Got this from ALPHA, Thanks dearie.
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
~Mildred B. Vermont
this year's mother's day is really special to me because for the past 1 year and 2 months, I have been a fulltime mom. 7 months with a yaya and 7 months, all by myself. I'm glad I got this job.
a candid photo of my mom and Ethan at his Christening
one of my favorite photos of me and Ethan, during our San Francisco vacay in October 2007 (magkamukha kasi kami dito)
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
~Mildred B. Vermont
this year's mother's day is really special to me because for the past 1 year and 2 months, I have been a fulltime mom. 7 months with a yaya and 7 months, all by myself. I'm glad I got this job.
a candid photo of my mom and Ethan at his Christening
one of my favorite photos of me and Ethan, during our San Francisco vacay in October 2007 (magkamukha kasi kami dito)
Share your favorite Mother’s Day quotes and place your blog/name right after the piece of artwork.
1. Irresistible Fascinations / Naomi 2. Manna from Heaven/Lena 3.And Life Goes On/Lena 4. Mommyallehs up-close and personal/mommyallehs 5. Confessions of a Supermodel Wannabe 6. Me,Myself+2 7. My life in this Wonderful World 8. All Things Me 9. Because Life is Fun 10. mind bubbles 11. Vanity Kit 12. A Detour 13. Something Purple 14. (YOUR LINK HERE)
Tagging: Abie, Farah, Meeya, Tin, Mel, Maver, May, Jane, Jacqui, Juliet, Quel and Weng.
I survived my midterms! One with flying colors and the other with an okay grade. Now, I am feeling the stress coming out of my system. I can't even put myself to blog but I need to post this video that my Kuya sent. My brothers are not really showy with their emotions but you know that they have been always there to protect me, especially my eldest brother. He makes sure that my parents, Dico, me, Titan and Ethan are always okay. He would give and do anything for all of us. Kuyang-kuya talaga! He can get mushy at times especially on occassions such as Mother's day but makes sure to inject a little humor in his every mushiness.Watch this video he sent me with his mother's day greetings. A MUST WATCH! hahaha! This is really awesome, I have probably said half of this to Ethan and he's only 3 LOL!
I am so stressed with my midterms exam tomorrow. For some odd reasons, my professors scheduled both midterms on the same day. I had to read 14 chapters all in all and I have just finished reading 4. I am rooting for an A (not just a passing score) because I am eyeing for an academic scholarship. Hay pressure pressure!
May 1, 2008. Ethan Turns 3 years old.
After our advance birthday family celebration HERE and after receiving gifts from thoughtful uncle ninong, aunt and tita HERE, Ethan thought his birthday was over. Of course, I wouldn't miss surprising him on his birthday morn! Despite a 7-page school paper I did the night before, I woke up early and baked him some colorful muffins and a birthday cake he would blow as soon as he wakes up and before his baba leaves home. Good thing as his little Aunts helped us in blowing some ballloons which we placed in the backyard. The 1st thing that Ethan does when he wakes up is pull up the window blinds and look out of the window overlooking our backyard and lake. Unfortunately, the grass were sharp and some balloons popped out.
I was too busy the whole week and requested hubby to buy the baking ingredients. He missed out buying some of them, which explains these messy cakes and muffins LOL! But of course, Ethan enjoyed blowing his candles and eating his muffins with his baba. Hee!
and here are the rest of the pictures.
Then we dropped him at a Tita's house so he could spend time and play with his Uncle Silver and little Aunts. When they came to pick me up at school, he gave me this big smile. I know he had a fun birthday. His very first here.
and yes Grandma did not fail to cook pancit for long life!
Again, HAPPY HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY ETHAN XAVIER!!! May you be as healthy and as adorable as always. Be a good boy always. This video is for you mamyta, daddy yo, uncle ninong wowie, uncle ninong dico and yayay!
If there's one person who will miss 967 Colleen Drive the most, it is the little boy. He will miss having a big backyard (and frontyard where he picks flowers and catches bees every morning) for his playground. We'll have to improvise a little playground in our 2-bedroom apartment, how? I Don't know.
Today is our sunshine's 3rd birthday. I was planning to write him a letter and post it here but God knows I tried to squeeze that in my busy sched and school papers due today, it's just that I have to choose between writing him a letter or surprising him with some colorful muffins. I chose the latter as obviously he would appreciate the muffins more than the letter now. I was worried that my son won't have a blast on his 3rd birthday. Considering that on his 1st Birthday and 2nd Birthday, he had big celebrations filled with many kids and loving family. But then, we have a new life here. As expected, it will be a quiet one. However, it is also this year that he had an inkling of what a birthday is, so I wanted it to be extra special. Hubby and I originally planned to cook for the whole clan but for some unforseen circumstance, we forego with that plan. Also, on this day I have a class till 10pm and it is impossible for me to celebrate his birthday today. We decided to have our family celebration last tuesday (part 2 of this entry). Busy people, we truly are!
And so I thought his 3rd birthday will be a quiet one, I was wrong. It turned out to be a weeklong celebration. Some few days ago, gifts, shopping money and birthday cards have been pouring in specifically coming from his uncle ninong wowie, ii jing and ninang chingkee! Thank you so much, you don't know how much you made Ethan very happy. The entire time, he keeps telling me that he wants to see all of you again. Here's some pictures to share. Notice the haircut? yes. finally he got one. To be continued... (this is part 1 of 4)
And so I thought his 3rd birthday will be a quiet one, I was wrong. It turned out to be a weeklong celebration. Some few days ago, gifts, shopping money and birthday cards have been pouring in specifically coming from his uncle ninong wowie, ii jing and ninang chingkee! Thank you so much, you don't know how much you made Ethan very happy. The entire time, he keeps telling me that he wants to see all of you again. Here's some pictures to share. Notice the haircut? yes. finally he got one. To be continued... (this is part 1 of 4)
This weekend snapshot was taken last Sunday when hubby and Ethan were resting under the tree after their tiring football game.
Sometimes, homesickness is still making me sad and all. I miss my family soooo badly...and my friends terribly! Anyways, Ethan never ceases to amaze us. He's getting more matured everyday so even with some tantrums on the side, who wouldn't enjoy his company. Last friday, after a tiring day from work, hubby was a little bit grumpy. He went straight to the dining table and had his dinner while I entertained him with stories. On the other hand, I can see Ethan getting a big glass from the dishwasher (to begin with, that is not his glass, but I just observed and did not scold him), then he took some ice and water from the fridge water dispenser and went straight to the dining table and gave the water to his baba while saying this: "Tired Baba, water from Ethan, Love you!". Oh my goodness, nagkatinginan na lang kami ni Titan! He really is a 2.11 months old sweet, adorable boy! I remembered when he was barely 1 year old, he would get his baba's slippers when he gets home. That made our weekend!
Sometimes, homesickness is still making me sad and all. I miss my family soooo badly...and my friends terribly! Anyways, Ethan never ceases to amaze us. He's getting more matured everyday so even with some tantrums on the side, who wouldn't enjoy his company. Last friday, after a tiring day from work, hubby was a little bit grumpy. He went straight to the dining table and had his dinner while I entertained him with stories. On the other hand, I can see Ethan getting a big glass from the dishwasher (to begin with, that is not his glass, but I just observed and did not scold him), then he took some ice and water from the fridge water dispenser and went straight to the dining table and gave the water to his baba while saying this: "Tired Baba, water from Ethan, Love you!". Oh my goodness, nagkatinginan na lang kami ni Titan! He really is a 2.11 months old sweet, adorable boy! I remembered when he was barely 1 year old, he would get his baba's slippers when he gets home. That made our weekend!
Happy Monday to all!
I am 2 days behind my blogging assignments, I am swamped with 26 and has given up doing 5 of them. I really have no time lately, school is killing me. I just finished my major exam and it made me sweat a lot! I crammed reading 9 chapters in 1 day. If I have extra time, I would rather sleep with my son or plan his birthday with hubby. Instead of losing weight from all this hectic schedule, I've gained a hefty 3-4 lbs and more inches to boot! Hay naku! I tried dieting by cutting all the rice last week and instead of losing weight, I gained 1 more lb. I remembered when I lost the 15lbs in 2 months, all I did was pure work out and a little of every meal. Last friday, I promised myself to give her some pampering she BADLY needs. I am not sleeping as late as 12midnight anymore. I have changed my blogging routine by waking up at 6am. I watch what I eat now. AND I promise my son to spend at least 2 hours in the playground everyday. This means walking for more than 20minutes to and fro.
I am 2 days behind my blogging assignments, I am swamped with 26 and has given up doing 5 of them. I really have no time lately, school is killing me. I just finished my major exam and it made me sweat a lot! I crammed reading 9 chapters in 1 day. If I have extra time, I would rather sleep with my son or plan his birthday with hubby. Instead of losing weight from all this hectic schedule, I've gained a hefty 3-4 lbs and more inches to boot! Hay naku! I tried dieting by cutting all the rice last week and instead of losing weight, I gained 1 more lb. I remembered when I lost the 15lbs in 2 months, all I did was pure work out and a little of every meal. Last friday, I promised myself to give her some pampering she BADLY needs. I am not sleeping as late as 12midnight anymore. I have changed my blogging routine by waking up at 6am. I watch what I eat now. AND I promise my son to spend at least 2 hours in the playground everyday. This means walking for more than 20minutes to and fro.
I hardly slept last night because the whole frikkin night my ingrown was hurting really bad to the point of crying to hubby while he put on some Betadine. Instead of dwelling in pain, I started blogging at around 5am. Blogging was really therapeutic this morning in the sense that the pain was somewhat gone. I knew I was going to have a good friday, afterall I got an A in my 1st school paper. Yey! After breakfast, Ethan and I were strolling down the frontyard when we chanced upon this old couple, grabe they made my day. We had a short talk and I noticed how sweet they were. Hands intertwined and constantly patting each other's backs. (i know the pic is a crap, i can't take photos while they were still near, as this cutie neighbor of mine was asking why I was taking pictures again early in the morning hahah obvious na akong stalker!)
When I was exchanging conversation with our cutie neighbor (harold, I swear ang cute niya talaga hahaha! pakilala ko sayo pagpunta mo dito), Ethan accidentally hit the bricks and had these bubus. These are his 1st major bubus ever not counting the stitched bubu on his left eyebrow when he was a year old.
Knowing Ethan's pain threshold being high, these bubus really hurt as they made him cry. Wawa naman baby ko nangangapitbahay kasi ang nanay!
We immediately returned to the house and I put Betadine on his bubus, pareho kami ngayong may bubu. Whattafriday! Have a good weekend everyone! And by the way, some improvements on our weekly separation thing, Ethan did not cry, wail or shout when they dropped me off to school yesterday but he still didn't get the haircut, he kept saying: "with mommy lang."
When I was exchanging conversation with our cutie neighbor (harold, I swear ang cute niya talaga hahaha! pakilala ko sayo pagpunta mo dito), Ethan accidentally hit the bricks and had these bubus. These are his 1st major bubus ever not counting the stitched bubu on his left eyebrow when he was a year old.
Knowing Ethan's pain threshold being high, these bubus really hurt as they made him cry. Wawa naman baby ko nangangapitbahay kasi ang nanay!
We immediately returned to the house and I put Betadine on his bubus, pareho kami ngayong may bubu. Whattafriday! Have a good weekend everyone! And by the way, some improvements on our weekly separation thing, Ethan did not cry, wail or shout when they dropped me off to school yesterday but he still didn't get the haircut, he kept saying: "with mommy lang."
I am the type of mother who is not an advocate of early schooling =less than 3 years old. I spoke to several pediatricians including a developmental specialist and all of them are not advising parents to send their children to school that early. They said to make sure that parents choose a less-structured playgroup, it has to be an-all play type of school. Well, I agree. It has only been this past 2 decades that these preschools are sprouting here and there. However, when we got here, I saw the need for Ethan to go to school. Not only because of lack of interaction but also, he has been showing signs of readiness. He would always say byebye to me with a backpack and a folder inserted in his armpit and tells me that he is leaving for school, kunya-kunyarian. Whenever he sees school setting in the TV, he would mimic them and he would say "Mommy, wook (look) teacher! go to school Ethan", while raising his right hand.
> There's no cake of the week this week, I skipped my usual Sunday bake day as I burnt myself last week from frying bread fish for Ethan's merienda. I have about 5 long lines or burned skin in my lower wrist and they're ugly! Hay! Enough of the oven and frying pan muna. I hope these lines won't retain some darkness in my skin.
>STILL, no apartment to date. Either we have security issues with the ones available or it's too far or too expensive for our budget. tsk tsk.
>I survived my 1st paper in school and 1st 2 quizzes. I am proud to say that in both quizzes I got 100%!!! Yipee heheh. Then my other final project's topic was approved by my adviser. The Study of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) Micro-Enterprise Programs in The Philippines. To my ex-collegues in the NGO, pretty please send me any info that might help me in my research, I have barely 9 weeks to complete this.
>I have a new friend. Yes, I made a friend in school. She's Russian and she's really nice. We chitchat after school for about 30 minutes while waiting for our sundo. Kikay din and madaldal hahaha. Next time, papicture ako with her, she looks like a Russian doll. Then the chitchat continues on the phone hahah...
>Last Thursday's class/separation with my son: Ethan cried again and with matching sigaw: "Baba, I want my Mommy, Get Mommy Now!". I wonder when he'll ever get used to this set-up. Then hubby brought him to the men's salon for a haircut but obviously in his previous pictures, he didn't get the haircut. Sabi ni hubby as soon as the stylist brought out the kiddie chair, Ethan went out of the Salon na walang lingon lingon na, I could just imagine hahah!. Sabi ko kasi sa Kiddie Salon at hintayin ako. Hopefully before he turns 3 on May 1, he'll get the much-delayed haircut hahah!
>I gained 2 lbs!!! I am back to dieting and I am on my 3rd day. I hope to lose the 9lbs in 3 weeks. Pressure pressure maraming friends na dadating to meet with us plus 2 weddings to look forward to.
>I am still undecided whether to join Litratong Pinoy as I don't think I could cope up with a 3rd photo meme in this blog. Anyhoo, leaving you all with my supposedly entries for their bilog and tatsulok weeks hee.
>STILL, no apartment to date. Either we have security issues with the ones available or it's too far or too expensive for our budget. tsk tsk.
>I survived my 1st paper in school and 1st 2 quizzes. I am proud to say that in both quizzes I got 100%!!! Yipee heheh. Then my other final project's topic was approved by my adviser. The Study of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) Micro-Enterprise Programs in The Philippines. To my ex-collegues in the NGO, pretty please send me any info that might help me in my research, I have barely 9 weeks to complete this.
>I have a new friend. Yes, I made a friend in school. She's Russian and she's really nice. We chitchat after school for about 30 minutes while waiting for our sundo. Kikay din and madaldal hahaha. Next time, papicture ako with her, she looks like a Russian doll. Then the chitchat continues on the phone hahah...
>Last Thursday's class/separation with my son: Ethan cried again and with matching sigaw: "Baba, I want my Mommy, Get Mommy Now!". I wonder when he'll ever get used to this set-up. Then hubby brought him to the men's salon for a haircut but obviously in his previous pictures, he didn't get the haircut. Sabi ni hubby as soon as the stylist brought out the kiddie chair, Ethan went out of the Salon na walang lingon lingon na, I could just imagine hahah!. Sabi ko kasi sa Kiddie Salon at hintayin ako. Hopefully before he turns 3 on May 1, he'll get the much-delayed haircut hahah!
>I gained 2 lbs!!! I am back to dieting and I am on my 3rd day. I hope to lose the 9lbs in 3 weeks. Pressure pressure maraming friends na dadating to meet with us plus 2 weddings to look forward to.
>I am still undecided whether to join Litratong Pinoy as I don't think I could cope up with a 3rd photo meme in this blog. Anyhoo, leaving you all with my supposedly entries for their bilog and tatsulok weeks hee.
Remember my entry about my UNfriendly neighbors? Well guess what, Ethan and I caught the loudest of them all. One quiet naptime, Ethan was awaken by series of loud quacks which he instantly said: "Mommy too loud!", while covering his ears. Then, I discovered that the disturbing animal noise came from 1 creature to which I am not so sure if it is a bird or a duck! Here she is.
photo taken when Ethan was only 2 months old and I had no sleep for 24 hours
I think many of you have came across on the tragic death of the 7-year old boy, GJAY. He came all the way from the Philippines to America for a vacation with her parents and sister. Like any other kids who came here for a visit, he was excited to see Disneyland. Just a few hours from arrival at the airport, the family went to stroll down Old Pasadena to grab some bite. While they were standing in the busy sidewalk, a car accidentally hit Gjay and his parents. Gjay was in critical condition, his dad in serious condition and his mom with minor injuries. After a week, Gjay died. His very loving Uncle, made a blog to honor him and ask for donations for their hospital bills too: http://www.gjaysworld.org, you can see the full story and media coverage in that site. When I read this, like any other mother's initial instinct, I hugged my son and cried. I can't believe that such an energetic boy's life can be taken that fast! I know accidents are accidents but everyone behind the wheels should be extra careful and responsible before hitting the road.
On the other hand, while I was checking on PEREZHILTON, I saw THIS VERY SHOCKING NEWS which leads you to the VIDEO of a two-year old being corrupted by her allegedly 16-year old babysitter with an 18-year old male friend by forcing the toddler to smoke pot! This happened in Ohio. The full video showed that the toddler was coughing so hard. This is a very disturbing news. Makes me hate addicts all the more.
For me, children are the most helpless human beings. They rely mainly on adults for care and responsibility. But with all these news going around harming innocent children, we can't help but be more worried each and everyday for our children. Let's all pray for Gjay's family that they fully recover from his loss and for this toddler that her health will be spared from the pot.
I woke up with 2 VERY BAD NEWS today! 1st, 3 opps expired on me not because I wasn't able to manage my time well, it was because of my stupid time conversion!!! and the biggest bad news ever---GOOGLE DROPPED MY very humble PR2 to ZERO/0!!! Yeah you read that right? both my livejournal and wifespeaks URL are now zero. I haven't even enrolled wifespeaks in PPP just the LJ URL, keeping in mind that google drops PR of those connected with PPP. But, our theories were very wrong! No worries google hahha! I established a good relationship with my bosses and they won't stop giving me assignments and moolah! So there you go mga kapatid, bilog ang mundo! May kanya kanya tayong palugit lol! I have another site which earned a PR3, but that one I remain an anonymous blogger because that's where I keep most of my rants. I have enrolled it with moolah making for a month and let's see what happens. *grins! Have a happy weekend everyone!
Image above was snagged from this site: READ THIS also for a very interesting insight on google dropping PRs.
I still can't put myself to finish my Polaroid School Paper due in less than 24 hours!!! I made the Abstract and the Conclusion, but the frikkin' body and the framework, can I skip those parts? I have another one which is due by Friday plus 6 chapters of book to analyze. So this is Graduate School, huh? Hee! Anyhoo, I tried to entertain myself after finding inspiration HERE and I was definitely entertained by this LOL! I miss all my gayfriends!
When I left Manila, I had so little time to attend the numerous send-off dinners and surprise parties that was showered to me by my friends. Up to now, I am emotional when I blog about them. So, you may notice that I did not blog at that time, it was too emotional to blog these send-offs. As I was deleting files in my inbox yesterday, I noticed that I haven't shared yet this wonderful Surprise Farewell video given to me by my Embassy of Canada friends, a blog-moment worthy. My wacky and very pretty friend Ging spearheaded the making of this video. I can't count the number of times they threw surprise parties for me: all of my birthdays, bridal shower, baby shower, etc... I practically grew up in the company of my loving friends at the Canadian Embassy. The day they told me that they were preparing for a farewell party, I told them not to bother, I was too lonely to say goodbye! But of course, they insisted. It was (as usual) a full production farewell party held at Red Box with more than 25 people who came. In the middle of our videoke, this video was shown. I was really surprised and touched. I am sharing this video to everyone, who says you cannot mix true friendship with work? I am missing them sooo much and I know it would be hard to find equally loving and thoughtful colleagues who turn real good friends. Make sure to finish till the end as the funny parts are on the latter part. Enjoy! Turn on your speakers.
Farah tagged me this meme on April Fools! Thanks Bats, I realize we seldom blog about our Hubbies as we talk so much about our kids. At least with this meme, we are able to remind ourselves how grateful we are with our husbands.
THE QUESTION: What do you love the most about your husband/ partner?
I could spend many days listing the things on what I love about my husband, Titan. He is not a perfect husband but he is the closest thing to perfection. We had our rounds of bad days but at the end of the day, I realize I am in the best position being his wife, really. Now, I understand why my Mom wanted me to marry him even if he is my 1st and only boyfriend at that time LOL! For the lack of time, I will try to list every little thing that I love about him, just anything that pops out of my mind. I am on time limit here as I have tons of assignments to do, both in blogging and in school. (will try to add more on this entry when I remember something else)
♥ I love him because he is my 1st and only boyfriend but I got to experience everything that a girl can experience with having plenty of boyfriends, ano yun? Go figure LOL!
♥ I love him because he TAUGHT me everything I need to survive in life and brought me to every wild place and adventure. He is a survivor.
♥ I love him because we share the same comments and quirks when we admire or despise people hahahah!
♥ I love him for giving me the wedding of my dreams, every single detail bit of it.
♥ He is the father of my poging anak and I love him because he gave him good genes, both physically and attitude-wise.
♥ He gives me massages when I need them.
♥ I love him because he loves my friends, he is even closer to some of them than I could ever be.
♥ I love him for always cooking for me and my son the best breakfast in the world every morning.
♥ I love him for being the most selfless person that he is, he would spend all his earnings to his family and forget all about his wants and desires.
♥ He always tell me how hot I am as a mom but never stops to remind me when bulges are popping out, mostly in my tummy and hip that I need to do something about them.
♥ He adores my face even early in the morning or late at night hahah! and my purt little nose hahah!
♥ I love him because he fixes Ethan's all sorts of mess ALL THE TIME!
♥ I love him for bringing chips and ice cream for me once a week.
♥ I love him for making our life comfortable.
♥ I love him for loving my family especially my mom.
♥ For being the best fashion critique that he is when buying my clothes and bags are concerned.
♥ For telling me how good a cook I am even if you know that my cooking sometimes sucks LOL!
♥ For sharing housechores with me no matter how tired he is from work.
♥ The 1st thing he does when he arrives home is take care of Ethan, because he knows how tiring my day was, I love him for that.
♥ He checks opps for me when I need to do something else haha!
♥ He pays for my credit cards ahihihi!
♥ He treats me like a baby and also treats me as his matured wife depending on the circumstance.
♥ He never fails to give me flowers in every occassion, sana bag na this time LOL!
♥ For always saying sorry even if it was my fault.
♥ There will only be 1 Tristan Cesar and that's my Titan.
♥ ...to be continued, time is up hee.
tagging: TIN, IRMA, VAL, MEL, JOY and MAVER.
I changed my blog's layout, did you notice? Do you like it? I just got tired spreading some purple love and decided to spread sunshine-y disposition here in this particular blog hee.
Anyways, I am loving Spring! Flowers are everywhere. Here is my 7th edition of weekend snapshot, I didn't notice that I have been a member of Weekend Snapshot this long and yet I have not been an official member. I did not follow the instruction very well and so I am not listed as their members LOL! So this 7th edition are photos of our very old-fashioned mailbox with colorful flowers which Ethan has been murdering everytime he sees them. Hubby on the other hand has been arguing with me that these are tulips, tulips nga ba ang mga ito? Hope you had a good weekend, mine was busy as always.
Anyways, I am loving Spring! Flowers are everywhere. Here is my 7th edition of weekend snapshot, I didn't notice that I have been a member of Weekend Snapshot this long and yet I have not been an official member. I did not follow the instruction very well and so I am not listed as their members LOL! So this 7th edition are photos of our very old-fashioned mailbox with colorful flowers which Ethan has been murdering everytime he sees them. Hubby on the other hand has been arguing with me that these are tulips, tulips nga ba ang mga ito? Hope you had a good weekend, mine was busy as always.
I can't believe that looking for an apartment can be really taxing and can eat up your time. The picture above was supposed to be our future apartment only to find out last week that we can't move on May because the old occupant has extended her contract for another 6 months. It was the only vacant 2-bedroom apartment there. They were kind enough to return our security deposit in full, though. Now, we are on search again! But the big problem is hubby and I are so busy to go around and check on new places. Sigh sigh sigh. I just need to rant.
And I survived my 1st day of on-campus class...
The night before Thursday, I logged on my eCollege Companion (a software we use for our online class). I have noticed that my on-campus class/Information Technology for Decision Making Week 1 assignments,quizzes and lecture slides were also there. Just scanning thru the instructions (without going over the details) from our Prof, I panicked and told hubby that I think we have a quiz on the 1st day, that I should be reading the whole of Chapter 1 and I have to come up with the 10-paged assignment. Grabe naturete ako! I didn't want to come unprepared. So I slept around 5am finishing everything the whole night.
Thursday came and Ethan was once again oriented with the whole situation, he kept saying "ok mommy go to school, Ethan stay with baba, Ethan no crying, be strong". But as soon as we parted ways, he cried again. Later on I found out from hubby that he was crying everytime he looks for me which is every 30 minutes. They went to the playground and to another relative's house but still after sometime, he would start looking for me. When they went home, they stayed for another 30 minutes in the porch because Ethan suggested to wait for me there. tsk tsk.
On to my class scheduled at 6-10pm, as usual I was the earliest bird. I was able to take photos of our classroom (we had to move to the computer lab after an hour, though). I was right, I was the only Asian in the class and we were all girls. There was another international student, she came from Russia. We bonded immediately. I know I made quite an introduction and ibang iba ang feeling when I told them "I CAME FROM THE PHILIPPINES", for some reasons, I felt so proud to be Pinoy. Everything went okay except for the fact that it was only me who came prepared, NO ONE made their assignments and NO ONE read the book. The quiz will be taken online anytime within a week's time and assignment will be submitted next week. Nagpakabibo kasi eh! LOL!
Fortunately, we were dismissed 30 minutes before 10pm. However, I informed hubby's cousin, who was going to pick me up that he leaves the house by 10. I had to wait for more than 30 minutes outside of the University because the guards have locked the building already. I forgot my jacket and was chilling the whole time. A female Professor volunteered to stay with me till my ride came, I was so embarrassed for her waiting there with me. Pero buti na lang kasi nakakatakot din sa labas tsk tsk.
As soon as I got home, the little boy was awaken. He was hugging me so tight and kept shouting: "mommy, mommy, mommy! Yey yey!". Ayaw magpababa, sobrang clingy! Kala mo tagal namin di nagkita hahah! So far, I am loving this whole new experience and I am determined to finish this course no matter what it takes.
The night before Thursday, I logged on my eCollege Companion (a software we use for our online class). I have noticed that my on-campus class/Information Technology for Decision Making Week 1 assignments,quizzes and lecture slides were also there. Just scanning thru the instructions (without going over the details) from our Prof, I panicked and told hubby that I think we have a quiz on the 1st day, that I should be reading the whole of Chapter 1 and I have to come up with the 10-paged assignment. Grabe naturete ako! I didn't want to come unprepared. So I slept around 5am finishing everything the whole night.
Thursday came and Ethan was once again oriented with the whole situation, he kept saying "ok mommy go to school, Ethan stay with baba, Ethan no crying, be strong". But as soon as we parted ways, he cried again. Later on I found out from hubby that he was crying everytime he looks for me which is every 30 minutes. They went to the playground and to another relative's house but still after sometime, he would start looking for me. When they went home, they stayed for another 30 minutes in the porch because Ethan suggested to wait for me there. tsk tsk.
On to my class scheduled at 6-10pm, as usual I was the earliest bird. I was able to take photos of our classroom (we had to move to the computer lab after an hour, though). I was right, I was the only Asian in the class and we were all girls. There was another international student, she came from Russia. We bonded immediately. I know I made quite an introduction and ibang iba ang feeling when I told them "I CAME FROM THE PHILIPPINES", for some reasons, I felt so proud to be Pinoy. Everything went okay except for the fact that it was only me who came prepared, NO ONE made their assignments and NO ONE read the book. The quiz will be taken online anytime within a week's time and assignment will be submitted next week. Nagpakabibo kasi eh! LOL!
Fortunately, we were dismissed 30 minutes before 10pm. However, I informed hubby's cousin, who was going to pick me up that he leaves the house by 10. I had to wait for more than 30 minutes outside of the University because the guards have locked the building already. I forgot my jacket and was chilling the whole time. A female Professor volunteered to stay with me till my ride came, I was so embarrassed for her waiting there with me. Pero buti na lang kasi nakakatakot din sa labas tsk tsk.
As soon as I got home, the little boy was awaken. He was hugging me so tight and kept shouting: "mommy, mommy, mommy! Yey yey!". Ayaw magpababa, sobrang clingy! Kala mo tagal namin di nagkita hahah! So far, I am loving this whole new experience and I am determined to finish this course no matter what it takes.
Today is my official 1st day of school. Eventhough my on-campus course will start on Thursday, my online course is taking most of my time. It was interesting actually as my classmates in the online course came from all walks of life (age ranging from late 20s-60s) and from all parts of the world. I have a classmate in Nigeria, a journalist of Washington Post, a Cosmetologist in Georgia (who is actually very pretty, yeah we submitted our photos, it was optional but I submitted mine as well) and this doctor soldier in Iraq, he's an American Citizen based there and many other interesting personalities in the class. Everyone was very participative in the discussion threads and of course, I should make myself noticeable by my Professor. The readings for this week are overwhelming, I clearly remembered my college days where I took a Bachelor's Degree in International Studies, all the quizzes, exams and projects were composed of purely research and writing. I think it would be similar to that but more reading and more research! At the end of the this Spring quarter, we are required to come up with a minimum of 30-page paper individually, tsk tsk. 
One of the things I missed doing is bloghopping. Because things got really busy, my commited Wednesday bloghop day was not met for many weeks now. Again, My Apologies. Thanks to my good blogging buddies TIN and ALPHA for sharing with me the power of BLOGLINES. I tried it today and it is much better to bloghop using this site. So, I hope to be updated with all of your blog entries. Hubby was right for not moving to an apartment this month, my time management skill is really being tested. I wanted to bloghop, read and answer my course assignments, finish opps, and box our stuff all at the same time. And worst, Ethan has been terrible the past days, all he wants is my FULL attention and he is having a hard time sleeping too. I hope to get by soon and have a perfect routine with all these tasks around me. See you all in your blogs!
One of the things I missed doing is bloghopping. Because things got really busy, my commited Wednesday bloghop day was not met for many weeks now. Again, My Apologies. Thanks to my good blogging buddies TIN and ALPHA for sharing with me the power of BLOGLINES. I tried it today and it is much better to bloghop using this site. So, I hope to be updated with all of your blog entries. Hubby was right for not moving to an apartment this month, my time management skill is really being tested. I wanted to bloghop, read and answer my course assignments, finish opps, and box our stuff all at the same time. And worst, Ethan has been terrible the past days, all he wants is my FULL attention and he is having a hard time sleeping too. I hope to get by soon and have a perfect routine with all these tasks around me. See you all in your blogs!
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Oh Gosh! I just attended the new student orientation last thursday and things got busy already. I haven't even started school yet! I've hardly had time blogging and bloghopping. I'm hoping to squeeze my blogging world in this busy life I have now by next week, even if classes will start by Monday. Anyways, I'm cooking up something for the past weekend and obviously, this would give me more blogging moolah, I wouldn't spare some blogging time off if it wouldn't make money LOL! Nope, I'm not talking about my beauty blog which up to now is very empty hahaha! That, I still have to do as the payment for that domain has been already running for 2 frikkin' months naku! I know I'm rambling. tsk tsk.
Moving on, I told you here, in this entry that I was the weak one when it comes to separation with my son. I thought Ethan was well-prepared about the whole new situation. But I was wrong, huhuhu nadurog ang puso ko! Pakingan ang kwento ko. Everything was set last Thursday. Ethan was oriented that mommy goes to school once a week and since last thursday was only an orientation, I had to be away from him for 2 hours only. Hubby promised to bring him to Wal-mart (again!) to shop for some Jaz transformer toy while waiting for me. So when we turned to Diligence drive, where my school is located, Ethan who was sitting with me at the back clinged to my arms and started saying: "Mommy no school please, no school mommy, not today please, let baba go." I instantly knew disaster was coming. Then he started crying, bawling and wailing all at the same time. When we reached my University, he literally pulled me inside the car, I just had to be strong and dropped his hand. I never looked back but his crying and shouting were too loud for me not to ignore. Surely, nadurog ang puso ko huhuhu. Hubby said he cried for another 30 minutes.
I've had a wonderful time during the orientation. Everthing was a new experience to me. And mind you, I was the only Asian!!! Kainis!!! I was hoping to have a Chinese or Indian attendee at least, if not a Filipino, but when I look around the conference room, nadah! I was so early, afraid to be late, that is why when I entered the room there were no people yet. I took some photos using my phone. And then there were few people coming in till the room was jampacked! As usual we had some loots and a long buffet of snacks outside. People were great and the Campus Dean was oh so funny!
All in all, the orientation gave me a gist of what to expect from the University and what my life will be like as a student. I think I can very well cope up with all my other duties. Everything is just manageable. I'm really hoping I could finish this Masteral's Degree as the Campus Dean assured as of a $26k/a year increase in our future salaries lol! Till my next back-to-school entry. Ciao!
Moving on, I told you here, in this entry that I was the weak one when it comes to separation with my son. I thought Ethan was well-prepared about the whole new situation. But I was wrong, huhuhu nadurog ang puso ko! Pakingan ang kwento ko. Everything was set last Thursday. Ethan was oriented that mommy goes to school once a week and since last thursday was only an orientation, I had to be away from him for 2 hours only. Hubby promised to bring him to Wal-mart (again!) to shop for some Jaz transformer toy while waiting for me. So when we turned to Diligence drive, where my school is located, Ethan who was sitting with me at the back clinged to my arms and started saying: "Mommy no school please, no school mommy, not today please, let baba go." I instantly knew disaster was coming. Then he started crying, bawling and wailing all at the same time. When we reached my University, he literally pulled me inside the car, I just had to be strong and dropped his hand. I never looked back but his crying and shouting were too loud for me not to ignore. Surely, nadurog ang puso ko huhuhu. Hubby said he cried for another 30 minutes.
I've had a wonderful time during the orientation. Everthing was a new experience to me. And mind you, I was the only Asian!!! Kainis!!! I was hoping to have a Chinese or Indian attendee at least, if not a Filipino, but when I look around the conference room, nadah! I was so early, afraid to be late, that is why when I entered the room there were no people yet. I took some photos using my phone. And then there were few people coming in till the room was jampacked! As usual we had some loots and a long buffet of snacks outside. People were great and the Campus Dean was oh so funny!
All in all, the orientation gave me a gist of what to expect from the University and what my life will be like as a student. I think I can very well cope up with all my other duties. Everything is just manageable. I'm really hoping I could finish this Masteral's Degree as the Campus Dean assured as of a $26k/a year increase in our future salaries lol! Till my next back-to-school entry. Ciao!
I was having a busy but boring weekend. After baking 2 pans of Crema de Fruta, I was ready to finish my last Sophie Kinsella book in between housechores and watching AUGUST RUSH dvd with hubby, which I would highly recommend to every flickwhore out there. It is by far the most genius and most intense romance movie I have ever watched for the past 12 months! Grabe ang intensity, as usual I cried at the ending and had goosebumps just by listening to the movie's soundtrack. So same old weekend routine when all of a sudden, I received this surprising YM SMS from my bestbud. She has been my buddy for 7 years, we see each other everyday and practically do the same thing together! We know each other's family, we were like family to each of our families, redundant ata yun! hahha! Basta we were really tight not to mention that we live in the same neighborhood and up to now even I am so far away from her, she still has connections with my family and our family pets LOL. Their toy poodle was recently mated with ours which I found out from mommy. And if there's one person I absolutely miss back home, it's her. (she doesn't want to mention her name here LOL! she said I can blog about this happy moment but no names haha!) Picture how close we were, just imagine your life with someone you spend every single day and when you left and led a new life, you're no longer part of her routine. I even spent most of my day time with her than my son and hubby. She was my partner in everything for the past 7 years. We know each other's topak, moodswings, etc...So anyways, going back to her SMS, which made me and hubby stopped what we were doing last Sunday morning, she announced this: "EM! May Boyfriend na ako, Kanina lang!". It was so simple and yet so funny and so exciting! This was such a big news from her. She was the type who would shy away from boys and so she never had a boyfriend since birth and now she's 29! She is so timid yet so charming that any boys should have noticed a long time ago. It's just that from among the barkada, she is naive one when it comes to romance and love. She said to tell the full details when our other barkada goes online. After spending about 30 minutes or so figuring out why we can't see each other on the YM conference, we all decided that she just tell me the story one on one. YM Conference sucks sometimes. Oh my, I can't helped but be protective of her new relationship, I was like her big sister interrogating her with all the details. But as a proud friend and someone who knows her inside and out, I know she chose the right man and she made the best decision. I don't have any teeney weeny bit of doubt on this decision of hers.
To my bestbud: I am really really happy for this new milestone in your life, I-journal lahat ng 1sts sa relationship na ito LOL! Kelangan lang pala mawala kami nina Mishel at Val sa tabi mo. Regards to Getty and I hope to meet him real soon!
one of our sabog pictures!
To my bestbud: I am really really happy for this new milestone in your life, I-journal lahat ng 1sts sa relationship na ito LOL! Kelangan lang pala mawala kami nina Mishel at Val sa tabi mo. Regards to Getty and I hope to meet him real soon!
one of our sabog pictures!
We had a long day today. Finally, I'm done enrolling my classes. I have 2 for this Spring quarter, 1 online and 1 on campus. On-campus will be once a week, 6:15-10PM, super workable! Yahoo! Online class is anytime, up to me and online quizzes, major exams are usually on a Saturday night err midnight, which I am sooo used to working late. My brain works better at midnight. Everyone in the university was so warm to give me a welcome, plus a welcome kit full of goodies kaaliw, kulang na lang sa goodies eh take home laptop lol! Everything I need for school can be found in the kit. Lucky new students like me. Can't wait for my orientation next thursday, yey, I hope to make lotsa friends and contacts too. You know what else is fun? My adviser happens to be the Spanish Decent Professor I talked about HERE! I can smell part-time j-o-b! But that would have to wait till September when Ethan goes to school.
Afterwards, off we went for some apartment hunting again. There were lots! I got really tired and Ethan too as the weather was soo hot, we were at 70s-80s! I almost love one particular apartment when one of the female 'EGAY' residents stared at me na parang lalamunin ako with matching dirty finger! Oh no! What did I ever do to her? Crazy girl! Not a good environment. Then we saw another one, a few blocks from my school and just a block away from a pre-school I am eyeing for Ethan, at the back of the building was some shopping center and grocery store. Really convenient. We were set to make a reservation, but when I googled it, oh no! There was a recent shooting incident in that apartment building. tsk tsk. Now, I'm getting a bit scared with moving to an apartm
Afterwards, off we went for some apartment hunting again. There were lots! I got really tired and Ethan too as the weather was soo hot, we were at 70s-80s! I almost love one particular apartment when one of the female 'EGAY' residents stared at me na parang lalamunin ako with matching dirty finger! Oh no! What did I ever do to her? Crazy girl! Not a good environment. Then we saw another one, a few blocks from my school and just a block away from a pre-school I am eyeing for Ethan, at the back of the building was some shopping center and grocery store. Really convenient. We were set to make a reservation, but when I googled it, oh no! There was a recent shooting incident in that apartment building. tsk tsk. Now, I'm getting a bit scared with moving to an apartm