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To my online dad and mom(?)

By manilenya - Last updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2008

I met her through her husband who I am fond calling tatay (father) -I saw him once, before I flew to Canada and the token of friendship (a bracelet) together with long conversation in blog comments, he really left a soft spot in my heart.

Back to her, although I call her Ate (big sister) I feel that she’s looking after me in the blog world like a mother - although there’s only a few years gap between us. One proof is that all her blog in Entrecard are in my top 20 droppers, she visits me plenty of times in a day. I really appreciate that. All the kind words and messages I received from her, I forever be grateful for them. And now the poem of friendship that she lovingly dedicated to me, I think I am one of the luckiest people on earth having them around me in the cyber space.

We need friends for many reasons,
all throughout the season.
We need friends to comfort us
when we are sad,
and to have fun with us when we are glad.

We need friends to give us good advice,
We need someone we can count on,
and treat us nice.

We need friends to remember us
one we have passed
sharing memories that will always last.

It’s funny that I believe that I don’t have a real friend all my life, but now, I know in my heart, even if I don’t see them eye-to-eye they are there to give light in my life.

Thank you for the friendship Ate Liza and Tatay Schumey.

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Late mutterings

By manilenya - Last updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2008

I am late for this word game but that won’t stop me from playing. Here’s my supposedly Sunday unconscious mutterings.

Signature:: Brand
Olympics ::Games
100% :: orange (juice)
Damn! :: I’m hot! (lol!)
Gold :: fish
Fresh and natural ::foods
Fraction ::a small part
Hurry :: me (they want me to move quickly)
Summer ::nights
29th :: of the month (feel free to add any month here)

See you on Monday Night!

By manilenya - Last updated: Friday, August 15, 2008

Next day’s won’t be happening, sorry guys but my battery is dying, and I left my notebook’s AC adapter at work. 15% remaining and I’m dead.

But that’s okay. I have all the time to start my cross stitching and of course, I’ll get back to reading my Love in the Time of Cholera book.

See you on Monday Night!

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Thank you…now what are you going to say?

By manilenya - Last updated: Thursday, August 14, 2008

It’s August 14. My last post was on August 11, you need to take note of that whoever are you that peeking on me. No, not the entrecard droppers but you who decided that because you already here, you decided to read a little from here and little at the end of this post.

As I was saying, I’ve been away again from the keyboard for 3 days. No, not really but I was away most of the time from the keyboard and I just realized that It always have to be after 3 days before I make another post. It’s another story if you are reading my 2 or 3 consecutive days weekend post, I know some of you knows the gossip that I don’t go out on weekends.

If I don’t post after 4 days, something bad happened to me. No, no, no. Don’t believe me, just got that from Nancy Drew movie.

And now I recognized also that I am not making any sense in this post. But it will make sense if I will dedicate this section to you all readers and commenter’s and blurkers and say THANK S TO YOU ALL!
You always made my day and of course the 4 friend bloggers who commented in my first and still a first post in my Bobang Pinay blog, never mind the old post, just dug them from the past.
Now, if I say thank you what are you going to response?

Here in Canada, there are two common possible replies. It’s either your welcome or no problem, but I always get to hear the “no problem”.

I still don’t know if I am making a sense here but honestly I don’t know when I am going to use the “no problem” reply when somebody tells me “thank you!” That’s really an awesome lunch!” or simply “thank you!”

Anyways, I want to say thank you all and sorry for not turning back the visits, I will make up to you in the next days…….

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More about me….

By manilenya - Last updated: Monday, August 11, 2008

Got tagged by Tin-tin but I refused to pass it, so no rules that needs to post.

1.At what age do/did you wish to marry?
– I got married at the age of 21, but I didn’t wish to get married that young. I don’t remember that I wish for anything. It just happened and apparently separation after 3 years had to happen too. I spent my late teens with the undeserving guy, I think 5 years of living together in holocaust was enough.

2. What color do you like most?
-I used to wear dark colors when I was in my teens, but as I get older, I realized that light colors makes me look like human (hindi kasi ako tao e lol!). Okay it makes me look younger. I don’t have any particular color that I like. I don’t know what I like in everything actually.

3. If you can have a superpower, what would it be?
-The ability to read people’s mind<– if Tintin wants to acquire this, I want to have the ability to eliminate sadness and states of fears at least for myself. These emotional states impedes me to have a normal life.

4. If you can travel anywhere in the world, where would you want to go?
-I want to see more of the Philippines first and then the rest of Asia, India, Vietnam and Thailand in particular. Oh I love to go to South Korea and if I could peek on North Korea, why not.

Mutterings: Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Me

By manilenya - Last updated: Sunday, August 10, 2008

I am giving you my Sunday Unconscious Mutterings and if you want to join and enjoy this word game, you can always visit lunanina.

Month to month :: January to December
Adjusted :: fixed
Prank :: callers
Mop :: the floor
Clarity :: clearness
Parenting :: a child
Glenn :: Close (101 dalmatian and The Things You Know Just By Looking At Her - I so love the movie)
Fingerprint :: NBI (National Bureau of Investigation)
Pineapple :: Juice
Attorney :: At Law

Now, because I really like the film Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At her, at this point you already realized that because I mentioned it three times in this post, I want to know from my few readers who loves to leave a comment here if what are the things that you can tell just by looking at me (that makes four) and of course by just reading my blogs posts.

(click this pic to see the bigger size)

It’s just a game, I don’t mind. I assure you I won’t get hurt lol!

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Rambling of my deranged fingers

By manilenya - Last updated: Saturday, August 9, 2008

Is my site ready yet? I’ve been refreshing my site for an hour, I am in the mood for making a post today when I realized that I was like ditched by this miserable site in the middle of the long winding road.

It’s been a week since Entrecard launched their magic toolbar and I was in awed because I figured that it will help me to get more drops than usual. I’ve been goaling to get 300 drops a day but my long working days don’t allow me to do so. It is even cutting me to post regularly.

11 to 13 hours work daily, depends on what time I want to go downto my room, there is nothing much to blog actually. And I don’t have that much knowledge on everything around me, all you see here is nothing but whining and drooling over something I want to do but I cannot do or I am refusing to do.

Yesterday I received a call from Winghill Writing School, it is an online school for writing. I said before that I want to learn creative writing, I don’t want to just blog about something and earn a little. Alright, I am making myself stupid here.

The Return of the Come back!

By manilenya - Last updated: Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Three years of blogging had taught me to believe in myself (a little) and to know the things I am capable of doing. For an easy going and was been tagged as “irresponsible” happy go lucky parasite( I just made up this, please mother don’t get mad at me), blogging turned out to be my crowning glory.

I was nothing but a freeloader when my parents and my sister resolute to bring me to Singapore to look after my niece. There, I end up using my free time browsing the net – I was not allowed to chat anymore for they spent hundreds of bucks during my one month stay some years ago. There was no DSL and cable internet that time.

I didn’t chat this time but I discovered a whole lot of new things that I thought were far different from wasting time bitching with other bitched online. Sad to say…the latter part of my chat life wasn’t good. People are fighting over – I hate to say this- money, power and boys.

I have no money, powerless and boys were not born to get close to me, so I better stay away with these people or else, they will eat me alive.

Hate and Love

By manilenya - Last updated: Monday, August 4, 2008

This is tough for me. I recall somebody asked me “what do you want to do Nalen?” That simple question, I cannot answer.

It’s also goes with the questions of what I hate, and what I love most. It’s not that I am insensible with my own feelings, but I am totally drowned if that topic emerged in the discussion.

But this time I will try to list 5 of what I hate and love the most at this present because I got tagged by Ms. Leah.

There are things, ways, or people we can’t stand. There are also things, ways or people we can’t live without and would love to do over and over again or be with forever.

List down 5 things you hate and 5 things you love. Then, put the link or links of your blog or blogs in the list. Tag at least 5 people

Weekend in Niagara and my mutterings

By manilenya - Last updated: Sunday, August 3, 2008

So I went to Niagara today believing that I will explore the place all by myself because my uncle and his family are bound to go shopping in Buffalo, New York. I still can’t believe that you’ll only cross the bridge from Niagara and you’ll be in New York, that’s cool!

They didn’t cross the border because of heavy traffic, and I found myself strolling around Niagara with them.

I got some stuff for me and a Zippo for my father, but was not happy because I didn’t bring any of my two digital camera. I was very eager to this second visit to Niagara and was planning to buy my desired DSLR because the place is so grand. I had some photos of it in my old camera but I know the photos taken with DSLR camera will outdo my previous shots.

I Eat, Pray and Love too

By manilenya - Last updated: Saturday, August 2, 2008

I don’t read that much. It just recently that I dutifully buy books, whenever I run off the nearest store that sells books or to Costco - they have a good deal of books, and I even spend a hundred every time my employer invites me to go with her.

I buy but I don’t read that much. One book took me more than a month or two, to be honest. But when I am reading, my heart is all in it -especially when I don’t understand the words, I need to look up for the meaning and its synonyms.

I also tend to find the likeness between me (mostly my situation) and the lead character of the book that I am reading. If I see one, it becomes my bible…I see the need to contemplate, and I end crying.

At times, while reading, I am likely to put down the author. Not that I feel like a writer and a good one, but I am just like that, and I end closing the pages.

Recently, I just finished reading Eat, Pray and Love, to which I know, few readers of this blog can recall that I post it a few times in my previous blog post.

That’s where I learn the Italian word Attraversiamo, which means “let us cross over”, or if you don’t want to walk on the same path again, let’s go to the other lane…Or street and move on. It’s all about moving on and I like the way I comprehend it.

I love the book, and I surely want to read it again (just let me finish my review for my driver’s license exam.)

How Dare You Thief!

By manilenya - Last updated: Thursday, July 31, 2008

Sploggers are now pushing me to the limits. Almost every day, I get to see my post in various blogs that made by these crawlers/sploggers. They are all in my incoming links and they are even in my feedburner’s subscribers. I am just letting them because I know that nothing will happen and they will just continuously polluting the web with those nonsense copying and taking advantages of the backlink to get more links.

Isn’t it too much that you get content that easy and you get backlink at the same time?

Mama Mia…here I go again!

By manilenya - Last updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Speaking of Mama, have you watched Mama Mia yet? I did, yesterday night. After giving me the experience of a real party at last, my employer seem to enjoy playing the role of a godmother to me when she asked me to join her and her daughter to watch the said movie, who am I to reject the invitation?

It is another first for me, it was my first time visiting a movie theatre after almost 14 months of staying in Canada. I am getting a life now and I am feeling better because of that.

I am not going to piece the movie for a review, I will just say it is so hilarious.

It’s hilarious and Meryl Streep was so amazing. She’s 59 and yet oozing with sex appeal. When I saw her jump onto the bed, the way Miranda does every time she’s in the mood to do her gymnastic stunts in the living room, I was sated with awe.

I can’t even jump a little higher in the trampoline, considering that I am almost half her age.

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What type of parent am I?

By manilenya - Last updated: Tuesday, July 29, 2008

What type of parent am I? It is the second time that my friend Angel Cuala had invited me to join the Pinoy Parenting Blog Carnival (PPBC) 6th Edition I ignored the first time due to time constraint.

I don’t want to break his heart the second time so here I go, scratching my head while thinking what type of parent, I am.

I am a mother of an eleven year old girl, she is spending her last five years without me around, that suggest that I don’t need to answer his first question if I am willing to leave my kid to a nanny while working abroad. If may I borrow my employer’s ex brother-in-law’s words in last night’s party, it is so funny that I am working as a nanny while my kid grow up with a cousin who’s taking care of her.

She actually has a nanny since 3 to 6 months old, I don’t remember exactly but my mother had to hire somebody who can help me taking care of her because I need to go back to school. She sleeps with my parents and somebody was washing her clothes and bottles, how could I get as lucky as that, you would believe so?

To make the long story short, we lived together as sisters but to her, I am still her Mama. I am still the disciplinarian; you know how grandparents spoiled their first grandchild of course, so I stand as a chisel to whatever harm my parents could bring by giving her the most of everything.

I am not strict though. Not as strict as my friend Angel who is not allowing her 12 year old daughter to have a Friendster account (peace friend! Lol!)

I remember my aunt once asked me what if Aya become an activist like me (yes, I was) when she reaches the age that she believes she understand everything already.

My answer, of course, was she can do, whatever she believes is right, and she does it. I am just here for the guidance, BUT she needs to finish her studies.

I want her to discover her potential and her flaws. Also, I want her to learn from her imperfections.
It is so good to know that she is growing different from me, at an early age she is showing cleverness. I can see the artistic side of her in her profile page, so why would I impede her to the things she likes doing online?

I can’t believe, she already created two Friendster account, one shows the child in her and one shows the artistic side of her. She loves creating some dig scrap. And I can’t believe also that I am started checking her friends comments and asking who’s this and who’s that. Oh well, that’s the mother in me.

I am a mother, no need to ask what kind of mother I am to her, but I am starting to ask myself what I am to her. I guess, we need to talk about it later.

Now I don’t sound just a disciplinarian mother but also a friend to my daughter.

Below are the three digi scraps that she made.

A real party at last

By manilenya - Last updated: Monday, July 28, 2008

I thought, I don’t know the feeling of having a hangover anymore and will not get it any longer for the rest of my life. I still drink yes. A bottle or two beers while in front of my laptop, flicking my keyboards. Or a bottle of Beringer White Zinfandel, if I am not too thrifty enough to buy one (that’s only for me, they may get so lucky – my aunt’s visitors- if they can get some from my bottle.

But a drinking binge in a great night of party? Oh! The feeling of in the party atmosphere is so delicious. That, also, I thought I will never get to experience again.

It is a different party from Filipino parties I always have to attend because my bum is so tired sitting while my finger is working on keyboard. But I don’t like it. I don’t like, after eating, I will fight for the microphone and burn my eyes with edited images of Philippines beautiful places in WOW! Magic Sing – so unreal, why not putting real pictures for that, they earn too much from pinoy ex pats any ways – while belting out tunes as if I can sing.

I don’t like it when I am waiting in queue for the microphone again, and I hear voices shouting Tong-it or asking me if I have some spare…because they need some spare.

I don’t like staying up late in the parties doing nothing, except waiting for my turn to sing (again) and giving some spare to the tong-it player relatives.

I want real parties. Nice and contemporary music’s that will pull you to dance, overflowing drinks and foods, meeting new acquaintances and a good laugh while having everything at hand.

Last night, I wasn’t a guest in the party. I was still at work, helping the party hosts for they were having their wedding anniversary, but I must say that I had fun…so much fun that I had a hangover this morning.

But at least, i didn’t curse alcohol again.

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