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- October 13th, 2009
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indiesmomma is celebrating her birthday today!
- October 12th, 2009
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indiesmomma has posted a new entry on: Retro Momma
Grease Lightnin\' (Circa 1960\'s)
My father was a good-looking feller. He was blessed with a pair of beautifully arched brows any grown woman would envy, a perfectly shaped mestizo nose any vain person would pay a good price for and t…
- August 10th, 2009
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More Love for Cory
There's no stopping the outpouring of love for democracy's icon even days after her burial. According to a broadsheet, around 1000 people still pay their last respects at Cory's tomb in Manila Memoria…
- August 7th, 2009
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Still For the Love of Cory
As if the stories on TV were not enough, I, two days after Cory was laid to rest, still heard two personal accounts of humble little sacrifices made as final acts of thanksgiving for the leader we los…
- August 4th, 2009
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indiesmomma has posted a new entry on: Retro Momma
Cory In My Mind
I still remember that Saturday afternoon in January 1986. It was the day Cory Aquino, standard bearer of the United Opposition, was motorcading though our town in a Southern Batangas campaign sortie.…
- August 3rd, 2009
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The Way to Cory
"Five hours, man!"So I overheard an apparently very tired female twenty-something obviously referring to the long wait at Cory's wake in La Salle Greenhills which was exactly where we were headed. But…
- August 1st, 2009
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Yellow Fever
Never did yellow make such a strong comeback than yesterday when Cory Aquino, symbol of democracy, quietly passed away, leaving a divided nation united in grief. It was in 1986 when yellow became in v…
- July 28th, 2009
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Kids on PacMom
My ten-year old niece Yanna, whose TV viewing habit is limited to Disney Channel and MTV, caught sight of a dancing Dionesia Pacquiao on a magazine and blurted out: “Mama, she’s creepy!” Of cou…
- July 11th, 2009
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Separation Anxiety
On her third week (though technically fourth day) of pre-schooling, Indie suddenly developed an aversion to school."My school is am baho (Indie's broken Tagalog for stinky)!""My classroom is not nice!…
- June 17th, 2009
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Straight from the Big Mouth of Babes
Last weekend over lunch...INDIE : (On my sister's buffalo wings.) "Gert's cooking is sarap." ME : "How about mama's?"INDIE : "Yeah..." (This said as if she was asked…
- June 16th, 2009
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India's Assessment
My little family of late risers woke up unusually early last morning. It was Indie's appointed first assessment at school and everyone was excited. It was a one-on-one meeting with her teacher wherein…
- June 7th, 2009
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Cheap Shot, Baby
My youngest sister Gert's series of "who's older" questions must have finally got to Indie and— GERT : Who's older me or Mama Dra?INDIE : But you're fatter, right?
- May 19th, 2009
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Good Morning Vietnam, Day 3
Our third day in HCMC was marked by a series of taxi mishaps that led me to believe that the Nam Ky Koi-La Fenetre misadventure the night before was still hovering over us like a dark cloud of bad cab…
- May 18th, 2009
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Good Morning Vietnam, Day 2
I woke up quite early. Father and daughter slept soundly on the double bed we all shared while Rosene's single bed was empty as she spent the previous night in a friend's flat. I had the morning all t…
- May 16th, 2009
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Good Morning Vietnam, Day 1
We—my husband Nubs, daughter Indie, friend Rosene and myself—landed in HCMC at midnight. Masks on our faces, we went from immigration to baggage briskly and proceeded to get ourselves some dong. I…
- May 15th, 2009
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The Thing About Flying on a Budget
Our trip to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) was our first time to fly on a budget airline. It was one of those major Cebu Pacific seat sales that I chanced upon three months ago while surfing the net. Total f…
- May 4th, 2009
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Where Did That Come From?
In the car on our way to lunch with my nephews who came all the way from Batangas... ME (38): Where do you want to eat guys?MOJO (7): McDonald’s—BUBBI (11): Hey, we didn’t go this far just t…
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- May 3rd, 2009
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To Be Brit Or Not To Be Brit
If I were given a second chance and a second choice at my race, maybe I'd pick to be Brit. They brought us New Wave for Christ's sakes! (Can you honestly imagine growing up in the 80s without punk roc…
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PacMan Proud
We have been called a lot of things. Maids (by the Webster dictionary and, most recently, by a HongKong-based writer). Petty thieves. Mail order brides. One cannot blame our Filipino brothers abroad f…
- May 2nd, 2009
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Pinoy Food Lab
Since the New Year kicked off I have been experimenting on my favorite Filipino dishes guided by a cookbook I inherited from my sister Odie who is blessed with loads of talent in the kitchen, who in t…
- May 1st, 2009
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Two Negatives Do Not Make A Positive...
Never mind the mathematical equation. And that rule on English grammar.The fact is I am not pregnant. About that I am positive.
- April 28th, 2009
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Bad, Bad Weather
The weather seems to have developed a taste for mind games lately and last Saturday was a proud display of the mastery it has somehow gained.But I was not to be outwitted. On the car ride on our way t…
- April 27th, 2009
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Of Kids and Baby-Making
These days Indie has this new interest in the "production" of a sibling and...INDIE: "Mommy, I will make a sister."ME: "No, darling, it's papa and mommy who will make your sister."INDIE: "Okay. So how…
- April 23rd, 2009
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Go Mango!
I actually made my first mango cream pie from a buco cream pie recipe I found at the back of the crushed graham pack I bought from the grocery store. It was a simple matter of substituting buco with m…
- April 22nd, 2009
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Talk About the Weather
It was around six in the evening last Sunday after a brief shower that must have caused the day's hellish weather when suddenly the sky was aglow. Heaven was on fire.Later that night, the rain poured…
- April 14th, 2009
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Greek Easter
Our Hellenic Easter Sunday lunch was unplanned. We were on a drive back to the city from a 5-day Holy Week sojourn in our Batangas home when hunger overtook us somewhere along the highways of Tagaytay…
- April 13th, 2009
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indiesmomma has posted a new entry on: Retro Momma
Good Fridays
Last Friday was a good time to go back to the Good Fridays of my childhood.I remember we would almost always start the day with flagellant-watching. The flagellants were men with covered faces who wou…
