Egg hunting

on Sunday, April 12, 2009

Good Friday. Emergency meeting with the girls. Planning to have Easter egg hunting for our kids. Budget. Php 200 per girlfriend. Total: Php 1000. Number of kids: 10-11. Food: Spaghetti (to be donated by a neighbor), hotdogs and juice.


Black Saturday. Plastic eggs, check. sweets to be placed inside the eggs, check. 14 sets of prizes, check. Cocktail hotdogs, check. Juice, check.

Easter Sunday. 4pm, Dulce's place.

plastic eggs (next year chicken eggs na)

the kids

off to find the eggs


the girls. makee (with mariel), heids, dulce, che-ann, me


Happy Easter!

On friendship

on Sunday, April 15, 2007

What really is our basis in choosing our friends? If you have a friend and she/he betrayed or did a bad thing about you, will you still consider her as your friend?

In my life, i have witnessed friends who have come and go. Friends who just wanted to be your friend because they wanted something from you. Yung tipo ba na kapag wala ka nang silbi sa kanila, iiwan ka na lang sa ere. Sa office lang maraming ganyan. Hindi mo lang sila napagbigyan, hala, masama ka na para sa kanila. What do i do with people who are like that? DROP THEM FROM MY FRIEND's LIST.

Friends who are pretending to be your friend because they wanted your reaction on something and if you do have the "reaction" that they are waiting for, they would "quote" you for it. I have been a victim once. Be careful with those kind of people.

Many years ago, i belonged to a group in my workplace, our group name: FRIENDS. 6 individuals with different personalities. We vowed that whenever our group would encounter misunderstanding, we would patch things up and we will not let the others know that there's trouble in our group (people in our office are always looking forward to those kind of incident, for gossip nila). Unfortunately, it was short lived. The reason? Nagkampihan. Instead na ayusin yung misunderstanding ng 2 magkaibigan, ginatungan lang yung galit ng isa. The result: nagkarun ng lamat yung friendship. And it was ireparable. We all tried to be "like it was before" but once the damage has been done, hindi mo na talaga maibabalik ang nakaraan. Now we all try to be civil and professional in dealing with each other.

Still, there are friends who through thick and thin, kasama mo. Friends whom you could entrust your deep and darkest secret - the "it's just between you and me thing". Friends who have accepted you for what you are and not for what you could give or offer to them. I am glad I have that kind of friend.

passing away

on Sunday, March 18, 2007

Today marks the 13th death anniversary of a very very dear friend of mine. God has called him back when he was 16. I could still remember the months, last days, last hours of his life...

The smile on his face when his name was called to be my first dance -the 18 roses part- will never be forgotten... He has to use his crutches even if he is wearing prosthetics (right leg got amputated because of the big C )...

He taught me how to drive (ever wondered how he did it right?)...

when news that he has to undergo chemotheraphy, he told me about it, his worries regarding the procedure, that he will have to go bald, i just embraced him as his tears were falling...
many afternoons of just drving around the village and sipping on soda while watching people pass by...

then one day he was down with fever (like h-fever or something). we visited him at the hospital, we learned that the medicine he was taking for the fever has a negative effect on the medicine that he is taking for his cancer...

he went home. never got the chance to get better...

On his last hours (i didnt know that comatose na pala siya) kagagaling ko lang ng school. Maghahatid kami ng mom ko ng mga gamit ng sis ko sa school niya. We decided na dumaan sa hospital to make a visit. I was shocked to see him like that. napakaraming nakalagay sa katawan na tubes. namamaga yung arm niya. he was just staring into nothing. his breathing... hindi mo alam kung pag inhale or pag exhale niya, yun na pala yung last... We prayed for him. Then it was time for me to go home. I talked to him, sabi ko magpahinga ka na... then i cried.

At home, i went to bed. Then i thought I was dreaming. May gumising daw sa akin at sinabi na wala na siya... When i woke up the next day, i was informed na wala na talaga siya. i cried again.
Sino yung gumising sa akin that night??? was that him informing me of his passing? Who knows.

4 days later, he was laid to rest.

He will forever be remembered...