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Anniversary Special
Jogye Temple
At Myeong-dong Catholic Cathedral (Seoul)
This is my special blog, this blog won’t tackle Odiongan, but my life.
July 26, 2008. This is my husband and I 1st anniversary. Well he thought last Saturday was already July 26, (lol, he is so excited huh?) That’s why after visiting a Jogye temple (the largest buddhist shrine in Seoul) and Myeong-dong Catholic Cathedral, he brought me to Everest as part of the anniversary special. This is one of the happiest day of my life…
It was a so tiring day, my feet soar wandering around the city. He asked me what would I like to buy as anniversary cake, a normal cake or something special. Well after musing for a few minutes I just told him, up to you but I prefer a normal cake. Because I know we cannot eat a big cake, it is only the two of us. We will just waste money buying an extravagant cake. So as you can see the blueberry cake above is our first anniversary cake. It is so cute!
Late at night, after I have read a message from my sister that they are really broke as this time, I cannot stop my tears running down my face, then my husband came asking me if I received his e-card, I look at my spam folder and saw it there. When I opened the card I was touched and my tears run down again, call me silly but I ask him “Is this true?” He was shocked and said “What?” then I have to repeat my question. He laughed and says “Of course that is true”. I just cannot believed what it is written ” I am so lucky you are mine.”
“I thought…..” I have said a lot of i thought…finally our problem was resolved. We got a lot of misunderstanding with our jokes, moods and with our character. He said he was just kidding when he said I was his maid, that was a joke from a friend which he borrowed. He said one time they have a get together with his friends and they are drinking and some food fell to the floor, his friend said “Don’t cleaned it up my maid will do it ” maid referring to his canadian wife too. And there’s a lot more issues that had fixed that night. Maybe it only happened that I am very sensitive and we don’t know each other yet so deeply. Well we have been together for one month and 7 days, plus the 2 weeks during the wedding.
What I will not forgot too was when said he will help my family as of now that they are in crisis, I asked him why, I cannot stand seeing you crying. (I don’t want to see you cry. It sounds so sweet….
Maybe I could not write for two weeks, because we are going to China this Saturday as part of our anniversary special, it was his treat for me.
Thank you sweetie! I love you…..
Motorcylce in Odiongan
Well this are the motorcycle in Odiongan, who ask bigger pay if there is no gasoline around.Graduation Day
Dumating na ang araw na pinakahihintay
Ika nga ay araw ng paghihiwalay
Bakit tingin ko ay ordinaryong araw lamang
Walang dapat ikasaya o ikalungkot
Bakit? Meron nga ba?
Ano ang dapat kong panghinayangan?
Masasayang sandali sa piling ng mga kaibigan?
Tama nga ba?
Sa apat na taong nakalipas marami akong naging kaibigan
Ngayon araw ng pagtatapos wala na akong maintindihan
Kaibigan ka lang kapag may kailangan
Maalala ka pa kaya kung sila ay okay lang?
04/03/03
When the house is on fire!
This is our house, as you can see it was burned. Lol! The story is below:
It was a normal day when I wake up, after drinking coffee I collected the firewood that tatay had axed before he went to work. When I am done I had ask my sister to put the firewood at the top of our “kalan” to make then dry. When my mother ask my sister to cook something for breakfast and saw the firewood, she told us not do it again because it will cause a fire. Well I don’t know else what happened after breakfast I have been busy washing our clothes. My sister and mother went outiside to see if they can make the palay dry because at last the sun had shine after a few days of raining. They found out the street outside was wet (because it is not cemented yet). After some road works we (coz I already joined them) found out that our water pipe is leaking.
After making optional way for the water with my uncle help and Budok, the water in the street became little, suddenly one of my cousin is hurriedly running and shouting “You’re house is on fire”. I hurriedly run at our house in return, a big fire on our kitchen welcome me and I was shocked but I immediately throw a water in it, then my mother came, some of the relatives follow and help to kill the fire. Everything on our small kitchen was wet, including the eggs of the chicken laying beside it. The chicken already flew, left her eggs on fire.
Our mother scold us, I never knew that my sister returned the firewood at the top of the heat. It was a very tiring day, if our house was burned. I guess my father will kill the two of us, it was his birthday that day. And our gift to him is burning our house. Lol!
Is it over? Nope! The party has just started!!!
Is it over? Nope, the party has just started! Every barangay fiesta you will found dance party for people, awarding night, search or the so called pageants. It is part of cultural heritage. As you can see at the above picture, rain or shine the party will continue. Well the management lossed profits here, nobody buy the tables and chairs, and nobody buy the lechon and beer. It is a big loss but the party or the search need to be continued. Those people above were the barangay fiesta management, they were soak on the rain as those people were soak watching too.
ADIDAS 4 Sale!!!
Whe you heard the word ADIDAS what comes to your mind? Shoes? Socks? Did the word “chicken” had ever crossed your mind? Hehehe, Yeah, ADIDAS in pinoy is chicken feet. It is called PAKALKAL in Kapampangan dialect.ADIDAS is one of the food that you can see along the street (Philippines) in barbecue stand or fish ball stands. It is a chicken feet marinated and cooked in soy sauce with onions and garlic then roasted then deep in a sauce of your choice (spicy vinegar, sweet, or sweet,soy sauce with specie and spicy sauce). Hmmm..Yummy!
Native Houses in Odiongan
When you came accross to some far barangay in Odiongan, you will commonly see this kind of house, with only one door (front). This is my grandmother’s house beside us…
Drinking Buddies (Are they going to help?)
According to the statistics, Odiongan has a bigger demand when it comes to alcoholic drink (esp. Gin). There is a time that Gin is out of supply in some store., Romblon is one of the poorest province in the Philippines. So how could these poeple manage to buy such alcoholic drinks? I have been asking this question ever since, my father says he drink so he can sleep at night from a very tiring work during day time. Yes, they make those alcoholic drink as a relief for body pains. Working as a carpenter is a very tiring work, whole day in the sun hammering nails, cleaning woods, cementing walls and etc.
Other drinks alcoholic drink to forget problems, the question is did it help?
I have always heard my mother asking my father, does your drinking buddies will help when you get sick? Are they going to be there and give support?
The answer is NO, they will all disappear. No one will help you when you get sick, they know you as long you can buy and drink with them, they just know you beyond the table you are circling with. My late grandfather from Tarlac (motherside), has come through all this, everybody knows him when he have money, but when everything goes down no one has left from the many friends he had before, you cannot even see his drinking buddies. He died, because of lack of medical care, medicine.
We lived far from them they are on the North (Tarlac) and we are at the South (Romblon). My grandfather has no degree he works as “JUETENG agent” (it is like lottery). My grandmother has a small store but it melts because of competency when a big store opened in front of them and lack of financial to make it stable.
Well as I have said drinking buddies were not for keeps, there are times that a crime happened while drinking. Shot or killed by his drinking mate thats usual in newspapers.
I just hope when man drinks keep in mind what will happened if you got drunk…
Flowers: Makes your day colorful! : How True it is?
When you feel sad and blue, flowers can help you gay.
That’s what the saying says but …
It’s been a two days since i wrote about my life, I just hope everybody is going to listen with me. I have a problem to deal with.
It is almost one month since my father has no work, as what I have told before he is a carpenter and he is the only source of our living. If no work , no food. It is hard to live this kind of life. And like what I say I am with my husband, I have no problem regarding what to eat because he feed me well. My problem is my family in the Philippines, since father lost his job, they are striving very hard now to live…maybe still lucky that last season we have few rice sacks(father plant rice because it was his term to plant, it ends last june), but because it is always raining in the Philippines (rainy season) they cannot make the grains dry to be milled. My mother has no work, so no one will help them. My sister is studying, she need everyday allowance going to town. Not like when I am still there,I have a work even I only get a small compensation.
My additional problem is my father he needs to be check-up, my sister told me one day that his left chest is growing and I don’t have money to support it or my family has none. In our province, medical facilities is poor (Romblon). I have ask my husband to lend me some amount so I can send it to my family, but he just laughed and says “How could you pay me? You don’t have a work?” It sucks, it really hurts, I burts crying last night…I feel so weak, hopeless and helpless….I don’t know what to do. I guess you understand what I feel, you cannot let something bad happened with your family. You love them more than you love your life, you will do anything for them. That’s what I feel…
I am looking for work online, but regarding with my visa here in Korea (i am not allowed to work here, I can work but illegaly). So I am looking a work in China, even online job or the data entry job I am looking for it. I also started blogging so I can earn with adsense, but how long it will takes so I can send money to my family, they need to eat, my father needs a medical care. I am so lost, I can’t stop my tears… I want to do something but I don’t know how. I never stop praying…
So help me God!
:((
P.S. Anybody knows other way to make money online?
Odiongan (Tablas) Security Agency
WELCOME TO . . .
Well, Odiongan is being progressive now a days. A new security agency was established, to help poor people in the community to have a job.
This agency is located at the rooftop of JEN & L Bldg. or the ODIONGAN LODGE.