My Family's Traditional All Saint's/Soul's Day Every November 1-2 the world celebrates Halloween, but I prefer to call it All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day respectively. Why? For the simple reason that we should be giving significance to our dearly departed, our loved ones who had given us great unforgettable memories, the souls that we should be remembering on this day of celebration. And not the scary ensemble of monsters with all creepy satanic costumes. It might be fun…
Philippines: Mindanao Food Habits and Practices Finally, the last part of this gastronomic series about the Philippines. I had a lot of fun researching and jogging my memory for ideas about food habits and practices from my previous domestic travels. Now, we are on the last part - my hometown Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines. This island is inhabited by both Christian and Muslim Filipinos. The food habits and ways of preparing food of these people have…
The Mysterious Daytime Robbery My nephew yesterday evening noticed that his Samsung Tablet was missing. And after half an hour search in the house, my mom discovered that her necklace was gone too! I think we were robbed! I had my day off from work yesterday, but I never got a chance for some "ME" time. My day was jam-packed with errands here, there and everywhere. After breakfast, I accompanied my mom to town for grocery, my nephew was in the neighborhood for his module…
A Story of Courage Amidst Storm Haiyan Just 4 days ago the Philippines was devastated by typhoon Rolly, and this incident brings me back to 2013 of November 8, this same week, when the super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) killed almost 6,000 people and destroyed all regions of the Visayas, Philippines. Thinking of it still makes me aghast, horrific news and stories of people creeped slowly out of my memory and leaves me disheartened. But, rainbows do still emerge after every rain…
What are the Benefits of Sports? Do you love to play any sports? Badminton is one sport that I enjoy playing. I’m not really an expert, but I just use this sport as my cardio and endurance exercise to keep myself physically and physiologically fit. Few months back, before this Covid19 pandemic started, my bestfriend and I would go to this gym of the company she worked with just a 10-minute ride from home. Every weekend we would play badminton for an hour or two. Even when I…
Conversations It’s almost 10 o’clock in the evening and though I wanted to sleep early because of my tiring day, the conversations I had with different people caused me not to be able to sleep. It bombards me of doubt and mixed emotions. We have hundreds if not thousands of conversations made each day and it's amazing that we never got depleted of thoughts and ideas. We never get tired indulging on conversations no matter how long, tedious, shallow and mundane, deep and…
Some Humor from Granny This afternoon I went to our neighbors house, though we're living just a couple of houses away we haven't seen each other for a long time (like, more or less 8 months) since this pandemic started. That's how this Covid19 scare affected us. They will be leaving out of town for good and settle to her husband's hometown, so I decided to visit for a chat, good byes and hand over my early Christmas gift for her son- because I’m one of his godmother. And, I…
What To Do When The Teacher is The Problem? Teachers are often praised for being second mothers. In school, they are the #1 influence of our children. But, wherever we go we often hear stories about teachers whose behavior ranges from lousy to frightening. The most common are teachers who simply don't have skills to teach at their grade level. For instance, teachers on grade 1 should be at least be like the kindergarten teachers who have lots of patience on children. While,…
Some Tips About Gardening This Covid19 pandemic teaches us to love and cherish nature back. People nowadays prefers to stay at home because of fear contacting the virus and so we see less vehicles in the road, thus less air pollution. Our time spent at home inspires us to form a new hobby - planting or backyard farming, whether ornamental or vegetable plants both gives more oxygen for us to be healthy. Also, it will help us produce a better supply of food for the family. We…
Do You Have Fear to be Indebted? Recently I heard a woman’s remark, “I hate to be indebted!” Most of us share her attitude. When a friend does a favor for us we can’t feel grateful for it, instead we rush to buy her a gift and tell ourselves we’ve paid our debt. If Mrs. Parker invited the Turner’s family to a dinner, Mrs. Turner can’t rest until she had prepared something for the Parkers. In Filipino, we call it "Utang na Loob," though this must not carry a negative note but…
Pull It Off "Pull it off!" that is what I said to myself if there is something to do and I'm so anxious to start with. We are all like it right? If we badly want something to work out and accomplish, say "Pull it off, let's make it happen!" Since Monday, if you noticed I barely had time to make an article and share with everyone here, if I log on I would simply go around commenting a bit and leave. I am just physically exhausted during the day to fulfill my tasks online at…
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