filipino extravagance

mall mania

i can't understand how or why malls still get lots of mallgoers/shoppers each day when the papers, radio, and TV programs kept on "saying" that the economy is going bonkers.

in Dasma i haven't heard of long lines infront of rice retailers' outlets, or rice shortage. same thing goes for MOST (other) places here in the Phil. rice shortage? i don't know, it think it is so hyped and over hyped that people thought that such a thing is real.
i think that some political machinations/manipulations are going on to cover something bigger, to twist the country's political climate according to some people's grandiose plans...
well, that's my thought anyway, not necessarily everybody's... :)

first day in daycare

my husband and i were quite excited for our daughter. today is her first day at school.
we are so grateful she agreed to join the community's summer daycare. it will serve as her preparatory ed. for prep school.
she knows her basic colors, can count from 1 to 10, knows her name, eager to learn how to dance and sing, but she can hardly write her name. in time she will learn how to write, of course, we've been trying to teach her that.
we've been cajoling her since before summer started, to join the summer class for nursery at the nearest private school in our community. i don't know why but she changed her mind about going to school. then last monday, while she and her dad were on their way back to the Kumon center to fetch her kuya they met teacher Cora. teacher Cora was my son's teacher in daycare. the teacher told my husband that the daycare center will have a summer class. she told hubby to bring our daughter at the school and enroll her for the summer class. my daughter agreed when my husband asked if she wanted to attend the summer class. so hubby and teacher agreed that Joy will be there on enrollment day!
i was so happy when i found out, that, i immediately bought some school supplies and some blouses for my daughter on the same day!
and today is her first day at school. my hubby kept on sending me text msgs on what is happening at school. i think he is more excited than i am!
i'm a bit sad though 'coz i forgot to leave my camera so they can document my daughter's first taste of school life, hehee.

expectations

sometimes without realizing it, we tend to expect better things from other people. those people may have different views, skills, orientations, etc. in short they are not you... op kors!
hay! i am exasperated sometimes when people fall short...
when i extend my arms longer than i should and those people i extended my hand to can't even figure out the things i had to go through just to extend that hand...
well, everyone is different.
yup! that's why no single thumbprint on Earth is the same!
but i can't help letting go of the good in me, letting the good part extend my hand...

Pearl bracelets, and things

I enjoy making bead accessories.
I like to make pearl braceletes lalo sa watches. Here's a couple of those I did.

The pics are blurred (well, my cam isn't techie enough) but I like to post them here; like the pearl bracelet with a string pouch bag (I sell the pearl, Swarovski bracelets, and watches wrapped in those string bags) beside it.

I enjoy making things like this...

Whenever I make accessories, I feel as if I've entered a different world (corny, pero ganun talaga, hehe...) as if that realm is mine alone...

Here are other pieces:

Fall?

Those trees along Rada St., in Legazpi Village, shed their leaves during the hot summer months. I am sometimes awed by the scene of the leaves falling like snowflakes. It makes me smile and think that maybe that's how leaves fall, how trees shed their leaves in colder regions during the fall. It must be one glorious sight -- trees and leaves in varying colors, more so when the leaves fall like snowflakes...

falling...

and falling...

Another day at work...

Another day, another eight hours, to go...

That's Arnol, maybe iniiisip kung bakit kinunan ko ng photo without asking heheheee...

One of Irvin (back at cam) and Jericho's constant consultations, that's Christian (in blue shirt) nagbee-busy-busyhan, heheee...

Myles (back at cam), Ruby (red-orange jacket on chair), and Nina

Kuya Ruel, alone at the back

Daverge and Kuya Benny checking some project, Amor busy (back at cam)

a day at the zoo

The kids has been asking for a trip to the zoo since I can't remember and since our son was given a special award at their school's recognition program my husband and I decided to give our kids a day at the Manila Zoo.

I was hoping that the zoo has been given the 'facelift' it needs as well as new animals to replace the old and sick looking ones. that the kids may enjoy the trip.

Here's some of the photos we took:

The elephant got the kid's attention first

Joy's first encounter with a live elephant and JB's 2nd

awed!

that white peasant took my kid's curiosity

also that gorgeous peacock...

Joy just kept on returning to that swing, she preferred the seat in the middle

a flower and a mini filmfest

An officemate and I sometimes sneak off to a nearby mall during lunchbreak. And that's just what we did today.
And while walking towards the mall we saw a filmfest banner infront of Union Church of Manila. It seems that it will be held in April and thats days from now!

The banner of the Metro Manila Christian Film Festival at Union Church of Manila

Photos of the films in the MMCFF are posted on the board before the church's glass doors

This is the church,

it is located at the corner of Rada St. (formerly Thailand St.) and Legazpi St. in Makati (near Greenbelt 1 and nearer to the Washington SyCyp Park).

I love looking at flowers. This bunch of special leaves better known as bougainvillea "flowers" were planted along the fench of the park that we passed on our way to MCS. It amazes me sometimes that the flowers of this plant never seem to wilt even in the hottest of days.

swimming with the kids

Holy week this year is so early. The days are too hot more so at night.

My husband thought of taking the family to a pool, somewhere in Dasma. My kids were so makulit for days na, even before the semana. So the hubby acquiesced.

The kuripot me choosed the resort (with pool) at Guevarra St. (near the E. Aguinaldo H-way), since it's a lot more affordable there and there's a water slide for the kids. Luckily my goodhearted husband asked me again where should we go swimming. Siempre! I eagerly asked for Volet's! It's the biggest water resort in Dasmariñas, Cavite. Check its website at http://www.voletsresort.net/

Here are some of our photos.

JB poses stiffly (above) as if he is posing for his school pic or school ID (hehee). Joy is more relaxed here. No need to say that they want to test the water pronto!

Elmer got swiped by a wave here. The kids liked the wave pool so much they kept on returning, with us in tow (ngok!baliktad?!). They were sunburned to an itchy reddish brown! eeekkk! I had to make them take at least 2 showers at home and splatter them with lotion (ugh!) to relive them of the itch/burn.

Hubby and kuya tries to teach Joy how to float, hehee

The wave pool is really that wide (and a lot wider pa nga e!)

Yup! Modest (eheerm!) me just won't take that shirt and shorts off! I wore a bathing suit underneath, but hello! I won't wear it with all those people swimming in the same get up! Besides, I'm too chicken hearted to wear my suit...heheheeee

Dad and Joy at the kiddie pool

Yaya

A lot of us, before, more so in the provinces, thinks that having a yaya is a status qou speller. But that was before. Now, a yaya may also spell the difference between a working mom and a stay at home mom (because of the lack of a yaya!).

Hay naku! If not for the yaya I wouldn't be able to help my hubby with the bills, surely going out making pasyal in Tagaytay, the zoo, occasional vacations up North (Ilocos Norte) and down South (Quezon), malling and some shopping, and a lot more of our kids' "kapritso" certainly will be turned down.

The newest yaya was just over 2 weeks long in minding the kids when I received a phone call from her brother (who I haven't met yet). The brother asked that the yaya be permitted to go home and attend a "meeting" of some sort at the local police station. It turned out that the yaya's (an unwed mom) former flame wants to take their son with him. It seems that the former flame is married and he and his wife are childless, so they want to take the child to live with them. As much as we don't want to take frequent leaves of absence since our corresponding jobs are strict with their rules on leaves, we don't want to make things harder for the yaya, so of course we let her go.

My son and I took her to the Maria de Leon bus station in Dapitan (back of UST hospital) last Sunday afternoon. Yaya told me that she left most of her clothes and things at our home because she plans to come back to us. She promised that she'll get back as soon as the "meeting/agreement" is over. I doubt that. Things like her case takes longer than hours or days to finish.