Would You Believe?

 What other bamboo I can think of? You know what? The house that our family had in the province was made of sturdy durable hardwood and bamboo. The bamboo materials are placed or located to the kitchen. Our bathroom was built on heavy duty bamboo poles connecting to the loo through the bamboo bridge with bamboo rails. For quite sometime the bamboo bridge which extends to at least twenty feet away from our house, I mean the bridge is connected to the bathroom. That bridge is very memorable to me on one particular incident that I wont ever forget. It is a place where my brother Ramon and childhood friends Inday and Nestor used to sit on and chat and tell tall stories. It is a place where we played and on that sunny afternoon we had that joint all together leap holding on to that bamboo rail, without fear and with all our might we all jumped. The weight of our bodies and the force, the energetic force all combined together has broken the bridge and the railings. Shocking circumstances that brought the house down, the story of that day has reached the Green Bank or Va. It was ridiculous yet funny circumstances and consequences of having the airwaves to ourselves . As a matter of fact a signal that leads to the end of the Vietnam war. Thank God! That 's our giant leap to the ground. Thank God there is no gecko, wild lizards, wild boar and komodo dragon in sight. The rest of the story? Nah, next time.

Just to let you know that NEWS travel faster in those days even without high tech gadgets. Even without telephone, cellphones, videos and TVs. Gossip and rumors travel faster and spread like wildfire. That's before the 70's.

The picture above is my photo with my loving and caring Mother, carrying me while I hold on to that special paper sort of a context while my brothers and sister waits for the test. My ever beautiful Grandmother smiles for the camera. She's a half and half Spanish mestiza. She is or was always been told to have fairly white skin. She is compared to "maputi siya, kasing puti ng ubod ng niyog."  The scenery as I remember was at the Antipolo Church and the gumamela (hibiscus) plants in the background.

What the "context" for? Oh, you don't know? My mentors supposed to be the great Dr. Sigmund Freud, the great philosophers: Aristotle and Plato.

 Here it is the guy. Sigmund Freud who preferred to be alienated in his dealings with the conscious analytic behavior of his patients. I happened to be not the patient but a person who followed his footsteps.

Now what? So, this is the PLAN.


Photo above: Mother Teodora, E. Verna, Sister Imelda, Grandma Honorata, Bro. Angelito, Bro. William.

My Life Is Such A Freaking Bamboo

Moving so many stuff, furniture, appliances, upholstery, chinaware and all what is important for good living you wont believe how long it took us to settle in our new found home.Almost eight days of gruesome back breaking hard work, yeah call it hard work carrying and lifting, loading and unloading of heavy boxes and you wont believe how we managed to do it. My husband Lorne and I are compared to bamboos for our endurance, strength, and flexibility to obstacles.

I was carrying big box full of stuff when I fell down on the staircase. I hit my spine on the lower part of the stairs. It was painful but I managed to get up and pretend that nothing really happened. I have to get out from that house and moved out. It's a miracle that I was able to get up and walked. Same thing that when I was run over by a car and still managed to walk. Although just for few minutes then I fell down on the pavement because my leg was so sore and numbed. Numb because there is no feeling whatsoever. I was limping up to the hospital and the medical practitioner found nothing from the x-ray result. WTH is that? That I don't know maybe sort of paranormal happening or maybe I was delusional but having those people as witnesses of a miracle that is something to think about. Or call me crazy. Maybe I was an alien. lol

 Anyway, here's another bamboo collection. It is a set of "Bamboo leaf Corelle collection of coffee mugs, plates and saucers. Nice beautiful square piece stylish design. Instead of the traditional rounds we have the square ones. This set is a birthday gift for my husband Lorne. He loves the square because it's unique and extra ordinary not boring.

I kind of think that it's all about SQUARES now.

After all my name is such a SQUARED.

 What else is bamboo here? Oh. my teen is into Bamboo collection for his gadgets, tools he needs for his painting. His artsy endeavour is surely a lot of help. It keeps his creative mind going to the ideals of creativity and asethetic beauty. Skills for life.

The above photo shows the bamboo, a japanese bamboo given by my daughter's teacher from school.

 Here I am sampling the macaroni chicken and beef sopas with lots of spices using the bamboo leaf collection square bowl and plate. We must square everything today or now or never.

My creativity (self-portrait painting of myself) and wholesomeness image > pacute! in my olden days age 28 sitting on a sturdy rock beside a brook and the background is a cascading water. Tossed a coin and made a wish.  On the left side of the background are young bamboo trees and probably since many years have passed those trees are already up so tall and lively and old but strength and durability that they can withstand the test of time.

Okay, not to remind you of the "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" wherein the bamboo trees captured so many exotic and vibrant cinematography in that one of the greatest movie ever told.

Bamboo, bamboo, bamboos!

Fabulous Door

There are at least 200 symbols:objects and subjects you can derived from this very special kind of door. A getaway or gateway to almost anything within the realms of your senses.

 Great for your vocabulary too as you played gimmicks with your friends, with your family and relatives.



 List as many things as you can SEE by staring at the door. Imagine the possibilities and you'll laugh at your own wit as you tackle one after another.

Of course let me start with pushing the button.

Farewell To You Grahambell

The moving out process placed a heavy heart on me just because I'll be leaving a beautiful place where sunset lifts up the heaven above. However it is for the best that we need to get out there as soon as possible because we are looking for the best and brighter future ahead. Greener pasture awaits us in another land where lovely, enigmatic and panoramic sunset will magnify us in a different way. A new found home somewhere in Area 51.

Don't laugh it could be true!

So bye-bye dinosaurus. Bye bye thesaurus.

Oh God I will miss those cherry blossoms. The pink colors such a bounty, lovely.

Goodbye neighbors you bored me to death!

Oh did you feel the earthquake this morning? There is a quake felt but probably didn't register to 5.9 to the richter scale. How powerful an earthquake would be so that we can stop the walk?

I know too many felt annoyed and too many are so annoying right now.

You can walk the walk if you want. You can run to and maybe you can go rushing as fast as you could.

What is the protest about? Darn what a --------!

Are they after the Russian slutskaya? That's figure-skating in the sky! I don't know how to send messages to the people who are into protest walk and titled in such a way that you would rather work at Horton's What a name!

I know too many unemployed people, too many are frustrated about their lives, about the government, and I don't know what the government are doing. Too bad I don't work for if ever be I am working doing the WORK real work I am probably the richest person in the world because I don't really sleep anymore because I always think about the world.

See the WORLD. not only the country but the W O R L D! I should work for the UN = United nations.

How we can stop fire? How I can stop the flood, and how I can stop earthquake. Most of all how I can stop bad news from being aired on TV. Why? Too many untrue news and UNtrue date of events being aired or broadcast. Well don't blame the newscasters for they only read what is being presented to them and they have to report it through the screen.

I know you would like to protest about what makes you happy. You are frustrated, disappointed. What could be your cause? No money? No credit cards? Nothing that makes you happy? No work, no job and most of all no house? No car?

Pins and boxes! Darn what for? You really love stanley milgram experiment? Better ask Minsky. maybe he knows the answer.

At the end of the day's work of blogging here is what I'm having for supper. Of course I am the cook. Learn how to cook and you'll have something to eat esp. in a country where food bank is just few meters away. Although haven't been there because I prefer to BUY MY OWN FOOD.

Thank God my husband is working. Thank God he's got a job we have food to eat. We have water to drink, we have a house to stay in and we have a family. For those who would like to tear as apart GTH!

Who Said That Nothing Is FREE Anymore?

I'd like to think that too! Nothing is free. Everything is paid by money in cash, in cheque, and by credit card payments. Everything in this world means a lot to us because we are worth it. That's right nothing is free you have to pay all of them accordingly.

If that's our mentality we should not breathe anymore. Well you have to thank God that the air we breathe is still free as of now and days to come...

The water is free? Of course not. We have to pay for it right? Then there was rushing water, called flood. How lucky those people having free water running through their river, to the sea. The last time I have seen that area somewhere in Brazil is just a land area almost equal to Sahara. But no, the flood was down there in Manitoba to Mississippi. The floodgate was open for business of rushing water.

The water flooding the area must be a blessing in disguised in places were there are so much drought. It just need skilled workers or water purification and in less than months that water system will soon be ready for safe drinking water flowing your faucet and tap. It will irrigate the land area intended for agricultural purposes and what else? It keeps the farm land viable for all the vegetation that the whole community can nourish and enrich. They should build wells to store the flood water not just keeping them "run amuck" without a stop.

Hmm--just an opinion. What could be the real story?

Anyway, hemingway good to get out in a while in my comfort zone. Seeing the sleepy downtown area once again after being isolated for three weeks in my den. I should call all the weird fiery lions and let them roar at the many obstacles in my life. Yeah make it more challenging than usual until I quit from this boring world.

But wait, like to post the FREEbies from yesterday. FREE CATALOGUE from SEARS and a flyer from THE BRICKs. Imagine how thick the book from Sears. Shiny glossed paper, great good quality ink and photographs inside the book catalogue, did you ever imagine the cost of the paper, printing, and publsihing of those catalogues? Don't ask the cost it must be mind boggling but then their store caters to such high quality furniture, clothing and accessories, and appliances and the price of their products and the numbers of their customers probably matched so much profit for their business that's why those catalogues are FREE.

They are probably the stores that made so much profit and what else could be the reason why they giving out something free. There must be one reason for that. I wont tell you because it's a trade secret. Secret is confidential in other words and that's what savvy businessmen and business minded people set the trend.

Sunday Is Funday

The flood that you know may be or might be the irrigation system and the fire that you see is probably a "kaingin system." But of course people love to exaggerate things. Who want controversial issues? YOU ARE!

Me again trying to have a crop rotation. When in Rome do what the Romans do. They built aquaeducts and what you have to build in this life time? Or are you going to plant? VvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvvvvvvvvvvvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvV

What kind of plants up there?

When all you see is nothing but small news. From dikes, canals, river to sea.
Anthill, mole hills, hills, valleys and mountains, and peak.

Bigger is better! From kayak to canoe. Yacht, catamaran, sailboat, to cruise ship.
How big a boat you want to have?

Could it be that the ark, the big boat, the giant boat that we keep sailing is the earth?
Who knows eh? It could be a plan not a planet.
Vyking 1, Vyking 2. Ang lalaki na ng beke nyo.
He he he.

Oh life! Are you losing your religion?
Sunday is Funday
Do you have fundador for today?

Saturday Rant Fever

With so many blogs I have to update and novella writing my whole day is occupied most of the time plus the household chores, the moving process...and thinking just for myself makes me feeling so dead-tired.

It is very tiring and thank God I am in good health. Ah, there are times when migraine will come back and forth but thinking about headache will only prolong the symptoms. I have to think positive or be optimistic and pretend that there is really nothing that hurt. I am in no pain. That's right! That will settle the process. Even if it slow.

As I told you before, what could be the best process of doing it and moving forward? Being slow but you have the luggage and boxes that you need or being fast as lightning and in the speed of light no luggage you can carry? Why? Because in the super speed theory you end up being in the tiny particles called dust.

This is me trying to humor my readers and wait ---did you look here again for some insights, some ideas you can deal with and perhaps you can use for your own blogs? I bet you do. You keep looking here for your topic. It's hard to find a subject for blogs especially if you are writing or blogging for five years. There comes a time when you run out for innovative idea, for new but not boring subject. Next time look for adjective, verb and predicate, ok? lol.

Bagels yesterday, bagels today. My tummy is filled with blueberry bagels and coffee from Tim Horton's. Maybe that's what it is to keep me going and type here non-stop. Reminds me of the first discovery of coffee beans in the wilderness wherein the goatherds or let's change them to sheepherds noticed their flocks running wildly and so gayish (excuse me I am no homo , gayish is just being happy) around bushes of coffee bean plants. Gnawing bits and pieces of those berries. That's what coffee brings to every living beings > life! Life in an adrenaline order. Driving with my pc.

Oh by the way, I also find out day by day who are reading my blogs that even if I have no comments being read here I can find through other blogs what they are reading. Yeah, me being resourceful and keen observant. Then I read what the monitor had to say in the shout box> they don't accept spam. That's right! Ahahhahah. They are scared of spam that some of the comments were deleted for my blog's protection. Wow! That's awesome! For you know some of those comments act like very friendly but actually just bearer or carrier of bugs and virus. So beware. Be very aware. It's best to be very cautious because you wont believe how many computers been replaced just for me to continue blogging. To be exact, this computer that I'm using is the 4th so wish me good luck that nobody mess up my entire source of happiness.

Good day everyone. Hope you keep on blogging just like me.

Language That You Know Might Have A different Meaning That Others Cannot Comprehend

Thank God for caller ID and or gadgets that can verify or see the caller's name and phone number. At least you can call them back and find out who they are and what they are after for.

How many times in the past when I received so many phony callers, telemarketers and unknown callers or the so called anonymous callers. One time I was asked for an interview via phone solicitation survey of some kind. I asked the person on the other line what I'll be getting if I answered his questionnaires. Anyway it was nothing sort of survey by Telus. That was long time ago. It was for about 5 minutes but actually it end up to 10 minutes. This is before year 2000.
Imagine if that interview was taped could they be able to imitate my voice?

Oh by the way, didn't the Immigration of Canada happened to have such voice tape recording too?

Then what happened to the former Pres. Gloria Arroyo after those "tapes" or taped voice of herself phone conversation with Garci? What if your voice is similar to Nepomuceno and you think he is Marcos? Yeah just the VOICE. Voice can incriminate somebody of any wrongdoing. that's what happened to some politicians. Darn! NCIS and CSI combined scenario?

I think too many people without job and without money that's why there are too many desperates nowadays.

I could laugh at the many celebrities who would sell their lives through BOOKs they have autographed and written. Pleassssssssssseeeeeeeeeee! Don't compete with us when it comes to writing. A ahahhahaha!

Shania Twain already have a book after her separation with Matt. I wonder who will follow that kind of step forward? Betty White had a book. Marilyn Monroe had a book. Maybe Arnie and Maria will have a book also. FGS! Everyone will have their own book to be published.

But who will have a very interesting BOOK of them all? Something very extra-ordinary, unique and one of a kind. If the trend now is divorce your husband, move with another man and you'll have a book trend then that's a boring story.

But if you move with a monkey and other animals in another planet just you as the human being will it be more terrifying? Would it be more interesting for so many of us to read? Or you changed your name, you changed your face, you live in another country, and adopted so many orphans, you produced a movie with these group of orphans who are zombies and what else could be the climax? Maybe it's best to buy a ticket at macs and maybe you'll win 649 or win $2 from the gold rush.

As I watched an old Japanese movie last night, a good man had an old man taken from the dumpsite begging for money and was placed in a bar together with the drunk men earning nothing and he was heard saying he gained money by begging on a piece of mat outside rather than tending to that bar full of criminals. Shocking! That's dubbed. They actually speak Japanese- the language of the actors.

My Heroes

With too many hoax and scams we should all laugh at the perpetrators of these bad news and we should call SUPERMAN, Princess PEACH and Super ET.

Let us conquer evil and evil doers of this world.

Let us make our world a better place worth living for.

On Being A Mother

Just couldn't believe of the "many gaya-gaya!" Oh my God if my stories and strategy will be copied by anyone without my permission couldn't help ask what's really left for me? I know my son knew it already as if I can hear him murmured "you need to be famous Mom." Because when somebody's famous had stolen your stuff, it's their and st. people will believe everything that they've stolen is theirs because they are powerful and have influence.

Oh really? Who is really powerful is GOD nobody else! At least God knew everything.
EVERYTHING.

Last night I had a fascinating dream once again and it's really really superbly scientific. Don't tempt me to post it here. Although if you are reading my blogs and happened to read the "Dream Link" you'll know and perceived that I am a dreamer. Um, actually the right word is a SEER. A seer not a jester! That's it with an exclamation point. lol

By the way, good news for the Roman Catholic devotees the "Beatification of Pope John Paul II" arrived way too early. According to the news this morning millions attended the ceremony in Rome. The city of Rome originally only has thousand population, from the pope, archbishop and the clergy plus the Swiss guards in colorful stripes guard outfit, to have millions of people there including people from Italy, tourists and spectators is absolutely amazing. To the city of Rome : V V V

Religion or religious rites are more than privately been practiced by the truly devoted Catholic and that's the reason why it's not aired or there is not much broadcast on TV.

Why the beatification is way too early than usual? The reason for this is somewhat related to how many (quanta) miracles or divine intervention the Holy Pope has acquired. For example, you are sick of mind blindness and you prayed so much through the intervention of the late Pope John Paul II which you honor as patron saint. Then you were cured of your ailment. Or you are paralyzed from waist down and it's impossible for you to walk and then you were healed and able to walk. Miraculous power through the help of prayers. Valid reasons that the healing was made or happened in his honor. All these miracles are then investigated thoroughly without a doubt.

Or you had finished a hearty supper of cheese placed in a big bowl and managed to have the bowl on top of your head and used it as a helmet which protects your head from the sphere and then yelled "duck!"and it did help you win a trip to Bahamas and you won a Ford Focus. That's a miracle! No doubt about it. Now I want you to watch Garfield.

In the case of Jesus Christ there are too many miracles attributed to Him. And that's the reason why He was the Lord of Lords. He is the son of God. Need to be reminded of that? I don't think so.

What about the intervention of the Holy Mother Mary? That I don't need to explain. Even your own Mother is sacred. For you are born unto this world through her womb. Most of all you are alive to relive your own existence. Most of all you have a MOTHER.

It's not magic. That's what you call

MIRACLE.


Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers who tried to make the world a better place to live.

In advance. Happy Father's Day.
Out he goes fishing without telling me.