We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
- Alain de Botton
I’ve encountered a lot of difficulties in the past. Financially and emotionally. I remember a comment from Raquel in one of my posts about having so many worries these days. She’d take a financial problem [...]
It is hard for a boy to grow up in a household of girls. I know this from experience because I have a younger brother (our youngest) who is struggling to live with four older sisters. I can see how hard it is for him, especially he and my dad are not really close. He [...]
Four years ago, I was considering adoption. I really wanted to have a kid of my own that time. I was checking orphanages where I can find my baby. But months after that search, I realized that a kid is not like a puppy that you can adopt easily. It takes not just money and [...]
What would you do if you heard that your cousin got his girlfriend pregnant? Will you ask him about it? Will you ask his parents if they know about it already? Or will you just pretend that you don’t know?
We heard something about my cousin who’s the same age as my youngest brother, James. Apparently, [...]
When you come from a large family like me, you would know that going on trips is not easy. Consider these: budget, schedule, destination. BUDGET. You all know that the higher the number of people going on a trip, the higher the costs involved. SCHEDULE. Well, since there’s school and work to attend to, most [...]
I grew up a Catholic. I studied in a Catholic school, too. But growing up, I did not see my parents that devoted to the Lord. Yes, they are both religious but not with the same faith that my dad has right now and my mom had before she died. I am just amazed at [...]
Whenever I pray to Him, I always ask for guidance for my brother. I always worry about the choices he will make. He doesn’t have a male figure to look up to. You know, my brother is not close to my dad. They hardly talk. I mean, yes, they talk but only when they have [...]
With the death of John Travolta’s 16-year-old son, Jett, it made me think again of the natural order of things. You see, a parent buries his or her child. It’s not the other way around. But we can’t really say what will happen.
I know how hard it is for a parent to bury a child [...]
This year will be a year of living right for me and the family. Life insurance and auto insurance comparisons are the priority to look at this beginning of the year. Health care insurance is another priority. Everything that has to do with preparing for the future will be a priority for the whole family. [...]
Is there such a thing, you might ask? Well, there is. In our house, you can slice through it, in fact. Time to act on plan B now.
You see, Plan A is all about us moving. I won’t go into details but suffice it to say that we were so excited about the prospect of [...]
My cousin, Yong, is the person the whole family calls when we encounter problems with our computers. Anything concerning computers and the internet, we ask him if we don’t know it. He is a certified Microsoft computer engineer. Cisco certified as well. So I believe he is an expert when it comes to things concerning [...]
I cannot imagine what this British man was thinking… raping his two daughters in a span of 27 years!
A British man was jailed Tuesday for raping two of his daughters and fathering nine children over 27 years, a case with echoes of Austria’s Josef Fritzl.
The two daughters were made pregnant 19 times; there were nine [...]
A neighbor of ours has this really strange habit of talking in a loud voice even if the person she is talking to is just in front of her. What’s worse, she talks as if her kids are not there, listening to her.
I was looking out the window when I heard her a few hours [...]
I won’t presume to know what these people were thinking but why suicide? There are so many other options to choose from. So many people out there are wishing for an extension of theirs. And yet these people commit suicide?
I just read in a local newspaper that a college student suffering from a bipolar disorder [...]
My two sisters are asking for MP3 players for their Christmas gifts. In our family, it is our tradition to exchange gifts on Christmas eve. But to make sure that the recipient would like what he or she will receive, we list down what we would like to receive. It is up to the giver [...]
