My aunt bought her son an xbox 360. My brother, when he saw it, was now asking for one as well. But I am not giving in. He has to work for it if he really wants one. Either he save something from his allowance or he shows me high grades for this semester. Otherwise, [...]

I need to rant in Tagalog. I hope my non-Filipino visitors will indulge me…
This is in relation with the episode shown tonight by The Correspondents. This is a local news and current affairs show from ABS-CBN. The episode tonight was Batchoy, leftover food thrown in the garbage already by fastfood chains but are taken by [...]

It is my sister’s (V) birthday today. She comes next after me, second eldest among us siblings. We are opposites when it comes to a lot of things. We can be the best of friends now, and enemies the next minute. When we were younger, we loved having fun while on the way to and [...]

Not everyone can be generous when it comes to sharing his thoughts and feelings. I say that because the men in my family are like that. They can be very vocal about many things but when it comes to their emotions, they can be tight-lipped. When my mom died a almost three years ago, we [...]

Family means a lot to me. And that word is not limited to immediate family members alone. That would mean my grandparents, uncles and aunts, their spouses, cousins and other distant relatives that we are in constant communication with. What about you?
This is the main reason why I make it a point to be there [...]

I think I will need to spend some hard earned money again for the repair of our roof. My dad will have someone check it tomorrow but we think there’s a portion that is leaking. Yesterday morning, we noticed that the walls were moist. It was like it was washed. My dad checked the upstairs [...]

Funny how a simple page rank could affect me and my sister. She knows about blogging, was blogging actually. So when I found out that this blog lost it’s rank yesterday, I immediately sent her a text message telling her about it. I was so sad about what happened. You all know that the holidays [...]

This is a great kitchen quote that really sums up the love of cooking for a family. The kitchen is where families gather and most family talks take place. And we may not be a family who loves to cook, we are a family who loves to eat and knows how to appreciate good food.
Happy [...]

A few weeks ago, we bought a wheelchair for my grandma. She has diabetes and she sprained her ankle when she accidentally slipped on the floor.
The wheelchair looks just like this…

I didn’t even know that there are different styles of wheelchair until one of our relatives told me about a reclining wheelchair. The one that [...]

My siblings and I are separated by a few years each. I am older than my sister, V, by two years. Two years more then came R. And then a year apart from each other came, W (my brother who died of leukemia) and then my sister, G. After 7 years, my parents decided to [...]