You have a mission. You look at your closet and then in it – really look – and you cannot fight the overwhelming feeling that there is just too much that you have allowed yourself to accumulate.  Yes, it is a testament to how much money you have had and spent, of the [...]

To blog, or write, or sneak out so that when my little boy smiles at me I will not be tempted to drop my pen and carry him.  Or be in darkness, as I am now, writing when everyone else is sleeping. Sometimes it is worth it, sometimes it is not, and it all depends [...]

At the onset, let me say that I think it was love. He had her and then he lost her, when someone whispered to his ear to, well, explore the world and his options.  But when he saw her showing off more skin in the tabloids, at the arm of some other man, as if [...]

I am not. I mean I cook and bake sparingly, sweep the floor occasionally, arrange the closet (that I have ransacked for something to donate, or wear or throw away) some of the time.  But, I will admit this, I do not know how to clean the bathroom, have never done the laundry (do not [...]

Or obliterate it altogether.

But boys will be boys. Will be boys.

And my husband, is a boy. (still a boy)

He always has gadget fads that he swears will not last. But they keep morphing into some other fad, that I want to scream to him: Yes honey, they do not last but they always, always get replaced with something else that take your time away from us!

Like now, it is his PSP and his Tekken game. He plays it every chance he gets – when waiting for an appointment or before the start of a meeting, in the bathroom, in his office (I bet – but he owns it so I think it is okay), in my hospital bed (when I was recently hospitalized), downstairs in our house when my children and I are having playtime and how-are-you-time upstairs, in our bedroom when the lights have been dimmed and my baby boy who is trying to sleep could not sleep because he is distracted by the eerie disco lights and slightly muted sounds from the PSP game.

I could go on.

Please allow me.

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With every kick at my gut, I was reminded that I was not alone. With every fluttering in my stomach, I knew he was there, his father’s son, and he was coming very soon.

He came and I did not have any idea what I had to do.

How does one prepare for baby?

Preparing for baby usually meant decorating the nursery and buying the million and one things one anticipates the baby will need – a crib, a pram, shirts of all shapes and sizes. Not anymore. If the would-be parents have money, imagination and worry to spare, here are some things they can “invest” in: Lamaze or Bradley classes, cordblood banking, giving birth outside of the Philippines.

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The day started innocently. I asked a friend for the number of my old nanny when I recently had a nanny crisis, thinking I could attain the safe haven that I had for myself as a child by having my old nanny take care of my little boy. But alas, she is unavailable and uninterested. Her daughter, my alleged godchild (I think I was 15 when she had me), started sending me text messages. Have I eaten? She missed me. When will I see her? She loves me.

I found it mildly amusing because I just met her (by phone).

And then after a day of texting, she started asking for money. Her rent was due, she said, and they have no money to pay the landlord. Can I please lend her some? And can I please send it by Western Union? Today?

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You look at the clock. It screamed 3 a.m. at you. You screamed a silent scream – one of realization. Also of disgust. And elation. The kind that you get when you are not being you, and it is liberating.

You have become a Plants vs. Zombies addict.

And you have a headache.

You do not know when or how it happened. You just looked at your iPhone one day and tinkered with the downloading function and bought Plants vs. Zombies for $2.99 along with other games and applications. You are not a game person yourself. You use your time wisely. You know that these kind of games will not do anything for you – will not add a skill, will not improve any of your relationships, will not make you rich.

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