To all the parents out there, can you help me out?
I just want to know if you also admit your mistakes to your children?
How do you do it and how do your children react?
Thanks! 
June 9 Part 2
There are instances where you can choose whether to listen or not. Like when a friend tries to tell you about the wonderful things about her boyfriend. You can always snap at her and tell her to “talk to the hand”.
But I just think that there are circumstances where you have no choice but to listen, not that you are forced to but because you simply value what the other person has to say.
When I become a mother, I’ll make sure that I’ll be the first one to know of my child’s thoughts, ideas, imaginations, dreams, and whatnot. I’ll make sure that I have time to sit down, just to listen, to know her through her thoughts and stories. We will talk with each other not just because we have something to talk about but because we simply cherish each conversation together. Coz I know, a mother will always try to give her offspring what she didn’t have as a child.
June 9 Part 1
Is it cowardice if I prefer to write down my thoughts rather than speak up? Is it cowardice when I actually try to speak up yet I break into tears in the middle of my first sentence?
Friday Night
I hate the fact that I can’t waste this cold Friday night with you.
So I guess I’ll settle for a virtual hhww.
If our love’s insanity, why are you my.. freakin’ LSS.
Surviving PRC Iloilo
If you are totally happy with your life right now and you need a dose of stress just for balance, you can always drop by PRC Iloilo. There you will hear and see all kinds of drama, excuses, and pleas. There you can also observe a variety of frowns, mouth twitches, and all kinds of body language and… smells.
I spent almost 3 days for my registration to take the board exams, about 5 days for my registration as a professional nurse in 2011, and I have been waiting for the release of my PRC ID for over a year now. Actually, months before I started to work, I bugged their office to print my ID, heck, I even tried to enter the Admin Office but to no avail. If I inquire in one of the windows in the Records section, the woman tells me to call them first to confirm if my ID was already available for pick-up. If I call the office, the receiver tells me to just inquire in their office personally. Eventually, I became too lazy to follow it up until a classmate from Elementary posted the picture of her PRC ID on Facebook. I asked about how she went about the procedure and said that she took a priority number on a Thursday and was told to come back the following Tuesday. The Releasing section serves only 150 numbers per day so if you want to acquire one, you have to be extra early, like 6 am even if the numbers will be given at 8 am.
Today, I got a Holiday off and I was already outside the office at 6:30 am with only a few people before me waiting in line. Minute after minute, a bunch of people arrived and at 7:30, the security guard was giving out some flyers.
There, yet another procedure. I was actually calm the whole time because I was ready for something worse than this. Lucky us the regional office is only in our city. I feel for those who are from Antique, Aklan, Capiz, or Negros who spend money on their fare and even overnight stays just so they can get a priority number.
This one’s at the back of the building.
Other advisories:
PRC Iloilo has been like this for years already. I wish they could come up with something so that they can cope with their backlogs. They have caused delays and hassles in the schedules of so many professionals already.
My advice to you, fellow taga Region VI: bring a fan, towel, a bottle of water, earphones, pocketbook, ballpen when you plan to go to PRC Iloilo. Photocopy your claim slip and other documents that you think are necessary beforehand and on top of that, take a lot of patience with you. Let’s see what I’ll get after ten days!
You can also read more rants about PRC here:
PRC-Iloilo gets online flak over ‘bad service’
‘Twas a Sky Full of Lanterns
Yesterday marked another milestone in Philippine History. We got the record for the most number of sky lanterns lit and flown simultaneously. And I’m so proud to say that I was part of it!
The event was a call for peace through inner peace. Seeing thousands of people gather in the huge football field of UPV Miagao and watching the sky lanterns fly high to the air was simply overwhelming. 
With my sisters, nieces and nephew. Credits to my cousin Maybelle for the pic
Glad to meet my college batchmates there too. Thanks Alfa for the pic
Breathtaking. Photo by Mark Alfabeto
It was a once in a lifetime experience. I know, for sure, the people who have witnessed the event were truly touched and found peace within themselves just as I did.
Check the video (by my sister) and the news.
This little piece of paper
Whenever I feel disheartened about work, I pull out this sheet of paper from my drawer to lift my spirit up.
It was given by my patient’s daughter some hours after her father passed away one day in February. For every one unreasonable folk, there are three grateful ones. True enough, when you’re only doing it out of compassion and not for compensation, a greater reward awaits.
