Family

To my sister, well done on your graduation!

March 26, 2011

Photo credit My sister, youngest of six will be graduating from university today. Alongside my parents, I feel so proud. Was it just yesterday when I held her for the first time when she and mom came home from the hospital? Wasn’t I the happiest when mom finally brought home a pink bundle after four [...]

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Beating the heat at Crowne Plaza Hotel

July 8, 2010

Just before I go back to work next week, we decided to have a little R & R at a city hotel, a tradition we started last year and hope to continue each year to celebrate our wedding anniversary. This is the view from outside our room: Whoops, sorry wrong camera angle. THIS is the better [...]

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It’s raining…HP

June 4, 2010

It was Pristine’s school’s year end program last week before they got serious with the exams and wrap up the school year by the end of this month. The school said the program will start at 4:15 pm but I thought, like the previous programs where we were made to wait for at least 30 minutes, [...]

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Too close yet still far

June 3, 2010

Oh lookie, there’s a photo of a guy in my blog! And it’s not my husband but I love and miss him so much. Brother #2 of mine (I have 4 brothers) was in Dubai today – for only 2 hours. We didn’t get to see each other which really sucks because the last time [...]

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No more, no more

May 21, 2010

Photo credit My grandfather was laid to rest just a few hours ago. For me, that meant he is totally, completely, physically gone forever. He won’t be there anymore if ever I visit my his house in the province. I won’t see him tend to his cows, his plants, smoke his coiled, dried tobacco leaves, cook [...]

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Color me black

May 12, 2010

I was going out for work two days ago, my mom looked at me head to foot and said, “are you going to a funeral?” I was dressed in black – from head band, blouse, trousers, belt and shoes. I wear black but it must be the first time I was in full solid black [...]

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And the boy gets married

October 26, 2009

Sorry for the lack of creativity in the title. I’m trying to tell a story here – in photos and in words, hoping that I can be able to relay the event, even half interesting as it was really, as I saw and experienced it. It was my first time in a traditional Japanese wedding and [...]

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Bonding with her old man

October 19, 2009

Even when we were still living in Japan and a trip to the hubs’ hometown only takes about 3 hours by car, we didn’t visit his folks frequently. I think there were plenty of reasons – the weather, the lack of things to do at his quiet hometown, the fact that I am extremely allergic [...]

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