Getting back on track...

It's been more than a month since i last blogged. I've been crazy busy of a whole lot of things that I don't know how i will be able to keep track. But i'll try...

Let me see...

My officemates bought me to St. Luke's Global City last monday when i felt so dizzy and started vomitting. The emergency doctors and nurses started assessing my situation, even giving my medication thru heplock IV to stop the vomitting. They let me rest for a while, and then when the dizziness and the vomitting feeling subsided, they allowed to discharge me but advised me to have a follow up check up with my attending physician for further reading of my blood test results.

And so, I had our company doctor check my results and advised me to have my eyes checked by an Opthalmologist just i case my astimatism has recurred and that this has caused my dizzy spells. She then advised me to check back with her as soon as i get the results from the Opthalmologist.

Another incident happened this month, and I am glad to tell you the my Loooooong wait is over! The house and the keys has been turned over to me (finally!). And now, i am looking for a good carpenter to make all the finishings needed for the house. I applied for MPL from Pag-ibig and SSS which will keep my house improvement project running. I still have a long way to go but at least everything is in my hands now. I can move at my own pace without relying on the inefficiency of that stupid developer (Prosperity Builders Resources Inc).

As for my baby bear. She's doing well in school. They have celebrated their linggo ng wika last Sept 3 (1-week late due to school cancellations bought by Habagat). I am so sad that I was not able to personally attend and watch her performance because of a report due for submission. But still, I promise to be there next time!

Papa Bear's ship is on dry dock hence he was able to come home during weekends. So we have time for family bondings. We get to visit our house and lay down our plans, we get to go to church together. Baby Bear is really enjoying every minute she gets to spend with the Papa Bear and it really makes my heart swell with affection and gratitude.

So there. That's the highlight of my month. I hope to have more time to blog often!!!

Till next time!

Summer Pointe Residences update....Finally!

Yup! finally!

I just called Prosperity builders and followed up the status of my Housing Loan. For the past 2 months, i developed a habit of calling them weekly just to ask for the status of my application. So when I called them up yesterday, they told me that my loan has been released. Haaaist! Imagine my joy! After two years of dealing with them, my dream of having my own home finally came true.

and another FINALLY! When I get through the actual house turnover, I'll never be dealing with Prosperity Builders Resources Inc ever again!

Summer Pointe Residences (for the nth time!)

Yup! still waiting for the actual turnover! Though, last april, i have already conforme'd PAG-IBIG's Notice of Loan Approval.

However, as of today, i haven't received any advise from them yet as to when will they be able to forward my complete documents to pag-ibig for loan release because 1) It took them more than 1 month to notarize my documents and 2) The "my" title is still in the "bank" for notarization. (I have no idea if this is true)

Both of these "palusots" will be added to their other palusot about the Registry of deeds, etc.

Hay, these people really sucks!

Tagaytay Road Trip (April 14-15, 2012)

As part of our effort to "de-stress", 2 of my officemates and I went for an overnight trip to Tagaytay last weekend. This has been carefully planned not only to just relax ourselves but also to make enjoyable for AJ since they know that i was planning to bring AJ along.

It was a very nice trip. We went to Residence Inn Tagaytay Zoo, an interactive zoo where you are allowed to feed the animals (except for the tigers), you can also have your pictures taken with a tiger cub for only 50 pesos (Except that AJ doesn't want to go near the tiger cub but she had her picture taken with a parrot instead)

They also have an animal show, wherein they introduces an exotic animal to the audience and tells us their attributes, their behavior & their habitat. They are also asking for volunteers for an opportunity to see the animals up close. They are also allowed to touch the animals! AJ has volunteered, and I was actually worried that she'll be afraid when they showed an Iguana and put her on AJ's hands.

But she has become fascinated. She never cried, instead she stroked the Iguana. What a brave girl! as a reward, the animal show host gave her discount cards to all zoomanity affiliates (zoobic zafari, zoo&zip residence inn, paradizoo & etc)!

After that, we rode a shuttle and went to paradizoo, another interactive zoo/farm in Tagaytay. We have been greeted by a guide who showed us all the animals, their organic vegetable and fruit garden, a pet cemetery, they also have a butterfly and bee garden! So Nice, we just have to have an umbrella since it was a 7 km walk (i think) overall.

Here's AJ with the Llama in Paradizoo:

AJ feeding the goat:

We went back to residence Inn and allowed AJ to have her very first horse ride!

Entrance fee at Residence inn is only P299 (already includes the entrance to Paradizoo. Children 3 feet and below are free!

after that, we stayed at Hangin Garden for an afternoon siesta. It was like a retreat house. It was a very nice place especially when you need some real peace and quiet. The owner, Ms. Pinky, is a very sweet and accomodating person, she prepared our dinner and had AJ's dinner free of charge. I love thier tarragon chicken. SOOO Delicious!

We roamed around tagaytay area for a nice and deep breath of fresh air. We love the chill especially after experiencing manila's summer heat.

We spent the night in Hangin garden and went back to manila early sunday morning to attend to a baptismal in St. Joseph Church (Bamboo Organ Las Pinas).

I really enjoyed our road trip. I bet we'll be doing this again soon!

Amanda Bright Child Development School

Okay, this time it's final.

After a year, i have finally decided that it's time to send AJ to school. But to be able to... say, test the waters first, I have enrolled her to a summer school program in Amanda Bright Child Development School. It's a special summer program for Proficiency in 3R's for Nursery & Kinder. I don't quite understand yet what 3 R's mean in pre-school learning (Reading, 'Riting & 'Rithmetic perhaps wehehe). But basically, as the teacher's put it, it's an introductory program to assess the child's readiness to learn how to read, write and count. Since AJ did not go through nursery, Her knowledge has to be at the same level as the children who went through nursery by the time we enrol her to kinder class.

After the program, she'll be tested by her teachers to check if she can be accepted as a kinder pupil or if she needed to be enrolled to nursery first.

I do have high hopes that she can pass. She's a fast learner and thinker (although most of the time, sa kalokohan ginagamit), She has learned a lot from her brief spiel at Little Archers. She knows how to count until 40, she knows her alphabet, though she often mixes the small letters d, b, p & q, she knows how to write her name, so overall, I know she can pull it. But of course, I am the Mother, I have the right to be bias wehehe!

So, I am having my fingers crossed!

Summer Pointe Residences (nanaman!)

Yup, still no update from Prosperity Builders. It's been two years since I paid my reservations, and still...

I've given up my hopes that I'll be able to move in this year. School year is fast approaching so I will be needing to prioritize AJ's education first. I've decided to enrol her at her Ate's school in Baclaran. This means, next year na kami pwede makalipat (if....)

Dismayado man ako, may magagawa pa ba ako? It's been a mistake dealing w/ Prosperity Builders Resources Inc. Best I can do is to blog my horrible experiences with them so that people who are able to view this blog will be warned.

Lahat na yata ng department nila nakausap ko na, and yet, i wasn't able to get the right answers, All I get are "Most Probably", "baka", "maybe", I seldom get an exact answer. Okay duh, they've given me some exact answers pero di naman totoo like when I asked for the construction date, ang sabi July 2010. E anong taon na ngayon? Okay, there has been a re-mapping, and told me that the house will be constructed by April 2011. Again, anong taon ngayon? Paasa di ba?

last Feb, constructed na daw ang bahay, they've asked me for the nth time for my payslip and had me sign a re-computed promissory note for pag-ibig. So i have to wait na lang daw for a notice of approval from pag-ibig and after that loan take out na raw. Okay, another promise bound to be broken. Nakakasawa umasa sa kanila. Hindi sila professional kausap, so as of now, best thing I can do is to plan for other things na lang muna, at least hindi masakit sa puso dahil i've learned na pag prosperity builders ang kausap ko, hindi ako dapat umasa at maniwala.

Bahala na si LORD sa kanila...

Hubs aboard!

finally! after years of waiting for the right break to come. Hubby will finally be able to work aboard ship. We've been praying for this, and with God's grace, our prayer has been answered. Inter-island lang ang assignment nya, it's still a start.

Thank you Lord Talaga! You're so Good to us. and you're timing is really really great w/ Aj's enrolment and all....

Blackberry Curve 8520 from Globe

Last Satuday, I have applied for a postpaid plan at Globe SM Sucat. My application has been processed the same day so i get to take home my free Blackberry Curve 8520 phone , though I need to wait for 24 hours before the plan can be activated. I applied for an UNLISURF plan so I'll be able to surf and connect to my facebook, YM and twitter accounts anytime and anywhere. Not only that, I was able to connect with my friends more via BB Messenger. Ha!Ha! I'm so happy!

Coron Getaway (Feb 3-6, 2012)

We had a wonderful time in Coron. Our tour and accomodations has been handled by Ms. Rina of Coron Wonders so everything went out smoothly. We arrived there Feb 6, around 1PM. We went straight to our resort, Princess of Coron, to freshen up prior to our town proper familiarization and trip to maquinit hotspring.

Since it was only our first day, Ms. Rina commissioned a trike to take us to take a tour around town and to bring us at the foot of our first stop: Mount Tapyas. It is a 700-step trek up which eventually led us to a great view of the whole coron town.

A local boy who sells cold water and gatorade went up with us and incidentally became our tour guide/photographer. I admired this boy. May future siya with photography given the chance. He took our picture below:

It was an exhausting climb up and an equally knee-wobbling climb down. But the tricycle driver told us not to worry because our next stop is the Maquinit Hot Spring (which, according to wikipedia, is the only known salty hotspring in Asia).

And it IS really soothingly wonderful! It's already after sunset when we arrived so it's kind of sad that we're not able to clearly see how really beautiful it is. We just had our dinner at Maquinit and went back to the resort afterwards

Our day two trip consists of island bumming trips on Bulog, Malcapuya and Banana Island.

We went to Bulog first so we can see the sandbar prior to high tide.

Then we went to Malcapuya Island where we had our lunch. Malcapuya is LOVELY! with it's powdery white sand and laid-back feel....

Then for the last island... Banana Island...can't express how amazing this place is. Maybe the picture below will help...

And the adventure doesn't even stop there. Our 3rd day tour brought us to Coron Island Loop. It gave us a much closer look at Coron's wonderful Islets.

We went snorkelling at Siete Picados.

we had our breakfast at Calachuchi Island

We docked at Kayangan Cove at made it all the way up to Kayangan Cave.

Then to.... KAYANGAN LAKE!

The cleanest lake in the Philippines.

The HIGHLIGHT of our GETAWAY!

explored even it's not-so-dark recess

And enjoyed every minute of it.

Afterwards, we went to twin lagoons (where I lost my rented snorkelling mask, uuugh!), but enjoyed our stay there anyway.

We stopped by Vivian beach for lunch

Then for our last stop, we went snorkelling at the skeleton wreck. We have no underwater cam (w/c will be a major no-no on our next trip) SAYANG!

Our last day is just gala and pasalubong buying day. We went around town on foot and went back to our resort to prep for our departure.

Coron is such a wonderful wonderful GOD given place. I promise myself that I'll be coming back there with Hubby and AJ.

Coron, Palawan

We're going to Coron! I'm so excited! We've booked our flight months ago pa (availing Air Phil's promo fare) giving us enough time to save for the tour packages of this trip. We have chosen Coron Wonders to arrange our accomodations and itinerary for the trip since they have been so accomodating with our requests.

Now our itinerary will be as follows:

Feb 3, 2012 (DAY 1)
arrival to Busuanga Airport at 12:15 PM
Meet and greet at our hotel (Princess of Coron)
Coron Town Proper Familiarization
Mt. Tapyas Trekking
Maquinit Hotspring

Feb 4, 2012 (DAY 2)
Malcapuya/Banana Island Hopping Tour
(includes Bulog 2 Island/Malaroyroy Island)

Feb 5, 2012 (DAY 3)
Coron Island Hopping Tour
CYC/Calachuci Island
Kayangan Cave & Lake
Barracuda Lake
Skeleton Beach/Wreck
Twin Peaks/Twin Lagoon
Smith Beach/Banol Beach/Atuatan Beach

Feb 6, 2012 (DAY 4)
AM Free time (Swimming @ Princess of Coron's Pool)
Departure at 3:05 PM

Grabe! So exciting!

c",)

Pneumonia with hyper reactive airway

AJ was confined at San Juan De Dios Hospital from Saturday PM to Wednesday AM because of Pnuemonia. It was just a follow up check up with her pedia but due to her wheezing, the doctor decided to admit her for proper medication. It's a very hard time for me. Sana ako na lang ang nagkasakit. AJ cried and pleaded not to put the dextrose on, She cried when the nurses get blood samples and do some allergy tests on her. I was also crying when the nurse asked me to hold her through while she puts on the dextrose but I just lack the strength to do so. Ang sakit sa puso.

We stayed there for four and a half days. She had antibiotics, corti-steroids, anti-histamine, she was also nebulized every four hours. She was not able to sleep properly especially on the 1st two days because of she keeps on coughing and spitting out phlegm. It's so agonizing to see my baby that way. It worried the hell out of me.

On the third day, she began to feel better. She's already eating although she prefers to eat ensaymada only. Both her pedia and SNU resident doctor told me that her lungs are much better although there's still signs of phlegm, so we need to continue her corti-steroids and antibiotics. They minimized the frequency of her nebulizer from every 4 hours to every 8 hours. That's good.

On the 4th day, the doctor said she's going to be fine and that we can already discharge her and continue her medication at home, Yahoo! Thank God talaga! Nakahinga ako ng maluwag. No more dextrose and injection for my baby!

Thank you LORD! This may be one of your pagsubok, it might have given me much shock but i am keeping faith. There is indeed a rainbow after each rain.

Thank you Dra. Ruby Marie Sanga-Miranda for taking good care of my baby. She's been under your care for almost 2.5 years and I am thankful for your expertise and your patience.

Thank you San Juan De Dios Hospital and your SNU Nurses and staff for your assistance and perserverance, Sinisigawan na kayo ni AJ when you administer the medicines but you still show your smile and you keep on being friendly. AJ really needed that.

Thank you Mommy, Daddy, Auntie Neneth for taking care of AJ when I need to be at the office to get the requirements for Philhealth.

And to my Hubby, thank you for perservering with me, For taking care of both me and AJ. Thank you and I love you.

And also, to all the wellwishers, my facebook friends, who prayed and wished AJ all the "get well soons", you've been part of the strenght that made me carry on through,

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Jeanette's End of the year report 2011

It has been my customs to make a wish list at the start of the year. This list will be my driving goals for the whole year. Reviewing them now gives a wave of sadness that I wasn't able to accomplish them all. It's because my list basically revolves around the little house at Summer Pointe Residences. Well, to start with, here are's the list

1) OUT OF TOWN TRIP - every year, I always see to it that I am able to visit a place that I've never been before. Last year, I was able to go to Puerto Prinsesa, (and went to the underground river, went island hopping at honda bay, we went around the city and bask at dos palmas. Date Granted: Feb 12 - 15, 2011

2) LIPAT-BAHAY - obviously, thanks to Prosperity Builders, this is a major FAILURE!

3) RENOVATIONS FOR MY NEW HOUSE - again, major FAILURE, the best talaga ang Prosperity Builders no?

4) OUT OF THE COUNTRY TRIP - this is too way out of budget last year, of course, I was busy saving for my house reno sana...

5) AIRCON - na to be installed sana sa house ko. kaso....

6) FURNITURES FOR MY NEW HOUSE - parang domino effect, kung walang new house, wala kang paglalagyan ng furnitures. FAILURE again, salamat sa Prosperity Builders

7) IPA-3RD FLOOR ANG HOUSE NI MOMMY - This is a different story, my brothers and I originally planned to have our parent's house renovated. Kaso, madaya naman kung ako lang ang maglalabas ng money di ba? besides, the money went out to a new business endeavor as requested by mom. Hence, Not-so-failure pa rin,

8) MAKA-ALIS SI HUBBY (the sailor man) - FAILED. Ang kulit kasi eh. He really wanted to be a seaman. but this career might not be meant for him. He aplied agencies after agencies, but to no avail. Hay naku bebe, pwede na bang mag-change ka na lang ng career?

9) DOUBLE THE AMOUNT ON AJ'S SAVINGS - FAILED. Nabawasan ko pa nga when I enrolled her at Play Care eh. Di bale. I still have next year para bumawi.

10) SECOND HAND CAR - Na balak kong i-park sa bago kong bahay. again FAILED!

Kaloka, I've got 1 out of 10 wishes. But it's okay. It's only 9 out of a thousand blessings I have received in 2011. I have met new friends, I am happy with my career. I have a super roller coaster love affair with my husband (imagine that - after 5 years of being together), A healthy, makulit and smart kid, a supportive family. What else can I wish for?

THANK YOU LORD PA RIN!

Thank you for making my life so wonderful!