May 31 2006
I have an unwavering faith in the institution and sacrament of marriage mainly because of the example of my parents who are celebrating their 46th wedding anniversary today. After 46 years, they have remained strong, sweet, loving (they still lock their bedroom door; yuck!), fun, understanding, and compassionate to each other. Even if [...]
May 30 2006
I was thrilled when we received the invitation. Jaimee, a young Filipina living and studying (or studied, she’s graduating this week) in Phnom Penh, was celebrating her eighteenth birthday and her parents were throwing her a debutante’s ball (or what we simply call debut) in the grand old Filipino tradition right here in Phnom [...]
May 25 2006
Naputol ang bakasyon namin sa Sihanoukville noong isang linggo bagamat marami pa kaming araw na walang pasok dahil una, wala na kaming kwarta, at pangalawa, naimbitahan kaming dumalo sa Royal Araro (Royal Ploughing Ceremony). Ayan talaga ang problema kuminsan sa trabaho namin. Kahit holiday, kailangang gumising ng maaga, mag-make-up, magsuot ng pormal (di lamang mukha [...]
May 23 2006
For the first time in my blogging life, I got tagged! Tin-Tin tagged me this meme about the simple pleasures of life.
Instructions: Name ten (10) of life’s simple pleasures that you like the most, then pick ten (10) people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that [...]
May 21 2006
I followed Niceheart’s example and finally joined the wordpress bandwagon and achieved at least one of my blogging dreams… that is, to organize my entries into categories. Yey!
I had fun organizing my categories and moving my links and importing my entries from my Blogger blog. It took a lot of time but I [...]
May 18 2006
These are the kids in the orphanage run by the Missionaries of Charity in Cambodia. Not all of them are orphans though. Some are abandoned and others are relinquished by their parents to these kind sisters. The sisters told us that the kids range from ages 0-12. But when I saw [...]
May 17 2006
There’s much to be said about a woman who was pregnant during almost the entire decade of the sixties to bear six children. But maybe the most important would be the things she imparted to her kids. For a belated Mother’s Day tribute, here are the things I learned from Mommy:
I learned to [...]
May 15 2006
Cambodia is not only Angkor Wat, temples, and Angkorian history and culture. On the southern part of the country is Sihanoukville, Cambodia’s “beach town” or “port community” which sits in the center of a small peninsula jutting into the gulf of Thailand. Taking advantage of the long weekend, Honey and I drove to Sihanoukville [...]
May 15 2006
Holidays are sacred to Cambodians as, let’s say, the siesta is to the Spaniards. There’s a story that during the early 80s when the Cambodians were going hungry because of several years of war, all distribution of rice from humanitarian organizations from the ports virtually stopped because it was the Chinese New Year. [...]
"We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter."
Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones
