Nostalgia # 10: Where is your Home?

Where is your home? Some of us are fortunate to have called home. Some are blessed because they have a family who loved them and provided everything they need. Some are borne rich and all the luxuries are there.

But some are not. These children are unfortunate to have home. We called them an orphaned. This is a place of children who became the victim of irresponsible parents. Who was to blame? The children who never know everything about future? Or those parents who have a hardened heart that ignore their kids. How many parents, woman, lady and young parents who have misfortune and subjectively repeated.

Every one of us has a responsibility of our own life. If we grown up and become matured we had already know what is wrong and good for us and for our love ones. We have emotions that have a big part in every decision we have. We have a heart that feels every emotion we have every time we decide. We have brains that help us to fix on. Are you agreeing? Whatever, that are the way that I express my feelings about these things.

Luckily, I survived in my case when some unexpected event in my life happened. God helped me through. I love my daughter and she is my life and inspiration, I took her with all my care, love and affection. I am poor but I strives to give her a good life. To let her experience how happy to have a life despite the odds we’ve experience. We have no perfect life, but through a good heart we have, we can handle a beautiful, peaceful and joyful life we want to be. Life is beautiful if we know how to appreciate it.

Anyways, pictures below are some of our school activities when I was schooling. My groups choose to visit orphaned kids and we made some contributions to feeds them and invited a pastor to helped us entertained the kids.

We played with them and talked with them. After, some activities, we contributed some give away, such as: clothes, milk, soap, notebook, pencil, crayons and etc. Heartily, we are so much touched and cried because of their situation. But, I can still say that these orphaned kids are still lucky to have place to comfort them. Thanks for the staffs of Gemma’s Orphanage who gave us an opportunity to visit this kids who also touched our life.

The kids have freedom to be happy. In this picture, we let them to sing with us.

dance with us.

They love to listen our stories.

They love the foods we prepared.

They are happy to play with us.

And the whole group, are happy too, because our moments with the kids are the big part that we shared with them. We are too lucky because of this kids they touched our heart and they gave us more understanding about their life.

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Nostalgia#8: Badminton

Playing badminton is one of our way to get our stress. Last year is the stressful year for me because of different activities we had been prepared. But, this is not actually a hindrance of our badminton session because after our training at 9:00 in the evening I and my co-league can still escaped just to play our sport.

We enjoyed playing badminton because we are also conscious of our health. We want to burn some fats, look fit and earn good health. We are also enjoyed taking pictures while we are playing.

Star waiting for the opponent

Star and Lainy ready to fight

Facing the camera first before playing

See, how photomaniac we are? though we are ready to play we still need some time for picture taking .

A group picture together with our boss, after playing badminton,

Anyways, I miss playing badminton. The last time we played that I remember was last February this year. A reason why I am now getting fatter and heavier because we stopped our sports exercised. Do you know who is our team leader? It's Lainy, cheers!!

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Nostalgia#7:River Tubing at Maitum, Sarangani Province

Have you tried to fight your life in this wild running water? What would you do if you drown in this strong untamed water then the big rock waited you to hurt?

I still pursued to play my life in the said water and deadly big rocks. I said to myself, I am brave and I know I can survived.

When my group are ready for the adventure I hurriedly wore the helmet and the life jacket for protection in case we were be lost.

In this picture I am uneasy and I need to fake my smile on the camera.

After 5 second briefing, we prepared ourselves for the adventure.

Ok, here we are, enjoying the the wild water and deadly rocks facing on us everytime we were trapped in the whirlpool water. I experienced to sink once and thanks to my rescuer, I was not hurt too much.

Some of my group drowned in the water and been hurt from the big rocks they encountered.

Group pic before the adventure

Indeed, we had successful adventure and we had enjoy the water though it was dangerous. Seeing the strong water after the adventure I had realized that I've been put my life in danger. I promised myself that I will not to play my life again in this kind of activity, one is enough at least I had try one.wheeeewwwww!!!

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Nostalgia # 3: Taking Picture with the Famous Boxer of the world!

Sometimes, it is a great honor to have a souvenir pictures with celebrity.

Congressman Manny Pacquiao ran as Congressman in Region XII-South Cotabato Province, last May 2007 National and Local Elections.

Some pictures are taken during the time he visited in the office.

from his left, star and lollii (my daughter), from his right, Ate Gina and Patrick (the boss)

All staff with Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao

Manifesto (Signing of Covenant)

Manny and Star

Mayor Darlene Magnolia Antonino-Custodio and Manny Pacquio

Manny while signing a Shirt souvenir

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Memoir's in Malaysia - Great moments with Windy

When we planned our holiday in Malaysia, Lainy did her best to convinced Windy to meet us. We felt sad when he sent a negative reply that he can't come because of his final trial of his case. But, when we touchdown in the Airport, Lainy received some messages from him that he started to travel from his origin place to Genting where we go for a holiday just to meet us.

Reminisce' those moments how Windy made some trouble because of Vincent, OMG!!! I am too worried about him and baby Vincent, but before Vincent, Windy made a first joke with me, pretending he is jimmy on the line, I can't recognized his voice because of the blurred, what i heard is the named jimmy, gosh....remembering those moment, it made me laughed and smile. That's how Windy made a real joke is.

Anyways, our journey is one of the most exciting and enjoying part of our experience. I want to share with you some of our pictures of the first day of our travel.

Gensan Airport
Thanks, I convined lollii to bring my handbag for free, hehehe.

From NIA Airport - Terminal 3

Malaysia Airport

At last, we were here!!! What's -up Malaysia!!

"How I love to be here again in Malaysia with my dear Jimmy"

Confirming our rooms booked by my dear Jimmy for us.
Since, the room are fully booked, we offered windy to share a room with Lainy and Lollii.
"Wow, Windy, you have a lot of Filipina Girlfriend ah"

"Lolli with her Uncle Windy"

This is reality!! I met Windy in flesh!!

And maybe, i am the photographer here, No..no...no...I'm still with Jimmy..hehhehe

"See Windy!! you have a lot of Filipina girlfriend"

Hmp...i know i am the one who took picture here.

Windy, we are glad that we met you in Malaysia. Thanks, for taking care of us while jimmy is not around. We have no regret for our 3 days vacation in KL..ouch!!

The Awaited Time- Part I

Time flies too fast, we can't hold it back, but rather we need to face it and accept it. We need to enjoy for the opportunities given to us by GOD,the greatest gift, LIFE. Our existence in this frenzied world is not a game that we waste but a life that we need to drive in the path with His guidance.

Driving our life is not easy to handle. It is so hard to start if you don't know what kind of life we want. It is hard to choose a path if we wish more than for our life. It is hard to step forward, if we don't know where we going through, it is hard to walk in the left side if we are not sure of what things waiting for us there. It is hard to go the right side, if we have a lot of worries in our mind. But it is hard for us to stay in one place that we know someday it make us suffer.

I have a lot of ups and down in life, I admitted that once in my life, I lost my strength, my dreams and my goals. But, I thank God for having there to guide me the right path that brings me where I am now.

Maybe one of His reason why I need to be strong because of this innocent little angel of mine. I am much responsible to took good care of this little angel. She needs me to let her feel my love and affections.

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

How can I protect her if she scared alone? She needs me around for her safety.
She needs someone while she is still learning to explore in this world.
In her journey, she needs someone to discover something that she don't understand.

Though, she suffered the uncertainty in life, she is still there ready to step upward to show the world that she is ready to face the world.
In her smile she reminds me that she is very much special. And she needs me to cover her with my love.
She gave me recognition of those time that I share with her.

The life shows us more complicated but we still there together for better or for worse.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. ~Cynthia Ozick

That I appreciated too much because whatever circumstances that we had, I never heard any regret from her.

There is no perfect life.

Believe it or not, she survived from anxiety from situation she is facing everyday in her life.

Life that we never give up, because we become more stronger.

The number of time is not changing, but everything change her gradually, she learned much of her self.

I appreciate this kind of recognition she shared for me.

She is my precious one that helps me to perform my responsibility as her mom and dad.

A best friend she need most in her side.

Now, she knows more about life. She knows how to appreciate around her.

AT this time, she is ready to accept responsibility.

I know, because she learn more from her childhood and junior life. Now, she starting of her journey to fulfill her awaited goals in life. I pray that God will guide her way and teach her to learn from whatever mistake she takes, to accept from the failures she experience. And may God helps her to become more mature spiritually.

This is the most awaited time that I ever had to my daughter Lolli-pii. As a mother, I only wish and pray for her great future.

“The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.”

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