Friendship

"One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things
they need no longer mention."

life's up's & downs

life slows down
life speeds up
life goes round & round
life is like a ferris wheel
it has its
ups & downs

Caroling

Philippine Christmas is not complete without music and this season is celebrated by Filipinos through caroling. In the rural areas a group of carolers visit houses to sing Christmas songs.

When I was a kid, in our neighborhood, a group in my age were formed together as amateur carolers and visit houses every night. We were more than happy to receive coins or candies as reward for singing Christmas songs. We sang even out of tune, and were creative in using tin cans, plastic containers, and bamboos as our musical instruments. It isthe fun of doing it that mattters, out of tune or not!

Pilipinas I'll be there

Mentally am preparing my short visit to my native land Pilipinas and typical me the more I think about it the more impatient I become, yet one more month of waiting. :-(

It's been a while, this is my longest time of waiting to go back home in the Pilipinas. Since my parents left in this physical world I lost interest of going back. But then I come to think that I should go back to check if everythings alright with my siblings who are younger than me. As the eldest of the family I always have the feelings of responsibility for them.
.....hahay, it's not an easy life oftentimes in this kind of culture...

I feel divided in two, half of my life I stay here in Scandinavia and became almost a scandinav at the same time my roots and my upbringing always waking me up to care for the people I left behind at home back in the Phils. when each one of us has our own lives. WHY is this feelings???Do they care for me as much as I care for them?? I do not know. Is this feeling just an ego to fill up the emptiness I have here in the part of the world? I wonder.

So bored

kapoy ra ning magkamatured na ta oi (di tigulang) ha?

wa gyod ko gana ning panahona. kon magsuroy ka talagsa ra gyod nga di ka makagasto. maayo pay magpuyo magmukmok masalbar pa imong sensiyo maayo nalang ipuno sa pamelete panahon nga gustong mobisita sa yutang natawhan.

kon maglaag pod ko sa lasang ngitngit ug mingaw makatunob pa ko og abat. walay nagtikaw tikaw bisan nalang langgam ug gangis, maayo pa sa Pinas naa pay baki nga nag orchestra sa ting ulan ug mga insikto sama sa crickets sa kabukongan.

gimingaw ug naghandom gyod ko sa panahon sa lugar sa natawhan.

bow....amen!
there's no place like home in the Phils.

Winter

Wintertime, advent and soon christmas time.
Most of the houses and the sorroundings are decorated with lights we call christmas lights.
People are busy preparing all the stuffs for christmas from cookies to glögg, all the gifts getting distributed to everyone. All the christmas cards to be sent to all the relatives and so called friends to far and near you are not even in touch to them the rest of the year. Isn't it strange?

I was born christian and christmas has been a part of my tradition though I am not so fanatic nor fun of it. I celebrated it cause I've been carried by the masses and did not know any other than this. I liked the way we celebrate christmas at home in the Philippines where people attend mass every dawn in our parish church about 5 kms away.

Right now, I am fantacising how it was before during my time back at home in the Philippines.
Even if I am not a believer, I still prefer the way we celebrate christmas in the Phils. rather than celebrating it here where Donald Duck cartoon film has been the midpoint of the christmas eve, it makes no sense.

Dear mother

Aug.3,1933..ang bday sa akong inahan. Kon buhi pa sya 74 anyos na unta sya karon.

Sa lawasnon wala na sya apan sa kasingkasing gapabilin diri sa akong dughan walay adlaw nga sipyat., walay minuto nga makalampas sa di paghunahuna nako kaniya..bisan pa sa 3 na katuig nga nilabay sukad sya nipahuway ning nagsalimoang nga kalibutan.

with all my thoughts,

It's been a while

Sorry its been a while since I wrote something here. Am an impulsive woman and I am quiet busy with something else...this is still active as you can see.

Have a great summer everyone!

Midsummer

here I am ...missed to share about the midsummer celebration here but I am not interested to write about it, for us is not a big thing though. Summer is well celebrated each day everyday not only midsummertime.

A bit of my vacation

After all the preparation and student party was to escape from home for a while. So I decided to take a three days driving to Smålands small roads, to the woods, lakes down to Mönsterås skärgård.
We took this trip just easily without stress, independent of time without looking to our watch.

The driving was not perfect as we used to have. Somewhere in Osby the campingcar started to shake so we looked for a small road to stop and check what happened. Steinar started checking the tire and found nothing wrong., we continued driving a bit then bing bang bong the left back tire exploded! it was not even a good place to change tire huh! 80% of the motorist just kept their speed at 90km/h "hänsynslös"

Keeping up the mood we continued but first we searched for a tireshop, feel safer with reserve tire with us of course.

....we stopped and parked along the lake in Lammhult where we overnight. I did not know that the sun sets around 23:00hrs, later than in Skåne.

....another day comes and we continue driving on the way to Rottne where Thelma lives and wanted to visit. In the middle of the day we were in Rottne but Thelma was still at work so we stopped at the "gravplats" in Ekebacken for two hours it was a great and exclusive overlooking view just for us ha?
....still we had few hours till Thelma finished her work so I suggested to drive to the city of Växjö and wanted to surprise Shirley for a short hi, hi, visit. We went to the library where the turistinformation located and search for her company name as I did not remember the address ...tick tack....we found her. Later on we proceeded to Thelma and Laszlo's bit of paradise......thanks for the hospitality Nagy family.

month of June is Fantastic!!

Danny's graduation

Been idle writing in my blogg for quite long time. And now I think it is the time to download or upload what I have experienced this two first weeks of this month.

The first week, I was quite busy preparing for the party which my son is a "student". I do not know why they call student here in Sweden when at home in the Philippines they call it "Graduate".

Memories

I dream a lot about my mother last night and I miss her terribly. Here I found an old picture we took the first time she visited Sweden in 1991. While watching this picture here it helps me ease the pain. I'm in sentimental mood today. June 20 is my moms 3rd death anniversary.

Early summer visit

Alice in Wonderland visited Sweden.

Alice is a family friend and visited us here in Sweden.
Alice and her husband Bruce own Sunraysia Apartment in Pusok, Mactan where we rented and stayed there for one year sometimes in the year 2002.

Wonderful & lovely days!

Sunny, sunny days?? or starry, starry nights??

These days are just wonderful days one should enjoy, cause there's no guarantee that we will get sunny days next week. Huh! excuse me who cares about weather anyway?
I enjoy the sun inside our sunroom just to avoid pollen at this time of the year.

......so enjoy every seconds of the sunheat.....

Sound of silence

Sometimes I'm wondering what's wrong..lol
When I'm at work I have so many plans in my head where to go, whom to call and invite them home for just a chitchat but when I'm free just want to be myself and enjoy every minutes of being myself...very strange! However, it's true that I am getting tired of all the escapades I have done when I was just a teenage. I was an impulsive type when it comes to lakwatsahan and no one could stop me that time and yet none of my parents tried to stop me either. I was infact very aware of the consequences.

Sneeze...atchooo

Äntligen vår med sommar temperatur, det kan inte bli bättre.
Men usschh pollen sesong har också kommit, synd om min näsa helt förstörd det bara rinner ur näsan och tårarna ur ögonen, mama mia!

Men hoppsan jag klagar inte så då så!!

Edited title, i got so much spam out of the title.

Silent si ako, unsa? Unsaon gana gana lang si Ate.,wa man lami balita gawas nga ang life nako diri is so routined, kaon-tulog-trabaho (rumble). Bisag unsaon ug rumble di jud na modaug maayo pa unta ug masiao pa kini, may purohan pa tingali. hehehe way lingaw no? halata ba?

Naoverload sa trabaho ug niabot usab ang akong esposo gikan sa Estados maong daghang cheezwiss., way inspirasyon isulat diri sa blog.. pero para lang mabaw-an nga kini wa nagkatulog maong nagyawyaw ko diri pinaagi sa akong mga kulamoy..klaro ba? Aw o diay, nakadawat diay ako ug hinaboan gikan sa akong esposo mao gyod "VictoriaSecret" ang usa gibunyagan nako ug RoseSecreta kay dili man to masul-ob para sa gawas. Diri sa ako kutob ha? kay diay daghan kuri-kurion sa balay. Sa miaging semana nagleak ang among dishwasher ug ang among salog nagswell, si esposo nagpalit ug bag-ong dishwasher imbis nga mopalit lang unta siya ug begagnad., gamay ra man pud ang deprensya ug cover man pod diay sa Insurance ang salog nga nibutod so arang arang nalang diay. Mao nga besebese gyod..di ba?

So sad it looks

In the left picture is how it looks today, naked.

While in the right picture is how it will look around middle of May.

April, April cheat me when you will

Oh yeah I met Prince William!

Busy day!!

A never ending household chores..When you are not earning you are spending, Yes right!
Off duty from work, earlier today I drove to a big store. Well, there are lots of stuffs which tempted me but I have good self-discipline in me so I refrain from buying unnecessary stuffs. Instead I went to the garden department and bought soil and charcoal in a thought that maybe I should transfer the old plants to bigger pots instead of buying new ones, and also since the weather was nice I took out fish to grill ...but I did nothing out of my plans, absent minded. And I found eight missed calls from the telephone lists, up to this time I did not check my mobilephone yet since I check the time when I woke up this morning, guess there are also missed calls or sms there then. Sorry, today I won't be available for anyone. I would be happy if somebody just drop by and knock at my door wanted to have for just a chat or a cup of coffee instead of booking time to visit., I am tired of formalities sometimes like having appointment at this exact time to entertain anyone, that you can't visit anyone without an appointment ...gosssh.!!! So if you happen driving and passing by our place just knock or ring d bell...if I am home you are welcome if not better luck next time!
So simple and uncomplicated as that!!

TGIF

Indeed!!!!!!!thanks god it's Friday and I am not booked this weekend. Eventually I am available for dates...lol! Well seriously speaking I will do some gardenings tomorrow. I'll start to mow the grass, drive to garden store to buy flowers to put outside and some easter flowers to put inside.

In the evening I will enjoy by just being myself!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunny, sunny day!!

Here I am ...stay home, computer, laundry gossh...you name it! no shortage of work even if you are day off so-called. Son is not feeling well and has fever today so I stay home. No need of asking him what we are going to eat today, he has no appetite so today I have a survival food we use to have when I was young.."bulad" (dried fish) preserved in months or year or shorter. For me it taste and smells good even if it has a fishy smell. For you north-swedes, our bulad smells far better than your surströmming.

Talking about food, When I am free and just staying home my interest in cooking comes up. Few minutes ago I ordered something special from Coop., this week I will make "dinuguan" (blood stew) some people of other race find this food weird. I will have weird food this week.
If you want to come and join just let me know and I will spare some for you.

Peaceful & precious moments

Midnight....so solemn & thoughts are flowing. I am neither homesick nor feeling lonely. In this side of the earth life is full of plannings, am planning if i have to do household works tomorrow, windowshopping just to change environment or call a friend to mingle with. Hmm, I know the last thought is next to impossible besides that it is Monday tomorrow, they might have other plans booked in their calendar already. Life is not easy when we let time control us, even if I am also a slave of time I find it very frustrating. Most of my friends work in the same work category as me and we seldom have same free days, it result that we seldom meet each other.
Either one way or the other we have to sacrifice our own family just to be with friends or with a friend. Let me see what tomorrow will bring. Goodnite blog!

Trött och sömnig

Nu är jag verkligen trött och sömnig efter helgjobb och den där sommartiden. Hur roligt är det?
jobbat till 22 igår kväll, försökte sova så fort som möjligt efter varvningen. När jag fick sova till slut så ringde det på dörren, jau da ! sonen som skulle sova över där dem festade kom hem kl. 0300 på morgonen. Sedan måste jag ju jobba kl. 0700 på morgonen som egentligen är bara kl 0600.

Övertrött när jag kom hem, försöker värva ner mig och är hungrig. Yupp! klarar mig med restmat från 3 dagar sedan, filippinsk humba och röd vin är inte dum för att somna en timme eller två kanske.

A little bit of paradise

the picture here in the left & right side is the place where I come from. At home everything is taken for granted. White beaches, blue skies and seas sorrounding upon reach.

When young I did not appreciate that this was a bit of paradise. For me a paradise was a place far away from the Philippines, where apple tree grows like the picture I had with Adam and Eve. Stupid me! If our place had been the paradise then Eve would have given Adam coconut then the bible story would not be the same as what we read today.

Strike the heat while the iron is hot

To sit infront of the computer every morning when I have time becomes my daily routine, its like brushing my teeth. I know I am not alone, are you the same?

Last night before I went to bed my son found me infront of the computer and show him what I was doing. I let him see my blog, smiling and waiting for some comments, he said it was OK. Huh! I did not expect he would approved that. Few days ago I told him I was thinking to blog and he said that if I do I have to make it serious. Serious?? I can't be more serious than what I am now. I guess some people find me boring enough because I am very serious.

The sun is shining today, the weatherforecast says it will be a sunny weekend. Poor me I have to work today and Sunday. It is windy outside but warm breeze.
Tempted to work in the garden but I have to give priority to the windows. It looks terrible when sun shines through, it makes me feel sick and bad mood. So here I go...hope the pollen is still unblown or else I'm done!

Time flies

Time goes faster than I thought.
Now it is past 12 midnite and here I am still awake. I took a nap earlier and it lasted for over an hour so I have difficulty going to bed now. I chatted to Dan earlier today, Dan is married to Cely who is from Davao, they moved and live in Davao since last summer. Earlier today he told me how it is to live, eat and dine in the restaurants in Davao. Well infact I know how it is generally in the Philippines...if you want turo-turo or semi-expensive up to the exclusive cuisine, you will be served according to what you pay for.

My experience yesterday was opposite with Dan's. Yesterday it was my 4th day seminar for social sector offered by our commune. During lunch we have been served lasagne for the third time. I am not so impressed of italian foods although I like making lasagne for my son. So I chose fish it looks good, collegues said it was cod but it didn't taste like one. I guess it was coal fish, an old coal fish huh! it didn't taste that fresh ...it was more expensive than the lasagne.

Alone at home

Here I am trying to write something in this so called blog. It's quite difficult what I will write about. It is not only a matter of what I will write about but also which language I will use. My learned language are not so good. My english is as bad as my norwegian and my swedish perhaps is somewhat better than my norwegian. My cebuano is not even good yet it is my native language. If you ask how about my tagalog (phil.national language) I can say is worst of the above. haha.. So please bear with me.

I am alone right now watching "Let's Dance in TV4". I got an inspiration and feel like to dance you know? My favorite is Daniel and Erica. Erica dances very good but that does not the reason why they are my favorite...the reason is Daniel, I just find him very handsome and so appealing, isn't it strange?

It is sad my favorite dance couple has to leave this time so it was their last dance. Pity but that is what contest is all about only one is the winner even if they all danced good. Lycka till vidare då!