Why I Started Exercising

Before the kwento, endorse ko lang my super comfortable exercise shorts. It’s not too short para makitaan and it’s flattering to the figure. You can buy it from HERE. It’s only Php 300. Very sulit its price sa quality. I mean, hindi siya yung timpong will tear while you’re in the middle of exercising.

Moving on, I want to share with you guys why I started exercising.

Continue reading “Why I Started Exercising”

Raising Anika Tip #1: Communication

33902020286_ea31e6e018_o

Do you remember that party, guys? That was the surprise party for Anika’s 7th birthday. After her blindfold was taken off, she saw all her cousins, classmates and friends. She couldn’t process her feeling so she cried na lang instead. She was crying while I was carrying her for at least 5 minutes. Grabe. It feels like yesterday lang. Ngayon, 7 years later, I find myself navigating the world of teenagers and I tell you, this is a whole different stage of parenthood! Nakakaloka.

One of the questions I am often asked is how am I raising teenage Anika. Nakikita kasi na we’re close and Anika’s thriving. She’s into sports, has good grades, maayos ang set of friends and malapit kay God. I know it’s a journey, this teenage stage and I’m far from that point where I can be judged if tama ba ang mga ginagawa ko now or not. However, so far, so good kami. Thank you, Lord. This is the reason why I made a segment here called Raising Anika Tips.

Continue reading “Raising Anika Tip #1: Communication”

When I’m 100%

Dress from Shein

I journaled a lot when I was on the road to getting better. I counted. I have 4 notebooks filled with letters to people, notes, bible verses, learnings from my counseling sessions and kung ano ano pa. The other day, I was going through these notebooks and found a list. Natuwa ako because it was a list of what I wanted to do when I get better or when I’m 100 percent na. I’m not sure lang sino sa mga counselors ko who suggested that pero it helped that time to have something to look forward to. Here are some items on the list:

Continue reading “When I’m 100%”

Where I Buy Exercise Clothes

Since one income lang tayo sa life guys, I am slowly learning how to make tipid more. To put it bluntly, tinitigilan ko na magwaldas ng pera. Every peso counts ang peg ko ngayon. I have to admit that before, medyo bili here and bili there ako. There was back up before eh. Ngayon, I am the back up. Hehehe.

Continue reading “Where I Buy Exercise Clothes”

Rebuilding

OOTD: Top from Shop Myka Limchoc; Pants from American Eagle Outfitters; Shoes from Tory Burch

Hi, guys.

First, sorry ang weird ng design ng page ko. I’m not sure how it looks like on your end pero I know it’s not the same as before. The previous design kasi of my blog is no longer compatible with the new WordPress chenes. So I’m now using a basic template na lang muna while figuring out how to fix everything properly.

Continue reading “Rebuilding”

A Good Start

Bilis ng panahon. Parang kelan lang, I was celebrating my birthday. Now, it’s the middle of February already. Before you know it, maririnig na natin si Jose Marie Chan.

This year started quite well for me. I spent the New Year’s Eve with Anika and Pineda’s family. Sa tagal na namin friends ni Pineda, it was the first time we had Media Noche together ever. Tuwang tuwa kaming dalawa ni Anika. Isabel and Faye are in New Zealand na and wala namang kapatid tong si Anika so I was grateful she had people from her generation (haha) na nakasama nung salubong.

Continue reading “A Good Start”

Where to Stay in Tagaytay: Quest Hotel

There are so many hotels in Tagaytay now. Just recently, I was looking for a place to stay and I was surprised how expensive they were especially the hotels overlooking the Taal Lake.

This afternoon, I was browsing through my drafts folder here in the blog and found this blog entry that I started writing 2 years ago. When one of my childhood friends, Marianne, came home from San Francisco back then, Pam and I took her to Tagaytay with our daughters. Pam is good at looking for affordable but really nice accomodations. I really liked the hotel she chose because it was clean, nice and not expensive.

Continue reading “Where to Stay in Tagaytay: Quest Hotel”

Fleurdeliz 2.0

https://flic.kr/p/2o1pZZt

I know you thought the breaking was the most painful chapter. It wasn’t. Turn the page. The next part is much longer. It’s the healing. The rise. The comeback. It’s the birth of the new you. And it’s not easy. But you are strong and brave and worth it.” – Stephanie Bennet-Henry

Hi, guys. It’s been a while. Three months to be exact since I wrote the Elephant In The Room blog entry. So many things have happened since.

I completely weaned off all meds last October. I won’t detail it here again because I know you guys know how hard it was. Never take Alprazolam for too long. Dapat daw maxiumum of 4 months lang because one can develop a dependency on the drug. The doctor made me take it for one year and a half. Imagine how difficult it was weaning off from it. The withdrawal symptoms were hell. Si God lang talaga yung nakikita kong reason how I was able to go through it. I am glad I am off it. The trauma it caused my nervous system is another story.

Anyway, one of my good friends, who’s a doctor, suggested to have my hormones checked. Baka imbalanced daw. I got it tested through a blood test. You just need a doctor’s request and bring it to a laboratory. I went to Hi-Precision in SM Aura. True enough, my progesterone hormone is super low. At the time I had it checked, it was 0.2. Yung normal range is supposed to be 1.8 to 25. Now I’m doing the bioidentical hormone replacement therapy with Doc Fran of Centro Holistico. I pray that my progesterone level goes up and umayos my hormones. Imbalanced hormones can cause anxiety and depression. I wish I had mine tested before I took all the meds. Inayos ko na lang sana muna itong hormones ko. Hindi ko na sana tinake yung medicines na yun.

Continue reading “Fleurdeliz 2.0”

Dear Anika: Your First Independent School Fair

Anika

Dear Anika,

Today is the start of your week long school fair for this year. You are in first grade and you were very excited.

Today also marks the first time you will go to the school fair all by yourself. No parents. No yaya. No guardian.

I am writing this now because na-sesenti na naman si Nanay mo.

Continue reading “Dear Anika: Your First Independent School Fair”