mineral make-up

I read about mineral make-up three or four years ago at femalenetwork but I never gave it a thought until last week. I came across several sites selling mineral make-up and signed up for a free sample from one of them, ellena mineral cosmetics. The samples arrived yesterday, 2 shades of powder foundation and 1 finishing powder. I tried one of the foundation this morning and was pleased with it. The smoothness reminded me of the body shop’s all-in-one face base, only this is much, much cheaper. The ¼ teaspoon samples came in mini zip lock plastics and estimated to last for a week at least. I’ll buy containers for my samples and probably order the regular sized foundation and finishing powder when my samples run out.

Anyway, this day is gloomy. It has been raining since last night. I hope we get a good weather next week so we can do the little hiking and exploring we plan to do in Puerto Galera.

I wish it's 6:00pm already so we can get out of here and go home already. Haay..

-chebong

Reunions

Last week, April 19 was the grand reunion homecoming of our high school in celebration of its centennial anniversary. Terry and I went together with my sisters Weng and Juvie. It was fun to see old faces again. It was just sad because the event wasn't well advertised that not many alumni were informed. In fact there were only six attendees from Weng's batch and eight from Juvie's. It was good that my batch mates pretty much did everything they could to invite everyone as about forty of us went. The whole event brought back memories of experiences that shaped my adolescence. I'll probably be posting the class picture we took as soon as i had it scanned later.

Then last Saturday, April 25 was an outing/reunion of sort of Buboy's family. It was my mother-in-law's birthday and we went swimming in a private pool at Calamba, Laguna. Buboy's family is small and it's nice to see them together all at once as this happens very seldom. It's because his sister lives in Laguna and his brother lives in Bulacan unlike my immediate family who practically live together. I told Buboy that we should really do this reunion-like gathering with his family at least once a year.

Anyway, Buboy discovered that he can sing more than twenty songs in one sitting during our family outing. He literally sang for almost two hours and received at least eight 100 scores. He said he now has a favorite - Though the Years of Kenny Rogers. Well, I don't mind. I love that song!

Pictures to follow.

-chebong

Hospital scene

I guess i better blog about my hospital experience, not for anything else, but for the sheer fact that this has been my first in the past 20 years and i wouldn't even be there if not for the fact that i don't have a nebulizer at home.

I think my cough started the last time i jogged about 2 weeks ago. I was so sweaty and there was a cold breeze during my walk back to the office. The next day i knew something is up. I didn't jog again because i started coughing already. Then the cold came. Then the next thing i knew imy nose was so clogged i couldn't breath through my nose and my throat hurt from trying to cough out all the phlegm and later my voice was slowly going out. I couldn't sleep for a couple of days until i decided that i need to see a doctor already. Mind you, i wasn't exactly excited about this thought.

Then last Wednesday, Buboy told me that perhaps it's better for me to get confined to a hospital. The idea of sleeping in an air conditioned room struck me. Why not? I haven't used my HMO card. So we made plans and decided that Medical City is the best choice we have. We went to work Wednesday morning, me mostly just to get all the paperwork ready for my confinement. Right after lunch we head down to Medical City's ER.

I was immediately checked at the ER, blood works and x-ray. However, doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me aside from my clogged sinus. They were a bit hesitant to recommend me for inpatient care. Then my attending doctor at the ER said i better stay there for a couple of days to rest. Yey! i was so happy i texted Terry and Mox immediately.

My first visitors were my two bestfriends! Mox arrived shortly after i got settled in my room and Buboy left to get some supplies from Pasig. A few minutes later Terry was there as well. They stayed until almost midnight. The following night Juvie and Benny came with 3 servings of palabok. We prayed the Station of the Cross at the hospital chapel after Juvie and Benny left.

I slept most of the time i was in the hospital and Buboy did the same if he's not watching TV. Our bill was more than 13k but Buboy paid only P15 for a glass i didn't realized i requested. However, we spent almost 3k for food, parking and outpatient medines. But we did enjoy the fact that while others are suffering the haet outside, we were comfortably cool in my room at the 11th floor.

BTW, Buboy was the best caretaker there is!

-chebong

Nanay and Tatay

This article was forwarded to me awhile ago. I felt tears in my eyes as I read it because my Nanay and Tatay too gave the best years of their lives for us.

I remember my Tatay very strong, both in body and in personality. He’s very wise and objective that relatives from both sides of the family come to him for advice and support. He never let any of them down, always giving his time to hear out their problems and/or celebrate good times with them. I always feel protected whenever he is around. Tatay is the first man in my life and I still cannot imagine life without him.

Nanay also has a very strong personality. I have inherited at least half of mine from her. I think that is the reason why we always clash before. But it was just recently that I appreciated her strength. She holds our family together. She takes care of my Tatay now that he is sick and she still takes care of us and the household. Although she gets tired easily these days, she still doesn’t stop doing what she thinks she should do. Nanay never complain, even when she feels something and that makes us fear for her health sometimes. She may talk a lot at times but she knows when to stop. She is the picture of a strong woman, loving wife and caring mother.

I don’t get to see them often these days, but I still always think of them, maybe more often than before. I try harder to please them and make them happy in little ways. We were not brought up to be showy of our affection, thus saying I love you is not natural to us. But I hope they know that we love them, and I hope they know that we know and feel that they love us.

-chebong