The word experiment is something I can’t forget because I have a scar in my right wrist because of it. I didn’t like doing experiments in school. A few years ago, I would not have burned my skin if only my experiment partner reported for school and translated the Japanese text to me. Instead, he [...]
Mar
9
2008
9
2008
Mar
2
2008
2
2008
time travel
There are a lots of things that take me down memory lane, things that turn back the hands of time, even unintentionally. A certain perfume smell, songs, clothing styles and most especially, photos.
I was back home for the holidays some years ago when I decided to clean living room shelf with piles and piles of photo albums [...]
Feb
24
2008
24
2008
passion
I feel like I hit a wall with this week’s prompt, passion. I’ve thought about it long and gasped, my life is overly dry because I’m afraid there isn’t anything that I’m specifically passionate about.
I love arts but not to the point of collecting them nor I am planning for a trip to Louvre any [...]
Feb
17
2008
17
2008
sleep
The key to parenting a new born while maintaining your precious sanity is to sleep while the baby sleeps. But just how many moms can actually do that? How many moms can sleep without thinking of the dirty diapers that missed the elusive garbage basket and now sprawling in the floor curled up with erratically taped ends, the bottles that need to [...]
Feb
3
2008
3
2008
foul
Back when I was an active teenager in college, I loved participating in sports activities. I love the adrenalin rush, the cheering audience is music to my ears and every drop of sweat meant some sort of achievement to me.
I was in the Engineering department and with a limited number of females enrolled, the department [...]
Jan
27
2008
27
2008
miscellaneous
I work on Saturdays.
Just when most of the working moms shout “hurrah weekend!”, in this globally unsynchronized place where I am an expat mom, work week starts on a Saturday. Schools and other offices including my husband’s start on Sunday. What does that mean to me and my little family?
It means I have to battle [...]
Jan
20
2008
20
2008
fellow travelers
It was going to be Christmas in less than an hour. Along with my three fellow travelers, I was on board a ship going to Manila to attend a seminar for our school newspaper. The boat was late so we docked at the designated port more than 10 hours behind schedule and now, the desolate [...]
Jan
13
2008
13
2008
the date
“Three weeks and 2 days and the date the baby is due is December 23, 2003.” I was only half listening, still couldn’t believe I am going to be a mom before the year ends.
Amazing these modern machines, they can see beneath our bodies, measure our fetuses and tell when they’d be born! I wished it would [...]
Jan
6
2008
6
2008
that bubbly feeling
July 2003.
Summer had always been like this in Japan, nothing new: carnivals despite the hot humid days and nights filled with “cool” shows. It was particularly hot but we did not turn the aircon on. We were just married and expecting our first child (hence the frugality) and besides, I never really liked too much [...]
Dec
30
2007
30
2007
The internet and me, then and now
Every now and then we hold a conference, chat conference online that is, my 5 other siblings and I. One brother chillin’ in Tokyo, 3 brothers in the Philippines (different locations) and my only sister in my parent’s house also in the Philippines.
I say I have to thank the internet so badly. It is saving me lots [...]
