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"Compulsory" schools nowadays offer a lot of subjects to their students in order to catch up with the trend of time. One student, a K1 in our tutorial center brought out an English subject assignment on sentence construction regarding "subject" and "predicate". Is this the trend in schools today? I am wondering if a 4-year old boy understands the meaning of subject and predicate. Well, that is why he needs a tutorial support.

But is it not a waste of time, money and effort to offer subject matters like that to small children who would only be playing at school doing socialization. But then, again who would go to our tutorial center if all the subjects are as easy as 1-2-3.

Thanks to these compulsory schools. They are giving us good business.

Our dog, Cheeyo, gave birth to four healthy puppies last night. All the puppies look like their mommy. And the mommy dog was so proud of her puppies that nobody could come near them for a look. She became so protective for fear maybe that her puppies may get hurt or may be snatched or whatsoever.

That is the instinct of a mother. Humans and animals feel the same with regard to protecting their offspring. But unlike humans, animals have only a short span of loving their offspring. In the case of dogs, when the puppies turn teenagers in animal age, the mother leaves them and treat them as if they did not come from her. But this is not true with humans. Mothers' love for their children is undying. Even if some children are not as good as others find them, for mothers they are the best. Pieta!

Neighbor is every person apart of oneself: parents, relatives, friends, acquaintances, classmates, officemates, employers, superiors, and servants. Two prominent virtues regulate our relationship with our neighbors - virtue of charity and virtue of justice.

Justice requires that we render to our neighbor what is due to him. We render to him that which belongs to him by right. And yet, we may render also to our neighbor something which does not belong to him by right. We render it to him on the basis of charity and concern for him.

Unlike justice, charity is not a legal obligation. But it is no less binding upon us because we are morally bound to be united to others on the basis of mutual love and respect.

Cheers!

Valentine's Day has just passed. I forgot all about it. I was not aware of the date and the day it was celebrated. Is it because I was preoccupied or I am past my age?

I shop for second hand laptops on the web. I love the mini laptop but before we can contact the owner, the item was sold.

Today I was only able to write only 9 articles. It's all the fault of my internet provider. My son said there is heavy traffic of Smart Bro users in our village. I plan to get the service of Globe.
When that time comes, and I have my new desktop computer or laptop, I will be able to write as much as 15 articles a day with only one interruption -- caregiving.

My son hates any tomato-based food and that includes pizza. But this pizza is different because it had all the works minus the tomato sauce. We had this pizza (Pizza Bianca from Shakey's) for Valentine's Day

Feel free to view my other Weekend Snapshot entries here:

Living a Sugar Free Sweet Life
Sugar Free Sweet Moments

I have a one-bedroom unit at the Pearl of the Pacific Boracay which was acquired through the time share scheme. My entitlement is once every 2 years for a maximum of 4 days stay. This year I would have an entitlement again. The problem is Raffy's health. I cannot bring him there. I plan to rent it out to interested occupants. The rate is 25% discount the regular hotel rate (hillside accommodation and without airport transfers). Two weeks reservation (and full payment) is required. Those interested may get in touch with us through email: mrtordecillas [at] yahoo [dot] com [dot] ph or through a comment to this post.

In order to make friends you have to sell yourself to others as a good person and one worthy of friendship. In school, you have to sell yourself to your teacher on the idea that you have learned enough in his subject to be worthy of a passing grade.

To obtain employment you have to sell yourself to your prospective employer as one who has both personality and training or experience, in order to do his job acceptability.

Making friends is a natural tendency of people. As the song goes, "people need people" in their struggle for life.

I am happy with my new job. I earn like those who are employed. Yet I still can attend to the household chores, provide the care needed by my sick husband, and most importantly, I enjoy what I'm doing. Of course, I have to. I have no choice!

But seriously speaking, I love what I'm doing. I don't experience getting up early and prepare myself for the job. No hassles, no traffic, but -- no office mates to share fun and problems. I only have my computer and my sick husband.

My son and his Ninang (godmother), who is my only sister by the way, are such bookworms. They both love books so much that when Ralph's grades for the second trimester came out, my sister was so happy and gave him a 500 peso National Bookstore gift cheque. With the gift cheque, he was able to buy two books: Amelia Bedelia Helps Out (he is such a fan of Amelia Bedelia and even calls our house boy Amelio Bedelio, hehehe) and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

The latter is an interesting book because it's funny cartoon novel written like a diary. Oops, journal, I mean. Greg Heffley, the wimpy boy who wrote all the entries in this "journal" apparently wanted to have a JOURNAL, not a diary. But his Mom bought one that says DIARY in the cover. He thinks diaries are for wimps and journals are cooler.

"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" is the #1 New York Times Bestseller of Jeff Kinney. It is hardbound and a steal at 435 pesos.

Feel free to view my other Weekend Snapshot entries here:

Living a Sugar Free Sweet Life
Sugar Free Snapshots

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Wheelchairs cost a lot of money these days. My neighbor informed me that in Avenida and along Bambang streets, plated wheelchairs cost only around P2,500 but the painted ones cost only about P1,200. That was 3 years ago. Yesterday was different. Plaited wheelchairs range from P3,200 to P5,600 per unit. The painted ones cost P2,800 to P3,000.

Because of the high cost, I opted to buy a walker. The walker has four front wheels and an adjustable seater. We will use this to practice my husband walking. Anyway, the doctor did not advise him to use a wheelchair so he would not become dependent on it for his movement. But because his left hand and arm are still very weak, we have to escort him on his left side in order to make use of the walker. Did I not waste my money?

I hope someday our tutorial services would become a kindergarten school, to be elevated to elementary, to high school, and to college. I had always dreamed of operating my own school where I can use my administration and supervision skills. My training is in college for bigger students. My children are used to deal with small children.

I plan to offer life skills subject for grown ups. This is what our country needs today. A training which can immediately give one a decent job for a living. Together with my children, I will pursue this dream. God helps those who help themselves.

Fr. Suarez, the healing priest is coming to Adamson University on Saturday for a healing mass. Netnet booked her uncle for healing. My problems were solved - the car's brake was fixed this morning. We can transport Raffy to the university quadrangle. A wheelchair was borrowed from the university clinic. We will not drag him from the car to the quadrangle and back.

God really provides! Gene is more than willing to drive for us. I heard him talking to his boss at the pharmacy.

God is good! He will give a beautiful day on Saturday, with the sun moderately shining in the middle of the day during the healing mass.

Since I stopped being employed (by an employer), I stayed home as a "caregiver". Sometimes I wonder if it is a blessing or a curse. But most of the time I consider it a blessing. I stay home the whole day, do the household chores, as I have no maid, and monitors the budget. Our water bill reduced to about half the previous amounts, same as with the MERALCO bill. My bedroom is always fixed and my kitchen is in order. Yet I do my blogging. Is this not a blessing?

When do I consider it a curse? When my patient calls me for his peeing time. Other chores of a hospital nurse or attendant are sometimes giving me a high blood pressure.

My new job entails a lot of computer hands on. I love it because it keeps my brain busy. I don't experience traffic on the road because I don't go out for transport. I don't spend for transportation because my fingers do the walking. I don't have to resign from my other jobs: caregiving, housekeeping, laundrying because my office is just a step from our main door. So far these are the advantages.

Has it any disadvantage? Of course, there is - we have only one computer and all the members of the household also use computers.