Lola’s Story: Bumagsak sa Grade 2

Lola had a handful of stories that she would tell over and over again. One is when she’d talk about how bumagsak siya noong grade 2. She would recall how she personally handled her enrollment that school year, and she remembered sitting again in the same classroom of her old teacher. Upon seeing her, her teacher exclaimed, “O! Adeling!” as if saying “Bakit ka nandito?” At this point of the story, lola would laugh so hard, sometimes there were even tears in her eyes because she found that so funny. I would always try to laugh even though I had memorized her whole story already.

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My mom never gave me advice, and I am all the better for it

Note: This is a Facebook status I made during mother’s day

My mom never gave me advice, and I am all the better for it. When I was young, I remember looking at my closet and asking my mom to help me pick what dress I should wear. She refused and said that I should be the one to choose. I resented her for it because she was making my life harder. Then, I found out about my classmates who were forced into itchy dresses.

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JC the Little Indian Giver

When my cousin JC was really young, probably like 5 years old or something, he befriended our maid’s little son in the province. JC’s mother, Tita Gia, just bought him lots of cheap plastic toys from the market, and a couple of torotot hats for New Year. For some sort of reason, JC started giving all his toys and hats to the other kid. He was like Ito sa iyo na ito, ito pa. We were all surprised. Naks naman si JC, mapagbigay, we all said, quite amused.

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Pregnant Pause

Note: I saw this in my old multiply account, and I decided to post it here.

I was talking to my mom when I randomly said “What if I don’t want to have a baby,” and she said “Kaw bahala, basta hindi ako parang lola mo na magpapaka-martyr na mag-aalaga ng baby“.

I realized she thought I said “What if I want to have a baby”. As in akala niya I wanted one right now, tipong teenage pregnancy, and I can’t believe she didn’t even tell me that I shouldn’t do that. She was just like, “Sure do whatever you like, but just leave me out of it”. God, my mom is weird.

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