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Promises

Um and I have been married for five years, but I still get drawn to engagement rings! Perhaps, it is because I still have not received mine from Um. LOL. I remember when Ms B and Chef were still planning their civil wedding, I believe, two years ago. She sent me a link to a [...]

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11th

So, our 11th year begins. The dawn of a new decade. We both pledged to start it right even if we’re not together. Today, after our chat, I got up (not after answering a couple of messages from Ms B) and worked out. My routine was temporarily disturbed last week as Captain Awesome and I [...]

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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 Semi-Birthday Post

I will do an actual birthday post on the weekend, I hope, after a little family gathering plus pasyal in San Francisco. Anyway, this by far is the year that I’ve received the most greetings. They started pouring in last Monday and then the flood began yesterday, already the 23rd in the Philippines, Australia and [...]

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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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Mother’s Day

First of all, I don’t mean to be a douche. I practically skipped Mother’s Day in the Philippines and did not get to greet family and friends over there until today, which is already a Monday over there. I had a 5-hour lunch with a grade school friend at Tannourine, a Mediterranean restaurant, and tried [...]

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The Weekend with Family – The Real Post

Okay…so, I wasn’t focused on my last post. The weekend was still in progress at Chef and Ms B’s new home with Chef’s family, when Ms B egged me on coming up with a blog post for the day and joining them downstairs in the span of 2 minutes. Tall order, right? So, here’s a [...]

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Instant Messaging Concert

Okay, so I thought I’d blog something, err, big, but I got held up by my lovely Little Princess on Skype. I find it really divine that both Um and I grew up in creative environments. There are artists, unsung poets and lyricists, writers, musicians from both our families. It’s not very surprising, then, that [...]

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2 Minutes

The thing I love about the kind of out of town trips that Um, the kids and I go to is that we’re pulled away from civilization. No phone signals, no wifi, no cable TV. We do carry our iPods with us, though. We’re a family of music junkies. Once again, irony humors me as [...]

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Easter’s Debbie Downer

Debbie Downer once again. I’m sorry. The Facebook status messages are really getting me down. Everybody is off to their Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday holiday. Being the free (meaning no leave-filing necessary) vacation for Um, this is the time of year that we head off to the beach or drive out of town with [...]

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Faith

I had a really bad experience with a certain company today while on my job hunt. I think it is safe to say that this is the first time that I have ever been discriminated for being an immigrant. I will (or will not) write about this incident in another blog post. But that incident [...]