The Journey. It’s Mine. [My personal take on love, life, parenting and blogging.]

At least I had a blast, but it was inspiring and an evening of learning: personally and blogging-wise.

My flight was so turbulent because I practically came home to a typhoon and I was so dizzy I went straight home instead of dropping by my favorite net cafe and publish my blog quota for the day.

Though the internet connection is shitty slow while it is pouring like hell outside, I already saw that I earned link loves already.

It was really great finally meeting Jayvee (my brother at b5media and Know More Media), Rico (yung nawawala kong younger brother!), Abe (Lord of Philippine blogs, he he!), Noel (b5media, Creative Weblogging and Know More Media co-blogger, imagine that?!) and of course Sasha (b5media sister and my new San Mig Dry buddy!) and talking to Alan, Jun (the magandang balita guy!) and the guy who flew from Dumaguete (sorry I forgot your name, peace!!).

Anyways who would not have noticed Bimbo and Kiven: the lifes of the party so to speak and that Marc Macalua is cute?!

Thanks to Glove Innove for making the event possible, bloggers around are looking forward to more BlogCons. After publishing this entry, I’m going ahead to write that email to your costumer service. I hope that the coveted Speak n’ Surf service is available in my area.

It was really a great night of bloggers talking about their own little world of blogs, of ads and monetization, of problogging and digital photography. I was (and still am) amazed by these people who have found the liberty early in their lives to do the stuff they’re not only good at (if not best) but also truly love.

Most especially I want to thank once more the following people: Abe, Jayvee, Rico, Sasha and Elbert for being so sweet in staying up late just to keep me company. (Ang ganda ng SM Mall of Asia kahit gabi at sarado na!)

Cheers for more BlogCons!!!

This was supposed to be submitted to Darren’s How To Problogger Group Writing Project but then the idea popped into my head too late a Thursday afternoon when my internet hours for the day was already over.

This isn’t to start a battle of the sexes but then what I will itemize below are “tools” I found effective not to mope around and cry my heart out because I do not have a man beside me that I could probably grow old with.

Hold your horses first before thinking that maybe I am just an undersexed egostistical woman that have better things to do than sour-grape for not finding the right man in her lifetime.

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He he. I am all set for the BlogCon on September 25: my first blogger meet-up EVER. I am shy, but they’re shy too (quoting Jayvee)…so it woudn’t matter. So, I guess I”ll be just fine being myself.

Well at least I’ve got one excuse for a lakwatsa!

The lines below have been brewing in my head since last week.

So i guess I’ll spit it out now before they metamorphose into something else.

he he.

The truth of God’s love is not that he allows bad things to happen BUT the promise that He’ll be there right beside us when they do.

— Love Comes Softly, Hallmark Channel Original Movie

Words that mean a lot me (and will still do) in MANY different ways.

This is Raine on a Sunday afternoon after getting away with skipping siesta and playing to his heart’s content.

You wouldn’t like to know what he smelled like so that it is imperative that he is clean at dinner time.

Nope he is not yet allowed to bathe himself. He’s just playing around here after I was done with him.

tuko…tuko…tuko…tuko…

…and we usually count how many tukos the gecko would make, much like pulling rose petals and counting he loves me…he loves me not…

well it better be he loves me than not. he he…

As a child the gecko’s sound used to scare me, i actually thought that it is some little monster hiding up the trees scaring children so that they’d get inside the house before it gets too dark.

But then there are geckos inside the house! I think I behaved more as a child by being scared by such things like tuko swallowing me alive or the momo in the dark and anything else that Filipino parents in my generation used to come up with so that the kids will stop asking questions or sit down quietly in a corner.

Gecko or tuko as we locally call it is that bigger lizard living in our ceiling. From as far as i can remember, there has always been a tuko in our house. Probably have been there for generations.

The one in the photo is one of the tree baby tukos currently residing with us. The mommy and daddy tuko is 6 times bigger and fatter with that low big tuko sound coming out from deep inside their tummies.

For years the tuko has turned from scary to part of being home. After all it isn’t bicolandia and it definitely won’t be our home if there is no tuko.

Funny the kids in our family now is not scared of the tuko or the sound that it makes.

You think that lizards running round the ceiling fascinates Raine and my nephew?

Nah, nothing beats tuko, it is still the champion.

Don’t know much about botany, but this is the lubi-lubi in bicol that I know of (and my ancestors know of), the young leaves of which we thinly slice like spinach and cook in coconut milk like most of our delicacies.

Nope, the tree/plant is not fruit-bearing and i do not know its scientific name.

I searched google for the term lubi-lubi and found an entirely different species registered at the Phillippines’ Bureau of Plant Industry.

But the one in the photo is the lubi-lubi we know…promise!

It might be another song AnP, there’s no lubi-lubi in bahay kubo.

Sorry I couldn’t take a closer picture of the leaves, would have been useful for taxonomy but, medyo mataas ‘yung payat na puno noh at medyo pandak ang lola niyo…so there!!

When I bumped into Ruth’s blog more than two years ago (and started this blog thereafter), there’s one blogger in her blogroll that really amazed me (aside of course from the other great bloggers I’ve known from then on) : Batjay.

I guess every blogger is special in their own little and great ways.

Pero ang mamang ito, exceptional talaga. His, is one blog in tagalog that any Filipino in the homeland and abroad can relate to.

He he, sabi nga pag bumanat na si Batjay nang mga nakakatuwang hirit niya, maiihi ka sa saluwal sa kakatawa!

Alam ko mahilig siya kay Batman, kaya siya Batjay. Pero love niya rin si Spiderman kaya di ko siya makalimutan kasi si raine ko baliw din kay Spiderman. He he.

Now ladies and gentlemen, book author na po si Batjay. Yang nasa picture ang book version ng Kuwentong Tambay blog niya. Super ang galing! Inspiration ka talaga manong. He he.

O ayan ha, para sayo, tinagalog ko yung blog entry.

Sabi ni manong Batjay, sana daw masabi niya na mabibili ang librong ito sa inyong mga suking tindahan, pero initially available muna sa 27th Manila International Book Fair.

For 100.00 PhP per copy. Honestly, I can’t wait to get a copy. Kung may bibili na taga-Manila, let me know. Papabili po ako.