Many years ago, a colleague was laughing by herself on her monitor. After she noticed that I was curious on what she is laughing at she asked me if I have tried blogging before. I told her that I did, with some of my college classmates. I told her that we went to a radio station in Pioneer, Mandaluyong. We talked to the DJ and asked him to plug the gig that we will have at our school. After that she cut me and said, Hindi plugging, blogging… (Not plugging, blogging…)

My ears must be full at that time. Or probably I was not paying as much attention and hearing her laugh all by herself just got me curious.

So I learned something new. She explained to me what a blog is.

I can’t exactly remember when I created this blog. I think I already deleted my first ever post, if not, I know for sure that I deleted some of my old posts. This blog used to be on online rant space, more than an online journal. When there’s something in my head, I put everything here, if not, I use a notepad then transfer them here when I remember.

I used to blog more when I’m mad, depressed or super giddy. Now, I think I blog whenever I think I can.

I’ve always wanted to blog more often. I want to share more of my ideas, talk about Mon, Ayex and my family, brag about my latest discoveries, rant about my disappointments, and rave about life.

This blog contains a spoonful of who I am – no pretensions, just me.

… because again, I didn’t have enough writing will with me now.

I just finished taking care of the turning-into-a-bratty little girl’s needs: bathe and feed. My hormones are probably too high these days, I’m starting to be annoying and the little girl almost always irritated me for being so makulit. Anyway, as usual, I forgot to blog since I took a leave from work for the holidays. I opened my multiply site to check our little business and stumbled on a a few entries just like this. So let me do my share here…

It’s been a great year for me, Mon, Ayex and the whole family. We had our fair share of ups and downs: mommying becomes harder every day, business transaction with friends does not always end up well, new jobs in the same company, new business lines, baby to a toddler, having more than enough, sharing blessings, etc. I cannot think much as I write this but I know inside, the going out year went really well for us. I survived. We survived. With His grace and the love and support from family, who will not right?

As much as I’d like to create a longer post, to pay tribute to 2008, this lovely toddler might wake up from her sleep in my lap sooner than expected. So while text messages are clogging all networks available around the world, we wish all of you out there a safe New Year! I can already hear the thudding sound of fireworks outside our home