I was so proud that me and my Mom agreed to give her a treat. So we asked her, “Hannah, what do you want as a prize for you having a perfect score in your Math exam?” Her answer made us even more proud of her, “A cake for Bhor-Bhor on his birthday.” I almost cried when she said that. Bhor is her second cousin and his parents could not afford to give him a party. I didn’t know why she knows about these things, I just know that however bad I thought I was, I BROUGHT UP MY KIDS RIGHT!

Tomorrow is Bhor’s birthday and the party is on us. Celebrating my Hannah’s perfect score in Math and her goodness that touches everyone.

My son touched my heart too, because as I was writing this post I am letting them eat snacks and he went to me and gave me a piece of what he is eating saying “Mommy this one is for you.”

I am very HAPPY today. I may be strict, but this is what my strictness has given me; TWO WONDERFUL KIDS WITH GOOD MANNERS AND RIGHT CONDUCT!

My friends knows I love to give because for me, the more you give, the more you receive and truly we never run out of what we need, we always get what we want and sometimes even more than what we expect.

This made me realized that resigning from my office job was worth it!

I slept past 3 in the morning, and

Mother Dear: B-Girl Wake-up! You’re driving Hannah to school, it’s the first day of school and it is already 7:00am.

Jun Hannah: Mommy wake-up!

-Awake-

Jun Hannah: Mommy call Daddy.

-Dialed number and give phone to Hannah-

Father and Daughter conversing on the phone.

-Stood up, opened the door.-

Jun Hannah: Mommy, Daddy will talk to you.

Me: Hi, I just woke up and I need to change. Mom is already angry. I am driving Hannah to school.

Hannah’s Dad: Ok.

-Phone down, changed, drive- YES WALANG LIGO … eeeww

7:30 am to 1:00 pm = DRIVER, Yaya, Assistant, Delivery, etc

Upon arriving home, I started working on making props and costumes for June Hector’s 3rd Bday.

• Aang’s glider. Finished by 6 pm
• Toph’s headband. Finished by 8 pm
• June Hector’s 3rd cake design: Printed pictures to show to the cake-maker. Finished by 10 pm

It was already late so my kids was already asleep and I need to bring them in our room, but first I took a bath.

• Jun Hannah sleeping on sala floor. Picked her up, with all the strength left in me (38 kilos). Started climbing the stairs … 1, 2, 3 (PANTING) – Hannah woke up. “Oh, good baby could you climb the stair and go to our room?” Hannah started walking, went to the bed and continue to sleep.
• June Hector sleeping in the guest room. Picked him up and went upstairs into our room and put him in bed.
• Put diapers on both kids and let them drink their milk even while they were sleeping.

Now, 11 pm and I need to sleep for tomorrow will be another long day.

Recently, I have been busy planning for the 3rd Birthday of my son. I do it way ahead of time because for me it is the least I could do for them; to make them enjoy their birthday. It would be such a heartbreak if I can’t give them a party they wanted. They are my lucky charms, they win almost every contest they join and had opened me to some powerful connections (wink-wink).

For Jun Hannah, she won : iPod Touch at Toblerone’s contest and Php 5,000 Gift Certificate from SM for Bunny contest

For Jun Hector, he won: Php 3,000 Jollibee Gift Certificate for Jollibee Dinagyang contest and recently a Milkita Promo give-away for his birthday

They are my precious ones

I joined a political organization which is The Young Friends Foundation, Inc. and because of this I became a Municipal watcher. I got the job without knowing the duty or responsibility I will be handling. Good thing the organization had a series of meetings before the election day, in where those experienced in the field taught us what we need to know to fulfill our duties. However, since it is the first time to have an automated election we have been warned that there will be a few adjustments. Before the election begun, everyone thought that the automated election would have a faster processing compared to previous year. We were so wrong in assuming that.

So May 10, 2010 was the judgment day.

As an assigned municipal watcher, I went to duty 12 noon as scheduled. Upon entering the canvassing area, we were asked to submit our “Appointment Slip” as the Municipal watcher. We were then given an attendance sheet to sign.

Printer and Laptop was unpacked and ready.

Canvassing Officers were given their username, password and usb.

Two of the canvassing officers are requested to key in their username, password and insert USB for verification before the machine could proceed to the next step.

A test print is being done, to ensure that the printer is functioning well.

Municipal watchers were ask to verify the results that the machine has before the canvassing has started. Everything should result to zero, and so it was.

After this we waited for more 6 hours for the Baranggay elections to finish for the assigned officer to transmit the result to the Municipal Hall.

Bottons on the left side of every Baranggay is in color red, which means that transfer has not started yet. Yellow, would mean transfer started but not yet finished and Green, means fully or successfully transmitted.

We waited for each Baranggay to go on yellow and green so that we could see the results for that area. Hoping that no error would occur.

Unfortunately, a lot of errors happened which kept the laptop operator restart the laptop again-and-again and so does the key in of canvassing officers.

I waited patiently until every Baranggay in my assigned Municipality has successfully transferred their results.

3:00 AM teachers still delivering results to the Municipal Hall.

Most of the municipal watchers could were already asleep. Good thing for me, I could go on for days without sleeping. This just goes to show these municipal watchers has not performed their duty like I did.

After the results were printed. Municipal watchers still have the task to sign a lot of papers.

I finished my job about 12 noon, which means I was there performing my duty for 24 hours. Some did not stay that long, they haven’t even signed any paper in which I have signed thousands. I am not a paper and pen kind of person, I BLOG – I need keyboard or keypad. I have sacrificed not eating nor drinking that full 24 hours and tire my precious hands that now have callus from signing papers not even for my fans, for the sake of doing my duty. It would have been a huge help for everyone if all the municipal watchers had done their job fully. The numbers of papers I have signed would have been reduce to hundredths.

FELLOW FILIPINO: Huwag naman po mag tatamad-tamaran. Lahat naman po tayo nahihirapan eh. HUWAG MAKASARILI!

My Presidential bet didn’t win, but life goes on… KUNG SANA KASING SIPAG LANG TAYONG LAHAT NI GORDON at VILLAR … YAYAMAN DIN BANSA NATIN … kaso … haaay naku … nagkaka-wrinkles na ako!

I am the “official driver” of my family and I am the one bringing and fetching my daughter to her summer classes. Yesterday, after her class I decided to go to a mall to buy her a toy to play with this summer. On our way out after we have bought everything we planned on buying, my daughter saw a pizza and asked me to buy her a slice because she wants to eat. However, before she asked me I was already planning on buying a water to quench my thirst. If you would read just this part, you would probably say there’s no problem “go and buy both.” Now, here is the problem: The money is enough to buy only one of our demands. So it is either my thirst or my daughters satisfaction. As a mother, I think a little sacrifice won’t hurt, so I bought a pizza. Then we got into the car, I noticed she didn’t eat the pizza and I asked her why. She said, she’ll just eat it at home but I noticed she took a bite and I guess she didn’t like the taste of it. Home we went and the pizza was forgotten by my daughter. Here I am, Mommy dearest who sacrificed being thirsty for hours can’t forget about that pizza that was forgotten. (SMILES)

I am still awake at this time (3:33 AM) because I am observing my son. He is having heavy eye discharge while sleeping and I am worried that he would be hurt opening his eyes in the morning due to that. Earlier, I searched for ways to avoid that hurt and found one; I need a warm water and a cotton balls. Cotton balls are easy to get because it is just in the room a few steps away, but the warm water, I need to go down the stairs (checked the time – 2:50 am … Paranormal Activity). I build up my courage and got some warm water and cotton balls to be use on my son’s eyes in the morning.

The selfish me became selfless for my daughter and the coward me faced my fears for my son. I guess a person becomes SUPER when they become a parent or just having some to love – cared for.

If you are a parent, you would know that haircut on kids would be hard, most of the time they move and even worst they would sometimes cry. So it is going to be a tough job. Since the morning he had his haircut, he had no complaints. Thankfully enough he was cooperating whenever I ask him not to move.

Here’s the haircut of my son – done by ME!

My nephew saw it and he liked it, so he let me do his hair as well.

Here’s more pics:

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

I prayed that I could find solution to my problem, because it is the only remembrance of my nephew of his 3rd birthday. So I searched for programs that could retrieve those images. I have seen a lot of free programs for windows, but I can’t find any free ones for Mac (currently using MacBook). Here goes the advantages of having different OS available – after I got tired of searching for free retrieval software for Mac, I just opened my Windows notebook. On my MacBook, I already eyed a free program for windows, so that I won’t have a hard time searching. I just typed the URL of the program and installed it on my Windows notebook. The program is SoftPerfect File Recovery, which I got from the referral of GeckoandFly. It was SO PERFECT for me, because it worked flawlessly and recovered the batch of pictures that I deleted hours ago.

WARNING: After accidentally formatting or deleting pictures, DO NOT take pictures with the same memory card because it will lessen your chances to recover your pics. Luckily, I have not taken any pictures after I have reformatted it. Amazing how those pictures are still recovered after I deleted it on my MacBook and then Formatted it on the Cam.

So, here are the ballet pics:

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

First day of our trip. My friends and I met at Andoks near Jaro plaza because they have a parking space there and it is open when I arrived there at 6 AM, also because there is a pharmacy nearby, so I bought medicines for traveling (I wasn’t feeling well that morning). It is always best to bring medicine for headache, fever and LBM.

When my friends arrived, we immediately started our journey to Roxas. From Jaro Plaza to Roxas City, it took us 2 hours and 30 minutes drive. We then explored Roxas by going to Villareal Stadium in where the event will be held that afternoon. We were like paparazzi when we started documenting, because we take pictures now and then. More of my experience on my Palaboy-laboy Blog: Day 1 – Western Visayas Tourism Assembly 2009, Day 2 and Day 3.

Here are some of my pictures.

Also, we were featured on Capiz blog.

Here are some shameless shots taken by my friends.

First by Enrico Dee of Byahilo.

By Marcos Caratao of Explore Iloilo

(Gosh, manong is frowning? Manong I am BEAUTY! How dare you frown in my presence )

Junn Mendoza of Gigs Ilonggo

(My beloved car who brought us to countless destinations.)