Changes

Hi guys..Sorry for I haven't write for a long time. It's just I was having a series of work to be done even in the midst of dawning. So many changes in my daily life, routine, work, etc. With these , I have to balance everything since I almost lost hope for the situation. It was like  I was having a long sleep with a wonderful dream and when I awake, it's gone..it's only a dream. Nothing is really permanent in this world, imagine when I was hired this March, I enjoyed the privileges given by the company. I have lots of things learned, more advancement in my intellectual capacity but , it is just a shorter period of time. I want to share this to you because you are part of my daily routine as a blogger. My employer sells the operation to the other group of companies. We worried a lot because some were not absorbed, while others were absorbed with a different title. I was just thinking what lies ahead. What will be our future? Oh future...when will we be able to have a stable future? with no worries, financially stable? Only God knows. I know that these are all trials. Trials? until when? Come what may....

" ABAD "

I want to share about everything about my Dad. For me he was the best Dad. His name is Abraham and fondly called "Abad" by his siblings and friends. According to my uncle(his brother), he got married at the age of 42. He's a father of five siblings and I am the eldest. He is serious, intelligent, talented and most of all a protective Dad. When I was still in the Elemetary grade he taught me how to save money. At that time my Dad and Mom sells snacks at the school canteen. One day, I am craving to eat egg chocolate by Serg's products and but don't have the money because we are disciplined not to bring money in school.  I cried and my Dad saw me and asked me why I cried. I told him that I want to eat egg chocolate. Instead of buying chocolate, my Dad started to tell me the value of money and shared to me his experiences when he was young also.  I was relieved and stopped crying . In the evening I saw my Dad cooking with a milky substance. It was a coconut milk extraction and he cooked it until golden brown. Amazed at my young age of  9 , I had learned that he is making coconut candy out of it. He prepared  a Japanese paper of different colors like  blue, yellow, and red . He cut it into small rectangular shape and used as a wrapper for those coconut candies like the size of a white rabbit. It was beautifully done and he told me to sell those coconut candies in school so that I can have he money. I sold worth P 5.00 pesos and my  Dad gave me an empty Johnson's baby powder used as a piggy bank. I was terribly happy and was so excited and enthusiastic selling those coconut candies so that my mini piggy bank  would be full . Through this I learned  how to value money from my own effort and of course from my Dad. That's my Dad as a businessman.

In my school days he always helped me in preparing my school projects especially in Mathematics and Science until in my secondary grade. My Dad is full of talent and he take things seriously. He do not have vices and his hobbies include planting of fruit trees and taming animals. in his free time he listened to radio commentary by his favorite commentator. He was a hero when  I was in Grade 4 because  I have difficulty in going down the tree. I was so curious in climbing the Calamansi tree, a tree that belongs to the family of pomelo or lemon. It has plenty of  thorns on its trunk and branches and I climbed up just for curiosity and I was so attracted with the small orange ripe fruits on its branches. I was effortless when my Mom suddenly called my name and afraid of being scolded I hurriedly jumped down and my right foot landed on a broken bottle of coca cola. When my Dad heard me crying , he ran to me and carried me inside the house.  My Dad applied medications on my wounded foot .

When I was in College , I left my family because I was a working scholar . I miss my Dad because he always made me feel comfortable and important. He's fond of making salad , a mixture of ripe papaya, young coconuts, and star apple mixed with milk.  Everytime I am having a summer vacation , he then offered salad, and other fruits from his fruit trees.  When I graduated , my Dad was old enough and he stopped working. He just stayed at home until I heard that he got sick. He was diagnosed of having a skin cancer-terminal stage.  I almost couldn't believe it because it doesn't shows. Until I went home and saw him very pale and his hands was shaking . He can hardly sit because ha has this "boil" in between his anus and sex organ.  I just learned that it was cancerous and specialized doctors has nothing to do with it until he was partially in bed, weak. Even if he's in bed he still can manage to wake up early and cooked our food. I sometimes saw him sitting in a small chair  made of wood, with the height just enough to touch the ground. He was collecting dried leaves with the use of barbecue stick and burnt it. My father was very patient even if he was struggling in pain. I can still say that he is the best.  He is a good provider, an educator, a talented businessman and a hero to all of us siblings.  He died 16 years ago and his love for us remains in our heart. He is always remembered every March 16 and 23, his birthday and death respectively. That's my father, my Dad, my hero.

Put to the Test

It was on Monday that my daughter handed me the scholarship form for Philippine Science High School. It was given to her by her teacher . This is an application form for the entrance examination for secondary level by 2013 and should be done on September 29.  Actually we really aimed to let our daughter take the examination because aside from her excellence in school, it has good privileges to the students offered. We filled it up and secure the necessary requirements like a 1X1 photo, signature from the guidance office, registrar's office and the last is the Principal because the next day will be the deadline.  I really don't know that that the parents will be the one to submit it to the PhilSci campus. I was confident also that it  should be somebody in her school to submit the form. The next day, my daughter called me up through the telephone and told me that it should be me to submit the form. I was so panicked because it's the last day and she informed late in the afternoon at 5:30. Because of that, we went together to the school the following morning to let the Principal sign the form because it was still empty. The Principal's secretary collected the form  and told me that we should submit a certification from the previous school indicating her final grade in overall Grade Five, her ranking in overall grade five, for the school year 2011-2012. By the way, we are required for this because we are transferee here. I was quite in dismay and disappointed because it's already late and I still have to request those things. On the other hand , my husband is in Ormoc City for his route as a salesman, I texted him to approach the school for the requirements and let those requirements be sent here via travelling van of Ormoc -Tacloban route. I waited the van to get the requirements and after that I hurriedly proceed to the Principal's office. Immediately the principal signed it and the next challenge which quite unsure if PhilSci would still accept the application form because we are already late in submission. I scanned through the directory and search for the telephone number of PhilSci-Palo , Leyte Campus. There I found the number and called up the facilitator for the purpose of asking if our form would still be accepted. I need to know this for a definite and final decision to go to the campus. I need a positive recommendation from them. But it took  me for how many calls and the one answered keeps telling me that the facilitator was still outside of the office. I never stop calling, I never surrender until the last call, the opposite end  gave  me the facilitator's cellphone number so that I could contact him. I texted him immediately without any hesitation asking if we're still be accepted an an applicant. He replied to me saying : "just to come over to the office. "

In this statement, I know that I am already got a 90 %  chance to be accepted. I hurriedly go to the campus and proceeded to the office. There, I met the facilitator, got some interviews, and he issued the examination permit. My heart was filled with joy and had slight tears n my eyes because of happiness. I leave the PhilSCi office with a smile and very thankful to God.

I our life we met challenges always. It is up to us how to deal and tackle for all these challenges. This is a good example of  a challenge. Imagine, for my busy activity at the working area, not to mention the paper works, I still have the time to manage these things. I am also thankful to our boss for  understanding our situation. In every one's journey in life, we are always put to the test !  

A Real and True Friend

I am very much expose to the internet even then. Before, I was just a mere researcher of a newest song of my idols both foreign and local.  I'd love to copy the guitar chords so that I could play my guitar while I was still a jobless individual for eight (8) months. Not only that, I'd love to research healing herbs, play games, search for all the amazings, as they say. It's enough for me to log in facebook, and even friendster before, twitter, my space, tumbler, etc. With my interest of all these things, I don't really know about making money online until  a friend of mine confessed to me her graces in the net. I met this friend of mine while I was still connected at my previous employer as a Purchaser. At our first meeting, its just like I  lack  the "self confidence" in talking, I mean she's this kind of a tall, sexy, with a a fair complexion lady at a very young age. We have a great age gap, being the elder to her  but I realize and found out that  we could go together with our topics, we used to laugh out loud, and I could really be flexible at all times talking to her. 

One time she shared to me her love life, her work, her down moments, and she shares to me about blogging. It sounds interesting but then  during that time I don't have a computer to concentrate all these things. I mean I tried, I tried also at the net cafe paying my two hours budget of P 30.00 pesos. But sometimes because of the many things to do, I forgot to post, and then it turned out to be nothing because I already forgot my password or even my username. This friend of mine continue to encourage me until I learned that she resigned from her work to proceed another field of study. It took for about three years that we don't have a communication even in a text message. I tried to scan her name in the facebook pages but I couldn't find her name.

I resigned from my previous employer just last year, June 30, 2012. On March this year, I was hired and I am now in Tacloban City. Until one time, while I was walking at the selling area , I noticed a lady, she's tall, still fair in complexion, but I saw her sideways. When I was just a meter away fro her, I was amazed to see my friend doing shopping inside the store. By the way she's also living here in Tacloban City. I did not hesitate to approach and said: "Cathy!" ....Then she glanced at me and oh well, we shout out for joy upon seeing each other after 3 years. It's Cathy and we had a good time talking with greetings, laughing to the max and she still shares to me her lovelife, getting married to a wonderful person but her partner is a miles away apart from her. I really appreciate the gestures that I can say she's really a true friend. She shares to me again about blogging, and in fact she really helped me how to do this and how to get monetized. I am very happy of everything she shares and taught me. I owe her a lot. She is very helpful and generous. In Filipino dialect, it's "GRABE", very generous. Today I learned from my email that I already have the income. Oh my God, it's really a blessing. Cathy is the instrument given to me from God, to help us in our needs financially. For me she's the key for all these things. For me I salute to her, she's really a TRUE FRIEND. To my friend Cathy or Katy, thank you very much. God bless us all and see you at the top.

Father Dear ^_^

Father and Daughter Tandem

Hey guys. I just want to share with you about a father of two children, no other than my husband. He's younger than me for about four years and when I first gave birth to my daughter, I thought he couldn't cope up with the pressure as a father. That was the time he learned to wash our clothes, cook our food, and even go to the market. He was very excited as he saw his first baby, a pretty little baby. As our baby grow for about 6 months, he's more than a mother because he would try to pamper the baby as more than I could do. He bought so many CD tapes, and play those CD's while the baby is in side the crib. Not only that, a lot of nursery rhymes had been prepared. He told me that he really like baby girl. Until now we've got jealous sometimes as he really have the sense of loving more  to my daughter than my son. I don't know if I am correct but I could see him very close to my daughter. The second time I got pregnant, he was so excited because he wanted a baby boy for he has a reason that he would have a companion as he grow older. He joked as :" I hope it's a boy so that I could have a partner in drinking "tuba". Tuba is a native wine,from a coconut tree with its sweet aroma. When I had my first ultrasound, it was 7th month old inside he was very happy upon knowing that it's a boy. I texted him and said: It's a boy because the doctor said she saw the testes..hehe. He called up and laugh out loudly. Until the baby born and really it is a boy. He found out that the baby has two dimples and a fair complexion. At last he had already a companion as what he wanted..

They were really good companion now

During Sundays, he would install his sound system and let her Princess sing. Likewise my son has a good voice too. My husband  is very skillful and he introduced a lot of things to my children. During summer, they play kite flying, motoring, and strumming guitar. He is a guitarist in our Church because our family is a choir member. He has a lot of friends in sales, because he is very talkative, witty, and funny. Being a father he's also temperamental. He is easy to be angry especially if the children forgot to do their assignment in school or the children forgot to tell me the requirements of a certain project. For him , time is gold. He hates me for being late sometimes. I think, he is a good father to my kids, being a loving father to them, good providr to them, and pampered a lot to my children. ^ - ^...

Unexpected !

I just want to share something personal. We are five siblings and I am the eldest. Among us five, only me got married. Before that, in October 2007 we all went to Cebu for the arrival of my cousin's family from the States.We have lots of gifts from my cousin and we're all happy. We visit the house where my other siblings lived with my mother. My brother was a seafarer before but bad fate had happened to him in Japan and it turned out to be a desperate  experience for him. He was just living in the house desperate, as if life stopped for him. Good for him that every time I would  advise him, he would listen to me as he believes what I said. I kept on encouraging him so that life must go on for him. He just read, and read, and read to the max. His mind was very full in knowledge. I admired him because he is very thrifty and knows how to managed his money.

In January 2008, I received a text message  that my brother had a fever because of his insect bite at the nape. My mother and a sister brought him to a doctor and received medications. They thought that he would be well again. On the last or fifth week  of January, it was Tuesday he said to my mother : " Mom, I want to go to Argao because I will go with Papa. My father died on MArch 23, 1995. Then my mother was puzzled and said: "Just stay here because I will be the one to pay the taxes of our land". My brother insisted and said: Mom, just stay, I'll go there to meet Papa..The fever continue to rise even with medications, with a reddish spots at the nape. It has an infection already, maybe. Until on the Thursday morning, my sister texted me that they brought him to the hospital and will undergo series of laboratory tests. Uneasy as I am , my mind is closed in thinking because of my brother's situation and I didn't receive any text messages until in the evening  I was the one who texted my sister and asking the situation. My sister just answered in a text message saying he expires at 3 p.m. Puzzled with the word "expire" , I texted, called but no one answered. Until the next Friday morning I called my sister again, and I was angry then because they don't provide me exact details. After all we've talked and heard my sister crying and told me all the details. The word "expire" means: My brother died at 3:00 in the afternoon. I was burst into tears and asked  why????Why this things happened to him? It is "Sepsis" according to the doctor. Before he died, he had seizures at the emergency room according to my sister and my mother angrily shouts the doctor and even until now, my mother is angry with the doctors. My sister then told me: "Ate, it was you, the first person I texted, so that you will know". But, I don't received any text message that afternoon.. Of all the relatives , even in Mindanao knew it that day. Why is it that I was the last person to know? It was all unexpected because my brother has a chubby built and no one would expect him that way. Maybe he doesn't want me to know because I have a weak  emotion. I am easy to cry, very sensitive. For Him, may He rest in peace, he has been a big help in the family when he was still alive.

Sleepy

I am very sleepy for the trip. I guess I should go home early today and rest a while..So many to share to you guys..Good day!

Busy Me

Hey guys..i was absent for two days in this site. It's a very busy week for me for the preparation of our Family day. At last, it was a success. All the families shared their talents in dancing, singing, acting, etc. That was the first time I joined with this kind of activity in my new employer. I felt appreciated being a new member of the family. I am referring to my new employer. It was full of excitement and surprises. Today I've got some household stuff, I did grocery shopping at the nearby store and quite tired for I was not able to relax or take a nap because this afternoon I was able to attend the IMG lecture It was an inspiring lecture and I really appreciate the speaker's point of view. It's worth treasured for. I'll go to sleep now, till then..

So Sleepy

I'm a little bit tired and sleepy, I want to sleep back because I am still awake until 2:00 a.m. dawn. I've enjoyed watching photos of my children and post it in their facebook accounts. How fast time flies when I recall the time  when I gave birth to my daughter Princess on November 2000, now she becomes taller and I heard she got admirers in school..geeeezzz.. Oh God, it's a "no-no" . But I trust her because she's that responsible enough and honest with her studies, anyway she's still in Grade VI. I am so blessed with my children because they excel in school and they're good in Mathematics.  My daughter is good in singing and dancing also. My little boy is a silent type child but he's very observant. These two "babies" watched me last night uploading pictures and giggles at my back , especially the little boy. Even if I felt this way, a sleepy morning, I still have to wake up early to prepare their " baon " for school and prepare also for my work. There's a lot more to share but got to reserve those stuff for my next posts...(:) 

A Bit To Share

It's a very rainy afternoon but nothing can stop me from washing all the clothes, bedsheets, pillowcases, towels, etcetera. It's a weekly routine after the whole week of attending my work. When done, I have to stretch out my body and extremities to make it ease and relaxed. As I opened my account in Facebook, I was wondering how could I connect to my childhood friends, or childhood place. It was in the mountainous place in Argao, Cebu Philippines. As I could remember, it was on 1995 since I last visited that place. I've been there studying my Primary school and also my siblings until we move on to the place nearer to the City. Life then was very hard because it's quite far from the city and with a very limited vehicle. I can still remember riding in a dump truck in going home from the city. The main subsistence for the people is planting rice, coconuts, and vegetables. Plenty of vegetables, bananas were harvested weekly and delivered to Carbon Market, a public market in Cebu City. I could still remember my cousins having those big farmland planted with cabbage, pechay, cucumber, peanuts, and rice. All of them  12 siblings finished college with this farm. They even can buy Rolex or Levi's, they're all in farm but very rich in quality and signature accessories and with a nice house.  My mother is a heiress of a rice fields and coconut plantation plus the mangoes planted by my father but due to poverty all of these were gone, pawned and not claimed until now. It was all because of our studies. We regret it but we remain no choice but we're glad also that the person now tending those land is a nephew of my mother. I want to visit the place because according to my cousins (mother side) , I am a legend. In our time in Primary grade, we are the "talk of the place" for having a good performance in school, and even extra curricular activities. Luckily we are good singers and dancers too in school and even in community programs we did our best too.  That is why the people in our place wanted us to visit there. One good example was my late brother, Abe. He graduated valedictorian, finished high school, and graduated Marine Engineering with the highest grade obtained. He was one of the 60 Filipino examiners who took the International Voyage examination for  Japan and luckily only two of them passed the examination that time. The one is a deck officer graduated in Valenzuela  City. I considered it was a good luck for him because he was able to work in Japan at Tokyo Tanker ship and continue to study Nipongo there. He was in the Tokyo Tanker for 5 years but bad fate is never be projected.  He died of Sepsis in 2008 and we really don't know the cause of it. The doctors maybe did not bother at all after he had seizures and  collapsed to the end. He was a legend in our barrio because it was Him who introduced to the younger ones to study Nautical or Marine engineering. To date, plenty of our relatives, friends in the barrio of Calagasan, Argao who are now a permanent international seafarer and with a very good income. They are all making tribute to my late brother. I'm so proud to my brother, I'm proud to the young ones who's eager to pursue their studies without having a hindrance of being "taga bungtod"-the word in which some of their city classmates bullied to them.  So, remain as you are, whatever you are, for where do you come from do not be shy and intimidated. Be proud.

Disheartened !

I really had to admit that I cannot hide my emotions. I was talking with my husband about the topic related to a person's achievement in school and others. It's all about students, attitude, quality of study, etcetera. I had the opinion that it is not the school that really counts, its also the student itself. Because there are some students even if they graduated in a high profile and reputable school but still , they're really not that good in communicating or approaching ..In short, the student or the person itself  is the one  responsible to build his/her  future because education starts at home. 

We are 5 siblings in my family and our youngest graduated Electrical Engineering in one of the schools in Cebu. I cannot say that this school is the super "sikat" in the island but my brother did it well. He is really good in her studies, he's very articulate and very good in Math. I sometimes confide to him everytime my daughter had an assignment in Math especially "mixture problems". My brother is also not unemployed because of the so called CHD or Coronary Heart Disease found in him. I understand the situation, I wanted to help him by initiating a small business but still it's a plan because of the lack of financial capability. I pitied on him because he  is intellectually gifted but cannot land for a job. 

With the topics we shared with my husband, it ended up with an unfair mark. He is blaming my brother of being unemployed. He told me, it's a waste of time for my brother by not working.He added that if by chance an opportunity for my brother comes, he just let go for it. I  was saddened with the negative mark and I was not expecting he'll be talking to me that way because , lawfully my brother is considered as his brother.. He further told me that even if my brother has CHD , he's supposed to work for the family. By the way, my brother is still single by the age of 33. This is not the first time did my husband told me about the situation of my brother. Of course, I am hurt...It's because, my husband really don't know the real situation, the real story of my brother.Thus, I told him::" Why do you keep on blaming my brother?", you really don't know...He replied, I just want him to have a job for your mother and for subsistence.." .Then I told him: Why? does my brother asked for a financial assistance from us? Why are you bothered that way? Let him go, it's his decision not to work, he has his own principle. We cannot urge him to work for his situation." The employer will require physical exams and obviously he will not make it to pass as part of the company. The worst thing when my husband told me this way: "Why am I going to give assistance to your family? or to your brother? should I? They're not my relative! This is the very worst line I've heard from him, it sounds like  he did not not accept my family for all this years. I was hurt, disheartened, really I am very hurt and burst into tears..I really did not expect his words and I cannot accept it. What a bad morning...