Quick Peek at my World

I was lucky enough to find great friends. Back in 2006, Lhei Orante (now Jatap), Lovelle Dulatre and I met in Teletech Cainta's New Hire Orientation. We clicked and stayed friends since then. Unfortunately, we each have to follow our own paths in life. Lhei eventually moved to Teletech's Bacoor Site and later on to another company while Love and I stayed together in Cainta until 2010. After which, we moved to Sutherland and stayed there until end of 2012. While in Sutherland, we also met another very dear friend, Cha Cid. Today Lhei and he husband is working in Dell Libis, Cha in Hinduja Libis, me in GXS Makati and Love is bumming at her house in Cainta. We met one day and decided to get together this summer to renew our friendship and catch up on each other's lives. But how do we plan a trip for 5 very busy people, with differing schedules and who works and lives very far apart? So, the planning began... Lhei found this deal in Ensogo for a 3 days/ 2 nights packag...

On the raised platform: Irineo "Sir Bobot" Carritero Every day I see him walk with his back straight and his head held up high. I watch as he marches to the beat of any band that passes by our house, his feet never missing a beat. I notice how he would tap his feet when he hears a drum being played, hum or dance at the sound of a song he likes and tap his fingers in time with the music playing. I see him stand up in front of the band and conduct it like a true blooded bandmaster. And in him, I remember Sir Bobot. My son Ynnoh is the exact epitome of my father. He has this inborn love for music and a good ear that can hear a band playing from a mile away. We would watch the Drum and Bugle Corps practicing while he either conducts in front of the playing members or march his feet, correctly, behind them. He would watch TV and tap his feet or fingers in time with the music. He would sing the songs he hears, although not very articulately, but with correct tunes. Thin...

This is an original article I wrote and submitted to The Philippine Daily Inquirer Young Blood Section. It was published last September 11, 2003 on the Anniversary of the 9/11 attack in the US. I decided to reprint this in my blogs so that I can get more audience and more people will realize the plight of our public school students. School for Survivors (From Philippine Daily Inquirer) Byline: Clerissa M. Carritero THINGS will never be the same again. Gone are the days when I can buy spaghetti for P5, pull off tricks without paying for them, run inside the class while the teacher is writing on the board and put on an innocent look whenever I do some naughty things. Now that I am 23, I can only look back at the happiest times of my life, meaning almost all the things I experienced during my high-school years.  Ever since I graduated, I have missed the things that I usually dreaded during those years. Gone are the homework and the assignments and the teachers from hell. But a...

It’s always nice to spend a little time with family Last Sunday, February 10, my family and I went to Tagaytay for a much needed R and R. It was planned for 3 days, quite short to be honest. I was apprehensive about going because payday was a long way off and I have only 3k in my wallet. But because my feet are itching and I really want to go somewhere nice, I agreed to go. A day before I bought 4kls of chicken, 4kls of Hotdog and 36 hamburger sets. My Auntie Lee also prepared 3kls of Pork Adobo, Half a tray of salted egg, 1 kl of tomatoes, 1 kl Ripe Mangoes, ½ kilo Dragon Seeds and a lot of tsitsirya for our trip. A lot huh? But then again, my family likes eating… 5:00AM The food is prepared; my bags are packed; my 3 boys, my husband and I are ready and we are just waiting for the rest of my family to arrive. We agreed to meet at my house at 5:30 AM. At 5:15AM, my mom, my sister Melissa and her daughter Shelly, my sister Cristina and her son KC, and my brother Von arri...

Hi, I'm Cleng and I am a mom of three boys ages 12, 3 and 1. I am currently working as an analyst in the biggest EDI IT Company here in the Philippines. I was a former journalist as well and loves writing. This blog is a glimpse of my life. I love travelling... I have been to places that not many people visit. Most of them doesn't require a great deal of money, just a fun and adventurous spirit. I also love talking to people. To know their life and to show them mine. I describe things in  such a way that you would feel as if you have personally been to each and every place I visited, talked intimately to the people I met and wallked on every one of my footsteps. That is the reason why I have decided to start writing my blogs I wish all of you would enjoy my travels and my experiences the same way as I had fun writing each and every one of them. I will try my best to be as accurate as possible in all of my narrations. In this blog I will talk about not only the places I...