If you asked me what my college life in UP was like, I would say it was a blur of attending classes, eating fishballs, getting those thick Nat Sci handouts that I barely got to read, going on zombie-mode every finals week, lots of singing, and lots of commuting.
Read MoreMost of you probably do not know how my singing began. My first “regular” gig was singing for my Lola whenever she played mahjong at our neighbor’s. I was probably four or five then, and in retrospect, a warbling wind-up toy (Katrina! Kanta ka dito, kanta ka dyan). It was so easy to coerce me to sing when I was young, but of course as I got older, I developed hiya and mercifully wasn’t made to sing at every family reunion or birthday party.
Read MoreJoey and I often half-jokingly say that the “greatest sin” in our marriage is that of being in a bad mood. So many bad consequences can stem from it; hurtful, unthought-of-carefully (hindi pinag-isipang mabuti) words that make the smallest argument spiral into something way bigger and a hundred miles off the initial topic. Being in a bad mood makes you less caring and more selfish, makes you talk in unloving and combative ways, and sometimes, when you’re particularly destructive and you feel like wallowing in your pity/bad mood pool, it’s just really guaranteed to exhaust the heck out of you two. I’m sure anyone who has argued with their significant other will agree.
Read MoreThe husband is set to do his second full Ironman tomorrow, March 5. That is, he’ll swim 3.8kms, bike 180kms after that, and run 42.2kms for the last leg. He has prepared for this race for more or less six months, and I can tell he is very excited about it. We are in Taupo, New Zealand with his family; everyone taking time off to support Joey and enjoy Frodo’s country after the race. It is cool right now, albeit sunny. People aren’t kidding when they say the New Zealand sun is scorching.
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