HELP FOR TYPHOON ONDOY/PEPENG VICTIMS

In the convenience and comfort of our unaffected homes, the predicament of our fellow Filipinos can either move us to do something to help or simply watch and wait until it is over.



Beyond what is shown in the televison, in the aftermath of Typhoon Ondoy, lives were claimed, families were ruined, dreams were shattered. As if it is still not enough, diseases are afflicting those who have suffered and are still suffering. Some children have died. Their woes and sadness are endless. . .






Let us all do something to ease their pain, their losses.

Let us help them start anew.

Filipinos are a resilient lot. Not because it is innate of us.

It is because, we Filipinos never leave a brother to fend for himself when all he has is himself.
LET US LET THEM FEEL WE CARE.

DONATE NOW!

Senior Citizens Parade

Got stuck in the traffic this morning. I thought there was a rally. It was a parade of Senior Citizens in the City.

For the first time, I did not hear the tricycle drivers grumble and mumble (",). They waited patiently as our old folks slowly pass by. Some drivers were smiling. . . maybe imagining themselves when they turn old and gray.

Kudos to our tricycle drivers.

Some delays are worth having. . . if only to remind us of where we are going.

Biggest Baby Born

I can't fully imagine how did this little BIG bundle of joy inhabited his mother's womb. This baby boy was born to an Indonesian woman and weighed 8.7 kilogram (19.2 pounds). He is the biggest baby ever born in the country.

Other babies born BIG, one would not hesitate to carry (",). . . they are such big bundles of joy, don't you agree?



Nadia Khalina was born at 17.1 pounds in 2007, in Siberia.



Ademilton dos Santos was the largest babay born in Brazil at 17 pounds, in 2005.



Antonio Cruz, born on 2007, weighed 14.5 pounds in Mexico.

However, the biggest baby evern born in world history, is a Canadian baby boy at 23 pounds in 1879 to mother Anna Bates. The baby, however, died a few hours after birth.

The heaviest surviving baby was born in 1955 at 22 pounds and 8 ounces in Italy, to mother Carmelina Fedele.

Babies, big or small, will always be little bundles of joys.

Terrible Two

Raising children is like reliving our parents parenting experiences. The whole experience itself is funny, exhilarating, stressful, but definitely worth reliving again and again.

My son is now two years old. He dances a lot, imitates the gestures and actions in advertisements, and never fails to bring the sunshine in our lives.

But, he seems to have a bad habit. He pulls his sister's hair every now and then everytime they get close. Is this natural? Or is this an indication of violent tendencies? May the heavens forbid!

Each morning can either be a day to wake up to laughters or howling. Like referees,my husband and I would automatically pull our daughter and son apart. Ahhh. . . and I am contemplating to add another one.

What would life be like with another little tot?

Surely, gruelling but satisfying.

Mothers, indeed are infinitely patient.

President Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino

We always hear people using the phrase ". . .untimely death/demise."

But, in President Cory's death, I would say, it was a timely death.

God, in His divine wisdom, could have not chosen the long road to death of the woman who became the rallying hope for democracy, demeaned for simply being a housewife, than in these most trying times, when our democracy is threatened anew.



Watching the footages of the EDSA I/People Power, President Cory's death jolt us back to the period when Filipinos stood for its freedom. Firmly reminding us of what our country has been through.

In sickness, President Cory rallied the people to pray, an unprecedented moment in our country's history. No other person can claim such support and empathy from the Filipino people.

In death, she remained true and faithful to God's given mission of her life - a humble, gentle but compelling force of freedom!







Indeed, it is not apt to say "Goodbye, Cory!"

It is more fitting to say - Salamat, President Cory!

Marriages Against All Odds

Love is a many splendored thing.
It is something that people can talk about but not judge at.
Love, to some, is a matter of the heart. . .and to others. . .of the mind.
But whatever the reason will be, it is their lives, not ours.
Let us let them be.



89 years old J. Howard Marshall married 26 years old Anna Nicole Smith in 1994. With an age gap of 63 years, the public cannot help raising their eyebrows. The groom is wheel-chair bound but a billionaire.



Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn have 35 years between them. But more than the age gap, Soon-Yi happened to be the adopted daughter of Woody's former partner. From mother to daughter. That is quiet a transition.



From manager to husband. 26 years her senior, that is how Rene Angelil mattered in Celine Dion's life. Most convenient but could be quiet difficult to balance. But with true love, there could be no problem with that.



"I'd like to father your children." Michael Douglas told Catherine Zeta-Jones. He is exactly 25 years her senior. Michael showed wisdom and experience. Why go the long and winding road of love when you can have it directly. She agreed.



Jeri Kehn is the trophy wife Fred Dalton Thompson was longing for. He got her.The 25 years age difference seem to work for them, they are happily married.



Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had the most publicized courtship. TomKat as they are otherwise dubbed, are 16 years apart. But it doesn't show, on Tom's part.



Who could ever forget the fairy-tale wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana? With 13 years between them, the number seemed bad luck for the marriage. Just kidding.



Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, dubbed as "the beauty and the brain," have 11 years age gap. How come the world's most famous sex symbol got smitten with a playwright? It is the mind and the body coming together.



With not only a 10 year age difference between them, Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett's romance had been unfairly dubbed as "the beauty and the beast," by the harsh tabloids. With that humiliating label, no wonder the couple split after two years.



Thomas Daniel "Tommy" Mottola, married his third wife Thalia. He is older by 22 years. Can't blame Tommy, Thalia is simply gorgeous.

Marrying someone younger is not a man's domain.
Forever young Ms. Demi Moore married Ashton Kutcher, 15 years her junior.



Ah... love is indeed a many splendored thing!

First Words

A child's first words tell us of the words commonly used in our homes.

His behavior is influenced by our actions and motivations.



The principles he imbibed mirror our own.



The path he will tread, is the path we have cleared for him.



How he deals with his emotions, is generally, how we deal with our own.




If the world has become what it is now, is something we are all responsible of.