Tomorrow is one of our dear friend’s birthday. I am going to load up tonight and give her a call. She left for SG almost a year ago. The last time she was here was last May and won’t be back until October of this year. The little time that we spent with her in a condo hotel when she was here was just not enough. Happy birthday Ana! We love you and our prayers are with you despite our distance. You always bloom wherever the Lord plants you and we have always been proud of you. God bless you more!
It was late last week when I received an SMS from a friend who attends our mother church. Her news got me stunned and I literally had to stop awhile before everything settled in. She was asking for prayers even as the result of the needle biopsy done on her came back positive.
She’s only but 44 years old, a single mother and working every chance she gets to survive life as it is. Then came this. I am equally amazed as to how well she is coping. Her faith is doing her wonders, even the doctors are fascinated by how well she is taking everything in. She came by our place yesterday to ask for help to compose a letter that she will send to her friends and relatives. Please go visit the blog I got set up for her atDebbie’s Battle with Cancer and read her story. I just got one post up. The diagnosis reports: ultrasound, MRI and biopsy are still to be scanned. I’m also going to have it go live for proof. The hubby and I are making ourselves available in whatever possible way we can to help this dear friend who we have known since forever in church. May the Lord richly provide for everything that she would need from now that she’s doing laboratory tests to next week that she’s going to undergo surgery, then chemotherapy or radiation to recuperation.
We are asking for your support, prayers and otherwise for Debbie Marie Agbulos-Lopez, who is currently diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer. Send your emails via dmagbulos@gmail.com. There is no way she will be able to afford all the treatment she needs. The doctor prohibited her from continuing with her job and she has to prepare for intensive medical procedures.
As usual, this is going to be an almost wordless one. Our dinner was a treat from “the man” himself, Neil of Neilmaranan.com. Thanks, Neil! This guy is ultra generous with more than just sharing what he knows about internet marketing. Even while we were still classmates back in CPE, he threw such a grand bash when he turned 21 (*wink*). Which reminds me, Neil, you’re soon to turn another year older in less than a couple of months. San tayo?! Beside Neil is Nonette and the ever famous Mhel of Marikenya.com right there in the middle and beside me is Rizza of Experiencenexpress.blogspot.com.
The hubby and our little guy joined us after dinner at Starbucks. I only got to snap just a single group shot. The guys got a little too busy discussing business, I tend to move away when things get technical. lol! I leave it to the hubby to take care of those stuff. I’m fine with just blogging, thank you. :-) Thanks so much guys for being such great friends! Hope there will be a repeat, besides we weren’t really able to discuss much about the Salamyaan stuff, right?
This is our son’s latest preoccupation. The starter kit was a gift from his Tita Ninang Rose for his birthday. From his love for all sorts of cars, he now have his eye for trains. His first train ride fascinated him and would point to it and refer to it as “a real train,” every time we would ride past them whenever we go places.
I remember when we were once in a mall in Cubao, he saw the road leading to the train station, he practically dragged the hubby and me towards the station and wanted to go for a ride! Back home he could spend hours on end rearranging his train tracks and watch Thomas and his friend, Percy with the chocolate factory go around. Throwing in his collection of farm animals and cattle supplies toys to the set and have it match with the windmill, might just be a great idea. It’s fun seeing him get creative as he incorporates his makeshift buildings from his toy blocks. Continue Reading »
It was great to reconnect with an old friend again. Yesterday, one of my best buddies from middle school text messaged me to ask about some former job I had. She said she hopes to land another job this coming week. I am also glad to hear that her mom did not suffer from Lasik complications from her recent eye surgery and she is now in fact cruising along with her latest craze, her very own sari-sari store. I’m so glad her mom does not have to work abroad to earn a living anymore. She owes it to herself to retire and settle in her own home. This dear friend and I proceeded to talk about some silly things from our past, it made me smile despite the physical pain I feel here and there.
My wife, Jennie, has been in the hospital since Friday. This was a decision made because of her fever that wouldn’t go away for days. Giving her paracetamol couldn’t stop the fever so it was hard to manage. So we decided, with the doctor’s advice to get her to the hospital. I hope that today would be our last day here at Medical City. I’ll update readers out there later on about her condition. So for the entrecard droppers, my wife asked me to write this post to apologize for not being able to drop back for now. We thank you for understanding.
This is our son Jed riding on a twist car with his playmate Charmaigne Regina. Cham Cham is the daughter of my wife’s best friend based in UK. This video was taken a few days before Cham Cham and her grandmother left for the United Kingdom. I’m sure my son will be missing his friend and playmate and I’m sure he’s going to be missed by her, too.
Yesterday, hubby and I went straight to an old friend who just came back from the States from my review classes.It sure was great to see her once again after almost a decade.I cannot believe it has been that long!We sure had lots of fun reconnecting and just being silly. Continue Reading »
I so miss my friends from Teletech. If I should say the least, we sure have bonded from the short time we have spent together. From the grueling trainings we’ve been through: ACE, the Dean Vaughn Series and those thousands of medical terminologies we memorized.Continue Reading »
My close friend resides overseas and even though we regularly email each other, nothing beats hearing her voice from the other side of the world.She lives in London.It would often surprise me that she can call every so often.It’s a good thing she gets to avail great features from the phone cards she regularly buys. Continue Reading »
The day that was sure was a tiring but refreshing time for me. I spent majority of the day as a part of National Women’s Conference held in Teatro Marikina. Continue Reading »
Yesterday, my son met his favorite playmate yet again and it was a fun day for him. From the previous night, we have told him that he will be seeing his friend, Cham-Cham after church, the next day. As expected right from the time he woke up he was announcing to everyone the he’s going to see Cham-Cham. He said it while traveling to the Makati church right through the time that we left for church. He was very expectant, despite the fact that he seriously had quite a while already playing with other kids at church. Continue Reading »
It was the 28th of December and we attended the wedding of Mandy and Bing. Mandy was one of my close friends in college. There were three of us back then in CCP - Mandy, Don Don and me. I remember eating lunch with them almost everyday at a cafeteria strip behind McDonald’s at the corner of Aurora Boulevard and Araneta Avenue (where I used to meet my ex-girlfriend Jennie, now my lovely wife). We would order different grilled recipes for lunch and I would eat three orders of rice each meal - I didn’t usually eat breakfast before leaving for school back then. That happened from Monday to Friday because we were taking the same summer classes. Continue Reading »
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