The D Spot

Mr & Mrs R – 32 years married on Jan 23, 2012! (4 sons, 3 daughters, a daughter in-law, 3+1 grandkids) together for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer through thick and thin high and low going…going…going! THANK YOU LORD, FOR THE WONDERFUL BLESSINGS OF FAMILY!

Discipline is much needed and sorely lacking in the country today. It is probably why things are the way they are. There is chaos, no order, no system. It’s a mess! Promises aren’t kept, there’s no palabra de honor, there’s no delicadeza and the values that can help keep society cohesive are slowly eroding. All [...]

After struggling with a hacked blog, and then a problem I really am not sure what it was that disabled my blog (sort of dead), my blog is now alive. The D Spot is alive! It has been a long 10 weeks to feel that what I have worked on for 5 years has been [...]

While having dinner at Pizza Hut in Katipunan last night, I saw my grade and high school classmate, Belinda, with her hubby and only son, a 7th grader at the Ateneo. I introduced them to my 7 kids, Angelo (graduated from UP, who now has a family of his own, a former sr. economist NEDA, [...]

How would you react when out of the blues you find yourself face-to-face with the man who hurt you so much? The man who dropped you like a hot potato, just like that, abandoning you in the midst of a beautiful love affair, so passionate, so beautiful you thought there was no end to it. [...]

How fast time flies! Our youngest, Alan, Jr. is now 14 years old! Who would ever think that this boy (who used to be my little boy) would grow up to be a fine young man despite the fact that during his first 10 years I was practically half-away from home traveling? It was only [...]

Now that it’s out–Partylist group GABRIELA has recently re-filed the Divorce Bill, it is time for us Filipinos to make a STAND! Are you FOR divorce or are you NOT? I have written about the bill being re-filed in Blogwatch.ph. Do take a look at it. There are more of this kind all over the [...]

When Lee’s name was announced as the winner of American Idol, he was asked, “What are you feeling right now?” He said, “I am very happy”. A follow up question, “Can you describe what is really in your heart right now?” he said, “No, I cannot.” And something to the effect that there’s so much [...]

Joyful! Joyful! Triumphant! Christ has risen. Hopeful! Hopeful! In His goodness We will triumph.

The past 2 weeks were simply crazy, well crazier is more apt—running a household of 6 kids, 5 in full time school and 1 awaiting the results of the bar exams, is indeed crazy. Days have become crazier Crazier—the pressure has built up. The results of the Bar Exams would come out anytime, traditionally, before [...]

From out of the blues, BA suggested that we go to Manila Seedling Bank (along EDSA corner Quezon Avenue) one hot summer day the other day. A few days before that, Monica, Vince and I brought the 2 little ‘uns there–and I asked, “Now do you believe there is a Secret Garden near our home?” [...]

It feels like I am starting anew–groping to write a personal blogpost. Oh yes, I have been writing on socio-political issues with Blogwatch, but it has been months since I have written a real blogpost, one that speaks of what I have in my heart, one that speaks of what is me. I have been [...]

My kids and I watched 10 Promises to my Dog a few months ago, a beautiful heart warming movie. At that time, I tried to transcribe the 10 Promises but I could not catch up. It’s so timely that I got this from the email, which I am sharing with you. 1. My life is [...]

“Time goes so fast!” That’s what many people exclaim whenever the New Year is around the corner. Part of the preparation for the holidays is the annual writing of our “New Year’s Resolutions” – hopefully, it’s not going to be the same list year after year! Some people might skip doing this tradition, thinking that [...]

Any man can be a father.  It takes someone special to be a dad.  ~Author Unknown And that someone special in my family is my children’s “Dad” who is celebrating his 56th birthday today. He is someone special to 7 wonderful kids–ain’t he lucky?

Children develop different values and behaviors as they grow older, and these values depend on the kind of values their parents instill on them. Whatever values they have developed primarily come from their observation of what their parents demonstrate. Say for example, your small toddler knocks over his bowl of milk and cereals, spilling it [...]

update as of 12 August 2009 Makati Medical Center, Medical City, St. Luke’s Hospital, and University of Sto. Tomas Hospital assured the DOH yesterday that they had no problem in implementing the EO 821 as per the governments mandate. For info: Malacañang’s EO 821 sets a maximum retail price on the anti-hypertensive drug amlodipine, the [...]

updated 5 August 2009 I said these on 26 December 2008, the first time this blog post was published, “You have no right to say “I am sorry” on my behalf.” In deference to the passing away of our dear and beloved President Corazon Aquino, I humbly retract what I said. She must have reasons [...]

After a long long week of missed appointments, missed opportunities, chasing people, missed lunches and dinners…waiting…and waiting…I can only say WTF!!! After a long long week of schedules gone awry…missed deadlines…bad decisions…sleepless nights…frustrations…insensitivities…I can only say WTF!!! After a long long week of misplaced things…priorities gone haywire…overspending… wrong signals…no signals…WiFi down…unmet expectations…I can only say [...]

Lest it be rumored that I am very ill (…and the next thing is–I am dying), I am sharing with you the state of my health. And I thought that it is only the former president’s family who should be issuing a state of her health following treatment for colon cancer. Or, PGMA who has [...]