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         A sudden news came up to me, my niece is calling, crying that my dog is not breathing anymore. Chicco suddenly passed away.         It had been several weeks that I am missing Chicco. We are currently under Enhanced Community Quarantine in the province  due to COVID -19 and we could not go back to the city because of the lockdown. It is almost two months that we are not able to see our dogs. Maybe Chicco missed us so much that it may be the cause of death. Some also says that it might be heatstroke because of the hot weather and the sudden rain. It could be because of its current age because its mother is on the same age when it died.              Chicco is now seven years old and had been my best buddy ever. A dog I missed whenever I am away on travel. I always remember it whenever I see K-9 units in hotels or airports. I remember it whenever I am eating foods with big bones....

          Time is fast approaching and again it is graduation time. I am happy for all parents out there who eagerly waited for this day for their children. Every parent believes that bright future awaits to their newly graduated children with the hope that it will pave the way for their children to have a good job and independently sustain their needs. I was graduated from college for almost six years already and indeed my diploma back me up to have a job and it supported my daily needs.         Education is really important coupled up with hard work and perseverance to succeed in life. Being a student is  not easy and there are some hindrances along the way. On my time, financial issues had been my number one hindrance. I was studying at a private school and was not able to have a scholarship. I was financially supported by my mother who was a government school teacher and by my brothers who were OFW workers at that time. On ...

       Indeed, it was a very surprising, memorable and a happy day. Thanks to my very thoughtful and sweet husband who send me some flowers and cake on this special day. Though he is away from me on this special day, he did not neglect to make it special. With the help of his cousin and nephew, he was able to send me those flowers and the cake. I never thought that he would do that. Being in this relationship for almost eight years already from lovers to married couple, he never did this before. It is the first time that he gave some flowers. I highly appreciated the effort and the sweetness he had shown. Hope he will stay the same for the rest of our lives. I hope that you also had a great day the same way that I had. Happy Valentines to all!!!

       Significant events in our lives are precious moments that need to be captured as keepsakes. Weddings, baptism, birthdays, burials and engagements are only some of the events worth remembering. Once in a while we need to document it so that the next generation could have a glimpse of our previous lives. For now, we have a lot of gadgets to choose from to back us up in capturing life's treasured moments. We have cameras, cellphones, ipads and other gadgets that could capture significant events.        The oldest and still existing method of capturing precious moments is photography. It started out from black and white pictures, to colored and now we have digital images. Photographs are very much preferred compared to soft copies of pictures today. With photographs, we could be able to have photograph albums or fotoboek maken  as keepsakes. Photo albums are kept to show to our children's children, to our relatives and friends what we are ...

Last night, I dreamed about my late best friend. In my dreams, we are in a classroom competing for something or kind of discussing something like we used to do before. It is already two months, to be exact, two months and two days since she passed away. I terribly missed her. I don't know what are the messages my dreams wants to convey to me. Maybe I just terribly missed her that is why I dreamed of her or maybe I still didn't accept the reality that she already passed away. In the latter years of her life wherein we are apart, if we met we talked about each others lives, catching up on what we missed and when I go home in the province I visit her in their house. Since I am going home to the province tomorrow, I am going to see her house, our school and playgrounds were we spent our childhood years. It would all remind me of her as well as the pain of losing her. As of now, I just think that we are only separated by distance because in my heart she would always be there. My dre...

Dog's are man's bestfriend. They make us laugh, entertain us and even play with us.Sometimes the longer they stay with us the more we became emotionally attached to them. As I grew up, I am used to having dogs in our house.I love dogs and eventhough they don't belong to the high breed dogs I still love them.When I transferred to the city to study for college we tried to raise a dog for our house here. We either buy or bring a puppy from the province to be raised here in the city. No matter how we tried the puppies die after few months. Some puppies had been with us for several months already that we wept for their lost. Until such time that we finally decided to not anymore raise a dog here in our house in the city. One time when my cousin's son stayed with us, he brought a puppy. I told him that his puppy might die just like the rest of them.I was wrong, it was a miracle that the puppy survived. With it, we became hopeful that we can have another dog so we brought anot...

Scar is the aftermath of wounds. It is a wound that fully healed but left as a mark. Each scar has its own story. It is an imprint of ones’ memories. When I was young, I don’t care if I get wounded, injured, or have some scratches. All I care about is playing. My mother often scolded me if I get wounded. She would tell me that each wound would result to a scar and it is not pleasing to look at especially if you are a girl. Despite of this, I still don't care. I keep on playing without taking good care of my body.I got a lot of wounds out of biking, playing hide and seek and other games. When I got older, I realize my mother was right. Scar lessen my self-confidence and it is a hindrance in wearing some type of clothes.But it would be a constant reminder to me that I am once a hard-headed child who would not listen to her mother. It would also remind me of my joyful,wonderful and adventurous childhood years. Also, it would be a constant reminder that mother knows best whats good for...