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‘La lang. I just feel a mother’s pride whenever I see anything about my sons’ school. Maybe I am a frustrated wanna-study-in-a-Jesuit-school girl but at least all my kids have had or will have one, hehe.

OK, so I get a little techie now. Saw this YouTube video and decided: why not? Just include it in my blog!

So here….enjoy!

P.S. I actually love the rap song and the hiphop dance at the end, hehehe….

My kids will laugh at this and say I am going into my 2nd childhood.

Believe it or not, I have a 5th “kid”. A boy. And while he has not aged, in reality he should be over 20 years old by now, older than our eldest daughter.

He came into my life when I was still single. I met him in the U.S. and fell in love with him as soon as I cradled him in my arms. He was the right baby size and had a soft, pliable body I loved to hug.

Throughout many lonely days (when homesickness struck), he was my solace. I gave him my favorite boy name — Michael. Only he knew my deepest secrets then. Only he saw my tears and struggles as I tried to get through my studies without my family around.

But when I settled down and started having kids, I neglected him. I introduced him to my girls years back but his presence did not last. After all, I had kids of my own to take care of. I forgot he existed until today when, for some reason, memories of him came back and jolted me. I looked for him and took him back into my arms, remembering our days together — the winters he kept me company. Many shared moments…

He was a bit dirty, his face smudged from years of neglect. His baby clothes no longer had the fresh scent they had when I put them on him. I took out a washcloth and gently wiped him clean as best I could. I still have to put a clean set of clothes on him.

All these years, he waited patiently while I reared my family — just waiting for the moment when I would remember him once again. And today, I did remember him….

Cara took one look at him and remembered too. “It’s Michael?” And I just nodded.

Welcome back into my life, Baby M!

I could not think of a better title to describe my day yesterday.

We were invited to attend a wedding at Alabang. We had decided to skip the church event and just proceed to the reception around 4pm.

We left the house about 3pm (that was the first thing we did wrong, considering this was a Saturday). We took the shortcut to Paranaque via C5.  Next mistake!!! At the junction of Shaw and C5, we got caught up in bumper-to-bumper traffic that eased somewhat near Makati and became congested again as we came out into So. Superhighway.

We missed the Alabang temporary exit as we were looking for the Filinvest one (only to find out that due to road construction, it was CLOSED!).  So we had to drive further till we got to the Susana Heights exit, paid the toll, only to make a U-turn as soon as we got out of the toll booth.  We then re-entered the highway to look for the nearest exit to get into Filinvest City.

Murphy’s Law — there was a fork in the exit (1 for Filinvest; the other for Alabang).  By some twist, we were on the Alabang exit side and could not shift to the other lane. Ended up in Alabang (but this was route to Alabang-Zapote Rd. where all the jeeps and buses passed and as expected, it was super congested!)

Aaaagh! At this time, I had lost interest in making it to the wedding reception but tried to make the most of the situation.

We finally parked at Alabang Town Center. By this time, we were an hour late. To be sure, hubby parked in the church grounds and we just walked across to the mall side to look for the resto. It took us a while to find it. We took some wrong turns around the mall and backtracked till we finally got to the venue.

But…seeing as we were so terribly late, the wedding reception was well into dinner and we were at the end of a long line of hungry people. By the time we got to the food, it was almost gone. Oh well, at least we still had ample helpings of dessert and fruits….

And, as there was no space among the tables for the guests, we ended up sitting in the table reserved for the ninongs. And we got to chat with one of the ninongs who happened to be our former officemate (and baptism ninong of our daughter, too!).

At the end of a tiring day, it was not so bad after all. We enjoyed the company of old friends and forgot all about our “lost in the city” adventure.

I just love Star Wars — and so does the whole family!!!! We have the complete set of 6 movies but every Sunday since latter part of December, as these were shown on TV one part after another, we would gather in the bedroom and watch from start to finish. Our boys especially, who have watched this series backward and forward and every which way, would analyze dialogue and connect characters from one part to another part. Frankly, I would sometimes get lost in the family trees but our son Ian would give me the 411 on each and every main character.

There is just something about this 6-part movie series that keeps us glued to the TV set. Reminds me of the Sound of Music which I must have seen over 2 dozen times, so much so that I can sing the songs by heart.

We discuss the plot, analyze the technology behind the light sabers and gunbattles, marvel at the variety of aliens depicted as well as the costumes, and get completely absorbed in the whole movie.

I am not much of a TV person but sci-fi ones like Star Wars get my attention. About one of the few TV series I chased with similar passion was Star Trek. We followed episode after episode most especially the Enterprise’s encounters with the Borg. In a way, I was both relieved and sad when the episodes came to an end and the Enterprise was able to return to Earth.

Will there be a new Star Wars-like series that will crop up in the future to once again hold generations of families enthralled and enmeshed in its intricate plots? I sure hope so….

Of such classics, I can only say “Resistance is futile!” (A popular Borg statement in the series Star Trek)