The
Safe & Sound Pink Walkathon is an annual charitable, non-competitive event aimed at raising both awareness and funds for breast cancer.
I was a first timer participant of this event and i was so surprised of the numbers of people who participated. I felt so glad by simply looking at them taking few steps to fight for breast cancer. I myself, can say that i'm not really conscious about breast health maybe because i'm not a mom yet coz what i know women tend to learn about it when they begin breastfeeding their baby.
See those thousands of women, men and children who participated the 3.6km walk.
Couple's Corner # 3: We're In Love! Nice start for the day....hehehe so guys here's our simple story for this week.
Despite the distance, i was studying in Bicol and he was working in Bulacan, he managed to court me through letters, calls and text messages and it took him one year to let me finally say that we’re on. Like most of the couple who had a romantic declaration of their love to each other, for us we had it different again. So here's my post about that last 2008, i just copied it.
YES, WE DECLARED OUR LOVE
April 24, 2008
January 1, 2002, officially we become lovers. His siblings and cousins decided to have an excursion at Maribina Falls. He requested me to come with them together with my other siblings.
When we reached the place he asked me to go up on top of the falls. We sat there for a while. Both of us are serious as if each of us wanted to say something. Then after a long second of not saying anything...he said "Napapagod na ako sa ganitong sitwasyon, ikaw nde ka pa ba napapagod?" No reply... Then another question…"kelan ko ba malalaman?" Then i replied "Gusto mo ngaun na!" Our story started that way! Others may expect of "Do you love me?" question and "yes or no" answer. But it was not what had happened. After saying "gusto mo ngaun na?" i motioned of going down then he followed me.
That's it! We went home that day without saying any other words. It was a sad moment for me. I was hoping for a good reply and even a happy and sweet smile the moment i said "gusto mo ngaun na" but i didn't saw it on him. I even told him about it.
Then that night he spent it to our house till early morning. Gave me a present (perfume) which is till now was kept in our house and was not used. I want to display it on our future home as the first gift i received from him.
At first, i thought he wasn't serious and all the things that are happening those times are just the continuation of our neighbors childhood loveteam joke. But then with all the letters, calls and text messages i concluded that Oh My! he's really inlove with me. I have never spent time chatting with past suitors with nonsense things but with him i love it esp. when we're sharing about our life as a naughty kids. Six months after...i found myself dreaming of him and thinking of him before sleeping and even at the moment i open my eyes in the morning. He used to go home once a year but within that year he came home almost 5 times that made his relatives surprised.....that was because of me.:)
With his determination to win my heart he made it sure that every vacation he would come to our house to talk to me or if i was in Manila he will surelly meet me for a dinner.
Here is that famous "Maribina Falls" where our story begun.
We had our dinner last night at a Chinese Restaurant with their famous “shabu shabu” together with my 2 young looking highschool batch mates, Elsa & Marilyn. This dinner should have been done last June as my birthday treat with them but we're all busy that month and we didn't find a time to meet.
It was Marilyn's first time having a shabu shabu so i don't really know if she enjoyed it.
Looking forward for more dinner time with friends...
I hate it when I’m sick! From the day i took the pills i was never been okay. Almost everyday i find it hard to get up early from bed...as if my body is stick on it…i always had this feeling that I can’t explain…it’s the first time I have experienced it…my whole body is aching…i don’t have any single energy to work and I always wanted to stay in bed.
Other than strange feeling due to that pill I am taking i had a tonsillitis that made me suffered for about 3 days…good thing it’s okay now…
Hope the days will fly so fast so I’ll be finish taking the medicine and I pray that it will bring good result…
Got inspired by
Niko, so i wanna join this Couple's Corner too... I have to jump to COUPLE’S CORNER #2 The Day We Met/Dined Out since i was already late for the first one.
Like what is written on the right side of my blog we’re a childhood neighbor’s favorite love team so we somehow know each other.
Now, let me go straight on our first dine out. I came to visit my sister in Laguna (midsummer of 2001) and promised through text messages that I‘d like to meet him also. I was starting to like him that time already…
Excited as we are, we planned to meet in Manila as I was coming from Laguna and he was from Bulacan where he is working. We thought of meeting in Abad Santos at his cousin’s place then decided to go to SM Megamall. He came straight from night duty so he was feeling so sleepy and tired. We took an air-conditioned bus going to the mall and while we are in the bus I thought that he would be a little sweet and cheerful coz it will be our first date… but gosh! He sat still and never said anything. Later I’ve known that he never take an air-conditioned bus coz he doesn’t like the smell of air freshener. Upon reaching SM Megamall we search for the nearest food chain as we are both hungry due to traffic at EDSA. We found Mc Donald’s just as we turned right from the entrance of the mall. He told me to find a place and I chose near the window overlooking the parking area while he ordered for our food. So here comes the first turn off! I have always dreamed of meeting a gentleman guy like those that I saw in the movie where the guy offers the seat for the lady, sees to it that he’s on the danger zone while walking in the road, assist the lady taking the jeepney or buses etc etc. So that time I was expecting him to ask me first what I wanted to eat but he didn’t. So when we’re about to finish our food I told him that it’s not a gentle way ordering food without asking your companion what he/she likes. He just smiled and said that he didn’t mind asking me anymore coz he was real hungry already and he just wanted the food to be served asap.
After that we hop to each and every shop we pass. Actually we met that time coz he told me that he has something to tell me personally. So that was on my mind the whole day that we we’re together but as the time goes by and as the sun was about to set I heard nothing from him until I decided to go home. From SM Megamall he accompanied me till Alabang Festival mall where we had our dinner and there I told him what he wants to tell me. And he said No…Nothing…. There I got furious telling him that I have wasted my whole day and my money for nothing? (Taray Ko Noh) And he said that he was a bit shy telling it to me that time and he said sorry if he was not on the mood to talk to me coz he really felt so tired and so sleepy. With that I felt guilty….i forgot that he came straight from night shift duty…something I should have considered.
We part our ways at around 8pm. Instructed him where to take a bus going to Monumento since he was new to that place and I went home to my sis in Laguna. When I reach home I shared to my sis what happened that day and she was teasing me why did I act that way…expecting him to tell me his feelings about me. Really as mad as I am I told my sis that I was expecting him to tell that he likes me and what are his chances….
…but he said nothing…..
He called me many times but dared not to answer coz I was really mad at him…then he used another number….asking sorry for spoiling my day…
I am already late for this (Couples Corner #1) but I still thought of sharing it and of course to complete the story…hehehe
I’m Sheryl Ferrer and my hubby’s name is Marlon Tomanglao. For a brief introduction, we are neighbors, classmates but not friends. We had our life as a kid like strangers due to our families, relatives and people in our barrio. As young as 7 or 8 years old when our fathers started a joke that we will be there “manugang” in the future. So everytime we pass to each others house or neighbors house expect that they would say “Bhing (my family calls me that way) nanjan si Boboy” or “Boy nanjan si Bhing2x” or “Oi, anjan ung mamanugangin ko”. Reasons that sometimes made us cry or “mapikon” With them around us, taught us to be aloof with each other and we even hated to become playmates just to avoid them teasing us.
Then we had separate lives (I studied in Manila while he stays in Bicol) during secondary school which I thought had stopped them teasing us…but no! During my vacations I would still hear same words that they used to tell on us...So who would ever think that those 2 little young ones whom they used to tease would fall in love with each other after almost 10 years?
Well, I’m a wife who actually dreamed of a husband in a coat and tie! Meaning he should outstand me in so many things, he should be more idealistic and intelligent than me…someone who knows everything. And career wise he should be in a top level management… but I had him as the opposite.
Following my entry about the findings that i have an ovarian cyst and the follow up check up i had here in Dubai. I started taking the pills prescribed by the doctor. Though I'm afraid taking it but if it was the only way to help me bear a child after and will totally removed the cyst! Go!
Dr. Litty Paulose, specialist - OBS/Gyn, Al Mamzar Polyclinic prescribed me to take
Yasmin which i have to take for two months starting from the first day of my menstrual period. After taking the first 21 tablets i have to rest for 7 days and start taking again on the eight day for other 21 tablets. Then i have to come back to her after finishing the last tablet.
I don't really understand why those things i hated most often comes my way. Long before i got married i never considered taking contraceptive pills as precautions for pregnancy. I was married for nearly 5 years and we've been living together for 1 1/2 years now but i never tried taking any contraceptive pills during those time that i don't want to have a baby yet due to financial reason instead we used the calendar method.
And then now....i'm taking one of the things i hate...
Together with our usual buddies (Ate Norie, Chie & Mane) for going out, we went to Jumeirah Beach Park last friday.
It was me who planned for it so when i ask permission to Pangit that i'll go for swimming at Jumeirah beach park with our common friends, he then said "No!".... for the reason that he can't come cause his schedule is 3rd shift. I know it was not the reason why he doesn't allow me to go instead he is worried that maybe other men are coming with us...
Stubborn as i am i insisted that i will go even if he won't allow me coz at the end of the day i still have my personal life even if we're married provided that he is informed.
So friday morning, i packed my things and prepared to go at noon... Worried as he hell!!! Hehehe he said he will come...that made me happy:)
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