A great deluge...

This was a great shock to everyone here specially in our place which were directly hit by the typhoon named Ondoy. We didn't imagine that floodwaters would rise up to cover our car which I took to a more higher ground, but nothing has helped, it sank in the middle of the flood. And nothing I could do to spare it from the raging water. I don't know how much would be spend for the repair to keep it going.

To Sherlock

Hey friend look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according to plan?
And do you think I'm wasting my time doing things I wanna do?
'Cuz it hurts when you disapprove all along

And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you
I can't pretend that
I'm alright
And you can't change me

'Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late and
We can't go back
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect

try not to think
About the pain I feel inside
Did you know you used to be my hero?
All the days you spend with me
Now seem so far away
And it feels like you don't care anymore

And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you
I can't stand another fight
And nothing's alright

'Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late and
We can't go back
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect

Nothing's gonna change the things that you said
Nothing's gonna make this right again
Please don't turn your back
I can't believe it's hard
Just to talk to you
But you don't understand

'Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late and
We can't go back
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect

'Cuz we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late and
We can't go back
I'm sorry
I can't be perfect

I confess...

Being a wife only revolves on being a wife per se. Being a woman to your husband. For me it's not as how it is to be a mother. Being a mother is a humongous responsibility. It is not easy as how it is to be a wife. I chose to be a better mom to my kids rather than to become a good submissive wife to my hub. Don't condemn me first. He's got another woman, so what do you expect me to do? I chose not to cry over spilt milk...not even worth crying and ruining my days. I've got to be alive and going. I am a mom first and foremost. I know I've got some shortcomings being a wife but, I'd rather accept that there are things that don't usually work well for me. Acceptance work well for me here. But if only I was more submissive, I wouldn't have much problem now...oh but no...I'll rephrase my statement, I wouldn't be as happy as I am now. For a holier-than-thou judgment, don't crucify me...I just see things on a positive side of it. There's life after separation, as I underwent through it. But looking back, if only I was tooled with some foolproof ways to change his attitudes or let's say even mine too...maybe we're still here coping. But for me, I accepted my fate and I can honestly say that I am now a certified single-mom...and I'm [...still] happy!

Time heals and reveals.

'Coz am sick and tired of someone....who's just like a bitter pill to swallow.

All is well!

A day after the mediation conference at DTI, we received a call from Nokia Care that the unit was ready for pick up. And so I just want to thank Ma'm Cleo of DTI [if I am not mistaken...] who help us settle things in positive way. From the start naman I was so cool and settled dahil alam kong malaki ang chance ko dito. She even said, " pasalamat kayo at mabait si ma'm [...that's me] kung hindi eh pwede pa kayong maipasara at masuspinde and lisensya nyo". Also I want to thank Lalaine and Lou who is the AM of the store where I got the celphone...for attending the mediation promptly. Ayun after almost a month of waiting eh nagagamit na siya ng anak ko.

Big thanks...dahil mismong mother board ang pinalitan nila, which is dapat lang...salamat po!

How did it happen?!

Last April 26th my son and I went to buy 5310 Music Express, it wasn't that unit we were asking at first. But since mas higher siya don sa hanap ng anak ko, they insisted that we rather take it instead of what we're looking for. So okey...nagkaundo, maganda naman so we bought it plus another cheap and ordinary one. We paid a little less than ten thousand. I was a bit disappointed when my son told me na may problem after we got home. After a little dilly-dallying so to be sure kung may problem talaga...we brought it back to the store located at Robinson's Metro East. I won't at first tell the store at baka may legal impediments. When we were there na, and told them our woes, they told me to bring it to Nokia Center at Ali Mall. Wow gusto ko ng magtaray kasi why do we have to go there and do this and that?! Patience...patience is a virtue daw...be polite. Would you believe we bought it on the 26th of April...brought it at Nokia Center to avail of the warranty on the 28th...a day after we bought it, my gosh...di pa nga nagagamit may sira na siya. And I was shocked na the problem in on it's 3rd level na daw of diagnosis. Gee, with cooler nerves I went na lang to ask assistance from the good office of DTI. Now I got a text message prompting me to attend the mediation hearing on May 22nd at 2pm. Akalain mo, sa dami ng araw nataon pa sa enrolment ng anak ko sa UST who's a firstie pa naman. I just hope to attend to both but my priority is maka-attend ng hearing since feeling ko eh naapi naman ang anak ko don. Imagine sa akin pa napunta yung defective unit na yun. Bumili ka ng cash and yet wala ito sa kamay mo since may problem nga. I don't know what will happen on the 22nd. If the owner is liable to have it change ba ng another new unit since the Nokia Center gave me a certification that there's really a problem nga and declared it defective. And the question is, bakit siya pumasa at nalagay sa market kung defective nga siya? Well I don't know what seems to be the problem. Good thing I got certification na malala talaga ang problema niya! Sana naman mahiya yung owner and to save everything eh palitan na lang nila yun ng new unit or else ibalik nila ang pera ng anak ko. It'll be as easy as that...well I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

OMG!

Was so depressed the past few days and nervous and jumpy and irritated, so when I browsed this site of mine I accidentally hit the wrong key...and I created another one like this. I thought I would never again recover this site...sigh...thank G I manage to regain everything! I can now wear a wide grin now and happy indeed I recovered everything. Wow, pure luck hit me indeed today. And I believe it strikes thrice...hopefully. :) I couldn't tell how it dampened my spirit knowing that I would lose this site in no time. Really I have got poor dexterity when wasn't at my best. It always happen naman to the best of us di ba? What is important is...narecover ko na...and I have all the reason to celebrate. I love this blog.

So am welcoming myself again here...

I love this one...

One yucky story...

One time we just decided to have another nightstroll and we found ourselves sitting in Riverbanks Grill side. My kids ordered their choices like grilled pusit stuffed with tomatoes and onions, inihaw na tilapia of course, and grilled chicken bbq. One large group arrived and don din sa side namin napiling umupo. It was the 2nd stall...I hate to name names of course...since this happened a week ago and the intensity of my I-don't-know-what or how to feel na dahil tumagal na ito bago ko ma-post...huhuh! Now we were having table talks when suddenly I heard something I did't like. I searched for it and voila!!! I saw the man who's in charge grilling...huhuhu...he was unclogging his stuffed nose...shit!!! Forgive my words pero he's so gross talaga. I call the attention of the young male-owner, he then went to talk the one with stuffy nose and we saw them na nagtawanan pa. Shucks!!! So kadiri...and I told myself never to eat again don...where? At Riverbanks...

Money can change things so easily!

...and I do understand greed sometimes

Always here and there!

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure.

[...and it always call forth our courage and wisdom. But most of the time we attempt to skirt around problems rather than meeting them head on]

Minding your own p's and q's!

I was asked about what topic I hated most to discuss specially in my other blog, and I answered...everything about sexuality. And almost everyone agreed specially again that that group is specifically for mom bloggers like me. That's why, this blog was born. I just want to tackle something in which my ideas will flow on smoothly without being told of some certain boundaries and blah blah blah's. I love the third sex, be it the lesbians or the gays...whom I find it so easy to be with. But to flaunt it on air where children could get a glimpse or hear whatever they would gonna say about their thing, I don't exactly like it that way. For me, they might imbibe whatever from what they would hear. They don't need to blurt out all the truth or just throw away all [discretion] to the winds. We all have our own judgment, freedom, rights, discrimination, choices, and pleasure or options but sometimes we need to be a little discreet naman paminsan minsan lalo na't very sensitive ang topic di ba? They say silence means YES. But silence sometimes is also synonymous to NO. If we do not say yes, it means NO. When some people remained tightlipped about BeBe Gandanghari's coming out, it means that like me, I respected his choice, it's his call. We have to respect that. But like Vice Ganda have had once said on TV, maraming gays ang hindi yun minaganda. Simply coming out is just okey. Pero what they didn't like daw ay yung changing his name and crossdressing (?)...and for me, as parent I don't want some kids to imitate what they are seeing on TV. I just can't imagine how CV felt and feels at the moment whenever she would see Rustom cross-dressed with long curly lashes and flowing hair. I noticed na may resemblance nga silang mag-ex. And also as parent, I don't condemn gays, pero mas gusto ko namang straight ang anak kong lalaki. But if ever, maging ganun man, anak ko pa rin siya. And I will always be a mother. So ang bottom line is, don't flaunt it na lang. It is still not so 100% accepted in our norms. So let's just respect each other na lang...parang meeting halfway...wag sosobra.

Drink Your MILK!

A few days ago, while staring out the window of a bus I am in along EDSA, I noticed passengers in the bus alongside us looking up the video on board so intently. I caught a glimpse of the movie, it was a Sean Penn starrer, a film about Harvey Milk. Mr. Milk was a politician in America and the first openly gay elected official.

I wondered while watching the very attentive passengers inside the bus if they were all amazed by the great Sean Penn (he won the Oscar for the role) or if they were interested in the story of a gay man portrayed by the once-bad-boy-lover-of-The Material Girl.

I remember Rustom Padilla (who is he? he's dead, right?) transforming himself into a "she" named BB Gandang Hari and I didn't hear that much ripple from the Pinoys. Are we now more open-minded and matured to accept that there are third sex in the society? I hope so!

Why are there gays? That's like asking, why are there males and females who produce gay offspring? Who has the answer to that? Surely, gays & lesbians are humans that came from humans, too! Closet or open, your sexuality is your right. Harvey Milk fought his battles for gays to be recognized and get rightful rights, let us fight our prejudice and see everyone as equal. Let's respect each other, 'migos and 'migas! Cheers to Egalite'!

By: Cocker Spaniel

Really?!

I was walking with my lovely dog early [this] morning when I met a male-neighbor with a shih-tzu also. Syempre neighbor kaya hi and hellos. We exchanged pleasantries about how we are as dog lovers...blah blah blah. When he told me that nabibili lang naman daw ang paper or document to prove the dog's breed naku nagulat ako. I couldn't believe unless mapatunayan ko yon. Mine has documents talaga. Does it mean na pwedeng nabili lang yun? Of course not...I bought them from my good cousins who live in San Juan. They breed dogs talaga. And how could PCCI accepted my papers if it were just from paper mill? I do believe naman that their papers are real!!! Eh di sana di ako na-approve ng PCCI?

Hmmmpf! He told me it could be bought in T--------'s daw. Well...I don't know...

Good dog...good treats!

Wheeew! Last night we went to OL Antipolo but decided to stop by first at mini stop near the entrance of Village East CR. I bought some bottles of mineral water and a Fab with my favorite Siopao Bola2. I gave one 500 peso bill. I received four 100 peso bills for my change. Now I was shocked when my son texted me that the 100 peso bill I left for him for his food budget for lunch was a fake. Grrrr...nakakahiya. I wonder how it would be if it was a thousand bill. Now I learned something. I will bring na lang lagi my small peso detector. It was just there in my drawer waiting to be noticed...and now's the time. Grrrrr for that little mistake of mine. Kahit pala 100 ay pine-fake pa?!

COCKER SPANIEL in the house, 'migos & 'migas! I loove saying that name...cocker spaniel...like a Spanish %$#*...hmmmm.

So there I introduced myself. Like Diamond, I am a dawg, too..I mean dawg-lover. Yup, nice to be around people who love animals. After all, humans are animals, too, right?

Diamond has nice pets, what's yours? You pet yours? I mean, your pet, how do you pet your pet? Proper pet grooming is very important but the most important of all is RPO, that's Responsible Pet Ownership.

Pick up after your pets, don't put clothes on them coz they don't have sweat glands, trim their nails, hairs and hairs inside their ears, bathe them, feed them complete dog food, walk them on a leash, spay them, neuter them, etc, etc...be a responsible pet owner, 'migos & 'migas! Til next time!


By: Cocker Spaniel

Here's to you, CS!

We'll be having a new guest writer here...under the pen name of Cocker Spaniel. Just wait for whatever he/she can share with us. She's a very good writer, am telling you!

What can you say?!

Words to live by...

Cherish things while you still have them,
before they're gone,
and you realize how precious they really are.

Life can only be understood backwards,
but it must be lived forwards.

Everything in life is temporary.
So if things are going good,
enjoy it because it won't last forever.
And if things are going bad,
don't worry because it won't last forever either.

Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be achieved.

A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.

Never cross a bridge
without knowing how to swim the tides.

If you could not add years to your life
Add life to your years.

- author unknown

Is it?!

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.