Felt embarrassed yet thankful: the simple act of kindness
November 12, 2021
`This is my written article last November 12 but failed to publish it. I didn't edit any said information here as well as the date.`
It's 11.11 yesterday. What's your buy now in the shopee app? I only ordered two items worth P53 and it's all for my baby. I already posted this on my noise account last night. We're having a hard time getting the dried mucus in my baby's nose so I ordered cotton buds that are fit for newborn babies and also socks for my baby. https://noise.cash/post/6nx93z8bq6rg
So what's your guys?
Last Tuesday, I received a text message saying that the release of financial assistance I applied for last October 21. My schedule is on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, from 8:00-8:45 am and they also mentioned the requirement needed on able to claim the money.
I told my mother in law about this and she said she will take care of my baby while I am outside.
I thought it will be going to be a smooth process for me and I can go home early but I'm wrong. I thought I have already certificate of indigency so I didn't bother getting it in our barangay when I received a text message. When the date of my schedule arrive I check it and it's not allowed since the validity of the indigency is only 60 days, the date already expires and also in my indigency it said for educational assistance yet I'm going to receive financial assistance, it should be for financial assistance so I went to barangay first. I thought there's no queue because I arrived early. To my surprise, there's a long queue and it reached the second floor. I arrived there at exactly 8 o'clock and I finish at 8:35 am. While I am in the line, I'm getting nervous and worried because my scheduled time is until 8:45 am only. I'm thinking if I can make it and if I won't be late so that I can receive the money.
As I've said I got the certificate at 8:35 am so I have 10 minutes to go to the venue. Here's the problem I only have P40 in my wallet then the first P20 I pay for the tricycle that I rode when I went to barangay hall so I only have P20 left. I need to photocopy my valid ID and it costs P4, the only money left to me was P16 and I need to ride a tricycle so that I won't be late for my schedule.
I'm worried about the time that day. I need P4 to make my money P20 so that I can pay for a tricycle because if I walk the venue is quite far from where I am. I feel hopeless that time, I can't see someone I know there. I am desperate, I need to ride a tricycle so I saw a two street sweeper there taking a rest on the bench. I have no choice, though I'm shy I made my face thick then I approach them. I said if I can borrow P4 because I need it badly and state my reason. They didn't hesitate to give me a P5, I give the P1 to them but they refuse and said I can have it all. I feel embarrassed about what I did yet thankful to them. I said thank you to them and ride immediately in a tricycle.
When I arrived at the venue the queue was long already, many people also received a text message. The good thing is the process is fast and when I received the money, I walk home. I saw a store that sells slippers and bought one for my youngest sibling, I remember that she said she don't have a slipper anymore.
Closing thoughts
Kindness is everywhere indeed. I'm thankful for the two women who gave me P5. They saved my day, even though they don't know me, in a stranger to them they are willing to give me money. However, I'm planning to give back to them but I forgot to get their name and don't have any contact with them. For them, it's just P5 but for me, it's a big help.
*How about you? If you were the street sweeper whom I asked a favor. Would you give me some money like what they did?*
***Thank you for reading guys!***
Tears of a mother's love:My baby is sick
November 10, 2021
Hello awesome readers! How's life? I've been inactive here and I guess rusty doesn't want that since I notice his visit to me became less. So, I need to keep interacting with others and publish one. I just hope I can able to manage my time well or have a free time which I doubt maybe. I'll try to be active like before :)
In my previous article **Respect her****,** I've mentioned that **when the child hurts it's double the pain to a mother. They don't want to see their child in pain or sick.** https://read.cash/@Loveleng18/respect-her-14a346d8
*Last night, my baby is crying hard even though I feed him already and his diaper is clean, I also put manzanilla oil on him. But still, he's crying and my mother in law told me maybe my baby is looking for his father already. My partner have overtime last night so he went home late. We just get my partner's t-shirt and make it my baby's blanket, it's effective he stops crying and fall asleep. Poor baby*.
It's been 3 days since I haven't got enough sleep during the night. The reason is that my baby is sick, he has a cold and cough. I'm blaming myself for this, I had a cold last week and maybe my baby got it on me. He can't sleep well because when he sniffed the cold, he will cough and it looks like he can't breathe well. My partner and I get the dry mucus in his nose using Salinas drop so that it won't block the airways of his nose but still he has a cold. It's hard seeing my baby in that situation. Whenever he is sleeping and he sniffs, he will cough and suddenly cry. I can also hear a sound like snoring and his deep breath. And because of that, I don't want to go back to sleep so I can look over him.
It hurts seeing him like that. Whenever I heard him coughing in a very cute sound and I heard him sniffing, I wanted to cry because I can't do anything. I search for what I will gonna do when my baby has a cold but it just says that I need to bring my baby to pedia if his cold and cough become worst.
If only I can transfer his colds to me I would. I don't want to see my child sick, of course, no mother wants their child suffering in sickness. My child is still a baby, a one-month-old baby and seeing him have colds and hearing him coughing hurts me a lot. I'm taking care of him well, they said we can't prevent this kind of situation so I need to calm and don't panic.
Last night, while he is sleeping he suddenly coughs many times and then cries. I'm crying also because I don't want to see him like that, I'm praying to God to heal him and just transfer his sickness to me. My partner woke up and asked me what's wrong, why I am crying. And he told me that our baby is strong so I shouldn't worry much.
Today, we bring my baby to the center here for check-ups but unfortunately, they scheduled us for next week saying that they don't have stock of the vaccine.
Until now, my baby has had a cold and I want to bring him to the clinic but we don't have the money yet, it's private and I'm sure they will ask for a payment of course. The earnings that I got from writing here and posting in noise.cash was withdrawn last week because we celebrate his one-month-old birthday. And my partner's salary is on Saturday. He also don't have a salary last week because he was absent for how many days since he is helping me with our baby but now he go back to work already. I also don't want to ask for money from our parents.
Yesterday I messaged my cousin who is a mother too and asked her what I should do. She mentioned buying a eucalyptus oil and put in a cotton ball and place in my baby's side so that he can smell it while he's sleeping. Also, I should elevate my baby's head when sleeping so that he can breathe well.
Closing thoughts:
Every mother doesn't want their child to be sick. It hurts them so much seeing their child like that. I hope my baby gets well soonest. So that he can sleep well at night. I prevent all the foods and drinks that can harm my baby. I used not to drink soda, coffee and other cold drinks. I also learned to eat healthy food such as veggies. All of this is because of my baby.
Thank you for your continuous support of me. Feel free to check them out guys :)
Be careful who you bully
November 6, 2021
Good day everyone! Happy weekend. I can't go back to sleep now and it's already 5:30 in the morning.
`Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are purely based on the author's imagination.`
Tiffany, a spoiled brat grade 12 student. She's famous in their school because of her looks. Many gentlemen want to court her but she didn't entertain one. Her looks can deceive anyone, at first, you will think that she's like an angel with a kind heart but if you will be going to know her fully you will know her true color. She's arrogant, bully and always look high to herself. She dress like a rich kid but she's not. She's living in a squatter area, the place where houses are near to each other and crowded, also have a narrow road where people are always fighting, drinking, gambling and doing different illegal things. Her place is far from her looks. That's one reason why she wants to finish her studies and find a better job.
"Mom, when are you going to get me? I don't want to leave here anymore, it's a dangerous and stinky place! Can you please tell your boss that you will get me asap? Their house is huge and your room can fit 5 persons". Tiffany desperately said to his mom who works as a maid in a rich family but with a kind heart, that's why she served there for almost a year already. Her boss also has one daughter who didn't want to talk to anyone, she wants to isolate herself and books are her buddies.
"Tiffany, my dear. Please have some patience. My boss is not here, they have a business trip in another country and I don't want to disturb them. I will ask them once they arrive home."
"k fine!" She said then hang up the phone.
In school
While Tiffany and her friends are hanging out in the corridor, they saw Amanda walking towards them while reading her book.
"Oh look, the nerd is here." Said Tiffany's friend
Tiffany walks towards Amanda and bumps into her intentionally. They used to bully her because of her looks. Amanda is a girl who loves to distant herself from others, wears big glasses and always have a book to read.
Amanda fell to the floor with her book. While Tiffany looks at her with one eyebrow raised "Haven't you seen me? Nerd!"
Amanda stands up and says sorry to her even though she's not at fault. She doesn't want to argue with Tiffany and she used to tiffany's wrongdoing to her.
"Hey, Nerd! One more thing, can you just wear a more elegant dress, a decent one. Duh, you're not fit for this school. Look at me, I'm wearing a beautiful dress." Tiffany said while pointing to the red dress that her mother gave her.
Dismissal
Tiffany went home and to her surprise, her mother is there.
"Mom, why are you here? This day is not your day off right?"
Her mother said that she just want to give the things she brings inside the paper bag. Tiffany look immediately at the things inside, she saw a beautiful dress, some beauty products and sandals. Her mother always gives her these kinds of things because her mother's boss daughter doesn't want this stuff.
Tiffany's all things are from her mother that we're given by her mother's boss. She's very thankful to them because she feels like she's rich when wearing those and her classmates always praise her looks because of this tiffany's become arrogant and bullied.
Her mother told her that next week she will get her and bring her to the place where her mother works. And she was very happy with that. Now she will live like a real rich kid she thinks.
Tiffany excitedly announces the good news to her friends in school. While she's talking she saw Amanda walking inside their classroom.
"Ow look, the poor girl Amanda is here. Can you smell the stinky smell guys? Amanda, are you leaving in a dirty place? How poor you are. Look at me I look rich and I'm near to being rich when my mother gets me next week." She said in loud voice.
As usual, Amanda ignores her and just walk straight to her seat.
After one week
Tiffany finally move to the place where her mother works. She was amazed at the house. She thanked her mother for bringing her there. Her mother warned her to just behave and don't do anything bad if she want to stay longer there.
In the evening, Tiffany wakes up because of her stomach. She went up and go outside their room and look for food.
While eating in the kitchen she noticed that there's someone in the same because of some light. She went to the sala and she saw a girl who's reading a book. When the girl turns her head, Tiffany was shocked because she knows this girl. It's Amanda, the one she bullied in their school.
Amanda approaches Tiffany and asks if she needs anything. Also, she told Tiffany that she is the daughter of her mother's boss. Tiffany feels ashame and can't look straight into Amanda's eyes. But Amanda told her to don't be. Tiffany asks Amanda why she doesn't want to wear the dresses her mother buy for her. Amanda just answered her things like that is not her like. She just wants to be simple. Tiffany was very guilty for bullying the good girl in front of her, she apologized for what she did to Amanda and promise that she will be going to be kind and stop bullying.
Since that day, they become friends and many of their classmates were shocked. But they just ignore it. Tiffany changed a lot. She learns a lesson that it's not good to judge a person based on how they look.
Closing thoughts
Being beautiful doesn't give us the right to bully someone. We shouldn't judge a person just by their looks or how they behave. Learn to respect each other's differences.
Thank you for reading everyone.
One month: Superman baby
November 5, 2021
What's up people? Today is Friday and the first week of November is about to end. How was it so far? Yesterday I wasn't able to publish an article because I need to review and get ready for our graded recitation which end up being cancelled by our professor because she wants us to just focus on our midterm next week. But it's not a written exam, it's called round table discussion wherein we need to study each group's case study and ask them questions which they need to answer, it's like a debate but in the form of online (virtual debate eh?) Hehe.
I've mentioned in my previous article **November goals** that my baby turns one month and we prepare a small celebration, it's not a celebration. My partner made spaghetti and I cooked lumpiang Shanghai. We also ordered a cake online, a customised one. https://read.cash/@Loveleng18/november-goals-7c1cb191
This is the cake we ordered online, it's a number cake with a superman theme. The cost of this cake was supposed to be P580 ($11.46) but there are fondant details such as the superman logo, belt and the name so the seller added 70 total of P650 ($12.84). The money I used to pay for this is my earnings here in read.cash. I'm thankful for this awesome platform. I also want to commend the seller because she is very approachable and she did her best to make the logo, she said it's her first time making a superman logo. The cake tastes good also. Well, I must say that it's 10/10. We'll order again next.
We prepared late because we process first his birth certificate and got his newborn screening to the hospital where he was born. Because of the traffic, we arrived home at 3:30 in the afternoon.
I felt tired and quite dizzy at that time because we climb up and down those stairs.
He is sleeping well and we can't wake him up haha so this is what he looks like. Sleeping superman XD.
We have many pictures of him and I will share some with you.
This one is my favorite because he did smile and open his eyes. Smiling superman
His father tried to wake him up but he failed hehe. And look at it son's face. Seems like your superman is tired already haha XD LOL.
He did open his eyes and yawn. So he is very sleepy. Yawning superman, such a cutie isn't it. I haven't posted any pictures on my social media account because I can't choose which pictures to upload.
Angry superman hehe. I think he becomes irritated with us for trying to wake him up. Poor baby hehe sorry.
Foods that we prepared, of course, my partner's specialty, spaghetti is present together with his cake. I messaged my sister to come here to my partner's house to get some and for them to see the looks of their nephew.
Closing thoughts
Before, the monthsary that we celebrate is the date when I and my partner become in a relationship. Now, it's different, every month now we will celebrate our baby's birthday. We plan to have a superhero theme every month. And next month in his two months, maybe Batman is next.
***Time flies so fast. It seems like yesterday I just gave birth and now my baby is one month old already. I'm excited for him to see us and I am excited to see him growing. I will do everything just to give him a good life.***
Thank you for reading everyone.
November Goals
November ~~2~~ 3, 2021
**Lead image source** https://unsplash.com/photos/aQfhbxailCs
*How's the start of your November so far? I hope you started it full of positivity, let's be optimistic always. (hope I can apply too to myself LOL!)*
Tomorrow, we will be going to the municipality of the city where my son was born to get his newborn screening and birth certificate. I hope the process is fast so that we can go home early. I don't want to leave my son but we can't bring him, you know he's still a baby and it's not safe outside because of the virus. Also, tomorrow is the day! Yes. My baby is ONE MONTH OLD already. Look how fast time flies. We prepare something for him tomorrow, we're going to do a photoshoot hehe. a DIY one.
This article talks about my goals this month, well I know I said that I'm not that person who sets goals every month because I don't want to pressure myself but this month is different. Here's what are my goals this November. And I'm rooting to achieve these goals of mine.
My greatest goal is to accumulate BCH and earn a total of $150-$200 in writing here in read.cash and posting in noise.cash.
****And where do I spend this?****
**First**, my partner and I plan to baptize our son this coming December 18. So we need to have his birth certificate. I want to give my son the best christening, simple yet special. To do it, of course, we need money for the budget. From buying his clothes for a christening to the foods and payments that we need to pay. I want to help my partner in terms of finances and I don't want us to ask for money from our parents, I'm shy hehe.
**Second**, my youngest sister's bday is on November 23. Though she didn't request anything for her birthday, I want to give her the best birthday like last year maybe she wants Blackpink cake again or maybe she wants another already. Also, I want to buy her gifts I'm thinking now what I will be going to give her.
**Third**, my stepsister's birth month is also November. Our youngest and her birthday is just one day apart, her birthday is on November 25. Even though their birthday is near to each other, I know they don't want their birthday to celebrate on the same day because our youngest turns 12 and she will turn 28, there's a big difference in their age gap. So they have different wants for their birthday I guess. I also want to buy presents for her. I'm thinking of a sexy blouse since she loves to wear something like that hehe.
That's where my target earnings this November will spend. It's for my baby and sisters. I want them to be happy, seeing them happy makes me happy too. All I want is the best for them. I hope I will be able to achieve this goal of mine which is to accumulate $150-$200. I know to myself that it is quite hard but who knows hehe nothing is impossible. I just need to continue writing and posting which I doubt I can write an article a day but if I can I will. They are my motivation.
What do you think? Is this goal possible? Or I am just dreaming that I will achieve this?
Well, let's see. My earnings this whole month of November will be saved and I will withdraw them at the end of the month. I hope I can write at least 29 articles this month.
*I write this article last night but I didn't manage to finish it because my baby woke up and didn't sleep again until 1 is. I am also sleepy at that time. And today I have free time since my baby is still sleeping. I failed to publish it last night so I don't have an article yesterday huhu. I missed one day already. This doesn't bring me down and my hope is high that I will be going to achieve my goal.*
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A letter to my mother
November 1, 2021
Amazing morning to all of you. We have had good weather here since the sun showed this morning. I didn't have much sleep, I'm awake since 4:30 am and until now 8:00 am (time of writing this). My baby has a hard time sleeping. And that is because of the coldness a while ago, I guess? It's hard to know what your baby wants, I did everything. I already feed him, change his diaper, burp him and yet he's still crying and that reason is the cold weather this early morning. So we put thick clothes on him and his blanket.
We celebrate all souls day today, though when I search it falls on November 2. My father went to the cemetery this morning since we're not allowed to go because I and my sisters are not yet vaccinated only our father. Unfortunately, father said when he came home that the cemetery is closed. We didn't know that the visiting day is from October 31 and November 3 onwards. Maybe we didn't watch the news that's why we're not updated. We will just cook **biko** that my mother used to make before and will light candles later. https://read.cash/@Loveleng18/just-a-biko-on-my-birthday-a-request-that-will-never-ever-granted-again-66d5b1c5
While lying and looking at the ceiling char we don't have ceiling only roofs haha. XD, a sudden question came to my mind. "What if there's a way to send a letter to our loved ones who passed away already? Be it online such as Gmail, messenger, telegram, etc. If only there's internet there and they have gadgets or if only we can send them a letter like what our ancestors do before technology arise.
If this is possible. Who do you want to send a letter to and what do you want to say to them?
*As for me, I want to send a letter to my mother and here's what the body contains.*
Dear **Mama**, https://read.cash/@Loveleng18/strong-woman-wish-i-could-turn-back-time-0105a5fd
How are you up there? Are you fine there? Well, I know that you're in good hands already. https://read.cash/@Loveleng18/strong-woman-wish-i-could-turn-back-time-0105a5fd
It's been 2 years since you leave us here, next year it will become 3 years already. It looks like it happened yesterday, the wound is still fresh but we managed not to let it drive us. We know you don't want us to feel sad. I want to say how much I missed you, mama. I know you did your best to fight before for us but it's life we can't control what will happen.
I would like to say thank you for loving us and being a good mother to us. I'm blessed to have a mother like you. Even though you scolded us sometimes, I know that it's our fault and you just want us to learn from our mistakes. You want us to be good people. I missed your voice and touch, I missed hugging you when I woke up in the middle of the night crying because of a bad dream. I missed how you cared for us. I missed your presence so much.
What are you doing now ma? Are you happy there? Do you have many friends there? I know you have for you are a good person.
I have so many stories to share with you but I think you already know all of these because I know you always guide and look for us from above.
My siblings are growing up fastly, they are all beautiful as you. I want to say sorry if sometimes I scolded them whenever they fight, I know you don't want me to get mad with my siblings but I also know that you understand why I did that. Your youngest daughter and I will be going to graduate next year already. How I wish you're here to witness personally our graduation (puhon). They are also doing great with their online class.
You have a grandchild already, you're a grandma now. He's very cute and jolly. Even though I have a child already I won't break my promise to you and my father that I will finish my studies and help my father in sending my siblings to school. I still look for them. I will make sure to give them a good life. Back to your grandchild, he's very good. He didn't let me suffer in pain too long. How I wish you're here to teach me some motherhood thingy. I promise I will be going to be a good mother to him like you to us.
Father is also fine. They are not staying into their work anymore meaning he will go home already and not leave us anymore.
We missed you a lot mama. We missed your biko and another dish. You weren't able to teach me your recipe hehe. I also missed you putting medals on me whenever I have an award in school. Please continue guiding us especially your grandchild.
You will always be in our hearts. I promise to make you proud soon.
**I love you and I miss you mama ❤.**
Ps: I hope to receive a reply from you mama but of course that's impossible.
***Your daughter,***
*****Lovely Aragon*****
Virtual Halloween party: is it possible?
October 30, 2021
Good day though it's kinda gloomy here on my side. How's everyone? The weekend is here, do you have any plans? I hope you spend it meaningfully but also give yourself a rest.
The end of October is what most of the children is waiting for. Why? Because they are excited to wear their Halloween costume and some are just doing some makeover, a creepy one. They will be going to houses or stores and are you familiar with what words they will say?
**"Trick or Treat (Happy Halloween!)"**
This is the famous line that children say during that moment. People give them candies, sweets or money that will be inserted into their pumpkin containers.
**Source** https://www.google.com/search?q=pumpkin+na+lalagyan+in+english&client=ms-android-huawei-rev1&prmd=ivnx&sxsrf=AOaemvJWuOQveWWcVdbkGFU9hiRBocfxow:1635563437263&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQyr3NlPHzAhXPa94KHdu6ADAQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ#imgrc=DyHkLh10lxBgaM
When I was a kid, I want to have that kind of container every Halloween but I don't have any money to buy one. I envy those kids that had pumpkin containers. The candies that I got was put in a plastic bag. But still, my Halloween was enjoyable.
Before the pandemic, kids here used to go to my house then ask me to makeover them, they want to be scary hehe. I'm not good at doing makeup but I granted their request and I'm not going to beautify them anyway, I need to make them look scary haha.
So this is all I can do. Apologise if it doesn't meet your standard hehe I'm not a professional and I don't have any talent in make-up. However, they like their look and said thanks to me. After they went and had trick or treat, they gave me candies hehe.
So last October 28, we had a virtual Halloween party on one of our subjects. This prof of mine came up with this great idea. At first, my classmates and I thought that it is hard to do and it might not become successful because we are in an online class and is that even possible? Well, honestly we enjoyed it. I will be going to share with you how it goes last night.
Let's get a party!
This is the invitation made by our president. When he sends it in our group chat our professor likes it. And says that it looks like we take it seriously since they exert effort in making this invitation.
As mentioned there, we will be going to have a game and report but the games consumed our allotted time to that subject so we will have our lesson next week. And our professor let us finish the event.
Each group needs to have one representative and that representative will be going to wear a Halloween costume and project their chosen character during the said time.
Then the program begins.
Each group introduced their representatives:
First group - the penny-wise
I love its introduction and I had goosebumps while watching her mimicking the voice of penny-wise. She also receives praises saying she's good.
Second - the wicked witch
Who wants to buy a love potion? She can do it as she says. The beautiful witch of our classroom represents the wicked witch who always loves to laugh harder.
Third - A.K.A Ariana Grande
Not a scary look tho but love her makeup and her ponytail. Really looks like Ariana Grande.
Fourth - two-faced ghost
Their introduction was a blast. They have an effect, her lights in her room turn off and on, whenever the light turns on she changed her position. Creepy vibes indeed!
Fourth - Queen of Heart
This is our group's representative. At first, we are problematic about who will be going to be our representatives since all of us are busy. Three of us are working, I have my baby to feed then one is in the province who has a slow Internet connection. Fortunately, this good member of ours volunteered herself and just ask for a favor from us to suggest and this is what we know is easy to do.
Fifth - the black lady
This group also have a good introduction, well all of the group did but their group has a story that they shared with us while she is on the screen.
Sixth - the other witch (2)
Compared to the first one, this witch is way more creepy. Love the make-up of it, wicked indeed.
Seventh - the goddess (dyosa)
She nailed it. I love her makeup and I envy her for being good at beautifying herself hehe.LOL! Our class president joke that he is no longer the goddess in our room and that she replaced him.
Last group - zombie school girl
This one is 10/10 for their effort. Look, she careers it even put a contact lens. And her look isn't it scary? It looks like she is one of the characters in the horror movie. Kudos to her effort. Amazing!
Our prof gives us plus 1 in our grade then plus 3 and 5 for the winner that she choose who wears and portray the best.
Who's your bet guys?
The games
We also played a game.
First game - the monster is hungry
It's like a bring me game where the host will say a thing that you need to find and show that to the class. You should be fast in finding what's the host will be given.
Second game - Pinoy henyo
In this game, each group will have two representatives that will be going to play. The host gives a word and one will guess the word and the other one will answer yes, no or possible only until they guess the word in two minutes.
Third game - word hunt
In this game, the host will give a word then each letter of the word, you need to find things that start with that letter. For example RAT : R- ug A- lcohol T-shirt.
We also have online bingo, where there is a statement and we need to mark the box that applies to us. Then make it our story, those who qualified will have a chance to win cash through spin the wheel. My luck I think end already hehe.
Closing thoughts:
It is possible and we enjoyed it. One thing that is important to make it possible, **cooperation**. We won't able to make it if other didn't participate. Even though there's a pandemic, we shouldn't let it hinder us from making the things we used to do before. This is also made by our professor for our mental health, she said we shouldn't stress ourselves in our studies. Sometimes all we need is some refreshment to forget about the things that make us stressed.
Our professor loves our performance and the party also, she even shows us her look wearing scary stuff.
***Thank you for reading guys! happy Halloween***.
*All images are from our group chat
Food Gallery II
October 28, 2021
Last time I shared about what's inside my gallery and since most of the pictures are foods that I either ordered online, bought in the store or treats by my partner. Since I joined in noise.cash it became my hobby to take a picture first of the food before I eat them and post it in noise.cash. but, sometimes I forgot to take pictures because I'm too excited to fill my tummy XD.
In my previous article **Food Gallery****,** some of you crave after reading it, I can't blame you those foods are indeed delicious. Today, my apologies if you will be going to see again lots of food here and might get hungry after reading it. https://read.cash/@Loveleng18/food-gallery-8cc79d6c
Reminder:
`If this triggers your stomach to crave foods, do yourself a favor and buy some. (Wink)`
Foods are essential. Porridge is food. Therefore, Porridge is essential XD. (COMMERCIAL BREAK CHAR). I just remember the trending in Facebook last time during lockdown here and there was one delivery rider who will be going to deliver Porridge in a certain place then this barangay official didn't allow him to enter and said that what he will deliver is not essential so it's prohibited because it's already curfew hour. That barangay official receives hate comments and got bashed by netizens because she said that porridge is not part of essential goods. Here's the video of it.
https://youtu.be/g6hZuNrWHXA
So going back, I just wanna share with you some of the foods I collected again on my gallery.
Before I start, let me first share my breakfast this morning. Just biscuits and milk put in a cup with a coffee printed design. I'm not yet allowed to drink coffee because I'm breastfeeding.
The foods that I will be going to share here with you are mostly my snacks.
We have here biscuits, chocolate-flavoured snacks (stick-o, loaded and cloud 9) and my all-time favorite Chuckie. My partner buys all of this a while ago. I thought he will just buy a diaper and baby wipes but when he went home I saw a huge paper bag and these foods explain why.
We ordered this online worth P199 ($3.92). The seller called this all-beef monster box couple. Their burgers have different veggies. I also love their nachos and the sauce. We ate this at dawn already, midnight snack eh?
Who wants fries? Our lunch for this afternoon. Since the parent of my partner run some errands, we just ordered mcdo for our lunch. It's been a while since I eat mcdo. Our stomach is full and happy now LOL. Also, we treat my siblings in the other house, we ordered chicken fillet with fries for them.
I HOPIA like it :) Lol. This one was given by my partner's mother to us. Its flavor is pork and I love it. I thought it's a round shape like other hopia but when I opened the box I'm surprised with the shape hehe.
Favorite snacks of every student having groupings, pancit canton. This is our snack last time, we partnered it with bread and milk for me.
This is my partner's pasalubong for me last Monday. He asked me what I want then I can't say any food so he just buy this.
Bet you all know this. Right, it's an apple. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. This is the famous line when you hear the word apple. Are you agree with this? I think it is since Apple is healthy food.
They say that when you eat too many grapes you will feel drowsy and looks like you're drunk. I experienced this one when I and my cousin eat many grapes, we fell asleep without us knowing. But, grapes taste good. It's also one ingredient in making wine. This is my father's pasalubong to us last week
These consist of shawarma. Shawarma pita, shawarma burger and shawarma fries. We ordered this online, I forgot the price of this but it's around P100-200 all. I crave shawarma since I'm pregnant and until now.
***Our body needs food when our stomach is full, our mind functions well and we are energized. We're ready to face the whole day grinding. We shouldn't deprive ourselves of eating. When you are hungry go buy some food***.
Hope your eyes are full now :) let's eat?
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Think it is worth it? Did they forgive and forget?
October 24, 2021
Hi to all. Now we're here at my place because my father went home yesterday from his work and he wants to see his dear grandchild. We postponed going here yesterday because of the continuous rainfall that lasts until dawn. Fortunately, the rain stops this afternoon so we took this chance to go here.
Sharing with you this cute photo of my father and my son. I'm happy to see my father carrying my child, it is his first time carrying my son because last time he had a cold so he couldn't come closer to him.
Do you still remember the one that I shared here about my best friends love story? If you haven't read it here's the link: **When both of you cheat. Is it still with it to stay?** https://read.cash/@Loveleng18/when-both-of-you-cheat-is-it-still-worth-it-to-stay-616141d7
I will be going to continue their story now. But again, I have her permission and she's the one who suggested it again to me.
***Last time, I told here that they are still in a relationship even if they both cheated on each other.***
Until now they are still in a relationship. Nothing changed, they were still in a long-distance relationship. Asyla went to Oli's place whenever she has money to pay for transportation. One time I asked her why don't Oli is the one who goes to her place, not the other way around. She answered me, Oli doesn't want to and she even said to me that her visit to his place surprised and Oli seemed not happy with that for she don't know the reason but still she will stay there for days and make things work out. Also, Oli's stepmother doesn't want Asyla for him. She always told me that Oli's stepmom keeps on ignoring her. But she doesn't mind her as long as she's with Oli.
Oli's treatment of her became different again so she overthinks again. She's paranoid that he might have affair again with others but she doesn't have proof so she let it go.
This September something happened to them that I know will turn their lives 360. Wanna know what it is? So it's a piece of good news.
Asyla found out that she is pregnant and of course Oli is the father. She had a vacation at his place in August so she stayed there for almost a week. First, she doubted the first pregnancy test and think that it is not reliable so she bought another one and one again, a total of three pieces of pregnancy test yet the result are the same. She messaged me that time and show me the result, I thought she was joking but when she went here she's serious. I told her what is her plan and she said she will continue bearing the baby because this is what the two of them wanted back then yet things are different now. She said she and Oli are not on good terms since she left his place and don't have yet a communication because she blocked him. Oil needs to know, that what I said to her. She tried contacting him but he's cannot be reached, he's busy, she said and they are broke up.
Fast forward
Asyla already told Oli about her situation. Fortunately, he won't run away from his responsibility. But still, they are not together, this is what Oli wants. However, Asyla was persevered to fix their relationship even if she looks like a martyr. He gave her money to have an ultrasound for them to be sure if there is a baby in her tummy since they are in denial of the pt results.
Asyla then went to ob to have an ultrasound and checkups as well. It seems that Asyla is bearing a twin said the on but it's not sure, she needs to go back again in the said schedule to her so that they will be going to have ultrasound again. She sends the picture of the ultrasound to Oli and said what the on told her. Oil said there's a possibility that she bears a twin for he has relatives who have twin children.
I think the father instinct of Oli awakened because Asyla said he treated her well already just like before, though they are still in an LDR. Asyla go to his place sometimes, I said to her why not Oli is the one who comes to her place, she said Oli is busy finding work and looking for any possible sidelines to save money for them.
I can say now that their relationship went back to normal again, I mean just like before when they first became bf and gf. Oli keeps on checking her via video call and sending her money so that she can buy foods that she crave and buy also vitamins for pregnant. I think they already forgive each other and forget what's happened in the past. And that's good for them.
Closing thoughts:
*Every child is a blessing from above. For Asyla and Oli, their baby is a blessing in disguise and served as an instrument from above to make their ruined relationship fix again. I do hope they will be good parents and that they don't commit again the same mistake that they did in the past.*
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Highschool memories
October 22, 2021
A sunny day here on my side. How about in your place guys? This morning we took our baby out to have some sunlight then we bathe him after that I breastfed him till he fell asleep. I think he's recovering his sleep now and he just wakes up and cries when he is already hungry. And I need to grab this chance to write here :) shh. Stay quiet guys, you might wake up my baby LOL XD. That's the line I want to say to the neighbour here if only I can. Char.
Do you still remember your high school life? How was it? They say high school is the most unforgettable moment of being a student and I strongly agree with that. I had so much fun during my high school days. This is also the happiest moment of mine being a student because this is the time when I'm free from all the bullies of mine. You can read my story of being bullied **here****.** https://read.cash/@Loveleng18/to-the-one-who-bullied-me-thankyou-d4d37336
High school was my favorite stage of being a student. I met true friends that until now we still have communication even if we are in different universities and places already. Before a pandemic, we set a schedule where all of us are available then we meet up and food trip. The teachers are also awesome, all of our teachers are like a parent or a friend to us. Unlike now that I am in college.
What I miss during my high school days:
My classmates
They are the ones who complete my high school days. We are 30 in the class with different personalities but still, we are enjoying being in one classroom. Sometimes there's an argument between each other but it is normal right since we have different points of view. I remember when my teacher in the 21st century gives a scenario and we need to choose one of the two choices then we do a debate in which you need to defend your choice. The teacher has dismissed us already but my classmates keep on arguing to the point that some of them get annoyed already. We are all not perfect we make mistakes and even hurt each other but at the end of the day our friendship will remain and that makes our relationship stronger. When we met up back then we were just laughing to that moment.
The teacher
Just like what I've said above, our teachers, when I was in high school, are like a parent and a friend to us. You can ask for their advice and also you can talk to them about your problem. There are times that they become strict because they need to, for them so that students will listen to them. We still have contact with our other teachers.
Look at the picture above hehe, that's how we close our adviser :)
Christmas party
Whenever December comes in, I am excited because of this one. Usually, the Christmas party will fall on the 18th or 20th day of December. And in the second week of December, my classmates and I will begin to plan on what are we going to do with our Christmas party. I am also excited because that's the time our parents buy us new clothes that we wear to the party. The games, I miss it. Also the most awaited part, the exchanging of gifts.
Recess/ lunchtime
Every lunch or recess my classmates and I will be going to form our chairs in a circle shape so that we can face each other while eating. Though the time is only 15 minutes we enjoyed talking and eating. Laughing about the jokes we are saying. We exchange viand with each other.
Practice/groupings
We have a favorite place when we are practising or having groupings and it is located in our municipality. There's a freedom park there, so whenever we have a performance task such as dancing or role-playing we always went there. That moment when you come on time then your other group mates comes late and then others are eating first before decided to start. So it's like this 1 hr of waiting for others, 20 mins eating and talking then 20mins practice. Haha but still we managed to perform well.
Surprising our teachers
During teachers day we prepared something for our advisers. There's no class on that day and we have programmed so we have time to prepare like designing the classroom and we plan on how to make our teacher come to our classroom without noticing that we have a surprise.
Closing thoughts
High school memories are indeed unforgettable. This is also the time when you first have your first love or first heartbreak. For me, I had so many good memories during my high school days I can't list them one by one I might not end this. I will treasure all of those.
Being a student and a mom at the same time
October 21, 2021
How's life people? Hope you are having a good one. Today we have gloomy weather because the rain poured this afternoon. I enjoyed looking at the drops of the rain here in the window.
I want to write an article since yesterday but my mind doesn't have any idea of what topic I will be going to write plus I can't focus because when my baby cried I need to pause what I'm doing and breastfeed him.
So today, I decided to share with you my new daily lifestyle now that I am already a mom and how it goes thinking that I'm also a student.
When I am still pregnant, I managed to write here one article per day because what I did back then was lie down on my bed and then attend an online class which is off cam.
Now that I have a baby. My daily routine changed a lot. If only I know that I will be going to stay up all night because my baby wakes up in the dawn and I need also to wake up to feed him because if I don't he will cry and cry and I don't want that to happen, I would never have stayed awake late before and sleep early. I miss sleeping haha I don't have enough sleep now and I only had a nap when my baby is sleeping. Even if I'm sleepy when I woke up in the dawn, I get up and feed him, my eyes wanted to close but I fight it because I don't want to fall asleep while I'm breastfeeding my baby. So I waited until he fall asleep then that's the chance that I will sleep also. He wakes up at midnight then 2 am, 4 until 6 am while in the afternoon he is sleeping soundly. I hope he changed his sleeping clock, I hope it interchanged hehe.
You also know that I am still a student. I am graduating next year so I need to do my best so that I won't fail these last two semesters.
Being a student and a mother isn't easy, I can say due to what I'm experiencing now. In the morning I need to take my baby out for the sunlight then bathe him and feed him until he went to sleep. After that, even if I want to sleep also I can't because I need to do my school works. In the afternoon I need to attend my online class, good thing some of my professors allow us to turn off our cameras, that way I can carry my baby when he is crying. Also, my partner's mother and my partner help me whenever my baby is crying even if I feed him already. So I have some time to focus on my class.
I am not complaining tho, I used this experience of mine and also my baby as my motivation to do my best so that soon I can give them a good life especially my baby.
There are many changes and adjustments now that I am a mother, but all the hardships that I experience right now whenever I saw my baby smiling, my energy is full tank again and it takes away my tiredness. The sleepless night? I don't mind as long as I know my baby is fine. I chose this kind of life so I need to stand on it. I will show others who degraded me that I can manage and I will finish my studies. It's hard yes but this is life, I need to go through with it and I know we will surpass this.
My partner also is helping me whenever my baby cries at dawn. He will let me have some sleep and carry our baby and when our baby cries again and need to feed that's the time he will wake me up and he will sleep because he has work in the morning so he needs a rest too.
Closing thoughts
I don't have any regrets about what happened to my life. My baby is a blessing and he gives joy to us. I'm also focusing on my studies that's why I have less time here and also in noise. Back then, I posted in noise every 2 hours now it takes 5-6 hours before I post again, only if I have free time when my baby is sleeping and I'm finished with my activities.
Thank you to all my sponsors.
And thanks to ate @Eylz2021 for sponsorship renewal and to my sponsors who renewed their sponsorship to me.
Moving out: Is it a better idea?
**October 18, 2021**
What's up people here in read.cash. what are you doing now? Are you fine? I hope you are.
I missed writing an article a day like what I did in the last three months but now is different and I have my priority, I mean most priority hehe need to attend and comply to the requirements in our online class and also need to take care of my baby boy. I know most of you noticed that I haven't been active here, you know the reason and thanks for understanding me.
Today, oh no, last week I made a big and heavy decision. Here's the story
My partner offered me to transfer to his parent's house because of certain reasons. I will be going to share with you the reasons why he comes up with that idea.
**My two sisters are always fighting**
I have two younger siblings. One is 15 years old and the other one is 11 years old. Before our step sister arrives, the people who fill our house are me, my partner and my two siblings. Since I am pregnant and my pregnancy is sensitive that I need just bed rest I can't help with the household chores so my two siblings began to help in cleaning our house which is new to them because when my mother was still here, we are like a princess. My mother doesn't want us to help her with cleaning. But today is different when my mother died and my father is staying into his work. Also, my stepsister went back to the province, I am the one who takes care of my sibling and does the cleaning. When I got pregnant my partner helped me in taking care of my siblings and do all the household chores but of course not all the time he is free since he needs also to go to his work. My two siblings were told by my father to help us with cleaning. Whenever there's a dirty plate my siblings were going to fight over who will be going to wash them. And even in the other chores they always fighting and here I am scolding them. That happened when I was pregnant and until today that I was gave birth already. My partner said to me that I should not stress myself because I just gave birth and I am prone to relapse(binat in Tagalog). And this is not a good condition, they say it weakened your body, you will have a fever, feel dizziness, body pain and the worst is that you might end up crazy. So as a woman who just gave birth and still recovering you shouldn't strain yourself so that you'll not get a relapse.
**I need someone to help me in taking care of my baby**
Aside from my partner, I need someone who will help me in taking care of my baby since my partner needs to go to his work. He just leaves for 2 weeks and needs to go back already or else he might end up losing his job which we can't afford for we need to save for our baby. I told him last week to go to his work already but he insisted not to because he was thinking about me and the baby. He said I have no company in our house, my siblings don't know how to take care of a baby and even my stepsister was here already from the province I don't think she can help me because she is also babysitting the child of her boyfriend. They even staying for good in our house without my father knowing hays.
**I don't want to get stress because of my step sister's so-called family eh?**
So I mentioned above that my step sister's boyfriend and his 2 years old child are staying in our house for good, in the vacant room on the first floor which my sister made her room. And I don't like that idea, don't judge me first, hear me out. So here's the story of why I don't want to see them there. I don't want to be plastic with my sister's boyfriend. Her boyfriend blocks me to my sister's account in messenger back then when my sister was in the province and even interfere with our chats like he will react haha to my message even if it is not funny or he will like to zone me as if it was my sister. Like dude, what is your problem with me? And I know he brainwashed my sister's mind and this sister love him so much even if her boyfriend is not good to her, why do I say that? Because my sister always tells me whenever they have a fight or when she found out something to her bf. But my sister always forgives him. That boy also doesn't have work because he is too picky when it comes to working. He always told my sister that he just need to comply with all the requirements then end up not pursuing the job. So, now I know they are happy because we leave the house and that bf of my step sister will act like a boss there but hey I don't let that happen I will always monitor what's happening in the house and also this house of my partner is just a walking distance from our house so every time we can visit our house.
**Noise from vehicles and dirt**
This one also added to my reasons, because our house is located near the highway whenever there's a vehicle passing by and my baby is sleeping he easily get shocked and wakes up. Also, the dirt that comes from the outside is not good for my baby. He got cold already. fortunately, he is fine already.
When my partner said that why not transfer to his house, I have second thoughts because I'm thinking about my siblings but my partner said he will always check them out before and after he went to his work plus my stepsister is there already she can take care of my two siblings. Hopefully, she will and not just focus on her bf and his child.
I also think of my health, I don't want to have a relapse. I need to focus also to my study so I really need help when my partner went to work already. So I decided to ask for my father's permission. At first, he was very furious with my siblings he scolded them saying why they are fighting and what if I strain myself because of them also my stepsister, my father said that my stepsister should help me. It seems that my father does not agree with our plan. I understand him he doesn't want his grandchild to be away from him. Then later, he messaged me and asked when we are planning to move out so I'm shocked I thought he won't agree with us. I said to him that if he doesn't want us to leave then we will stay but I'm so touched by his reply, he said he understand and it will be good for me since the mother of my partner is there to help me. I said to him that we will stay there every Saturday and Sunday because I know he will go home that day. And just what I've said my partner's house is not that far from our house hehe it's not like we're going to ride a vehicle or what. Anytime they can or we can visit them.
This morning at exactly 6:00 am we transfer already here. And I feel the warm welcome of his family to us. The room of my partner is also clean and the things are arranged already. My partner also went to his work this morning. His mother takes care of me and my baby well so I must say that I did the right decision for me and my baby's good. I am still checking my sibling there and message them if they eat already or not, they also can visit me here anytime. We will go back there in December also.
Thank you for reading guys :)
Being a leader ft. Acrostic
October 16, 2021
A sunny day awesome people of read.cash! How's the start of the weekend so far for you? It's hot already, the typhoon leaves us I think. I hope you are all safe out there.
Have you experienced being a leader? Or do you once lead a team? How was it? Is it easy or not? Do you encounter any problems with your groups? How did you manage them and how did you deal with them? Or do you have a harmonious relationship with your team making you became an effective leader?
We all have different ways of handling our group. The success of your group depends on how the leader leads its members. If the leader is effective then there is a high chance that their group will become effective also.
**L-**ead the team. Each leader has members that they need to lead. If you are a leader, it is your responsibility to manage your team from disseminating the task to making a plan on how to accomplish the task given to their team.
**E** - encourage the members to do their best. The leader should motivate their members so that their team will be effective. They are the ones who support their member's capabilities and enhance their skills by saying motivating words to them. When the members feel demotivated or down, the leader should be the one who lifts their spirit so that the member will encourage to do their best.
**A** - ability to lead. A leader should know how to handle their member, they should have these leadership skills for them to handle their members well because they should be a role model to their members. The members will likely follow their leaders if that leader knows how to lead a team effectively.
**D** - o their best in every task given to their group. As a leader, you must manage your members well by showing them that you are willing to help them and you show them that you do your best for the team. It's good to feel when your team achieve something because of your leadership.
**E** - effective leadership skills can make your team successful in completing every task. There are leadership skills that are not effective that result in conflict in your group. If you are too bossy and you just assigned tasks to your members while you are doing nothing. There's a possibility that your members won't listen to you and you will not have a harmonious relationship with them. So think of the best leadership skills that you can apply to your group if you will become a leader.
**R** - respect your member's suggestion. Not all the time you are the one who makes a suggestion, you should consult your members or ask them if they have other ideas or they have something in their mind about the task you need to do. Before you make a decision make sure to be fair with your members. Being a leader doesn't mean that you have all the right to make a decision alone, you are a team and you need to hear what's your members have in their minds maybe they have better ideas that will help your team succeed.
I read this topic about acrostic first to @McJulez (sorry for the tag) and other writers here also and it gives me an idea about the topic I should write about. Thanks for this :) https://read.cash/@McJulez/why-not-acrostic-98a2d856
Being a leader isn't easy. You need to deal with different people which have different characters and personalities. You need to do your best to be an effective one. You have responsibilities that need to fulfil being a leader and if you fail, your whole team will also fail.
I experienced being a leader and until now I am a leader in our thesis subject. When I was still in high school, our teachers always count me in whenever they pick a leader for the group they will make. And also when there's a grouping my classmates chose me as their leader so I have no choice but to lead them. I know how hard it is. Some members don't care about your group and you need to push them to be cooperative and you're lucky if all your members are active in participation and give ideas. I remember how stressed I am in our research subject in one of my members. We will be going to have a defense so we need to be ready but this member of mine don't show up on the schedule that I set. Then when the day of defense come, she was was asked by one of the panelists and guess what she won't have an answer, fortunately, we are allowed to answer for her but still, it affects our grade.
And now I am still a leader in our thesis but the good news is all of my members are helping me and we divided the task equally besides they know my situation.
**And oh I got this topic leadership from** @Kushyzee **'s** **articl****e feel free to check it out :)** https://read.cash/@Kushyzee/heavy-is-the-head-that-wears-the-crown-290162c9#comment-f3826486
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Respect her
October 14, 2021
Mabuhay people in the universe! How are you all? We still have gloomy weather here and I don't know if the typhoon left already or not yet or there is another one? I'm not updated on what's happening now in our weather. Poor me. Anyways, I hope all of you are safe and sound in your place people. Let's just stay at home when you don't have things to do outside. The virus doesn't leave us yet. When pa kaya hays.
*A woman who brings life to us.*
*A woman who loves us unconditionally*
*A woman who first teach us and count 123 also how to write our name*
*A woman who wakes us early so that we're not be late in school and prepares food for us.*
*A woman who takes care of us when we are still a baby and even when we grow up*
*A woman who didn't get tired of understanding us*
*A woman who provides our needs*
*A woman who bears lots of pain and suffering just to give us a good life*
Do you know who is this woman I am referring to?
I bet you knew it already. Yes
It's our ****mother****
A mother who is never getting tired of loving and understanding us. People will leave you but your mother is still there for us. They are not perfect but they do all things just to give us a better life. When we are in pain, it's double the pain to them. They don't want to see us hurt. They protect us and make sure that they give us all the things we need.
****But how do you give back to her?****
Do you show respect? Do you love her so much as they did to you? Do you take care of her too? Or do you just neglect the things they did to you when you are still a kid and now that you're grown up, you just abandoned them?
Our mother is the one who suffers a lot from bearing us for nine months in their tummy to giving birth to us and takes care of us while we are growing.
When we are hurting they are too. I know because when I am still in the hospital with my baby, the nurse did a newborn screening for my baby and you know how it goes? They get blood to him by doing a small cut to his feet so that the blood flow. Believe me, I am the one who's hurting so much. It seems that I felt also the pain that I can't look at them while doing the process. I heard my baby cries loud that time. I want to cry also hearing him crying, now I understand the feeling of every mother when their child is hurting. Now I understand when every mother is very protective of their child.
I have here a neighbour who had a kid. The kid doesn't respect her mother, the way he answered her mother, the way he make faces when he was scolded by his mother. I witnessed it a couple of times where the kid will answer his mother back when he was scolded by her. I noticed the face of her mother, hurt is what I saw. That kid doesn't know how to respect his mother. They don't know how it affects their mother's feelings.
When I was in the hospital, I talked with fellow women who just gave birth also that time. One said that the child is adorable when it is still a baby then when it grows up they change. She said she has already two children and they are now grown up not old but teenagers and every time she asked for help or she ordered them to buy this or that, they will answer her later until they forgot it and the mother will be the one who makes what she ordered to her child. She added that children nowadays are fond of gadgets that they don't listen immediately to what their mother asked them as if they are ignoring her. Imagine how hard it was for a mother. They bear you for nine months dealing with different emotions and hardships and then there you are disrespecting them, you think that you're old enough and don't need them already without thinking about the things they did for you when you are still a kid.
My point here is that we should learn to respect our mother no matter what the situation is. Even if we are already grown up, it doesn't give us the right to neglect them not abandoned them. Love them unconditionally too. They went through a lot just to give us a better life so don't just forget about it. They said a child has no responsibility in financing their parents when we already have work but it's our way of giving back to them though they are not requiring us to do so. If we love them we are willing to help them too.
They are not perfect too, we all don't. But the way they show love to us is more than enough for us to love them too. They didn't let us saw them in hard situations. They want us not to worry about them that's how they love us so much.
Let's **appreciate**, **love** and **RESPECT** THEM. You don't understand their pain until you're in their shoe already. So, please may I request to you to kiss or say I love you to your mother. As much as I want to do that I can't because mine is already in heaven but I always tell her how much I love and miss her.
Hope this will have an impact on all of you who reads it. Thank you for reading :)
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Let me answer you: Random questions
October 12, 2021
A rainy afternoon to you all. There's a typhoon named "Maring" here but the rain is not heavy whilst the wind blows so strong that makes our roof shake and it irritates my ears because of its sound. I pray that all people affected by the typhoon is safe. Let's stay warm guys.
Today, I decided to write an article but nothing comes to my mind, I don't have any topic to tackle here so thanks to ate @Jeaneth for her article, I got now an idea of what I will give going to write. https://read.cash/@Jeaneth/random-questions-to-answer-43c48a93
I will be going to answer random questions that I got **here**. https://randomwordgenerator.com/question.php
I need to take this opportunity to write while my baby boy is still sleeping soundly. Please don't make any noise people as he easily gets shocked even in a low sound.
**What is something that will instantly annoy you?**
When someone continues telling lies to me even if I know the truth. Like can you just please tell me the truth, you're obvious that you're telling lies to me. It seems that they think of me like I'm dumb and stupid. I hate liars so much especially those people who are lying to you and it's very obvious. My ears are panting hearing those lies continuously.
**What do you hope to be an expert about at some point in your life?**
I hope to be an expert in advising someone about their problems. Whenever someone is telling their problems to me I don't have any words to say, all I did was listen to them and comfort them. I don't know how to give advice and I always think of the advice that I will be going to say to them is accurate to their situations.
**What was an experience you didn't think much about at the time, but it ultimately made you a stronger person?**
Giving birth. Yes, you all know that I'm scared of blood and while I'm pregnant I don't want to think about how I gave birth, I don't even watch videos of women who are giving birth and how it goes. I'm scared to think that I will be going to experience that situation but when I was in that day. It feels like I am not me, I feel stronger that time that I can't feel the pain anymore, those injections that I got and the labour itself, who thinks that I can bear all of those. Even the people here don't think that I can do that since they know that I'm scared when it comes to blood but hey look at me now I already have my baby boy and I'm still fine. I'm proud to myself that I don't let fear comes first to me.
**If you could have the attention of the world for one minute, what would you say?**
Let's be kind to everyone. That is what I want to say to the people in the world. To spread kindness, from this we will be going to have world peace. We have different cultures, races and nationalities but this doesn't the reason for us not to be kind to each other. Respect is one important key to have peace.
**Who is someone you need to contact that you haven't?**
My mother. I badly want to contact and have a communication with her but I can't for she is now in the place where the signal couldn't reach and phones are not existing I guess. I want to ask her about the motherhood thingy and ask for her advice. I missed her so much that I wish there's a phone in heaven so I can reach out to her but that's impossible right.
**What does it mean to "live a good life" in your opinion?**
"Live a good life" for me is staying healthy and fit. We should have a healthy lifestyle meaning we should avoid drinking too much alcohol and smoking so that our life will last long. For me living a good life is staying healthy not only physically but mentally, spiritually and emotionally. These can make our life better.
**What do you remember most about your first crush?**
His name. Why? Because he has a girly name which made me not forget him.
**Has someone ever done a random act of kindness to you?**
Yes, many people have done that to me. And one of them is you, people, here in read.cash for supporting my article by reading it, leaving a comment and giving upvotes. These are what I considered a random act of kindness because you don't know me personally but you believe in me and I am so grateful to all of you who continue supporting me.
Those are the questions I chose randomly. I started writing this one yesterday at 2 in the afternoon but got busy because of many things that need an immediate response so I did it first and now is the time that I can freely write so I grab this opportunity to finish this one. My baby just sleep now and I will be going to sleep also, I will catch up to all of you when I have free time :) hope you understand my situation right now. I seldom visited you all because I have many priorities now such as studies and also my baby but I promise to continue supporting you too.
Thanks for reading guys!
I'm quite sad now, I just noticed that one person unsubscribe me for I don't know the reason or maybe I am not good enough to satisfy him/her and that I didn't reach his/her standard. Sorry for being a writer wannabe. I'm trying and I admit I am still in the learning process. Apologise for my nonsense articles. The number of my subscribers doesn't matter to me if it is less or many but knowing that someone unsubscribes me bothers me so much :(
Just want to share what I feel right now sorry for this post.
$590K: Where do I spend it?
October 9, 2021
Hello there awesome read.cash writers! How's your Saturday? I hope it went smooth and well for you. Time flies so fast indeed, and two more months then hello 2022 already. Are you excited? Well, I am excited about Christmas because it's our first Christmas together with our little one. We're planning to baptize him before Christmas but that is still tentative, who wants to be his virtual godparent? Hehe. char!
While lying down here, I am thinking what if I have a huge amount of money? Like $590k, what I will be going to do with that money? What are my plans? How I will be going to spend it?
I got this idea because many writers here already published their articles about the things they will do when they have $590k. I first read it to ms. @FarmGirl article and others also created their version of it. Now, it's time for me to share with you my plans if I have that huge amount of money.
$590k worth of money is jaw-dropping when you got to hold this with your bare hands or saw it in your online wallet. The amount is quite impossible to achieve but who knows someday we will have that kind of amount through our perseverance and hard work. I know most of us want this amount of money and we all have different plans on how to spend it.
*If I were given a chance to have this huge amount of money, here are the things that I will be going to do:*
First, I will buy a lot in our province and build a house there. Most of our relatives are in the province so I want us to be there also when I am stable in my life like I don't need to work, my father also once said that he doesn't want to get old here in manila, he wants to go back in his province so I want to build a house for him. Although our relatives have a house there I don't want us to live with them, I want to live in our own house so we can freely move on our own.
Next, I will create a bank account for my sibling's studies. I want to help my father in sending to school my sisters. I want to give them a better future by supporting them financially and sending them to school which will mould them for the future.
I will create a bank account for my son's future. And we can also use this when there is an emergency.
Then, I will invest some in buying a lot here in Manila. We all know that the value of land appreciates when time goes by. So, it is a good investment, also I will buy gold jewelry since the value of this one also appreciates.
I will give some to my father and make him buy what he wants, maybe he wants to change his motorcycle already for it is too old.
I want to buy a motorcycle or bike for my partner so that he won't be able to wake up early and catch their service at work because when there is traffic and he didn't make it until 7:40 am their service will be going to leave and he won't be able to go to work. If he has a motorcycle or bike he doesn't need to ride to their service he can enter freely to their work since it is a village he just needs a working pass.
I will build a business. This was my plan since I am in high school. Our teacher requires us to think of a business that we want to build in the future. The business that I want is a restaurant that serves Filipino foods. And I will hire my partner as my chef hehe for he is good when it comes to cooking different dishes. It's good to have a business even if it is small because it can give you profit.
I will buy stuff for me and my family. I will make them go shopping and buy what they want.
I will treat my friends of course hehe. It's like a mini-reunion for us.
Lastly, I will donate a portion of it to the charity. I want not only me and my family to enjoy this huge amount of money, but I also want to use this in helping others. They said share your blessings and I want to do that and I know I will be rewarded from above.
Those are my plans for to $590k that I have. Nothing is impossible to God, but if we want this huge amount of money we need to grind harder and who knows we will be going to achieve this kind of amount in the future.
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Teachers: Let's appreciate them
October 8, 2021
Good day everyone? How are you? I can't move well because my stitches hurt when I'm moving even when I am sitting so I just lie down most of the time. Thanks to my partner for taking care of me and to the baby. He took a one week leave. And next week we will be going to the municipality of Pasig since I gave birth in Pasig hospital to arrange my baby's birth certificate. We need to get acknowledgement of paternity so that our baby can use the surname of my partner since we are not yet married.
Second parent?
Who is the person who comes to your mind when you read or hear the word, second parent?
Aside from our parent who teaches us first how to recite ABC and count 1 to 10, there is a person who continues to teach us while we are growing.
Our TEACHERS.
They are the ones who have a long patience and understanding. The person who stands as our second parent in school, the one who is persevere to teach us and to exert learnings for us to know about certain things that are important in our everyday lives in the future.
Teachers
Strict, kind, understanding, funny, caring, joker, serious etc.
We all have different kinds of teachers. And also we have this so-called "Favorite" one. How about you? How would you describe your favorite teacher who you can't forget?
Last October 5, 2021, is the celebration of the world's teacher day and this October is world teacher's month. This is the day where we gave thanks and greet our teachers and say appreciation words to them.
I remember when I was in high school we used to greet and make surprises when teacher's day comes. My classmates and I prepare something for our adviser, we had a contribution and plan for the things we need to arranged and foods to buy also presents for our teacher. Since I am one of the officers back then I am the one who takes in charge of creating a plan.
Here are some of the memories during teacher's day when I was in high school that we did.
This happened when I was in grade 11 and our section is bravo. We planned to surprise our adviser, he is the one at the centre. This adviser of mine is very funny yet strict. I remember when he enters our room to teach and he had this serious face, we thought he's not in the mood and that he is angry so we are silent that time and serious too. Nervousness can see in our faces but when he talks and asked us what's with our fave and laugh because of our reaction. He's unpredictable I must say. He is closed to all his students even hang out with them outside.
We decorate our wall with the words happy teachers day and put a picture of him but the body is baymax and Barney haha since he is chubby which he loves haha, we thought he will be angry XD. Lol. We also prepare food and present for him. He was very happy that time, he thought we don't have a surprise for him since no one greeted him that time, ignoring him is part of our plan too.
This one is when I was in grade 10. Our adviser is located at the center wearing a white shirt. We did surprise her. What we planned was to create a message for her and we put it together then gave her, we also sing a song that time. I don't remember the title of it but it has a line "glowing inside because of you" hehe too lazy to search the title sorry. It is a good one. Our adviser is strict but you can talk to her like a friend when you're not inside the classroom, we even visited her at her house when she is no longer our adviser. She always gives us advice.
This is our adviser when I was in grade 12, my former classmates and I prepares something for him since he is no longer our teacher and we are already a graduate and study in a different school, we just visited him and gave him a cake. He didn't expect us since we are no longer his students. He was very happy at that time. He is my favorite teacher, a very understanding, friendly, caring and kind one. Actually, all the class love him. I remember he helps one of my classmates financially since we have a cheer dance competition on one of our subjects then the chore asked us to pay him and one of my classmates don't have money so he decided not to join but my teacher want all of us to join since it is graded, he is the one who pays for my classmate. Until now we still have communication with him. He is also the one who invites us to his church in Pasig. And there I got I know my cell group.
When vacation comes, my classmates and I planned to have an outing with our adviser and he gladly accepted it. He is the one who wears a gray shirt in front. Do you see me? Hehe, one of the boy's yea. We are so happy that time and that is our last bonding with our adviser since we are already graduate.
Our teacher's help us a lot from teaching us how to read to giving advice. They can also be our friends where we can say our problems in life. We should appreciate them.
It's quite late but still, I want to greet all teachers out there a "HAPPY WORLD TEACHER'S DAY".
Of pain and joy: meet my little one
October 6, 2021
How's everybody here? Apologise for being inactive here for almost 5 days as I gave birth to my little one and now he's finally here!
As much as I want to publish these past few days, I don't want to use the phone for too long since they say it's not good for my health condition for now.
October 2, 2021
During this day, I experienced the word "labor", I thought it's just a false labor and I am just having a Braxton hicks contraction since it's not yet my due date and the pain that I had at that time is tolerable, its started from 6 in the afternoon but when the night comes, the pain that I feel is increasing. When my tummy hurts suddenly I will stand and walk. Then after a minute, the pain will fade away.
My partner assisted me and comfort me when my tummy aches. I want to cry that time because of so much pain that comes back every minute but thanks to my partner for his comforting words.
I am thinking that time that maybe it's not false labor and that I am having labor already and that confirms when I pee and I saw blood in my underwear. So I told my partner to get things ready because any time we will be going to the hospital.
Exactly midnight when we decided to go to the hospital, my partner called his mom to accompany us. Since the hospital is near our house we just walk but while walking halfway my tummy hurt again then we decided to ride a tricycle when we arrived at the hospital we go directly to the tent where pregnant women assisted. But unfortunately, the staff told us that they are not accepting because one of their staff there was tested positive for covid. Hearing those lines make me feel nervous because it's the only hospital I think of but my partner said it's okay we need to find another hospital. The staff just I. E me and said I'm in my 6 I'm so I can still find another hospital.
While thinking, I remembered the hospital where my mom was admitted back then and so I suggested it to my partner and we immediately find a taxi. The staff there asked us some questions and if I have my swab test but unfortunately, I don't have since the centre didn't contact me yet for my schedule of swab test and who knows that I'm giving birth that day.
I felt scared when they say I will be included in the ward where everyone doesn't have also a swab test. And we don't know if one there is positive or not. Hearing those makes me want to go home and just gave birth at home but my partner's mother said that we don't have a choice so we said okay and then they guided me and my partner to the labor room. They put dextrose to me and while waiting I am surprised when one person entered and did a swab test for me, I thought they don't have a swab test here? That's what I said in my mind but good thing they have. So while having my labor I also have my swab test, imagine how hurt is that.
The staff bring me to the labor room at 2 am then I just lie down there and wait for the doctors to I.E and check if I'm about to give birth and bring me to the delivery room. It hurts so much having a labor while lying down in bed. I am praying while I am there. When I'm about to give birth and already 9 cm they transfer me already to the delivery room then arranged the things that are needed. I'm nervous at that time but I need to fight for my child and me also. When they said I need to push then I follow then it took me just three pushes then my baby is out already. The pain that I feel is all worth it when I heard him cry and saw him for the first time. I thank all the doctors there. And I gave birth wearing FACE MASK AND FACE SHIELD. Yes, that's how hard it is to give birth now because of a pandemic.
Finally, here is the photo of my baby boy :) he is behaving in the hospital but now that we are in our house he always cries at midnight haha so we have no choice to stay up until he went back to sleep. I delivered him normally and I thank God for that. I always spoke to my child when he was still in my tummy to go out fast and not give me a hard time that he follows. I can say that my baby boy is a good listener hehe. He's healthy and very cute. All the pain is worth it indeed.
Now that I am already a mother, I need to adjust and learn how to handle and take care of a baby. It's hard at the same time it gives you a feeling of happiness.
My partner was very happy and have tears of joy when he finally hold and saw our child. In the hospital, they are not allowed to visit us in the ward and no one is allowed to enter so I am the only one assisting our child inside the ward and they are just called when I need something or the nurse asked him to buy medicine.
My father was also very happy when he saw his grand child in the picture that I send to him. He's excited to meet him on Saturday.
I need to lie low in using phone so I guess I will just publish this and I don't know when is the next article of mine be publish. Hope you understand me :) I will catch up when I recover fully. My stitched is still hurt until now and I can't move fully.
Thanks for reading guys.
-Loveleng18
Despite experiencing pain right now, I think I'm near to my labor day. So my apologies if I will be going to lie low here. I want to write but I am experiencing so much pain right now from time to time. The reason I make a short post is that I want to say thank you to my newest sponsor, yieee I felt kilig naman. Ate @Pichi28 thank you superrr! God bless always! :)
Appreciation post hehe. @bbyblacksheep thank you sa pag flood sa notif ko hehe. Natuwa naman ako pati yung una ko pang published e binisita mo. It means a lot ❤️
October first: Lifting my mood up
October 1, 2021
Good day everyone. It's the first day of October and I hope it went smooth for all of you. 2 more months then 2022 will be going to say hello to us. I hope when 2021 ends, the covid will end too so that we can go back to our normal life like before. Is it possible? Who knows? Let's just hope for the best.
***Do you experience feeling something odd suddenly? Like you know you're okay and at the same time not? Okay, let me rephrase it. Do you experience having a sudden sadness feeling that makes you upset? You're okay now then a little later you're not.***
***Is it because you're overthinking so much? Or is it because there's something that happened to you? Or things don't work the way you wanted them?***
***When do you feel this kind of feeling what things do you do to divert it? Or you just let it beat you and wait for it to fade away?***
Last night was not that good to me. I ended September with tears falling in my eyes. I don't know why but I am feeling heavy and I feel like I need to burst out this sadness within me through crying. Something happened here in the house which I decided not to share here because it's too personal. But one thing is sure, that makes me stress and sad. I even posted in noise cash about these feelings of mine and I receive some comments which motivate me and cheer me up. Thanks to all especially to ate @FarmGirl :) I appreciate it a lot.
Even this morning, I don't feel better. Waking up having a sad feeling is not good. As much as I don't want to feel this kind of feeling because I want to start this month with positive vibes but I can't help it. So what I did was to go with it, when I am finished eating breakfast I went back to sleep with a heavy heart. Then I woke up at exactly noon but I didn't eat lunch. I don't have any appetite, I know it's not good for my health especially in my situation right now so I asked my sister to buy me some food that makes my tummy full.
This is what I want when I am stressed or bad mood instead of eating rice I eat these foods. It somehow lifted my mood. I love the banana cue and ginataang halo-halo that much.
Also here's what's in front of me a while ago. Mikki's weird position haha. I enjoyed seeing this cute cat sleeping in this kind of position. I again envy him for just sleeping and eating without thinking about any problems.
And today is Friday and my report on one of our subjects happened tonight. It was postponed twice and I prayed that it should not be postponed again now. I already study it for days but still, I have this nervous feeling. So, I review it again before the time comes. It's hard to study when you have something in mind or when you are overthinking too much. It gives me a mental block in which I forget what's the next word to say.
Even though I am thinking too much about the things that make me sad. I managed to review and study my report well, I didn't let this negative thought of mine ruined my report. Before our class starts, I took a selfie of myself practising smiling because our prof requires us to open our cameras while reporting and I don't want my classmates to see me looks like a mess so I try hard to lift my mood and smile often.
And thank God, I and my group mates delivered our topic well. We also answered the questions that the other groups asked us. Somehow I feel a bit happy.
The good thing before our internet connection was lost, I finished my report already and it's 11 minutes before the class ends. So I just messaged our prof about my internet and she just say it's okay. I don't know what happened to our internet connection because we just pay it a while ago then they cut it off haha but it's doesn't last long.
And now, while writing I should say that my mood now is okay and I am feeling better. The problem here is also fixed I guess? I don't want to end this first day of October with an odd feeling. I just want to spend the whole month being happy and optimistic.
I am planning to write my September report but decided to postpone it and publish this one. Maybe tomorrow, I will be able to publish it. I am seeing lots of reports about what happened to their September. Good job guys! You all deserved what you have achieved. Let's grind again this month :) fighting.
*I already cheer up myself now and I am now better. Thanks to all your support guys. Thanks to this platform, it allows me to express my thoughts and what I feel.*
***God bless us all***.
Thursday diary
September 30, 2021
Good evening everyone. A few more minutes then September will be going to say goodbye to us already. Hello October! So this is my last and final article for this month. I'm already seeing lots of monthly reports here hehe, so inspiring.
This morning my partner received a text message from the office of the vice mayor here saying that he is one of the winners in the birthday raffle that they posted on FB. At first, we thought it was a message from his work so I felt a bit nervous haha phew. We woke up late a while ago it's already 11 am that time and the claiming hours are from 11 am to 4 pm. We decided to claim it right away because it might have a long queue since there are 300 winners of cash worth P500 and 20 winners of sacks of rice then 10 winners of a mountain bike. He's aiming for a mountain bike, haha but the cash is good already besides it's a raffle and free. How lucky we are in the raffle this month XD.
This is our midnight snack last night we ordered it online. And we weren't able to eat it all so we put it in the ref then this morning we eat the leftover before we went to the office of our vice mayor. We just ride a tricycle so that we arrive fast there.
We are having a hard time finding the building that is sent to us but good thing we asked for help hehe. Always bring "magta" (magtanong in English ask) it's free by the way. They told us where it is exactly and it is located on the fourth floor. So I told my partner that I will not be going to accompany him upstairs because I don't want to walk up the stairs hehe. Then I should wait for him in the lobby.
While waiting, I saw these cute cats outside. The white one has a necklace which indicates that someone owns him, I called them and the white one is on the go for the picture taking haha he even look in the camera. While the other cat, I don't know but I think he's scared of people because when I move my feet it jumps suddenly and runs away haha. He might think I'm going to hurt him but no I'm animal friendly hehe LOL.
It took me almost 20-30 mins waiting for my partner. He said the one who will be going to give them the cash arrived late so they need to wait for him. Then after giving them the cash inserted in the envelope, they ask to take a picture, so they have a picture-taking there, it is for documentation purposes, maybe they will post it on FB as proof that they give the reward to the winners.
Since we haven't bought viand, we decided to buy an already cooked one and here it is. We bought lechon manok and my partner is the one who pay for it. Also, we saw empanada and we bought chicken empanada and chilli got beef empanada. He asked me I want ice cream but I firmly say no haha even if I want to say yes huhu. I need to discipline myself not to eat too many sweets and cold food. I also message my sister to cook rice correction, many rice haha because we surely eat more rice for our viand is delicious XD. And I am not wrong we ate much they also bought soft drinks while mine is water only.
And oh, I just want to share with you this wee flower that I saw a while ago while waiting for my partner. It has a beautiful color but it is only one, I wonder where are the other petals maybe someone picked them out or fell by itself. I already shared it in my noise.cash.
While having laundry, my partner saw a big cat on our neighbour's roof. He called it and give it cat food when my sister saw this cat she was happy, well she's a cat lover tho. They feed this big cat while Nikki our cat got jealous haha but at the same time scared of the big cat. What he did was sit down and look at the big cat eating his cat food. He's scared the big cat might attack him XD. So he doesn't have a choice to just stay silent.
Until now the big cat didn't leave yet. He's still outside our house. I wonder who's the owner of this cat. I want to give him back to them.
So I guess this is for tonight. While writing this the rain is currently falling and it gives us cold weather tonight. It looks like I am going to have a good sleep hehe. Well, I have a tiring day today because of my online class so many activities and assignments also reporting. Good luck self.
*all images are taken by yours truly.
Food gallery
September 29, 2021
How are you, awesome people? We're now in the middle of the week already. Wow, imagine it looks like yesterday we just reporting our August journey then in a few days September will say goodbye to us. Are you excited to share what you've got this month? I am excited too to read it and be inspired again. Time fast swiftly isn't it?
This morning I woke up to prepare food while my partner bought breakfast for us. Here's what I eat.
I am thinking a while ago about what topic I will be going to write about and mind you, I am thinking for almost an hour but still, my mind couldn't think of one.
While I am here squeezing my mind thinking about what topic I will write about, here's Mikki in front of me sleeping well because he is full already. See that small plate there? It was full of cat food a while ago. I envy him, I also want to sleep peacefully without thinking anything haha LOL.
Then this word "free writing" comes up in my mind suddenly so I told myself to make one too just like others do if they are experiencing writer's block. So I'm thinking about random things to write also finding some pictures in my gallery. Upon browsing in my gallery, I noticed that majority of the pictures there are foods that I or my partner cooked, ordered, bought or received. It's like there is a light bulb shown in my mind and I am already able to think of what topic I should write about now.
**I will be going to share with you the photos of foods that I found in my gallery, there are many foods there so my apologies if it will make you feel hungry or trigger your cravings hehe**.
**"Start your day with food and end it with food" -Loveleng18**
*(It just suddenly appeared in my mind haha. Am I obvious that I love eating so much? lol)*
*Food is one of the necessities that we, human needs to have. It is in the first among all basic needs, of course, people should consume foods to live and satisfy their stomach.*
Get ready and make sure you are full when you read this.
****Read at your own risk hehe, some foods might trigger your cravings and if it happens I suggest you give yourself a favor and buy one :)***
Foods I have in my gallery
I shared it here already why we made spaghetti. This dish is one of the foods that are present in every celebration be it a birthday, christening, fiesta, anniversaries, etc.
My partner always makes spaghetti whenever we have something special to celebrate. This one, he made it last September 18 which I requested from him because it's our monthsary. I watched him while cooking and memories the steps, I must say that it's easy doing this but you need to be mindful of the pasta for it not to overcooked. I already know how to make spaghetti sauce hehe, the creamy one.
I seldom eat taho, only if I managed to go outside not like before the vendor just shout outside our house then I found myself running outside to call the vendor and buy one. Now, there are no vendors of taho passing by near our house. Back then, I always say to the vendor to add more caramelized sugar in my taho because I love the taste of it.
When we have a grilled viand we make sure to cook more rice as we always run out of rice whenever these are our viand. We rarely eat grilled viand such as fish and fork because you know the price of these dishes will make your wallet cry XD. It's pricey compared to chicken so we prefer chicken as our viand.
When we have extra, we ordered food online, especially if I want to reward myself or my siblings. These foods cost not more than P400 ($7) so it is manageable and we ordered twice or thrice a month or when my partner treat us.
I said already here that whenever my father visits us, we have a salad in our ref because he will be going to make one. He loves salad so much. This serves as our dessert during lunchtime.
I'm craving these foods last week so we ordered online but the delivery fee hurt my bangs haha char. Then last Sunday, my partner and I went to church. We saw a stall selling these foods so we bought one each. These foods are good to eat when it's still hot. I don't know why but when Christmas is near it became a trend and many people will be going to look for these.
The flavor of the first one above is shawarma and the other one is ham and cheese. The shawarma one, we ordered it online while scrolling on FB I saw a post there selling this. Guess what time we ordered this one? It's already 11:30 pm so yes, this is our midnight snack last last night. I just opened my FB account when I am hungry and need to find something to eat haha. The cost of this pizza is P139 ($2.72) then it has a delivery fee of P50 ($1) yes quite a big amount but it's okay people here are already hungry they said haha. And the other one, my partner bought that lastweek when he receives his salary.
I made this on my own hehe but of course with the help of YouTube XD. I told my partner to buy ingredients which he did then in the morning I made this for our breakfast. My sibling's loved this and I am happy to see them eating happily. I am planning to watch more dishes to cook soon.
It is worth P50 each. My sisters don't want to eat shawarma so my partner and I ate these. The other flavor is all meat while mine is regular, I love cucumber and tomatoes hehe tho it only has cucumber and they didn't put tomatoes in it.
Our usual snack, banana cue. It's good to partner with soda or coffee but I prefer water hehe, I'm not yet allowed to drink those tho I missed drinking them. I love it when banana cue has a lot of sugar.
I ordered this from my friend since she send a picture of it in our GC. Also to show support to her small business. It cost only P20 and the taste is good not too sweet. It also has many ingredients such as coconut milk, banana, mini sago pearl, jack fruit, sweet potato and glutinous rice balls.
One of my favourite viand. Still chicken haha. My partner made this one.
I hope I make your eyes full with these foods I shared. Who doesn't love eating? Hehe. I have more foods in my gallery but I think these are enough to make you hungry? Char.
**Thank you for reading guys. Hope you enjoy this.**
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Good day everyone. I just want to say thank you to ate @Bloghound for renewing and upping her sponsorship yey I'm so happy hehe :D Godbless to you po and more blessings to come.
Unexpected winnings:Am I that lucky?
September 27, 2021
Happy Monday people! It's a busy day for us since it's the start of weekdays. We need to grind :) I woke up this morning as early as 5 am to prepare food for my hubby but he is still sleeping even if I wake him up, ending he wasn't able to go to work today. Hays, he stayed up late last night that's why he was still sleepy this morning. So I am quite disappointed in him, I feel like my effort in waking up early go to waste. I went back to sleep with a heavy feeling.
I thought my mood this morning will affect my whole day today but there is good news that makes my mood lighten up. Also, my partner said sorry to me and that he will not do it again. Hays, he just wastes one day. Nvm.
*I would like to share with you this post on our congressman's FB page*.
https://www.facebook.com/143221469069297/posts/4544240522300681/
It says that they will be going to have a contest with those registered voters ages 18-25 years old. The mechanics are they should comment their answer to the question that they have given. The question is what are three characteristics of a leader you will be going to vote for president this coming May 2022 election. And why? Don't forget to answer why. And you shouldn't cite a specific candidate or specific name of a person for you not to be disqualified.
One of my friends send a link to our group chat in messenger and encourage us to participate in this contest. Since I am free at that time, I click the link and it directed me to the FB page of our congressman, I read first the instructions before commenting in the comment section. I didn't expect much because I saw that there are already thousands of comments there. I just want to share my thoughts about the leader that I want to vote for president.
This is my answer. I think I made it long but still, in the criteria, the maximum is 5-6 sentences and mine reached 6 sentences. It's written in our language but what I said there is that the three characteristics of a leader that I want to vote for are: a person who has self-affirmation, intelligence and care for his fellow men. And the rest is my explanation of why I chose these three characteristics.
What is the good news?
I received a message
Last Saturday in the evening, I received a message in my messenger coming from our congressman's acc. Giving me a link that I need to fill out. It says that I have a chance to be one of the winners of the said contest. So I answered and submit the form with the hope of choosing as one of the winners.
Then this morning when I woke up at 11, I checked my phone and went to messenger, I saw this good news that lighten up my mood. I am one of the winners of the contest. They liked my comment on FB! I'm chuffed hehe (borrowing kuya Ed's scottishism word). Imagine there are almost 6k comments and my comment got selected. I immediately open the form and give my gcash information still amaze hehe. They also said that I will be going to receive my prize this week and I replied with my thank you to them.
The prize is a huge help to me, I will add this to my savings. I didn't expect to be one of the winners because I am joining a contest like this in the past but have had no luck. So I guess this day is my lucky day. As you noticed in my title I said "winnings" and yes it is not a typo, I have one more good news to share with you but I decided to separate that one. I am also one of the chosen winners there hehe. My friends said that I have a lucky charm in my tummy hehez which somehow I agreed.
Ending thoughts:
*This contest was made to encourage all the youths to register for them to be able to vote in this coming 2022 election. Every vote counts and matters.*
*If you were going to join in the said contest guys what are your answer to the question? Feel free to share your thoughts here in the comment section :) we all have the freedom to choose and vote on whom we want to be the next leader. Let's just think wisely and weigh them carefully.*
Noise cash: Lovelyaragon
Telegram: @loveleng18
Twitter: @Loveleng181
Blessed Sunday
September 26, 2021
Hey people. How's your Sunday? I hope it went smooth for you and you have a good rest for tomorrow is another battling day again. Weekdays are heading again to us in a few hrs. Busy days are coming, let's get ready for it.
*I've mentioned in my post in noise.cash that my father went home yesterday and this morning he buys ingredients for fruit salad and made one. He always makes fruit salad whenever he were able to visit us. His fruit salad now is perfect compared to before according to him haha, he puts more condensed on it now and it is indeed perfect.*
Sharing with you these photos of the fruit salad that my father made. Look how creamy it is. And the cheese is cut into big pieces which I love hehe.
**They say Sunday is family, church and rest day. Well, it's true, but it depends on the person on how they will going to spend their Sunday. I will be going to share with you what I did today.**
Yesterday my partner and I plan to go to church today. So, this morning I woke up very excited because it's been a while since I went to church and also go out. We decided to go out in the afternoon. This morning the weather is good but when afternoon comes it's started to get cloudy. A few minutes before 3 pm it began drizzling which made me feel sad because I thought we will not be able to go out. I am all dressed that time and my partner was taking a bath. Seeing the rain becoming heavier made me think that our plan will get ruin. But my partner said it's okay we just need to bring an umbrella with us and also we will just ride a tricycle straight to the church so that we don't need to walk heading to an area where we need to wait for jeep. I'm relieved hearing those words hehe I don't want my effort put to waste.
When we arrived, we had a little problem because our umbrella didn't open, good thing the rain stopped. My partner tries harder to click the button of our umbrella then finally the umbrella opened before the drizzle back again.
While heading to the church entrance we thought there is no mass because there were few people inside sitting at the chair. We saw an announcement in front of the gate entrance saying that the only person allowed to enter inside the church is the one who is fully vaccinated already and have a QR pass. Since I am not yet vaccinated we just stay outside while standing. I joke to my partner saying he can go inside since he is fully vaccinated already then he just answered me "how about you? I don't want to leave you here alone, let's just stay here" haha when I feel kilig that time char LOL. So we waited outside for the mass to begin.
There's an area there where you can light up a candle and utter your prayer while standing in front of the melting candles. We bought four candles in different colors and each color has meaning. I chose the orange and brown one which signifies studies and good health while my partner chose green and red for money and love.
We took some photos while waiting for the mass and it's drizzling, good thing my partner was able to open the umbrella because we need it, we don't want to soak in the rain.
Look at these photos. Did I take a picture of him properly? I must say yes. Then here he is taking a picture of me without saying I am not in the middle or says I should move at the center. He just click the camera right away without finding a good angle haha LOL.
I just find it beautiful but not the fact that is it place in the center of the chair blocking the area where we should sit.
There are many stalls selling puto bungbong and bibingka outside the church so we bought each. I'm craving these foods.
Before heading home, we went first to 7/21 to buy some food for my sisters. We bought chips, chocolate which was requested by my sister and two siopaos.
We didn't take a tricycle instead we chose to ride in a jeep since the rain already stopped and the fare for a tricycle is pricey than the jeep. We passed by to my partners parents house and have some chitchat and kumustahan. I need also to pee hehe.
That is how I spend my Sunday. I feel so blessed today, well every day is a blessing but it feels good when you can visit the church and pray there. But with this pandemic, people prepare to attend mass online for their safety also and to avoid exposure outside. We should remember that even if it is not Sunday we should give thanks to God and we should always pray to Him regardless of where we are.
Thank you for reading :)
Noise.cash: Lovelyaragon
Telegram: @Loveleng18
Twitter: @loveleng181
Of money, life and death
September 25, 2021
How's Saturday, everyone? We have good weather this morning so my partner and I took advantage of it, we had a walk outside to get some vitamin D. When I got pregnant I rarely go outside because of the fear of the virus, I only went out when my schedule of checkup comes. So, today it's good that we had a little walk but wearing of course a protective gears face shield, face mask on.
**How far can you go for money? Are you willing to do everything just to have money even if it cost your life?**
Money is one important factor for us to live. I know some of you will say we can live without money but how? Everything now has a price, from the food we eat to the clothes we wear. We are paying for our water and electricity, we are paying to live our life. So we need work, extra income and side hustle to provide for our needs that we can get when we have money. Having money is an advantage to us, we can buy what we want without owing to someone. Being indebted to someone will just make our lives hard especially if there are a huge interest.
**Let me share a true to life example**:
*My father mortgaged his ATM card to someone to have money. So every time, his payday comes he is not the one who withdraws to his atm and he doesn't receive his full salary because that someone who handles his atm will going to deduct some money that serves as a payment for my father to get his atm again. I remember my father will only have his atm card when December comes because he will pay his whole debt. So, my father just get half of his salary because of the deductions. That goes every year, he will get his atm by December then bring it back again in the next months*.
See, we weren't able to save because my father's salary always has deductions that serve as his payment. And I do hope this coming December and by next year he won't mortgage again his atm so that he can control his salary and he will be the one who withdraws his money.
Let's talk about the trending Korean series entitled: Squid game
https://www.google.com/search?q=squid+gae&prmd=vinx&sxsrf=AOaemvIc50FQ0AZAR-WGC6Oy8X9zJL7GjA:1632545381963&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi64ci8qZnzAhVtHKYKHf1SACAQ_AUoAnoECAIQAg#imgrc=XOe-xt_k4uDeJM
If you haven't watched this one you can find it on Netflix. For me, it's a good series that leaves a lesson for all the viewers, if you watch it by your heart and not just in the eyes. But it contains brutal scenes which I can't bear to watch when it appears, I closed my eyes or put the screen away then watch again. But sometimes I wasn't able to out away the screen and I have no choice but to watch it.
*I'm not going to state one by one the lessons of this series instead I will be going to share my opinion about this.*
`This is a Korean series wherein the characters are playing children games and if you lose it means you're dead literally. And whenever there are players who died. The money that serves as their prize increase depending on how many people died. At first, some players want to terminate the game because of what they witness in the first round, the majority voted yes so the game stop. But life was tough for them. They received again an invitation to play and they willingly accepted it knowing they might not go out there alive. People who go back and play games have something in common and that is all of them needs money badly.`
https://www.google.com/search?q=squid+game+piggy+bank&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjt18iar5nzAhWLHaYKHaw7C-oQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=squid+game+piggy+&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQARgAMgQIABADOgcIIxDvAxAnUNTGAVjOzgFg0dMBaABwAHgCgAHVA4gB_RSSAQkwLjIuMy4xLjOYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=abBOYa3_D4u7mAWs96zQDg&prmd=ivsxn#imgrc=ozaE5C18pr-tEM&imgdii=UgqbjQOuIFbrfM
`The game started and in each round the number of players decreasing while the prize increasing which gives an idea to them to kill each other so that the prize will go higher. They eliminate all the weaklings in just one night. In the end, you will witness betrayal, greediness, and you will realize that even though how good you are as a person, people will still fool you and stab you at your back. The evil side of people will be shown up here. And that is all because of their obsession to win a huge amount of money. In the end, only one person survived and won`.
Imagine, many people died because of wanting to have the prize. They are given a choice in the first place but they played again. Why? Because of their desperation to get the money and leave their miserable life. What did they get? Nothing. They are all dead except for one person who won the game. When life gets tough people will push to do everything. I won't blame them for joining the game as they badly need money and they can't think of any way to earn money.
In reality, there is no game like this one. But some people are similar to those players wherein they are willing to do everything for the sake of money. People who did bad things to others just to get the money they need. Life is hard but we should think of ways to get through with it. Don't let our miserable life leads us to be a bad person and do bad things to our fellow man. Do things that will help us to get out of our miserable life.
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**Image 3** https://www.google.com/search?q=squid+game&prmd=ivsxn&sxsrf=AOaemvLFuo5Chk5XjH03lcEThkoAOmMgEA:1632551043409&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiahZTIvpnzAhUmw4sBHfVbBGcQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=360&bih=600&dpr=2#imgrc=wWnIexvO3y3M8M
I just made my banner hehe thru canva :) hope you like it.
Thank you everyone for reading
Helping won't hurt us: Let's spread kindness
September 24, 2021
How are you awesome people of read.cash? TGIF! I'm done doing my report for Monday what I need to do is to review and study it, I feel nervous but I'm used to it. Reporting online isn't easy, you need to check first the things needed such as your internet connection, your gadgets and also you need to find a place where there is a quiet background and here in my place? I doubt if I will be able to achieve the last one, well wish me luck on my report on Monday.
Again I haven't published an article yesterday because I was busy doing the activities that my professor gave us which are due tomorrow. It's by pair but my partner has worked so I am the only one answering it, I understand tho, he thank me and said he will make bawi next hehe. I'm willing to help as long as I can and I don't usually ask for a return.
*Helping others doesn't harm us nor degrade our dignity. It is always good to lend someone a hand if they need it as long as you can help why not?*
*What do you feel when you can help someone? Even in the smallest gesture of help, it is still a help. It is a good deed. Everyone should practice this virtue. When you are free to help then help them. I know that we are all struggling but some people are mostly having a hard time surviving in their daily lives than us. As for me, whenever I help someone there's this happiness that I've felt within. The joy of helping others, it's good to feel this feeling because you know that you are helping willingly without a doubt.*
On September 4, 2021, one of my friends that I invited in noise. cash last August send me a pm asking if how can she able withdraw her earnings. Since she doesn't have coins.ph account because coins.ph needs valid I.D for your account to get fully verified and enjoy the cash-out, cash in and other features of it I told her to use bitcoin.com instead. So going back she's asking me if it is okay if I am the one who sends her earnings to her gcash. I instructed her on how to send her bch to my coins.ph. At first, we are having a problem since I am not that familiar with the bitcoin.com wallet but I have one so I explored it first then when I know how to transfer funds I teach her. I don't want her money to disappear because of my ignorance XD.
She even said to me to get P50 ($1) from it but I refused. I said there's no need to give me money and she is the one who accumulates it using her hard work and perseverance. Also, there are many fees that you need to pay before you get your money. I said to her that I am happy seeing them enjoying and earning in the platform that I introduce to them which is also giving me joy. At first, she keeps on insisting that I should deduct P50 saying I also have a hard time explaining how the platform works and convincing them before.
It took us an hour before I received the bch she send to me. I converted it to fiat and send her the screenshot for transparency haha LOL. I asked for her gcash name and number so that I can send the money already which she gave asap. There you go, I successfully send her money to her gcash account. I didn't deduct the P50 that she keeps on insisting on to me, she said thank you which I gladly accepted.
*Commercial hehe. Just want to share this one, our snack. It took me one hour scrolling in FB looking for a snack and my sister told me our neighbour is selling snacks and here it is we bought lumpiang togue 3 for P20 ($0.39) also I saw a chocolate moron in FB worth P15 ($0.30) each and I ordered 3 pieces.*
Going back, yesterday my friend again messaged me asking if I am busy. I just replied that I am doing my report then asked her why she's asking again for help because she wants to withdraw her earnings again. I asked her if she's sure about it because you know the price of bch drop, I felt sad when she answered me that she badly needs it for she is already hungry. So I told her to do the same thing, she already saved my bch address. I don't know maybe because of the update of coins.ph the transfer of her money took almost 2 hours. It's a good thing I checked my coins.ph from time to time and when I saw that my bch amount increase I checked the history and finally her earnings arrived.
I feel bad because she messaged me at noon saying she badly needs money so she needs to withdraw her earnings and it arrived at 2 in the afternoon already. My partner said to me why I didn't just send her money from my coin.ph instead of waiting for the funds to arrive and I am like "Oo nga noh, bakit di ko naisip yun"(He is right, why I didn't think that one?) I'm sorry for my mind is too preoccupied because of doing my report. At least I manage to send my friend's money before the end of the day hehe LOL. My friend again said thank you to me.
I also helped her in importing her wallet since I told her about the update of noise.cash. She said she don't know how to set up it so I guide her how.
End thoughts
**I may not able to help them when it comes to finances sometimes since I also struggling but I can share with them what I did to have extra income which helps me a lot. It took me months before I convinced them to try this platform and to prove to them that this is legit. And now, I am happy guiding and helping them even in small deeds. If I lend you a hand I don't ask for a return, I am happy to know that I can help others too.**
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