I recently helped care for a friend who needed medical attention and some time to recuperate. I took time off myself to be able to help care for her. Another friend did the same thing, and visited her every single day she was in the hospital. She saw us with her parents the moment she
We recently held a baby shower for a friend, and almost everyone in the group had never participated in one. I was the only non-millenial then. Our own future mother was laughing as she didn’t know what to expect at a baby shower. Gender reveal is what they already know about, and what they actually
Today is the national elections in the Philippines. I went to the elementary school where I’m registered, and claimed my right to suffrage. A right I have never missed to exercise, except once, in the decades I have been a registered voter. And that one time, because they did not allow me to do so. I
“Pwede Na” is a Filipino mentality that means good enough. It is however not your literal “good enough” in English. It is “good enough” when you know you could do a better job, but choose not to. For a lot of Filipinos, we grew up hearing this phrase, probably even uttered the phrase ourselves. When
A couple of weeks ago I spent my Saturday morning at a bike park in Ortigas Center. (It’s actually a main thoroughfare that gets converted to a bike park every weekend.) It’s basically a bike park where parents or aunts and uncles take their kids and go biking for recreation. Bike rentals are available, making