ENDURANCE ATHLETES

Endurance sports is one of the challenging activity. It teaches us discipline and enhances our stamina as well. Dneero ignites the spirit of Endurance Sports in this conversation:

FEELING MY SITE........AND THANKING A FRIEND!!!!!!

For months, I had been unhappy about my blog template. I would like it personalized. Like in a house, the house speaks for its owner, right? I suppose that goes with our site as well. I uploaded a different template. It was successful but because I lost all my widgets and had been dumb-founded by unfamiliar lay-out, I felt compelled to go back to my previous settings and thus, previous template. After a number of weeks I tried uploading a template-again! Unfortunately for me, I had been confronted by numerous error messages. Needless to say, I have to go back to the available template available from my host. What I can do at the time was to edit the colors of my blog. I felt frustrated, actually! For a while I had been stagnant. It somehow affected my drive to write. I did not have the feel for my own site.

Then came a computer genius who stood as the knight in the shining armor for my blog. A friend and a co-worker actually helped me. He helped me acquire a three-column template. Well, still a design from my host so not really personalized but I liked it anyway. It looked cleaner. Simple and nice enough. I could go with that!! Perhaps in the future, there will be changes in width, if I could insert a design or so, that would be great. The important thing is that I like it better. I am gradually getting the feel for my site and this I owe to a friend who helped a lot. He refused to have his name stated but I would like to extend my simple thanks to such a nice person. Thanks for his help, really!

FOR A GREAT FATHER, ATTY. AGUAS

Papa was a speaker in a convention.

Papa in his office in Greenhills

Papa was on his law proper on this picture

June 21 was dedicated for fathers. I thought Fathers’ Day was a week before that. It was only when Vincent greeted me that I realized Fathers Day was actually on the 21st of June. I do not have any gifts for my father except a simple kiss in the forehead, a hug and a greeting “Happy Birthday, Papa”

This entry is dedicated to my father and all fathers out there. We are all familiar with maternal love. As one said to me, it is different when a child is near her mother because a mom is more supportive, more amenable, more understanding. Unlike a man who is tough and emotionally unyielding, a mother has more of that soft spot. If that is so, how does a father love? Let me count the ways thru my experience;

-1. My father is very strict. He had house rules that should be followed per letter. For him, rules are law and law can never be broken. I remembered when he said “Once my children marries, they have to live on their own. They can not live in this house anymore. They have to build their own family! A law that was broken during one of the lowest stages of my life. Upon separation, I begged my mama to allow me to come back to our house. I knew my chances of coming back was very slim, knowing how my father stood by his words. I even remembered him saying during my teen years “If my children can not follow rules, they should not be in this house!” Separated and with a child in my hand. Can I work and tend to my child at the same time? Can I leave my month old baby to a stranger while I work? My senses succumb by unspeakable fear just by the thought that I will leave my month old baby in the hands of a stranger, if not an untrained baby sitter. I want to be there to take care of Vincent but if I do not work, how are we going to eat? How will I be able to buy my childs’ needs? To my surprise, my father accepted me and my baby with open arms. Right after that, I hired a baby sitter so that my mama will not be burdened and focused on being a mom and a dad. The rest is history. If my father did not open his arms for me and my son, what could have happened to me and my son? I do not know but I know one thing, my father broke his own law to accommodate me and his grand child!! His childs’ welfare above his own imposed law.

-2. Just recently, my sister requested a favor to my parents. While her family migrates in a western country, my parents have to tend her house in Pasig. What will happen is that my papa and mama will be travelling from Pasig to Quezon City and back and forth every day! My father does not want to. For one, he can not sleep in a different house and his work is near our house in QC. More than this, papa was already confined in the hospital twice because of a stroke. The doctor says that the third stroke could cause him his life. It is not advisable for him to be physically exhausted. However, from Pasig to our place, if going to commute, would take him two and a half hour more or less to travel –one way only. On top of that, papa would have to walk a number of kilometers from the location where he will drop-off from the public vehicle to the exact location of my sisters’ house. Having this kind of activity every day could ignite a third stroke attack. I refused, however despite strong refusal, my father commanded me to halt down. My parents chose to tend to my sisters house in Pasig, including the problem that goes with getting the house have electricity, water and some other issues left for them to solve. For me, it is a suicidal decision. My father does not like it either. However, much as he is irritated, he chose to do it anyway. He conceded for my mama and for my sister. His wife and his child above his own health and his own life.

Shall I say more? My father supports his family. Sure, this is a regular function of a father. But then, does anyone know how it feels to work and work and not being able to spend even one fourth of the money you earned for your self? Not just for a month, not just for a year. For as long as they are needed. For as long as it takes. Probably forever. Some one told me “ I can not buy my sock until I am sure my childs needs are already addressed. A live person told me that and I can relate to him. Functioning as a father for my child, I feel guilty too when I buy something for my self. Vincents needs should be the priority. If there are some money left, that would be the time when I can buy something for myself. That is how my father is as well!!!

Perhaps, there are no dramatic and emotional talk. You will not see tears in those eyes. Maybe not expressive in emotion. Maybe too many rules that can not be bent…but see…those strong arms are meant to protect us…those unyielding emotion and unbend rules designed to discipline us and the fruits of his labor meant to sustain us..

This is for my father,
Atty. Salvador Aguas,
for being always there when his family needs him..

We owe a lot to you, papa!!! and we love you!! And for all the fathers who sacrificed every thing for their family.. For all the fathers out there...

HAPPY FATHERS DAY

HAPPY FATHERS DAY FOR ME, SAYS MY SON!!!

Taken when Vincent was 15 years old in Our Lady of Manaoag.
He surprised me from behind so when the camera clicked cheese,
he is already included in the scene.....hmmm..should have been a solo!!!

During his graduation from High School.
I was 7th High when he gave me his Diploma..Truly!!!

Vincent was just a little boy in this picture.
He kept on pressing i should carry him..
When i did, he shouted weeeee because of glee!!!
What can i say? When you are a dad and a mom,
you practically play every part of parenthood!!

I was surprised when my son hugged me , Kiss me in the forehead and greeted me “Happy Fathers Day, Inay” Some thing I was not expecting actually. Then when I watched TV and saw the Philippine Star News, that was when I realized, Fathers Day is actually today. I thought It already passed. Every Mothers Day and every Fathers Day, my son would greet me, with hugs and a kiss in the forehead. Last week he did not. I thought he just forgot. Little did I know that it was me who got the wrong date. I am glad he did not forget.

For all the fathers out there;

HAPPY FATHERS DAY

you deserve a hug from your kids!!!!

PERSONAL MOVING AND STORAGE

There are those who pay for storage and there are those who simply improvise to have a space that could work out as their storage. There are those who are lucky enough to own a space for their storage, which are you among the three?

SUPERNATURAL, SEASON 4

I had been so happy because my favorite television show had started airing here in the Philippines last June 5, 2009 at 9:00pm in AXN-Beyond. It is non-other than Supernatural, Season 4.

Supernatural is the story of two brothers who hit the road and hunted supernatural creatures that lurks around us. These supernatural beings are Vampires [ Season 1- Dead Mans’ Blood, Season 2 – Blood Lust, Season 3 – Fresh Blood], a man who eats human flesh [ Season 4 – Metamorphosis ] , Lady In White [ Season 1 – Pilot Episode], Bloody Mary [ Season 1-Bloody Mary] and more and more!!! The good thing about the Supernatural series is that one episode gives a different flavor from the other episode, giving each episode a different touch. It could go to real heavy to emotional to hilarious. The author of each episode could make the viewers feel what the brothers are going through. It is not just another blood and gore, there is emotion! It cleverly depicted lifes’ irony as well. In the real world, life also have its irony. Though I can not say I approve the path where Season 4 headed because it is getting too big and biblical! In fact, my son feels the concept of the show is on the verge of blasphemy. You see, my son is religious, on which I am happy he is. It is a good thing that the writer made it somehow amenable that in a way, it becomes tolerable. Actually, I already watched some of the episodes of Season 4 through internet. There are episodes wherein Gods presence had been questioned. In reality, there are occasions when we doubt if God is really there for us and with us. Also, God is so good that He allows things to happen according to how it is decided by his creations. Free will-so to speak.

I already included the show in my list of schedules “To Dos” or “To Attend To”. In fact I will be watching one episode twice in a week. And to think I already watched it through internet. So, come Supernatural schedule, I will be in front of the television, mesmerized as I am- and no one would be able to disturb me while watching….as my son told me….”You are soooo addicted”…

WHAT YOUR HAIR SAYS ABOUT YOU!

Our hair can enhance our natural beauty. As i did said on one entry - Hair is a womans' crown. Dneero sparks that loving look in our hair.