Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

Yesterday, since everyone was in the garden, I decided to plant more seeds and (finally) marcot the angel plant. So there are these nice things to look forward to in 2007. As of the moment, there are lots of blooms around and the oregano and other plants I’ve repotted a few months ago are growing very healthy - you could see the leaves are larger, thicker and have a more vibrant color.

Today, I’ve made several more cuttings of a plant that my mom considers lucky because of it’s round shaped leaves. I placed the cuttings between other plants in the garden so as to add some variety. Quite a sturdy plant so I guess it will survive all sorts of soil conditions. I’ve also planted the seeds that my ex-partner and I got from the Veterans Hospital coumpound - hopefully, they will all sprout by the new year.

And I did get a couple more gifts the other day - some green tea from auntie Ethel, a watch from Divine, coffee from Grace, pajama set from auntie Purit, and a photo album from my brother and his wife. The photo album was quite nice, actually, it’s pink and has this really baduy heart-shaped cut-out with dried flowers inside the heart on the cover. I thought it was nice because now I can put some of my photos there. I decided to put photos with my ex-partner, carefully choosing only the ones that remind me of the happier times we were together. Not too plenty, but it makes no sense trying to fill up the album with photos of myself after having cried my eyes out just the other day …. So it was a bit difficult too just going over the photos and being reminded of crying so much, never have cried so much in my entire life, didn’t even cry as much when my father died.

I do still tear up and have depressive moments… like now, writing this.

My friend told me about peace of mind some time ago, and to be very honest I still really don’t know if I have peace of mind especially when the past year and a half creep back on me.

Anyway, onto less serious things, I have just revamped all my other websites: Korakora, the Gallery and the Projects website - and I think they all look much better. I’ve also streamlined a number of the features on the Projects site, replaced PHP-Nuke with plain HTML and upgraded the Coppermine software for the Gallery. Well, I suppose these should be all the necessary updates to the website for the year 2007.

And - there’s finally word about Gemma from my mom’s friends (they were the one’s who recommended Gemma to us in the first place). Gemma was caught by Kuwait immigration on the way to Jordan (the place where she was supposed to work). She was caught for using somebody else’s passport and thus traveling illegally. However, a Kuwaiti man supposedly took pity on her and took her in. I can only pray that that Kuwaiti man is a good person. Knowing the plight of Filipinas in the Middle East, that man could be greater danger for Gemma and she could be trapped there especially with her illegal status.

I really wish she hadn’t insisted on doing such a crazy thing - but so many Filipinos do what she’s done just to be able to get work overseas. Those promises they’ve all been given, all lies. I really hope the situation for everyone in the country gets better, so people won’t have to risk their lives and be separated from their families just to be able to earn a living … My own father worked overseas for a while, and I think it was a bit of a tricky situation with their recruiter, and this was way back in the 70s. So I suppose we’ve been very lucky and blessed that things did not become too much of a disaster, and that we are doing reasonably well today.

Anyway, again onto less serious things - just got a scarf for Divine and a small stuffed polar bear for Grace. And everyone loved the Chinese delicacies that my ex-partner and I gave for Christmas.

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