Archive for January, 2010
Since I came here, I’ve received a number of calls from insurance people trying to make me sign up for Medicare supplement insurances. I don’t really like talking to sales people not because they take so much of my time, rather, I find it hard to say “no”. I hope people in sales would not [...]
I had almost three weeks Christmas vacation so I had quite some time catching up with what have been happening in the neighborhood. Before my highschool days, I often went around the neighborhood so I knew almost everyone. A lot has changed. More than a decade of spending most of my time away from my [...]
My phone rang right after the alarm went off. It was my mother. She doesn’t normally call me early in the morning so I knew that she called to deliver another sad news. Nanay Soling, my mother’s aunt passed away. She was 80. I knew this was coming because she’d been sick a lot lately, [...]
My mother often tells me that she used to be very skinny. It’s hard to believe if not for those black and white photos of her in her teens and early twenties. Now, her wide hip has been “overshadowed” by the other bulges. She even told me that she would even take one of those [...]
I hate to admit it but I’ve recently crossed the border from being in my late twenties to early thirties! I’ve gained a few pounds from the festive holidays so I’ve felt so lazy these past few weeks. But it’s my face that’s always making me feel like I’m in my teens. Not because I [...]
I haven’t purchased my plane tickets early so when I was ready to book my flights, prices were already too high. Spending Christmas in Singapore is out of the question. Three Christmases away from my family is more than enough and I couln’t bear to spend another alone. So, in desperation to minimize travel costs, [...]
Almost a year ago, I had so much to bring from Japan that I was left with no choice but to buy a wheeled luggage. It was a bit pricey but I loved what I bought: bright red and really durable. I care for the things I buy that it pains me a bit to [...]
I’m finally back from the Philippines. I arrived last night after 2 hours land trip, almost 2 hours flight from Cagayan de Oro to Manila, and the flight to Singapore. Yet, I had to go to immediately go to work. Going to work after a long trip is not a problem for me, but upset [...]
Christmas 2009 vacation has been the longest time I’ve stayed at home since I took my 2-month maternity leave. Being there for quite some time again gave me the opportunity to sort things out as my mother prefers to just “set aside” unused things. I prefer to throw them out or give them away if [...]
Taking the “longer way home” was an experience I wouldn’t like to undergo again (will blog about this when I’m back in Singapore). But these past few days, Christmas and New Year’s Day included, have been spent great bonding moments with my Shaynna. Anyway, I just would like to wish everyone a year full of [...]
A Fernando Poe Jr. film was shown this afternoon by a local TV channel and this brought me back to memory lane. FPJ will always be my favorite local action star and my favorite film was the “Ang Panday”. One of the reasons why I love FPJ films was Paquito Diaz who often played the [...]
