I have this little rule. Don't blog about work. It was in place from when I started my blog back in (ahem) 2002. But at the time I started my blog because I was far from home and I didn't want to email the world to let them know I'm ok. I set up the blog so that my mother (and other potentially interested people) could just drop by to see what's ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, exactly 10 years ago, the day came during one of the breaks of the JVP orsem wherein members of Batch 23 decided that everyone in the batch had to confess their JVP crushes. You can't not have a crush, and the crush had to be JVP, and he or she had to be there in the orsem. I can't remember who started this, and what possessed the ( Read more... )

When I was 6, my parents attended a parenting retreat called Christian Parenting for Peace and Justice (CPPJ). This seminar presents to parents and families an alternative lifestyle designed to effect positive change in the world. This lifestyle is based on values such as non-violence, gender equality, love of country and simplicity. Simplicity was ( Read more... )

Eeeek. It's been almost two weeks since I've updated! This totally violates my New Year's Resolution! It's not even that I have nothing to say. I have PLENTY to say! Unfortunately, I've taken to condensing them to 140 characters and sending it all to Twitter. Sorry, readers. I have been reduced to a tweep. It's so much easier to do from bed! Bad, ( Read more... )

Christmas has always been a big deal to me. I just never knew how big a deal until it was almost taken away.

Back story: If you've been reading the news, you'd know that there was a kidnapping in Basilan last September. Espie and Milet are both part of a network that Mike works with in doing development work in Zamboanga, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-tawi ( Read more... )

Wheee ( Read more... )

No time to blog. No time to watch TV. Not even any time to do my painting homework. Which sucks. But, which has let me reflect on how my priorities have changed since I've started working.

Work is a priority. Of course. Otherwise I wouldn't have applied and gotten it. But. Lia is a higher priority. Which is why I leave home late (so I can still play ( Read more... )

I officially started yesterday. But I began going to the office last week. And I was absent today. To date, I have been to 4 office days and have so far successfully resisted the urge to update in the office. I haven't been able to update lately (other than to upload Puerto Galera pictures at Lia Love) because when I get home from work, I'm usually ( Read more... )

It's official! I'm hired! And by next week, you will officially be reading the blog of the new JVP National Office's Program Officer for Membership and Communications. I go to the office tomorrow to get oriented and learn the ropes before Donna leaves next week. Woah! I am no longer a doña. Promoted (?) to Working Mom na ako. I'm so excited at the ( Read more... )