At the risk of being thought of as judgmental and self-righteous, I am putting on paper my feelings and sentiments about how CHRISTmas is celebrated nowadays in this country, and most probably, everywhere in the world.
I am sad and at times, even appalled by the extreme consumerism businesses have made out of a poor Jewish Read More …

Cooking is therapeutic to me. Aside from the necessity of dishing out nutritious food for the family, I cook because it heals me from my sadness and anger, boredom and apathy.
I do not follow procedures when I cook. I do not and can not cook the same dish with exactly the same taste twice. Read More …

“Sorry”
What are words? People often take questions like this for granted, until they are confronted with one and grope for answers they do not have.
For a writer, or a communicator for that matter, words are powerful tools to convey something intangible from the depths of the soul. Words are gems that can be arranged and Read More …

First Autumn

Autumn is setting in – actually creeping into this charming land. The mornings are getting exceptionally colder as days pass by. The sun arrives a fraction of an hour later every morning, as if hesitant to show up to signal the start of another day, and then drops too soon into the horizon in Read More …

London Trip
A chance of a lifetime presented itself when a couple invited us to join them in their tour of London. This couple has been here for almost five years. But the husband’s mother just arrived and he wants to take her around the country. London is their next destination, after spending almost a week Read More …

I like to think that life is a journey. Some people are going too fast, others linger in every stop. Others finish early, still others fade away before they have actually made a mark. I think of life as a journey because it gives me reason to get going – there is a destination I Read More …

Is Your English Good?
I am one person not easily let down. I mean, I am very secure about myself and I know that no matter how other people treat me, I am valuable in God’s eyes. That is where I am coming from when I relate with other people.
This mindset was put to good use Read More …

Screaming Nurse
I learned two painful truths about life of Pinoys here in the UK. One is a fact that a friend told me about and the other, I witnessed myself in one of the streets in Luton, Bedfordshire.
My husband and I visited a Filipina friend living with her family down the block one afternoon. It Read More …

It’s Not Fire!I met the first batch of our countrymen (or should I say countrywomen?) here in England in a BBQ one early evening last June. There were four of them, all seemed to be fast approaching their fifties. These four Pinays have been here in England for more than a decade already. They all Read More …

Settling DownIt’s been almost seven weeks since we (my kids and I) first arrived in England to join my hubby who’s been here for a year already. Time flies so fast, indeed. I can still vividly remember my harassed state when we were departing from the NAIA – I was forced to open our boxes Read More …