Garden Chef's Needle and Pen

Last week, I viewed a video ad from a link posted by a Facebook friend. The  video  featured a new commercial of Lemon Square that  "gives us that warm, fuzzy feeling with an unlikely love story that ends with a twist..."  as written by   Isa Rodriguez . What's so special about this video other than the fact that it has been generating good r eviews ? Well, Mariel, the female endorser is the daughter of my long lost friend, Vicky. That, I discovered after watching the video, and browsing through the thread of comments while stalking (ssshhhh....) the FB friend's timeline (sorry, Willie, I couldn't help it!). Now, that struck my chest point-blank. Viewing the video over and over again suddenly made me miss Mariel's mom.  Memories of the past came alive once more. That's Vicky, my best friend in college. It's been years! But then after all those years, I now realize, I am not the best of friend for her. How could I be, after missing

Billy, in his anniversary post in Facebook yesterday said, " Now I know what it is to grow old together with someone!" Well, that inspired me to write this.  This is another late post. Hmmm... not so late though... it's only a day after our 27th anniversary. As usual, I planned to make this two weeks ago but giving priority to caregiving and household duties, especially in the absence of our Manang who has been sick for almost three weeks, has taken its toll once again.  The weekend routine--- late breakfast, preparing and giving nasogastric tube feeding to my 90-year old father, bathing, bringing out the trash bags for the garbage truck to pick up, folding clothes after laundry, preparing for another batch of clothes to wash... Oh, thanks, dear hubby, for attending to the doggies morning and evening, everytime you're home! For helping me with the dishes when my legs seem to crumble and my eyelids are ready to drop at night. Thank you for sweeping awa

Look how fast time has passed! It's been a year since my father's hospital confinement. Caregiving has taken most of my time since then and I haven't posted anything. You can just imagine how I miss doing this! This also means it has been that long since my family travelled to Hong Kong. That was July of 2015. The trip was intended as a post-birthday celebration for Ana Cristina, our youngest daughter. I may not have blogged about it but the 5-day vacation still has been taking me breathless as I dream of the skyscrapers forming the skyline of the city. I just couldn't stop looking at all the buildings during travels, be it by MTR, bus, cable car or a simple walk! The Hong Kong skyline is truly amazing. It was my first time to appreciate this spectacular view of skyscrapers seemingly kissing the clouds as they reach out for the sun. Here we go!