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Nostalgia – My Birth Town

♥Shydub♥ — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:26:31 +0000

I was feeling so Nostalgic when I saw these photos at my sister’s folder in FB. Part of the reason she posted it there so quick was to make me jealous that they went there. Not jealous the negative side but of course make me feel nostalgic. Anyhow, this place was my home town since birth. We moved out from this place in 1998. I graduated college that year and we had no choice though because the Del Monte INC paid all the private security which my father was one of them. That was one of the painful moment of my life, leaving the place that became part of my life and my friends that I considered family.
I was amazed how the place looks like now. It is still Del Monte but the company owner is different now.
This is the camp site where we usually hang out, picnic, camping and even dating place.
This area right here, it just used to be a woods where we picked mushrooms, twigs or woods for our dirty kitchen, play hide and sick, pick up some coffee seed and sell them and even the passage going to the pineapple field if we want to steal some pineapples. I even stepped human feces in this area when we got caught stealing and i tried to run because I was scared that my father would beat me up.
Only one familiar neighbor i see in the picture and that is the one wearing the pink shirt. When her Husband Died, my Mom always threw me out of the house at night just to sleep with them because she was scared. They don’t have lights and TV so i always cried everytime my Mom locked me out after throwing em out the door. She is my Mom BFF.
And of course I miss hanging out with my sisters and I missed my younger brother. It’s been 11 years since the last time we see each other. He grown to be a fine and successful man.

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Broken Heart

♥Shydub♥ — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:55:38 +0000

I feel sad with my dearest youngest sister right now. Lieza and her boyfriend have been together for like 5 years or less I think, am not sure the exact number though, and their relationship start to falling apart. Her boyfriend migrated to Canada just early this year and working on getting her to Canada as well. But now their plans is uncertain because the guy looks like have found someone else. I am not sure what’s their status right now, if they trying to work their relationship. Those sweet 5 years of being together will just go to waste and i really feel bad for my sissy. She is the sweetest sister, and even if she is the youngest she is very open Minded. She doesn’t deserved to get hurt. She can get along to any of us. I am the eldest but she acts more mature than me. Sometimes i just don’t want to act like the eldest. Anyhow, her heart is close to being broken right now. She already anticipated that this situation will come, but still love hurts isn’t it? Stupid Love! lol.
That’s he “Lieza” but we call him inday as she is our lil sistah.
With my other sister Weng, who is also have her own personal problem. haiizz what a life!
That’s the other sister, the one in Vegas.
And of course the ugly duckling in the family that grown up to be a brown duckie instead of a swan waaaa. LMAO

Meet my younger Bro

♥Shydub♥ — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:13:00 +0000

I have introduced before my siblings and again I just want to share about my little bro. He is the 2nd sibs from the youngest. The last time we see each other was 10 years ago. Yeah 10 years, it was year 2000 when I decided to go back to Cebu and that time my Mom transferred him to general Santos city and had my military uncle discipline him as he started to cut classes and hang out with friends who used drugs. When you are a student it’s hard to come home to your hometown and spend a long vacation with your family. That’s what my brother’s situation when he stayed at my uncles place. So, we never got the chance to came home at the same time. I snatched his pictures at his Facebook photo album. I can’t believed how this little guy turn out to be fine young man with successful life and career.

He works as a manager in one of the established food chain in General Santos Philippines. He now drives his own car and travel to different places in the Philippines. When you live in a third world country it pretty hard to buy your own car as the minimum wage there is not enough to support your personal needs and luxury. He able to get his own car because our big bro who works abroad helped him with the payments. Oh, how I missed hanging out with my brothers and sisters. I hope one day, there will be time that the seven of us including my half brother will see again for a gathering or reunion for some sort.

Filipino Way Party

♥Shydub♥ — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:53:00 +0000

Who wouldn’t drool for this huh! Yeah, in the Philippines if there’s a party lechon (whole roast pig) is always present. This was taken when my sister got engaged. Her fiancé’ Kelly (her husband now) was so fascinated with how we celebrate traditional Filipino way. Our foods and preparations are way different from the American party. Filipino loves food and gatherings with families, relatives and friends no matter how huge the clan is there’s always food for everybody including the neighbors and perhaps the whole block in your street.

Meet Me & My Siblings

♥Shydub♥ — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:42:00 +0000

These are my brothers and sisters, I actually have 1 half brother but I don’t have picture of him. My half brother lives in Cebu City with his 3 kids and wife. He is the oldest and grew up in Negros Occidental, but when he was still young he used to spent vacations in our place during summer or semestral break.
I just want to share something about my siblings. Here are their latest pictures that I snagged at their Friendster profile. We never call each other with our given name, instead we call each other with our childhood nick name.

We call him “Yoyong a.k.a Kiyos”
My older brother Julius, 34 years old who works abroad as a seaman. He had one daughter; 20 months old, who is living right now with the mother. He can borrow his daughter from the mother whenever he is not on board. He is the bread winner in the family and helped my parents sent my youngest brother and sister to college.
They call me “Titing a.k.a Lagum”
I, second from the eldest, got married at the age of 30. When I was still working back home I helped him support our family and paid my sisters tuition fee when they were still in college. At present, even if I don’t have a job yet, I am glad I have a husband who understand my obligations to my family back home and tried our best to support them despite of our financial difficulties sometimes due to economic crisis.
We Call her “Jiji a.k.a Bakang”
My 3rd sibling; sistah Rachael Bateman 30 years old lives in Vegas at present with her own family. She’s the first got married in the family at the age of 26. She also tries her best to help out our family back home even if she doesn’t have a job yet. She is the only family I got in here and visited us every now and then if she has time. She didn’t finished college coz she chose to go to Palawan on the day of her final exam. Well, she got lucky with her life and found a good man to marry who love her so much.
We call her “Weweng a.k.a Tangkag”
The 4th siblings; sistah Louella 28 years old and still single yo! She just got back home from Dubai not able to finish her contract because of her health condition. She does not have a job yet at present and still living with my parents in Cagayan de Oro City. She finished computer secretarial in college but due economic crisis, lots of graduates there find it hard to land a job.
We call him “Boloy a.k.a Baboy”
The 5th siblings; bru Alex 26 years old and now living in Sultan Kudarat, General Santos at my uncles house. He finished his college there with the degree of BS Accountancy and now working as a Manager at one of the fast food chain in the place, Jollibee. He is supporting my family though especially if my older brother is not on board which means he don’t have salary as soon as he finishes his contract.
We call her Inday a.k.a Pandat”
The youngest of the family Laiza 24 years old and still living with my parents also. She just finished her working contract in one of the hotels in cagayan and no jobless and still looking for a job. He finished college with the degree of Criminology and she is hoping she can get a slot in a police force in Cagayan de Oro City. Like I said finding for job there in the Philippines is kind of hard. We hope and pray she can find a regular job soon.
So, here they are folks, as you noticed I am the one who looks different physically. Thank you for taking your time to check out my sistah and brotha.

Our Niece Juleanne

♥Shydub♥ — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:11:00 +0000

She’s our little baby niece Juleanne. My sister sheila and i haven’t met her yet in person and i am so really excited to meet her hopefully next year. She is the daughter of our eldest brother Julius. And right now she’s the one who keep her lolo and lola entertain. We’ll see you soon inday…

Juleanne with her lola(granma, our mother)

With her Lolo(grandpa,our father)

(our bro)Father and Daughter bonding

With the mommy and relatives,our aunt and cousins

Our youngest sissy,the aunt and niece bonding
This is an old post from our blogs Sissy’s Pastime. My sister is planning to fused her two blogs so that she only have 3 blogs to managed. She is one crazy sissy, so whatever her decision is, suportaan tika sis.

Wordless Wednesday – My niece

♥Shydub♥ — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:38:00 +0000

Innocent Smile

Sister in Dubai

♥Shydub♥ — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:34:00 +0000

A lot of people coming from a third world country are now working abroad to have a better life for their family. One of them is my sister weng. She almost 2 months now in Dubai. The place we came from is not that bad, in fact its a nice place to live. But due to economy crisis hard to get a job which compensate your hardwork. Even those college graduate you can’t expect to land a decent job right away after you graduate which is related to your course. I had a great stable job in the philippines but I married a wonderful man from the US so had to give up my career and moved here. My sister finished college but she finds it hard to get a good well paid job. She worked different company there as a secretary both in Cagayan and Cebu city and still not enough to support her needs. She decided to work abroad(dubai) so that she’ll be able to help out our parents and at the same time save money in the future when she thinks of settling down. She is not totally feeling homesick where she is right now coz there are tons of pinoys working there too. Some people in Dubai wondering if there are still filipino in the philippines because of the numbers of filipinos working in dubai. Filipinos are hard working people, they are everywhere in the world. Good luck sistah and to all of my kababayan.

My Solitude and Serenity

♥Shydub♥ — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:26:00 +0000

It’s I, me, myself and Sheila!!! But you can call me tsang or shydub. A proud pinay mommy and wife living in a US with my wonderful family, which includes our baby Jake and my totally hot and sexy hubby…, Oppsss! and another baby on the way of course. I’m a teacher by profession and a trying hard super mom.:)

This is my own place where I can express my thoughts, rambling, rants and even my insanity about daily lives and experiences. My meditation and musing, anything and everything under the sun. There are times in our life that we feel so alone and lonely even though we know there is no reason to feel one. A time when I think of something beyond reach, explore my thoughts and things around me and dream of everything hard to achieve. In my own place I am the boss here, I can do whatever I want by expressing it out through writings. In my solitude I like to be alone, close my eyes and thinks of everything but nothing. In other words I can express here the weird side of me. In my serenity I just love to feel the peaceful noise of nothing and meditate in the darkness. It’s my place, my palace, my dungeon, my corner and my very own spot. You can read it here the subjects I want to talk and share in my own simple words. Seat back and relax, enjoy your moments while I am enjoying mine.
Thank you for the visit I hope you enjoy your stay. Please come back soon. See yah!!!:-)