Smilies :)
Recognition day yesterday at Olivarez College, Parañaque City. Third year high school awardees are Xavier “Kuya Maui” Cortes, Third Honors and Barbara Tuazon, First Honors, here with their Class Adviser Mr. Edwin O. Provido. During the ceremonies they also acknowledged Xavier’s other contributions to the school.
I like this photo because it’s one of the [...]
Summer’s Here
Now that summer’s here we expect a noisier household, with Kuya Maui at home all day and Maia bringing her neighborhood friends over to play. Summer’s when we expect the electricity bill to rise because we get our water from a tank powered by an electric motor. More electric fans on for longer periods in [...]
41 is the new 35
Happy 41st Birthday, Mahal!
Alam mo, pinaghandaan ko talaga itong araw na to, para sayo.
Pinatigil ko buong Metro Manila sa pamamagitan ng transport strike para tahimik ang bertdey mo.
Hinanda ko narin ang mga regalo ko para sayo sa araw na ito.
It was 25 years ago today
Top left: Athelstan & Mom, 1986; Top right: circa 1995; Bottom left: 1999, Bottom right: 2007
Twenty-five years ago the most wonderful thing to happen in a woman’s life (bar none, I insist) happened to me. I had my firstborn son. His father named him Athelstan, after an ancient English king. I had added the [...]
Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures
I can almost hear my sons going “Butt Mo-o-o-om that’s been around for aaaagez!” They be referring to ICanHasCheezburger.com which actually has been around for the past couple of years. Simply put, Lolcats is a combination of a cute cat picture with a caption—usually huge—done in misspelled English. (This has also been expanded to include [...]
Saturday at the Manila Zoo
The last time we were here was in 2002, and we were a bit wary today before walking through its gates. The Manila Zoo is a landmark from Sam’s and my childhood, in much the same way as the Nayong Pilipino.
It was a very pleasant surprise to find the Manila Zoo in such a [...]
Four the Birthday Girl
Upper left: Maia at a month and a half; Upper right: Maia @ 1;Lower left: Maia @ 2; Lower right: Maia @ 3
Born on Valentine’s Day 2004, Himaya Amarantha. We call her Maia (or Maya-Maya, Maiakot, Kotikot, Kotiw, Miss Papot, Big Girl, Little Girl, Baby, Sweetie, Hoy Maldita, Antang, Amarantang, Miss Gaerlan, Oi Himaya! [...]
Horn-tooting :)
We interrupt this series of serious blogging for some serious horn-blowing.
In the recently concluded Private Schools Association of Parañaque scholastic competitions held on February 11-12, 2008, the winners are:
Olivarez College - Secondary Education Department
Extemporaneous Speech - Xavier Lourenco Kapauan Cortes - 1st Place
Spelling - Xavier Lourenco K. Cortes and Wilfred Dave Gonzales (Team) - 1st [...]
Maia and Mommy’s Excellent Adventure
Maia has been a traveler ever since she was three months old. It was when she first crossed the waters to Mindanao, as we joined her father who had found work in Iligan City. When we lived there not a week went by that Maia did not go on a trip of any sort. Whether [...]
Places in my past (Part 1)
Kowloon House, West Ave., Quezon City
Q.C. was where I spent my grade school years and there are numerous places that I remember from my past that I now have no idea if they still exist.
Special occasions meant special places to eat. One of them was the Kowloon House over at West Ave. I had [...]
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