I never had a complete family. I am talking about my family of origin. My dad was the culprit. He left my mom for another woman. Though, we haved moved on with our lives, without him, the memories are still there. You can’t heal emotional wounds in a snap. It takes years, specially if its so deep. Now, I am claiming to God that I will break the curse (according to a dear friend) and fulfill God’s plan for my life to have a happy and complete family. Yesterday, was our 2 years and 6 monthsarry of being a couple. I prepared a special dinner for him. His favorite pork kinilaw which is grilled (sinugbang baboy). To my surprise, he didn’t let me do it by myself, which was the original plan. I was even hiding a recipe from him, which he found and it made him laugh. We went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients, and to buy some food also. He was the one who grilled it, and I was the one who marinated it and prepared the sauce. He kept thanking me, and he ate a lot. He was happy I remembered that day, and made it extraordinary in my own way. I hope we will be together forever. Until we grow older, even during the time that we might be wearing adult diapers already. Hahhha! Funny…

We came from two different worlds, but now we are together. No, I’m not saying he is from Mars and me from Earth. I am not saying he is an alien of some sort. But yes, our worlds were so different, that I wonder how we came to be a couple. I am from a high caliber world, with high caliber relatives. My genius grandfather was known for his great intelligence, courage and great reputation. My grandmother, was one of the best speakers of English in our province. My aunts and uncles, graduated mostly as valedictorians, summa cum laude or magna cum laude. Most of them are now practicing their profession. Some are immigration attorneys, principals, college president/college school owner and founder, physical therapists, seamen, business owners and a lot more I couldn’t memorize. Growing up with them, was totally full of pressure. Cause, if you don’t do well, you don’t get noticed. So, i tried hard to meet their standards that sacrifing fun many many times in pursuit of achievements and the recognitions. My hubby came from a simple family. His parents, have not been able to finish elementary, I guess. His father is a farmer, and a pastor. He’s mother is a stay at home wife. He himself, was a very simple man. Someone who has simple views of life. Simple principles and simple wants of the future. He’s not the dreamer type. We are really two different people, that’s why sometimes, we can’t help but disagree in certain things. But, the main idea is its cool to think that no matter how different we are, and our worlds were before, we are not together, happily with our little one, our source of bliss.

For me to endure a 5 days a week, 9 hours a day of stress in work, I always have to keep looking forward to my days off. These are 2 days wherein we don’t have to go to work, for each week. That’s my free time, after a hard week of labor and stress. Every day, what keeps me excited to go home is my baby. Whenever I leave home early morning, and she’s awake, she always cry every time I leave. I am sad thinking about leaving her every time, and leaving her to her yaya, but I have no choice FOR NOW. For me to endure 9 hours of being away from her, I have to keep thinking about her back home, and her excitement everytime she sees me home. Today, I went home, and was greeted with her giggles and excitement. She was laughing, jumping and shouting mama when she saw me. My heart jumped and leaped with joy. It is so nice, to be home when you have people who will make it worthwhile to just stay home, and simply be together. Just that thought, keeps me motivated to work, and also it helps me avoid always looking at the clock and staring at the exit sign on the door, since I think that I better focus and concentrate on my job, so I can make the full use of my 9 hours. So, when I am home, I don’t have to think of anything else.

I’ve always been a reader and a writer. I guess, these two come together. If you love to read passionately, which means you don’t have to force yourself to love reading. As in, you really like it so much, that you get lost into it, it is most likely that you are a writer too. When you are a wide reader, it is easy for you to write and say anything about almost any topic since you are well informed about any subjects. To me, its a blessing that I love these two so much, which contributes a lot to the knowledge and skills I have acquired throughout the years. I simply love it. As in, I’m so addicted to it.

I can express myself well, in talking, and I can express more through writing. Because of some outside influence, which I thought was out of my control, I became a silent type of person. Keeping my thoughts and opinion to myself. Talking only about it, when I am alone. But, I would say, nothing has really changed. I am still expressive. Though, not vocal in a way, but expressive in some ways or another. I believe, we all have different ways of expressing ourselves. Some express themselves through arts and crafts, and I think that is a nice talent. But, nots that me. I am more on the linguistics side.

In elementary, I was famous for rendering tula presentations (poetry), then in high school, I was a consistent contender for Tula, Declamation, Oration. I even brought it to college.

On the other side, I always knew I had a talent for writing. I always had a diary, and I just love to write so much. That’s why, I had been the editor in chief for our school paper in high school, which was a successful one. In college, I was still the editor in chief.

If you give me an assignment of something to write about, specially about personal insights, I would be able to finish it in a breeze. Even if you give me things to write about like acne treatment, cancer, environmental concerns, jobs, spirituality, productivity tips and any topic under the sun, it wouldn’t be too difficult for me to make up something.

10 minutes would be long for me to finish a 300 words article. So, this is a plus, cause I don’t spend too much time writing in my blogs. Though, I really love it. I love to write and express. I tend to over write. Which means if you give me 60 word job, I would give you 300 words. I am just like that. There are so many things in my head.

Even in my sleep, I don’t run out of adventures.

Its our 2 years, 6 monthsarry of being together. The busyness yesterday got me all tired today, but I don’t wanna be beaten. I want to make something out of today aside from taking a rest, which I mentioned yesterday. I want to prepare my hubby’s favorite dish. So, even if I don’t know anything about cooking, I will make use of this recipe I got from pinoyrecipe.net. Let’s see how it turns out.

Sinugbang Baboy na Kinilaw Recipe, No need for dipping sauce for this grilled dish because of the sauce already tossed into it

Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 10

Ingredients:

• 1 kg Pork Liempo, sliced
• 2 sachets 8g MAGGI MAGIC SARAP
• 1/2 tsp coarse black pepper
• Sauce: Combine -
• 2 tbsp MAGGI Savor Barbeque
• 1/2 cup vinegar
• 1 small onion minced
• 1 small cucumber diced

Sinugbang Kinilaw Cooking Instructions:

• Marinate liempo in MAGGI MAGIC SARAP and pepper for about 1 hour.
  

• Grill over hot coals until browned and crisp then dice.
  

• Toss into prepared sauce and serve right away.

  NUTRITIONAL CONTENT:

  Calories:310
  Carbohydrates (g):1
  Protein (g):18
  Fats (g):26

Today, is my first day of my 2 days off. Yesterday, I was already excited to have my day off, cause that would mean no work, time for family, time to work on my blogs and to take some rest. And, that’s what I did. I would say it was a balanced day. Well see me, I woke up early, and attended to the little one. The night before, I slept late and also I had to be waking up every now and then, 3-4 hours interval, to give milk to baby bless. I had to be the one to do it, since my mom is not here. She will be back in a couple of days I believe. I let the little one walk around the house, going back and forth, touching anything that interests her. I let her eat, and I was the one who bathe her. I want to be hands on as much as possible, even now that we already has a babysitter. While, I was doing this, the babysitter washed our clothes, and that of the little one. Then, she had to put the baby to sleep. When she was sleeping I had to do online work. I worked on some articles. Right now that we are outsourcing most household chores, and there’s someone to do it, I have more time now to work on things which will help us financially. I have more time to work on my blogs, and also to think of plans and goals that will help my family. My mom also gets to rest now, that someone is gonna be doing the things she used to do.

I would say it was a balanced day, cause it wasn’t all about work. I was able to finish a good amount of work, while on the side, I also had fun. I watched two movies - My Bestfriend’s Girlfriend starring marian rivera and richard gutierrez plus Kung Fu Panda, a very funny movie, great for kids. I was also able to spend time with baby and the hubby. Before, the day would end, here I am hoping to work on my blogs again. Wanting to make full use of my time today, cause tomorrow I would like to focus on myself. Wait. What I mean is to take a good rest, so I will be prepared to work for another week, to enjoy and to simply relax. So, I want to make the full use of this time left today. Most probably, if the hubby will not get mad, I would sleep a little bit later than usual. How did your day go about?

One of the teens favorite pastimes nowadays, is to play games online. Specially for high school students. Some people say, playing online is not good. Since, they waste a lot of time interacting with the computer, thus, they already fail to mind their social life. Parent wanted their children to interact more with people and not robots or computers. Yes, this could be unhealthy, specially if they already spent all their time on it, and they forget about their responsibilities. But, if we would help them out, realize their real priorities, by telling them to balance their life, and not to spend all their time playing psp, xbox or online games, it’s not that bad at all. It can even help their mental development. When we play, our brains are stimulated. It’s like playing to solve something using your mind. The more we exercise our brain, the more it becomes stronger. So, if used properly with proper parental guidance, games can be helpful to students.  As parents, we have to let them be responsible for their own actions and not just manipulate them or tell them what to do or not.  Nowadays, you don’t have to spend a fortune to buy them a PSP or an xbox. If you already have a computer, there are a lot of websites that offer different kinds of interactive games. There are also mind games. If you have someone old in the house, who has nothing to do, you can let them play online casinos too. This would be great, as they wouldn’t have to travel far just to get to a place where they could play that. There are sites that offer it for free, and you could even win prizes and cash.

A movie with a deep story that will touch your heart. That’s what I like in movies. I don’t like movies which are just made for nothing. I like those that speaks of the reality of life. Those that are unpredictable and have certain twists and turns along the way. That’s what I would say of the movie, Indecent Proposal. I saw this movie, when I was in high school, and until now, I still couldn’t forget it. Honestly, it’s not so good to view for very young people, even high school. It is jam packed with sex scenes and all those intimate moments between a husband and wife.  Let me ask you, would you allow your wife to have sex with a man who proposed one million dollars in exchange for that? Hmmmm, difficult question. This is what the husband faced. This young couple, started out early in marriage. The husband always bring his wife whenever he play casinos . While playing, one of the richest men got noticed of his wife played by Demi Moore. That’s when the proposal was given. It was a very difficult decision for them, but the woman wanted to have the money for them, thinking it was just sex anyway. But, along the way, because she agreed, and her husband agreed but wasn’t really feeling good about it, it strained their relationship. I couldn’t forget when the man changed his mind and decided to stop her, but it was too late. The millionaire guy, played by Robert Redford had already prepared everything, and eloped with her in a yatch to fulfill their agreement. After this, the woman was about to go home, but the guy was so hurt that she couldn’t accept her anymore. The guy went far, and the woman lived with the millionaire guy, and lived a wealthy but lonely life. Eventually, they realized that the only important thing is their love for each other. So touching, and so real. The actors are really great. It’s such a great movie, though, as I’ve said it should be of parental guidance. It could be great for couples to watch.

5 THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR, TODAY

1. Baby Bless wasn’t hurt. The hubby reported that she accidentally broke our thermos for storing hot water, that’s for her milk. The hubby reported it to me right away. He might be worried I might get mad or something, that we had to buy another one. But, the truth, I don’t care if I have to buy 100 thermos. Just wanna make sure, my baby is okay and never hurt or anything. I can buy as many thermos as I want, but I could never buy another baby bless.

2. Received an offer to do a writing job. I don’t know what’s gonna be the result of this, but I will try to give it a go, and let’s see where this leads me.

3. The spaghetti at Mcdonalds made my stomach full. It was yummy too.

4. Knowing my mom arrived safely in Davao.

5. Finally setting up a new domain name for our latest blog.  Still need to create an entrecard account for it, plus start writing posts and dropping cards to improve its traffic. At least, I’m on my way.

Thank you Lord for all these blessing. Thank you for letting me see, how lucky I am to be me. To be living this life of mine, which could never be perfect, but will always be sweet and meaningful because of you.

I have 2 active blogs right now. I think I have 5 more which are not active. These are blogs which are not earning money yet. And blogs, I don’t have time to update yet. Now, I am working on another blog. Hopefully, this will be a success just like the other two. This is another milestone in my blogging journey. Another thing to work on. Another thing to keep me busy. That’s a good thing. I am really focused right now, in saving more money to establish our dream business, hopefully early next year.By the way, I don’t like you to copy paste my works or writings in any of your blogs. Even if you reference to the orignal post, I still don’t like it. Stop doing that.
You better write your own thoughts. If you like to review my post, thats okay. But don’t EVER copy paste my works. You get it?