Updated: I posted this 7 years ago and thought of bringing it back in the light of Erap’s recent campaign bid for Mayor of Manila.… Read More »The good old Erap Jokes
Updated April 3, 2013– I am reposting this since Alan is running again for senator (Check Senator Alan Cayetano’s profile and platform here). In May 2007, I wanted to write about Alan just before election day but I felt uncomfortable writing about politics in 2007. I only became active in citizen media during the latter part of 2009. My question back then was “is there a way to write about politics without selling your soul?” I found out that it is alright to disclose any affiliations with a politician or a political party.
It is on this note that my affiliation with the Cayetano family started when my husband, Alan’s father Rene Cayetano among other lawyers were partners of a law firm in 1998. The CASElaw firm still exists today but my husband is now just a name partner.
This is the Alan Cayetano I know…
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The Holy Week holds a special meaning in my heart as it’s during this time that my precious son talked about eternal life. How would I have known that he was preparing himself for his death?
“When I die, I will be alive again“,
Luijoe (with excitement), a month before he became an angel.
A month or so before Luijoe went to heaven, he asked me questions about angels, death, heaven and graves. I don’t exactly remember when Luijoe started to ask me those things.
This is what I wrote two weeks after Luijoe died.
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A year ago, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer posed an interesting status message on his Facebook wall. Forget about those New Year’s resolutions in which you… Read More »Every new day is a chance to change for the better #changeforthebetter
What better way to spend Christmas than be with family and sibling. If I could give each of you a gift I’d like to give… Read More »Christmas 2012 in Photos
Christmas lights bring out that warm fuzzy feeling that glows inside for the entire season. Childhood memories of twinkling lights along with Christmas carols are… Read More »Maliwanag ang Pasko: making Christmas brighter and more fun
For many years, my family greeted the Christmas season with great joy and heavy despair. Every Christmas without my son, I sensed my husband saying… Read More »Dealing with Grief: How our Christmas became a little easier to deal with
Once upon a Christmas season, a mother baked Gingerbread Men cookies to the delight of her three children who eagerly waited for the cookies to… Read More »A Mother’s tale of the Gingerbread Man Cookie Who Ran Away
Communities across the globe are joining in The Compassionate Friends on its 16th Annual Worldwide Candle Lighting on December 9, 2012.
Here is a simple memorial which you can do at home with four candles.
The lighted Christmas Village caught the attention of my daughter’s friend as he entered our dining room a few Christmas-es ago I can’t remember now… Read More »Baroque Music is Not Your Ordinary Pling pling