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My Boy – a sucker for fairytales? Several months ago I joined a dating site not out of curiosity but a challenge from my colleagues in the shuttle van that took us home from work. Long story short, the van gang wanted me to write another love story – hubby died a long time ago and none since then. **Dating Site** Well, it isn’t as promising as everyone says it is. There are a lot of scam and true to it, yes, the 1st guy was a scam. Demanding me to help him with his food and…

Children – All Grown Up **Children – All Grown Up** So I DON’T like children. I suppose its hereditary because my mom didn’t but she bore 5 children. My grannies didn’t too but they had 9-12 children, -with 3 miscarriages. Wow! And I only have 2, yey! Probably I wouldn’t have my 2nd had not my eldest requested, but he requested for a girl not a boy. And the request is still on. Aha! Oh no, sorry, I’m old. **No Babies Alike** ***Kuya (Eldest).*** He stopped milk at 18months,…

My Intent - Laying Down my Cards So, what do I have installed for myself? All these fuzz about writing and earning? Seriously? Of course, I want to lay down my intent and cards on how I am doing this. Focus my attention and eventually sustaining this. OMG, Like I ever do this. **Goal/Plans** Everybody seems to be into goals, like I was made to write a paper about our goals during my early years in studies and I got tired of it because it became repetitive each year. Never…

Plagiarism – checked? **Plagiarism – checked?** I thought? I wouldn’t need to worry about it as long as I am writing my own content and don’t have to copy ideas that’s not mine to begin with. Saying in a tone “with a hurt pride”! I mean why would I do such thing when ideas just run all the time in my head that I really don’t have to force myself to think about anything to write. But honestly, there is this “book project”, my friend and I was planning to publish and yet to…

Simple act of Kindness Hello everyone. Got something to share. I was in trouble at work last week because someone was getting a feedback and it didn't like the feedback so it backfired, -it all went back on me. For all the 10 years working, nothing like this ever happened. So this is actually one of the reasons why I was out on weekends. Don't have the motivation nor the interest to write about something because this was bothering me all weekend. I am bemused myself of how a…

Reluctantly Kind Another day the sun is up! Good morning friends, hopefully your day will be kind to you today as the sun is very generous to us for 2 days now. Coming weekend, it is again time to shop for supply and lo, funds is getting scarce these days. And I have embarrassing stories to share. **Story 1** I went out to buy supplies, food for the kids and budget was really tight so I had a mental list of what to buy. I got them some food supply for the next weeks because…

In a Cancerous World of Ours 2 **Family's First Cancer Patient** I have a least 5 stories and supposed not to write about them but ran out of pictures on my other articles, so. **Aunt Rebecca** She was the youngest girl of the siblings. They were only 3, we call them "tres marias". My mom being the eldest, Aunt Nene 2nd child and her, 6th child. Being the youngest girl of the siblings, she enjoyed a lot of privileges especially finished her course as a chemical engineer and…

Covetousness – a Dangerous Quality to Possess Two days I was out because it is weekend and lappy is on its funerals rites and burial is at hand. There is no way I can write an article using my phone so I have to have a PC to do so. What I do is usually compose an article, save it on draft on read.cash and I can use my phone to edit, placing pictures on it downloaded from my FB account and publish. But I run out of articles over the weekend and fail to have a reserve, so I…

Suburban Life - Our Provincial Lifestyle *****Our Provincial Lifestyle – On in the mountains and the other near the sea***** “mao ra ni taga syudad pero taga probinsya ang batasan”, a comment from a cousin. ***Google translation =*** *****it's the same from the city but from the province********. Well, translation is more like, city folks with provincial taste, or people living in the city but acts like from the province? I’m not sure if I’m giving justice but this two is…

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Broke, but not Broken I have been working straight 15yrs, permanent employee for two companies, 5yrs in manufacturing (though I’m not an engineering graduate) and 10yrs in publishing, and here I am wandering where all my income went? Arggg… Well, to start with, was able to help send my siblings to college but was able to do some savings still despite. And I get older, met someone and eventually became a mom of two boys. Oh no! I became a mom. I never imagined having babies…

Our Trips: House of Bonsai (Bogo City, Cebu) For the many reads I have on readcash, I marveled over those written by many authors about travelling. And I thought that wow, they can afford travelling abroad while I can’t even afford a weekend get-away these days. Most especially when the kids are now grown up and raising them alone is, considering I have to plan ahead on saving to send them to college, -never mind. Planning a trip abroad is almost impossible and totally not a…

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Our Trips: Eden Nature Park (Davao City) Eden is located up in the highlights not the foot of Mt. Apo but on a road going to Mt Apo, high up there. It never occurred to me to ever write about these adventures, so I never get the details from then and now. Our Aunt sponsored the trip because she was boasting of what Davao has to offer to us, Cebuanos. She was boasting that they have a little Baguio over there, so we get to try the Park of what it has to offer, the 2nd time…

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Let’s feast, our harvest. 2015, marked a new beginning for us. New land, new home. Oh mama had fun, especially with the children. But before we proceed, do let me express my gratitude for my sponsor(s) @rebeysa85, thank you for trusting. The land was purchased from my father’s retirement whom we fought over 4 yrs and thank God, they won their case. And luckily, his student, offered this land worth his retirement and that started it. Finally, a house of our own, no more…

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In a Cancerous World of Ours Cancer breaks the best out of us. Cancer is expensive and the worst part that a cancer patient has to face, is finances. Over the years, the government tries to alleviate a cancer patient’s case by providing assistance through better health care services but only to an extent. Local health care services can only provide as much but there are cases that expenses are so great that leaves patient dreary. While the body is exhausted from exposure of…

@rebeysa85, get well soon and thank you for the sponsorship. Looking forward for your next article, keep safe. God bless.

A Secret I Keep... shhh! About a decade ago... I got an invitation to attend a friend's birthday salo-salo, his girlfriend invited me. I refused because I just gave birth and I had no nanny for the boys so I could come and go! Then, she begged... not knowing why she had to and that I had to bring my baby and my boy for that occasion. arg! Then, I saw him again. It had been so long, high school days? And we saw each other at a common friend's birthday. At the van that took us…

One of Grandma's Favorite: Begonia A long, long, long time ago! I was a kid. lolz... Every summer we went home to my mom's hometown to visit our grandparents at the same time summer vacation. A month long summer vacation where we met all of my moms siblings and our cousins. Could still remember those days where we roam around the house and often got scolded by our grandma because we were running around. She was just afraid we will end up breaking something, glassware and…

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After School Tour - Grazing Horses I work graveyard shift so after office hours, I hurriedly go home so to be in time to prepare the kids for school. Cooking them breakfast and baon (food provision, packed food) for lunch, shower and uniform. I am the main school bus for school, so I'm their ride. Oh! I can only recall the moments we had together going to school. Everyday, a routine that became dearly treasured memories. We were new to the place. We hadn't explored the many…

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Our Backyard Beach It is really good to enjoy the sea for free, almost a daily summer get-away whenever the weather gets too hot and refreshing has become a necessity, and is just at our backyard. Not everyone gets to enjoy having one, lolz. It's an open sea, with growing mangroves, by the shore, planted to encourage fish fries. Sea bed is muddy and is not without blemish. It's an ordinary seafront where you will see a lot of garbage that drifts ashore. Unlike public…

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One day he was sick, then he was gone. About a decade ago, I married a man whom I thought I knew so well. Then he was sick that election day, never recovered and he was gone! It was a long day that day. He was in and out the comfort room, little did I know he was vomiting blood and still didn't tell me for all the reasons he had then. Until, he was unable to stand anymore, almost drop dead to the floor. So I called an ambulance. And even in that state, still refused to tell…