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Five days more

December 16, 2010

*The girl she in the picture drew actually said, “I think I’ll be having a party like this!” Pristine wrote this a few days back. It’s not eight days to go now, it’s FIVE. And her mama don’t know what to do still. Where’s the panic button? Thing is, Pristine’s birthday is on the 23rd, [...]

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The phrase “Working mother” is redundant

December 14, 2010

Hello beautiful undead people. Glad you can’t see me because I am looking like a zoombie today. Since my mom left to spend Christmas with my father in the Philippines, I’ve been pooped with work and house work. I’ve been waking up extra early too, adding to that complete zoombie look. Because my mom only [...]

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Dictionary game

December 3, 2010

You know your daughter is getting too many ‘religious’ conversations with your Catholic mother when….you play the dictionary game and this is what comes out of it: Me: What “P” is a place where criminals are kept as punishment? Pristine: “PURGATORY!” ***** Pristine will surely miss her grandma and her stories when she goes for vacation [...]

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The big to-do list disappeared

July 11, 2010

I’ve not been working for 14 days. If there was anything I learned from this mini vacation of mine, it would be that, I definitely know how to be lazy as opposed to what I thought when I was working and out of the house 6 days a week. While outside the house, I think of [...]

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Tales from the bed rest: After 1 week

July 5, 2010

I can’t believe one week has passed since my hospitalization. Just one week back, I was in bed and couldn’t even stand or sit for a long time. Every bit of food and liquid cannot even last 1 minute in my body without ending in the sink. Eww. Now that I’m back on my feet, [...]

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The costly baby business

June 27, 2010

So I had a pregnancy loss. Surprisingly I am not too mad or overly sad. I just keep on thinking, at least I know I can conceive again naturally and I can do it again. I hope next time, it would be as simple as posting a photo of a positive pregnancy test stick in [...]

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Praises to Al Wasl Hospital

June 21, 2010

Contrary to all the Dubai bashing you must have heard in the news or read in printed media, here’s a newsflash: Dubai does not totally suck. I spent a brief hospitalization time at a local public hospital and I tell you, the amount of professional treatment and care I received from the staff there, nurses [...]

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If severe curiosity kills, this man needs more than 9 lives

January 14, 2010

Earlier this week, M got a phone call from a radio station in Japan asking him for a phone patch interview. The radio station in Nagoya features Japanese expats living in different parts of the globe. We have no idea how they got his number but most probably from string of people who he worked [...]

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