2017- The Year that was

I’ve always wondered why a new year has to be celebrated. When I was little I remembered the festive feel it gives, the food, and the noise. I was just sort of- going with the flow. As life grow inside of me, I was given answers to some questions and usually answers aren’t absolute as

That Tiny Cottage in My Dream

A movie date with my husband yesterday and on our way home, the conversation goes like this: Mommy: Dad, I saw this funny video like a gag TV show wherein a man would put a cute piglet inside a faux grinding machine that would produce sausage. He would let the innocent bystanders taste the sausages

Doc Sahlee

We just had a trip to the doctor today as my youngest was having a hard time with runny nose, colds and cough. Even though we’ve bought over-the-counter medicines, I still feel uncomfortable giving medicines that’s not prescribed by her pediatrician. She’s the doctor of both my daughters and I call her Doc Sahlee. Because

There is good crowd in solitude

“There is good crowd in solitude”.   I found myself eating hot wings alone at Brad’s. Earlier I carried my laptop and walked a good few meters from my desk to the small joint right across where I work. I tried to finish the paper due tomorrow, it was about Lego’s position in the Toy

It’s time to heal

Robert Browning once said, “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” Memories rushed in, pain seared through and loneliness kicked in. I was listening a hundred times to Adele’s new single “All I ask” just seconds ago and loneliness stocked up like those pieces of paper on my desk that needed attention. I did not

What do we get out of kindness?

It is not easy to be kind in this generation where selfishness is loud yet formed in a quick attempt of subtlety. Yet accordingly, we are more humane now than our ancestors decades back. Kindness is our nature as we see kids often are more forgiving and generous compared to us adults. We become unkind

Marriage and Expectations

Last night, while trying to insert reading into my day my husband teased me by intently trying to annoy me. I quickly asked him to stop but he playfully provoked me into having a fight. And I asked, do you really want to fight? Few minutes after I asked what they want for breakfast the

Listen

When I feel the urge to write and then nothing comes out when I type, I realize it’s not because I forgot them or something. The thoughts are here, vivid, waiting to be written; however strong I feel for them to be shared, my brain tells me that they will not be interesting. Then I

Great Attitudes

This book changed me. The first time I met my mentor, she was tall and intimidating. I was unsure of everything, the career that I chose and to where my life was heading. I knew from that moment she would assess me, to whether I am fit for the job I was given. One day

To my brother, my first bestfriend

  At 33, my mind’s still fresh of hundreds of memories with you. I will never forget that day when you invited me in to a spooky “spirit of the candle” only to find out you are making a fool out of me. That excitement and happiness I felt when the candle answered a resounding

The day he met her

He will give up his passion for cooking, all because he wanted to be with her. He was already receiving much in Singapore but he is contemplating of moving to Cebu for her. He was a well established chef- a good one with his craft. He met her 7 years ago. It was a warm afternoon.

We all Need Someone

I opened this section for questions from people I know. Their everyday struggles and confusions like I have and often experience. I thought of this earlier when someone I was with asked something and I had no idea what to say. We all have questions and encounters. Some of these encounters leave us hanging with