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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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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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Blinks: Doors to the Future

Education is a fundamental human right. We send our children to school because we believe that this is the first step towards a bright future. We encourage them to have fun, we tutor them with their lessons, we do everything we can to help them realize their dreams. We tell them that they can be [...]

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Following Your Star

I was reading my journal entries from 2005 and 2006, before and right about when I met Chef. One of them was about a conversation I had with our brother, Tyler (code name, of course). It was Christmastime 2005 – the first time in a long time that he’s been back to the States because [...]

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Rant

Have you ever felt so busy yet accomplish so little? That’s what I’ve been feeling for quite some time now. I’ve set daily goals for myself and I’ve been successfully achieving them, but I don’t see any progress. So, this is what it feels like to live in a rough economy. I’ve never had any [...]

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Music and Lyrics: First Train Home – Imogen Heap

Category Introduction: Ms B and I decided to start another category, Music and Lyrics (title inspired by the Drew Barrymore/Hugh Grant flick), where we’d post lyrics and/or videos of the songs that sort of speaks of how we feel about the day. Though I have a couple of specific genres I prefer to listen to, [...]

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The Week with Captain Awesome

Well, it’s nothing grand. The week was filled with ordinary days made extraordinary with non-stop talking since the airport. And he arrived exactly 7 days ago. LOL It’s great to be hearing his husky binata voice and super contagious laughter. I know I miss all of them so so much, but it was when he [...]

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Vision Board

Since the so-called move to the US was laid on the table, Um and I have been setting goals for ourselves – as individuals and as a family. I admit, I haven’t religiously been keeping up with these goals. It is such a buzz kill to have waiting as an integral part of achieving them. [...]

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SGH: The Spinning ER

Perhaps, this post is more appropriate to be posted on @grandtagonist’s blog, but since Ms B and I are trying to categorize our posts, I thought that, with the two klutzy monsters that I have, I would have a lot of SGH stories to share. To resolve this dilemma, I thought of sending this post [...]

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The Art of Listening

After I typed the subject, I thought, is listening more of an art or a science? I think there is a science behind it that with careful thought and examination, it works wonders, and advancements and even innovation. The art of it is the beauty and destruction that it brings, whether if it comes at [...]