on growing

Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under On Me, Ramblings, Teaching | Leave a Comment

I’m so amazed with how fast children grow. Before I experienced this with Mateo, I witnessed this with my students. On my first year of teaching, I was the math teacher for the grade four class. They were a bunch of boisterous, gregarious kids. Some of them were so small, they look like first graders. [...]

a wedding/reunion

Posted on April 27, 2008 - Filed Under Getting Married, Money Matters, Ramblings | Leave a Comment

Ramil and I attended one of my former officemate’s wedding last April 19. Both the bride (my former officemate) and the groom are Chinese so it was a church-full and ballroom-full of Chinese or at least Chinese-speaking people. There were even parts of the wedding when we could only guess what it was being said [...]

trickled move

Posted on April 26, 2008 - Filed Under Money Matters, Ramblings | Leave a Comment

My sister has been transporting her things little by little to our house in Antipolo. She’s already getting tired and wishing that there’s something like a New York Moving Company to make things easier for her. We try to help whenever we visit my mom so that she’ll have a car to help her bring [...]

Sir Ramil over Dr.Herrera

Posted on April 26, 2008 - Filed Under Ramblings, Ramil | Leave a Comment

Ramil was supposed to take up medicine. His was a family who have been frustrated at producing one and they had high hopes for him. However, circumstances prevented him from pursuing this after finishing his BS Biology degree. All his batchmates who pursued medicine are all doctors now. Whenever we talk about them, we always [...]

one more year

Posted on April 25, 2008 - Filed Under Money Matters, Ramblings, blogging | Leave a Comment

My mom’s friend would finally graduate from college next year. She’s been working on her media coursework for several months now and she’s dying to finally finish it. Another batchmate of hers who will also be graduating decided to make a RE coursework, a piece of writing disclosing the problems of religion, ethics, and philosophy. [...]

yaya-less once again

Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under Mateo, Motherhood, On Me, Ramblings, Yaya stories | 3 Comments

Once again, Mateo’s yaya went home. This time though, she told us way ahead of time that she wants to visit her mom in the province. Initially, she told me she’ll be back after two weeks but after several days, she told me that she’s not sure if she’ll be coming back. It would have [...]

dreams of a new car

Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under Money Matters, Ramblings, Ramil | Leave a Comment

Ramil and I have been so frustrated with our dreams of a new/newer car. A few months before Mateo was born, we almost bought ourselves a brand new Aveo Sedan. Our bank loan got approved without a hitch, and the car guy was almost to the point of driving the car right to the front [...]

keeping mateo busy

Posted on April 16, 2008 - Filed Under Mateo, On Me, Ramblings | 1 Comment

Mateo is such a handful lately. He could barely sit still for ten minutes. It’s such a hassle now to bring him whenever we eat out because he could make such a ruckus. He’d cry with such vigor, worthy of Bantay-Bata. He has a lot of toys but he’ll be interested in them for only [...]

my sister, our boarder

Posted on April 16, 2008 - Filed Under Money Matters, Ramblings | Leave a Comment

Ever since my sister started going to the same school where Ramil and I teach, she has been our boarder. Even before applying for a teaching position, it was already understood that she’ll be staying with us if ever she got accepted. Right now, she sleeps on the living room with a foldable mattress that [...]

GonnaBe

Posted on April 16, 2008 - Filed Under Ramblings, Teaching | Leave a Comment

As a math teacher, I’ve always have more than enough share of students who are having extreme difficulty with my subject. I know that each child just has his or her own strengths and sometimes, my subject is not one of them. I find it easier to deal with the child once I’ve discovered his [...]

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