Thursday, August 18, 2011

Bata, bata















The year was 1989. Life was simple. It’s all about the basics.
Apple was only a fruit to many. OFW were just letters.
Wellness was not the “in” thing yet because
people know how to eat right. Everybody knows everybody in my old town
and they talk to each other (real time and touchable). People help each other.
Kindness is contagious. My childhood, oh my childhood days…
my kababata will love this…

Sources of nourishment:

Chocnut bars (better known as Chocobot), Pom Poms, Zeb Zeb,
lechon manok/baka (monosodium glutamate-rich and false meat-flavored chips), iced candy, tira-tira (pinoy toffee), saging con yelo, sago’t gulaman a.k.a samalamig, mangga/singkamas slices on stick with the ultimate bagoong, turon (banana fritters), banana/kamote-que, tubo (sugar cane stalks), adik (pastillas-like bar. I don’t really know who and how it got its name), Bazooka (loud pink gum in very ingenious wrapper with comics strip), Pritos Ring, Chippy, halo-halo, home cooked alas-tres merienda, taho, binatog, mais, yakult, kornik and butong pakwan, sorbetes.

Sources of fun and laughter:

Piko (hopscotch), tagu-taguan (hide and seek—forever!), Nintendo, Game and Watch, moro-moro/ agawang base, patintero, shato, mataya-taya, ocho-ocho, Chinese garter, ten-twenty, langit-lupa, bato-batopik (rock-paper-scissors), nanay-tatay (gusto kong tinapay), sungka, goma, pick-up-sticks, teks (character cards trade), lutu-lutuan, biking during hot summer days (skipping nap time with take home broken elbows or bruised knees), catching tadpoles during rainy days, shadow play during brown outs, watching Batibot, playing sand and mud (turning them into traps when bored), making homemade clay dough, paperdolls and puzzles (creatively self-made), bubbles (self-made using The Standard Gumamela and Soap Concoction), climbing up the mango/aratilis tree, chasing butterflies, catching dragonflies (there’s a technique to catch the prey without breaking its wings).

Was it really simple?

Life is a gift that we unwrap each day.

:-)

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Monday, August 15, 2011

Sunday, August 14, 2011

atsi












the yin in my yang,

my spongebob,

froyo buddy,

and super friend

in good times and in good times!

:-)

Monday, August 8, 2011

friends and froyo

always have something to look forward to.

:-)

Sunday, August 7, 2011

unloading sentiments

what do you do when you feel like giving up?
when your life is shattered?
when you can barely process what is going on around you because
you find yourself drowning in your own tears and your low EQ
just keeps on shutting your options down?
when for the first time you dont really know where to go?
when you cant even pause for a moment to think about your next step?
then you suddenly realize the answer. it's always been there.
you were too engulfed by your sentiments to even notice or remember.
but it has always been there.
you unload your baggages
and go back to the heart of worship.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

it's a marathon, not a sprint

i finally had my BMI test last week.

the result says it's going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

:-)