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Music and Lyrics: I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Death Cab for Cutie

Much to my annoyance sometimes, Chef always watches what I eat. He says it’s because he wants me to live a long life. Chef and I have the Brangelina age gap, and I am praying with all I have and I am that we will grow old together. I take comfort in knowing that he [...]

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An Ode to Dad

Two weeks ago, I left for an unplanned trip to the Philippines because my grandfather was dying. When I arrived in Manila with my mother and aunt, we went straight to the hospital. My grandfather, who used to stand tall and dominant in the room, was now frail, yet dominant still but now for another [...]

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Music and Lyrics: Angel – Jack Johnson

Who doesn’t love Jack Johnson? I mean come on, those awesome lyrics, fabulous voice, and he’s a surfer dude. No but really, he’s one of my favorites because he’s my kind of lyricist – and by my kind of lyricist I mean the Dave Matthews kind of lyricist. So, his (or their – with Dave) [...]

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Moving Posts: House Rules

I am moving this post from my old blog and I realized now, 14 months after our engagement, almost 5 months after our church wedding, we have fallen quite short of these house rules. Chef and I have disagreements, as a lot of couples out there. The degree of my temper can go as high [...]

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Love to All the Mommies From Mommy C

And so we welcome the merry month of May. It was hot outside, somewhere in the high 80’s. It’s the kind of weather you’d love to have when you’re building sandcastles or throwing Frisbees. Mother’s Day is just around the corner. I guess it goes without saying that I’m feeling crappy as Sunday approaches. How [...]

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In Awe of the Awesomeness that is Captain Awesome

Woke up really early today to join the very simple celebration of Captain Awesome’s 8th birthday overseas. For those of you who do not know, we have a 15-hour time difference from the Philippines on daylight saving time. This means, when they gathered ‘round for dinner at 7pm Manila time, I was up at 4am [...]

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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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The Breaking Point

So, the rain came pouring…in the beginning of spring. I seriously bawled my eyes out to sleep. Little Princess and Captain Awesome on video chat triggered it. I just couldn’t bear being away from them anymore. Summer has started on their side of the world. School’s out. This is the time of the year when [...]