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What a jerk

February 17, 2011 By
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It’s 7:45 in the morning. I was sitting in our dining room area. One of my workers came to work for the day. She greeted me “good morning ma’am”. Upon seeing her face I could tell something was wrong. She went directly to all the garbage cans. My nephew told her to get all the trash bins in the bathrooms because the garbage truck was waiting outside. After they finished up giving all our trash to the garbage men my worker went inside and washed her hands. My nephew then came in and told my worker. What’s wrong with you, you just left the gate opened and you know that our dogs will go outside and then in a few … [Read more...]

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Just got me thinking

January 20, 2011 By
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Everyone knows that we’ve been giving away food to people in need here in Davao City area for almost a decade now. For the past few years LIP readers been helping us on this cause. Which we like a lot, at least we are helping more families each year. 2010 was the most special one. [...] … [Read more...]

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What’s for breakfast?

September 30, 2010 By
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Here in our household we don’t usually eat a heavy breakfast. Between me, my kids and Bob, often times we have different breakfasts here. Me and my nieces, nephew and helper usually eat bread or the Filipino delicacies (suman, biko and puto) and coffee,  milo or chokolate to drink. The kids might have eggs and ham/longaniza with toast bread or just cereals. During summertime when my kids spend time with my family at the farm or in GenSan, my family feeds them noodles and hotdog for breakfast. Yes that’s right noodles and the red neon hotdog. I remember when my family first offered those to my kids here. My kids faces were really … [Read more...]

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Family Feud

September 2, 2010 By
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Last week I was so excited to get a phone call from my agent Mae. She knows, of course, that we are on the lookout now for a new place to live. She told me on the phone that she had a house for me to look at and its not that far from my house right now. That really makes me happy since we like to live in this part of town. Near to everything. Location right now is really a plus for us. She knows that we want to be in a quiet neighborhood and not in a traffic area. She told me that the house that she wants me to see has the specifications that I was telling her about. So we set up the time to meet up and go from there to see the house. Well, … [Read more...]

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Time to rest!

November 3, 2008 By 4 Comments

Well my mom Zosima Rodriguez Bayoy, born on December 26, 1928 in San Fernando Cebu. Passed away last October 05, 2008 at 12:30pm. In Patag, Sarangani Province.  At her bedside was her 6 children and grandkids and son-in-laws. One of her son(youngest son) was in Manila, just arrived from Singapore to visit her. He was just starts working to this new company. Luckily they allowed him one week off to visit mama. It was really hard watching Mama suffer. I think at the end it was really a relief for us seeing her rested already. She's already been suffering from the stroke a few years now. I think just 2-3 years after I get back from the … [Read more...]

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To My Beloved Mom!

September 26, 2008 By 4 Comments

My mom is turning 80 years old this coming December. Right now she's really sick. Honestly she could go anytime now. Just 3 years after coming back here to lived for good my mom had stroke. She did recover after that, but she didn't really take care of herself that much that she got ill again. She didn't get better after another stroke. She didn't really listen to the advice of the doctor. Bob and I even hire a physical therapist to come to our house everyday to work on her. My goodness just after a month she fired the therapist. I was wondering why the therapist didn't come that day for her session, so I called her up and told her why she's … [Read more...]

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Our Sarangani Farm!

September 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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During summer breaks of my kids this year, we went to my parents farm in Patag, Malapatan, Sarangani Province. Just less than 30 minutes drive from General Santos City. Its a place where I was born. Patag is a small barrio. I don't even know the population there. This is the first time that my 3 kids went there. They really had fun going swimming with their cousins(Leo, Glenrose, Cyril, Emmanuel, Joshua, David, Nichole, and Sahara. They probably would have stayed on that river for a long time if not that its getting dark. They really like to jump from that coconut tree thats just floating in the middle of the river. As you can see on the … [Read more...]

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Sad news!

April 18, 2008 By 2 Comments

Well, from my previous post I wrote about my niece's daughter who got very sick. Sad to tell you that she did passed away a few days being in the hospital. It's been hard to my niece, but I think it's better for her daughter to rest than really suffer. At least she's with God now. I think it also taught some lesson to my niece and her husband especially to be responsible parent. I hope that they really would take care the remaining three kids they have right now. For those people that pray for her thank you very much. So long Gwen! … [Read more...]

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Heavy heart

April 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment

I found out from my family in General Santos that one of my niece's daughter got ill since yesterday. They told me that the baby has meningitis. I didn't really know what it was until last week when I went to a hospital here and heard somebody screaming inside the emergency room. I asked the doctor what was wrong with the lady. He told me that the lady has meningitis. Gosh, just remembering the pain on that lady and here we are we have a baby that has it. My sister said that the baby might not make it. It's hard for me to think the pain the baby is going through. Just typing this blog is hard for me thinking that my niece are in pain right … [Read more...]

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Our new baby!

November 2, 2007 By 4 Comments

A few weeks ago we got a puppy from our friend Klaus and Rosana. Upon seeing at their house prior to getting her, Bob and I always thought that the puppies are really cute. They are very clean too. We really like it a lot. Later as the days goes by when Bob and I went to their house. We really did admired the puppies more and more. So finally one day we decided to surprised our kids, Bob asked me to call up Klaus and Rosana and asked them if they could give us one puppy? Rose then told me that she will ask Mutti( German for mom) if they could give away one puppy. Rose got on the phone again and told me that Mutti said it's okay because she … [Read more...]

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