“Jologs”, What Does It Mean?

I found Vince last night laughing hysterically. Soon his other siblings joined him, roaring in laughter, in front of the laptop. I asked what it was all about, and they could not even answer me in complete sentences. All they could say was “jologs, jologs”.

I have been hearing this word time and again, and no [...]

Mariha, A Blessing of a New Baby for Moin and Asia

This morning, I received refreshing news from my 2 young Bangladeshi friends, Moin and Asia. I call them “young” friends because they are almost the same age as my son, J Angelo. Since meeting them about 2 years ago, we have exchanged emails. They call me their second mother, which I do not mind at [...]

Pinoy Big Brother, Season 2

I told myself that now that I have retired, I will have the chance to watch PBB, also known as the “teleserye ng tunay na buhay”. Let me see if I could withstand peeking into the lives of 14 people entirely unknown to me and relate with how people talked about the anecdotes and scandals [...]

Bhutan–Window in the Sky

The Kingdom of Bhutan is a country nestled in the Eastern Himalayas. Visitors and guests in Bhutan will be surprised that the culture and traditional lifestyle in Bhutan is still richly intact and at the degree to which it permeates all strands of modern day secular life. The country has consciously adopted a controlled [...]

A Happy Home is Better Than a Clean House

I may not see my friends more often these days, now that I have retired. But somehow I have left them a legacy—my popular motto, “A happy home is better than a clean house”.

Just this morning, S, one of our barkadamates (circle of close friends) emailed us from Canada. She and family have migrated to [...]

Health Alert - Obesity Among Filipino Children

A few days ago, Angela’s endocrinologist, Dr. Sioksoan Chan Cua, and I talked, in passing, about the growing number of obesity cases among children and young teens, which is very alarming. She said that she has been reading my blogs, and agreed that blogs are good media for sharing experienes and information. At first, I [...]

Pinoy Moms Network

It’s only less than 3 weeks, and Pinoy Moms Network has already made its mark in the hearts of many Filipino mothers, here and abroad. It was a bright idea made up by Connie and Noemi—to bring pinoy mommy blogs together in one site. I have lost count of how many mom bloggers have signed [...]

Prospero Pichay’s Dreams (as depicted in the ads), I Call Empty Promises

Oh, well, now that BA has written about it, let me put my 2 cents worth, on what he calls the political TV ad that I have been “fond of” and “amused me no end” lately.
It presents a lady who says (in the vernacular tongue, of course), “I dream, of nice life… I dream, [...]

We Changed Servers

Due to my insistence, my son J Angelo finally requested his host to transfer our sites to another server or box, whatever it is for that matter. We have been very frustrated the past few weeks because the server was either down, or was not responding. I hope that now it will be smooth sailing [...]

It Must Have Been So Hard for Michelle to Leave

I called up my bank this morning looking for Michelle. Michelle was the ever efficient and ever pleasant accounts officer that I have dealt with. She is not only pretty, she is very pleasant as well. I was dismayed to find out that she has left the bank, not for another company or to be [...]

Why I Was Disappointed with Sir Cliff’s Concert

Last 13 February, Sir Cliff had his pre-Valentine concert at the Araneta Coliseum to a jam packed audience. I and my sister-in-law, Martha, were among the thousands who watched this much awaited concert. His last Philippine concert, I heard was held 23 years ago.We didn’t mind that the concert started late by more than half [...]

My Body

I am sharing with you another of the vignettes written in the Creative Writing Class with Barbara Gonzalez yesterday. We were asked to write a poem about our “BODY”. using all possible metaphors, images and recurrences.

My Body
Temple of the Holy Spirit
Nurture it
Respect it
Love it

God created me
In His splitting image

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