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Anna's Tasa: February 2012

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A brew of random thoughts. February 13, 2012. Yesterday, it rained buckets again. Our street was a huge puddle, and our backyard was a mini swimming pool. My Blair Witch Project state-of-mind notwithstanding, there are no rainy-days-and-mondays blues for me. I love it when it rains, especially because of happy memories of no-school days, comfort food and paper boats. My rainy-day favorites- then and now:. 1 Cozying up with a good book, a piping hot cup of coffee and a warm woolen blanket. February 6, 2012.

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Anna's Tasa: December 2011

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A brew of random thoughts. December 21, 2011. Back to Grade One. I had my first Grade One party in a looong, loooong time. Since Grade One actually, which was decades ago. It was hard squeezing into a pint-sized armchair, and with 40 or so fellow stage mothers around it was one crowded affair. But it was quite a happy way to start the party season. And since it was held in the room where I spent my original Grade One party, it was like teleporting back to the. There were no I-got-a-towel tears during the...

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Quiet Stream: The pamanhikan tradition

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A mom's quiet thoughts. Saturday, June 08, 2013. In this day and age, marriage has become optional, and even commitment too. Just take into account the various permutations of relationship statuses these days: just going out, hanging out, just friends, special friends, dating, exclusively dating. Even President Benigno Aquino III is in some kind of relationship with TV host Grace Lee as they confirmed they were "officially dating.". What happened to good old-fashioned boyfriend-girlfriend commitment?

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Anna's Tasa: Breathless

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A brew of random thoughts. January 30, 2012. Is it just me or did the Holidays just zip by? I feel as though I had just put up the tree, and now it's time to take it back down. I don't think I even completed my shopping list this year. Not that I wasn't into the Christmas spirit. I was as wrapped up in the excitement as the little girl who had her own countdown. So many non-holiday things cropped up between the countdown and the real thing, though. January 31, 2012 at 2:51 AM. Every body should believe i...

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Quiet Stream: Learning starts with wanting to learn

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A mom's quiet thoughts. Sunday, March 11, 2012. Learning starts with wanting to learn. At a lunch meeting early this week with a school official, talk veered to teaching. I asked the woman I met with if she also teaches there. I can't teach these young kids. I tried before, but I just can't do it again. I can teach adults, but not college kids," she said. She then went on to explain how difficult teaching is and moreso when the students are not interested or behaved. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Quiet Stream: What theater does to us

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A mom's quiet thoughts. Saturday, June 08, 2013. What theater does to us. It's been a week since I watched Ballet Philippines' (BP) restaging of the 80s pop ballet hit "Rama Hari" at the CCP. And a week after watching it, I still want to watch it again, if only time (mine and BP's—their last playdate was Dec. 9) would permit it. 8221; said our critic, and I couldn't chime in. That got me thinking: how many of us do make time for theater? Continue reading on GMA News Online. View my complete profile.

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Anna's Tasa: June 2011

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A brew of random thoughts. June 1, 2011. With 20 children from three marriages, Lolo certainly was no RH advocate. (The second wife, in fact, died two days after giving birth to Baby Number Twelve, and can very well be a case in point for the pro RH bloc.) The Dados have then gone forth and multiplied, and the recent reunion was proof of the clan's exponential growth. Yay! We actually had to wear name tags and come in color-coded shirts to keep up with the parade of great and great-great grandkids. By Fa...

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Quiet Stream: Building memories

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A mom's quiet thoughts. Sunday, March 11, 2012. Looking over the chocolates on the shelves at the supermarket today, I smiled at seeing a bag of local cheap chocolates individually wrapped in white-and-orange stripes. “It’s still alive! Those were the days when we had nary a care in the world about traffic, debts, bad news, sickness, inflation, catastrophes, love life, and what have you. What mattered then was that precise moment, when we just did what we had to do and lived for that moment alone. There ...

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Quiet Stream: Why I vote

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A mom's quiet thoughts. Saturday, June 08, 2013. On my Facebook wall the other day, I saw my friend's post saying she might not vote this coming May for the national and local elections. "Why bother when nothing has changed all this time? Now that may or may not be true depending on your vantage point. From a poverty standpoint, indeed nothing much has changed since 2006, if we are to believe. Many of the poor are still poor. Says the World Bank. Early voting for media practitioners. This is the first ti...