MaK!MeJ!

Today, among other things, I’m thankful that I am breathing. I am seeing and feeling everything that God had bless me with.

I’m thankful that I am able to write my TT post here. I’m thankful that I have a new blog, a new place to call home in the Blogosphere. I’m thankful for the people who’s been helping me with my move especially Joyce, my tech support (and my sister’s high school friend) who always answers my queries and helps me through my headache-and-nosebleed-causing concerns. And so thankful for friends who followed me in this new address.  Thanks a lot!

I really wanted to tick more blessing but I gotta park now because my son has been calling me every few sec while I’m tapping the keyboard.

Have a blessed and happy Thursday everyone.

So says the email.

And tonight when I checked my PayPal account, I found out that it’s not a hoax. So it’s true. Adding a Philippine bank account to PayPal is already possible. Same is true for Indonesian bank accounts. Great news.

Prior to this, an EON account (product of Unionbank) used to be the only means -to my knowledge- to make withdrawal transactions from PayPal (since EON not only functions as ATM card but a credit card as well). That’s in the Philippines. And although I learned of EON subscribers whose accounts were processed quickly and seamlessly, I wasn’t as lucky. I didn’t have an easy enrollment contrary to bank ads. Mine took more than a couple of weeks (must have been a month) to have the account activated as a credit card. But maybe because I’m in the province.

But now, there’s obviously no need to go through the hassles of opening a new account. One can now add an existing Philippine bank account. Really a great news. I -and other Filipinos- have been waiting for this. And I’m so glad the long wait is over now and that this option is already available at last.

And I’m hoping they’ll add more countries to the list soon since other nationalities may be waiting as well.

Republished from VERB:

Here goes “se7en” facts about me.

I came from a family of seven.

I was born in the year 1977.

Although it’s a far cry from the usual teeny-bopper flick a teenager would want to watch, I’ve watched the movie SE7EN in my teens and loved it. I know it’s a dark, disturbing film with some flaws in it but I couldn’t have cared less as long as Brad Pitt is there.

We I originally planned to set our wedding on the seventh day of March. However, bookings atbp forced me to reset it to four days later.

I was hoping I’d give birth to my son on a 7 but I did not. It was a consolation of sorts when I gave birth on a day which is divisible by 7 and at a time with 7 (5:27 PM) in it.

I OBVIOUSLY love number 7.

Check the time of most of my posts here, they have #7 in them.

P.S. Now I wish for a 7-digit balance to my name. Managinip ba na gising!

Often called in the country as Kamias (Averrhoa bilimbi). These sour fruits have medicinal value to some.

But to my family, these kamias are used as food flavoring, especially to add zing in soups we referred as sinigang. Despite the availability of instant mixes these days, my mother loves to prepare meals the old-fashioned way. And I just love to eat meals prepared her way.

Traditional sinigang may also be flavored using young tamarind fruit (unripened pods), but since we have kamias tree at home, we use these instead. For more of kamias, read here or here.

You know that your kid is spending to much time with their grandparent/s when they tell you:

Mama, sing -please - From Russia (With Love).

I’m hugging you now. Maybe holding on should really be the word. I know you could sleep without me carrying you in my arms and rocking you gently. But. Let me do this now. Let me do this for those times I wasn’t able to do this.

As you lay here in my arms, sleeping -and me, trying to maintain my balance, I cannot believe that there were times when I had wished that you could go to sleep on your own. I will not deny of those times I had longed for the moment to come when all I have to do is put you on bed.

It has come. Now is that time. And just when I have what I longed for, sadly, I keep on wishing to turn back the hands of time to when we can both go to sleep, tummy to tummy, chest to chest. Time to when I can feel the beats of your heart synchronizing with mine.

You are growing up so fast so let me just hold you now - before you leap to teen-dom with a blink of an eye.