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Letting the Stars Align vs Perseverance

I certainly have no excuse for not blogging now with my MB Air that’s so easy to bring to cafés. Or, just in bed. Anyway, I’ve always felt that if the keyboard is inviting, my fingers will just find its way to it, and you know what, that is so true. I guess these little [...]

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Mommy Adventures: Coping with Death

There seems to be more news of deaths than births for the last couple of years. Two weeks ago, my children’s school welcomed spring with devastating news. A parent of two students currently enrolled at school passed away due to injuries he suffered from a tragic car accident. He was 35, and is survived by [...]

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Emergency Kits: How Prepared Are We?

These seemingly unending, heartbreaking events in Japan make one think, am I disaster-ready? When I was eight, I experienced my first earthquake. Though the 7.7 magnitude earthquake damaged a lot of areas in the Philippines, my hometown of Quezon City was spared. The year after, Mount Pinatubo erupted, sending volcanic ashes to the area I [...]

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Music and Lyrics: Dig – Incubus

A week ago, I intended to post this song for our Music and Lyrics, but I ended up writing a real post when I tried to come up with an introduction. I could think of a couple more songs that has a similar message as this song, but being a Brandon Boyd fangirl, I choose [...]

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IMHO: Self-Awareness

It’s very disheartening to learn of (or watch) someone turn into something, well, unpleasant. For a lack of a better word. Try as we may to call it out – by compassionate and constructive manner, or by tough love – we can only do so much. An integral part of any intervention is the subject’s [...]

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Mommy Adventures: A Glimpse of the Chaos

I’ve always been the Aunt. Well, actually, I’m the godmother, but out of all my godchildren, only one calls me Ninang. So, I’m mostly the Aunt. Auntie B, and I like it. I adore these kids who call me Auntie, and they adore me too, more because I am one of them. I still think that [...]

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Mommy Adventures: Field Trips

Captain Awesome went to his first field trip here in the US yesterday. They had an option to tag along a chaperone or go alone, and though he has been going alone for the past two years to his field trips with Ateneo, I thought I would not pass up an opportunity to document another [...]

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Calm

Inspiring works of art, awakening reflections (is that redundant?), philosophical conversations with my husband and an overwhelming feeling of being enveloped in God’s presence got me feeling somewhat, uhm, invincible. Here and now, no matter how confusing the events that are happening in my life are, I feel that all this is according to His [...]

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Mommy Adventures: The Rules

I had a long talk with my son last night about the rules his dad and I have for him. I admit, we are more strict on him than on our daughter ‘cuz, you know, according to the Gaelic proverb, A son is a son until he comes of age. A daughter is a daughter [...]

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Moving Posts: Older is Wiser

This post was written when one of the most influential and talented personalities in the Philippines, FrancisM, passed away last year. A year ago today, one of the biggest personalities passed away. Michael Jackson, you love him or you hate him, was undeniably talented. One way or another, he gave what he can offer to [...]

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Moving Posts: Wise Words from our VP

I posted this last year on my personal blog and it’s always inspirational. We have the best leaders at work – well, more like best executives because where the level is a bit lower, some of the leaders we have are mediocre, as with any other company. This was a message from our former VP [...]