I Am Issa

I am the worst mom by my own high standards. Confetti, cookies, cake with two candles, presents, and cuddles from your warm guests and friends could have made your 2nd birthday indelibly incredible. But your mom failed to make it a special day to remember. Cry not, iamissa. Your birthday crossed your mom’s and dad’s

“Good night. Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” Whoever uttered that rhyme must have been all too familiar with bedbug attack and infestation. These tiny, itchy, bitchy (most feeders/biters are female) parasitic anthropods of Family Cimicidae can turn a perfectly normal person into a manic zombie overnight. We can’t murder the person who has brought

Easter Sunday has always been Chocolate-cake-making day for Neil and his mom, whom everyone calls “Joy” or “Tita Joy” . How many times has Neil bragged about his mom’s baking and cooking skills? He couldn’t tell – this has always left me amusedly smiling. This year’s holy week ended with his mom’s cake baking tutorial

When you love something (or someone), can you stop yourself babbling about it? During our office break, every single soul in the pantry heard how I bragged about my love for Grey’s Anatomy, to the point that I argued Gossip Girl (let’s call it GG) was nothing compared to it. “GG is really for high

When all you want is a little peace and quiet, Camiguin Island is the place to stay a while. Crowd and chaos are rare scenes, just the unspeakable sunrise, the captivating view of Mt. Ilihan, the quiet sunset, and the unfading smiles of people whom I haven’t seen in the last 16 years. Camiguin still

   Howdy, Readers! I’m sure you miss me. It’s been a long time, folks. Thanks for passing by though I wasn’t updating this blog for some weeks. Assuming this blog has awesome readers, I came up with a list of posts I intend to write about in the following days. If I could write all

Are you trying to learn Japanese for your planned tour? Or simply to make sense of real anime voices? Or just to survive a night with a Japanese acquaintance? If so, these phrases will surely be of help: Yoroshiku onegai shimasu. (silent ‘u’) Literally, it’s translated “Please look favorably upon me.”  It simply means “It’s