Family and Friends,

Are the best

Family is what I have the best. I do consider my friends as my family too. Though, we are not related, we love and understand each other. Having friends and family completes your life. Without them, your life will be miserable. Just think of it, you are all alone in this world without friends or family. It is hard right? So, love your family and friends “always” and just go with the flow of your life.

Our family loves each other, helps each other, and understands each other. I cannot imagine myself without them. Although, we misunderstood in some times, we still care and love each other. Our family is not perfect, but still, each of us suits in this kind of family. Each of us has different kinds of attitude; some are quiet, some are noisy, and so much more different attitude that each of us has. While my friends and I have different friendship, we treat each other as sisters, though we are not related, we still consider our friendship as family. That is how we love each other. We do not care about our attitude, because we are used to it and we cannot change it at all. What was important is, we love and care for each other. Be thankful that God gave that kind of friends and family for us even though we have too much sin.

In consequence, love your family and friends if they still nag around, because the time will come that they are not going to be there always, and you will take care for yourself by yourself.

Ears to hear

But when my mom calls me, I cannot hear at all

You have an ear on each side of your head. Your ears let you hear sounds. You can hear music and other nice sounds. You can hear sirens and other warning sounds. Your ears do something else very important. They help you keep your balance. You can walk and ride a bike without falling over because of your ears.

                                                                                                -Encarta Kids

According to a piece of article on Encarta kids, our ears let us hear sounds. I wonder why I cannot hear my mom’s voice whenever she calls me, and I thought that it is really weird. Maybe it is a bad attitude that each of us has, or maybe lazy kids only had that kind of illness; you kind of consider me as one of them.

Whenever I hear my mom calling, I began to hide, because I already know what she wants me to do; to wash dishes, to buy something outside and especially, to sweep the floor. These things really annoy me, because even though I am making some of my project or some school works, she will not consider it as an excuse for you not to obey them. Ugh; that is what I always say whenever they want me to do something, which I do not want to do.

Now I admit it. I am a lazy kid, are you? 

A letter for my

Dad (I prefer calling him Papa)

Dear papa,

I am one of your two growing daughters, and I am thankful that I have you as my father. I wrote this letter to know how you are doing right now. I also wrote this letter for the reason to tell how much I love you, to say sorry for all my imperfection, also to thank you for all the things that you did for us, and to let you know how hardworking father you are.

To stay in that cargo ship which where you are right now is not that easy to live in. I mean, you are not just staying there to earn money, but to work, work, and work a hard job which may cause you to be ill, and I hope not. I always pray that God will never let you do things which you cannot bear, and to stay safe with him; God. What you are doing is the best thing you ever did for us. I do not know how I can ever repay you. Maybe if I will have good grades? Maybe, because you always tell me that whenever we are talking on phone or in personal. So, I better study harder, right ‘pa?

Papa, I am asking you to do me favor, to eat a lot of nutritious food for you to have a healthy body and longer life, that is it. Please do it for me, okay? I love you papa. I love you as I love myself. I hope you and mom will never fight, because it hurts me so much; physically and mentally. I hope that our family will be together, forever. I also want to ask you to forgive for all my imperfections. It is okay if it will take longer time ‘till you forgive me, but at least you will forgive me, will you? I’m missing you so much papa. I hope that I can send this letter to you after I finish it, but it is okay because when you come home in summer, I will let you read this letter. I just hope that your nose will not bleed too much, LOL, just kidding. Maybe I am going to have next chapter before I finish this letter, but I must stop now. So, I got to go now. I love you ‘pa.

                                                           

Your beloved daughter,

                                                           Bibay, but mostly known as Clara

Portrait of my

Crush

“Baby, you light up my world like nobody else.

The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed.

But when you smile at the ground it ain’t hard to tell.

You don’t know you’re beautiful”

-One direction

Hey crush, why do you always makes me drool? I do not know what to do. Kindly stop for awhile, and let me breath, because whenever I see you, I am interminably catching my breath.

You are precisely perfect in my eyes. The way you talk, the way you walk, the way you smile, I love just the way you are. Whenever you pass by in front of me, I was like a statue; looking at you. Whenever you look at me, oh my, I am shocked and I cannot take my eyes off from you. I always envisage that you and I will be together and forever, but only in one terrible mistake that one of us will do, we will break apart subconsciously. Maybe we will break apart if we divulge each other. I guess that is not love anymore.

Being the way you look like does not matter. Even if you are not that handsome and attractive, I will still love you, but when a bad attitude comes from you, better change early on; if not, I might leave you. However, I will give you chances, and I will assure you that it will be enough for you to change.

Having crushes is not bad. What bad is when having neither boy friend nor girl friend. In consequence, it is better to have crushes than having girl or boy friend.

Meet our precious and beloved dogs

Brittney “Binny” Cashmere and Budoy “Bud-dy” Thirdy Little-lion

Every single person has their own likes and dislikes. Like in the terms of animals; some are dog lovers, some are cats, and so much more lovers of different kinds of animals. By the way, I am Clara Dioquino and you can consider me as a dog lover.

Meet our first dog, Binny. She is crossbreed with an askal dog and Saint Bernard dog. Thus, she is a half askal and half Saint Bernard dog. Although she is kind of dog with a weird breed, she is still pretty and clean. Binny is already 1 year old being with us and she is the most loyal dog for me. She always keeps our family safe and protected. Though, she barks at our visitors. She only does that if she does not know them. My mom will smack her if she will not stop. She easily gets jealous whenever I am playing with other dogs. If she gets jealous; she will stay under my bed; in the corner of it and cry. Therefore, she gets jealous when my aunt bought Bud-dy.

Bud-dy is the type of dog that is cute and fluffy. He is a chow chow, and really attractive to people. He is 2 months old now, and he and Brittney were cousins so they are not allowed to have puppies. Are they? -- They bite and hurt each other, and I am a little bit confused by the reason of not knowing exactly if they are fighting or playing, because what they are doing is quite brutal.   

I love my dogs as I love myself. And as my saying goes: "Loving your pets is like synonym; love them, and they will love you. Hurt them... I do not know if they can hurt us, but what was important is; adore them, and they will adore you." 

The feeling of having a dog or dogs is really unexplainable. You feel protected whenever or wherever you are with him or with her. Now I ask you; have you felt that feeling before? – Everyone already felt that, however, they did not felt it with their dogs, but felt it with their dads. Even though that they are not human, they still care and have feelings with their responsible owners. Consequently, love your dogs as you love your own.

 

A MOTHERLY LOVE

“So for all of you whose Mamas still nag around,

                                         Love them with all the love you can give,

    For nothing can replace –

                        A Mama’s hand to pick you up when you fall;

                        A Mama’s embrace to keep you warm when you’re cold…

    They LOVE – and that is the most important thing!!”

                                                                               -Marjo Llamas Matias

           

Motherly love is the most intense love there is – sweet, painful, deep, and above all, unforgettable. What is the most admirable about motherly love is that it is totally unconditional – the child does not need to do anything to deserve it. He or she only needs to be. With this kind of love, the child finds security, and the ultimate development of independence and autonomy.

Mothers will always love their children, for they are so much a part of them. Flesh of their own flesh, they will continue to care, watch, cry, worry, and suffer for them, even if the son or daughter is married with a family of his or her own. Even if ten thousand miles separate them, even if she is taken for granted, the mother continues to love and pray. As the tagalog saying goes:

“Matitiis ng anak ang magulang, nguni’t ang ina ay hindi matitiis ang anak.”

It is quite difficult for a child to ever repay or reward a mother’s love – this is one debt in human relations that can never be fully repaid. It is in the quality of the children’s lives – in the meaningful, loving way they conduct their lives, that the mother finds fulfillment and satisfaction for all the years she has given them. It is said that a child’s personality is formed in the first few years of life. If this is so, then the kind of person one is, is in a large measure due to the influence of one’s mother who was the closest mother then.

Every son, every daughter has a mother, and to all those who still have them around, we say with Marjo – love them, love them while you still can. For soon enough, God will beckon to them and give them the rest, the peace they so richly deserve.