Smile. God Loves You. I often scribbled those words in my diary way back in the early seventies when I was in High School. I also picked up Flower Power, a slogan likely coined by Alan Ginsberg in 1965. It referred the hippie notion of “make love not war,” and the idea that love [...]
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA)’s legendary temper tantrums or katarayan is in the news again because of staff inefficiency which was probably due to miscommunication of a TV taping.
Jove Francisco wrote about “The Prompter” incident including the above footage.
Over at Plurk, my favorite micro-blogging social networking tool, a plurk from Juned caught my attention:
Juned asks civil and plastic what is the diff? Does it annoy you? When you learn someone is plastic?
August 8 2008, 8-8-08, will it be a significant day for most of you? 8/8/08 has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?
But what else is happening today?
Today is Sara’s wedding date.
Today , the 29th Summer Olympics will take off in Beijing at 08:08:08 p.m.
Today is just an ordinary day for most of [...]
Once my husband says “Are you plurking?”, I say “Yes” then close my macbook.
What my husband really means is “I’m lonely here, give me some loving hugs”. You know, sometimes I can get really engrossed with my online activities that my husband has to remind me with these subtle hints. Being together for the [...]
My sister, Dr. Belen Lardizabal-Dofitas appeared in Jessica Soho last night as the resource person in behalf of the Philippine Dermatological Society (PDS) for the “Glutathione Supplements for Whitening”. My sister, a dermatologist by profession wrote the PDS position paper on glutathione supplements. There is also the recent controversial withdrawal [...]
Problems are inevitable.
Some problems can be anticipated. Some are surprises. The idea that problems occur now and then need not be a surprise.
If there is one thing different between my husband and myself, it’s the way we look at our problems. Most of us rant now and then.
“Why is this happening to me?”
“Why is [...]
Next week, I will turn 51 and still raring to shake things up in this world.
If there is anything my daughters (especially Lauren) cannot imagine is a young and wild me. True, I was once young (still young), a 105 pound slim and anti-social girl who’d rather pour over her school text books than gallivant [...]
You think any pain is worse than the pain of losing a child? Whatever words you hurl at me mean nothing to me. Be grateful, you are alive…that your family is intact. Don’t waste your energy on me. Life is so beautiful to waste it on negative energies.
Have you ever been in denial? Of course, we face denial now and then. It’s not necessarily bad. It’s a way of protecting ourselves from pain, at least temporarily.
Filipina mom) and my journey to a "new normal" after the death of Luijoe , my beautiful 6 year old son. Recovery is a work in progress.... read more?
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