit salad of languages. to explain its like this... for tagalog, sinturon but in spanish its cinturon. for bisaya its limpio which is the present form of the verb limpiar in spanish for first person that means clean. then in english its football, in spanish futbol. for french le jardin, in spanish el jardin also the same verb for venir and partir but conjugated differently. and for german, haven't found similar words but since the teacher is only fluent in english and german, geez, I also have to try to find the word in german so she'd understand! YYYYAAAAAHHHH!!! really trying hard not to get cross-eyed here... wanna try spanish? try this link here.

WEB DESIGNING

They've also introduced web-designing courses at work so I'm kinda keen with that and am not so lost anymore when I see html codes. Kinda even curious how they are built but I still have a lot to learn. Can't wait to finish it so I can experiment and finally have a new look for this blog!!! I think I need a face lift.

WEDDING IN DECEMBER

Some of you might know that we are planning our church wedding on December in Manila and trying really hard to save for it! (so no H&M visits for me at the moment...) But won't go into the details yet coz its all so tentative pa... later during the year I'd let you know more... pohon! for some preliminary photos though, click here.

6TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Yup, its been six years since hubby went to the UN office first time and picked me up from work and he started his career as professional driver (HAHAHA). Our first date was McDo coz he was still a student then but funny enough, the 1st anniversary was spent in KFC coz we also did not have money at that time. But the simplest things can be the most precious ones. What's important is we have each other. LOVE YOU SCHATZ!!!

a mom's chronicle - the pains of being a mom

As you grow, you've become more active. not only greeting us with your sweet "hallo!" when we come home but you'd also be jumping around laughing with glee. It always makes us smile. Your uncle has become your best buddy and you do boy games such as boxing and wrestling. As such, you also treat us that way and sometimes while lying quietly on the sofa, you would attack us by jumping over us again and again and climbing on our torso, our chest, our head and our face even. But you haven't gotten the notion of your weight so imagine a little bubbly thing weighing 15 kilos jumping all over us. We are, after all, human and not cement so it can physically hurt us sometimes. You also don't like it when your daddy and I are cuddling and smootching. You'd try to tear us apart while protesting noisily. You'd jump in between us and push our faces away.

yesterday evening, you saw us smootching again and you ran to the bed and basically jumped on my face to separate your dad and I. It really hurt so we were scolding you and offended, you were gonna leave us so you moved your chunky legs to go down the bed but you hit me on the nose at the same time. It was like someone giving me an upper cut on the nose area so it was so d*mn painful, I was doubled-up in pain. Then slowly, I felt something trickle down my nose and I knew it was really bad... yup! it was blood. Hubby immediately went to get a cold pack and I went to the toilet to get some tissue. I applied the cold pack while feeling my nose to see if anything is broken but thank God it was just the shock. It felt very tender but not broken so I relaxed a bit. I twitched though everytime something approaches my nose. I was just looking at you speechless. I did not give you a hug for a while so that you would know that you did something bad and was scolding you once more. But come early morning, I was hugging you tight again. It's still sore this morning and I tried to limit my hobby of bogey removal from my nose (hehehe). Am still waiting if there would be like a bruise mark or something but am lucky till now.

In retrospect, I was not really angry coz I knew you do not understand what you did. And I sort of accept the fact that this is what motherhood is all about. I write this as a memoir of your childhood and what you put us through. But one thing for sure, despite all these things happening, you are my son and I will always be your MOM.