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An Evil Wife

How would you feel if each time to raise an argument to your husband, you would be accused as “used by the devil’? That is always our case. Whenever I put on an argument with my husband, he’d tell me that the devil uses me and that I could levitate anytime in demonic possession. Is not it frustrating? No it is not. It is not only just frustrating, it is more than enough for me love to whack my computer bag at him. Now I am being used by the devil. I was running terribly late this morning and he was driving so slow that a turtle can overtake him. I was telling him to be more considerate of me because I was already late as it was. Then he gave me a litany of my faults and robbed on the fact that I woke up late. As if I didn’t know that. Yes, I woke up late because there were a lot of things to organize in my head last night I ended up sleeping at 12. Before I even woke up, our toddler was already so into my hair. At the breakfast table, he had wanted me to play and replay an app on
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On being a yaya-less existence

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Ideally, I would never let any other caregiver take in charge of my son’s welfare and needs. But being with a demanding day job to sustain our family’s needs, my husband and I had to be away for work for most of the better part of the day. Thus, my son stays home with a nanny. On lucky days, my mother visits our place to help out look after my little Sam who now, at sixteen months, thinks that the sofa is excitingly equivalent to a diving board. Well, the yaya left us after she finished school.  Like all else, working couples who are left (by their yayas) high and dry in crunch times can only swear under their breath. So swear we did. Without a nanny, Alex and I had to restructure our routine in the house – from tip to toe. Sam had to be dropped by at my parents’ house or at Alex’s sister’s place; if only either or both of these places can accommodate a hyper active toddler without dismantling their personal errands and hectic schedules. We are in a sense, homeless; for
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Attitude, girl. Attitude...

I have been a pain in the ass today. I have insisted and asserted what I wanted and it made other people uncomfortable. LOL. I am usually a team player. I work and function fully in a team that values my creativity and initiative. But today, I think I have overdone it. I think I have pushed my ideas a little firmer than expected. I think I was in for a power play. El-oh-el. My new boss is a fledgling in her seat (it used to be mine). I am tattler and I think I made her brows meet in the middle of her forehead. I like her; honestly. I think she is without doubt very competent in her position and I support her in many aspects especially when her footsteps are shaky. And I assure her that she has my butt at her whim. But, I know I have been a bad cheetah.  Well, I like being a bad cheetah today. It doesn’t happen all the time (that’s according to me!). But then, at the end of the day, I still deliver the tasks assigned to me. That is the beauty there. You may hate me for my gut but at
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Do NOT tell me to be RESPONSIBLE

There is no point dissecting and analyzing and grieving over the Php 1,000.00 that was lost. What’s worth one grand today? A Victoria Secret panty?! I got over my loss instantaneously the moment I realized that a crisp one thousand peso bill was missing in my wallet. I texted a few friends from school that I lost one thousand and that was it. I didn’t maul over it like someone like Dolphy has just died. But you have no idea how vitriolic my curses were for the person who stole the money. “STOLE” the money: I am confident that it was stolen after a horrible series of missing one-thousand-peso bill haunted the hallways of my dear school lately. It must have been stolen. I lost the money in school. SCHOOL! Faculty Room to be specific. I don’t have a pile of money such that I will not be able to notice what’s gone; or how much is gone. Do not ask me if I have just misplaced the money. I am a teacher, for Christ sake. I don’t have a plethora of bills in my wallet. I only have
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SAMSUNG launched SMART TV in Cagayan de Oro

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photo courtesy of infochat.com.ph I remember when I was little, I would daydream to my heart’s content; unmindfully slathered in the horrific glare of the sun. My mind would often wander in the ocean of imaginations difficult to transcribe in the limits of my childhood vocabulary. One of my favorite pretend-plays was to simply tell the TV to turn on and the poor thing would scurry to electrify itself to life for the pleasure of me. Who would have thought that I would live long enough to be able to see that sheer pigment of imagination come to life! The SAMSUNG SMART TV – the future of television! – was launched at Grand Caprice, Limketkai Center last June 1, 2012. The Samsung Smart TV has voice and face recognition features that let you interact with your television. The SAMSUNG SMART TV has web-connected Samsung apps that allow you to search movies and TV shows, surf the internet, connect with friends, map the places you were planning to visit---there’s a gr
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Young Lawmakers help CDO Sendong Survivors

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May 5, 2012 would have been just an ordinary day for anyone in Cagayan if not for these  lawmakers reaching out their hands to those who survived typhoon Sendong.  Rep. Fatima Aliah Q. Dimaporo,  Rep.  Mariano Micheal M. Velarde,  Rep.   Karlo Alexei B. Nograles,  Rep.   Mark Aeron H. Sambar,  Rep.  Joseph Victor G. Ejercito,  Rep.  Dakila Carlo E. Cua,  Rep.  Jun Omar C. Ebdane and  Rep.  Gabriel Luis R. Quisumbing, out of their own pockets, shelled out a hundred and ten grands each to donate houses through Gawad Kalinga, headed by Dr. Alfonso C. Del Fierro, Jr. The young congressmen made this effort in an attempt to lead the others who are in position to also give their share of help and follow suit. JV Ejercito, son of President Estrada, quoted the ideals of the Xavier University, a Jesuit run school in Cagayan de Oro, that he is doing this, along with the other younger congressmen “to be men and women (or persons) for others”. Dakila Carlo E. Cua (Quirino) and Ga
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CHSB Batch 94

Kita sa Una… by Ladylou: hot mama cool blogger (esey!) Eighteen years is too long a time to encapsulate in one blink; but it seemed like it was just yesterday when we last saw each other. When I saw my high school batch mates today, everything seemed to be just like one puff of short breath ago. I’ve always thought of it being totally mushy saying this, but my heart skipped a tad seeing those familiar faces and being assured of warm acceptance among this group of people who has been with me since pre-rebond times and during acne infested phases of my silly little life. We were Batch 94. Since it was a public school, no pressure on latest brands of clothes then, no pressure to be seen hitting places like McDonalds or Shakey’s. I had shirts from Calvin Klein and Benetton, watch from Esprit and Dolce and Gabbana jeans and since they were just gifts from relatives, even myself didn’t bloody know their names. Who cares, keverrr . We all loved the labakara from Penshoppe. And if
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