IN-LAWS: how to deal???

Happy times are here, I hope it stays. I haven't got so many things to worry about except that we're running out of toothpaste and we have to remember to buy now 'cuz tomorrow it'll all be gone and eeoww. Really, we must not forget today ... BUY TOOTHPASTE!

And now, I wanna share to you about the person who is very good with his in-laws ... yup, eyes rolling, goose bumping, jaw clenching in-laws ... But for my one true love, that is NO hassle. He is dear to my parents as much as they are dear to him ... aawww. I sometimes even wonder if I'm their "real", true-to-life daughter that they take his side when we have some rows! While I, could not imagine being left alone with his mom or will I be able to share a room with her for more than an hour ... I'm just too shy or just too worried to make mistakes in front of her... besides not being able to speak their hometowm dialect, my relationship with my in-laws are quite/slightly/gently doomed from the start... BUT surely, I' am working on understanding words and phrases, that I now could catch up with what they're saying ... I just couldn't speak it, not anytime soon! ... and when I practice, he hardly recognizes what I just said and laughs. poor you.

Language/Dialect barrier, how bad can it be? For relationships not to flourish? ... bad. You can't really build that much out of elaborate gestures and smiles all throughout what seems like a conversation. While my hubby speaks mine since he studied in the city I lived in and though I understand some, I never could speak other dialects except my own ...

TRIVIA: In my province, Albay (popular for the Mt. Mayon) travel 15 mins. to another town and you will already be greeted with a different dialect! ... Travel 15 minutes more and another dialect ... the farther you travel, the more dialects you'll encounter.

AND so that is not easy. It's just not an excuse for not bonding well with my in-laws, it really is not easy. (believe me.) I swear!

The point is: Some people are just good with people and some people are like me, who needs more time to relax and be at ease with her surroundings, to sort through her brain some possible topics that one could discuss with in-laws and hopefully they elaborate in answering to avoid that awkward silence. You can never guess how jealous I am of people who can instantly be cool and get on with a conversation with someone they just met! Like, where do you get that??? What do you say? ... It's also a part of our culture that you can never be in a room with someone and say nothing. You can say "kumusta po?" ... (how do you do?/how are you?) then ask about occupation, school, kids, address, home province ... while nodding and smiling a lot ... and then try to make a connection between the things he/she said and yours. viola! is that it??? Are those the things you say even to in-laws? Because I can definitely deal doing that. Maybe with the same confidence as in meeting a new friend ... I'm brilliant with new friends and my old friends.

AND my parents, oh! they are the greatest, they welcomed our husbands into their home like their own sons. Even introduced my hubby to some friends and cousins over lunch last Saturday as being kind and devoted. *blush**blush* (I'm the proud owner!)

If only my in-laws could say the same about me...

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Prologue

'Said I'd do words for people and then try to work on a list about who matters into my life and why ... apparently that list is not happening. I think I'm gonna write freehand. I think it's more sincere that way that I let my emotions go whenever the person comes to mind. Kinda like a psychiatric evaluation ... using a flashcard of faces and my reaction is taken on record... hmmnn.. ahaha...

No...actually, I wanna do it for the purpose of reminding me how somebody touches my life. As we all know relationships come and go as we journey through experiences influenced by good and bad people. It's as important as events, hobbies and lifestyle. So to start, I wanna take mention of a person ...aarrghhh... why is my brain teasing me of mentioning our President and her boob job??? That is NOT a world issue people!!! Get it off the papers and television!!! NOW.

whew jeez. I'm really just trying to make mention of a person who treated us to dinner last night.

Conversations on a Monday

When I woke up this morning I said to myself that I should sleep early next time, so I wont feel washed out everytime I wake up! I said that too yesterday and it's bad enough that it's a Monday morning and I was up 'till 2:45 a.m. (not cool.) So my husband goes:

-What did I tell you about sleeping so late?

and I go,

-Well...

Trying to make sensible reasons in my head ...

-Well... if you have done the dishes last night I could have written my blog earlier, surfed through facebook and launched all the applications I've signed up to.

He looked at me as if I was talking Martian.

-OOPPSS...

Realizing that it wasn't the smartest thing to say, I beamed a toothy smile at him ...

It was really my turn to do some chores yesterday but I just wanted to see if I can get away with it. Who knows, he sometimes let me! hmmppff ... yep, my head feels floating and my eyes dry and heavy...

"Who ever invented Mondays?!"

"But you know what? I can live with TWO mondays in a week!" I said while opening the windows to a bright Monday morning.

"... just make all the other days Saturday!"

My husband chuckled.

"...and who ever invented work?"

as my brain automatically processes informative reasons that we need to work even if I was thinking of how good life must be if there are no companies to work for and we all just have to TRADE in goods like sweet potatoes or something ... my brain asks:

"...and where will the sweet potatoes come from?"

-"argghh. I still need to farm them."

-"Farm what?" husband confused.

-"the sweet potatoes." as I scrabble the closet for what to wear.

Then my life with computers and buildings are better than farming the sweet potatoes I was hoping to barter. Farming is a tough job, I would've loved to farm if it will be shady all day! Since, I love earth, the smell of earth, the smell of wet grass, collecting slimy worms, to see sprouts ... the closest thing I came up with here in our city apartment is owning 3 potted plants that stand on the bathroom window... how sad. I wish I could have more ... but I give those little greens all the love they need. I sprinkle them water everyday making sure that their soil is just the perfect moist and placing them back on the window sill to get enough sunlight. (There goes my farming skills) ...

I did my stretch, I watched my morning show, took my shower, dressed for work and did my make up ... husband ... waiting.

We grabbed coffee and off to work.

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ciao!

ME is for Mother Earth

Showing some love.

Just finished watching Wall-E, the Disney film? I know I should've watched it at the theaters when it was shown, it would've been really worth my money, if I had helped Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen rake in more money by tagging along friends and family a week ago... I should have watched films like this. Wall-E, a robot ... and the only surviving creature on the planet, while humans have inhabited Axiom on space for 700 years and has lived a very, very lazy lifestyle, with NO interaction with other human beings other than on screen like a hi-tech version of chatting on the internet! NO physical activities even getting dressed is done by a push of a button, everything is done by voice command and sophisticated robots do the work. Yeah, you can imagine how the humans look ... tubby beings. Cute, but not really how you want the human race would be in the future. We always think that our future is better with more conveniences, I mean who ever thinks of having a bad future ahead, of course we want it to be always better than where we are now, I don't know if anyone of you is contended on where he/she is at this point that "improvement" is not much of a need and will only try living life the way he/she knows how. hmmnn... well, being comfortable with life now is different from being "contended" ... Life as it goes should always be about learning, about the future about how we want our doings to end up and if we stop making a better future our goal ... we might as well be dead.

So how come life on earth as in Wall-E (the wholesome movie) can project the future to be without clean air, trees, with violent weathers and junk?! That is the future??? Really? wow...( wow in a bad way...) Well, it's a HUGE possibility, the film is not all fiction but there's truth in its purpose, that if we don't CLEAN UP our act we will all end up in who knows where if we can't invent that floating space vehicle to save us all and that in truth is a LIE. Or okay, you wanna believe that there could be a vehicle to save us all in space? Yeah sure, as intelligent humans are ... there is a possibility that in the future we might need that vehicle and may actually build one, but then ... when? Our time of self-destruction is ticking faster than a blink. Of course, when one side of the world is asleep the other side is awake, it never ends ... the destruction? NEVER. how sad. How I wish when we are awake in our particular time, we do something to help SAVE the PLANET. A fraction of our future plans should include all life-source conservation or ELSE ... build that space vehicle?! quick.

I think those probes on Mars and other planets that could someday be our new home is bull ... pardon me but hey! why? WE wont need a new home if we take care of the one we have now... MAYBE the ONLY one we have and we're not given any other choice until EXTINCTION. that's again sad... That humans can be so powerful that we can extinct ourselves. jeez. brilliant.

OK. So now that I'm aware and my views totally renewed by Wall-E ( the Disney film). I'm gonna get involved. It doesn't have to be grand ... I tell you, you don't have to join those organizations at an instant that you think you can help ... (but if only I could squeeze them in my routine, I would!) We can all start by doing things in our homes, backyards and community. WE can all start by carrying out the awareness to our offices and share it with friends and family. WE can all use our own BAGS for grocery each time (see my earlier post on green bags) WE can always re-use and conserve. When we do this, we protect our future.

the plan.

I'll never have their figure but I definitely got HEAD.

What a weeek! I thought I'd never survive it! haha... wow, such a busy week it was that I hardly had a good sleep and a good meal... uhmm... kidding about the meals! I've been actually fed really, really good that I think my diet is again curbed at a direction I'm in denial of! ... yeah, yeah they all say I'm eating whenever they see me, or I gained weight and I'm like ... "I know." "Diet starts tomorrow!" (like it will!) ... Well, I don't think I'm fat, I don't think I could ever be thin anyway! I'm 5ft. 6 inches tall, with broad shoulders and wide hips, even if I cut on food to death I'd never be stick thin! I'll always have this hips and this shoulders and this butt! Sooo, yeah ... I don't fret being called "fat" if they're sizing me up against a 5'2" person! ... And I don't see why being super thin is more acceptable than having these curves, crazy people! crazy media! crazy fashion world! hmmmnnpppfffff....

Anyway ... my world is full of wonderful people, I wanted to make posts about. Interesting people in my life who are inspirational to me, who make me better, who are good to me and even the not so good to me! Everyone who's touching my life everyday and is making me the person that I am now and will be.

I'll sort my list out and start as soon as I can because you'll NEVER know until when the person is good to you! (haha) kidding! I will mostly mention good people, people who loves life and shares my values. We all have people in our lives who makes great impact on who we are and how we deal with the world. I'm sure no one is ever alone. So I'm doing "my" people some words before I'm too old to remember who they are!

So next post will go under a label: P.I.M.L. (people in my life) ... I know, ask me if I'm gearing my blog into the "relationship" category with some sort of psycho analysis ... hehe Nope. Of course not ... my dealings with people is as AVERAGE as anyone, I can't say many things about how to relate with people, or how to read people so you can be better towards them ... I'm just going to do more posts about people I know and I want to remember, (that simple.) 'moral lessons may come by accident ... that'll be good!

AND ... will there be naming names? ... some I will name, some I wont. (especially if I can't find any goodness in the person at all!) NO, I will not name them ... BUT I'll use pseudo names, so don't worry, things will be subtle and completely NORMAL.

here fishy fishy!

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We spent this day at the Manila Ocean Park with the parents. We took them to see the Oceanarium. You know how back in the day that we don't have these things that's why we had so much fun watching fishes (we've never seen before) swim around, especially loving the sting rays because they swim very gracefully and has a "smiley face" when seen from the bottom. (see photo.) ^-^

The Manila Ocean Park, pay only Php 400 entrance for Adults. Important Rule: NO FLASH when taking photos (flash does stress the fishes). Take your time in viewing the aquariums, read and listen to introductions and information (if you're not too busy taking photos!) and Have FUN!