A one-live cat’s life

1. It is true that every nationality they have a certain attitude you would appreciate and you would despise
2. It is difficult to please everybody
3. Hardwork for me is not always seen as hardwork for everybody
4. Some boss gets frustrated with what your weaknsses and your perfections, but if you keep on trying and proving them what they think is wrong they will keep on calling for your assistance
5. Culture influences power and positions and people relationship
6. Hypocricy is reality
7. If you are a person of a worth,  politics and gossips will never cease you
8. again mentioned, Never be loyal to work as it will never be loyal to you
9. Choose the people you talk to and surrpund yourself with, better to have fewer people around than to have a lot who’d betray you
10. Stand up to what you think is right
11. Corruption is disgusting and ridiculuous
12. How could we ever want to have a developed and successful country if we ourselves do not have any discipline? i.e spitting everywhere, littering anywhere we want to.
13. be careful whom you ask favors/assistance and requests with. Not all are willing to help you.  I need to be more self reliant.
14. i appreciate working with my Filipino colleagues
15. I am thankful to be Pinoy
16. Not all "nice" people are your friend
17. Not all team mates are really your mate and not necesarily know what team is
18. Life is frustrating
19. If you have not done anything why would you feel guilty, (but i still get a shiver on my spine for people to seem to have no values, or o soul at all)
20. Not all friends from your past would be the same friends you would be expecting in the present.
21. Time changes people, but a human can not change someonelse
22. Having a boyfriend a partner or a husband does not necessarily say your happy, also not ncessary you’ll be happy if you get one

During the Holiday break of christmas and New year, I finally went back home to my folk’s place after 5 months of not seeing them 

during my stay i get to go out again and visit my birth city.  I think i have a delaye dreaction, even after most people say that Baguio is not as nice anymore.

i even remember writing on a bulletin board to defend Baguio about being branded as the most polluted and dirty city in the country. Embarassing, i would have admit, I waas wrong to defend baguio.

I even more appreciate Makati where ive been constantly living for more than 6 years which i thought dduring my first days as hot, humid and polluted.  I changed my mind.

A brisk and leisurely walk at esssion road is not enjoyable anymore as it was before like college just going up and down after classes.  It will just make you stressed with the population walking on it.  never in a minute that you’ll get physically bumped by someoneelse.

Not the city I know when you get the mist or "fog" from your mouth when you talk or yawn. Its not even getting colder at 12 degrees.  I neer knew Baguio as a place for Koreans who feel as locals.

The City is so dirty, poluted, and overpopulated, just by looking at it.  Im disappointed.  I wish i can do something to bring back the Baguio most filipinos love to go during the summer time.

One of my usual hobbies everytime I go home in Baguio is doing my Ukay Ukay (used clothings/thrift shopping). A chance for me to get "new" wardrobe without feeling bad after getting tired ofusing it just once or twice then gove it away after. 

While Me and my sisters (including our mom) we were doing our Ukay ukay, I was touched when two sister were discussing what to get their mom.  the other said, you better get a skirt since our older sister is getting a blouse.

And I just realized that they were buying ukay ukay clothes to give as gift to their mom.  As we hopped from one store to another, we bumped to another pair, looking through the clothes and stuff in the shop.  It was a father and a daughter, we overheard the father saying "okey pick what you want and try if it fits you."  He was taking his daughter to a Christmas shopping.

And another on the afternoon/eve of 31st we went to buy Pizza as that is what my sister to just eat during the Feast on the Eve of New year, it was traffic in one of the junction where a grocery was.  As we told ourselves, these are people who were rushing to buy their food for the feast as well.  My mom said, She doesnt want going to the grocery during those days of the year when everybody are rushing to buy their Christmas or new year feast.

As she pointed out that it breaks her heart to see some people buying a fourth or half kilo of Spaghetti noodles, or just small amounts to prepare a very simple dinner.

just few simple situations, but it made me very thankful and realize that I have a blessed life, and not most of us see this. At times we end up whining and complaining most of the times that we did not get what we want in our gifts instead of bieng thankful. 

I am thankful to have seen and saw these things during the past holidays and reminded me again to be always humble and try to be charitable to people who are not blessed as I am.

Late night on a work day, having been free and still on leave on a first week of new year, I met with a good friend.  I owe her a money Tree. Which I think would give good luck.

She picked me up in the building where i stay, loaded the plant and drove to the nearest Stabucks.  Luckily we got a a spare parking space and the branch was still open as I was also think on going to the 24 hour one in Rufino st.

Anyway, She just finished her student nursing duty in the Hospital.  We had our catching up to do as usual

it was a susunod na kabanata after the last time we saw each other before I left for Baguio last December.  She was left by his husband in exchange for another separated woman.
yep She is one of the friends listed from my previuos blog.  Well another heart breaking and annoying story of what transpired when we did not see each other. 

After my own break up, I felt it was God’s way one way or another that i would be of help to my other close friends who had problems  with their relationships, well and it was a good teraphy for me as well realizing my situation wasnt that bad after all and I wasn’t alone…that the world was that miserable? hehehe!
While I was doing my listening theraphy session with my friend, from the other table we overheard discussion unintentionally a group of women in their late thirties, regarding one of them filing Concubinage! My friend and I were laughing silently telling each other, ano ba naman eto, it is just so funny.

I also remembered that I do my listening teraphy with another close friend with her failed marriage in Starbucks, the same place where Me and another highschool friend with the same fate cried with each other of how our fate was!

Starbucks, must have heard a lot of stories I am sure.  Its not all sad stories but of different specs of life, and if only it could talk, it could write books, or telenovelas.

I just arrived from Baguio hours after and I decided to watch DVD when i woke up to keep my mind from missing my Family way back home. I was watching highschool musical in my unit when i received an SMS from my sister Celeste through my mom’s phone: "U kn0w wat, nwawla c schumi at blaqeu dis m0rning, tap0s nkita namin blaque s kanal, dead na, huhu, parang nkalabas pa intestns nia :’(". (you know what, Schumi and Blaque are missing this morning, then we saw Blaque in the canal dead, and it seems like his intestines are even out)

I cried. I can not do anything. Schumi and Blaque are our one of our dogs who are in their young years. Schumi is brownish greyish and Blaque is black, they are Mongrels. They might have been not the dogs with breeds but they were good friends of the family. They are a part of my family.

Celeste, my sister calls them her siblings along with our pet cat and turtle. The grief was undescribable pain for me. Myself whose presense was not constant in our home bieng ive been staying in Makati more than staying in my folks home. What more could my dad, and my family feel to have a lost a member of a family.

Well some think i may be over reacting, then maybe you don’t know how it is to feel like to have a loyal dog and a family. I am not even a dog person, I like cats far better but I do treat dogs well anyway. I grew up eversince with my late lolo with dogs around. The pet dogs and cats has been part of some family pictures since i was young.

It just this late years that a neighbor, hate our dogs so much claiming our dogs bite his kids which dont. The dogs get agrevated because they tease them everytime they pass our house. Bad for me to judge, but im counting him as one of the prime suspect why the Blaque died. I could not imagine how could someone kill a creature so brutally. He should have just taken the dog and not just dumped it with its guts spilling. I feel like it was an insult, or probably the person who did this is sick in the mind. I might have had my share when i was younger of have eaten dog meat, but what’s difficult to understand is because its culture. And that’s another story. Should they would have wanted Blaque as a dog meat, then they should have not just dumped him in front our house. I really feel sorry and i feel so sad.

I sent smses back to my sister and i donot know what to say if i would have called, I do not know how to feel the pain my family are feeling right now. We have 5 dogs, so minus 2 we got 3. They do not eat dog food, its just that they were not used to it, and so wit the family. they have their own cavan of rice and they get their own supply of bones from the market.  Every week my dad buys for them.  Every 6am and 3pm my dad feeds them punctually. I can recall, my Lolo does the same when he was still alive.  Celeste when she has time bathes them. The dogs guards the house, and keeps my 91 year old grandmother company at home when everybody is at work and school.  There was no miss a burglar was able to break in (God forbid) because they havent missed a single chance to watch the house.

Its just so sad and its a waste to loose someone like them.  I bet the dogs are of even higher intelect and level than the person who did this to Blaque. 

Karma gives fair justice to the world.  Karma most of the time come worst than what has been done.

As long as my family is safe back home, and i pray for Blaque’s soul, he would be in dog’s heaven right now, for the killer to be in hell. And I’m still hoping Schumi shows up one day unhurt and alive.  Told my sister as well to hope that our new puppies would be healthy to replace the lost ones.

I’ve heard according to one of our carpenters who burried Blaque’s furry boday, the wound have been caused by a stab from a short object. 

A day after, I heard that the puppies were gone as well and joined Blaque in dog’s heaven.  I’ll pray for better days.

My mom sent me that day SMS telling me our cousin Sue-ann gave birth to a baby girl, that same day it was Morella’s bday.  I just thought that in every death there is life, the law they call Circle of Life.