My little princess, Khleomi Helen turned 6 last June 3 and she declared her 6th birthday to be the best ever. It was her first without a party and a first for me not being too harassed, usually I plan weeks before because I’m always hands-on with invitations, cakes – the works… And believe me, planning a 2-3 hour event takes a lot of patience and ingenuity. For this year, I skipped the planning part and just went with my guts. All she wanted was a cake, a barbie doll with spare clothes (she wished that on her fallen eyelash), a baby doll and me not working. Most of what she wanted was doable, the only difficult one is the “me not working” part. But a promise is a promise and throwing caution into the wind, I took a four day vacation. I did check my emails every now and then but I did not really do any real work which was a great feat for me. I haven’t taken that much pictures because we were enjoying too much… All in all it was a birthday to remember and just seeing the sparkle in her eyes made it all worthwhile…
I’m not really a whiner, although I do whine when alone… Let’s just say that “I’m not a vocal whiner”, that more or less rings true. I have a “can do” attitude and never say no to challenges, it doesn’t really matter if I know how to tackle it, what matters is I’ve set my mind to do it. I tend to handle everything alone and have this sort of “perfectionist” attitude in dealing with everything, I sometimes (always?) think that I can do it better – that is the bane of my life. I tend to argue a lot when I believe that my stand is correct (and even when its not) and I seldom say sorry when I lose an argument (which by the way, I rarely do… I think). Sometimes when I fall down, I find it hard to stand up, I wallow in self pity for a bit, recalling everything that happened and thinking of “what ifs”. When I was younger, crying is a really rare occasion. Now, I still don’t cry at least not in the presence of someone else.
I know that what I’ve written above doesn’t really make sense, its a sort of revelation that does not matter to anyone else but me. But now that that is out in the open, I just want people to see into their inner selves and try to identify their weaknesses and try to imagine what they would do when faced with the dilemma of climbing out of the deepest ravine of their lives. When you stumble or fall, do you get up? I sometimes think I can’t but so far, I’ve proved myself wrong time and time again. Its been a long time since I went to church and sometimes I forget to pray, but I know in my heart that God is watching everything I do and is waiting for me to call on him whenever I need help and believe me, I needed help a lot of times. I don’t really believe in a one true religion, but I believe that God lives in us and we can talk to him directly anytime, anywhere without any need for a third party. And in the times that I can no longer get up, I always call on Him and He never failed to deliver. It might not be in the way I expect but it will be in the way that will be more beneficial in the long run.
Below is a video that I recommend everyone watch and after watching, ask yourself this:
What have I done to deserve the life I am living right now?
I’ve toyed with the idea of homeschooling my kids a year ago but was a bit apprehensive because I do not have any idea how to go about it. But this year, its a different thing, I checked and researched all I can about homeschooling in the Philippines and although it is as of yet not that popular, it is considered a viable option by the Department of Education, the problem now is choosing the right homeschool provider for our family. We eventually narrowed it down to two, Catholic Filipino Academy and The Master’s Academy. Both have rave reviews from parents and I’ve been trying to get in contact with them to help me with choosing the right one for my kids. As of the moment, we are not yet decided…
Why homeschool? Mainly because I don’t want my kids to be stereotyped as PASSED or FAILED, and I do want them to know more than what can be taught in a classroom setting. I know my kids are geniuses in their own rights and as a mom I want to be able to know what kind of genius and to hone that into something that they can use when they grow up into adults. I was raised in a traditional school and although I passed with flying colors, I did have some difficulty during my preschool days because I have mild dyslexia, I had to undergo intensive one on one tutoring with my teacher in order for me to know how to read and write correctly. I got to read and spell properly during the middle of my Grade 2 school year. And after that, I breezed through it all.
I’ve always taken pride in the “researcher me” mainly because I have a knack of understanding and putting concepts into action pretty fast so everything I research is actually put into good use. My five years of Engineering didn’t actually paved the way for my current profession, I did enjoy my college years because I got to know a lot of people and experience a lot of things but I was more into journalism those five years than engineering. I wanted to be a lawyer but for some reason took up engineering, I do not regret the choice I made coz I made a lot of good friends and that’s where I met my hubby too. So all in all, it was a delightful 5 years of my life. I know you’re asking, why homeschool when I was enjoying college life so much?
The reason is because I want them to enjoy college while taking the course that they want to pursue. I want to prepare them as much as I can and let them hone their talents so that they will be able to decide with their minds as well as their hearts. Most people I know will see us as weird and will always ask the same questions over and over again. My kids will get as much social interaction as they can, even better than those kids cooped up in a classroom most of the day. They will get to enjoy school and they will learn as much as they can about a variety of topics that they want to learn and they will be able to cope in a social situation, mainly because they will be assured of our love and understanding no matter what happens.
This open source short film makes me want to learn how to use Blender… Big Buck Bunny was unveiled 3 years ago but its magic is still very much alive even until now. My kids love it, we just watched it (3x) a few minutes ago and being open source I am free to show this to you in full. So enjoy the hilarious antics of three nasty rodents and Big Buck’s payback. My little princess literally cringed on the butterfly part, she loves butterflies! For those peeps who want to know more about the creator of this funny and inspiring short film, here’s the link for you –> Project Peach
There are three more open source films made by the Blender foundation and I’ll post them all as soon as I finish downloading them and showing them to my little critics for approval.
I was about to sleep after a really tiring and emotionally draining day and was anticipating a restless sleep when something tells me to check FB. Am I glad I did, I found this video about a call center agent talking with an old guy… I was crying from laughing so hard! This is a must see, I once worked for a call center as a dell tech support and have had my share of really annoying callers but after the call and after finally thinking about what just transpired, it usually cracks me up. My heart is aching, from all the laughing I did and I needed to laugh… Laughter is really the best medicine.
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After the 8.9 earthquake and tsunami, Japan is once again in another disaster in just less than a day and this particular disaster could possibly turn into a global one. A few hours ago, the Fukushima’s Nuclear Plant reactor #1 exploded and there have been reported radiation leaks. The Japan government is keeping as mum as possible to avoid mass hysteria, all we can do is offer our prayers to these people and for ourselves as well. There is already mass chaos all over the world and this disaster might just be the tip of the iceberg, mother nature is telling us something. This is our wake up call.
The ones suffering can’t always recognize the rainbow when they see one and it is up to those who can to enlighten them. Everything happens for a reason, it might not be what you expect but these instances good or bad sends out ripples that touches everyone of us.
To our brothers and sisters in Japan stay safe and don’t lose hope, the power of prayers and love are pouring down on you.
Let us all take the time to stop and ponder the reality of our humanity, stop the chatter, stop the war, stop technology for a minute and offer a silent prayer of hope for humanity, ask our Creator to help us understand and accept things because we don’t have the power to stop nature’s wrath but we have the power to understand it and to make the necessary steps to insure our existence.
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I’ve toyed with the idea of homeschooling my kids a year ago but was a bit apprehensive because I do not have any idea how to go about it. But this year, its a different thing, I checked and researched all I can about homeschooling in the Philippines and although it is as of yet not that popular, it is considered a viable option by the Department of Education, the problem now is choosing the right homeschool provider for our family. We eventually narrowed it down to two, Catholic Filipino Academy and The Master’s Academy. Both have rave reviews from parents and I’ve been trying to get in contact with them to help me with choosing the right one for my kids. As of the moment, we are not yet decided…
This open source short film makes me want to learn how to use Blender… Big Buck Bunny was unveiled 3 years ago but its magic is still very much alive even until now. My kids love it, we just watched it (3x) a few minutes ago and being open source I am free to show this to you in full. So enjoy the hilarious antics of three nasty rodents and Big Buck’s payback. My little princess literally cringed on the butterfly part, she loves butterflies! For those peeps who want to know more about the creator of this funny and inspiring short film, here’s the link for you –> 
