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Say hello to the sun! Finally, after more than 3 weeks of continuous rain, the sun shone today. Although we welcome the rain every now and then, but please not the entire summer. Were the kids are supposedly enjoying their vacation, playing by the beach or pool, under the summer sun.

Last week, my family and my sisters-in-law and her kids went to Splash Island. The eldest sister-in-law is in town for vacation for few weeks. She’s been working as a nurse for years, in one of the hospital in UK. So, the Splash Island trip is one of her treat for her nieces and nephews. Actually, they’ve (my youngest sister-in-law, her kids, my husband and Heaven and Louise) already went shopping day after she arrived. I have to work that day so, I was not able to join them.

Anyways, the time we arrived in Splash Island which was around 11am, people were gathered in ticketing area and there was an announcement that the place is temporarily close because of lightning due to thunderstorm. According to this site “even indoor pools are not safe during a thunderstorm. Lightning can create massive ground currents which can travel through the ground for considerable distances from where the bolt hits. These ground currents can be an electrocution hazard even if you’re in an indoor pool. If there’s lightning around, don’t go swimming”. After an hour of waiting, well almost, they’ve finally let us in. But then again once in the middle of the afternoon, they’ve again asked everyone to get our of the water for the same reason.

In the end when it’s time to go home, Heaven and Louise were crying, they don’t want to get out of the pool yet. They were still enjoying, and were not ready to go yet, even after almost 5 hours of being in the water. Well, blame it on thunderstorm. So, daddy ended up making a promise, that we will again come back very soon, but this time we’ll time it just right after it’s opening hour, by then Heaven and Louise stop crying.

Here are some of the photos taken:

It’s summer time once again. Although it has been raining for couple of days now, nevertheless, people goes everywhere for their summer swimming.

On Wednesday, April 22, our company had our annual summer outing @ Palm Beach resort (La Frondosa) . The resort is located at Barrio Hugom, San Juan Batangas. Our company had been doing this annually for couple of years now. We’ve been to different places like, Bulacan, Laguna, Nasugbu Batangas, but for the past 3 years we have been going to San Juan Batangas. Two years ago we went to La Luz Beach Resort . Last year was in Sigayan Bay and this year was in Palm Beach . Out of the three resorts, I’d say Palm Beach goes to the top spot, although food was better in La Luz, but in over-all ranking, Palm Beach is the best. I will just let the photos speak for themselves. Some were borrowed from officemates.

Whenever I bring my kids somewhere, either to go to supermarket, to go malling, or just for a drive somewhere nearby, I see to it that I bring along my creative mp3 player and plugged it to our car’s stereo system. While I drive, they normally sing-a-long with their favorite music.

Their most favorite music recently is the song written and sang by Rico Blanco called Yugto. They love it very much that whenever they sing-a-long with Rico, they see to it that they yell on the part that says ‘oohh hoo… ho! ho! ho!’ and they re-play the song over and over again.

Anyways, would like to share with you the lyrics of the song….

YUGTO
by: Rico Blanco

Hooo oh… ho! ho! ho!
Hooo oh…. ho! ho! ho!
Sa gitna ng kagubatan may ahas na hahalik
Tatawagin kang kaibigan na pinakamatalik
Pupulupot sa leeg mo’t sisipsip ng iyong dugo
Ipapako ka sa krus kapag ikaw ay natuyo

Sa gitna ng kaguluhan may kumukulong bulkan
Di ma pigil ang yabang at sakdal na kasakiman
Susubukang angkinin ang lahat ng hindi kanya
Kung kaya kang paikutin tiyak paiikutin ka

Ngunit hindi nila kayang baliin ang iyong loob
Ang pag-ibig na hawak mo’y hindi malulubog

Lumiyab ka!! Ah ha ha ha ha… Lumiyab!

Hooo oh… ho! ho! ho!
Hooo oh…. ho! ho! ho!
Sa gitna ng kadiliman may buwitreng nagmamasid
May magbabato ng putik ngunit walang mayayanig
Iiyak ang mga batang nahulugan ng kendi
Lahat ng mga problema sa iba sinisisi

Sa gitna ng kagubatan may ahas na hahalik
Itinuring mong kaibigan na pinakamatalik
Leeg mo’y pupuluputan dugo mo’y sisipsipin
Pag wala ka nang pakinabang ending mo’y sa bangin

Ngunit hindi nila kayang baliin ang iyong loob
Ang pag-ibig na hawak mo’y hindi malulubog

Lumiyab ka ah ah ah ah haaa… lumiyab! lumiyab!

Tuwing hating gabi maririnig mo ang huni
Ng mga kaluluwang naliligaw
Lahat ng pera sa mundo hindi kayang gawing ginto
Ang huwad na tao..

Ang mga tinig palakas ng palakas, hanggang gumuho ang mga hadlang (2x)

Instrumental
Saksi ang langit sa lahat ng…. naganap
Saksi ang langit sa ikalawang…. yugto…

Lumiyab ka ah ha ha ha ha…Lumiyab ka

Sa ngalan ng katotohanan (lumiyab ka)
Sa ngalan ng iyong dangal
Ang puso at iyong isipan (lumiyab, lumiyab)
Ialay mo sa Maykapal (lumiyab)

Last 2 Sundays ago, my youngest child Louise has an accident while playing with her Kuya Heaven. She accidentally bumped her forehead on the wall of our bedroom and had a hole in her forehead that could fit a 1 peso coin.

I was then taking my power nap in a sofa downstairs when I heard Louise’ cry.

You know when you become a parent you will learn to sleep very lightly that you tend to hear every noise around even when you are sleeping.

Anyways, so I heard Louise’ cry but did not pay much attention to it. I thought she and her Kuya must have had a disagreement on one thing and the reason for her crying. It was then until her Atete (that’s how she call her Ate Nelle), called for me from upstairs yelling and at the same time crying, and with that, I knew something bad had happened.

My husband and I hurriedly run upstairs and saw Louise’ forehead full of blood. We were shocked and was terrified looking at her with that state. I was hysterical and was in panicky mode. Did not know what to do, whether to get something to wipe the blood or to run down stairs to get some ice cubes. When we were finally able to stop the blood from flowing, we brought her to the nearest hospital.

She had 3 stitches in her forehead and while the doctor was doing the stitching, we had not heard even a single cry, that’s how brave my little girl is. Then after the ER doctor was done with her, she still managed to show her sweet little smile to us.

That was actually the second time it happened, first time was while she was at school and was in her left eyebrow. I just hope that there will be no third.

Last week, I’ve received a sad text message from a kumare and a friend, informing me that one of our common friend died early this month. His name is Mars Gelvoligaya. He passed away due to a severe asthma attack that occurred during work on 03 November.

I met Mars 11 years ago through IRC chat at Dalnet, him from #filipino and me from #pag-ibig. We first met in person when my group from my channel had our first eye ball ‘EB’ in Chillis Makati. It was actually a celebration for my birthday. Everybody had a blast and for most of us, it was our first eb.

Since then, we’ve almost always seen each other in every EB’s we’ve attended. We were one of the core group who masterminded Dalnet’s Grand Eye Ball ‘GEB.’ He is the kind of guy that you will never hesitate to ask for help whenever you need one.

Last Saturday, me and some old Dalnet friends met-up at the Watering Hole, EDSA Shangri-la Mall. In our own small way to help Mars’ family, we managed to pool some funds that night.

Mars’ coming home for good tomorrow. His burial will be in Candelaria, Quezon on Saturday.

Farewell Mars, our friend. You will surely be missed.

Time has passed by and it has been a year since my last post here. Happy Anniversary to myself hehe

A lot of things had happened. A lot of downs and ups, but I still manage to be here and I am very thankful for that.

Lost a friend. Found long lost friends. Life is beautiful and full of happy memories.

Cheers everyone and I’ll be around!

Sunday is normally just a regular working day for me. Yes I do work on Sundays, and no we are not a call center. Anyways, last sunday as I thought was just a regular day for me, although I was a bit busy because my boss is in town. At around 9 pm it was even a very good night for me. My two kumpare (Gen and Abe) fetch me and my kumareng Vee in my office, well actually they’ve just waited and parked outside the office building. Vee, my pretty kumare daw, just came back from her 3 weeks mission con vacation in Palawan and Negros. The four of us had dinner in one of the restaurant in Jupiter, Makati. Of course, just as always, we had our usual chit-chats and asaran over dinner. After dinner they drove me off in the corner of Pasay Road and EDSA Makati. Did not brought the car that day, so I just took the bus. The bus ride was a bit longer than usual because it has to go through Alabang then Muntinglupa City, but nevertheless it was also just an ordinary bus trip. Then the ordinary Sunday night trip back home bacame unpleasantly extra ordinary….

While riding the pedicab (it’s a tall bicyle with a side car), a man suddenly hop on the side of it. I though the guy standing outside and hanging on the side was a friend to the pedicab driver, so I didn’t mind him. But after a while I feel a strange eerie quietness between the two men. Then a very sudden detour to the left startled me. I started to panic then shouting, asked the driver where was he taking me. Then another right turn, to the darker side of the road. The guy that was hanging outside took out his gun and pointed it straight to my chest. That very moment, I thought of so many things. If I shouted for help the guy might click the gun and kill me instantly. I thought of my family, my husband, my daughters and son. What will happen to me? What will happen to my family if that bad guy kill me? I was already crying and begging the man not to hurt me. Told him that I will give everything he wants just don’t hurt me for I have kids. Then he asked me to give my mobile phone to him and my wallet. Gave my mobile phone to him, then before I give my wallet to him, I’ve asked him if I could first get all my IDs (since he will not be needing those for sure), then he said ‘just give all your money to me’, but before I could hand all the bills from my wallet he immediately grab them from my hand, then hurryingly left while tucking his gun.

When we we’re going back to the main road, the pedicab driver apologized to me. He said he can not do anything because that guy also pointed the gun on him. Told him that maybe he knows that bad guy and that he was part of it. Told him that I will report him to the police. Of course the pedicab driver denied my allegations, he even convinced me to go to the barangay hall to report what had happened, and so we did. I’ve not been getting enough sleep for two nights now. The entire incident kept on coming back to me. It was really a nightmare

My brother and his family who are based in Nasugbu, Batangas came to visit us yesterday, 27 Oct. It was Victor Kyle, my nephew’s birthday. We went out and had lunch at one of the restaurant in Mall Of Asia. Then after lunch the bigger kids together with my sister-in-law went inside the new ‘Planetarium’, also inside MOA, entrance fee was PhP330/head. It’s the digital version of planetarium in the city of Manila. While Louise and I went to Timezone, then later she went to ‘The Playroom’. It was a simple yet fun afternoon for the kids of course.

My son Heaven while having fun with his cousins inside MOA’s Planetarium.

While walking around the mall Louise saw Santa

My husband by the way also celebrated his birthday last week, 18th of Oct. We had it at home with the family, but later that night my bother-in-law and his family arrived, and so joined the celebration with us. I’ve also arranged a not-so-surprised-dinner with our kumpare and kumare. My kumpare, as his usual and normal gesture voluntarily paid the bill, thanks Tito Ninong. We went to Starbucks afterwards to end the night with a lot of never ending kwentuhans. To my husband, although this is a bit late birthday wish for you, may you always be healthy, happy and a loving husband and father to our children. We love you so much.

Me trying to steal a kiss from my husband hehe

My son Heaven, had his 7th birthday party on Saturday. Although his real birthdate was on October 2 but it was a school day, so we had it on Oct 6. The first plan was supposedly on Sep 29, last Saturday of September, but some old folks and some neighbors said that 7th birthday have to be celebrated on the child’s birthdate itself or after, but not before the actual date, so yes we moved the party date.

Having a party at home is not a joke, too much hassle on preparation even days before the event itself. At first, we thought of having them on either Mc Donalds or Jollibee, besides for a child these two are the most famous venues, but thingking about the big expense and the time constraint party, we’ve decided to have it at home. I’m sure our kids will enjoy it more. The heck with the hassle and long preparations, this is not an everyday thing anyways and beside we’ve done it for our son. Happy birthday Kuya Heaven, may you grow up to be a good and loving man. We all love you!!

The birthday boy and his guests.

Last Monday, 17 September, was her much awaited birthday. As I’ve mentioned in my previous post we’ve celebrated it at home with the family. Although it was just a very simple celebration, we know Louise is very happy. First reason is the blowing of birthday candles part, she was really looking forward to that and keeps on reminding me that she would like to blow birthday candles, and then secondly she’s got her kitchen showcase wish plus a bonus of her favorite Nick Jr. character Dora the Exporer doll that completes her happiness, thanks to my sister

Happy happy birthday Louise, may you grow up to be a good, loving and God fearing person. I love you baby