Growing up and spending summers at my maternal grandmother’s house meant regularly seeing vehicles headed out of the town dragging along large amounts of tall bamboo plants. I distinctly remember this because my grandmother’s house was located on a corner so when these vehicles turned, it was more than likely that these bamboo plants would […]

I turn 40 in less than a year.  Life begins at 40…or so they say. I don’t know if it’s the same for everyone but I still feel like I am a kid in her 20s and I’m just trying to act like I’m my real age. I’m just going through the motions and taking […]

Life hasn’t been easy with only a teeny tiny bit of thyroid left. Life with thyroid disease is very challenging to manage, especially since I live in an area where there is no specialist in the field I can go to regularly (I currently have an internist looking after my thyroid needs). Getting the right […]

There’s something about a handsome guy who has a good singing voice that really gets to me. Add to that a guy who has done Broadway (and can therefore sing with so much feeling) and I am a goner. I just have to share these guys and the songs that I love hearing them sing. […]

I remember watching Jacky Chan movies in the cinema with my father when I was still a young girl. He was such a big fan and kept explaining to me how this was a guy who could do stunts that a lot of other guys could not. It was no surprise that he watched the […]

Containment was a limited series from the producers of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. I first heard about it from the actor who plays Dr. Cannerts — George Young, who I mentioned in a previous post. The show is about an outbreak that occurred in part of a city in Atlanta. This causes one […]

Stephen Amell did not know what he started. One post about the teaser of the GMA 7 show Alyas Robin Hood and the internet exploded (in the Philippines, anyway). So many things have been said about the issue: there were a lot of valid points, a lot of funny ones and some that just went […]

When you get a star, I’ll give you a prize for it. That’s pretty much what I remember saying when I found out that my niece was attending summer school to get ready to enter the Nursery level this coming school year. I completely forgot all about it until this evening, when she showed me […]

Being that this is the day when most of us remember those who have gone on before us, I just want to post something about someone I miss: my paternal grandmother. We called her Nanay. She was already an old lady while I was growing up, which is due to the fact that my father […]

Rain, feel it on my fingertips Hear it on my window pane… As I type this post, it is raining outside. I can hear the rain from my window and can feel the cold breeze coming into my room. I can’t help but feel good about the weather — after all, there has been a […]

I was watching the Jay Leno Show and was surprised to see that his guest was Arsenio Hall. How long has it been? I can still remember the days when I used to watch Arsenio’s show when I was a little girl – the guy doesn’t look like he’s aged a bit! The guy was […]

With this week-long holiday, I’ve had the time to reflect on my life and a few things I’ve learned from past experiences. It’s good to be given an opportunity to stop and think/reflect like this. Sometimes I feel like I can be too busy to think about how I’m feeling and where I’m going with […]

We are now very much looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together. Love is hard to find, so when you do find it, hang on to it! – Natasha Bedingfield It wasn’t that much of a surprise to me when I read the news that Natasha Bedingfield got married recently. After all, […]

I was reading Jason Mraz’ blog post about setting up his own solar farm for his home and I couldn’t help but feel a tinge of envy: setting up solar panels to power our home is one of the things I have wanted for years! Years ago, I remember reading online about the use of […]