Weekly Round-up & WS

I had a very busy week when it should be a week of relaxing, movie marathon or maybe a quick travel to anywhere nearby but now it was not.  It was enrollment time beginning March 31 so when Monday came, April 6 (a holiday) the people at the Registrar still worked the non working holiday hours.  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday — we worked and worked and worked.  Aside from the enrollment it was also the time to prepare the papers for the new graduates who will be taking the June Nursing Licensure Examination.  So that NLE stuff did what caused us to work during the holidays.

Thursday, we had our lunch at work.  We cooked rice and luckily the VPAA donated 1 roasted chicken, then Ma’am M just added some more pesos to the money so that we can buy 2.    Our food that day together with the rice were — roasted chicken, adobong string beans, diced cucumber (fresh), pine apple tidbits (yummy sweet), and ohhh ice cream!   Wish i can show the pics but i can’t find it now.   And another one — we had binignit or ginataan in Tagalog.  I dunno what’s that called in English but it’s a like a pooridge of  sweet stuff.  I let mom cooked it from home and just send us some at the Registrar’s office. It arrived timely right after we have eaten lunch.

Friday, we call it really a day and we agreed not to work anymore.  I only spent the time at home watching TV though i was wishing i could go somewhere.  My aunt cooked ginataan again because it’s holy Friday.  I dunno where did Filipinos got the notion that we should be eating binignit or ginataan during the holy week.  And because of the tradition, prices of ginataan sticky rice, sugar, coconut, and other ginataan ingredient shoot up.

That, my aunt cooked, so much enough for three households.   We had this as our snacks on Friday afternoon and since we have much left, i was still able to eat some at Saturday breakfast.

That Friday too, i told the kids here that we can play with this make-up thing and it resulted to these photos:

See my girl at work:

And tada, here they are, both beautiful:

Am sure my brother will kill me if he sees this photo but i don’t care.  My nephew is just too ready to do stuff like this. lol!  Actually all that we had here were: lipstick and eye shadows, and eye liners and that’s all we can know how to use.  Wish we have the make up thing and if we do have it still we dunno exactly how to use them.

Saturday, in the afternoon, after watching the holy Saturday movie, i have to hurry to the city to do an errand for my sis.  I also picked my Payu2B pay and i treated Dimple for a pizza.

I told her that we have to eat all that up and she almost surrendered after 2 slices of that.   We had ice cream in a cone too because it was a very hot day:

She ate her ice cream quicker than the pizza…me too because we had a very hot weather yesterday.

When we got back home, i was turned on to take photos of “whatsoever” and i discovered that my hands were too shaky to take macro shots, so she volunteered and she ended up shooting so many plants and flowers and yeah whatsoever stuff too that last night i started a photoblog just for her shots.  Am loving macro shots specially using the N73 but with the Olympus i am having a hard time.

Now am at the end of my post and am going to share with you some of the shots i made this week that i call “favorite and best”

If you wanna know how we cooked the ginataan, click HERE.

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WS – Cousins

I call this photo as cousins because they all are. The one in white graduated while the ones in blue are the Juniors. That is Dimple in blue and in peace sign while the tall girl is the daughter of my brother. The one in white is the daughter of my cousin. Another cousin was not in the picture who is also a Junior. The ones in blue are excited because it is their first time to march down the aisle and being Juniors will mean that next year they will be seniors and will be wearing the white toga.

Personally i can sigh and say — how time flies! My baby is now a little lady.

I have alot to say about this week-end including Dimpy as one of the silver medalists in the Junior class, but i will make a separate posts for all of them.

I am so late in posting this but my being busy is not yet over.

PH – Thankful

This is my girl. She will be turning 12 this year. Seeing her grow up these latest years always make me whisper thankful thoughts to God. There are moments when i see her as she sleep, laugh, get angry, play — i felt so remorseful thinking that at one moment while i was still conceiving her – i thought of letting her go.   That decisive thought stayed in my mind for half a day but then when they explained to me what is to be done, i became  scared of what will be the future outcome, i decided to keep her.  I told my mom, am gonna go on conceiving her no matter what.  If this is a hard mistake, then i should learn the lesson the hard way.

Months later, the guy told me that if he it is his decision to be heard, then his decision would be for me to let the baby go.  But since it’s my decision so he has to respect my decision.    I never feel bad he thought of that because also me myself have thought of letting go the fetus.

What if i let the fetus go?  What if i let go of my baby?  Then, we would never see the smiles and the growth of this girl.  She was a very cute baby while growing up that i wish she was just a wee baby forever. hehehe  Though she has grown, she still have that sweet girly smile.

PH – Warm

The weather was so hot but it can’t be felt if you are swimming in the cool watered seas so almost all of us were burned. See closely the arms and face of my girl, it was became golden brown. After the swimming it gets so warm when it was time to relaxed because the 4 pm sun is still very hot, so my daughter enjoyed a glass of iced tea to cool her.

Happy & Proud Mommy!

Here’s the reason why:

It was getting of cards in Dimple’s school.  I was excited but at the same time anxious to see her grading result because i have not seen her studying  hard while at home.  Her study habit is still one of the things that makes me mad at her.  But when I saw the grades — i was grinning.  I was happy because her lowest is 93 and the highest is 96 and not a single grade went below the grade she had in the 2nd grading.   Makabayan got the lowest (93) and i saw the tests, ang baba talaga.   Everyone is having a hard time with the test…hirap daw memorize.

I spent some time to hear the reports (achievements and mischeivousness) from her teacher.  And i realized she talks more with her than with me.   So now i realize how important it is for parents to confer with the teacher of their kids.   I do not regret that i reached out to Dimpy’s teacher this year.  In the past 2 years, i was home but am just behind the scene.  It was still home who is in the front line.  But this year, it’s me na.  The previous years i was away so it was my mom’s duty to attend PTA’s and get scholastic reports.

After my work this afternoon am going to go to the city with Dimple to pick her a pair of black shoes.  She has some money for a pair of sandals for March but since i don’t have money, so i told her utang muna ako sa kanya then i will just buy her the sandals comes March.

At times, in moments like this, i do miss having a partner.  I envy couples who celebrate together for their kiddos achievements.  Oh well, since wala ko ana, dili nlang ko mag wish.  But it’s nice to think about it at times.

Did you watch Tayong Dalawa last night?  When the old David Garcia found out that JR is his son and he had a DNA testing done to prove it — then when it was proved, old David willingly did his responsibility as a father.  It was nice.  hehehehee.. I don’t wish that my daughter will be showered riches, all i wish is for the time that he will realize and accept that Dimpy is his kid and be able to give Dimple that “real” father love and attention.