My Socially Constructed Reality

Time flies so fast... kids are growing up... :-) First haircut ni Danzzy 

Danie and Stef... Lumalaki na ang mga bata... Dalaga na si Stef... at mahilig na rin magpose sa picture si Danie :-)  Danie's wearing Tinkerbell dress from her Tita Viv ...  Back-to-back pose Hmm... da best ang jacket (designed by Avril Lavigne) ni Stef from Viv Go, GBTeam :-)

10. The university requires (for 2 consecutive years) alumni and teachers to sell at least 2 Alumni raffle tickets for PhP500 each.  As a faculty, I was not even asked if I can sell those tickets.  Nabigla na lang ako sa announcement sa bulletin board at the English department: "Inform the office how you want the tickets be paid, cash or through salary deduction."  Wow, magbabayad na kami, hindi pa kami na-consult. This is only one of the times we had to pay for something pala, na di kami na-consult if we're willing to deduct any amount during the payout.  9. Kapag late for more than 10 minutes, salary deduction , for every minute late.  Kapag overtime dahil sa mga activities, no pay at all. 8. Chalk is given out for free, thank you!  But that's all.  The faculty members even have to spend their own money to buy drinking water from the university's cooperative.  7. Salary increase is not significant, minsan, wala pa, although tuition fees keep increasing.

My father-in-law passed away in Dec. 19 -- a few days before Christmas 2011 Margie, Luz, Daniel and Helen with their mother whom we fondly call "Inang" It was Christmas 2011-- but there was no gift-giving, no ham on the table, no games for the kids, no Christmas carols, and people's faces were mostly painted with sadness.  Christmas 2011 was not a "merry" one for my family, but it was a very meaningful Christmas that made me realize a lot of things that are important in life. My father-in-law whom we fondly call "Tatang" passed away in Dec 19, a few days after he was diagnosed with leukemia.   Tatang in the hospital while struggling with leukemia Seeing how hard it was for my mother-in-law and her daughters and sons, including my husband, to accept that Tatang has already left the family, I couldn't help but cry, too.  Amid the merry-making in other places, here's a family grieving for having lost Tatang.  I knew it wouldn