Balay ni Bambit

Life for me has been rather interesting the past two weeks, but there were developments I was waiting for before I could finally blog about them.
My son Maui is in fourth year high school, a time when you can no longer postpone the decision of what you want to do with your life. A huge [...]

I remember an old uncle who, when asked why he doesn’t read newspapers, replied: “Eh puro kasinungalingan lang naman ang nakasulat dyan bakit ko pa babasahin?” (“What is written there are all lies so why should I bother?”) This was said in the context of the Marcos era, when newspapers were in the government’s control [...]

I had forgotten so many things about my previous life, whether purposefully or just because of brain cells that have long expired. But in my feeble mind’s effort to leave the past behind it had also erased some of the wistful memories that I should have kept. The kind that when someone reminds you of [...]

There is a house on Roxas Avenue that has held my fascination ever since I was a little girl. At the time we still called it Dewey Boulevard, but that house had always been there since I could remember. It looked like, to my child’s eyes, a castle, and everytime we would pass by that [...]

Frankly, there are a lot of bad SmartBro reviews out there, some of them so bad that a potential client would say “never mind” or “no way”. But we have been on SmartBro’s Plan 999 (Canopy) for more than a year now and let me say first off that some of the horror stories you [...]

Employment screening is indeed one of the basic tasks of a human resources department in any office. However in small companies such as the one I’m employed in, a few unintended shortcuts may have been made in the effort to acquire new personnel. There had been times in the past when we needed people right [...]

If you happen to :

be at least 39 years old at the time you are reading this
have gone to school in the Philippines, whether in public or private school
have worn white Spartan canvass rubber shoes when you were a kid

I would like you to play the video and then close your eyes. You don’t need [...]

When I was a teen-ager I developed an allergy for crab. Didn’t matter what kind crab it was, I had become allergic to it, breaking out in red spots, getting dizzy and nauseous, and would actually have to heave whatever crabmeat I ate if I wanted to live. When I turned eighteen my elders told [...]