Posted in Crazy and Fun Stories, My Awesome Filipino Family, Weird Kid Stories, tagged child, childhood, childhood games, children, comedy, cousins, family, football, fun, Funny, game, humor, kid, kids, mean on December 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cruz family. Errol is the kid on the left. He is holding his hat and is eating something.
If you’ve read Taguan Mo Si Errol, you’d probably be wondering why my cousin was the target of evil childhood games. Well, here’s another. It’s called daganan mo si Errol.
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I read a book called Wealth within Your Reach: Pera Mo Palaguin Mo by Francisco J. Colayco. The book mentions a study on people who wrote down their financial plans and those who didn’t. The researchers checked in on these people after 20 years and discovered that the ones who had written plans generated more income.
If this can work with financial plans, then maybe it will work for an entire life plan.
Some of these things have already happened to me, but I still wanted to include them in this post to remind myself that this is the kind of life that I want to maintain:
1. Get a job that I love
I want to be excited to go to work. More and more people are telling me that everybody hates their jobs, so I better suck it up and pick the least dreadful one. I know there is no perfect job, but there is a job that’s perfect for me. Here’s how I would define a perfect job:
Creative and Intellectual
I want a job that satisfies both my creative side and intellectual side. Not that I’m saying that creative is not intellectual and vise versa because of course they crossover. Still, there are some distinctions.
One side of me is an artist. She’s the one who writes essays, stories, poems, songs. She sings, draws, creates crafts, and cooks. She has fallen in love with movies, tv shows, novels, memoirs, other non-fiction books, TED videos, and awesome articles on the net.
Posted in Inventions and Ideas, tagged card, card game, cousins, cruz family, family, game, Monopoly, Monopoly Deal, Playing card, Property on October 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My cousins and I love playing Monopoly Deal. While playing, I realized that the game will be more interesting if it included the following cards:
1. Swap Opponents’ Properties
If opponent one has two pink properties, and opponent two has one pink property, then you can swap their properties so that opponent one will have a full set. Then, use your deal breaker card to steal the full set. However, opponent one might use a just say no card to counter your deal breaker card, and in effect, you just helped your opponent gain a full set.
Posted in Crazy and Fun Stories, Inspirational Stories, Life Tips and Reflections, My Awesome Filipino Family, tagged boardgame, comedy, cousins, crazy, family, Filipino, filipino family, fun, Funny, game, games, gaming, humor, lessons, life, life lessons, Monopoly, monopoly board game, Monopoly Deal, Self-Help on October 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My favorite game these days is monopoly deal. Unlike the monopoly board game, this one uses a deck of cards with a new set of rules. My cousins and I are so addicted to this game that whenever we see each other, we clear a table, and my cousin Annika starts dealing out the cards. When someone loses a property, asks an exorbitant amount of rent, or wins it all in one swoop, my cousins will make jokingly make certain comments or observations that seem like they can be seriously applied in real life.
1. Money isn’t everything
In monopoly deal, you have to put money in the bank, so that you will have something to pay the other players if they ask for rent. If you don’t have money in the bank, then you have to give your properties away. Giving away your properties lessens your chance in winning because you need to complete three sets of properties to win the game.
For one game, I was the player who had the greatest amount of money, but Juancho won the game. Juancho looks at me and says, “Well, money isn’t everything.”
Posted in Crazy and Fun Stories, Food & Drink, My Awesome Filipino Family, Weird Kid Stories, tagged combinations, combo, comedy, Cooking, cruz family, family, Filipino, filipino family, food, French fries, fun, Funny, glass coffin, Ice cream, Philippines, spaghetti noodles, weird, weird combinations, weird food on September 15, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Here’s my cousin Juancho eating spaghetti sauce on rice. There is a long history of weird food combos in the Cruz family. Here are some of those stories:
Juancho Eating Leftovers
The dilemma–you cooked too much spaghetti sauce, and you are out of spaghetti noodles. What do you do? Usually, I slice a piece of pandesal, spread spaghetti sauce on each half, add some slices of Quickmelt cheese, then I heat it up in the toaster. My cousin Juancho doesn’t do this. He prefers to put the sauce on top of rice. I thought this was weird; he thought this was totally normal.
