The First Wedding on COVID-19 Era Weddings are special days that everyone is happy in both parties. But here in our village everyone will participate (just like what I have said in my previous article) from preparation until the occasion is done. They shower their love to the newly wed. But because of this COVID-19 outbreak, occasions were stopped. Graduating students before didn't experience to march at the stage to receive their diplomas. Set weddings were already impeded…
Too Much Love Kills On the first of this month, I have this maternal cousin who came to attend the wedding. He didn't dropped at my sister's house at first. I was sitted outside when he and his colleagues passed. He just smiled and said yes when I invited them in. Then they proceeded to their under constructed house nearby our parents house here. This cousin is a son of my mother's sister who grabbed a portion of my mother's lot. It was where they had built the under…
Unplanned But Never Unwanted How often do we hear and read on social media the quote "unplanned outing yet the best?" We can say that unplanned setting are more enjoyable than planned events because it brings more thrill and fun. But is it applicable to everything unplanned? No. **Tested Positive** Okay.. When we hear the word tested positive what comes to our mind first is about COVID-19 swab test. On January of this year I missed my monthly period for two consecutive…
Step Back In Time Do you have kids, how're they coping with the pandemic? Do they just stay indoors, do their modules and play gadgets? Luckily for us here in the country sides, our kids are free to roam around the village. They may get bored with their modules but still they can play outside under the scorching heat of sun, running about and not minding their mothers scolding to stay in the shade when it's too hot. They are enjoying the cool waters of the river, splashing…
My Sister's Third Eye The night was cold. People were already inside their house because it was already pass dinner time. There were only little house with electricity that made the surroundings more darked, it was because electricity had just reached the village. Only a few can afford to have their house wired and have electric lights yet. A group of girls were walking at the unpaved highway when suddenly this girl saw a lady in pure white beside the road some meters away.…
10 Months of Writing and Earning BCH This was supposed to be posted on the 7th of this month but I wasn't able to make an article for this yet. I thought that I have registered on the 10th of July 2020, but as I was tracking when will I turn 10 months was I able to learn that it was every 7th of every month that I turn another leaf. So the ride with readcash had been wholly awesome. Those of us who had stayed this long had watched how this platform's season changed. Turning…
My Mother's a Witch *Disclaimer: this is not my story or anyone related to me. Like the story the pain of yesterday, I took this from a facebook page written in Ilocano. True-to-life story* No worries of the world to a child that I am. The open fields is my playground and around our small shanty. There is a brook nearby to where I bathed like a dousing pig in a mud. I play joyfully and contentedly at the fields and the grace it offered. This is where my life revolved. I grew…
The Eleventh Commandment If there's an eleventh Commandment, what could it be? I was scrolling on my gallery to delete some unwanted files when I stumbled on this one. It was an old image I have saved last year from facebook. After which I read thru, I went to youtube and search for it. Coz honestly I am fond of country songs but never heard of this one yet. Watching it, it was something that brings tears to one's eyes. Even listening to the lyrics alone is so difficult to…
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I'm Slowly Understanding my Mother When I Became a Mother Myself I was once a stubborn child. Sometimes I don't listen much to my mother which led her to spank me.. We loved to go to the river every chance we got. I used to sneak out of the house during weekends and during vacations. She doesn't like us going to the river which I don't understand. Everybody is enjoying the cool waters at the river while I was like confined inside the house. So when she sleeps with her babe…
Once a Helper A helper usually pertains to domestic ones. The one people have at their homes to work for them mainly with household chores. Sometimes it's not only with houseworks but anything their boss asked them to do. Helpers also were the ones people pay to work for them in shops and or in construction sites. It is anyone hired to work out of office to make work loads lighter.. This article was inspired by jheanette's article about their helpers. And I thought of…
Happiness is Just Within our Grasp As an adult, we sometimes envy the joyous laughter of children around us. We seem to carry the burden of the whole world that sometimes we augt to wish to go back being a kid even for once. To escape the reality of life and live without worries, be carefree and anxious-free of the world. We deprived ourselves from our own happiness by dwelling too much of what we think is weighing us down. Let's take a look on the story of a girl who never…
Third Trimester Pregnancy Struggles Pregnancy is the state of carrying a developing embryo or fetus inside a woman's body. The duration is usually 40 weeks which is categorized into three stages; first trimester which starts from week 1 to week 12, second trimester from week 13 to 28, and third trimester is from 29th week to 40. In each stage, the female human body goes into different changes and struggles the woman feels and faces due to hormones and because of the growing…
My Aunt My Mother "Prepare your things now, then we'll go," my aunt said after my mother's burial. *Another inspiring true-to- life story which proves the passage "Poverty is not a hindrance to success."* Call me Boy. We're three siblings in the family. To where and what I am today, the memories of yesteryears' hardship are still fresh. Our mother suffered a very severe illness at a young age which eventually led to her early demise. Due to this we were orphaned at a very…
A Moment in Town Well, there's nothing special about this one because it was just about my day. So on the night of May 18 or the other night I had my last piece of vitamin. Thus, I had to go buy in town. There was free vitamins at the clinic but as I have mentioned in my previous article, the midwife was always out of duty and the BHW's aren't allowed to just give without the midwife's knowledge. There was actually an occasion around our neighborhood yesterday but I couldn't…
The Cat Outside my Window I waited for it to get in through my open window because honestly it kept on walking at the roof outside my window. It has been quite like this for some time. -------------------------------- The house was big, it was like a bungalow type but there's one room upstairs which was not divided. This was my room. Me alone on this huge room with no furnitures in it but just a plastic wardrobe where my clothes were kept and a table for my school things. It…
Wilfdfire *A wildfire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, unwanted, uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation starting in rural areas and urban areas.* wikipedia _______________________ The other day, late afternoon I heard crackling sounds which was probably made by fire. I look out the window and saw fire above the clearings, it started to get bigger. The sound became more and more clear and unmistakable that my husband who was home already…
A Cadet Reservist She Once Was *Sa silong ni kaka,si buddy nakadapa!* *Kaya pala nkadapa,naninilip ng palaka!* *Palakang may buhok,ngipin ay nkalubog!* *Kaya pala nkalubog, laging binubugbog!* _______________________ The jingle reverberated in the corners of her brain cells. She was not able to browse her facebook account for some time now but everytime she does she felt left behind. Her classmates in college were all doing good in life. Some are abroad practicing their…
A Cadet Reservist She Once Was (2) *The snappy silent drill of the PMA cadets brings enthusiasm in her veins. Every cell within her seemed to engulf her with ardor that her bloodline have.* Ok, I run out of topics that I wasn't able to write a rough draft for an article. Usually, I do it when my net connection was very slow during the day that I can't engage in both platforms. So I will just have to put a part two of my article which I told Jane it would be until their only.…
Keep Fighting Everyone of us is being challenged with life. We may differ in what is being thrown to us but the way we deal with it define who we are and what we can do. This is an inspiring story of a woman who sought for a greener pasture but.. ________________________ Let's call her Meg. She came from a big family but was orphaned at an early age. Her father was a dedicated public servant who helped in maintaining peace and order in their community. Due to the nature of…
Muscle Cramps Have you ever experience that pain in your leg during sleep that it will make you sprung up from bed? Never did I experienced such until I studied at the lowlands on my final year in highschool. Most lowland areas are hot,humid places. Elders would tell you not take a bath during the hottest time of day and at night so better take a bath early in the morning because they believed that cold vapors may enter your body through the pores and would cause some…
One Fine Tuesday On Monday, my sister texted me telling we'll go for a picnic the following day. There were others, actually who have been inviting for a picnic, birthdays and other gatherings but I don't go. I have 3 kids to tend to and I need to carry my youngest because the setting was some place that needs some walking, mostly by the river. Unless I know there were adults I can trust my kids with then I will just let my two older kids go. They will get envious if I won't…
My Daughter with Mumps On Monday, my daughter came home complaining of a painful neck. Our neighbor invited her at a birthday party on Sunday but because the place was quite far that she spent the night with them. Upon assessing, I knew it was a developing mumps. I can see the slight swelling and a tenderness below her right ear. She said it was painful. So I asked her if she has painful swallowing but she said none. Her teeth are perfectly well and good. However on Tuesday,…
An Uncivilized Mom I have "*What could uncivilized mean*?"I was asking myself this question when I first heard it during my elementary days. My momma just got home from the market and I can see the sadness painted in her face. She had a little misunderstanding with our neighbor who happened to ride the same jeepney with her. This neighbor of ours just came from abroad and she called her "Uncivilized. " While I was listening to her while she was narrating the incident to my…
Hegyat: Circumcision For years and years circumcision of men, I mean boys had been observed and existed since time immemorial. Even when the time where men knew nothing of religion and was only passed by on them thru their ancestors, thus, can be called or based on culture. Circumcision is the procedure of removing the foreskin from the human penis thru traditional way or surgery. We call it in vernacular, "*hegyat*." Boys are born with a hood of skin called foreskin…
My Third Born at 2 After nine months of carrying a child and going thru numbers of changes in your body, finally the long wait is over. Mixed of emotions flood thru you when you feel the first pain of contraction. And you would be thinking how long would the pain last when you able to see that tiny bunch of a munchkin that had been doing its acrobatics inside your belly. Early morning at 28 of May, 2019, I've felt the first sign of labor. I slowly crept out of bed and took a…
A Fruitful May with BCH Since the last week of April the little guy, Rusty had finally noticed me. My articles started to gain its attention that some even reached $20 or more. I have been a user of this platform for 10 months, like some other who stayed this long have seen the progress read had gone through. It had been abused by so many spammers and by the time theRandomRewarder was born, they gradually disappeared. It was because some users can produce more than 10…
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