#laagnitantong

For a month,  I enrolled myself to a certification program called Certified Financial Consultant,  from September 10 through October 15, 2016, every Saturday. During thr last week of my course,  something bad happened to Dupong,  my college classmate and one of the bestfriends,  and he was confined at the Perpetual Succor in Cebu City.  I decided to fly to Cebu with another friend, Magelle Labrador-Resullar,  to check the real score of Dupong's health. I gathered that when Dupong returned to work on October 2 from a month-long festivity in our home province,  he complained of headaches.  It was said that he used to request head massage and fell asleep on his desk after, for 3 consecutive days. It was Wednesday when he did not report to work that everyone wondered, texted him,  and called his phones. He didn't answer them except for his mother, who called that day to inform him of the fire incident in their hometown. His mother wonde...

As scheduled, our family readied for the summer vacation. En and I followed Mama Dulcing, Jun my brother-in-law, and Baby WanWan on May 14. They went on May 8 ahead of us for Mama to vote the May 9 National Election and for Jun to celebrate their home-barangay fiesta with his family. Following the same route, we flew to Butuan airport and was picked up by our nephew Entoy, accompanied by Jun and WanWan. We drove to straight to Surigao  finalized all preparations with Ate Emily for May 15 celebrations, from spices to desserts, before proceeding home to Anao-aon Surigao del Norte. May 15 marked a day of many celebrations, plenty to be grateful for. Our whole family commemorated the First Death Anniversary of Papa Tantong. His younger sister, Auntie Tina and Velarde family came to join us. That day also was a Thanksgiving Blowout of Atty. Entoy, our oldest nephew from our oldest brother Daniel and Ate Mely who passed the Bar Exam held in November 2015 which results had just been ...

If we love it, Wanwan love it more!

To account for my week's facebook updates while in Taiwan, here we Go: April 3 - My 2016 adventures started with Taiwan, in the cities of Taoyuan and Taipei, to accompany the Go Family, headed by my dearest classmate and friend, Ruth Arienza-Go. It was indeed a family affair staying at Manang Rhona's residence in Taoyuan City (Manang Rhona is Ruth older sister who married a Taiwanese), with Nanay Glori (Ruth's mother), Auntie Myrna as our cook (Aunt Myrna is Ruth's aunt-in-law), and the day tours were exclusive, chaperoned by Rose (Ruth's younger sister). Landed safe and sound... and on schedule Chasing the time to still catch some Cherry Blossoms April 4 - Some English translations help... But the Citizen's inability or difficulty of speaking English definitely a tourist trapper. Thanks to Manang Rhona's husband and son for the company. Kuya leads, his son translates.. Awesome tandem!  See the world in one place at Window on China ...

I dreamed it to be this way, not working by the age of 40. I think it's cool to be working at my own pace, my own time, no longer under the command and control of somebody in a corporate world --- just consulting. But I never thought this could be boring, to have nothing to work on routinely. I never thought this could be that scary, to think of many ways to raise income pr funds to defray recurring obligations. I am grateful nevertheless to be that way so that I could attend to my ailing and aging mother and my little but growing very fast niece, because we don't have househelp. I've been jobless for more than 3 months now. Although, my last quarter of 2015 was still busy conducting series of training for the proponent groups of Philippine Rural Development Project or PRDP, a project of the Department of Agriculture, funded by The World Bank. The I-REAP component was building the capacities of the people's organizations which will benefit the project. I got a tota...

Fortieth year... How did I fare? Midlife I crossed, How do I look? At 20, got a degree; At 25, built a decent home for mammy and pappy; At 30, been to countries other than Phi; At 35, bought an SUV; At 40, am a retiree. Crisanto, my registered name; At home, Loloy or Junjun is my nickname; Sant in HS, Cris in College, were my cognomen; At work, Crissy or Cring-cring rings supreme; Nazareno is my sacred name. Thank you, Lord! 40 years, a grace beyond good! Everything went dandy, And it kept dreamy. Thank you, God! 40 years more would be astounding, Pray, I would live it as you willed, in your love, And keep me counting your blessing.