When trugding on a unfamiliar territory, we never know what will ever happen to us. Its the same as taking risks, betting your 500 peso bill for a lottery hoping that you'd win the jackpot prize. Its a risky business when your household relies for you to come home and hands in your salary so they could buy rice which is now ranging from 40-45 pesos. If you win then they would say you are lucky enough among the rest who has tried everyday but has never won the jackpot. But what if you have lost? Your wife, would be mad and your children wails for hunger. Its a sham!
This is how people face reality this days. Money begins to be too important for us. If we don't have it then we may not have food for the family. Every penny that comes out in our pockets has value. Gone are the days where we can buy a 5 cents for a candy. Sometimes we wonder how life begun to be miserable with every passing day it becomes so hard to live without money in our pockets. And no friend to turn to when we are in dire need of it.
Money, money, money they always say should be hard earned. If you got it then try not to waste and spend it in one day. Its hard to find real friends when you have a lot of it. Better be thrifty and save it for rainy days.
Life's too short to miss this kind of experience. A Realization!!
Monday, June 16, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
My Outback World
I always enjoy spending time in an outback place. I'm referring to the province where I always spent my summer vacations and in weekends when I have no work in the office. Its like being a child again when I vividly recall my life there. It was so full of fun.
I always treasure the moments I spent my life there with my grandparents. They have planted fruit-bearing trees like rambutan, durian, pomelo, guavas, bananas, mangosteen, lanzones and jackfruit aside from the crops they have as a means of their livelihood like coconuts, coffee, cacao, and other rootcrops. Although, now it was already converted into banana plantation. It is income generating to due to exportation to Asian countries.
Oh, we used to climb the guava trees early in the morning. The tree was just outside the front of the house. We were like birds on top of the tree looking for something to eat. Whenever grandpa sees us, we scampered and jumped off from the tree because he was carrying a belt for us.
Way back before 1998, there was no electricity in the area. People rely on kerosene lamps for their light in the dark when night time falls. We always take dinner early at 6pm, wash dishes afterwards and listen to the horror stories over the radio. Grandpa's radio is battery operated which has at least four eveready big batteries which may be consumed for a month. At dawn at exactly 4.30 am the radio could be heard. Then during the day, when grandpa is having his work or siesta we borrow his radio and listen to Visayan dramas as we were doing tasks assigned to us each day. Everyday that's the life we have at granny's place.
We still use the "pugon" for cooking. It is like a fireplace that has a chimney. Although it is a little bit smaller than a firplace where there are two holes for the pots and a little oven on the side. We use either wood or coconut husks for cooking. A lot of people like to use this kind of tool for cooking they say that its more enjoyable to eat the food because it tastes better as you savor the its richness of the food than the ones cooked using LPG. The fact that we use the raw materials found in the area we are able to save money instead of buying a gastank that is costly nowadays.
My errand is always at the kitchen to cook the meals during lunch and the dinner. Grandma cooks our breakfast because she's the early riser unlike me who wakes up at 6.30 am. I have learned to cook because of her. She taught me how to make suman, biko and especially the puto made from cassava.
So now, you wouldn't be troubled of why I have grown so big! I was a heavy child when I was a baby. My cousins and relatives used to pinch me because I'm so cute then but now they say I have grown into a beautiful woman and they say I'm still at the age between 25-29. I still look younger at my age it really doesn't show on my face because I have no wrinkles, yet.
In the farm, we walk miles inorder to reach our destination. Motorcycles are not yet the fads those days. So we hike at least thirty minutes to reach the highway, that is, if we don't tarry and get delayed along the way. And sometimes when the soil is wet and muddy it may also cause our delays. We really need patience to be able to reach our destinations.
Life in the province, is sometimes too tough and too ardous but when you take it lightly all will be well. It is thru persevering that we can be able to reach our goals. I am at least more comfortable staying in this world since its a familiar territory.
I always treasure the moments I spent my life there with my grandparents. They have planted fruit-bearing trees like rambutan, durian, pomelo, guavas, bananas, mangosteen, lanzones and jackfruit aside from the crops they have as a means of their livelihood like coconuts, coffee, cacao, and other rootcrops. Although, now it was already converted into banana plantation. It is income generating to due to exportation to Asian countries.
Oh, we used to climb the guava trees early in the morning. The tree was just outside the front of the house. We were like birds on top of the tree looking for something to eat. Whenever grandpa sees us, we scampered and jumped off from the tree because he was carrying a belt for us.
Way back before 1998, there was no electricity in the area. People rely on kerosene lamps for their light in the dark when night time falls. We always take dinner early at 6pm, wash dishes afterwards and listen to the horror stories over the radio. Grandpa's radio is battery operated which has at least four eveready big batteries which may be consumed for a month. At dawn at exactly 4.30 am the radio could be heard. Then during the day, when grandpa is having his work or siesta we borrow his radio and listen to Visayan dramas as we were doing tasks assigned to us each day. Everyday that's the life we have at granny's place.
We still use the "pugon" for cooking. It is like a fireplace that has a chimney. Although it is a little bit smaller than a firplace where there are two holes for the pots and a little oven on the side. We use either wood or coconut husks for cooking. A lot of people like to use this kind of tool for cooking they say that its more enjoyable to eat the food because it tastes better as you savor the its richness of the food than the ones cooked using LPG. The fact that we use the raw materials found in the area we are able to save money instead of buying a gastank that is costly nowadays.
My errand is always at the kitchen to cook the meals during lunch and the dinner. Grandma cooks our breakfast because she's the early riser unlike me who wakes up at 6.30 am. I have learned to cook because of her. She taught me how to make suman, biko and especially the puto made from cassava.
So now, you wouldn't be troubled of why I have grown so big! I was a heavy child when I was a baby. My cousins and relatives used to pinch me because I'm so cute then but now they say I have grown into a beautiful woman and they say I'm still at the age between 25-29. I still look younger at my age it really doesn't show on my face because I have no wrinkles, yet.
In the farm, we walk miles inorder to reach our destination. Motorcycles are not yet the fads those days. So we hike at least thirty minutes to reach the highway, that is, if we don't tarry and get delayed along the way. And sometimes when the soil is wet and muddy it may also cause our delays. We really need patience to be able to reach our destinations.
Life in the province, is sometimes too tough and too ardous but when you take it lightly all will be well. It is thru persevering that we can be able to reach our goals. I am at least more comfortable staying in this world since its a familiar territory.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Simple Things I Want In Life
I find life a bore when there is nothing for me to discover. So, I look for something special about what life offers in its humblest nature. Something that could not be bought or it need not be expensive to feel its life.
Simple things I want in life are the following: one, a native wooden house, a caricature of my mom's house (in the province) yet this one is a miniature. I guess I find it safe and secure if I own something like a house which has a personal touch of mine. I can have my own space and relax.
Second, make my own garden that is full of flowers in bloom and in different arrays of colors and fragrance. It soothes my senses especially when I'm lonely and stressed from work. I enjoy looking at it because whenever there are flowers there are also butterflies around. I like the colors, it fascinates me and it gives me hope to live and carry on whatever life has to offer.
And lastly, this one would be a vegetable garden since I like planting. It is better to have fresh food all the time and that I may have a healthy lifestyle, too. With the fresh air around that is free from pollution I can finally say its a perfect haven for me to unwind.
I hope to have acquired all this in the near future. All these things could be for permanency. A life I hope to live by being single.
Simple things I want in life are the following: one, a native wooden house, a caricature of my mom's house (in the province) yet this one is a miniature. I guess I find it safe and secure if I own something like a house which has a personal touch of mine. I can have my own space and relax.
Second, make my own garden that is full of flowers in bloom and in different arrays of colors and fragrance. It soothes my senses especially when I'm lonely and stressed from work. I enjoy looking at it because whenever there are flowers there are also butterflies around. I like the colors, it fascinates me and it gives me hope to live and carry on whatever life has to offer.
And lastly, this one would be a vegetable garden since I like planting. It is better to have fresh food all the time and that I may have a healthy lifestyle, too. With the fresh air around that is free from pollution I can finally say its a perfect haven for me to unwind.
I hope to have acquired all this in the near future. All these things could be for permanency. A life I hope to live by being single.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Is this real love?
When do you begin to say that what you're feeling now is really love?
We always fall in love with men on whom we thought he had all the ideals we have in mind but when we get to know him better we are surprised with what's in him that we had at first sight thought him to have passed all those criterias we have in mind. It was just simply an infatuation. In reality, we often look for it in the man but due to limited numbers of men in the area we often single out the man among the rest.
So, when do you begin to say that what you're feeling now is really love?
Maybe, when you also feel that he begins to care. Its not just about giving attention but also sincerity of that person towards you. Simply said but others don't follow the same rules. Anyways, it becomes a give and take relationship now. You begin to be in one with him.
Love never limits you. Its does not control us but it gives us strength to support each other. It would be selfishness if we try to control the person we love. Our loved one is not a robot that we try to control whatever he does in life.
Respect of each other's opinion matters, also. There are times when men wants their women to just listen to them. Give them time to be heard! There is a right time for everything if not this time then maybe later.
Finding love is never too easy. There are lots of trials around. But with two people sharing and acknowledging each others weaknesses and strengths it is a good attitude to start a relationship because you may never know what may have happened without trying it first. It is really a risk. At the end, we always find it fulfilling to learn to love and felt loved.
We always fall in love with men on whom we thought he had all the ideals we have in mind but when we get to know him better we are surprised with what's in him that we had at first sight thought him to have passed all those criterias we have in mind. It was just simply an infatuation. In reality, we often look for it in the man but due to limited numbers of men in the area we often single out the man among the rest.
So, when do you begin to say that what you're feeling now is really love?
Maybe, when you also feel that he begins to care. Its not just about giving attention but also sincerity of that person towards you. Simply said but others don't follow the same rules. Anyways, it becomes a give and take relationship now. You begin to be in one with him.
Love never limits you. Its does not control us but it gives us strength to support each other. It would be selfishness if we try to control the person we love. Our loved one is not a robot that we try to control whatever he does in life.
Respect of each other's opinion matters, also. There are times when men wants their women to just listen to them. Give them time to be heard! There is a right time for everything if not this time then maybe later.
Finding love is never too easy. There are lots of trials around. But with two people sharing and acknowledging each others weaknesses and strengths it is a good attitude to start a relationship because you may never know what may have happened without trying it first. It is really a risk. At the end, we always find it fulfilling to learn to love and felt loved.
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