snarky part 2

After a few attempts on miscalls, I got a return call yesterday. Maybe it's just a combination of a full time job (plus overtime), household chores and young children that some people forget to text back and just categorises texts as non-important while I wait for a reply. Or I'm over reacting and too impatient. But I got my answers. So I've got to physically write down the guest list.

As I'm having spots (chicken pox affliction) and hurting at this very moment, my chores are delayed. I also have work related paperworks and photo albums to finish and start, and to continue reading.

As I've been reading about Rizal and the propaganda movement plus the results of the last UK elections, I feel sad in the context of history and cultural beliefs. We should be broad minded, unbiased, humble. We should strive for equality and respect. Despite the passage of time, people are still prejudiced and that is so sad.

a simple text; snark, snark, snark

My sweet child had the chicken pox. She was a trooper, a simple setback didn't slow her down. She climbed, she kicked, she ran when she was with spots. Probably because she has yet to turn two and no idea of the consequences of viral infections.

Her mom meanwhile is terrified of scarring, physical scars that last a lifetime. Will I be forever IgG chicken pox, negative? The verdict is up in the air.

I'm a paranoid scar-former. I should be scared of wrinkles as well, 40 is just a number but it's almost senior citizen number.

But as I grow older, I want to pick up a new skill like sewing my own clothes or knitting.
Or baking.




I didn't bake that, the ladies from the church were fund raising. But not bad. Turning 40, also gets me a new mixer (cross fingers).

As for the snark, really, not a simple answer to the text?

just another read?

The past week I've been browsing on the death of Andres Bonifacio, the People Power Revolution, politics of the past and a few random sneak on the current issues. History is fascinating as always. If only if I have the time to read and read and then read some more, and observe people as they talk about their beliefs and prejudices.

When I was a kid I kept a few paperbacks about Rizal. He was the paragon. Our helper said he didn't command an army, by virtue he shouldn't be the National Hero. There was also the time in the early 80's when Tita Two mentioned casually during lunchtime about Aguinaldo's role in Bonifacio's death. Tita Two imparted a few morsels (I would have appreciated one or two piano lessons although I would have been scared then) in those days.

On Rizal and Bonifacio, my stand currently is, they're both heroes and died before their time, quite in a violent way. Now I'm trying to reconnect my memory of Graciano Lopez Jaena. What I remember fondly about growing up in Bacolod, is that the older grade schools are named after the revered heroes; Rizal, Bonifacio, Mabini, Lopez Jaena. Whilst I graduated in an elementary school not named after a person. I don't know what's the difference, we were all in free education.

Fingers really crossed, to those going home they will bring back for me (as pasalubong) a few Filipiniana books; Agrarian Reform, Politics, Biographies.

Or Sharon Cuneta DVD's.

coming to grips

The Peppa Pig App (the one that allows a toddler to create some sort of art), is kind of fun, allows my own twinkle toes to touch the screen and select amongst a splash of colours. But still a toddler's attention span is less than five minutes after a brief brush with satiety it's next to another set of toys then run back and forth like a headless chicken. Maybe, that's just my toddler, other kids learn their alphabet or play the piano.

Kids are different. Every individual is unique. We shouldn't compare the running commentary of our lives on social media or just within the grapevine, the gossip mill. I know sometimes we get down just because others seem to live in a big house. Or they have a lot of kids and while our biological clocks tick and tick and boom!

But having 14 to 17 kids bring on the issue of sustenance, nutrition and education. I was reading about a rich family dividing their assets for their huge brood and it didn't amount to anything substantial. To make a realistic scenario, let's say a couple has four children? I don't know, hardships do occur to those who don't have much. I have a hard time doing the laundry of just one toddler.