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Friday, Dec 19, 2008 11:45AM / Standard Entry / Members only

I am just checking my blogs and i noticed that I had 5 fans, that's pretty flattering and weird at the same time - since I am not by any means famous at all - I can't help thinking that these 5 people registered as my fans must have accidently clicked on the wrong button and so they ended up being tagged as fans - I prefer to think of them as friends. You see when I was new on these sight I even managed to send a comment to myself on my own guest book - pretty funny don't you think -. But honestly to all who reads and appreciate my blogs I thank you all. I have 2 other blogs but I keep finding myself returning to my AnD blog and this is the most updated. I can't help reminiscing how I started this blog - well like many of the people here - I am a big fan of Mr. Jet Li and since I discovered his official fan site and I wanted to leave a comment I found out that to be able to do that I have to register on this site and this is how I ended up here. Sometimes I read all the events, the show, the exhibit and I can't help thinking if only I was in HK maybe I'd find a way to go to one of these events - I was in HK two years ago and I was with the whole family - clan is more like it - we ended up staying in HK disneyland one whole day because I had 2 nephews who 's dream is to go to Disneyland my other nephew is barely a year old so he does not remember anything yet - we did the whole tourist thing - went to ride the cable car, the sampan, went shopping, etc. Actually my first time in HK which was also incidentally my first trip abroad was when I was about 16 years old. HK is very near Manila and I have a lot of my countrymen out there most of the women working as domestic helpers and others are expats and executives. I feel for my countrymen especially these women that they have to go abroad to earn money - because there is not enough jobs in the Philippines and to think that many if not most of them are college graduates - they take care of other people's children and fail to take care of their own - I mean they provide the financial care and support that is needed but the presence is not there. Sometimes the children do allright sometimes not . It really changes the whole landscape of the Filipino family - even with the husband - if the wife becames the major bread winner then there is a shift in the role and if the husband is a good and kind one - he will act as the mother - that is he brings them to school - attends PTA meetings - takes care of the household and hopefully he also has a job. Makes me want to ask them how they define the word husband and theier role given this scenario. It makes as also think how they define themselves in terms of their manhood and machisimo. There has been several studies on these and the finding are quite interesting. Hopefully our leaders and we simple citizen will do well and do what is right for our country soon - so that all my countrymen can find decent, good paying jobs and need not go abroad to earn a living. Even in the worse economic times I think we must remain hopeful. That is why you can find a Filipino anywhere in the world and I mean everywhere.

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Good Morning

Thursday, Dec 18, 2008 5:01AM / Standard Entry / Members only

It's 4: 38 am and I am hungry . I just had a dsl internet connection installed in my house and I am so glad that I finally had one. After 4 months of waiting to have it installed I finally had one. But I had to pull some strings in a manner of speaking. You see I use to work for this giant telecom company here in the Phil and when I realized I was going nowhere with the application I decided to call my friend and ask her to follow up my request for a DSL, and what do you know - lo and behold after 2 weeks I had the dsl installed. Now I can blog, do my e-mail, surf the internet, chat and whatever anyone else does on the internet anytime. I live right smack in the center of our town or shall I say city - the town where I lived for all of my life was declared a city a year or 2 ago and I can hear a lot of tricycles and vehicles and people already out on the street (it has always been that way) - perhaps on the way to church (there is simbang gabi) or early morning dawn which is held from dec 15 till dec 25 - in time for Christmas. I have not finished wrapping my gifts and buying gifts for all 4 of my nephews for that matter but I will have it done definitely before Christmas - gotta do it. I think I will make myself a cup of coffee. I am waiting for my house companion to wake up because I asked her to buy puto or rice cakes, kesong puti or the native white cheese and red salty egg (yummy) to eat for breakfast. Hmm been dreaming of this food since last night. I wanted to have a snack last night but decided against it because I got to have some control over my food intake - I am diabetic you see - and the Christmas Holidays is when you have all this glorious food - so I have to be more careful with my intake so that I can eat more the ones that I really like. Even my doctor said that I have to be more careful this holiday season because of all the festivities. She wants me back on her clinic by the third week of January - so I have to be a good girl and keep my blood sugar level as close to normal as possible. Hey I hear my house companion waking up and heating the water. Great after 10 minutes I will get my instant coffee. The second cup will be brewed to go with my rice cakes, cheese and salted egg and this will be in about an hour. Have a nice day and I do appreciate all your messages and comments so keep it coming.

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It;s good to be back again...

Thursday, Nov 27, 2008 12:06PM / Standard Entry / Members only

I have not written in my blog for a few months. There have been some personal changes in my life lately. I am in the process of refreshing my skills in OD and training and I am planning to finish my MA soon. Wish me luck and pray for me.

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Good bye Tita Miming

Saturday, Sep 6, 2008 1:32PM / Standard Entry / Members only

Hi, its been a long time since I wrote in my blog. I resigned from my old job because I decided to take care of my tita or aunt who was sickly. Tita Miming is like a mother to me, last August 28, 2008 she died peacefully in her sleep. We were in the hospital the night of Aug 26, 2008 and in the afternoon she asked for a priest -we were able to find 2 who came to the house within 20 minutes of each other and she recieved the extreme unction and also had her confession. In the morning of August 27, 2008 at the hospital i was able to request the hospital chaplain to visit her in her roon and she was given communion, then the next morning at around 5:45 am the midwife who was on duty told me that my tita miming won't wake up. The nurses and doctors were called in, but since she gave specific instructions that she won't anymore be incubated or put on life support system or revived using extra ordinary means - we, the family defered to her wishes. Let me tell you that it hurt to tell the doctor that the patient does not wish to be incubated and so only ephinephrine was administered and if her heart responds then well and good and if not as in my aunt's case then I guess it's time to say good bye. They tried to revive her with an ambu bag and series of injections for at least one hour, finally there was no pulse, no bp so the doctor approached me and said that it was really a flat line and I said it's okay, they can stop. It's time to let go and so I say good bye to my dearest aunt. May she rest in Peace and May God bless her soul. She will always be in my thoughts and prayers. Please say a little prayer for my tita miming. Thank you.

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goodbye to my old job

Tuesday, Jul 1, 2008 4:58PM / Standard Entry / Members only

Tommorow will be my last day on my job. I have tendered my resignation exactly one month ago from my present job, I hope to gain a part time employment hopefully homebased so that I can attend to my aunt who has been sickly lately. I hope to do some projects and consultancy work in the area of Training and Organizational Development. My current interest now is Positive Psychology and I have become a charter member of the International Psychology Association. I hope to put to good use in my work and in my life the learning of Positive Psychology. I hope to be blogging more in the future. This is my entry for the longest time.

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