Write! Just write I have very few friends and this friend is what my family refer her as “bestfriend”. Ok. Well, she is the writer and I truly look up to her when it comes to writing because… Oh my, if I could write well it’s her forte. Like we played word games, I only scored 600 in 1 minute while she scored 2K+, so in comparison? Oh no! I’m not half of what she has! She stopped sending me write-up works because, well, I really think I failed her that much. One of course is…
@Jento in November 2021
Hello November, Goodbye October Oh! I didn’t have a cake! I told kuya, buy me cake! And he told me, “no money, no cake.”. Oh, my! We celebrated our birthdays together since its just 6 days apart and we hang out whole day together in our room. We watched his favorite T.V. drama and I thought he liked it. He was happy he got a gift from his aunt, my “best friend” they say. And got him his favorite cake, the new flavor since it tastes and melts like ice-cream. October Is a very…
In a Cancerous World of Ours 4 **Maretis** After a decade, she is enjoying life. Travelling to place she never been before and seen her children grow. True, cancer was definitely not a life sentence. She lived through the storm. **Cancer** It was like the movie “fast and furious” because one day she felt something and the next was her breast was removed. Then proceeded with Chemo sessions. She only felt numb on her side or arm and a lump on her breast. So she decided for a…
Folly Moments 3rd grade was the 1st encounter I had, he gave me a piece of a soap cover and told me “don’t forget me”, ok I think he referred to the scent of the soap. I was clueless about what it was, but upon reflecting, a couple of decades after, well I finally understood the gesture. Can’t blame me, I was a boy first before I was a girl. Most of my friends were boys (and he was one of them) which I very much had fun as girls were just sitting around and play with their…
A Fun Review The sun is shining hot today and the air conditioning equipment here in the office is not working so we are bearing the heat. While my eyes are tired all throughout the night, my mind has lingered on the thought on what I’ve read for the whole 3 days, feasting on a novel of teenage romance. Omg, at my age! Well, can’t blame me! I currently have no resources and searching the net for books at home is somehow tiresome and like I mention, I still don’t have the…
Lights Off! I arrived home from my shift and boys were still asleep. I mused with the thought of what breakfast would be, -hmmm just the usual. Scrambled eggs and ham, and oh, left-over rice. So, left-over rice, throwing food was never something I was fond of. Anyway, I could make fried rice out of it that the boys loved, especially kuya. ***Power Off*** Knowing I arrived, kuya complained of power shortage. It was off and on. He even took off his shirt because it was getting…
Medical Troubles In a Cancerous World of Ours 5 **Mama** Diagnosed with breast cancer before hubby died 2010. It was expected, since she was the last of the “tres marias”. The lump was huge, almost like a growing breast inside her full-grown breast. And there was another, Gall stones, about a size of a 1peso Philippine coin. **Gall Stone** She was complaining a lot so she got herself an xray which a gall-stone was seen that is about a size of a peso on her abdomen. She told…
Capturing, in the passage of time. OMG, I am doing history now? Wow, like it feels like I lived thru the years gone by and fancy the thought of doing 30-minute narrative like the ones on National Geographic, - have been a fan for years and still marvels. ***Conquests*** Over decades ago, man is known for conquest and conquer. It’s been around for ages that even the Bible has its own narratives of wars. The Jewish history has been filled with a lot of these wars as accounted…
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told! It was long ago when I used to work on day shift and cuddle my boys at night. So, before we go to bed, they asked me to read our story book. Kuya opened the story book and pick a story. And Kuya would request me to start the story “Once upon a time…”, and giggled as I started to read our story book, book title “Bible stories”, children version. Oh, kids, or shall I be specific, boys, who would have thought they’d come out like this? ***One…
Novela Review Novela… I am getting addicted to reading stories already, that I have to spend awfully a lot of time reading to a point I’m really losing sleep. Oh, I’m quite musing my thought with the previous comment on the novel I read and experimented to read novels written by the same nationality. ***Chose 3 Novels*** My aim of the experiment was to see if there was a difference in a way they handle ENGLISH. The way they write their novels, from setting to plot to…
Exhausted, can’t wait for a fresh start! The year is nearing to an end. Only 42 days left for Christmas and about 7 more weeks and its 2022. Its supposed to be a brand new year, a brand new life but it feels like my life force is draining. Its leaking from somewhere I don’t know. *Year End Plan* 2021 is a year I planned to pay all debts incurred last year when COVID 19 hits the country and little did I expect or anyone else that the cost of the pandemic was almost as…
Empty Cup While I wrote about being exhausted yesterday, I thought of reflecting on it more. Then messaged my (dying) friend and learned she was again in the hospital, and still is. Slowly, the disease is slowly eating her up or already in the process of swallowing her? Well her panel of doctors cannot exactly tell her so since her case is very volatile. Doctors say prognosis is “die anytime” with conditions pertaining to her bleeding, other than that if she remains healthy…
Humility hits rock bottom I had been humbled all too many times because I was arrogant in so many ways, of course, mama was where else could I possible had that. Say an example would be employment and wasn’t employed until the 5th year after college. Wow, I had opportunities but somehow it was all elusive. True, it didn’t drive me crazy and depressive but drive me to a point to question. *Opportunities* Well, those were the times where opportunities were still the old…
Oh no! Unsubcribe please! I was out by the weekend because its weekend, lolz. Honestly, I was out because lappy was dead and no way of writing via smartphone, I was not comfortable writing on smartphone so I decided to wait ‘til today. Though, I was able to check out account and lo!, got additional subscriptions over the weekend? Oh no! What I did? *Unnoticed* When I first started a month ago, I really love the anonymity the platform offers and I can really just write…
Oh! You got me thinking… Oh! Let me write about you, again. This time I’m letting it stay! You have occupied a space of my mind for some time now and I often wander and muse myself why, the interest? You fill in the vogue in me and never failed to thrill, - all the more each time. I still can’t figure out why? As you linger in my mind, you also lingered and stayed, though a part of me wants to let go but how can I when I knew all along we well be spending time in the near…
Greatest fear, backslide! What I feared the most these days? Oh, oh! Honestly? It’s going into relationship. Something I have kept into the depths of my mind because I don’t want others to know. *Relationships* It’s a construed reality that we all fall into a realm where people interact and attract. It’s foolish not to acknowledge and many times attraction is strong and sometimes there to stay. And most oftentimes hopeful to last, may even thought of forever –dream on! Why…
Faith comes with a price I get invited to read.cash by a colleague at work and tried it. And I’m loving it. Originally, I think of writing a lot of my personal experiences which I did from my 1st month and still writing. While earning, really make me think hard because I thought it will be a lot of hardwork. It’s like this, I saw someone wrote an article and had to flaunt it on noise.cash, so I thought “wow, the effort of earning is a lot and just to be recognize and people…
Writer's block Everybody seems to be in high spirits today that everyone else went home early! Leaving me and two others in the office in the wee hours of dawn. Hmmm, I muse myself earlier on read.cash published articles and lo! Oh dear, I’m finding myself good reads even tipped my favorites tonight, not because I’m rich but rather I have to give good back to the community that helped me on my breaking hours! *Good reads* I’m happy to come across articles that are so well…
What lies ahead for our children?! How long are we going to watch and let the attack on our family go on? I’ve written this a few days back, didn’t know where this was heading but just the topic on my mind. Unlike before I usually hold a pen and write, now, I just open word and strike the keyboard and whoola, I’m writing. My thoughts earlier this dawn linger on the article that I have tipped largely mainly because of domestic violence. Then come across some reads about red…
Im supposed to be hiding but... I have a special guess writer... my sis, the tone of writing hence change... oh no! there is is really a huge difference... si Ate... she agreed to write and the next article im about to post is hers.
Fossil Dunes in Al Wathba, Abu Dhabi Growing up, I was always fascinated by the stories and movies about outer space. Much of the hype of the Star Wars movies in the 1980s & 1990s about the story of aliens, humans, and robots co-existing in a galaxy far from beyond, as a child my imagination was always challenged on how nice it would be like if the stories were indeed true. Having seen fragments of the films, I used to wonder how spectacular it would be to explore those…
Shut-up, and Make yourself useful! *****“Where is your God?!!!”***** Bang! Our beautiful blue-eyed expat boss announced to the “world” (our office) after the storm Yolanda hit the Northern part of Cebu! And everyone really just, shhhh, heads down, eyes fixed on the monitor, afraid to move, comment or refute. It was a crazy day because many of our colleagues were worried of their loved ones were among the victim, hit by the storm that cleared and leveled structures to the…
Unprecented travelogue Its wasn’t a long time ago, people were free to roam around, that was before the pandemic. We enjoy the 24 hour ride and travel to places as long as we can afford to pay for it. Party, everyday like tomorrow never comes. We had our share. *Travel* For the 1st time we travelled towards the outskirts of the city. It was fun and exciting considering that it was our 1st without anyone else to dictate where we go, what to do and most importantly, we were…
A Season of Sharing! Ahhh! Its “Thanksgiving” … Locally, we don’t but we adhere to US holiday, so… Its really been a while I haven’t done anything for occasion. Years back, I used to busy some supplies and pack some and gave it away to some neighbors more unfortunate than us… This has been a practice for about 5 years as I always believed that returning the good to the community is best way of giving thanks. It was easier before because we know people, -neighbors, however…
My navigational equipment... Advise - consult, instructions, guidance and etc. Whatever it is called comes solicited and unsolicited. Well, I get to grow from being a kid to a teenager then an adult and in the future, an elderly! Haha, pressure? Well, everybody grows old, and that’s for sure. Growing old, depends on how you take it. I’d prefer to grow old with grace! I want my life to be real and not be subjected to anything under pretense. Life is already difficult to…
All Tangled up! My my! Somebody reacted to someone sayin “Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!” arrggh! He snapped upon reading it! I already mentioned we adhere to US Holidays since our head office is US based and you know the history. *Thanksgiving* Ok! In as far as Covid has occurred in almost 2yrs, we barely see an expat in the office. Where they’d all gone? Home, US! Everybody seems to be friends in FACEBOOK, and when someone greeted “Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!” on FB…
Looking Forward for the Next November So! Its goodbye November and hello December? Hmmm, not exactly but something with this tone, “looking forward for the next November!”. Now let me commemorate my 1st November here at Read.cash. *Articles* Original target was to make an article per day. Well, I almost hit target just almost because I was really out last weekend and didn’t publish the articles I’d written last week in prep for the weekend. My phone crash so there was no way…
Troublesome times, message! November is ending and its been raining for the past days. Finally, we are able to finish the installation of the plastic on the roofing to redirect water. Finish the decoration for Christmas and rearrange patio that able us to make use of the space. Thanks to the boys, its all done! *Atmosphere* For a month now, my dying friend has been staying in the hospital due to stomach abcess. I don’t know when she was admitted but the familiar irritation…