Saturday, November 13, 2004

I was furious today when I found out that my son had lost his cellphone while he's sleeping in a bus on his way to Parañaque City to pick up his Form 137 yesterday.

That's the fifth cellphone in less than two years!

Sunday, October 24, 2004

EX surprised me with a gift, a new oven, this afternoon! Finally, we can now bake and do some lasagna once again.

Monday, October 18, 2004

We had a great weekend. My mother and Tintin alternately cooked our meals and I feel so relaxed and obviously, I overate for three consecutive days.

Tintin and I went to Reyes Salon later this afternoon and had our hair cut. I got dizzy from the noise and heat of the blower and, told Tintin I wasn't feeling well. We reschedule my plan to rebond my hair and we hurriedly went back home.

I still have that long hair but, it's 5 inches shorter now.

Thursday, September 09, 2004

While hanging our clothes to dry in the balcony, I received a text message from my son asking me to pass him a load. And I had thought to take a photo of the balcony since the sun is shining well this morning.

This is the front view of the Balcony (open hallway) while I was standing at the main door of our occupied unit. Whenever I was bored waiting for the kids to arrive home, I wait for them patiently here in the balcony.

This is where I dry our clothes. The unfinished building with a white painted roof is where we hear the Sunday mass. This church is still under construction until now.

This is the right portion of the balcony. The hallway is spacious and I have two chairs and table here where I sometimes had my breakfast. This is where I sent the kids, too, whenever I was moody and I didn't like them to smoke inside the house.

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Got no luck updating this blog this afternoon as a transformer in a nearby area exploded and I have lost my entry. I had been offline for 5 hours!

I was sickly these past few days and they advised me to fall in love soon. Well, it was a joke and I know my sickness is weather related. Although it's currently a rainy season in the Philippines, humidity is higher. Also, since I have high metabolism, I sweat a lot while doing household chores. Guess I have to cut my hair short until to my shoulder level? Nah, the truth is, I was lazy to take vitamins... whatever!

There is a need to improve not only the categories of this blog but it's skin and layout. However, I am not sure if I am ready to shift to the latest version of MT. Afonso suggested Expression engine but, I need more time and dedication in learning any software.

Anyway, this is a warm message just to let my faithful readers that I am online most of the day but, got addicted with BlogShares practicing my typing skills...

Saturday, August 21, 2004

When my oven didn't work after cleaning it, I never bothered to use it again. I was scared some water went inside and I will be electrocuted. Never mind if I cannot heat the food, I shall wait until I find time to send it for repair. I'd thought things will run smoothly after that but, I was wrong.

Sweety Pearl told me late last night, that our LG 6 kg washing machine stopped rotating in the middle of rinsing our clothes. I shrugged my shoulders after checking whether she's joking with me or not. She's right, it stopped running.

Just the other day, something was wrong with my Samsung 21" inch Television set. We had thought it was from the SkyCable because the whole area of Project 8 had no cable connection for about three days. When cable service was restored, our TV's audio had weird sound and it was so loud I got scared it will explode even if it was in mute.

At times like this, I just wish my eldest son, Junjun, is around. Paul Denise is at the university fair since this morning. It's Saturday, no one is answering the phobe, there's no one in the office anymore...

Wednesday, August 04, 2004

My brother, Egay, together with his wife, Ana, arrived early in the afternoon. He took the measurement and bought some materials needed for the wall adjustment. The building maintenance, Raymond, helped and finished the installation since the couple has to pick up their only daughter, Trixia.

My room was a complete mess. I didn't know where to place my bed after A/C was installed. At times like this, I felt a bit sad because I was missing my house in Parañaque. I have spacious room there with separate walk-in closet and a nice toilet and bath with bidet and big bath tub... Ah! Those were the days... (sigh)

Late this evening, Ate Neth arrived and get her cash for her calendar business. She brought a CD to show me the calendar designs she created but, it was saved in .psd and my PC crashed when it failed to open. My goodness! The two image files she saved was quite big until my program had an error and the blogs I was voting to be listed on its proper industries on BlogShares disappeared! Whew...

Anyway, tomorrow will gonna be a busy day for me and I should really stop mixing playing on BlogShares while running errands at home...

Tuesday, August 03, 2004

The item was delivered this afternoon but, we have to wait until my brother finds time tomorrow to help us install it.

I missed my eldest son who is working in Saudi Arabia. If he's here, he'll probably do something to fix it for me.

Monday, August 02, 2004

I promised myself, I will live simply and try to live within our means. But, since we relocated here, I always got sick. My room is warm at daytime, and the heat from my PC caused more heat, making me feel uncomfortable. Every now and then, I coughed and catch cold, which seldom happened when we were in Parañaque City. I missed my house but, life has changed with us and I have to fulfill my vow to God (to send my kids back to college) by all means.

Anyway, in observance of Lung Month this August, I decided to buy 1.0 HP Uni-Air air conditioner at SM Star Appliance Center today with Paul Denise. I know it will hurt me to pay my electric bills monthly but, health is more important than couple of hundred pesos savings.

As gasoline price increases today by 50 centavos a liter, I'm worried electricity and prices of commodities will be next...

Thursday, July 08, 2004

Late this afternoon, a sudden heavy downpour of rain with strong winds prompted me to rush to the balcony and removed all our clothes outside. Worried that my daughter might get wet, I called her mobile phone but it was out of coverage area! There was lightning and thunder outside and I wanted her to take a taxi to go home for her safety.

Uneasy, I was preparing our dinner when buzzer alerted me. I went to the balcony and I saw her at the gate under the rain. I went back to the kitchen but she buzzed again so, I went back to the balcony to check what's going on. Confused, I was wondering if she left her keys. I got used with her buzzing habit before going up to let me know she's coming. But, when she buzzed again, I was then hysterical looking for my keys and then placed them inside a small plastic to protect breakage of key chain.

We're residing at the fourth floor and instead of going down to open the gate, we often throw the keys down to the ground floor and let them open the gate for themselves. We have learned this style from my mother when we first relocated in the building and we haven't make any duplicate keys yet that time. Since she has past the golden age and didn't like to go down, she threw the keys to us from the balcony!

To my surprise, my daughter refused the keys and instructed me to go down. I was hesitant at first but she was wet from the rain, so, I went downstairs and opened the gate for her. By then I realized, the maid of my neighbor had her key stucked and they could not open it from outside. Under the rain, I tried to play smart but, I wasn't able to remove it also until Raymond, the building maintenance, came from nowhere and assisted us.

While slowly going up the stairs (there's no elevator in the building), I was asking my daughter why her cell phone was off, I remember the frying pan with cooking oil was left in the burner. We hurriedly went upstairs and I almost pissed in my shorts from nervousness, worried to death we might burn the entire building!

Saturday, June 05, 2004

Yesterday, I paid another Meralco bill in just one month! My immediate neighbor was complaining because her electric bill was too much and unbelievable for 8 days consumption. She borrowed our electric bill as comparison few days back because I told her my bill was too low based on our average monthly electric bill.

I called up the owner of the building three days ago before they departed the next day to the U.S.A. for a three months vacation but, they told me not to worry about the neighbor as she was using electric stove and rice cooker.

Yesterday morning, I met Ayz and asked her to return our Meralco Bill copy. Glad the son of the owner of the building, Arnold, was also having a meeting with Ayz regarding her complaint. Not convinced with Arnold's suggestion to wait Meralco men to check our meters, both Ayz and I wanted to satisfy our curiosity about the possible switch considering the supposed buzzer of the unit we occupied somehow can be heard in the other unit. We had fixed the buzzer problem ten days after we moved in by just changing the unit assignment at the main entrance.

As we convinced Arnold to go with us downstairs where the Meralco meters of half of the entire units of the building are located, we found out that Ayz complaint was valid. The building maintenance, Raymond, switched off Ayz's main circuit breaker but the meter assigned in her unit was still running while the assigned meter in my unit has stopped! And, when the circuit breaker was turned off in our unit, Ayz's assigned meter was slowly running until it finally stopped.

To make the story short, we settled the problem by ourselves without depending on Meralco utility men to check the reported dispute. We requested Arnold to report to Meralco change of address of the two meters involved then I asked Ayz to pay me the amount which I paid in the earlier bill and in return, I issued the check and they paid the bill in my behalf.

Both Ayz and I have a big question in mind... how come the first occupants of our units have not realized the discrepancy???

Thursday, June 03, 2004

Three times I called PLDT 171 today to follow up the completion of myDSL activation but, I was told to wait for their call. Because of this, I have to stay home and Sweety was the one who bought 2 units of NOKIA cellphone.

I cannot understand why it took us this long to enjoy a DSL internet connection... our time had been wasted!

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

It's a wedding month once again but the opening of 223 ballot boxes containing 176 certificates of canvass by "22-man Joint Committee" is expected to be completed by Thursday, June 3rd while the entire Filipino people are tired watching the local news drama and we didn't know who is really winning the May 10 Presidential Polls.

Opposition to ask SC to stop canvass, questioning legality of the creation of "Joint Committee":

• Congress as a whole, and not a 22-member joint committee, should be conducting the canvass.
• Opposition will question the constitutionality of the creation of the joint committee.
• The joint rules were not meant to be a fair canvass.
• Speaker Jose de Venecia, Senate President Franklin Drilon and other allies of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo dismissed the opposition plan.

Source: www.inq7.net