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New Year’s Eve 2010

Melo — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:43:00 +0000

On New Year’s Eve, we all stayed up late for the Media Noche (except for Baby Rhomiel). Dang was able to prepare something for us to celebrate the coming of the New Year. We don’t have any firecrackers because I don’t like them and they are very dangerous. I do see the appeal of lighting-up firecrackers but a brief moment of excitement is not worth the harm it could inflict on anyone.

(Dang prepared a little something for our Media Noche)

We also had our exchange gift on New Year’s Eve. We’ve been having a family exchange gift for a few years now and we usually do it on Christmas Eve but this year we did it on New Year’s Eve. We spent New Year’s Eve together as a family. We didn’t have an extravagant feast, we didn’t have any firecrackers nor fireworks but, still, we did enjoy the evening because we have each other.

Here are some pictures of everyone in the family that were taken last New Year’s Eve.

(Here we have our gifts for the Exchange Gifts. Spongebob Squarepants was guarding them.)

(Here we have Mommy Dang slicing some vegetables while Pauline looks on. That is me in the other picture. I covered my face with Play Money.)

(Kuya Rain spent some time playing games on Miniclip.com. His favorite game in Miniclip is Need for Madness. It’s the only thing he plays everytime he uses the computer.)

Mother-In-Law’s Funeral

Melo — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:20:13 +0000

Last Saturday (July 18, 2009), my Mother-In-Law, Consuelo Rondina, was laid in her final resting place at San Pablo City Public Cemetery. She was 70 years old when she passed away. As far as I know, the cause of death was her Skin Cancer. The cancer already ate through her face and according to my wife, it was already attacking her internal organs in the abdominal area. Unfortunately, the cancer was never really treated because the cost of the medicines were somewhat expensive and I guess because of that the cancer spread and attacked other parts of the body.

The death of my Mother-In-Law was a very sad moment for all of us and we hoped that we could have done more for her before she died. Anyway, me and my family would like to thank everyone who came to the funeral and to those that donated their time and money in supporting my Mother-In-Law in her times of needs. Again, thank you very much!

Our New Home

Melo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:34:25 +0000

Last week we packed our things and moved to a new home. Our new home is not far from our old home. In fact, it’s on the same street. LOL!

Just so you know, we don’t have a place of our own. Like many families, we just rent an apartment.

Our new home is not very big. It’s actually much smaller than the old one even though they just cost the same to rent but we feel that it’s a much better place than the old one. My wife and I felt that the old place wasn’t a very good place because we kinda suffered a whole year of hardships there. My wife lost her job the first month we were there and the clients I got were a little hard to deal with. I’m just thankful that none of us got sick really bad.

Another reason why we moved is because we will be having a new baby late this April or early this May and we wanted to have a much cleaner surrounding for the baby. I’m not saying that our old place is a dump, it just that, a garbage truck is always parked right outside our gate. The entire house is also not very safe because materials used to build it was way below standards. At least at the new place, we feel much secure and we think we can survive a super typhoon without getting flooded. It’s also very quiet at our new home unlike at the old one where the surroundings are always noisy.

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We didn’t encountered any problems moving. We had a lot of help from my nephew and his friends. The only problem we encountered was with my DSL connection. Our internet and phone service provider (PLDT) wants us to wait 3 weeks upon application before they transfer their service to our new home. That was not acceptable at all so we decided to change service provider. The next day, my wife went to another internet and phone service provider (DIGITEL) to apply for service and guess what, it only took them a few days to install and setup their service. It also didn’t cost that much!

Right now, we are still arranging things around but most of the big stuffs are already in placed. We just have to finalized the placement of things so that we could maximize the use of the limited space that we have.

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Anyway, my kids and my wife love the new place and I’m really liking it too. It’s a little bit small but overall it’s much better than our old home. I’m sure we’ll have new experiences and more exciting adventures here.

Oh, Rain has new friends here already…