Month: April 2007

  • Home sweet home – Independence at last

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    For those who don’t own their own houses yet, do you already have a dream house in mind? I already have a rough design of my dream house etched into my mind ever since I was in high school. This was conjured up during one of my technical drafting classes, where we had to design…

  • April 26, 2007 – Thought for the Day

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    “So often in life, we think that because we have done things in a certain way, certain results would follow. But life is like the ocean. Sometimes we get caught in squalls & storms & things don’t go the way we think they should, even when we think we have done right. But God can…

  • Today’s good news and bad news

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    The Bad News: I wasn’t able to come to work today. With a lot of ongoing projects that I need to juggle, I could barely afford to miss a day’s worth of work. The Good News: I was able to spend the entire day with CJ! 🙂

  • A T-rex blast from the past

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    I was driving home this afternoon, along Manila’s Skyway, when I happened to pass by a familiar-looking van. You see, I used to own a green model ’98 Hyundai Starex minivan (the first vehicle that I ever owned, hence the sentimentality) which we affectionately called “T-Rex”, a play on the word Starex. It was sold…

  • On parenting: Baby’s mouth blisters

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    Daddy’s new word for today: Herpangina – mouth blisters, usually common in children. Today started off differently. We woke up at 4AM to the sound of CJ’s crying. This usually indicates feeding time, and so I did my now well-versed ‘rouse-myself-out-of-bed’ and ‘fix-up-a-bottle-of-milk-while-half-asleep’ routine. I was halfway through the motion when Conne, sounding rather alarmed…